AP Basketball Writer Joe Wolf, a former North Carolina captain for Dean Smith who went on to play for seven teams in an 11-year NBA career before becoming a coach, died unexpectedly Thursday, the Milwaukee Bucks announced. Wolf, an assistant coach for the Wisconsin Herd — the Bucks’ G League affiliate — was 59. “Throughout
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Since its inception more than two decades ago, the experimental rock band Xiu Xiu has danced between extremes. They’ve made music — drenched in synthesizers, breathy vocals and distorted guitar — that is somehow both cacophonous and beautiful, frightening yet poignant, avant-garde yet (mostly) melodic. In other words, Xiu
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Since its inception more than two decades ago, the experimental rock band Xiu Xiu has danced between extremes. They’ve made music — drenched in synthesizers, breathy vocals and distorted guitar — that is somehow both cacophonous and beautiful, frightening yet poignant, avant-garde yet (mostly) melodic. In other words, Xiu
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be deposed as part of a lawsuit brought by authors including comedian Sarah Silverman accusing the company of copyright infringement to train its artificial intelligence technology. U.S. District Judge Thomas Hixson rejected Meta’s bid to bar the deposition of Zuckerberg in a decision Tuesday, saying there
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Julia Hernández (CNN) — Israel llevó a cabo parte de su ataque con artefactos dirigidos contra Hezbollah ocultando explosivos dentro de las baterías de los buscapersonas introducidos en Líbano, según dos altos funcionarios de seguridad libaneses, que afirmaron que la tecnología era tan avanzada que resultaba prácticamente indetectable. Ahora puedes seguirnos en WhatsApp Channel Funcionarios de
Continue Reading Andrea Gomez (CNN) — Kamala Harris supera a Donald Trump por un amplio margen entre los votantes negros probables, según una nueva encuesta de CNN realizada por SSRS, pero aún está por debajo de los márgenes de victoria de Joe Biden en 2020 con este grupo. Sin embargo, la encuesta sugiere que los votantes negros
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — El incendio forestal que arrasa con todo a su paso por Quito, capital de Ecuador, habría sido provocado, aseguró Inés Manzano, ministra de Ambiente, en un mensaje publicado en la red social X este martes, quien citó información del comandante de Policía y sumó que el ministerio de Educación anunció
Continue Reading Belén Liotti (CNN Español) –– La Policía Nacional de Ecuador detuvo este jueves a un segundo hombre presuntamente involucrado en los incendios que esta semana afectan a Quito e hicieron que la Alcaldía declarara emergencia en la capital, de acuerdo con un comunicado. Ahora puedes seguirnos en WhatsApp Channel Se trata, según las autoridades, de una
Continue Reading Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Las ciudades a lo largo de la costa suroeste de México lidian con lluvias torrenciales, inundaciones y deslizamientos de tierra después de que la tormenta tropical John se fortaleciera nuevamente hasta convertirse en un huracán de categoría 1 el jueves, según el Centro Nacional de Huracanes de EE.UU. John
Continue Reading Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — Madres y padres de adolescentes detenidos en el contexto de las protestas postelectorales realizaron este jueves un plantón en el Parque Carabobo en Caracas, frente a la sede de la Fiscalía General de Venezuela, para exigir la liberación de sus familiares. “Son inocentes”, gritaron los asistentes a la concentración mostrando
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN New York (CNN) — Longshore workers at ports from Maine to Texas are set to walk off the job early Tuesday, staging what could become the most disruptive strike to the US economy in decades. The strike could stop the flow of a wide variety of goods over
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted unanimously Friday to fire a communications professor who was seeking to retain tenure after his dismissal as chancellor of one of the system’s campuses for making pornographic films. Joe Gow, who had served as chancellor of UW-La Crosse for nearly 17
Continue Reading Julia Hernández (CNN) — La visita del presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelensky, a la Casa Blanca este jueves podría ser su última oportunidad para convencer a un presidente estadounidense receptivo de los objetivos bélicos de su país. Los detalles precisos del “plan de victoria” que Zelensky planea presentar en reuniones separadas al presidente Joe Biden
Continue ReadingHOWELL, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a 12-year-old boy died after he was struck by a tree that fell at a southeastern Michigan nature center where he and classmates were on a field trip. The Livingston County Sheriff’s Office says Declan Carter was at the Howell Nature Center on Thursday when the tree fell and
Continue Reading Belén Liotti (CNN) –– Los ataques israelíes en el Líbano durante los últimos cuatro días desplazaron a unos 140.000 niños, “y muchos de ellos han llegado a los refugios mostrando signos de gran sufrimiento”, dijo Save the Children este jueves en un comunicado. “Más de 400.000 personas fueron desplazadas desde el inicio de los ataques
Continue ReadingSKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Hungary’s right-wing prime minister has accused European Union officials of denting North Macedonia’s “national pride” by further delaying the country’s troubled bid to join the bloc. During a visit to North Macedonia, Viktor Orbán has also offered to mediate with EU member Bulgaria, whose dispute with Skopje over Balkan history
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled to the world from the United Nations that the multiple conflicts in the Middle East were far from resolved. He vowed to continue to battle the Lebanese Hezbollah and defeat Hamas in the Gaza Strip until “total victory.” Shortly after he spoke, blasts
Continue Reading Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — La Fiscalía General de Colombia indicó este jueves en un comunicado que iniciará una investigación formal para “establecer la verdad y la eventual identificación e individualización de responsables en la probable adquisición y uso ilegales de software espía “Pegasus”, por parte de la Dirección de Inteligencia Policial de la Policía
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Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Two boys in Britain who were 12 when they stabbed a stranger to death with a machete have been sentenced to at least eight and a half years in prison. They are the youngest people convicted of murder in the U.K. for more than 20 years. The defendants were convicted in June
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