By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The jury in Donald Trump’s hush money trial ended its first day of deliberations without a verdict Wednesday but asked to rehear testimony from key witnesses about the alleged hush money scheme at the heart of the
Continue ReadingBy MARÍA VERZA Associated Press PLAN DE AYALA, Mexico (AP) — At 4:30 a.m., the girls and women begin to appear in the dark streets of this rural village of Tojolabal people in southern Mexico. They walk in silence. Some are headed to grind corn to make their family’s tortillas. Others fetch firewood to carry
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — After the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor sought arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defense minister and top Hamas officials, the Israeli leader accused him of being one of “the great antisemites in modern times.” As protests roiled college campuses across the
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By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok (CNN) — Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been indicted on lese majeste charges, authorities said Wednesday, the latest twist in a decades-long political saga in the Southeast Asian kingdom. The case, filed by police, alleged Thaksin violated Thailand’s notoriously harsh royal insult law during an interview he
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Twenty-four hours and 26 minutes, without stopping to sleep: Nepal’s Phunjo Lama has just broken the world record for the fastest ascent of Mount Everest by a woman. Her journey from Everest Base Camp to the top took 14 hours and 31 minutes, then the descent from Everest was
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump, who built a mystique as the brash epitome of power, has never been more powerless to dictate his own fate. His reputation, future, and even perhaps the White House’s destiny, will on Wednesday be placed in the hands of 12 citizens of his native New York
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Ronald Brownstein, CNN (CNN) — For decades, Democrats have built their electoral strategies on a common assumption: the higher the turnout, the better their chances of winning. But that familiar equation may no longer apply for President Joe Biden in 2024. A wide array of polls this year shows Biden running best among
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thai prosecutors say former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be indicted for defaming the monarchy, three months after he was freed on parole on other charges. A spokesperson for the attorney general’s office says Thaksin will not yet be indicted because he had filed a request to
Continue Reading By Allegra Goodwin, Avery Schmitz and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Munitions made in the United States were used in the deadly Israeli strike on a displacement camp in Rafah on Sunday, a CNN analysis of video from the scene and a review by explosive weapons experts has found. At least 45 people were killed and more
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PHOENIX, Ariz. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou football star Darius Robinson is on board for four years in Arizona, after putting pen to paper on his rookie contract on Tuesday. Multiple reports said that Robinson is fully guaranteed $13.9 million in his deal, as well as a $6.9 million signing bonus. As is the standard with first-rounder
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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Jenna Ellis, who assisted Donald Trump after the 2020 election then pleaded guilty last year in the Georgia election subversion case, has had her law license suspended in Colorado. The suspension begins July 2, according to a signed order from a state judge in Colorado. Ellis has been an
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Verdicts have been handed down in Hong Kong’s largest national security case to date. The case involves some of the city’s best-known pro-democracy activists. In 2021, 47 activists were charged with conspiracy to commit subversion for their involvement in an unofficial primary election. Fourteen were convicted
Continue ReadingBy MIKE COOK Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Simeon Woods Richardson earned his first win in eight starts, Jose Miranda knocked in two runs and the Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals 4-2 . Minnesota, winners of six of their last seven games, got two hits apiece from Manuel Margot, Byron Buxton and Carlos
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CNN By Steve Contorno and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump listened to closing arguments on Tuesday surrounded by three of his adult children and some of their spouses – the largest family gathering in the Manhattan courthouse since the former president’s hush money trial began six weeks ago. However, the display of familial
Continue ReadingOpinion by Norman Eisen (CNN) — On Tuesday, we at last came to closing arguments in the Manhattan criminal trial of former President Donald Trump after 20 days of trial, testimony from 22 witnesses and over 200 exhibits. That is a vast amount of terrain to traverse, but ultimately the case boils down to three questions on which the lengthy closings of defense counsel
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Los fiscales dijeron a los miembros del jurado este martes que vieron una “montaña de pruebas” para demostrar que Donald Trump falsificó registros empresariales con el fin de encubrir una historia perjudicial sobre un supuesto amorío al final de las elecciones de 2016. Los abogados de Trump dijeron al jurado que
Continue ReadingMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court has declined to halt the upcoming execution of an Alabama man convicted of killing an elderly couple during a robbery. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied two separate requests for an execution stay for 50-year-old Jamie Ray Mills. Angie Setzer, a senior attorney with the
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CNN By Elizabeth Wolfe, Mary Gilbert and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — At least one person has been killed and more than 600,000 customers in Texas remained without power Tuesday night as powerful storms delivered another round of violent weather to a state still reeling from an almost unrelenting parade of destructive and deadly storms
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN Español) — El presidente de Argentina, Javier Milei, inició este martes durante su viaje a Estados Unidos una serie de encuentros que esta semana sostendrá con directivos de gigantes tecnológicas. La primera reunión fue con el CEO de OpenAI, Sam Altman, con quien Milei dijo en su cuenta de X —antes Twitter—
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has flown hundreds of balloons carrying trash and manure toward South Korea. South Korea’s military has mobilized chemical and explosive response teams to recover objects and debris in different parts of the country. North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un also urged his
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