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By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — Desperate times are calling for desperate measures at the Treasury Department. For the first time since 2007, the department is set to auction $15 billion worth of one-day cash management bills on Friday that will be issued on June 5. This comes as the Treasury’s cash balances hover around
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Carolina Calero (CNN) — Cheri Ferguson ha cambiado su vaporizador por un Ozempic. Un día, hace siete semanas, “pensé: ‘estás haciendo algo con tu peso; deja el vapeador en casa’”, cuenta Ferguson. Desde entonces, no lo ha vuelto a coger. Ferguson es una de las muchas personas que toman Ozempic y fármacos similares para perder
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Dwayne Johnson is officially returning to the “Fast & Furious” franchise. Johnson announced the news on his social media on Thursday, saying that he’s “one hundred percent confirming” that his character Luke Hobbs is back in the mix, and thanked audiences for their support and excitement surrounding his surprise
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court in a rare move overturned the death sentence of a man who was convicted of robbing and killing two people in Fresno in 1988, saying prosecutors knowingly presented false testimony from a key witness. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in its Wednesday ruling upheld Colin
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — La sociedad educada considera que decir palabrotas es una señal vulgar que indica poca inteligencia y educación, pues ¿por qué recurrir a un lenguaje grosero cuando tienes la fortuna de tener un vocabulario rico? Resulta que esa percepción está llena de… tonterías. De hecho, los estudios demuestran que decir palabrotas puede
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Airbnb sued New York City on Thursday over an ordinance that the company says imposes arbitrary restrictions that would greatly reduce the local supply of short-term rentals. The 2022 ordinance, which the city plans to begin enforcing next month, would require owners to register with the mayor’s office, disclose who else
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NEW YORK (AP) — Airbnb sued New York City on Thursday over an ordinance that the company says imposes arbitrary restrictions that would greatly reduce the local supply of short-term rentals. The 2022 ordinance, which the city plans to begin enforcing next month, would require owners to register with the mayor’s office, disclose who else
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Dodgers legend, and Palm Desert resident, Steve Garvey is pondering a possible run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Dianne Feinstein, it was reported today. Sources within the state Republican Party told the Los Angeles Times Garvey has been meeting with GOP donors and leaders to discuss the possibility of a run. Republican
Continue Reading Sofía Benavides (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden tropezó con un saco de arena y se cayó este jueves cuando completaba la entrega de diplomas en la ceremonia de graduación de la Academia de la Fuerza Aérea de EE.UU. en Colorado. Biden parecía estar bien después de la caída, al caminar sin ayuda hasta su
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A 37-year-old man pleaded guilty today to perpetrating an armed carjacking of a motorist in Desert Hot Springs with two others and was immediately sentenced to 16 years in state prison. Johnny Artis, 37, of Desert Hot Springs pleaded guilty Thursday at the Larson Justice Center in Indio to one felony count each of kidnapping,
Continue Reading By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Kellen Moore is with a new team, yet he has the same mandate. Take a good offense and make it great. Moore is in his first season as the Los Angeles Chargers offensive coordinator after eight years in Dallas, including the last four as
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Playboy model who alleges Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her and another woman at his home in 1969 sued him Thursday under a new California law that suspends the statute of limitations on sex abuse claims. In her lawsuit, Victoria Valentino, 80, says
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By Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — Three teenagers have been arrested in connection with killing and “consuming” a beloved swan in a Syracuse, New York, suburb, and stealing four young swans this week, police said. A mature female swan named Faye and her four young swans, also known as cygnets, were reported missing from the
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The Associated Press DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — City documents released Wednesday show engineers and city officials visited a Davenport building nearly a dozen times in the months before it partially collapsed on Sunday. The most recent engineer’s report came out just days before the building crumbled, suggesting the west wall appeared “ready to fall imminently.”
Continue Reading By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — Federal courts have issued desegregation orders for 32 school districts in Mississippi. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division says the desegregation orders fit into a broader body of civil rights work her division has launched in
Continue ReadingBy Amanda McClelland and Dr. Tom Frieden (CNN) — A pandemic emerges. It spreads around the world, claims lives and devastates economies for decades. Climate change makes it even deadlier. It infects hundreds of millions of people and kills millions, especially in areas with limited resources. Is this a future scenario? A tabletop exercise? No.
Continue Reading Sofía Benavides (CNN) — El borrador nunca antes visto de la letra de “Bohemian Rhapsody” de Queen sugiere que Freddie Mercury consideró darle a su himno un título algo diferente: “Mongolian Rhapsody”. El descubrimiento ocurrió tras la aparición de un folio de 15 páginas con letras, líneas vocales y armonías escritas a mano por el
Continue Reading By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has met with top diplomats from the BRICS bloc of developing economies for discussions that included the group’s possible expansion to include the major oil-producing nations of Saudi Arabia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates. Ahead of Thursday’s talks
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Rozner Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, New York (WCBS) — There is controversy surrounding a 31-year-old man who died this weekend after being released from custody on Rikers Island. On Thursday, the Department of Correction said it will no longer notify the press when someone dies in custody. There
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — The release of “Diablo IV” is right around the corner. Early access for the highly anticipated action role-playing video game begins Thursday night — ahead of next week’s official launch. “Diablo IV” marks the latest installment of Blizzard Entertainment’s “Diablo” series, which began in 1996, and arrives more than a decade after
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