By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Squid style is en vogue for the Los Angeles Angels. When Andrew Velazquez got on the bus at Angel Stadium for the charter flight to New York, all of his teammates were dressed in the hip street mode of the 27-year-old shortstop known as “Squid.”
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — La guerra de Rusia en Ucrania no da tregua. Estos son los acontecimientos más recientes del conflicto que mantiene al mundo en vilo. La “mayor parte de Severodonetsk” ahora está controlada por Rusia, con tropas “moviéndose hacia el centro”, según el jefe de la administración militar regional de Luhansk. Pero
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By Raja Razek and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Ten people were injured, including a 17-year-old, in a shooting in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday, police said. Four people were hospitalized in critical condition, Charleston Police Chief Luther Reynolds said in a news conference Tuesday. A police officer was also wounded by shrapnel and two sheriff’s
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Paul LeBlanc, CNN US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admitted Tuesday that she had failed to anticipate how long high inflation would continue to plague American consumers as the Biden administration works to contain a mounting political liability. “I think I was wrong then about the path that inflation would take,” Yellen
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN White House officials met Tuesday with travel industry officials, who pressed the Biden administration to end its requirements that vaccinated international travelers take a coronavirus test before flying to the United States. Airlines for America, representing major US air carriers, and the US Travel Association, representing the broad
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung and Ariane de Vogue, CNN The Supreme Court of the United States temporarily blocked a sweeping Texas law on Tuesday that restricts the ability of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to moderate content on their platforms. By a 5-4 vote, the justices granted an emergency request from the tech industry to block a
Continue ReadingBy Etant Dupain and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN Surging gang violence in Haiti’s capital has left nearly 200 people dead and thousands displaced in the last month alone, according to a United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) report. Heavily armed rival gangs began clashing and seizing territory in Port-au-Prince with new intensity
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DENVER (AP) — A Denver-based federal appeals court has agreed with a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit that claimed the 2020 presidential election was stolen from President Donald Trump. The lawsuit alleged the election had been rigged by Dominion Voting Systems, Facebook (now Meta) and others. Friday’s opinion from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court
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Winds have remained light this Tuesday, and temperatures have been slightly warmer, reaching toward the mid to upper 90s for daytime high temperatures. Under the current ridge of high pressure, dry air continues to filter into Southern California. Dewpoints have been in the 20s and 30s, allowing for good use of evaporative or swamp coolers.
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor told jurors in closing arguments at a criminal trial Tuesday that there is overwhelming evidence that organizers of a “We Build The Wall” campaign to raise millions of dollars for a wall along the U.S. southern border defrauded investors by lying to them. Assistant
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor told jurors in closing arguments at a criminal trial Tuesday that there is overwhelming evidence that organizers of a “We Build The Wall” campaign to raise millions of dollars for a wall along the U.S. southern border defrauded investors by lying to them. Assistant
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor told jurors in closing arguments at a criminal trial Tuesday that there is overwhelming evidence that organizers of a “We Build The Wall” campaign to raise millions of dollars for a wall along the U.S. southern border defrauded investors by lying to them. Assistant
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas chapels of love that use Elvis Presley’s likeness could find themselves becoming Heartbreak Hotels. The licensing company that controls the name and image of “The King” is ordering Sin City chapel operators to stop using Elvis in themed ceremonies, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on Monday. Authentic Brands Group
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court has blocked a Texas law, championed by conservatives, that aimed to keep social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from censoring users based on their viewpoints. The court voted in an unusual 5-4 alignment Tuesday to put the Texas law on hold while a lawsuit plays out in
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Business) — El mundo de Netflix puede estar de cabeza, pero “Stranger Things” sigue siendo muy popular. La más reciente temporada de la aclamada serie debutó este fin de semana con cifras récord: es el estreno más visto de un programa en inglés de Netflix. ¿Cuándo se estrena la segunda parte de la temporada
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter and Forrest Brown, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added three island destinations to its “high” risk category for travelers on Tuesday. Anguilla, Jamaica and Turks and Caicos Islands were all moved to Level 3, or “high” risk for Covid-19. In April, the CDC overhauled its ratings system for
Continue Reading By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Brian Griese had established himself in a second career that had been more successful than his first as an 11-year quarterback in the NFL. Griese had followed up more than a decade analyzing big college football games each week with two years in
Continue Reading By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A jury finished a second day of deliberations Tuesday without reaching a verdict in the defamation claims of Johnny Depp and ex-wife Amber Heard over their volatile and unhappy marriage. The seven-person civil jury heard closing arguments Friday and deliberated for about two hours before leaving
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito agreed Tuesday to temporarily block a lower court decision that allows the counting of undated ballots in Pennsylvania in a case that could directly tip a judicial race and also impact the commonwealth’s Republican US Senate primary. Alito, who has jurisdiction over
Continue ReadingCNN By Brian Fung and Ariane de Vogue, CNN The Supreme Court of the United States temporarily blocked a sweeping Texas law on Tuesday that restricts the ability of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to moderate content on their platforms. By a 5-4 vote, the justices granted an emergency request from the tech industry to block
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