By Nimi Princewill and Rodrigo Pedroso, CNN Brazilian authorities have shut down a beachside kiosk in Rio de Janeiro after a 23-year-old Congolese migrant was beaten to death, Rio de Janeiro’s Civil Police said Wednesday. Moise Kabagambe was seen in a video from the Tropicalia beach kiosk’s security cameras being attacked by a group of
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By JEFF MARTIN and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WOODSTOCK, Ga. (AP) — A police chief says a caller who threatened to blow up a historically Black university in Florida described an elaborate plot involving seven bombs hidden in duffel bags and backpacks around the campus perimeter. The call to Bethune-Cookman University was among numerous threats
Continue Reading DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police say they don’t know why a 36-year-old man walked into a neonatal intensive care unit at a Des Moines hospital and fed a baby that wasn’t his before leaving. Adam Wedig was charged on Monday with two counts of criminal trespass. Police say Wedig got into the NICU unit
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — Enero fue un mes especialmente violento en Colombia. Atentados terroristas contra bases militares, estaciones de policía, asesinatos e intimidaciones contra civiles en varios departamentos del país. Según el Instituto de Estudios para el Desarrollo y la Paz (Indepaz), se estima en 39 el número de muertos en las matanzas registradas
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By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, saw its stock plunge after-hours Wednesday after reporting a rare decline in its fourth quarter profit due to a sharp increase in expenses. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company said it earned $10.29 billion, or $3.67 per share, in the final
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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes has been meeting with the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection for several hours and is answering some questions, according to one of his attorneys. “Stewart Rhodes is both answering many questions and taking the Fifth Amendment to other questions,”
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Algunos exempleados de Playboy y Playmates salieron en defensa de Hugh Hefner tras el reciente estreno de la docuserie de A&E “Secrets of Playboy”. Hefner, fallecido en 2017, y su imperio son examinados en la serie. En ella se destaca la disparidad de poder entre algunas de las jóvenes que trabajaron
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By Betsy Klein, CNN The White House is ready to “hit the ground running” to vaccinate children aged six months to 5 years old as soon as Pfizer/BioNTech receives emergency use authorization for its Covid-19 vaccine for that age group. “Our message to parents and families is simple: We are doing everything we can to
Continue Reading Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Alphabet, Brinker International rise; PayPal, Gilead fall.
Continue Reading By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — The travel industry is lobbying Washington for changes it thinks will get more people on airplanes and staying in hotels. Airline and tourism groups want the U.S. to eliminate its requirement that travelers provide a negative test for COVID-19 before boarding a U.S.-bound plane. The United
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By The Associated Press The Washington Spirit have signed Trinity Rodman to a contract extension that will make her the highest-paid player in the National Women’s Soccer League. The four-year deal with the 19-year-old daughter of NBA great Dennis Rodman is worth at least $1.1 million over the course of the deal. Octagon Soccer, which
Continue Reading YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Sadio Mané set up one goal and scored the last one himself as Senegal beat Burkina Faso 3-1 to reach its second successive African Cup of Nations final. Mané scored on a breakaway in the 87th minute to seal the win in Yaounde after Senegal went 2-0 up before seeing Burkina
Continue Reading By FRANK BAJAK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has confirmed purchasing NSO Group’s powerful spyware tool Pegasus, whose chronic abuse to hack journalists, dissidents and human rights activists has long been established. The FBI suggested its motivation was to “stay abreast of emerging technologies and tradecraft.” It said in a
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El organismo rector de la natación competitiva en Estados Unidos emitió este martes una nueva política sobre los atletas transgénero que quieran competir en eventos de élite. Con efecto inmediato, USA Swimming dijo que un panel de tres personas de expertos médicos independientes decidirá ahora si “el desarrollo físico previo del
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By Janelle Davis, CNN. Photographs by Will Lanzoni, CNN Orecchiette is a pasta specialty from the Puglia region — down in Italy’s southern “heel.” It’s one of the country’s flattest and most fertile regions, with wheat and olive oil produced in abundance. This is where Stanley Tucci‘s friend and writer Kay Plunkett-Hogge picked up the
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By Travis Caldwell and Jenn Selva, CNN The man accused in the Tuesday shooting deaths of two police officers at Bridgewater College in Virginia was a former student-athlete, according to the school. Alexander Wyatt Campbell, 27, attended Bridgewater College from 2013-2017 and was member of the track and cross-country teams, Logan Bogert, a communications coordinator
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with another round of snow showers moving in after sunset. An additional 2-8″ of snowfall is possible, with the higher amounts located south of I-70. Lows in the low teens with wind chills about -5. TOMORROW: Snow continues early, tapering off through mid-late afternoon. Highs in the upper teens to around 20.
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By Ariane de Vogue and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Lawyers for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and other groups told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that it should leave in place a lower court opinion ordering Alabama to redraw its congressional map. A panel of three federal judges, including two appointees of former President Donald Trump,
Continue ReadingBy Rick Sallinger Click here for updates on this story ARVADA, Colorado (KCNC) — July 11, 2020, is a night the Denver band ‘Nightwolf’ will always remember. They were playing at Jake’s Roadhouse in Arvada when rival motorcycle gangs got in a deadly dispute. The band members were taking a break when they heard popping
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By Mirna Alsharif and Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Four men have been arrested for allegedly being part of a drug trafficking organization that sold deadly fentanyl-laced heroin to actor and producer Michael K. Williams, according to a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York. Williams, best known for
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