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By CORA LEWIS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — If you’re a freelancer or gig worker who receives payments via apps like Venmo, Zelle, Cash App or PayPal, your tax reporting requirements will change for the 2024 tax year. Right now, for the current 2023 tax year, freelancers and small online sellers need only report
Continue ReadingBy Isabel Rosales and Wayne Sterling, CNN (CNN) — The Detroit Lions have released Cameron Sutton, with the cornerback currently wanted in the State of Florida for alleged domestic battery by strangulation, according to the Hillsborough County Sherriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office said Wednesday it had attempted to contact Sutton for two weeks before it
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — A Netflix adaptation of wildly popular Chinese sci-fi novel “The Three-Body Problem” has split opinions in China and sparked online nationalist anger over scenes depicting a violent and tumultuous period in the country’s modern history. Reactions have been mixed on Chinese social media since the Thursday premiere of the
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — With the arrival of spring, the United States is easing out of respiratory virus season, a familiar pattern that has been challenged by Covid-19 for the past four years. The addition of a novel germ has complicated and expanded respiratory virus season, which was already notoriously difficult to predict.
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission wants to prevent Russia from using agriculture products as a tool to wreak havoc on the EU market and will impose tariffs on grain imports from Russia and Belarus. Imports of cereals, oilseeds and derived products from Russia and its Belarus ally are just
Continue ReadingBy JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials say Chinese coast guard ships backed by a military helicopter tried unsuccessfully to block two Philippine government vessels carrying scientists from reaching two sandbars in the disputed South China Sea. They say Chinese coast guard personnel blew the horn on one of their ships
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Después de cuatro años prófugo, un líder sénior de la MS-13, una de las mayores organizaciones criminales transnacionales, fue capturado este mes en el sur de California por cargos de terrorismo, según documentos judiciales. Freddy Ivan Jandres Parada fue acusado por fiscales federales en el Distrito Este de Nueva York
Continue Reading Sofía Barruti Este seguimiento terminó. Puedes ver las últimas noticias de la guerra de Israel y Hamas en Gaza, haciendo click aquí. El humo se eleva durante una incursión israelí en el hospital Al-Shifa y sus alrededores en la ciudad de Gaza, el 20 de marzo. (Crédito: Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters) The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2024 Cable
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By Chris Stern, Frederik Pleitgen and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Two individuals accused of planning a firearms attack on Sweden’s parliament were arrested in Germany on Tuesday, according to a statement by the Office of the German Federal Prosecutor. The pair, who authorities said are Afghan citizens, were arrested near the city of Gera
Continue ReadingJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong and shallow undersea earthquake has shaken the eastern side of Indonesia’s main island of Java, causing some damage but no immediate reports of casualties. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake Friday measured 6.4 and struck at a depth of 5.2 miles north of Paciran in East Java province.
Continue ReadingBy NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The Egyptian government has raised fuel prices in a move that is bound to exacerbate inflationary pressures on an already-struggling population. The new prices came into effect Friday morning. The Egyptian economy has been hit hard by years of government austerity, the coronavirus pandemic, the fallout from Russia’s invasion of
Continue Reading By Caitlin Stephen Hu, David Culver, Harold Isaac and Evelio Contreras, CNN Port-au-Prince (CNN) — A woman hustles her young child into a waiting car, half-dragging him as she shields his eyes. Other family members follow with heavy suitcases, averting their eyes too. They’re leaving the city, even though the drive through gang-controlled roads is
Continue Reading By Larry Madowo and Bethlehem Feleke, CNN Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) — Kenya’s plan to lead a multinational force in Haiti as part of a United Nations-backed mission to restore order is facing intense scrutiny and resistance at home, even as violence in the Caribbean nation spirals. President William Ruto offered to send 1,000 police officers last July to
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his victory in an election whose outcome was never in doubt after systematic crackdowns on dissent. Orbán, widely seen as Putin’s closest ally in the European Union, sent the letter of congratulations on
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Avian influenza is killing tens of thousands of seals and sea lions in different corners of the world, disrupting ecosystems and flummoxing scientists who don’t see a clear way to slow the devastating virus. The worldwide bird flu outbreak that began in 2020 has led to
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Stocks were mixed Friday in Europe and Asia after Wall Street tapped fresh records, led by big gains in chipmakers. Germany’s DAX edged 0.1% higher, to 18,201.03 and the CAC 40 in Paris fell 0.2% to 8,164.36. In London, the FTSE 100 climbed 0.7% to 7,936.38.
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza Hong Kong (CNN) — El presunto asesinato de un niño de 13 años por parte de sus compañeros de clase en una zona rural del norte de China ha conmocionado a la nación, encendiendo acalorados debates sobre el acoso escolar, el crimen juvenil y la difícil situación de decenas de millones de
Continue ReadingBy SHEIKH SAALIQ and KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Supporters of an anti-corruption crusader and one of India’s most consequential politicians of the past decade held protests Friday against his arrest, which opposition parties say is part of a crackdown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government before national elections. Arvind Kejriwal, who
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — A former executive at Yoozoo Games has been sentenced to death in the poisoning of the founder of the high-profile Chinese gaming company. A court says Xu Yao poisoned the food of company founder Lin Qi in December 2020 because of a dispute over the running of the business. Lin died about
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — It’s the hope that kills you as over 99% of March Madness bracket fans brutally discovered after day one of the men’s tournament, which is already delivering its fair share of shocks. Following the surprise defeats suffered by No. 3 seed Kentucky and No. 8 seed Mississippi State, less
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