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By Ben Morse and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — A former Jacksonville Jaguars employee could face up to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to financial crimes which included stealing more than $22 million from the NFL team. Amit Patel pleaded guilty to felony charges of wire fraud and illegal monetary transaction in US
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Short-term rental platform Airbnb has agreed to pay 576 million euros ($621 million) to settle a years-long dispute over unpaid taxes in Italy but won’t try to recover the money from its hosts. Airbnb said in a statement on Wednesday that it was working on introducing new tools that would allow hosts
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A ballistic missile fired from rebel-held territory in Yemen struck a Liberian-flagged cargo ship Friday in the Red Sea near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, an assault that apparently sought to target a vessel struck earlier, a U.S. defense official said. The official identified the
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CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Some of America’s legacy airlines are hiring aggressively and adjusting flight schedules to accommodate staffing shortages as they prepare to to fly around 2.8 million passengers a day during the end-of-year holiday rush. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — The Polish prime minister and a top EU leader say that the European Union will by year’s end transfer to Poland the first 5 billion euros in funding that was frozen over democratic backsliding under the previous government in Warsaw. The 5 billion euros is part of a larger bloc of money
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry won his phone hacking lawsuit Friday against the publisher of the Daily Mirror and was awarded over 140,000 pounds ($180,000) in the first of his several lawsuits against British tabloids to go to trial. Justice Timothy Fancourt in the High Court found phone hacking was
Continue ReadingBy GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Reports from Myanmar say there is continuing fighting in the northeastof the country between the military government and an alliance of ethnic minority armed groups. That is even though China announced that the two sides had reached agreement on a cease-fire at meetings it had brokered. Clashes
Continue ReadingBy Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — The Los Angeles Dodgers unveiled their newest acquisition Shohei Ohtani to the media on Thursday after the 29-year-old signed a historic 10-year, $700 million deal with the team last week, The two-way superstar, who donned the team’s jersey during a press conference at the Dodger Stadium, told reporters that he hoped to
Continue Reading By Rym Bendimerad, CNN (CNN) — Money talks, but nature may have the last word if climate change continues to unfold at current rates. The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently calculated that transitioning to a sustainable, carbon-neutral future would take $13.5 trillion in investment globally between now and 2050. It’s a monumental figure, yet if
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Ángela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — El equipo del líder opositor ruso Alexey Navalny afirma que no ha tenido contacto con él en los últimos diez días y que desconoce su paradero. En la última vista judicial sobre su caso, el tribunal escuchó que había abandonado la región de Vladimir, donde está encarcelado desde julio, según
Continue ReadingBy JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A prosecutor in Denmark says authorities are holding two people in custody and four others are the target of a terrorism investigation. The case coincides with one arrest in the Netherlands and several in Germany of alleged Hamas members. Denmark hasn’t said there is a
Continue ReadingBy Jim Sciutto, CNN (CNN) — As a Ukraine aid package continues to stall in the US Congress, America and its allies are assessing what they describe as the potentially debilitating impact on Ukraine’s defense and longer-term prospects of losing the war, multiple US and European officials told CNN. “There is no guarantee of success
Continue Reading By Rym Bendimerad, CNN (CNN) — Conflict resolution is a skill sorely needed in the world right now. As president and CEO of global think-tank International Crisis Group (ICG), Comfort Ero has plenty of experience in the field. Ero has spearheaded the conflict resolution non-profit since 2021, after stints working at the United Nations, and
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt, CNN London (CNN) — Sharon Osbourne has said that having cosmetic surgery on her face was “the worst thing I ever did.” Osbourne, the British-born former “America’s Got Talent” judge, who is married to Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne, has had facelifts, Botox, fillers, “lifts” to her legs and arms, a tummy tuck
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister says he’ll have plenty of opportunities in the future to interrupt Ukraine’s process of joining the European Union despite the latest, historic decision to move forward with bringing Kyiv into the bloc. Viktor Orbán’s comments to Hungarian state radio on Friday came a
Continue ReadingTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has rejected a request by a group of human rights organizations to order a halt to the transfer to Israel of parts for F-35 fighter jets. The organizations went to court on Dec. 4 arguing that delivery of parts for the aircraft makes the Netherlands complicit in
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un profesor de secundaria de Georgia fue detenido la semana pasada después de que varios testigos dijeran a las autoridades que amenazó con decapitar a una alumna musulmana de 13 años que dijo que la bandera israelí colgada en su salón de clase la ofendía. Benjamin Reese, profesor de séptimo
Continue Reading By Luke McGee, James Frater and Mariya Knight Brussels, Belgium (CNN) — Hungary blocked a crucial European aid package for Ukraine, hours after EU leaders agreed to open membership talks with Kyiv. “Summary of the nightshift: veto for the extra money to Ukraine,” Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban posted on X, formerly Twitter, after a
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. police say they are “relieved and overjoyed” that a teenager found walking along a road in southwestern France is a British boy who went missing six years ago. Greater Manchester Police said the teen claiming to be Alex Batty had held a video call with his
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Twenty years ago, as Supreme Court justices were deciding cases that tested college affirmative action, a ban on same-sex relations and a “three-strikes” law that put convicts in prison for life, their elite young law clerks were growing agitated and divided. Some conservative clerks stopped eating lunch with their liberal counterparts
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