DENVER (AP) — Two people were killed and four others injured after gunfire broke out during a late-night confrontation at a party in a residential area of Denver. Police said evidence from the scene pointed to multiple shots being fired from multiple firearms. A 26-year-old man and a boy were killed. Police said the boy
Continue ReadingBy HELENA ALVES and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Parisians have voted to muscle SUVs off the French capital’s streets by making them much more expensive to park starting next September. It’s the latest leg in a drive by Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo to make the host city for this year’s Olympic Games
Continue ReadingEssay by Thomas Lake, CNN (CNN) — Facebook turns 20 years old today, and if you don’t like it, I’m sure you have your reasons. The numerous scandals. The loss of privacy. The time it drains away from other, better activities. And on and on. But I’ve been thinking about the role Facebook has played
Continue ReadingCNN Essay by Thomas Lake, CNN (CNN) — Facebook turns 20 years old today, and if you don’t like it, I’m sure you have your reasons. The numerous scandals. The loss of privacy. The time it drains away from other, better activities. And on and on. But I’ve been thinking about the role Facebook has
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Cuando un incendio forestal arrasó Maui en Hawaii en agosto pasado, el impacto fue devastador: una ciudad entera reducida a cenizas y más de 100 vidas perdidas. El infierno fue descrito como el “mayor desastre natural en la historia del estado”. Pero algunos en Instagram sugirieron, sin pruebas, que había algo
Continue ReadingBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A fire at a guesthouse in central Romania has left one person dead and two hospitalized, authorities said. Emergency service teams were deployed to the blaze in the town of Calimanesti in Valcea county where 10 people were staying at the guesthouse, according to the Department for Emergency Situations, DSU. Nine
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — When wildfire ripped through Hawaii’s Maui last August, the impact was devastating: a whole town reduced to ashes, more than 100 lives lost. The inferno was described as the “largest natural disaster in state history.” But some on Instagram suggested, without evidence, there was something much more nefarious at
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Un trabajador financiero de una empresa multinacional fue engañado para que pagara US$ 25 millones de dólares a estafadores que utilizaban tecnología deepfake para hacerse pasar por el director financiero de la empresa en una videoconferencia, según la policía de Hong Kong. En la elaborada estafa, el trabajador fue engañado para
Continue ReadingBy Heather Chen and Sania Farooqui, CNN (CNN) — A pigeon suspected of spying for China and held for eight months was released by Indian officials this week after intervention from animal rights organization PETA, the group said in a statement. “After learning that a pigeon was held at the Bai Sakarbai Dinshaw Petit Hospital
Continue ReadingBy Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Antarctic Peninsula (CNN) — About 15 billion miles from where you sit, two 12-inch golden records are hurtling through outer space with multilingual greetings to the universe from 55 humans and one humpback whale. With a playlist curated by astronomer Carl Sagan and inspired by the way humpbacks
Continue ReadingBy BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is the guest of honor at Sri Lanka’s 76th Independence Day celebrations. Sretta joined Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Sunday at a low-key ceremony near the country’s main seaside esplanade that involved a military parade and parachute jumps. The
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Ukrainian shelling killed at least 28 people at a bakery in the Russian-occupied city of Lysychansk, Moscow-installed officials said. At least one child was among the dead Saturday, local leader Leonid Pasechnik wrote in a statement on Telegram. A further 10 people were rescued from under the rubble by emergency services,
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Mientras la Oficina del Presidente permanecía indecisa un día más sobre si el comandante en jefe de Ucrania estaba o no sin trabajo, uno de los hombres propuestos para reemplazarlo dio una evaluación breve pero clara de la situación que enfrentan los soldados en el frente. Oleksandr Syrskyi, que visitaba tropas
Continue ReadingBy Heather Chen and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong Kong police. The elaborate scam saw the worker duped into attending
Continue ReadingBy STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Newspaper heiress Patricia “Patty” Hearst was kidnapped at gunpoint 50 years ago Sunday by the Symbionese Liberation Army, later joining her captors in a 1974 San Francisco bank robbery that earned her a prison sentence. The abduction and subsequent trial of Hearst, then a 19-year-old college
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press Hundreds of communities across the U.S. have for decades tried to reduce crime, fight gangs and tackle noise and other neighborhood problems through the use of “crime-free” or “public nuisance” laws encouraging and allowing landlords to evict renters when police or emergency crews are repeatedly called to the same addresses.
Continue ReadingKABC, CNN By Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Many victims of the massive storms now battering Southern California about are to be hit with another heartbreak – discovering their insurance won’t cover the damage. The typical homeowners’ policy won’t cover loss from flood damage. That is covered by the National Flood Insurance Program, a part
Continue ReadingBy Tina Burnside and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — An intense, long-lasting atmospheric river is moving into California Sunday, bringing the potential for “life-threatening” flooding, mudslides and widespread power outages as it dumps heavy rain and snow. Follow our live coverage here. This is what’s happening: • Rare high risk for flooding: A rare Level
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press Hundreds of U.S. communities have enacted “crime-free” laws encouraging and allowing landlords to evict tenants after repeated calls to police or for emergency services. Proponents say the laws help reduce crime, but the U.S. Department of Justice last year found a Minneapolis suburb used its ordinance to illegally discriminate against
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Los diagnósticos de cáncer en todo el mundo alcanzarán los 35 millones en 2050, según nuevas estimaciones de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, un aumento del 77 % con respecto a los 20 millones de casos diagnosticados en 2022. Los datos, publicados este viernes por la Agencia Internacional para la
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