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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A bomb threat has sent an anti-explosives unit into a bustling area of Ecuador’s tense capital as the South American nation staggers under a spike of violence blamed on drug gangs. Police say they evacuated people from the area around a bus station in Quito after being alerted about a backpack
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Cubs acquired power-hitting third baseman Michael Busch and reliever Yency Almonte from the Los Angeles Dodgers for two minor league prospects on Thursday. The Dodgers received pitcher Jackson Ferris and center fielder Zyhir Hope. The 26-year-old Busch was the Pacific Coast League player of the year last season with Triple-A
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s president says he has started the process to once again pardon two politicians who were arrested earlier this week. The case is at the center of a standoff between Poland’s new centrist government and its conservative predecessor. The move Thursday came as thousands of supporters of Poland’s former governing Law
Continue ReadingBy TOM CANAVAN AP Sports Writer The 19-year-old daughter of NFL Hall of Famer and “Good Morning America” co-anchor Michael Strahan is undergoing treatment for brain cancer. Isabella Strahan appeared on a prerecorded videotape segment sitting next to her father while discussing her diagnosis of medulloblastoma, a cancerous brain tumor, with fellow GMA co-anchor Robin
Continue ReadingBy TOM CANAVAN AP Sports Writer The 19-year-old daughter of NFL Hall of Famer and “Good Morning America” co-anchor Michael Strahan is undergoing treatment for brain cancer. Isabella Strahan appeared on a prerecorded videotape segment sitting next to her father while discussing her diagnosis of medulloblastoma, a cancerous brain tumor, with fellow GMA co-anchor Robin
Continue ReadingTERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A federal inmate already serving a life sentence has been sentenced to a second life term after pleading guilty to fatally strangling a fellow inmate and stabbing a second inmate at a federal prison in Indiana. The U.S. Attorneys Office says 58-year-old Rodney Curtis Hamrick was sentenced to life in
Continue ReadingBy Anabel Munoz Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Skid Row People’s Market, a beloved grocery store in the community, will soon have new owners after nearly 30 years. Danny Park’s parents Bob and May took over the store, formerly known as Best Market, in 1995. After the death of
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is drifting in mixed trading Thursday after an update on inflation forced some investors to push back forecasts for when the Federal Reserve will deliver long-sought cuts to interest rates, but not to abandon them. The S&P 500 was basically flat in late
Continue ReadingBRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — ESPN has apologized to the organization that administers the Sports Emmy Awards after it was found several on-air personalities on “College GameDay” were given award statues they were ineligible to win. The Athletic revealed the scam, which ESPN said may have gone back to 1997. The network said “some members of
Continue ReadingBy Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that a preliminary evaluation of reports of suicidal thoughts or actions among people taking drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy for type 2 diabetes and weight loss has not found evidence that the drugs cause those effects. The agency said in a
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy and Liam Reilly, CNN New York (CNN) — ESPN returned dozens of Emmy statues and “disciplined” employees after an investigation disclosed Thursday found that the sports network had submitted fake names to the awards organization in a bid to secure trophies for on-air personalities who had been ineligible to receive them. The
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By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — A Houston rapper kidnapped a pregnant woman and kept her captive in his squalid garage for more than four years despite her repeated attempts to escape, police say. Lee Carter, 52, whose stage name is Viper, was arrested last week and charged with aggravated kidnapping, according to court documents
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The Pentagon did not properly track $1 billion worth of military equipment sent to Ukraine, according to a watchdog report released on Thursday. The report from the Pentagon Inspector General says that while the Defense Department has improved its ability to track military aid sent to Ukraine, it “did not fully comply”
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Toronto coach Darko Rajakovic was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Thursday, two days after he ranted about officiating following his team’s 132-131 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. Rajakovic took particular exception to how the Lakers got 23 free throws in the fourth quarter while the Raptors shot only two.
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Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Un 22 de diciembre, pocos días antes de la Navidad de 1972, una noticia conmovió al mundo entero: 16 jóvenes uruguayos que iban en un avión que se había estrellado en los Andes en octubre habían sido encontrados con vida tras 72 días. La hazaña inspiró varios libros, documentales y
Continue ReadingCLEVELAND (AP) — Franz Welser-Möst will retire as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra in June 2027, ending a 25-season tenure that will be the longest in the ensemble’s history. The orchestra said in September that the 63-year-old had a cancerous tumor removed and he was canceling conducting performances from late October through the end
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY RAMER, NICK PERRY and DAVID SHARP Associated Press LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Sean Hodgson watched and worried as his best friend of nearly two decades unraveled. His former roommate and fellow U.S. Army reservist’s anger and paranoia were mounting, he had access to guns, and he refused to get help. So Hodgson did
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A public inquiry into a British Post Office scandal that led to the wrongful convictions of more than 900 branch managers has resumed. An investigator being grilled in the public probe Thursday denied he and others acted like “Mafia gangsters” and bullied postal employees. The inquiry, which
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El mayor simio del que se tiene constancia medía casi 3 metros y pesaba casi el doble que un gorila. Por qué y cuándo desapareció el legendario coloso, que ha cautivado la imaginación popular como “el auténtico King Kong”, es uno de los mayores misterios de la paleontología. El paleontólogo germano-neerlandés
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story BROOKLYN, New York (WABC) — New York building officials have issued emergency work orders to stabilize a historic synagogue and its neighboring structures after an illicit underground tunnel was discovered at the sanctuary earlier this week. The illegal tunnel connecting the Chabad-Lubavitch global headquarters to
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