Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Al menos 46 personas murieron y 143 resultaron heridas después de que un atacante suicida detonara un explosivo en una mezquita chiita en la ciudad de Kunduz, en el norte de Afganistán, este viernes, dijo a CNN Matiullah Rohani, portavoz de la provincia de Kunduz. La explosión en el interior
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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Iga Swiatek needed just 71 minutes to dispatch Petra Martic 6-1, 6-3 in the second round of the BNP Paribas Open. The last time the Southern California tournament was played in 2019, Swiatek lost in qualifying. Now, she’s the No. 2 seed and the 2020 French Open champion. Swiatek won
Continue Reading TORONTO (AP) — Ontario’s major indoor professional sports teams have been given the green light to host capacity crowds. The NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs and Ottawa Senators and the NBA’s Toronto Raptors will be able to play in front of full arenas when their seasons start this month, Ontario Sports Minister Lisa MacLeod announced Friday.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) Two more Springfield women have been charged with participating in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in January. The Springfield News-Leader reports that the federal case again Cara Hentschel and Mahailya Pryer was unsealed this week. They are charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building; disorderly and disruptive conduct
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By Mallika Kallingal and Jamie Crawford, CNN The Justice Department announced Friday it will not pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against a Kenosha Police Department officer for his involvement in the shooting of Jacob Blake. Rusten Sheskey, a White officer, shot Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, seven times while responding to a domestic incident
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By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Apple is asking a court to put on hold its injunction that would allow iPhone developers to direct users away from the company’s App Store for online payments. The company on Friday filed a motion with the US District Court for the Northern District of California asking it to stay
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Moon, CNN The mother of a 15-year-old girl shot and killed Wednesday in a road rage shooting in Oakland, is pleading for the community’s help to find the suspect. Shamara Young, who was identified by her mother, was riding in a car with her uncle when the road rage incident occurred, Oakland Police
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By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says Americans will meet with senior Taliban officials for talks to ease evacuations of foreign nationals and some Afghans from Afghanistan. The focus of talks Saturday and Sunday in Doha, Qatar, will be holding Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders to commitments that they would allow Americans
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Ovechkin left Washington’s preseason finale against Philadelphia because of a lower-body injury. The Capitals captain appeared to injure his left leg midway through the first period after bumping into Flyers forward Travis Konecny. Ovechkin was slow to get up and skated off under his own
Continue Reading CHAMBLEE, Ga. (AP) — A small plane has crashed just after takeoff from a suburban airport in a northeast suburb of Atlanta, killing all four people aboard. The Federal Aviation Administration says the Cessna 210 crashed about 1:10 p.m. Friday at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport and caught fire. A Dekalb County fire official says all four occupants
Continue Reading By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — Rowdy Tellez spoiled Charlie Morton’s gem with a two-run homer in the seventh inning and threw out a runner at home plate, leading the Milwaukee Brewers over the Atlanta Braves 2-1 in the opener of their NL Division Series. Corbin Burnes, Adrian Houser and Josh Hader
Continue Reading MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors are seeking approval for a more severe penalty than what is outlined in state guidelines if a former suburban Minneapolis police officer is convicted in the shooting death of Daunte Wright. Former Brooklyn Center Officer Kim Potter is facing charges of first- and second-degree manslaughter in the April death of Wright.
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By Katelyn Polantz, Veronica Stracqualursi and Kristen Holmes, CNN Former President Donald Trump racked up more than $70 million in losses over a four-year period from his Washington, DC, hotel, while publicly claiming that the hotel was making more than tens of millions of dollars, according to documents released by the House Oversight Committee. The
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By Kara Scannell, CNN The Trump Organization and the Presidential Inaugural Committee will pay a total of $750,000 to settle with the Washington, DC, attorney general’s office over allegations they misspent money raised for former President Donald Trump’s inauguration. The Trump Organization will pay $400,000 and the PIC will pay $350,000, according to a person
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, MATTHEW BROWN and AMY TAXIN Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Coast Guard investigators say an underwater Southern California oil pipeline was likely struck by an anchor several months to a year before a major leak spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude. The U.S. Coast Guard says Friday
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By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, MATTHEW BROWN and AMY TAXIN Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Coast Guard investigators say an underwater Southern California oil pipeline was likely struck by an anchor several months to a year before a major leak spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude. The U.S. Coast Guard says Friday
Continue Reading By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kyrie Irving could join the Brooklyn Nets at practice this weekend after a ruling that their practice facility doesn’t fall under a New York coronavirus vaccination mandate. The Nets were told Friday that the training center is considered a private facility. The city’s vaccine mandate
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — Las personas con dificultades de aprendizaje murieron a causa del covid-19 a una tasa nueve veces mayor que la población general durante la primera ola de la pandemia en el Reino Unido, lo que agravó las desigualdades existentes, según un nuevo estudio. De hecho, las personas con nueve afecciones de salud
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — El Premio Nobel de la Paz 2021 fue otorgado a dos periodistas por sus esfuerzos para salvaguardar la libertad de expresión. Se trata de Maria Ressa y Dmitry Muratov. Te contamos aquà sus historias. Maria Ressa, Premio Nobel de la Paz 2021 Maria Ressa es nativa de Filipinas. Periodista y
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By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN The KNP Complex Fire has destroyed many of California’s iconic sequoia trees and is only 11% contained, according to the National Park Service. On October 4, the high-intensity fire pushed north and caused damage to Redwood Canyon, the National Park Service told CNN in a statement. The fire now covers
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