BY 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
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Belén 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 Reading Alexandra 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
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Having been convicted of 34 felonies, Donald Trump cannot own a gun, hold public office or even vote in many states. But in 158 days, voters across America will decide whether he will return to the White House to serve another four years as
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — US economic data released Thursday was broadly disappointing. America’s economy expanded at a weaker pace earlier this year than initially reported. The decline in home sales based on contract signings last month was much steeper than economists expected. And mortgage rates inched higher this week, thrusting the average
Continue Reading Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, alias “El Nini”, ya se encuentra bajo custodia de las autoridades estadounidenses y está recluido en el Centro de Detención Metropolitano de Brooklyn, en Nueva York, tras su extradición desde México el sábado. Considerado uno de los líderes del Cartel de Sinaloa, Pérez Salas enfrenta
Continue ReadingBy KIM CHANDLER Associated Press ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has executed a man convicted of killing an elderly couple at their home in 2004. Authorities say 50-year-old Jamie Ray Mills was pronounced dead Thursday evening following a lethal injection at a south Alabama prison. Mills was convicted of capital murder in the deaths of
Continue ReadingSOUTHINGTON, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut state trooper has been killed after getting hit by a car while making a traffic stop on an interstate highway. Connecticut State Police say Trooper First Class Aaron Pelletier was fatally struck by a passing vehicle while outside his cruiser on I-84 in Southington around 2:36 p.m. Thursday. He
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers reacted with immediate fury on Thursday as a New York jury convicted former President Donald Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records to influence the 2016 election, speaking out with near unanimity in questioning the legitimacy of the trial and how it was
Continue Reading Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Un jurado de Manhattan declaró el jueves a Donald Trump culpable de 34 cargos de falsificación de registros comerciales, un veredicto histórico y sin precedentes que convierte a Trump en el primer expresidente en la historia de Estados Unidos en ser condenado por un delito grave. Además, también es el
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says that leader Kim Jong Un has supervised firing drills involving the country’s nuclear-capable “super-large” multiple rocket launchers to show the country’s capabilities to carry out preemptive attacks on rival South Korea. The North’s Korean Central News Agency suggested Friday the North’s latest
Continue Reading Sofía Barruti Esta cobertura en vivo terminó. Puedes leer más noticias sobre Medio Oriente aquí. El humo se eleva tras los ataques israelíes en Rafah, Gaza, el 28 de mayo. (Crédito: Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images) The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2024 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
Continue ReadingMIAMI (AP) — Two Citgo oil executives detained for nearly five years in Venezuela have sued their former employer for more than $400 million. The lawsuit filed Thursday in Houston alleges the company conspired to lure brothers Alirio and Jose Luis Zambrano to the South American country under a false pretext and then abandoned them
Continue ReadingCNN 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,
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