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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — In an effort to keep the movie theater industry alive – beyond creating many films we know and love – some of Hollywood’s most celebrated filmmakers are the proud new owners of an historic movie theater in Los Angeles. Led by “Juno” and “Ghostbusters” director Jason Reitman, a coalition
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CNN By Isabel Rosales, Christina Maxouris, Meg Tirrell, Chris Youd and Maxime Tamsett, CNN (CNN) — The University of Alabama at Birmingham health system is pausing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment following an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that found frozen embryos are children, the health system said in a statement to CNN. The decision makes UAB the
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The school district in Green Bay, Wisconsin, has released the recording of its first Black superintendent’s appearance on an Atlanta radio show in which he made blunt comments about race relations, criticized the community and derided one of the district’s principals. The tape
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT Associated Press Russia’s main domestic intelligence agency has arrested a woman with dual U.S. and Russian citizenship on charges of treason, accusing her of collecting money for the Ukrainian military. The Federal Security Service said in a statement early Tuesday that the Los Angeles resident was arrested in the Ural Mountains city
Continue ReadingBy CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer For as long as schools have policed hairstyles as part of their dress codes, some students have seen the rules as attempts to deny their cultural and religious identities. Nowhere have school rules on hair been a bigger flashpoint than in Texas, where a trial this week is set
Continue Reading By Victoria Butenko, Andrew Carey and Al Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Maxim Kuzminov, a Russian pilot who dramatically defected to Ukraine by flying his helicopter across the border, is dead, according to Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate (GUR). The news comes after the Spanish Civil Guard in Alicante province told CNN that a man had been
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration on Wednesday will issue multiple cybersecurity directives aimed at shoring up vulnerabilities at US maritime ports that could be exploited by hackers and addressing security risks from Chinese-made cranes, according to senior US officials. Administration officials also plan to invest more than $20 billion over the
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday struck down a moratorium on coal leasing from federal lands in a move that could open the door to future coal sales from vast, publicly owned reserves of the fuel that’s a major source of climate-changing greenhouse gases. The ruling
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday struck down a moratorium on coal leasing from federal lands in a move that could open the door to future coal sales from vast, publicly owned reserves of the fuel that’s a major source of climate-changing greenhouse gases. The ruling
Continue ReadingLA PARAGUA, Venezuela (AP) — The collapse of an illegally operated open-pit gold mine in central Venezuela killed at least 14 people and injured several more, state authorities said Wednesday, as some other officials reported an undetermined number of people could be trapped. Bolivar state Gov. Angel Marcano told local reporters that 14 bodies had
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — For the second time in five years, federal charges against alleged members of a violent white supremacist group accused of inciting violence at California political rallies were dismissed by a federal judge who found they were selectively prosecuted. Federal prosecutors said members of the Rise Above Movement conspired to riot by
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — For the second time in five years, federal charges against alleged members of a violent white supremacist group accused of inciting violence at California political rallies were dismissed by a federal judge who found they were selectively prosecuted. Federal prosecutors said members of the Rise Above Movement conspired to riot by
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — An alleged leader of a Japanese organized crime syndicate has been charged with attempting to sell weapons-grade nuclear materials from the leader of an ethnic insurgent group in Myanmar, according to a new indictment from the US Justice Department. Takeshi Ebisawa, an alleged leader in the yakuza who was
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT Associated Press Russia’s main domestic intelligence agency has arrested a woman with dual U.S. and Russian citizenship on charges of treason, accusing her of collecting money for the Ukrainian military. The Federal Security Service said in a statement early Tuesday that the Los Angeles resident was arrested in the Ural Mountains city
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Black lawmakers in California on Wednesday introduced a package of reparations legislation, calling it a starting point to atone for the state’s legacy of discrimination. The California Legislative Black Caucus introduced the package of more than a dozen proposals months after a first-in-the nation
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Black lawmakers in California on Wednesday introduced a package of reparations legislation, calling it a starting point to atone for the state’s legacy of discrimination. The California Legislative Black Caucus introduced the package of more than a dozen proposals months after a first-in-the nation
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Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — La Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de Estados Unidos (CBP, por sus siglas en inglés) informó que este martes confiscó 179,22 kilogramos de cocaína y arrestó a un estadounidense en el municipio de Rincón, en el oeste de Puerto Rico. Jeffrey Quiñones, portavoz de CBP, dijo que
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Los científicos que trabajan en el campo de la energía de fusión afirman haber encontrado la forma de superar uno de sus mayores retos hasta la fecha: el uso de la inteligencia artificial. La fusión nuclear ha sido aclamada durante décadas como una fuente casi ilimitada de energía limpia, en lo
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — My Pillow owner and right-wing conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell will have to pay $5 million because of a contest he initiated at one of his “cyber symposium” events after the 2020 election, a federal judge confirmed Wednesday. Robert Zeidman, a software developer, took Lindell up on a so-called “Prove
Continue Reading Gonzalo Zegarra (CNN Español) — El abogado de Juan Orlando Hernández, expresidente de Honduras, desestimó este miércoles la relación del exmandatario con su hermano Tony, quien ya ha sido condenado por cargos de narcotráfico en Estados Unidos, durante sus alegatos iniciales en el juicio que Hernández enfrenta por cargos de tráfico de drogas y uso
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