Anabella González (CNN Español) — El Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión 2024 ya está en marcha en Malmö, Suecia, en medio de una fuerte polémica por la participación de Israel mientras se libra la guerra entre las fuerzas israelíes contra Hamas en Gaza, tras la incursión del grupo extremista a territorio de Israel el
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An unusually strong solar storm hitting Earth produced stunning displays of color in the skies across the Northern Hemisphere early Saturday, with no immediate reports of disruptions to power and communications. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a rare severe geomagnetic storm
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By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — Consumer sentiment plunged to the lowest level in six months as price increases reaccelerated, according to the latest University of Michigan survey of consumers, released Friday. Additionally, consumers are bracing for even higher price increases in the year ahead compared to readings from prior months, the survey
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By Jill Martin, CNN (CNN) — The WNBA is planning on adding an expansion franchise in Toronto, according to Canadian news outlet and CNN newsgathering partner CBC. CBC, citing four people with knowledge of the deal but who are not authorized to speak about it, reports the ownership group will be headed by Toronto billionaire Larry Tanenbaum
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A campaign video for South Africa’s opposition party showing the country’s flag in flames has stoked tensions and led to accusations of treason. The video was released three weeks ahead of what could be the most pivotal national election since the end of the
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB and SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers have passed a roughly $51 billion budget that boosts funding for education and infrastructure. The GOP-led House finished work on the budget just hours before a 6 p.m. Friday deadline. Senators passed the budget Thursday after a full day
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — Este viernes 10 de mayo se celebra en México el Día de la Madre. Pero, ¿cómo nació este día? Las primeras celebraciones se remontan a las civilizaciones antiguas. Por ejemplo, en la mitología egipcia, Isis, era adorada como “madre de todos los dioses”, mientras que en la antigua Grecia
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — While some may have been excited and/or amused by the diss-track feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, the man many consider to be an elder statesman of hip-hop appears less than enthused about it. Questlove, the drummer for the hip-hop group The Roots, recently posted a note on
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit brought by Democrats that challenged Wisconsin’s witness requirements for absentee voting, a ruling that keeps the law in place with the presidential election six months away. The rules for voting in Wisconsin are of heightened interest given its
Continue ReadingST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Authorities in Russia say that at least three people have been killed and six others injured when a bus veered off a bridge in the country’s second-largest city St. Petersburg. The Emergencies Ministry said that rescuers removed nine people from the water, and three of them died. It said four
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press A Virginia school board voted Friday to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school, four years after the names were removed amid nationwide protests calling for a reckoning over racial injustice. In a reversal experts believe was the first of its kind,
Continue ReadingBy ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press A new generation can learn how to paint happy trees and to make happy accidents with a TV series teaching the Bob Ross -method of painting using some of the prolific artist’s work that have never been seen before. Before Ross died in 1995 from cancer, he had completed seven
Continue Reading By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN New York (CNN) — The good news is your child got into college and is preparing to enroll this fall. The bad news is that you’ve just learned the aid package your child’s school is offering is much smaller than you’d hoped. That means your share of the total cost of
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, Michael Rios, Vasco Cotovio and Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — People in southern Brazil, already reeling from deadly floods, are bracing for more disruption after heavy rainstorms pummeled the area on Friday and meteorologists warned of more to come throughout the weekend. The death toll in the floods that have ravaged parts
Continue Reading By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Brian Wilson, musician and founding member of the hit ’60s rock band The Beach Boys, has been placed under a conservatorship following a Los Angeles court ruling on Thursday. Judge Gus T. May of the Los Angeles Superior Court found “clear and convincing evidence” that a conservatorship is necessary,
Continue ReadingBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Target confirmed Friday that it won’t carry Pride Month merchandise at all stores in June after the discount retailer experienced a backlash and lower sales over its collection honoring LGBTQ+ communities. Target, which operates roughly 2,000 stores, said decisions about where to stock Pride-themed products,
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A European naval force has detained six suspected pirates after they opened fire on an oil tanker traveling through the Gulf of Aden. The incident on Friday is likely part of a growing number of piracy attacks that are emanating from Somalia. Authorities say the suspected pirates
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Justin Bieber’s mother Pattie Mallette can finally celebrate his big news. Mallette on Thursday posted a video on her verified Instagram account of her reaction to her son and his wife, Hailey Bieber, going public with the news that they are expecting their first child. “So I have
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN) — Los miembros de la junta escolar del condado de Shenandoah en Virginia votaron temprano el viernes para restaurar los nombres de dos escuelas que anteriormente honraban a líderes confederados, cuatro años después de que esos nombres hubieran sido eliminados. La votación de 5-1 llegó después de horas de comentarios públicos durante
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By Alan Mauldin Click here for updates on this story SYLVESTER, Georgia (Albany Herald) — The reaction of Worth County residents to the Tuesday arrest of a church deacon was that things like that don’t happen in small towns like Sylvester. The Worth County Sheriff’s Office has charged business owner Jerry Dan Heflin with 66
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