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By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — A new gene therapy for the fatal genetic disorder metachromatic leukodystrophy, or MLD, will carry a wholesale price of $4.25 million, its manufacturer announced Wednesday, making it the world’s most expensive medicine. Lenmeldy was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration on Monday and is the first therapy for
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE LINSALATA, KEVIN BOULANDIER, DANNIELLE GARCIA Click here for updates on this story SUNRISE, Florida (WSVN) — Sunrise Police are on the search for two subjects who, they said, stormed into a Neiman Marcus at Sawgrass Mills Mall, smashed a glass display, and made off with purses before pepper-spraying two employees during their escape.
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High pressure building in will keep us slightly warmer than normal through Friday, with changes arriving on Saturday. The ridge of high pressure will push temps to the middle 80s through Friday, with cooler and windier conditions moving in Saturday & Sunday. Highs today will hit 85, besting the 84 reading of yesterday. Today is
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Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — La polémica ley SB4 de Texas, una estricta norma que convierte en delito estatal la entrada irregular al territorio y permite a las autoridades locales arrestar y deportar migrantes, fue promulgada en diciembre pasado por el gobernador del estado, Greg Abbott, en medio de condenas por parte de organizaciones de
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s national police chief and one of his deputies have been temporarily suspended under the order of Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, as accusations that the deputy was involved in an illegal online gambling ring sparked concerns about a possible power struggle in the police department. Torsak Sukvimol,
Continue ReadingBy Al Goodman and Pau Mosquera, CNN (CNN) — A Barcelona court has ruled that former Brazilian international soccer player Dani Alves could be conditionally released from prison on a bail of $1.08 million (one million euros) following his conviction last month for sexual assault, the court press office said in a statement Wednesday. The
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — French bulldogs. U.S. dog owners. C’est l’amour. Frenchies remained the United States’ most commonly registered purebred dogs last year, according to American Kennel Club rankings released Wednesday. The club calls the Frenchie the most popular breed, though other canine constituencies may beg to differ. Is it
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hauser and Lauren Kent, CNN London (CNN) — A Delta Airlines pilot was sentenced to 10 months in prison for reporting for duty at Scotland’s Edinburgh Airport while drunk, according to a court statement. The pilot, 63-year-old American citizen Lawrence Russell Jr., was due to captain a flight from Edinburgh to New York’s
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Within an original poem, spelled out in neon lettering, the Indigenous artist Demian DinéYazhi´ hid a message in their installation at the Whitney Biennial in New York. Unknown to the show’s curators, flickering letters across the artwork’s three stanzas reveal the words: “Free Palestine.” Titled “we must stop imagining
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar announced Wednesday that he will step down within weeks once a successor is chosen Varadkar announced Wednesday he is quitting immediately as head of the center-right Fine Gael party, part of Ireland’s coalition government. He’ll be replaced as prime minister after a party leadership contest. He said
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Boeing will report a massive loss in the first quarter stemming from the Alaska Airlines door plug blowout on January 5, Chief Financial Officer Brian West said at an investor conference Wednesday. The beleaguered company said its commercial airplane unit’s operating profit margin would plunge to around
Continue ReadingATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man is scheduled to be put to death in what would be the state’s first execution in more than four years. Willie James Pye was convicted of killing his former girlfriend Alicia Lynn Yarbrough three decades ago. The planned lethal injection using the sedative pentobarbital is set to happen at
Continue ReadingBy ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The Communist Party says Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong has resigned after a little over a year in the job. That makes him the latest senior official to leave office amid an intense anti-corruption campaign. The party’s Central Committee approved his resignation, writing in a statement
Continue ReadingBy YAYAN ZAMZAMI and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — A wooden boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslims capsized off Indonesia’s northernmost coast on Wednesday, according to local fishermen who rescued six people. The survivors said more people were still on the boat. There were no immediate reports of casualties. The six,
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, Kylie Atwood and Alex Marquardt, CNN Washington (CNN) — When President Joe Biden asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to dispatch a team of top Israeli officials to Washington, his hope was to preempt a large-scale ground invasion of Rafah, which the Biden administration believes would amount to a humanitarian catastrophe. Whether the meeting, now
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Chinese accident investigators have indicated they have not yet determined the cause of a 2022 plane crash that killed all 132 people on board. An update issued Wednesday by the Civil Aviation Administration of China on the eve of the second anniversary of the crash shed little new light on it. The
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A German federal court has rejected a woman’s appeal of her 14-year sentence for allowing a Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave when they were members of the Islamic State group in Iraq to die of thirst. The defendant, a German convert to Islam, was convicted in October
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An Amsterdam court has ruled that Dutch national airline KLM made misleading statements about sustainable aviation in a case that accused the carrier of “greenwashing.” The decision Wednesday was hailed by environmental groups as a historic victory. Amsterdam District Court says in a statement that
Continue ReadingBy EMMA BURROWS Associated Press A Russian border region being pounded by Ukrainian shelling and drones is expanding its closure of schools and colleges amid a major evacuation plan. Kyiv’s forces are extending their campaign of long-range strikes that aim to put the Kremlin under pressure. Authorities in the Belgorod border region announced Wednesday that
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Karen Houghton, sister of reality TV star Kris Jenner, has died suddenly. “It is with the heaviest heart and deepest sadness that I share that my sister Karen passed away yesterday unexpectedly,” Jenner wrote in a post on Instagram on Tuesday. “My heart aches for my mom MJ and
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