VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A pre-dawn explosion and fire leveled a home, injured one person and damaged at least two others Wednesday in Victorville, authorities said. The blast occurred shortly before 3 a.m. in the San Bernardino County desert community. Brenda Ogaz said she was awake when she heard an explosion and then a second
Continue Reading By BEN ROSS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Eric Haase hit a two-run homer to break a 1-all tie in the sixth inning and the Detroit Tigers held on to beat the San Francisco Giants 3-2 on Wednesday. It was Haase’s fifth home run of the season and his second in the last three
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By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government will purchase another 105 million doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in anticipation of a fall booster campaign. The $3.2 billion agreement comes as federal scientists weigh whether and how to update the vaccines to better protect Americans from the rapidly evolving virus. Federal
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Ha pasado algún tiempo desde la última vez que vimos a Julia Roberts y George Clooney juntos en la pantalla grande, pero todavía tienen lo suyo. Las estrellas de “Ocean’s Eleven” están de regreso en una comedia romántica, la primera en años para ambos. “Ticket to Paradise” presenta a los actores
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By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has voted to maintain the U.N. peacekeeping mission in turmoil-wracked Mali. The resolution adopted Wednesday also condemns Mali’s military rulers for using mercenaries that commit human rights and humanitarian violations. And it expresses “grave concern” at the deteriorating political and security
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — Cada año Estados Unidos admite a millones de extranjeros bajo varias visas de trabajo, y al menos en 2020, más de 2 millones fueron trabajadores temporales y sus familias, según cifras del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de EE.UU. (DHS, por sus siglas en inglés). Pero ¿cuáles son estas visas y
Continue Reading By TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press An expert says the combination of heat and humidity would have quickly created life-threatening conditions inside the packed, un-airconditioned tractor-trailer where dozens of immigrants were found dead this week. It’s unclear how long the immigrants had been inside the trailer, but Jennifer Vanos, an assistant professor in climate and health
Continue Reading By SUMMER BALLENTINE and JIM SALTER Associated Press A large Missouri hospital chain briefly stopped providing emergency contraception amid confusion over whether the state’s abortion ban could put doctors at risk of criminal charges for providing the medication, even for sexual assault victims. St. Luke’s Health Kansas City said in a statement Wednesday that it
Continue Reading MENDON, Mo. (AP) — Authorities on Wednesday identified the four people killed when an Amtrak passenger train collided with a dump truck earlier this week in rural Missouri, saying two were from Kansas and two were from Missouri. The truck driver, 54-year-old Billy Barton II, of Brookfield, Missouri, died in Monday’s collision, the Chariton County
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump is no longer in contempt of court. Judge Arthur Engoron said Wednesday that Trump has met conditions required to lift the sanction following a legal battle. Engoron had declared Trump in contempt April 25
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Suecia y Finlandia están a punto de poner fin a décadas de neutralidad y unirse a la Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte (OTAN), en un avance histórico para la alianza que supone un golpe para el presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin. El último gran obstáculo para la entrada de ambas
Continue Reading By JULIE WATSON and FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The two cousins returned to the tiny, hardscrabble hamlet they grew up in in southern Mexico about two weeks ago to say goodbye in what has become a rite of passage for generations of migrants from their remote, impoverished mountainous region in Oaxaca
Continue Reading By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A former University of Southern California soccer coach who took bribes in exchange for helping unqualified kids into the school was sentenced Wednesday to six months in home confinement after cooperating with authorities investigating the college admissions scandal. Prosecutors had not been seeking home confinement or
Continue Reading By HALELUYA HADERO NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is limiting how many emergency contraceptives consumers can buy, joining other retailers who put in place similar caps following the Supreme Court decision overruling Roe v. Wade. A company spokesperson confirmed Amazon’s temporarily cap of three units per week went into effect on Monday. The company did
Continue Reading By HALELUYA HADERO NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is limiting how many emergency contraceptives consumers can buy, joining other retailers who put in place similar caps following the Supreme Court decision overruling Roe v. Wade. Amazon’s limit, which temporarily caps purchase of the contraceptives at three units per week, went into effect on Monday, a
Continue Reading By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY, JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and BARBARA SURK Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The lone survivor of a team of Islamic State extremists who terrorized Paris in 2015 was convicted Wednesday of murder and other charges and sentenced to life in prison without parole for the deadliest peacetime attacks in French history. The special terrorism
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN George Washington University has decided to stand by US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, despite protests from students calling for his termination. In addition to his role on the court, Thomas is an adjunct professor at the university, where he teaches a constitutional law seminar at its law school. Citing Thomas’
Continue ReadingBy Virginia Langmaid and Shawna Mizelle, CNN The Biden administration has reached an agreement to purchase 105 million doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday. The agreement, set for fall vaccinations, includes “options for up to 300 million doses,” the agency said in a news release, and
Continue ReadingBy Megan Marples, CNN If you needed another reason to get enough sleep, here it is: It may help your heart health. The American Heart Association added sleep duration to its cardiovascular health checklist. It’s a part of “Life’s Essential 8,” a questionnaire that measures eight key areas to determine a person’s cardiovascular health. The
Continue ReadingCNN By Kyla Russell, CNN It’s no secret that sleep is important to your overall health, but a lack of sleep could have substantial effects on your heart, a new study shows. The researchers said people with insomnia are more likely to have a heart attack. Insomnia is the most common sleep disorder in the
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