By Lauren del Valle and Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for defrauding customers and investors in his failed crypto exchange FTX, a Manhattan court ruled Thursday. Before announcing the sentence, Judge Lewis Kaplan said there was a risk “that this man will
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By Nick Valencia and Jason Morris, CNN (CNN) — For the first time since a judge ruled that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can continue to oversee the Georgia 2020 election interference case against former President Donald Trump, the focus will return to the details of the sprawling case. During a hearing Thursday, Trump’s
Continue Reading By Donie O’Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Even before most Americans woke up Tuesday morning to news of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, wild conspiracy theories about what supposedly had “really” happened were running rampant online. The claims ranged from a cyber-attack or a ship captain impaired by side effects from Covid-19
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv ¿Quiénes son las víctimas latinoamericanas del puente en Baltimore? Argentina avanza en la compra de aviones F-16 a Dinamarca. El derretimiento del hielo polar cambia la rotación de la Tierra. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad. Suscríbete aquí para recibir el newsletter cada mañana en tu correo 1.
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CNN By David McKenzie and Sarah Dean, CNN Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) — For South Africans, normality is a sliding scale. Record electricity blackouts and sustained water outages have crushed businesses, and caused havoc in hospitals and schools nationwide. It’s common to see car-sized potholes in the suburbs of Johannesburg as workmen weld burst pipes. Traffic light outages are a
Continue ReadingOpinion by Lee Drutman (CNN) — In a normal presidential election year, an anti-system third-party candidate like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would not be polling at nearly 10% at this point in the cycle. But this is not a normal year. This is an election year ripe for an anti-establishment candidate to create significant uncertainty — and
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez Este seguimiento en vivo finalizó. Lee todos los detalles sobre las labores tras el colapso del puente de Baltimore aquí. Vista del puente Francis Scott Key el 27 de marzo de 2024. Crédito: ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP vía Getty Images The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2024 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights
Continue ReadingOpinion by Uzo Aduba (CNN) — In my grandfather’s Nigeria, school was no place for girls. They were raised to take care of the home, perfecting skills — cooking, cleaning, sewing and other chores — that they were told by their parents would be essential once they married and were running households of their own.
Continue ReadingBy STEVE DOUGLAS and PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The coach of Oxford’s crew taking part in the Boat Race has described the pollution in London’s River Thames as a “national disgrace.” His team has also expressed concerns about maintaining the post-event tradition of throwing the winning cox into the water. Testing by
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) People will gather in Columbia Thursday afternoon to protest the death toll of Palestinians and Gazans in the Israel-Hamas war. The protest is set to take place outside Senators Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt’s Columbia offices. The protest is scheduled to begin at 12:15 p.m. at the St. Francis House on Rangeline.
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer U.S. federal agencies must show that their artificial intelligence tools aren’t harming the public, or stop using them, under new rules unveiled by the White House. Vice President Kamala Harris says government agencies that use AI tools will be required to verify that those tools do not endanger the
Continue Reading By Nell Lewis and John Lewis, CNN (CNN) — The largest apex predator in the tropical seas, tiger sharks are notoriously fierce. They can grow to more than six meters (20 feet), have sharp serrated teeth and are second only to great whites in number of reported attacks on people. But in The Bahamas, tiger
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is curtailing short-term health insurance plans, which it calls “junk insurance” that can leave patients contending with big medical bills. The rule, which was proposed last summer as part of a series of actions aimed at lowering health care costs, limits the duration of new sales
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press Some 40,000 people are expected to participate in Monday’s “EGG-ucation”-themed White House Easter Egg Roll, about 10,000 more than last year. Jill Biden, a teacher for more than 30 years, is transforming an annual tradition first held in 1878 into an “EGG-ucational” experience. Various stations on the South Lawn and
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El expresidente de Perú Alberto Fujimori, excarcelado el 6 de diciembre de 2023 por decisión del Tribunal Constitucional, publicó este miércoles un video en su Canal F de YouTube en el que asegura que no es un asesino y que de lo único que es “culpable es de haber vencido
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press President Joe Biden is announcing new steps to protect consumers who buy short-term health insurance plans that critics say amount to junk. A new rule finalized by the Democratic president’s administration will limit short-term health insurance to just three months. And the plans can only be renewed for a maximum
Continue Reading By Brian Fung and Sam Fossum, CNN Washington (CNN) — By the end of the year, travelers should be able to refuse facial recognition scans at airport security screenings without fear it could delay or jeopardize their travel plans. That’s just one of the concrete safeguards governing artificial intelligence that the Biden administration says it’s
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Trump Media’s trading debut this week gave Donald Trump’s biggest fans a way to show their support with their wallets, albeit in a seriously risky way that few financial advisers would endorse. Naturally, Trump’s detractors may be keen to take the opposite side of that bet
Continue ReadingBy JADE LE DELEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Lawmakers in France’s lower house of parliament have approved a bill that would ban discrimination over the texture, length, color or style of someone’s hair. The bill’s authors hope the groundbreaking bill sends a message of support to Black people and others who have faced hostility
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TODAY: Thursday is mostly sunny, with a light breeze from the south west. This combination brings temperatures from the 30s into the 60s this afternoon. TONIGHT: Winds from the south keep things stirred up a bit overnight, keeping us rather mild compared to nights past. Temperatures settle in the 40s overnight. EXTENDED: This south flow
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