By Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Manhattan prosecutors are asking the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal case involving hush money payments to impose a gag order to stop the former president from publicly disparaging potential witnesses and others involved in the trial. The gag order request was one of many pretrial
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Edward Blum, the legal strategist behind the Supreme Court case that dismantled affirmative action in college admissions, has filed a lawsuit against the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino and the director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services over an internship program that strives to
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Una TikToker cuyo video muestra dónde encontrar la casa real que aparece en la exitosa película “Saltburn” dijo que “no tenía idea” de que sus imágenes se volverían virales. Rhian Wiliams, consultora de marketing y relaciones públicas de 47 años en el Reino Unido, dijo a CNN que el
Continue ReadingBy DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A U.S. couple whose catamaran was hijacked last week in the Caribbean by three escaped prisoners were presumed dead and likely had been thrown into the ocean, police said Monday. The accounts by police in Grenada and in St. Vincent and the Grenadines were
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw received a 37% increase in compensation last year, even after the company’s railroad was involved in a financially and ecologically disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Shaw received $13.4 million in total compensation in 2023, up from $9.8 million in 2022. His base salary
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Police say a 26-year-old man has been killed in a shooting on a light rail train in Seattle. The Seattle Police Department says police responded around 11:30 p.m. Sunday to a report of a man shot on the light rail train downtown. Police say officers located the man at the University Street
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer The U.S. government is threatening to sue PacifiCorp, a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, to recover nearly $1 billion in costs related to the 2020 wildfires in southern Oregon and northern California, though the company is trying to negotiate a settlement. The potential lawsuits were disclosed in an
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, TIA GOLDENBERG KAREEM CHEHAYEB and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday that he hopes a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that would pause hostilities and allow for remaining hostages to be released can take effect by early next week. Asked when he thought a cease-fire
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Body camera footage released by Houston police on Monday showed off-duty police officers with weapons drawn as they confronted a woman who opened fire at celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch earlier this month before she was gunned down. The footage also showed blurred images of
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By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The major global medical association for endocrinologists will review its clinical guidelines for gender-affirming care, the Endocrine Society told CNN on Monday. Despite recent moves by some US states to restrict or ban such care, the society said it’s a routine update that was not prompted by politics. The
Continue ReadingBy DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Twins acquired outfielder Manuel Margot, minor league shortstop Rayne Doncon and cash on Monday from the Los Angeles Dodgers for minor league shortstop Noah Miller. In conjunction with the trade, the Dodgers announced a $4 million, one-year contract to keep Kiké Hernández. The 29-year-old
Continue ReadingMauricio Torres (CNN) — Un deslizamiento de tierra ocurrido a siete kilómetros de Machupicchu Pueblo, en Perú, dejó la tarde de este domingo un saldo de 2 personas desaparecidas y 12 heridas, según informó este lunes el Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo a través de su cuenta en la red social X, antes Twitter.
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Nestor Cortes wasn’t exactly nasty in his first spring training appearance, but the New York Yankees left-handed emerged from Monday’s game against Minnesota feeling good. After an injury-marred 2023, it’s a start. “Everything positive, pitches really crisp,” Cortes said after allowing two runs and seven hits with four strikeouts in 2
Continue ReadingBy LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Hundreds of medical professionals in West Virginia have signed onto a letter condemning a bill advancing in the state House of Delegates that would bar transgender youth at risk for suicide from accessing medical interventions like hormone therapy. Advanced to the full chamber by a House
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California Edison will pay $80 million to settle claims on behalf of the U.S. Forest Service connected to a massive wildfire that destroyed more than a thousand homes and other structures in 2017, federal prosecutors said Monday. The utility agreed to the settlement on Friday without admitting wrongdoing or fault
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says sending Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not “ruled out” in the future. Macron spoke after a meeting on Ukraine in Paris brought together over 20 European heads of state and government and other Western officials in Paris. Macron said:
Continue Reading By Nic Anderson and Brammhi Balarajan, CNN (CNN) — The Kentucky student who was found unresponsive on campus this weekend died of strangulation, police said Monday, and the suspect arrested in his death was a fellow member of the Campbellsville University wrestling team. Campbellsville University student Josiah Kilman, 18, died from asphyxia by manual strangulation,
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WLKY, CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY, CAMPBELLSVILLE POLICE, CNN By Nic Anderson and Brammhi Balarajan, CNN (CNN) — The Kentucky student who was found unresponsive on campus this weekend died of strangulation, police said Monday, and the suspect arrested in his death was a fellow member of the Campbellsville University wrestling team. Campbellsville University student Josiah Kilman, 18,
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona and Lauren Fox, CNN Republicans who expressed support for in vitro fertilization in the wake of the controversial Alabama Supreme Court ruling are coming under scrutiny for also backing legislation that declares human life begins at conception, without an exception for IVF — two positions that appear to be at odds with
Continue ReadingBy INDIA GRANT Associated Press ON THE MALINCHE VOLCANO, Mexico (AP) — On the flanks of a central Mexico volcano, the country’s female mountaineers have chosen a new “Queen of the Mountains,” complete with crown, ice axe and red cape. The tradition that dates to the 1950s came this year at a somber moment for
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