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Month: May 2024

Historic Saratoga takes its place at center of horse racing world when Belmont Stakes comes to town

By SPENCER RIPCHIK Associated Press SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Health, history and horses are the three H’s carved into the welcome sign when travelers venturing into New York’s Adirondack Mountains reach Saratoga Springs. Horses have always been the main event here, where the oldest active sporting venue in the country, the Saratoga Race Course,

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South Africa’s election results may only be the start of a rocky political process. Here’s why

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press The real politicking in South Africa may start after the election results are announced as the country faces the possibility of no outright winner. Early results Thursday showed the ruling African National Congress at well below 50% of the national vote as counting continued, reinforcing pre-election analysis that it may

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump found guilty as he sits at the defendant's table inside the courthouse at his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30

Trump found guilty in hush money trial

By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — A Manhattan jury found Donald Trump guilty of all 34 charges of falsifying business records Thursday, an unprecedented and historic verdict that makes Trump the first former president in American history to be convicted of a felony. Not only is Trump the first former president to be found guilty of

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Condenan a Donald Trump por todos los cargos de falsificación de registros comerciales en un caso de pago por silencio en Nueva York

Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Un jurado de Manhattan declaró el jueves a Donald Trump culpable de 34 cargos de falsificación de registros comerciales, un veredicto histórico y sin precedentes que convierte a Trump en el primer expresidente en la historia de Estados Unidos en ser condenado por un delito grave. Además, también es el

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Hungarian politicians appeal to voters in first public TV debate in nearly 20 years

By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Nearly a dozen politicians have taken to the debate stage in Hungary’s capital to make their pitch to Hungarian voters ahead of European Parliament elections. Before the debate in Budapest on Thursday, protesters outside the venue demonstrated against the public broadcaster that is hosting the event,

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Doomsday plot: Idaho jury convicts Chad Daybell of killing wife and girlfriend’s 2 children

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho man was convicted Thursday of killing his wife and his new girlfriend’s two youngest kids in a strange triple murder case that included claims of apocalyptic prophesies, zombie children and illicit affairs. Jurors deliberated just six hours before finding Chad Daybell guilty, capping a

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