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By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Lianne Kolirin (CNN) — Police divers have discovered more than half a million dollars worth of hashish hidden in a cave on the picturesque Italian island of Ponza. The authorities on the island — a popular vacation spot for the rich and famous — said they seized 330 blocks of
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of former Major League Baseball player Jose Canseco. Personal Birth date: July 2, 1964 Birth place: Havana, Cuba Birth name: Jose Canseco Capas Jr. Father: Jose Canseco Sr. Mother: Barbara Capas Canseco Marriages: Jessica Sekely (1996-2000, divorced); Esther (Haddad) Canseco (1988-1992, divorced) Children:
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines. She is the wife of the late Ferdinand Marcos, who ruled the Philippines for 20 years until he was ousted in 1986. Personal Birth date: July 2, 1929 Birth place: Manila, Philippines (some
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of former heavyweight world boxing champion Mike Tyson. Personal Birth date: June 30, 1966 Birth place: Brooklyn, New York Birth name: Michael Gerard Tyson Father: Jimmy Kirkpatrick Mother: Lorna Smith Tyson Marriages: Lakiha (Spicer) Tyson (June 6, 2009-present); Monica (Turner) Tyson (April 19,
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By Gloria Pazmino, Kara Scannell, Eric Levenson, Nina Giraldo, CNN (CNN) — The former chief of staff to former New York City Mayor Eric Adams, the staffer’s brother and two others were indicted on bribery and money laundering conspiracy charges as part of a “scheme to exploit the city’s migrant crisis for profit,” according to
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of singer and actress Lindsay Lohan. Personal Birth date: July 2, 1986 Birthplace: New York, New York Birth name: Lindsay Dee Lohan Father: Michael Lohan, ex-Wall Street trader Mother: Dina (Sullivan) Lohan, television personality, actress and manager Marriage: Bader Shammas (2022-present) Children: Luai Other
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By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Lauren Kent, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Russia is still inching forward in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, where it has concentrated the bulk of its troops, as it continues efforts to encircle the key “fortress belt” city of Kostyantynivka and the city of Lyman. But outside experts and Ukrainian soldiers who spoke
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By Lauren Kent, Joseph Ataman, CNN (CNN) — A patient in France has tested positive for Ebola after returning from a humanitarian mission in an area where the virus is circulating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the French Health Ministry said on Wednesday. It marks the first reported case in France and
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By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has created a murky mess of unproven claims and provably false claims about the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Trump began asserting over the weekend, without providing evidence, that the visible problems with the reflecting pool were caused by “Vandals” rather than the recent rapid repair project he had claimed would immediately make
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By Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — When Ethan Salter got home from a recording session last Wednesday, he thought the warehouse fire that started burning that day a mere block from his Boyle Heights home was already out. He couldn’t really smell anything and didn’t see much ash. “It seemed totally fine,”
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By Zeena Saifi, CNN (CNN) — Israeli forces continue to commit genocide against Palestinians by deliberately targeting children in the Gaza Strip, an independent United Nations Commission of Inquiry has found. In a report published Tuesday, the commission — which last year concluded Israel had committed genocide in Gaza — found that Israeli military operations
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN President Donald Trump’s ties to aviation stretch back decades, including a brief stint running his own airline in the 1980s. Now, he’s taking a hands-on role in redesigning Air Force One, the crown jewel of the presidential fleet. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and
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By Avery Schmitz, CNN (CNN) — In the spring of 1990, Cuban President Fidel Castro was grappling with the likelihood of conflict with the United States — for the first time without the promise of Russian help. Backed into a corner, Castro reportedly declared that Cuba would rather become another “Numancia” than be conquered. He
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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The US attorney’s office in Chicago is in a five-alarm fire after problems with recent grand jury presentations resulted in three dropped criminal cases. The recently discovered problems have prompted Andrew Boutros, the Trump-appointed and judge-endorsed US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, to do his own review
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By John Miller, CNN (CNN) — Within a week of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance earlier this year, two notes purportedly written by the 84-year-old’s abductors were sent to local news outlets. The first note demanded a ransom of millions of dollars for her return. The second note said Guthrie was dead – though the culprit did
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By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — There had never been a US president who’d spent most of his pre-White House career jetting around the world in planes with his name on the side or even running his own airline. Until President Donald Trump. “I love aviation,” Trump told troops last year on the
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By Lauren Fox, Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump may be the head of the Republican Party, but when it comes to the Senate, Majority Leader John Thune is still in charge. Trump, who will attend lunch with Senate Republicans at the US Capitol on Wednesday, is growing tired of hearing “no” from
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By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN New York (CNN) — Outside Rep. Adriano Espaillat’s primary night party, four men on the sidewalk were dressed in full neon sequins, trying to get the party started. Inside, the bar had barely opened. Espaillat spent 20 years trying to get to Washington and another 10 years in Congress. He arrived
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Lynette Niebla BRAWLEY, Calif. (KYMA) – Rather than halting high-tech industrial growth, the Brawley City Council voted unanimously to drop a proposed moratorium, choosing instead to implement strict new land-use policies for massive data centers. This comes after weeks of intense local debate regarding how the city should handle the rapid expansion of technology infrastructure
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THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ) – Doctors are warning there’s been a spike in travel-related mpox cases here in California. And they say it’s only a matter of time before we see cases here in the Coachella Valley. Since January, there have been seven travel-related mpox cases reported in California, which is higher than in previous
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