By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has approved the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey following the Turkish government’s ratification this week of Sweden’s membership in NATO. The move is a significant development in the expansion of the alliance, which has taken on additional importance since Russia’s invasion
Continue ReadingBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A military panel at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, recommended 23 years in detention Friday for two Malaysian men in connection with deadly 2002 bombings in Bali, a spokesman for the military commission said. However, under a previously secret provision of the plea agreement disclosed after the panel’s recommendation
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El histórico fallo dictado el viernes por el máximo tribunal de las Naciones Unidas en un caso de genocidio contra Israel fue bien recibida por las tres principales partes implicadas: Israel, Sudáfrica y los palestinos. Pero al mismo tiempo, nadie obtuvo lo que pedía. La Corte Internacional de Justicia de La
Continue ReadingBy Andrea Kane, CNN (CNN) — If you think it’s hard to lose weight and keep it off, you are not alone — and you are also 100% correct. Long-term weight loss is really difficult to achieve, studies have found. Estimates vary, but it’s believed that more than 80% of people who lose a substantial
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Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A prosecutor says an American founder of a Haitian orphanage forced four boys who lived in the institution to engage in sexual acts more than a decade ago. Jessica Urban is a prosecutor with the Justice Department’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section. Appearing via video conference Friday,
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — MacKenzie Scott continues to sell billions of dollars in Amazon stock. In 2023, she unloaded nearly 65.3 million shares of Amazon, currently worth more than $10 billion, according to a filing. After her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was finalized in 2019, Scott became the wealthiest woman in
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace, Jeffrey Kopp and Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — Boeing’s 737 Max 9 model returned to service Friday afternoon when Alaska Airlines flight 1146 departed Seattle at approximately 3:51pm local time (6:51pm ET) bound for San Diego. It is the first revenue flight for this model since the Federal Aviation Administration grounded the Boeing
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– El expresidente Donald Trump tendría que pagar US$ 83,3 millones en daños y perjuicios a la escritora y columnista E. Jean Carroll por las declaraciones públicas que hizo en 2019, cuando la difamó y negó las acusaciones de violación que ella presentó en su contra, según determinó este viernes un jurado federal
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii officials have identified the last of the 100 known victims of the wildfire that destroyed Maui’s historic town of Lahaina in August. Maui police said Friday the victim was identified as 70-year-old Lydia Coloma. Identifying those who perished in the deadliest wildfire in the U.S.
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By Danny Freeman and Aya Elamroussi, CNN (CNN) — An 18-year-old has been arrested in connection with the Philadelphia killing suspect who escaped custody during a medical transport, the city’s police department announced Friday. Authorities say they arrested Michael Diggs for allegedly picking up Shane Pryor, 17, after Pryor ran from two Philadelphia Juvenile Justice
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Si pides una caja de croquetas congeladas de ternera de Kobe a Asahiya, una carnicería familiar de la ciudad de Takasago, en la prefectura occidental japonesa de Hyogo, tardarás otros 43 años en recibir tu pedido. No es una errata. Cuarenta y tres años. Fundada en 1926, Asahiya vendió productos cárnicos
Continue ReadingBy KIM CHANDLER Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — As witnesses including five news reporters watched through a window, Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted and sentenced to die in the 1988 murder-for hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett, convulsed on a gurney as Alabama carried out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas. Critics who
Continue ReadingCHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say two teenage boys have been shot and killed while they were leaving school. Police say the boys, ages 16 and 17, were among a group of students walking out of the Innovations High School around 12:25 p.m. Friday when they were shot. Police say masked suspects got out of
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Gabriella Vagnoli nunca olvidó aquel viaje a Escocia. Intentaba no pensar en ello, “eliminar por completo ese capítulo”. Llevaba a penas unos días de conocer a Dan Watling. Él vivía en Estados Unidos y pensó que no volvería a verlo jamás. Pero a medida que su larga relación en Italia empezaba a
Continue Reading By Nicki Brown and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — The judge presiding over the trial of Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley’s mother said she would not allow the gunman to testify if he invokes his Fifth Amendment right, as his attorneys have previously indicated he would. The Fifth Amendment protects a person from being “compelled
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico reached an all-time high in December since monthly numbers have been released, authorities said Friday, exposing a growing vulnerability for President Joe Biden in his campaign for a second term. The Border Patrol tallied 249,785 arrests on the Mexican border in December, up 31% from
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A man pled guilty today to a hit-and-run that caused the death of a 39-year-old man in Palm Springs and was sentenced to 90 days of county jail and two years of formal probation. Chad Steinmetz, 42, pleaded guilty Friday at the Larson Justice Center in Indio to one felony count of hit-and-run causing death
Continue ReadingBy Jacob Lev and Brammhi Balarajan, CNN (CNN) — While all eyes are on Travis Kelce’s relationship, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end says his focus is on his happiness and the team’s upcoming game on Sunday that will determine whether they go to the Super Bowl. “I brought this upon myself and I do
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A Banning jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision today on murder and other charges in the trial of a probationer accused of fatally shooting a Coachella Valley man, prompting a judge to declare a mistrial. Jurors in the trial of Hector Ramiro Yamanaka Ruiz, 45, had been deliberating since Wednesday morning, but informed
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