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By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer NBA champion and “Survivor” contestant Scot Pollard is “awake and feeling great” a day after a heart transplant, his wife said Saturday on social media. “Scot has a new heart!” Dawn Pollard posted Friday night on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Surgery went well and I’ve been told the
Continue ReadingBy GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian officials have confirmed the death of a fifth worker after a concrete beam and layers of slabs collapsed at a supermarket construction site in the city of Florence a day earlier. The Tuscany region’s president said Saturday that rescuers were trying to reach the body. A
Continue ReadingSTERLING, Va. (AP) — Authorities in Virginia are investigating the cause of a house explosion and fire that killed one firefighter, injured 10 others and leveled a home in a Washington, D.C., suburb. Firefighters were called to the home in Sterling, Virginia, by a report of a gas smell at about 7:30 p.m. Friday. They
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sought to contain the political fallout of a presidential pardon scandal during an annual state of the nation address on Saturday, his first public appearance since Hungary’s president, his ally, resigned a week ago. The nationalist Orbán is under intense pressure
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — With its bright lights, big names and halftime shows, the Super Bowl has always been the biggest sporting ticket in the US. But even by Super Bowl’s standards, this year’s edition was a whole different ball game. Between the storylines on the field to those off it – yes,
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Thousands of South Africans have gathered in the capital to show support for the country’s biggest opposition party as it prepares for a much-anticipated national election. Many of the Democratic Alliance backers assembled in Pretoria on Saturday expressed faith the party would deliver better basic
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City was at its highest moment of community pride, celebrating a Super Bowl win, when it experienced one of 21st-century American culture’s most traumatic events — a public mass shooting. By the time it was over, one woman was dead and nearly two dozen
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Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — Cerca de 2,7 millones de electores están llamados a participar este domingo 18 de febrero en las elecciones al Parlamento de Galicia, en las que se elegirá a los 75 diputados que compondrán esta asamblea en la próxima legislatura y que, dependiendo de la representación que obtenga cada partido, definirán
Continue ReadingBy GARY FIELDS Associated Press BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Just blocks from the shuttered Bethlehem Steel plant, the Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley was bustling on a recent day with scores of older people eating lunch. Downstairs, out of sight, a constant stream of visitors was shopping in its massive food pantry. Over the past seven
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An I-Team investigation reveals the daily struggles some Cathedral City residents still say they face six months after Tropical Storm Hilary and their reactions to the city’s storm response. “So at this point, we’re still living out of bins in our bedrooms and in our bathroom,” said Beatrice Toledo whose Cathedral City home was flooded by a mudflow
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WJLA, WUSA, CNN By Gabe Cohen, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — On a recent Tuesday morning, guards escort Malcolm, a 17-year-old from DC, into a circuit courtroom where he’ll soon be sentenced for attempted robbery. As he walks to his seat, slumped and handcuffed in a jail jumpsuit, with an exhausted look on his face, he gives
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Rusia está tratando de desarrollar un arma nuclear espacial que destruiría satélites al crear una onda de energía masiva cuando se detona, lo que potencialmente podría paralizar una amplia franja de los satélites comerciales y gubernamentales de los que el mundo depende para hablar por teléfono celular, pagar las facturas
Continue Reading Joaquin Doria (CNN Español) — La Secretaría de Energía de Argentina confirmó el incremento de las tarifas de electricidad para el Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires (AMBA), además de la implementación de una fórmula de actualización mensual. Los aumentos serán según el nivel de ingresos de los usuarios. En un comunicado emitido este jueves, el
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — La agencia espacial japonesa afirma que lanzó con éxito su cohete espacial insignia H3, un año después de que su primer intento acabara en fracaso. El H3 partió del Centro Espacial de Tanegashima, en el sur de Japón, a las 9.22 hora local del sábado, informó la Agencia de Exploración
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — It’s not just you. A lot people think Google searches are getting worse. And the rise of generative AI chatbots is giving people new and different ways to look up information. While Google has been the one-stop shop for decades — after all, we commonly call
Continue ReadingBy MELINA WALLING Associated Press Katrina Cornish spends her days raising dandelions and desert shrubs. She harvests the stretchy rubber substances they produce and uses special machines to dip them into condoms, medical gloves and parts for trachea tubes. And she thinks those products could forever alter the landscape of agriculture in the United States.
Continue Reading By Harmeet Kaur, CNN | Photographs by Laura Oliverio, CNN New York (CNN) — On a chilly Thursday morning, hundreds of people packed the pews of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York to pay their respects to a woman venerated as a saint. The woman being honored in this storied place of worship was activist
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has accused Ethiopia of trying to annex part of his country’s territory by signing a sea access deal with the breakaway region of Somaliland. Mohamud said on Saturday that the agreement Ethiopia and Somaliland signed on Jan. 1 “is nothing more than annexing part of Somalia
Continue ReadingSTERLING, Va. (AP) — One firefighter is dead after an explosion in a Washington, D.C., suburb leveled a home. Nine firefighters were injured where they were investigating a gas leak on Friday evening. Two other people were also injured in the blast. Officials say firefighters were called to the home in Sterling, Virginia, by a
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press Federal authorities said the second critically endangered North Atlantic right whale found dead in the last month showed injuries consistent with a collision with a ship. The whales number less than 360 and they have experienced decline in recent years. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it was notified
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