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By PAOLA FLORES and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia is interested in obtaining Iranian drone technology to protect its borders and combat smuggling and drug trafficking, the Andean country’s Defense Minister Edmundo Novillo confirmed Tuesday, a day after Argentina demanded information on the opaque agreement sealed between Iran and Bolivia
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Justin Herbert is set to become the NFL’s highest-paid quarterback by annual salary, agreeing to a five-year, $262.5 million extension with the Los Angeles Chargers on Tuesday. Herbert’s total value and $52.5 million average per season surpasses the $260 million, five-year extension ($52 million average) Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson signed
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — A nearly 500-year-old manuscript signed by the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés in 1527 has been returned to the Archivo General de la Nación de México – Mexico’s national archives in Mexico City. U.S. officials said the manuscript is a payment order signed by Cortés on April 27, 1527, authorizing the purchase of
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — West Africa has recorded over 1,800 terrorist attacks in the first six months of the year resulting in nearly 4,600 deaths with dire humanitarian consequences. And a top regional official says that’s just “a snippet of the horrendous impact of insecurity.” Omar Touray told the
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Trevor Reed, the former US Marine who was wrongfully detained in Russia for nearly three years before being released in a prisoner swap, was injured while fighting in Ukraine, a source familiar with the matter told CNN Tuesday. Reed, who was freed in a prisoner swap in April 2022,
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado police officer on trial for putting a handcuffed woman in a parked police vehicle that was hit by a freight train says she didn’t realize that another officer had parked it on the tracks. Jordan Steinke testified Tuesday that she didn’t notice the tracks
Continue ReadingBy MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An unfunded proposal by Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson to pay for plane tickets in the winter to warmer climates for homeless people has caused a stir in Alaska’s biggest city. Last year, eight people died of exposure in Anchorage, which is a record for the city.
Continue ReadingBy FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Two key Vatican investigators have begun an audit in Peru’s capital of a secretive Roman Catholic society with chapters across South America and in the U.S. following allegations that its founder sexually molested young recruits. Maltese Archbishop Charles Scicluna and Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu questioned the society’s
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — Las Fuerzas Armadas y la Policía de Ecuador intervinieron el Centro de Privación de Libertad Guayas Número 1 con unos 1.500 efectivos y por el momento logró un “control total” en el lugar, informó la Secretaría de Comunicación de la Presidencia en su cuenta de Twitter. Agregaron que comenzó
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy in recent weeks has heard similar advice from both a senior House Republican and an influential conservative lawyer: prioritize the impeachment of President Joe Biden over a member of his Cabinet. Part of the thinking, according to multiple sources familiar with
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Police have arrested two suspects in connection with the 2018 murder of Ramon Diaz, a popular jiu-jitsu instructor from Cathedral City. Diaz was killed in a shooting on March 28, 2018 on the 31000 block of Whispering Palms Trail. Surveillance video of the shooting released by police in Sept. 2018 Diaz was well-known in the
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers say the U.K. has underestimated the threat posed by the Russian Wagner mercenary group and should ban it as a terrorist organization. The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said Wednesday that the sanctions imposed by Britain on Wagner are “underwhelming” and U.K. authorities have
Continue ReadingBy Shawna Mizelle, CNN (CNN) — A Democratic congressman from Texas is participating in a brief thirst and hunger strike Tuesday to “draw attention to the need for a federal workplace heat standard, including protections for rest and water breaks.” A communications director for Rep. Greg Casar, whose district stretches from Austin to San Antonio,
Continue ReadingKEYE, REP. GREG CASAR, CNN By Shawna Mizelle, CNN (CNN) — A Democratic congressman from Texas is participating in a brief thirst and hunger strike Tuesday to “draw attention to the need for a federal workplace heat standard, including protections for rest and water breaks.” A communications director for Rep. Greg Casar, whose district stretches
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The federal government will forgive loans for thousands of Colorado students who attended a private career school that lost accreditation and advertised with misleading data on alumni job placement and earnings that was more rosy than realistic, federal and state officials announced Tuesday. CollegeAmerica, owned by
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Dame Helen Mirren’s impressive transformation into Israel’s first female prime minister Golda Meir is showcased in Tuesday’s new trailer for the upcoming film “Golda.” “In 1973, the leader of the most contested region in the world is Golda Meir,” reads text that is splashed across the screen in the
Continue Reading Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Puede que Ryan Gosling sea —o no— tu Ken ideal en la nueva película de “Barbie”. De cualquier manera, una de las directoras de reparto de la película compartió este martes los nombres de los otros actores que pudieron haber interpretado el papel. En una entrevista con la revista Vanity Fair,
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — The Boston Red Sox traded Kiké Hernández to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday, sending the slumping utilityman back to the team he played with for six seasons and helped win a World Series title. The Red Sox received right-handers Nick Robertson and Justin Hagenman in exchange for Hernandez, who struggled at
Continue ReadingBy JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says ground beef contaminated with salmonella has sickened at least 16 people in four Northeastern states. Six of the people have been hospitalized. The CDC said Tuesday that illnesses have been reported in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Ground
Continue ReadingBy JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A group of book sellers and publishers filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block a new Texas book ratings law. They say it could ban such classics as “Romeo and Juliet” and “Of Mice and Men” from state public school classrooms and libraries because of
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