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Month: January 2024

‘Monsieur Spade’ casts Clive Owen in a series that’s nearly the stuff dreams are made of

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — The latest installment of “True Detective” gets overshadowed by another six-episode limited series premiering the same night, only this one featuring a detective out of the past, Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade. With a hat tip to “The Maltese Falcon,” AMC’s “Monsieur Spade” creates a nicely moody sequel built

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Cellebrite donates AI investigative tools to nonprofits to help find missing children faster

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Cellebrite DI, Ltd., launched “Operation Find Them All” on Friday – an initiative where the provider of digital artificial intelligence tools will donate its technology to nonprofits that help find endangered children, including the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and the nonprofit The

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

Ecuador exigirá certificado de antecedentes penales a los extranjeros que quieran entrar a su territorio por Colombia o Perú

Ángela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — El Gobierno de Ecuador exigirá a los extranjeros que quieran entrar a su territorio por sus fronteras con Colombia o Perú que presenten un certificado de antecedentes penales, con el argumento de que con esta medida busca “evitar y controlar el ingreso de individuos que constituyan una amenaza o riesgo

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A chilly start to the weekend

Mornings lows are dipping well into the 30s this morning, and that has prompted widespread Frost Advisories around the region. An outbreak of cold air descending into the U.S. is affecting large swaths of the nation this morning. including the Coachella Valley. Over the next few days, high pressure will bring a modest warming trend

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Main political party in St. Maarten secures most seats in Dutch Caribbean territory’s elections

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Voters in St. Maarten have upheld the Dutch Caribbean territory’s main political party, the National Alliance, in general elections. Preliminary results released Friday say the party of the current prime minister won four of Parliament’s 15 seats. Officials reported a 65% voter turnout, with more than 22,500 people registered

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Wholesale inflation in US declined last month, signaling that price pressures are still easing

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. wholesale inflation fell for a third straight month in December, further evidence that price pressures in the economy are easing. The government’s producer price index — which tracks inflation before it reaches consumers — declined 0.1% from November to December. Measured year over year, producer

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Olympics brings on its first beer brand as a global sponsor — Budweiser’s AB InBev

By COURTNEY BONNELL and GRAHAM DUNBAR Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The International Olympic Committee has signed the first beer brand in the 40-year history of a sponsorship program that earns billions of dollars for the organization and international sports. The deal was announced Friday by the IOC and Budweiser maker Anheuser-Busch InBev for the

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Britain’s prime minister is in Ukraine to offer aid and reassurance of West’s support against Moscow

By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled new military funding for Ukraine on Friday during a visit to Kyiv aimed at reassuring the country that the West is still providing support nearly 23 months after Russia’s invasion. The package, worth 2.5 billion pounds ($3.2 billion) over the

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IRS says it collected $360 million more from rich tax cheats as its funding is threatened yet again

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS says it has collected an additional $360 million in overdue taxes from delinquent millionaires. The collection happens as IRS leadership tries to promote the latest work it has done to modernize the agency with Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act funding. Republicans are threatening to chip away

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Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter crashes near Mexican border with minor injury reported

SPOFFORD, Texas (AP) — A Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter patrolling the state’s border with Mexico has crashed, injuring at least one person. DPS Lt. Chris Olivarez says in a statement on X, former known as Twitter, that the helicopter crashed Thursday night near Spofford in Kinney County while patrolling the Texas border near

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