By Marnie Hunter and Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — A passenger on a Tuesday JetBlue flight was restrained with help from other passengers after acting “erratically and aggressively toward his travel companion and members of the inflight crew,” according to a statement from the airline. The incident occurred on flight 1926 from London to New York. Flight crew
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By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Disney is appealing a major setback earlier this week in its ongoing legal and political battle with Florida’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis. On Thursday, Disney filed a notice of appeal, challenging a Florida federal judge’s decision to throw out its case accusing DeSantis of punishing Disney for exercising its
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD and MATT BROWN Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley’s messages on race are sometimes contradictory. Throughout her career, the Republican presidential candidate has generally called out acts of individual prejudice and the people responsible. She has avoided denouncing society or groups of people as racist. As the GOP presidential contest
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — La Soberana Orden Militar de Malta, también conocida como los Caballeros de Malta, no es sólo una orden religiosa católica con casi 1.000 años de historia. Tampoco es sólo una organización de ayuda humanitaria con un presupuesto multimillonario, con operaciones que incluyen a campos de refugiados y programas de ayuda en
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El telescopio espacial James Webb captó imágenes centelleantes de 19 galaxias espirales, y de los millones de estrellas que las albergan, con un nivel de detalle sin precedentes para los astrónomos. La singular capacidad del Webb para observar el Universo en distintas longitudes de onda de luz infrarroja, como el infrarrojo cercano
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TODAY: Afternoon highs warm into the mid 60s with partly cloudy skies. Light scattered drizzles remain possible this evening. Winds remain out of the southwest at 8-12 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. TONIGHT: Overnight lows remain into the lower 40s with the possibility of a scattered light shower. EXTENDED: Friday remains partly cloudy
Continue ReadingSANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A California teenager accused of swatting a Florida mosque has been arrested and transported across the country to face felony charges. Court records show that 17-year-old Alan Filion was arrested Jan. 18 by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on a warrant from Seminole County, Florida. He was extradited to central
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Media outlets say two gunmen have taken seven hostages at a factory owned by Procter & Gamble in northwest Turkey, apparently in protest of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Turkish media Thursday published an image of one of the purported suspects inside the factory, a man wearing
Continue ReadingBy DIDI TANG Associated Press Washington (AP) — Two U.S. lawmakers have nominated Jimmy Lai, a former Hong Kong publisher now standing trial on national security charges, and three other jailed Chinese dissidents for the Nobel Peace Prize. While hundreds of people are often nominated for the annual prize, this nomination is certain to draw
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Mass street protests have intensified across Slovakia against a plan by populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to amend the penal code and eliminate the office of the special prosecutor that deals with major crime and corruption. Thousands were rallying as the protests on Thursday spread to 31 cities and town across
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has suggested that talks with the U.S. government on migration and drug trafficking could suffer after media reports of a U.S. investigation into alleged drug money donations for his 2006 campaign. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador suggested U.S. officials should apologize for what he called baseless allegations. He said
Continue ReadingBy JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Stanley J. Aronoff has died at age 91 after a long career that included nearly four decades in the Ohio Statehouse. A partner at the law firm Aronoff founded says he died peacefully Wednesday. The Harvard-educated lawyer from Cincinnati was known as an artful negotiator
Continue ReadingBy JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — This New York love story begins with a criminal act of sabotage. Under cover of darkness a year ago Friday, someone breached a waist-high fence and slipped into the Central Park Zoo. Once inside, they cut a hole through a steel mesh cage, freeing a majestic
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — En Cataluña, nunca se había registrado un período sin lluvias tan largo e intenso como el actual. De hecho, desde la comunidad autónoma hablan de una sequía histórica. “La crisis climática nos está poniendo a prueba”, aseguró el presidente de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Pere Aragonés. Por esta
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By Vasco Cotovio, Yulia Kesaieva, Radina Gigova and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine’s military intelligence says it sank a Russian warship off the coast of Crimea overnight into Thursday, landing the latest in a series of blows to Russia’s Black Sea Fleet after mounting a “massive” missile attack on the occupied peninsula hours earlier.
Continue ReadingBy BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America A passionate student letter prompted a southern Pennsylvania school district to change its Native American logo years ago. But the mascot is back after a conservative school board acted on its campaign promise to reinstate it. The decision goes against a larger trend of removing the Native American
Continue ReadingBy BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America A passionate student letter prompted a southern Pennsylvania school district to change its Native American logo years ago. But the mascot is back after a conservative school board acted on its campaign promise to reinstate it. The decision goes against a larger trend of removing the Native American
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Donald Glover thought he might consult Brad Pitt when he decided to take on a new series version of “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.” Pitt, charmingly, according to Glover, declined. Glover appeared on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” this week, where he recalled his attempt to talk Pitt, who
Continue ReadingBy ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press The failed campaign and expansive political operation to make Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis the Republican nominee for the White House cost $168 million. The sum has been reported in filings to the Federal Election Commission. The pro-DeSantis super PAC Never Back Down is reporting payments of more than $130.6
Continue ReadingFES, Morocco (AP) — Authorities in Morocco have arrested 30 people in the city of Fes on charges of blackmail, threats and trafficking of newborn babies. Morocco’s state-owned news agency reported on Wednesday that the suspects were arrested this week. They include law enforcement agents, doctors, nurses and other health professionals. They are accused of
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