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By Zachary Cohen and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The Chinese government and its state-controlled entities spent over $5.5 million at properties owned by Donald Trump while he was in office, the largest total of payments made by any single foreign country known to date, according to financial documents cited in a report from House Democrats released Thursday. Those
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By Melissa Alonso and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — A 19-year-old and his father have been arrested in connection with the killings of a pregnant Texas teen and her boyfriend after their bodies were found last week in a car in San Antonio, authorities said Wednesday. Christopher Preciado was arrested on suspicion of capital murder
Continue ReadingBy CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Officials in St. Petersburg, Florida, want to make it clear that their city is the current and future home of the Tampa Bay Rays as negotiations continue on a proposed new $1.3 billion ballpark. The Rays oppose changing the team name to the St. Petersburg
Continue ReadingARLINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Rayner Pike, a retired reporter for The Associated Press for over four decades, has died. He was 90. Surrounded by family at the end, his Dec. 26 death at home in Arlington, Massachusetts, set off a wave of tributes from former co-workers. He spent most of his career in the AP’s
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10 directors will be celebrated at Variety’s annual brunch following Thursday’s Palm Springs International Film Festival Gala. Check Out: Live Coverage: 2024 Palm Springs International Film Awards Gala Variety awards “10 Directors to Watch” who have made notable contributions to the world of film every year. This year’s honorees include: Blitz Bazawule, The Color Purple
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The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) conducts monthly snow surveys from January through April. The first of these surveys was conducted on January 2nd at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevadas. The survey reported a 30% snowpack compared to the previous year’s 177%. California’s Sierra Nevada mountains serve as a natural snowbank. During the
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Newly released court documents describing Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of teenage girls provide a reminder of how the financier leveraged connections to the rich, powerful and famous to recruit his victims and cover up his crimes. The more than 40 documents released late Wednesday — the
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Mena, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Latino economist Alberto Musalem has been named as the next president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the bank announced Thursday. Musalem, 55, replaces James Bullard, who left the bank on August 14 to become the inaugural dean of Purdue University’s Mitchell E.
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If you couldn’t snag a ticket to the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala, not to worry. You can watch it all on the livestream. But what audiences don’t get to see is the fabulous afterparty, which has taken place at the Parker Palm Springs for nearly 20 years now. The charmingly bold and
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Thursday for two suicide bombings targeting a commemoration for an Iranian general slain in a 2020 U.S. drone strike, the worst militant attack to strike Iran in decades as the wider Middle East remains on
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Joe Bonsall is leaving the legendary singing group the Oak Ridge Boys due to a health issue. The singer, 75, shared the news in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday. “Many of you know I have been battling a slow onset (over 4 years now) of
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius is due to be released from prison Friday to live under strict conditions at a family home having served nearly nine years of a murder sentence for the shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The double-amputee Olympic runner from South Africa is
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS RICCARDI and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press PERRY, Iowa (AP) — Multiple people were shot inside a small-town Iowa high school early Thursday, as students preparing for their first classes after winter break were forced to duck into classrooms, barricade themselves in offices or run for an exit, before the suspected shooter was found
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Tennis Association has retained two lawyers at a Washington-based firm to review its safeguarding policies and procedures to protect players from sexual misconduct and other abuse. The head of the organization that runs the U.S. Open and oversees the sport in the United States revealed the review in an
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The Houthis launched an unmanned surface drone against commercial shipping lanes in the Red Sea early Thursday morning as the US Navy commander in the region said he sees no sign of the attacks abating. The attack with the unmanned surface vessel (USV) marks the first time the Houthis
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a decree that speeds up a path to Russian citizenship for foreigners who enlist in the country’s military amid the 22-month-old war in Ukraine. The move comes as Moscow is trying to replenish its troops in Ukraine by various methods,
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Germán Padinger (CNN) — Al menos 84 personas murieron y otras resultaron heridas este miércoles en la ciudad iraní de Kerman después de dos explosiones cerca de la tumba del comandante militar Qasem Soleimani, en lo que las autoridades calificaron de ataque terrorista. Las explosiones, al menos una de las cuales fue causada por una
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — People who have more interrupted sleep in their 30s and 40s are more than twice as likely to have memory and thinking problems a decade later, according to a new study. In the early 2000s, the researchers tracked the quality of sleep for hundreds of people during two overnight
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — An old interview with Taylor Swift has some of her fans believing she predicted her relationship with Travis Kelce long ago. In 2009, the superstar singer talked to Glamour magazine and was asked what a relationship would “look like” for her. “It’s always going to be long-distance, even
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer The NBA fined the Brooklyn Nets $100,000 on Thursday, marking the first time a team was sanctioned for violating the league’s player participation policy that went into effect this season. The Nets held four rotation players — starters Spencer Dinwiddie, Nic Claxton and Cam Johnson, along with key reserve
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