By Jessie Yeung, Yoonjung Seo, Gawon Bae, Mike Valerio and Lauren Kent, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was sworn in as South Korea’s next president on Wednesday following a dramatic snap election six months after the country’s previous leader declared martial law and plunged the nation into chaos. Official results
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — One of the bleakest periods in medieval Europe was the plague pandemic known as the Black Death, which killed at least 25 million people in just five years. But the disease didn’t stop there. The plague adapted to keep its hosts alive longer, so it could spread farther and
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Por Ana María Cañizares, CNN en Español En medio de un debate marcado por la polarización entre criterios de los legisladores, la Asamblea Nacional de Ecuador aprobó, con 82 votos a favor, un proyecto de reforma constitucional para levantar la prohibición de instalación de bases militares extranjeras en Ecuador. La propuesta de reforma fue realizada
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By Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — The White House has sent its long-awaited spending cuts request to Congress as it seeks to formalize a slew of DOGE slashes to federal funding. The $9.4 billion package – known as “rescissions” on Capitol Hill – would claw back previously appropriated government funding. The move to cancel the
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By Brian Stelter and Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — America’s two big public broadcasters, PBS and NPR, have 45 days to salvage their federal funding — starting now. On Tuesday, the Trump administration sent Congress a long-awaited request for lawmakers to cancel more than $1 billion in federal funds earmarked for the Corporation for Public
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By Holmes Lybrand, Priscilla Alvarez, Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — The family of the Egyptian national charged with attempted murder after an antisemitic Molotov cocktail attack in Boulder, Colorado, has been taken into ICE custody, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The suspected attacker, Mohamed Soliman, has a wife and five children, all of
Continue Reading Por Polo Sandoval, CNN Los llamados para “Liberar a Marcelo” resuenan más allá del campus del bachillerato de una ciudad de Massachusetts, donde un destacado estudiante fue arrestado por ICE el fin de semana. Un grupo de estudiantes del bachillerato en Milford —muchos vestidos de blanco en señal de solidaridad— realizó una manifestación el lunes
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders voted on Tuesday to reject the pay packages for several of the company’s executives, including CEO David Zaslav’s compensation package of more than $50 million. Nearly 60% of the symbolic vote was against the 2024 executive payouts at Warner Bros. Discovery’s annual meeting, according to
Continue Reading Por Iván Pérez Sarmenti, CNN en Español El gobierno del presidente de Argentina, Javier Milei, ha vuelto a enfrentarse a la prensa. Ahora es por la filtración de un supuesto Plan de Inteligencia Nacional (PIN), que dio a conocer el periodista Hugo Alconada Mon en una serie de notas publicadas a fines de mayo en
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Dotson, CNN (CNN) — The Indiana Pacers’ journey to the NBA Finals was never going to be easy, but it got a little more complicated Tuesday, and it had nothing to do with basketball. The team’s flight bound for Oklahoma City for a Game 1 tilt with the Thunder was detoured by literal
Continue ReadingBy Kaanita Iyer and Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Sen. John Fetterman’s chief of staff Krysta Juris is departing her role and the office is elevating another adviser to fill the position, the Pennsylvania Democrat said on Tuesday. “I’m grateful for Krysta’s work. She’s been an invaluable member of the team for over two years
Continue Reading Por Michael Rios y Sol Amaya, CNN El partido gobernante de México, Morena, ganará control de la Corte Suprema tras las primeras elecciones judiciales en el país, que estuvieron marcadas por una baja participación electoral y alegaciones de un intento de apropiación de poder. Los resultados preliminares de la contienda del domingo mostraron que los
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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Move over, MAHA. California has just overtaken President Donald Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again” Commission in the quest to identify which ultraprocessed foods are the most harmful for human health. Numerous studies have linked an additional serving a day of ultraprocessed foods, or UPFs, to a greater risk of
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By Rafael Romo, CNN (CNN) — It’s a dark chapter in Chile’s history. During the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990, thousands of babies were stolen from their biological mothers and sold into adoption, mainly to foreign couples from the United States and Europe. In Chile, they’re known as “The Children of
Continue Reading Por Mostafa Salem, Nadeen Ebrahim y Oren Liebermann, CNN Un nuevo programa para llevar alimentos desesperadamente necesarios a los palestinos hambrientos en Gaza tiene solo unos días de haber iniciado, pero ya está sumido en el caos y la tragedia. Decenas de palestinos murieron en los últimos días mientras intentaban obtener ayuda de la Fundación
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN (CNN) — Going too far with a diet might have serious impacts on your mental health. Cutting your calories down too far could be linked with worse depression symptoms, new research suggests. A study published Tuesday in the journal BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health looked at data from more than 28,000
Continue Reading Por Ramishah Maruf, CNN Un mes después del tiroteo masivo en la escuela de Parkland, Florida, en 2018, Citigroup impuso restricciones a sus clientes que vendían armas de fuego, convirtiéndose en el primer gran banco de Wall Street en hacerlo. Este martes, el banco revirtió esa política. “Ya no tendremos una política específica en relación
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By George Ramsay and Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — The dream of an all-American men’s semifinal at Roland Garros went down in relatively tame fashion on Tuesday as Frances Tiafoe and Tommy Paul were bounced out of the tournament in decisive fashion. Paul, who entered his quarterfinal match attempting to shake off injuries, was no
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By Lauren del Valle, Nicki Brown, Eric Levenson, Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A former hotel security officer and a financial executive for Bad Boy Entertainment took the stand Tuesday in Sean “Diddy” Combs federal racketeering and sex trafficking trial. The money-focused testimony came as the prosecution sought to prove that Combs created a criminal
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By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — The House Judiciary Committee is expected to interview former Hunter Biden special counsel David Weiss behind closed doors on Friday, two sources familiar with the interview told CNN, as part of a broader Republican effort to revisit previous probes into the Biden family that stalled last Congress but are
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