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Reuters Twitter has secured a ruling allowing the social media company to force several laid-off workers suing over their termination to pursue their claims via individual arbitration rather than a class-action lawsuit. US District Judge James Donato on Friday ruled that five former Twitter employees pursuing a proposed class action accusing the company of failing
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan and Allison Chinchar, CNN Iguanas are coldblooded animals. And when they get super cold, they have a tendency to topple over from trees and plunge to the ground. Don’t worry, those frigid lizards aren’t dead. They are frozen in a pose that’s both comical and vital for their survival. When temperatures drop
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PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor’s office has opened a judicial investigation into “attempted murders” four days after seven people were injured with a sharp metallic hook at a crowded Paris train station. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said on Sunday that her office asked for the man suspected in Wednesday’s attack to be detained pending
Continue Reading SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Nearly 50 vehicles collided on an icy highway near the South Korean capital, killing one person and injuring dozens. The vehicles skidded and collided in succession Sunday night on the Guri-Pocheon highway entering Pocheon city. Many had damaged fronts or rear-ends and some appeared to have been knocked sideways. Fire
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Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Una aspirante a paleontóloga de 9 años hizo el hallazgo de su vida en la mañana de Navidad: un enorme diente de 12 centímetros de un megalodón prehistórico. Molly Sampson, una estudiante de cuarto grado de Prince Frederick, Maryland, hizo el asombroso hallazgo en Calvert Beach. Molly le dijo
Continue ReadingCNN By Daniella Diaz, CNN House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Sunday slammed President Joe Biden and his team for their handling of classified documents, announcing on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he is requesting additional information about the situation. “We would never have known about the possession of the classified documents were
Continue Reading By UPENDRA MAN SINGH, SHEIKH SAALIQ and ANISH BHATTARAI Associated Press POKHARA, Nepal (AP) — A plane making a 27-minute flight to a Nepal tourist town crashed into a gorge Sunday while attempting to land at a newly opened airport, killing at least 68 of the 72 people aboard. At least one witness reported hearing
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — R’Bonney Gabriel de Estados Unidos fue coronada la 71ª Miss Universo este sábado por la noche. Gabriel, quien el año pasado se convirtió en la primera filipino-estadounidense en ganar Miss Estados Unidos, se llevó la corona por delante de Amanda Dudamel de Venezuela y Andreína Martínez de República Dominicana. El certamen
Continue ReadingBy Daniella Diaz, CNN House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Sunday slammed President Joe Biden and his team for their handling of classified documents, announcing on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he is requesting additional information about the situation. “We would never have known about the possession of the classified documents were it
Continue Reading By VASILISA STEPANENKO and ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press DNIPRO, Ukraine (AP) — The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro rose to 25 Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported as rescue workers scrambled to pull survivors from the rubble. Emergency crews worked through the frigid
Continue Reading ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan is launching its first anti-polio campaign of the year, targeting more than 44 million children under the age of five. It is one of two countries in the world where polio continues to threaten the health and well-being of children. Polio affects the nervous system of children and ultimately leads to
Continue ReadingBy Scottie Andrew, CNN By 2013, the zombie apocalypse genre had been done to death. “The Walking Dead” had concluded its third season, “World War Z” was expected to be a summer blockbuster and “Resident Evil” was still perhaps the best-known zombie-starring video game. Where else could the undead go from there? Enter a little
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By JULIE WATSON and DOUG GLASS Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Relentless storms from a series of atmospheric rivers have saturated the steep mountains and bald hillsides scarred from wildfires along much of California’s long coastline, causing hundreds of landslides this month. So far the debris has mostly blocked roads and highways and has
Continue Reading By JULIE WATSON and DOUG GLASS Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Relentless storms from a series of atmospheric rivers have saturated the steep mountains and bald hillsides scarred from wildfires along much of California’s long coastline, causing hundreds of landslides this month. So far the debris has mostly blocked roads and highways and has
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo Katmandú, Nepal (CNN) — Al menos 68 personas fallecieron este domingo cuando un avión se estrelló cerca de la ciudad de Pokhara, en el centro de Nepal, dijo un funcionario del Gobierno, en el accidente aéreo más mortífero del país en más de 30 años. 72 personas — cuatro miembros de la tripulación
Continue Reading British police say two children and four women were injured in a drive-by shooting in central London. The Metropolitan Police said officers were called on Saturday afternoon to a church in the Euston area where a private memorial service was taking place. Police believe gunmen fired shotgun pellets from a moving car outside the church.
Continue Reading Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Cerca de 60.000 personas han muerto por covid-19 en China desde que el país abandonó abruptamente su estricta política de “cero covid” a principios de diciembre, dijo el sábado un funcionario médico de la Comisión Nacional de Salud (NHC) en una conferencia de prensa en Beijing. Jiao Yahui, jefe
Continue Reading By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — China’s chief diplomat is visiting Cairo for talks with Egyptian and Arab League officials. Qin Gang was in Egypt Sunday on the last stop of his tour of the resource-rich African continent where Beijing has invested heavily in infrastructure and consolidating its footprint. Foreign Minister Qin met
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Several thousand health workers have returned to the streets of Spain’s capital to protest what they claim is the dismantling of Madrid’s public health care system by its conservative regional government. The marchers clamored on Sunday against staff shortages and criticized what they consider the favoritism shown by regional authorities toward private
Continue Reading By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer Celebrities wept in court. Coaches lost their jobs. Elite universities saw their reputations stained. And nearly four years later, the mastermind of the Varsity Blues scheme was sentenced this month to more than three years in prison. But there’s little belief the college bribery scandal has stirred significant change
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