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By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A pink diamond was sold for $49.9 million in Hong Kong on Friday, setting a world record for the highest price per carat for a diamond sold at auction. The 11.15-carat Williamson Pink Star diamond, auctioned by Sotheby’s Hong Kong, sold for $392 million Hong Kong
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A hazy day with poor air quality after Thursday’s haboob. As of Friday evening, the Coachella Valley was reporting ‘moderate’ air quality, a big improvement from the ‘hazardous’ conditions this morning. The Windblown Dust Advisory, issued by South Coast Air Quality Management District, has been extended through Saturday morning. Low pressure to our south is
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By EILEEN NG Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia plans record development spending in 2023 despite a proposed smaller national budget. The budget unveiled Friday is laden with the usual cash handouts, tax cuts and other goodies ahead of impending general elections. Finance Minister Zafrul Aziz proposed a budget of $80 billion, down
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Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — Los cuerpos de más de 500 civiles fueron encontrados en el noreste de Ucrania, un territorio recientemente recuperado de las fuerzas rusas, dice la policía ucraniana. Y a medida que las fuerzas ucranianas liberan más tierras en el noreste, se descubren nuevos cementerios en Donetsk. Muchos parecen contener civiles que perdieron
Continue ReadingBy Shawna Mizelle, CNN The US Postal Service on Friday proposed increased prices “to offset the rise in inflation,” according to a statement from the agency. The price hikes, which have been approved by the Governors of the U.S. Postal Service, include a three-cent increase to purchase a stamp and a four-cent increase to mail
Continue Reading By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Abortions can take place again in Arizona, at least for now, after an appeals court on Friday blocked enforcement of a pre-statehood law that almost entirely criminalized the procedure. The three-judge panel of the Arizona Court of Appeals agreed with Planned Parenthood that a judge should not
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Yesterday’s major dust storm continues to impact the valley. creating poor air quality throughout. It’s even affecting some outdoor sporting events tonight. The YMCA of the Desert has canceled soccer practices scheduled for Saturday. Football players from Desert Hot Springs High School didn’t get to face off Desert Mirage High in Thermal on Friday night.
Continue Reading Sofía Benavides (CNN) — La detención de varias mujeres líderes indígenas en Argentina esta semana provocó la renuncia de la ministra de Mujeres, Género y Diversidad, Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta. Lo hizo el viernes en protesta por la medida, según la agencia estatal de noticias Télam. Las mujeres, todas miembros de la nación mapuche, fueron detenidas
Continue ReadingBy Kelly Murray, CNN Many were hoping Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson could be a potential rock for America, but instead, the beloved actor and businessman intends to be a rock for his daughters. A bid for president is “off the table,” Johnson told Tracey Smith with CBS News Sunday Morning. “I love our country and
Continue Reading By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Officials at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have announced that they are pausing gender affirming surgeries for minors in order to review their practices. The news comes amid mounting political pressure from Tennessee’s Republican leaders — many of whom are running for reelection — who demanded an
Continue Reading BRADLEY, Ill. (AP) — Illinois State Police say another person has been arrested in connection with the killing of one police officer and the wounding of another at a northern Illinois hotel in late December. Illinois police said Friday it arrested 22-year-old Xavier Harris of Bradley on Wednesday on two counts of obstructing justice and
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Minor league baseball teams combined to draw 30.9 million fans this year, down from 41.5 million in 2019, the last season before COVID-19 and prior to Major League Baseball cutting affiliates. Teams averaged 3,910 this season for 7,908 games, down from an average of 4,044 for 10,262 games in 2019,
Continue Reading ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Minor league baseball teams combined to draw 30.9 million fans this year, down from 41.5 million in 2019, the last season before COVID-19 and prior to Major League Baseball cutting affiliates. Teams averaged 3,910 this season for 7,908 games, down from an average of 4,044 for 10,262 games in 2019,
Continue Reading By KATHLEEN FOODY and KIMBERLEE KRUESI The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Officials are continuing to decline to reveal new details surrounding an apparent cyberattack on one of the largest health systems in the U.S. It’s a situation that security experts say often takes time to learn the full scope of the attack. Earlier this
Continue ReadingCNN By Paradise Afshar, CNN Elevated seismic activity has caused Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park to close the Mauna Loa summit backcountry until further notice, the park announced this week. Covering half of the Island of Hawaiʻi, Mauna Loa is considered the largest active volcano on the planet, according to the US Geological Survey. The Hawaii
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Krieg, CNN The woman who said Georgia Senate hopeful Herschel Walker paid for her 2009 abortion, setting off a controversy that has rocked his campaign, told The New York Times that the Republican nominee asked her to terminate a second pregnancy two years later. She refused the request, and their relationship ended, she
Continue Reading By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Abortions can take place again in Arizona, at least for now, after an appeals court on Friday blocked enforcement of a pre-statehood law that almost entirely criminalized the procedure. The three-judge panel of the Arizona Court of Appeals agreed with Planned Parenthood that a judge should not
Continue Reading By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The younger brother of a man suspected in the kidnapping and killings of an 8-month-old baby, her parents and an uncle, was arrested on suspicion he helped his brother destroy evidence, authorities said Friday. Alberto Salgado, 41, was arrested late Thursday and
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By Rosa Flores, CNN A 4-year-old girl wipes her mother’s tears inside a migrant respite center in El Paso, Texas. An act of love this mom says her daughter has made more times than she can remember since they left their native Nicaragua. “She would tell me, ‘Mom, don’t cry.’” Yensel Castro says. Castro wipes
Continue ReadingBy Katie Bo Lillis, CNN President Joe Biden has signed a long-awaited classified policy tightening the rules for the CIA and the Pentagon to carry out deadly drone strikes and commando raids conducted outside of traditional war zones, US officials said on Friday. With only Iraq and Syria still considered by the US to be
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