By AARON BRACY Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Seth Curry had 23 points to lead the short-handed Philadelphia 76ers to a 113-103 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday night. The 76ers played without leading scorers Joel Embiid and Tobias Harris. Embiid, the four-time All-Star, missed his first game of the season as Philadelphia
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Some Empire Polo Club employees said they were laid off with a three-day notice. This comes as operations at the club were taken over by Goldenvoice. Cesar Ponce worked at the Empire Polo Club as a pest control worker for nearly five years. He said on Tuesday, Oct. 26 he received a three-day notice saying he was
Continue ReadingCNN By Toyin Owoseje, CNN The actor and former President Obama adviser Kal Penn has come out as gay, and revealed that he’s engaged to be married. The 44-year-old star, who rose to fame in the “Harold & Kumar” movies, opened up about his sexuality publicly for the first time ahead of Tuesday’s release of
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By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has attacked the credibility of French President Emmanuel Macron as a newspaper quoted a text message that suggested France anticipated “bad news” about a now-scuttled submarine deal. Macron this week accused Morrison of lying to him in June about the fate
Continue Reading By JAKE SEINER AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Acting general manager Zack Scott will not return to the New York Mets after being placed on administrative leave following an arrest on drunken driving charges in August, according to a person familiar with the firing. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition
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CAL FIRE / Riverside County fire crews are working to contain a large fire of green waste that is burning near Bubbling Wells Elementary School in Desert Hot Springs. The fire started just after 5:30 p.m. at Bubbling Wells and Camino Campanero. Officials tell News Channel 3 that the fire is a 30 by 30
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Una de las preocupaciones de los padres sobre la vacunación de los niños contra el covid-19 es si la vacuna podría perjudicar de algún modo la futura fertilidad de sus hijos. Una encuesta publicada por la Kaiser Family Foundation la semana pasada reveló que el 66% de los padres de niños
Continue Reading By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of revelers clad in white and clutching candles are crowding into the main cemetery at Haiti’s capital to pay their respects to the dead during an annual Vodou festival. Many in the crowd on Monday surrounded the tomb of the first person buried in the
Continue Reading By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A court document says a 20-year-old California man accused of assaulting a flight attendant on a cross-country American Airlines flight allegedly punched the woman in the face after being told he could not use the bathroom, leaving her bleeding around her nose and giving her a concussion.
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — La posibilidad de que se le otorgue libertad condicional a Luis Alfredo Garavito, conocido como ‘La Bestia’ uno de los violadores seriales de niños más peligroso de Colombia y el mundo, encendió la polémica en el país. Sin embargo, un juez negó la petición hecha por el Instituto Nacional Penitenciario y Carcelario
Continue Reading By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press PIJIJIAPAN, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities say one migrant was shot to death and four were wounded when a pickup truck carrying over a dozen migrants tried to avoid an immigration checkpoint in southern Mexico and ram a National Guard vehicle. The Guard says the truck ignored orders to
Continue Reading By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its first game with a New York-Toronto matchup, the same as was played on Nov. 1, 1946. So much is different, though. For one, it isn’t even that Toronto franchise. The team the Knicks beat 68-66 that
Continue Reading By SCOTT BAUER, MICHAEL TARM and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A jury has been seated in the homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot three people during a protest against racial injustice on the streets of Kenosha last year. Rittenhouse was 17 when he traveled from his home in Illinois, just
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man who fatally tortured a Chihuahua puppy and posted a video about it online has been sentenced to two years in federal prison. The U.S. attorney’s office says 19-year-old Angel Ramos-Corrales of Riverside was sentenced Monday for a February assault during which he broke the skull and ribs
Continue Reading RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man who fatally tortured a Chihuahua puppy and posted a video about it online has been sentenced to two years in federal prison. The U.S. attorney’s office says 19-year-old Angel Ramos-Corrales of Riverside was sentenced Monday for a February assault during which he broke the skull and ribs
Continue Reading By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit filed by a Texas online freelance journalist. Priscilla Villarreal said officials in Laredo, Texas, violated her constitutional rights when they arrested her in 2017. She was arrested for alleged violation of a little-known Texas law governing the seeking
Continue ReadingCNN By Anna Coren, Jessie Yeung and Abdul Basir Bina, CNN Parwana Malik, a 9-year-old girl with dark eyes and rosy cheeks, giggles with her friends as they play jump rope in a dusty clearing. But Parwana’s laughter disappears as she returns home, a small hut with dirt walls, where she’s reminded of her fate:
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson Londres (CNN Business) — Elon Musk se ofreció a vender algunas de sus acciones de Tesla “ahora mismo” si la ONU puede demostrar que US$ 6.000 millones resolverán el hambre en el mundo. Sus comentarios se produjeron después de que el director del Programa Mundial de Alimentos de la ONU (WFP, por sus
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By Steve Almasy, Leyla Santiago and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN The University of Florida now says three professors who initially weren’t allowed to testify as paid expert witnesses against the state can testify, if they aren’t paid. The university had denied the professors’ requests to testify for the plaintiffs in a voting rights lawsuit. The case
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