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LONDON (AP) — A man has been convicted of murder after a British police officer on the job for nine months was shot dead in an armed robbery nearly two decades ago. Piran Ditta Khan was convicted Thursday by a jury in Leeds Crown Court. Sharon Beshenivsky died after being shot at point-blank range on
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press A Nebraska bill to limit transgender students’ access to bathrooms and sports teams has advanced out of committee with just days to go until the end of the session. Now a lawmaker who ground the legislature to a halt last year over a bill restricting gender-affirming care for minors
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — New York’s governor has ordered the state’s transit agency to drop efforts to impose a $750,000 fee on the New York City Marathon for using the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday also encouraged the New York Road Runners, organizers of the venerable race, to find other ways to
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A bipartisan group of rank-and-file lawmakers in Kansas has scuttled a plan for cutting taxes. Republicans on Thursday defied GOP leaders and Democrats ignored a personal appeal from Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. The state House rejected a plan to cut taxes by about $1.4 billion
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A California-based election services company is charging several large Texas counties tens of thousands of dollars in additional fees, sending election officials scrambling to pay the surcharges to preserve a crucial system that manages their voter registration. The state’s primary runoff elections are next month. Multiple Texas counties contract with VOTEC
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A California-based election services company is charging several large Texas counties tens of thousands of dollars in additional fees, sending election officials scrambling to pay the surcharges to preserve a crucial system that manages their voter registration. The state’s primary runoff elections are next month. Multiple Texas counties contract with VOTEC
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WJZ, CNN By Raja Razek and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — Just over a week after the catastrophic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the US Army Corps of Engineers announced it plans to fully reopen the channel leading to the Baltimore port by the end of May – a significant update since the
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Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN) — El expresidente de la Real Federación Española de Fútbol (RFEF) Luis Rubiales negó haber agredido sexualmente a la futbolista española Jennifer Hermoso después de la victoria de España en el Mundial femenino de 2023, en una entrevista exclusiva con Ana Pastor de La Sexta el miércoles. Las cámaras de televisión capturaron
Continue Reading Belén Liotti (CNN) — Paul McCartney elogió la versión que hizo Beyoncé de la canción “Blackbird”. McCartney escribió este jueves en su página de Instagram que está “muy feliz” con el cover de la canción de los Beatles que Beyoncé incluyó en su recientemente álbum “Act II: Cowboy Carter”, con el título ligeramente modificado “Blackbiird”.
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign has terminated a contract with a vendor it blamed for sending a fundraising email that referred to people facing charges for the Jan. 6 insurrection as “activists” who were “stripped of their constitutional liberties.” The campaign announced it on Thursday. The language in
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — En Japón, todo el mundo podría tener algún día el mismo apellido a menos que cambien las restrictivas leyes matrimoniales, según un nuevo estudio. Pero la menguante tasa de matrimonios del país podría frenar esa tendencia, y el rápido descenso de la población podría dejarla totalmente obsoleta. A diferencia de
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson Nota del editor: Esta serie de CNN Travel está, o estuvo, patrocinada por el país que destaca. CNN retiene el control editorial total sobre los temas, reportajes y frecuencia de los artículos y videos dentro del patrocinio, en cumplimiento de nuestra política. (CNN) — “Nadie puede decir que Dios no existe cuando vemos
Continue ReadingQUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador has declared Mexico’s ambassador to Quito persona non grata over recent statements made by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and says she will be leaving the country “shortly.” The comments by López Obrador were about the 2023 presidential elections in the Andean country and the killing of Ecuador’s former presidential
Continue ReadingBy Michael Williams, MJ Lee, Kayla Tausche and Nikki Carvajal, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Thursday told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the overall humanitarian situation in Gaza is unacceptable and warned Israel to take steps to address the crisis or face consequences, a stark statement from Israel’s staunchest ally. The
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Migrant children held in open-air desert camps are in federal custody and required to be expeditiously processed and placed in “facilities that are safe and sanitary,” a federal judge in California said in a court order late Wednesday. Judge Dolly Gee wrote that US Customs and Border Protection does
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, Tierney Sneed, Sara Murray, Jason Morris and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump was dealt two major setbacks Thursday in his efforts to derail the criminal cases against him, with judges in the Georgia election interference case and in the federal classified documents case both rejecting bids by the
Continue ReadingBy PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s cannabis industry was briefly upended Thursday by a court ruling that appeared to strike down all the regulations governing recreational marijuana in the state. The ruling was amended within a day to reflect a much narrower decision, but not before cannabis growers, sellers and
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police have arrested two fugitives who escaped a maximum-security prison in February, bringing a 50-day manhunt to an end. Rogério Mendonça and Deibson Nascimento became the first inmates to ever escape from Brazil’s federal penitentiary system. Brazil’s justice ministry said in a statement on
Continue Reading Belén Liotti (CNN) — Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, el “paseo más salvaje en la naturaleza”, se encuentra en un extremo de Magic Kingdom de Disney World, el parque temático más visitado del mundo. Sin embargo, ahora las personas que visitan el parque podrán esperar algún día ver mucho más allá de esa naturaleza salvaje en
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A major spring storm brought heavy snow, rain and high winds to the Northeast, downing trees and power lines and leaving nearly 700,000 homes and businesses without power at one point. A woman was killed by a falling tree in a New York City suburb and a second woman died
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