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By Scottie Andrew, CNN Great sci-fi films are both fantastical and prescient. They can whisk viewers to a galaxy far, far away or exaggerate real scenarios on a fictionalized version of our planet. But the genre is at its best when it holds up a “fun house mirror to our present” and reveals something about
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN Like so many Americans do each year, President Joe Biden returned to Ireland this week in search of his roots, seeking some connection and some answers in the land his people left so many years ago. He found it in pubs, priests and Parliament, which he said (in
Continue ReadingBy Dani Masten Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS, Nevada (KVVU) — Many bus drivers for RTC gathered at the Clark County Government Center Thursday morning before heading into the RTC board meeting. They are calling for more change and for better safety measures for passengers and bus drivers. “We get spit
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Nadeau and Toyin Owoseje CNN A female bear that was sentenced to death for the fatal mauling of jogger in Italy has been given a stay of execution until May 11, officials in Trento have said. Andrea Papi, 26, was attacked and killed last week while jogging in a public nature reserve in
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By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Dallas Eakins was the Anaheim Ducks’ coach during the worst four-year stretch in franchise history. Although Pat Verbeek knows Eakins is far from solely responsible, the general manager is ready to continue his rebuilding project with a new voice behind the bench. Eakins will not
Continue ReadingBy Saskya Vandoorne and Joseph Ataman, CNN France’s pension reforms have come into law, a day after the country’s top court approved the government’s unpopular plans to raise the age of retirement by two years to 64. The decision marked a huge win for President Emmanuel Macron in the face of mass protests across the
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz and Sara Murray, CNN Federal prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents are pressing multiple witnesses for details about their attorneys, including whether any of them have attempted to influence testimony in order to protect the former president, multiple sources tell CNN. Investigators have focused these questions toward a
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos anunció este viernes cargos contra más de dos docenas de acusados, entre ellos tres hijos del famoso narcotraficante Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, en el marco de una amplia investigación sobre el tráfico de fentanilo. El Fiscal General Merrick Garland anunció los cargos en
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By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks on Wall Street dipped Friday as worries about interest rates overshadowed an encouraging start to earnings reporting season for big U.S. companies. The S&P 500 fell 8.58 points, or 0.2%, to 4,137.64 after giving up an early gain. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN Of the many dark gifts Showtime’s eerie hit series “Yellowjackets” serves up for us, the juiciest this season is by far the music. The show — which bounces between a troupe of teen soccer players trapped in the 1990s Canadian wilderness after a plane crash and the survivors’ corresponding adult selves
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CNN By Paradise Afshar, CNN The city of Minneapolis has reached settlements totaling more than $8.8 million in two civil lawsuits that accuse former police officer Derek Chauvin of using excessive force in two incidents that happened nearly three years before he killed George Floyd during an arrest. The plaintiffs, John Pope and Zoya Code
Continue Reading By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Community matters so much to Logan Webb that he realizes staying with the San Francisco Giants for the long haul is an opportunity to cherish. He grew up a baseball nut in Northern California and will get to keep pitching close to home in the
Continue Reading Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The digital media conglomerate Starboard said Friday it purchased the conservative social media site Parler and will temporarily take down the app as it undergoes a “strategic assessment.” The deal came months after another acquisition agreement with rapper Kanye West, legally known as Ye, collapsed in November. The terms
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN Ryan Seacrest said goodbye to “Live with Kelly and Ryan” after six seasons on Friday. After his last time walking on the stage as co-host with Kelly Ripa, Seacrest said he was going to get emotional. “Kelly turned the corner and said, ‘Oh my gosh, am I going to cry?’ And
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos declaró este jueves que está “decepcionado” por la decisión de un tribunal chino de mantener la condena a muerte del ciudadano estadounidense Mark Swidan y pidió su liberación inmediata. “Hoy, el Tribunal Intermedio de Jiangmen, en la República Popular China, denegó la apelación del
Continue Reading By Sara Smart, Danny Freeman and Zoe Sottile, CNN Police are on the hunt for the people behind a “dime and dash” theft in northeast Philadelphia. At around 6 a.m. Thursday, thieves broke into an unmarked trailer left in a Walmart parking lot, the Philadelphia Police Department told CNN, and made off with about 2
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN The sister of Paul Whelan, a US citizen who is wrongfully detained in Russia, on Thursday expressed frustration at her brother’s continued imprisonment in Russia and called on the White House to bring him home. “Paul Whelan deserves better than he is getting for results. He has the White House attention
Continue Reading By Taylor Nicioli, CNN It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s a paper airplane! The world record for the farthest flight by paper airplane has been broken by three aerospace engineers with a paper aircraft that flew a grand total of 289 feet, 9 inches (88 meters), nearly the length of an American football field.
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By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Authorities in Venezuela have charged with corruption a businessman who is a fugitive in a separate U.S. money laundering case targeting a top ally of President Nicolás Maduro. Images shared by Venezuela’s government show Alvaro Pulido escorted by a masked security agent on his way to an
Continue Reading By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss federal chancellery says that Elisabeth Kopp, an advocate of equal rights and the environment who was the first woman elected to Switzerland’s seven-member executive branch, has died. She was 86. Kopp died on April 7 in Zumikon, southeast of Zurich, from complications related to an
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