By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Plastic chairs as beds. Meals of bread and rice. Hours spent waiting for the bathroom. As hostages return to Israel after seven weeks of Hamas captivity, information about the conditions of their confinement has begun to trickle out. The 58 hostages freed under a cease-fire deal over
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KTUU, ALASKA DOT & PF, CNN By Taylor Romine, Susannah Cullinane and Alberto Moya, CNN (CNN) — Search crews in southern Alaska have found the body of a missing 11-year-old girl following a landslide that killed three of her family members, Alaska’s Department of Public Safety announced Sunday. A K9 scent detection unit indicated an
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — As a 5-foot-8 college freshman at Albany, Tara VanDerveer jumped center to start the game. Every one, as she remembers it. She’s not sure whether she was the tallest player, nor does she recall the team’s record. “I can’t remember,” she said Sunday, “that was
Continue ReadingBy Arlette Saenz, Betsy Klein and MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — Abigail Edan, the 4-year-old American dual citizen abducted by Hamas on October 7, has been released – marking the first successful release of an American hostage since the start of a truce between Israel and Hamas. Edan is one of the 17 hostages released Sunday. President Joe
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CNN By Arlette Saenz, Betsy Klein and MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — Abigail Edan, the 4-year-old American dual citizen abducted by Hamas on October 7, has been released – marking the first successful release of an American hostage since the start of a truce between Israel and Hamas. Edan is one of the 17 hostages released Sunday. President
Continue ReadingWRANGELL, Alaska (AP) — Authorities have recovered the body of an 11-year-old girl from a landslide that smashed into homes in an Alaska fishing village days ago. The girl was identified as Kara Heller and she was the fourth person confirmed killed in the landslide Monday night. The girl’s parents, Timothy Heller and Beth Heller,
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in western Mexico say they have found the body of anti-mining activist Higinio Trinidad de la Cruz. Prosecutors said De la Cruz’s body was found Sunday on a rural road in the state of Jalisco near the border with the neighboring state of Colima. They said de la Cruz appeared
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Irish writer Paul Lynch won the Booker Prize for fiction on Sunday with what judges called a “soul-shattering” novel about a woman’s struggle to protect her family as Ireland collapses into totalitarianism and war. “Prophet Song,” set in a dystopian fictional version of Dublin, was awarded the
Continue ReadingBy RENATA BRITO Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said Sunday he hopes a meeting of Mediterranean officials will help bridge a gap between Arab and European countries in calling for a humanitarian pause in Gaza to become a permanent cease-fire. The fragile pause in hostilities between Israel and the
Continue ReadingLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Rienk Mast scored 19 points, Keisei Tominaga added 17, and Nebraska continued its hot start to the season, defeating Cal State Fullerton 85-72 on Sunday. Nebraska improved to 7-0 for the first time since the 1992-93 season and just the fifth time in program history. Mast and Tominaga opened the second
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By Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — Three people are dead and two others were injured during a shooting early Sunday morning in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, law enforcement officials said. The Winnipeg Police Service said in a news release the shooting happened just after 4 a.m. nearly a mile west of the city’s downtown. Officers arriving
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Rusia frustró más de 20 ataques con drones desde Ucrania sobre su territorio en el último día, incluida su capital, Moscú, informaron las autoridades este domingo, un día después de que lanzara el mayor ataque con drones contra Kyiv desde que comenzó la invasión a gran escala. Según el Ministerio de
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CNN Opinion by Dean Obeidallah (CNN) — After police say he repeatedly taunted an Arab immigrant food cart worker in his Manhattan neighborhood, former Obama-era National Security Council official Stuart Seldowitz was arrested last week by the New York Police Department. He now faces hate crime and aggravated harassment charges. The videos of Seldowitz’s rants — which went viral —
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas was back on track Sunday as the militants freed 17 more hostages, including 14 Israelis and the first American, in a third exchange under a four-day truce that the U.S. said it hoped would
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek Nota del editor: Dana Santas, conocida como “Mobility Maker”, es especialista certificada en fuerza y acondicionamiento y entrenadora mente-cuerpo en deportes profesionales, y es autora del libro “Practical Solutions for Back Pain Relief”. (CNN) — Cuando ves a tus actores favoritos en un estado físico óptimo sobre la alfombra roja, puedes pensar
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Russia’s interior ministry has added the spokesman of U.S. technology company Meta to a wanted list according to its online database. Russian state and independent media first reported on Stone’s inclusion on the list on Sunday. Meta owns Facebook and Instagram. The news came weeks after Russia classed Meta as “extremist.”
Continue ReadingELMSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — In a story published Nov. 25, 2023, about food waste, The Associated Press erroneously reported that about 63 tons (57 metric tons) goes to waste, including 52.4 tons (47.5 metric tons) that ends up in landfills and 10 tons (9 metric tons) never harvested from farms. It should have been 63
Continue ReadingELMSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — In a story published Nov. 25, 2023, about food waste, The Associated Press erroneously reported that about 63 tons (57 metric tons) goes to waste, including 52.4 tons (47.5 metric tons) that ends up in landfills and 10 tons (9 metric tons) never harvested from farms. It should have been 63
Continue ReadingBy Eva Rothenberg, CNN (CNN) — Since at least 2019, Meta has knowingly refused to shut down the majority of accounts belonging to children under the age of 13 while collecting their personal information without their parents’ consent, a newly unsealed court document from an ongoing federal lawsuit against the social media giant alleges. Attorneys
Continue ReadingBy FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday revealed that he has a lung inflammation but will go later this week to Dubai to address the climate change conference. Francis skipped his weekly Sunday appearance at a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square, a day after the Vatican said he was
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