CNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — En Yucatán, estado ubicado en el sureste de México y un polo turístico importante, la gubernatura podría cambiar de la alternancia política de décadas de dos partidos. El estado es gobernado por Mauricio Vila Dosal del Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), quien le arrebató el gobierno al PRI: ambos partidos se
Continue ReadingBy STEVE REED AP Sports Writer Former NFL quarterback Cam Newton says he’s disappointed in himself for losing control of his emotions over the weekend at a 7-on-7 youth football tournament in Atlanta, resulting in a brief fight involving several men. A 22-second video surfaced on Sunday showing the 34-year-old Newton being involved in an
Continue ReadingBy COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A police department in suburban Chicago has released officer body camera footage of the fatal shooting of a 30-year-old man inside his apartment. Isaac Goodlow III died at a hospital after he was shot Feb. 3 in Carol Stream, about 34 miles west of Chicago. Carol Stream police say the
Continue ReadingGENEVA (AP) — Geneva-based commodities trading firm Gunvor said Friday that it has reached $661 million settlement with U.S. and Swiss prosecutors after a conviction for bribery of foreign officials in connection with the petroleum industry in Ecuador. The Swiss attorney general’s office said the company didn’t take “reasonable and necessary organizational measures” to prevent
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CNN By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — America’s gyms are adjusting their strategies as more of their members take weight loss drugs. Luxury gyms such as Life Time and Equinox are acquiring weight loss clinics with doctors who can prescribe GLP-1s, the powerful new class of medications that has proven to be highly
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– Dos meses y medio después de que el exvicepresidente de Ecuador Jorge Glas ingresó a la embajada de México en Quito en calidad de huésped, el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores ecuatoriano pidió ––a través de una carta enviada a la delegación diplomática mexicana–––autorización para que la fuerza pública ingrese al lugar
Continue ReadingBy Jay Croft and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Florida investigators say they dug up the remains of a teenager missing for 20 years and hidden underneath the trailer where she was killed. “At least she can be buried with dignity now,” Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said at a news conference Thursday. Chitwood said investigators
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By Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — 2024 was supposed to be the year consumers could start breathing again. After more than 20 months of inflation and higher borrowing costs, investors, economists and — eventually — Federal Reserve officials said they expected the economy to soften this year, allowing the central bank to finally
Continue ReadingBy ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello, a veteran Cuban dissident and leading proponent of human rights who was imprisoned twice but never left the island, will be awarded the 2024 International Women of Courage Award, a recognition granted by the U.S. Department of State. The 78-year-old economist will not
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Irish President Michael Higgins is expected to spend the weekend in the hospital as a precaution after he felt ill. Higgins’ office said Friday that he was admitted to St James’s Hospital after feeling unwell on Thursday. He underwent tests and was to remain in the hospital to monitor his blood pressure.
Continue ReadingBy SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish official has rejected allegations by a human rights group that Turkey bears responsibility for some of the abuses and possible war crimes carried out mostly against Kurdish residents in northern in Syria. Human Rights Watch said in a 74-page report released Thursday that the
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New Jersey businessman pleaded guilty Friday to trying to bribe U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, admitting that he gave the senator’s wife a car to influence him and agreeing to a deal with prosecutors that calls for him to testify in the corruption case against the
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Ticket prices to see one of Caitlin Clark’s final home games for Iowa are taking off since Clark announced her intention to enter the 2024 WNBA Draft. The tickets for her last regular season home game on Sunday against Ohio State are still the most expensive for
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CNN By Zeena Saifi and Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — For 108 days, Palestinian photographer Motaz Azaiza risked his life in Gaza to tell the story of the war to millions of followers on Instagram, as friends and family members were killed around him. But he has now left his native Gaza, feeling dismayed. “Nothing
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By Isabel Rosales and Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — Florida officials mislabeled the remains of two Irish nationals who died of drug overdoses, leading to a mix-up of their autopsies and the “highly probable” cremation of the wrong body, authorities said. Kane Mitchell, 30, and Luke Comiskey, 31, died in April 2022 after consuming fentanyl-laced
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By Clare Foran, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday signed a stopgap bill into law to avert a partial government shutdown at the end of the week. Congress had been confronting a pair of shutdown deadlines on Friday and March 8. To provide additional time for full-year funding bills to be finalized and passed, the stopgap measure
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — The United States will begin air dropping food aid to the people of Gaza, President Joe Biden announced Friday, as the humanitarian crisis deepens and Israel continues to resist opening additional land crossings to allow more assistance into the war-torn strip. Speaking in the Oval Office,
Continue ReadingBy JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Fanatics founder Michael Rubin says his company is being unfairly blamed for new Major League Baseball uniforms that have see-through pants and other fit and design problems. “This is a little bit of a difficult position,” he said on Friday at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — The family of a 70-year-old man who died after a Detroit police officer punched him in the face, causing him to fall to the ground, is suing the former officer and the city of Detroit. The Detroit News reports the federal lawsuit filed Thursday on behalf of Daryl Vance’s family names former
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — La Sala de Apelaciones de la Corte Penal Internacional (CPI) de La Haya decidió este viernes que la Fiscalía continuará con la investigación por posibles crímenes de lesa humanidad contra el Estado venezolano tras desestimar los seis argumentos de apelación planteados por el Gobierno del presidente Nicolás Maduro. “La Sala
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