By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas hotel union workers have overwhelmingly voted to approve their contract agreement with casino giant Caesars Entertainment. The decision Monday ends months of labor disputes that had brought the threat of a historic strike to the Strip. The Culinary Workers Union says the vote was
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti El expresidente Donald Trump afirmó en discurso que fue acusado tres veces más que el infame gángster Al Capone . No es verdad. Trump, el favorito para la nominación presidencial republicana, hizo uso de la afirmación sobre Al Capone mientras intenta presentarse como víctima de procesamientos infundados y con motivaciones políticas. En un
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — The man suspected of killing three people and seriously wounding a fourth in rural Colorado has been arrested, the Custer County Sheriff’s Office said. Hanme K. Clark, 45, is accused of shooting four people Monday in a wooded part of Custer County after an apparent dispute
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By Simone McCarthy and Wayne Chang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The world must “must act urgently” to stem the conflict in Gaza, China’s top diplomat said Monday during a meeting with officials from Arab and Muslim majority nations, as Beijing steps up its efforts to play a role in establishing a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas
Continue ReadingNEW DELHI (AP) — The 41 construction workers who have been trapped in a collapsed tunnel in northern India for over a week are finally getting hot meals, provided through a newly installed steel pipe, as rescuers work on an alternate plan of digging toward them vertically. The meals, made of rice and lentils, were
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Peligrosas tormentas eléctricas cobraron vida con estruendo en partes del sur este lunes mientras más de 20 millones de personas desde el este de Texas hasta el sureste enfrentaban la amenaza de vientos dañinos, granizo y tornados potencialmente fuertes. Las severas tormentas se desplazaron por el este de Texas y el
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — La inflamación causada por la grasa abdominal puede estar relacionada con las primeras etapas de la enfermedad de Alzheimer décadas antes de que comiencen los síntomas, según una nueva investigación. “Sabemos desde hace tiempo que a medida que aumenta el tamaño del abdomen, los centros de memoria en el cerebro se
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA IRVINE and DAR YASIN Associated Press SAMTSE, Bhutan (AP) — Monsoon rains have finally passed and floods blocking the lone dirt road have retreated enough for a small truck to climb these Himalayan foothills to a gurgling spring. It spews water so fresh that people here call it nectar. Workers inside a small
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By Michelle Toh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Another business leader in China is being probed by the country’s anti-graft watchdog, in a sign of an ongoing crackdown in the world’s second largest economy. Zhou Jun, president of state-owned Shanghai Industrial Investment, is under investigation by the Shanghai Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, a branch
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrats are urging the Wisconsin Supreme Court to overturn Republican-drawn legislative maps. During oral arguments Tuesday, conservative justices sharply questioned the timing of the redistricting challenge, while liberals focused on the constitutionality of the current maps and the process for adopting new ones. The fight comes
Continue ReadingSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Incumbent Erin Mendenhall is leading in her reelection bid to continue as mayor of Utah’s capital in a ranked-choice contest that includes a challenge by former Mayor Rocky Anderson. Though the position is officially nonpartisan, the city is largely Democratic in a mostly Republican state. It is Salt Lake City’s
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In a story published November 21, 2023, about the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s death, The Associated Press erroneously said Kennedy’s administration lasted from 1960 to 1963. The administration lasted from 1961 to 1963.
Continue ReadingBy KATHY McCORMACK and ROBERT F. BUKATY Associated Press HINSDALE, N.H. (AP) — Geoffrey Holt was unassuming as the caretaker of a mobile home park in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, where he lived a simple, but curious life. Residents would see Holt around town in threadbare clothes — riding his lawn mower, headed to the convenience
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK Associated Press ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — Tatyana Prima thought she’d left the bombs behind when she fled Ukraine more than a year and a half ago, after Russia decimated her city, Mariupol. The 38-year-old escaped with her injured husband and young daughter, bringing the family to safety in southern Israel. The calm
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The eruption of Papua New Guinea’s tallest volcano is subsiding but thick ash still billowed into the sky and coated roofs and palm trees nearby. Mount Ulawun on the northeastern island of New Britain is one of the South Pacific nation’s most active volcanoes. The eruption
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Philadelphia Eagles got revenge over the Kansas City Chiefs for the loss in Super Bowl LVII, on Monday night. A late push from the birds was enough to get past KC, 21-17, at Arrowhead Stadium. Kansas City led 17-7 in the third quarter, however, Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts led two
Continue ReadingBy HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — It happens every November, when the cold descends on Kyiv. The change in weather always makes Dmytro Riznychenko think back, and he is overwhelmed by his emotions. “This is where it truly began,” Riznychenko said, walking through central Kyiv’s Independence Square recently, reflecting on the uprising
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The sun was shining in June 1979 as Rosalynn Carter made her way through an enthusiastic crowd in Laconia, New Hampshire. “She shook my hand!” yelled one delighted participant. The first lady was in the state for her husband’s reelection campaign, but this was no political
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia judge overseeing the election subversion case against former President Donald Trump and others declined a request to revoke the bond of one of the defendants but did impose stricter bond conditions after prosecutors complained about his social media posts that mentioned witnesses and co-defendants. Fulton
Continue Reading By Rebecca Wright, Nic Robertson, John Torigoe, Eli Kiko Cohen and Joel Bennett, CNN Eilat, Israel (CNN) — As a red alert alarm sounded in the busy hotel dining hall, many of the children scattered in fear, as the horrors of the Hamas massacre on October 7 came flooding back. Thousands of families who survived
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