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By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New Jersey businessman pleaded guilty Friday to trying to bribe U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, admitting that he gave the senator’s wife a car to influence him and agreeing to a deal with prosecutors that calls for him to testify in the corruption case against the
Continue ReadingCNN By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — America’s gyms are adjusting their strategies as more of their members take weight loss drugs. Luxury gyms such as Life Time and Equinox are acquiring weight loss clinics with doctors who can prescribe GLP-1s, the powerful new class of medications that has proven to be highly
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press STINNETT, Texas (AP) — Up to 500 structures may have been destroyed by the largest wildfire in state history and damage assessments are still underway, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday. The Smokehouse Creek fire, which started Monday, has burned about 1,700 square miles (4,400 square kilometers)
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macamilarincon (CNN Español) –– Dos meses y medio después de que el exvicepresidente de Ecuador Jorge Glas ingresó a la embajada de México en Quito en calidad de huésped, el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores ecuatoriano pidió ––a través de una carta enviada a la delegación diplomática mexicana–––autorización para que la fuerza pública ingrese al lugar
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A national police spokesman says Haitian police were overwhelmed by a series of coordinated violent attacks by gang members across the capital in which four officers were killed. The attacks Thursday in Port-au-Prince were led by gunmen who opened fire on targets including Haiti’s international airport
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer A panel charged with reviewing the Olympic structure in the U.S. is calling for Congress to consider wide-ranging changes. Those include government funding of the U.S. Center for SafeSport, severing grassroots from the elite sports system and even removing the word “amateur” in a potential rewrite of the 1978
Continue ReadingBy ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana University’s board of trustees has abandoned a plan that would have split the university from the Kinsey Institute, which is widely recognized for decades of research on sex and gender. Indiana lawmakers forbade state appropriations from funding the center last year. While the Kinsey Institute has
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER, AAMER MADHANI, and COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that the U.S. will begin air-dropping humanitarian assistance into Gaza, a day after more than 100 Palestinians were killed during a chaotic encounter with Israeli troops. The president announced the move after at least 115 Palestinians were
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that the Pentagon will lift the ban on flights by the grounded V-22 Osprey next week. The decision follows a high-level meeting where Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin endorsed the military services’ plans for a safe and measured
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By Jay Croft and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Florida investigators say they dug up the remains of a teenager missing for 20 years and hidden underneath the trailer where she was killed. “At least she can be buried with dignity now,” Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said at a news conference Thursday. Chitwood said investigators
Continue ReadingBANGOR, Maine (AP) — Officials say a United Airlines flight from London to Newark, New Jersey, had to divert to Bangor International Airport because of unruly passengers. An airline spokesperson says two passengers who appeared to be intoxicated became disruptive, and both were removed from United Airlines Flight 883 upon landing late Friday morning in
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — 2024 was supposed to be the year consumers could start breathing again. After more than 20 months of inflation and higher borrowing costs, investors, economists and — eventually — Federal Reserve officials said they expected the economy to soften this year, allowing the central bank to finally
Continue ReadingBy Arlette Saenz, Kevin Liptak and MJ Lee, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden is expected to huddle with his senior advisers at Camp David in the coming days to fine tune and rehearse his State of the Union address, a high-stakes moment as he looks to convince voters to give him a second
Continue Reading By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN (CNN) — Nearly five years after Connecticut mother Jennifer Dulos went missing, her husband’s ex-girlfriend was found guilty Friday of conspiring to murder the mother of five. Michelle Troconis was also found guilty of one count of hindering prosecution, two counts of conspiracy to commit tampering with physical evidence, and two
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Una volcadura de un auto terminó en tragedia ayer a las 4 de la tarde sobre el freeway 10 en Beaumont donde dos jovencitos viajaban en un carro y repentinamente el conductor de 19 años perdió el control y se volcó, ambos adolescentes salieron disparados del auto ya que no portaban el cinturón de seguridad,
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press STINNETT, Texas (AP) — As the largest wildfire in Texas history engulfed his town, Danny Phillips was left helpless. “We had to watch from a few miles away as our neighborhood burned,” he said, his voice trembling with emotion. In his hard-hit town of Stinnett, population roughly
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Una balacera movilizó a la policía de Indio ayer a las 2 de la tarde en la Avenida Valencia cerca de la escuela primaria Herbert Hoover que se ubica en el área de la Monroe y Fred Waring en Indio, después del incidente las autoridades ordenaron el cierre del plantel. Una persona resultó herida, pero
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Irish President Michael Higgins is expected to spend the weekend in the hospital as a precaution after he felt ill. Higgins’ office said Friday that he was admitted to St James’s Hospital after feeling unwell on Thursday. He underwent tests and was to remain in the hospital to monitor his blood pressure.
Continue ReadingBy SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish official has rejected allegations by a human rights group that Turkey bears responsibility for some of the abuses and possible war crimes carried out mostly against Kurdish residents in northern in Syria. Human Rights Watch said in a 74-page report released Thursday that the
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI and COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Friday that the U.S. will begin air-dropping humanitarian assistance into Gaza, a day after dozens of Palestinians were killed during a chaotic encounter with Israeli troops.The president announced the long-considered move after at least 115 Palestinians were killed and more
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