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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza Londres (CNN) — Los reguladores de la Unión Europea impusieron a la compañía de tecnología Meta una multa récord de 1.200 millones de euros (US$ 1.300 millones) por transferir los datos personales de los usuarios de Facebook de la Unión Europea a servidores en Estados Unidos. La Junta Europea de Protección de
Continue ReadingBy Alexa Mikhail, CNN (CNN) — Many people dread the blaring sound of an alarm clock, signaling the start of a busy workday. Others wish they weren’t already awake and that the sound had actually woken them up. Waking up many minutes or even hours before the alarm is not a new phenomenon, sleep experts
Continue ReadingBy Jacob Lev and Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — After spending more than 300 days in Russian custody last year, Brittney Griner made an emotional return to her WNBA home court in the Phoenix Mercury’s 75-69 defeat by the Chicago Sky. Before tip-off at the Footprint Center in Phoenix on Sunday, the Mercury players were
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By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion privacy fine Monday and ordered it to stop transferring users’ personal information across the Atlantic by October, the latest salvo in a decadelong case sparked by U.S. cybersnooping fears. The penalty of 1.2 billion euros is
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin Washington (CNN) — Estados Unidos se dirige al borde de un desastre económico autoimpuesto, ya que la Cámara de Representantes, liderada por los republicanos, se niega a pagar la deuda del país a menos que el presidente Joe Biden acepte recortes en el gasto actual y futuro y nuevos recortes en los
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La búsqueda de Ucrania de aviones de combate F-16 fabricados en EE.UU. recibió un gran impulso durante este fin de semana cuando el presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, respaldó que los pilotos de Kyiv fueran entrenados para volarlos. Los comentarios de Biden en una cumbre con los líderes del
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By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency is warning of a rise in anti-government extremism fueled by authoritarian states such as Russia that seek to divide society and topple the government. German security agencies have disrupted several plots in recent years by small groups accused of planning
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Daniil Medvedev revealed one reason behind his incredible form this year after winning the Italian Open: new racket strings. The Russian world No. 2 has been using a different version of Technifbre strings and said the change to his game has been “unbelievable” since making the switch ahead of
Continue Reading By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Prominent Indigenous journalist Stan Grant will step away from television hosting duties after viewers responded with racist abuse to his comments on historic Aboriginal dispossession. Grant is a member of the Wiradjuri tribe and former international correspondent for U.S.-based CNN. He has been under fire since
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — If the debt crisis roiling Washington were eventually to send the United States crashing into recession, America’s economy would hardly sink alone. The repercussions of a first-ever default on the federal debt would quickly reverberate around the world. Orders for Chinese factories that sell electronics to
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — If the debt crisis roiling Washington were eventually to send the United States crashing into recession, America’s economy would hardly sink alone. The repercussions of a first-ever default on the federal debt would quickly reverberate around the world. Orders for Chinese factories that sell electronics to
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — The British government has sold a further stake in one of the banks that it bailed out at the height of the global financial crisis in 2008, when the banking system was teetering on the edge of collapse. In a statement Monday, the Treasury said it had sold shares in NatWest that
Continue ReadingBy Kit Maher, Eva McKend and Greg Krieg, CNN (CNN) — South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott on Monday formally entered the Republican presidential primary, promising to take on “the radical left” and bring faith and conservative, business-friendly policies to the White House, as he seeks to upend a contest that has so far been dominated
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As tensions with Iran have escalated over its nuclear program, the U.S. military this month posted pictures of a powerful bomb designed to penetrate deep into the earth and destroy underground facilities that could be used to enrich uranium. The U.S. Air Force on
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Near a peak of the Zagros Mountains in central Iran, workers are building a nuclear facility so deep in the earth that it is likely beyond the range of a last-ditch U.S. weapon designed to destroy such sites, according to experts and satellite imagery
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s president has appointed a new official to take over the post of the secretary of the country’s Supreme National Security Council, replacing the longtime powerful Ali Shamkhani. The decree on Monday by President Ebrahim Raisi will see Shamkhani replaced after he had been
Continue Reading GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency reported Monday that nearly 12,000 extreme weather, climate and water-related events over much of the past half-century around the globe have killed more than 2 million people and caused economic damage of $4.3 trillion. The stark recap from the World Meteorological Organization came as it opened its four-yearly
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By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer The week began with another remarkable feat by Shohei Ohtani — he reached base five times in a game he pitched — and then Mike Trout hit a couple home runs later in that series. Through it all, the Los Angeles Angels still looked pretty average. The Angels are
Continue Reading By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Brooks Koepka now has five major championships with his two-shot win at the PGA Championship. That’s one major for LIV Golf. No one is keeping score that way, least of all Koepka. He says it should boost the Saudi-funded rival league. Certainly it should put
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By Sandi Sidhu, Xiaofei Xu, Tara John, Hande Atay Alam, Sahar Akbarzai and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — At least 19 children died in a “horrific” school dormitory fire in Guyana, which has shocked the nation and led to its president to declare three days of national mourning. The fire that engulfed Mahdia Secondary School’s
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