By Gawon Bae and Jessie Yeung, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — A South Korean man has been sentenced to jail for using artificial intelligence to generate exploitative images of children, the first case of its kind in the country as courts around the world encounter the use of new technologies in creating abusive sexual
Continue ReadingCNN By Eric Bradner, Gregory Krieg, Steve Contorno, Daniel Strauss and Arit John, CNN (CNN) — The second 2024 Republican presidential primary debate ended just as it began: with former President Donald Trump – who hasn’t yet appeared alongside his rivals onstage – as the party’s dominant front-runner. The seven GOP contenders in Wednesday night’s
Continue ReadingSYDNEY (AP) — Sri Lankan cricket international Danushka Gunathilaka has been found not guilty of raping a woman he met on a dating site during the south Asian team’s tour of Australia last November. Judge Sarah Huggett acquitted the 32-year-old player as he sat at Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court listening to the decision. Huggett
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE L. PRICE and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ aggressive start in the second Republican presidential debate was among its key moments. DeSantis used his first answer to criticize ex-President Donald Trump for skipping the debate Wednesday at the Reagan Library in California. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said if
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — No shorts on the Senate floor. The Senate voted Wednesday evening to reverse an informal guidance issued by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer last week that senators could wear what they want when voting or speaking in the chamber. The resolution, passed by voice vote with
Continue ReadingBy Annette Choi, Ethan Cohen, Melissa Holzberg DePalo and David Wright, CNN (CNN) — We tracked how long each candidate talked at the second Republican primary presidential debate. Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy led with over 12 minutes of speaking time during the debate, which saw candidates scrambling for airtime and talking over each other as they jockeyed for
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The seven candidates on stage for Wednesday night’s second presidential debate went after President Joe Biden, one another and the absent GOP front-runner. The at-times chaotic event featured staple questions about immigration, economics and abortion but also spawned a new nickname for Donald Trump, included some cringey sexual references and kept
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The seven candidates on stage for Wednesday night’s second presidential debate went after President Joe Biden, one another and the absent GOP front-runner. The at-times chaotic event featured staple questions about immigration, economics and abortion but also spawned a new nickname for Donald Trump, included some cringey sexual references and kept
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — The winning numbers for Wednesday’s night’s $850 million Powerball jackpot – the fourth largest jackpot prize in the game’s history – have been drawn. The numbers are 1, 7, 46, 47, 63 and the Powerball is 7, the lottery said. A jackpot winner Wednesday night would have the option
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN HALL Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Pinch-hitter Trevor Larnach broke an eighth-inning tie with an RBI double and the Minnesota Twins rallied to beat the Oakland Athletics 6-4 on Wednesday night. After Max Kepler opened the eighth with his fourth hit of the game, Larnach sent a 1-1 pitch from Dany Jiménez off
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Ring, ring! It’s rush hour on Paris’ Sébastopol Boulevard, and the congestion is severe — not just gas-guzzling, pollution-spewing, horn-honking snarls but also quieter and greener bottlenecks of cyclists jockeying for space. Until four years ago, motorists largely had the Paris thoroughfare to themselves. Now, its bike-lane
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Continue Reading Valeria Ordóñez (CNN) — El pangolín se encuentra entre los animales que más sufren de caza ilegal. Estas escurridizas criaturas están bajo amenaza, pero el descubrimiento de una especie misteriosa que resulta nueva para la ciencia podría ayudar a los conservacionistas a luchar contra su extinción, dicen los investigadores. Hay ocho especies de pangolín conocidas hasta
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, Haley Britzky, Oren Liebermann, Betsy Klein, Rob Picheta, Gawon Bae, Alex Marquardt and Michael Conte, CNN (CNN) — US Army Private Travis King is on a flight back to the United States after being returned to American custody weeks after he crossed into North Korea, according to State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller.
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief says in a new report that gang violence in Haiti is escalating and spreading from the capital Port-au-Prince through the center of the country to its two other major cities, Gonaives and Cap-Hatien, with a significant increase in killings, kidnappings and rapes
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Prosecutors have presented detailed testimony about the final moments of a toddler who was taken by relatives to a remote desert encampment in northern New Mexico where he died. One of the other children who was found at the compound when it was raided by
Continue ReadingBy Jon Passantino, CNN (CNN) — Striking actors and the Hollywood studios will resume negotiations on a new labor contract on Monday, SAG-AFTRA, the actors’ union, said Wednesday, the same day writers ended their own strike in the entertainment industry. Several executives from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers member companies will be
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY and ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writers NEW YORK (AP) — With the Hollywood writers strike over, actors will now get a shot at cutting their own deal with studios and streaming services. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Radio and Television Artists announced Wednesday night that strike negotiations with studios would resume
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY and ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writers NEW YORK (AP) — With the Hollywood writers strike over, actors will now get a shot at cutting their own deal with studios and streaming services. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Radio and Television Artists announced Wednesday night that strike negotiations with studios would resume
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — The Hong Kong stock exchange says trading of shares of heavily indebted Chinese property developer China Evergrande Group has been suspended. China Evergrande said in a notice on Thursday night that authorities had informed the firm that its chairman Hui Ka Yan had been subjected to
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