By Web staff Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — The leader of a drug trafficking conspiracy received a hefty prison sentence Wednesday in U.S. District in Shreveport. Chief U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr. sentenced Demetrius DeAngelo Hall, 37, of Bossier City, to 21 years and 10 months in
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By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN When in doubt, for more information, call Benedict Cumberbatch. Without directly addressing comments made last week by actor Sam Elliot, who on a podcast criticized Netflix’s “Power of the Dog” for its “allusions of homosexuality,” Cumberbatch explained in a panel this weekend that his portrayal of closeted rancher Phil Burbank has
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By The Associated Press The PGA Tour stages its premier tournament at The Players Championship and it features the richest purse in golf at $20 million. What it doesn’t have is all the best players from the top 50. Bryson DeChambeau has withdrawn again. Harris English is recovering from a hip injury. And Phil Mickelson
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By Gregory Lemos and Dakin Andone, CNN Minneapolis educators began striking Tuesday after failing to reach a deal with Minneapolis Public Schools, canceling classes indefinitely for more than 30,000 students. The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) and Education Support Professionals (ESP) are seeking “a living wage” for ESPs, “lowering class sizes, and for safe and
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By Anjali Patel Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — People all over the world are booking Airbnbs in Ukraine right now. But they don’t actually plan to vacation there. Essentially, people are donating the money they paid for the reservation to their Airbnb hosts who are caught in the
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By Megan Marples, CNN The itsy-bitsy spider climbed up the waterspout … and all across the East Coast. Except in this case, the spider in question is not so little, according to Benjamin Frick, coauthor of a study of the Jorō spider species published in the journal Physiological Entomology. Jorō spiders, or Trichonephila clavata, can
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police say a man has been shot to death outside an apartment complex near downtown Wichita, and another person has been taken into custody in the case. Television station KSN reports that the shooting was reported around 5 p.m. Monday along north Broadway Street. Arriving officers found a man believed to
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden anunció la decisión de Estados Unidos de prohibir las importaciones de petróleo, gas natural y carbón de Rusia como respuesta a la invasión de Ucrania. “Estoy anunciando que Estados Unidos está apuntando a la arteria principal de la economía de Rusia. Estamos prohibiendo todas las importaciones de
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s soccer federation will ban clubs of rowdy fans known as “barras” from attending away matches after a huge weekend brawl among soccer fans that left over two dozen people injured, three of them critically. The federation and top-division league owners announced that the Queretaro team that hosted Saturday’s match will
Continue ReadingCNNEE Nota del editor: Dora Amador es periodista. Fue columnista de El Nuevo Herald por 20 años. Redactora de noticias y editora de redacción de reportajes en los noticieros de las 6 pm y 11 pm del Canal 23 de Miami. Fue documentalista del Canal 23 y del 51. Ha ganado cuatro Emmy por sus
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By CATHY BUSSEWITZ and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — With Russia intensifying its war on Ukraine, killing civilians and triggering a mass refugee crisis, President Joe Biden announced a U.S. ban on imported Russian oil. A full embargo would be most effective if it included European allies, which are also desperate to
Continue Reading By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is seeking to fully phase out its dependency on Russian energy “well before 2030” to ensure the 27-nation bloc no longer faces difficult decisions about hurting their own economies in geopolitical crises like the invasion of Ukraine. The EU leaders meet in Versailles outside
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER, MIKE BALSAMO and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has decided to ban Russian oil imports, toughening the toll on Russia’s economy in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine, according to a person familiar with the matter. The move follows pleas by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to U.S.
Continue Reading EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — Investigators have identified a mother and her 11-year-old son as the two people killed in a two-vehicle crash in east Kansas. The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office says in a news release that 31-year-old Nichole Gibbons, of Wichita, and her 11-year-old son Terrell Gibbons, of Topeka, died in the Sunday afternoon crash
Continue Reading By MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Google is fortifying its cloud services with a $5.4 billion acquisition of cyber security firm Mandiant, the companies announced Tuesday. Google, a subsidiary of Mountain View, California-based Alphabet Inc., will pay $23 per Mandiant share in all-cash deal expected to close later this year.
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) — La invasión de Rusia a Ucrania abrió un debate agitado sobre cómo debería ser la intervención de Estados Unidos y de la OTAN, una discusión que suma este martes un nuevo capítulo tras un impacto de proyectiles en Polonia que dejó al menos dos muertos. Este jornada se reportó que dos misiles
Continue Reading By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Teachers in the Minneapolis School District have gone on strike after failing to reach agreement on a new contract. Tuesday’s move idles some 29,000 students in one of Minnesota’s largest school districts. Meanwhile, the teachers in neighboring St. Paul reached a deal late Monday to
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By Kaitlan Collins, Jeremy Diamond, Kevin Liptak, Phil Mattingly, MJ Lee and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced his administration is banning Russian oil, natural gas and coal imports to the US in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a step he warned could lead to a spike in gas prices
Continue Reading LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. (AP) — Police say arrests have been made in the shooting death of a man inside a Lee’s Summit home overnight. Police say in a news release that officers were called to the home around 1 a.m. Tuesday for a disturbance. Arriving officers found a man dead inside the home who had
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Mae Jones Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Some regions of the human brain may shrink after a person has caught COVID-19, according to the first study to use brain scans to show a ‘before and after’ look at the brain following infection. A new U.K. study published
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