NEW YORK (AP) — Mets star Pete Alonso doubled as a pinch hitter in the seventh inning and scored the tying run on Francisco Lindor’s fourth hit of the game against Arizona on Thursday, a day after was struck on the right hand by a 93 mph fastball from Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher James Paxton.
Continue ReadingBy DENG MACHOL Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The European Union delegation in South Sudan has denied reports that the group is working to delay elections in the country as was alleged by President Salva Kiir. Deputy Head of the EU Delegation Lothar Jaschke said that his group is fully supporting an environment
Continue ReadingPaulina Nares (CNN) — Una serie de incendios provocados y sabotajes en varios países europeos desató el temor a un posible intento vinculado a Moscú de sembrar la zozobra y desestabilizar el continente, lo que ha llevado a los aliados de la OTAN a aumentar su vigilancia. Los recientes incidentes en el Reino Unido, Alemania,
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge on Thursday granted Mark Zuckerberg’s request to be dropped from a lawsuit that alleges his company has failed to protect young users on its social media platforms from sexual exploitation. The case is one of many filed by states, school districts
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge on Thursday granted Mark Zuckerberg’s request to be dropped from a lawsuit that alleges his company has failed to protect young users on its social media platforms from sexual exploitation. The case is one of many filed by states, school districts
Continue ReadingBy MARCO DI MARCO Associated Press GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Lava continues to spurt from a volcano in southwestern Iceland but the activity has calmed significantly from the eruption the previous day. Scientists say the eruption on Wednesday was the fifth and most powerful since the volcanic system near Grindavik reawakened in December after 800
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, MICHELLE L. PRICE and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — History happened just as everyone was about to leave for the day. Judge Juan M. Merchan had already summoned Donald Trump, his legal team and prosecutors into the courtroom where the former president has been on trial
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News Channel 3 is tracking the fallout from Former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict on all 34 counts of falsifying business records, which are all connected to the alleged cover up of hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Karen Devine and John White spoke with local veteran journalist Hank Plante Live at 5 about
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After nearly two days of waiting at a Manhattan courtroom, a verdict in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial came swiftly as news organizations were getting ready to leave. A jury foreman pronounced Trump guilty 34 times, but went unheard publicly because of New
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CNN By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A New York jury convicting Donald Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records brought the former president’s weekslong trial to a close but ushered in a new phase of the historic case. Now in the unique position of being the first former US president convicted of a felony,
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Larry Hicks, a federal judge in Nevada for more than 20 years who presided over cases ranging from U.S. environmental disputes to political corruption trials, died after being struck by a vehicle at an intersection near the federal courthouse in Reno, authorities and his family said.
Continue ReadingBY FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press NKANDLA, South Africa (AP) — Some young South Africans in a poor, rural area of rolling hills were determined to vote in Wednesday’s national election. Turning peer pressure on its head, they encouraged each other to register as voters, before flocking to polling stations on election day. They say they
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two Minneapolis police officers and four civilians were injured Thursday in what officials are calling an active-shooter situation, law enforcement said. Agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives responded to “an active shooting situation” and are “there to help expedite the firearms investigation piece of it,” said Ashlee
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Manure. Cigarette butts. Scraps of cloth. Waste batteries. Even, reportedly, diapers. This week, North Korea floated hundreds of huge balloons to dump all of that trash across rival South Korea — an old-fashioned, Cold War-style provocation that the country has rarely used
Continue ReadingANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — New York Yankees pitcher Clarke Schmidt will be sidelined indefinitely due to a right lat strain. The right-hander was placed on the 15-day injured list before Thursday’s game against the Los Angeles Angels. The move is retroactive to Monday. Manager Aaron Boone said that Schmidt will not throw for four-to-six weeks
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The divided U.N. Security Council has voted to extend an arms embargo on South Sudan despite appeals from the world’s newest nation, the African Union and half a dozen countries including Russia and China to lift or at least ease the restrictive measure. The U.S.-sponsored
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Former President Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records, which are all connected to the alleged cover up of hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. News Channel 3 is tracking local reaction to the verdict. Congressman Dr. Raul Ruiz, (D) 25th District: A representative from Ruiz’s office
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN) — El Servicio de Impuestos Internos de EE.UU. (IRS, por sus siglas en inglés) dijo este jueves que continuará y ampliará su programa gratuito de presentación de impuestos en 2025. A principios de este año se lanzó una versión piloto del programa online, conocido como Direct File. Proporciona orientación paso a paso
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER, JILL COLVIN and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump became the first former American president to be convicted of felony crimes Thursday as a New York jury found him guilty of all 34 charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Hong Kong/Tokio (CNN) — Con un gorro de ballena de juguete, una corbata de ballena y una camisa con motivos balleneros, Hideki Tokoro pasa gran parte de sus días pensando en los mamíferos más grandes del mundo. Pero no quiere protegerlos. Quiere cazarlos. Para ello, su empresa Kyodo Senpaku ha construido y botado
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