Julia Hernández (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden concedió este lunes una entrevista a la cadena NBC, la primera desde el intento de magnicidio de su rival político, el expresidente Donald Trump. En una entrevista con Lester Holt, Biden reiteró que estaba agradecido de que Trump sobreviviera al tiroteo, pero también señaló el papel de su
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By Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — The CIA has assessed that the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, is coming under increased pressure from his own military commanders to accept a ceasefire deal and end the war with Israel, CIA Director Bill Burns told a closed-door conference on Saturday, according to a source who attended. Sinwar, the key
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s innovation minister says the government is testing its own ChatGPT-style tool for its employees, with plans to eventually make it available to the public, after OpenAI decided to take extra steps to block access from unsupported regions like China. The program was developed by a generative AI
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — J.D. Vance es la encarnación de la transformación populista, nacionalista y obrera del viejo Partido Republicano del establishment. Por eso el expresidente Donald Trump –que nunca olvida los entusiasmos de su base– eligió al senador de Ohio como compañero de fórmula para la vicepresidencia y lo nombró de hecho heredero político.
Continue Reading By Alayna Treene, Steve Contorno and Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — A day before Donald Trump’s deadline to pick a running mate, after months of private conversations with every corner of his orbit, the former president took a call from a new voice. That person, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk, was one of several people urging
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Authorities in Nepal say there were 65 people on board the two buses that were pushed into a swollen river in Nepal last week. Rescuers have been able to recover 14 bodies. Eight have been identified and are being handed over to relatives. The bodies were washed away as
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — Mientras persiste una crisis de salud mental juvenil en EE.UU., un nuevo informe pone de manifiesto una importante brecha entre el nivel de apoyo que sienten los adolescentes y el que los padres creen que tienen sus hijos. Según un informe publicado este martes por el Centro Nacional de Estadísticas Sanitarias,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez was convicted of all charges Tuesday in a sweeping corruption trial in which he was accused of accepting bribes of gold and cash from three New Jersey businessmen and acting as an agent for the Egyptian government. A jury in Manhattan deliberated for parts of
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump has gone from an insurrection to a resurrection. The searing picture of a nation in dystopian decline that defines the ex-president’s politics was largely missing on the first night of the Republican National Convention. In its place was a sense of the divine — a pulsating
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for a Texas man shortly before he was to receive a lethal injection in a killing decades ago. The nation’s high court issued the stay about 20 minutes before Ruben Gutierrez was to have been taken into the Huntsville, Texas,
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Más de 320 palestinos muertos o heridos llegaron a los hospitales de Gaza en un plazo de 48 horas con sus “cuerpos gravemente quemados”, informó el lunes en un comunicado la Oficina de Medios de Comunicación del Gobierno de Gaza (OMG). Los muertos y heridos llegaron al hospital con “quemaduras de
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Media reports in Bangladesh say at least five people have been killed and dozens injured in violence around the country connected with student protests against a government jobs quota. Protesters have clashed with pro-government student activists and with police. Violence has been reported around the capital of Dhaka, the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Hundreds of people in a southern Illinois town were ordered to evacuate Tuesday as water rolled over the top of a dam, just one perilous result of severe weather that raged through the Midwest overnight with relentless rain and tornadoes and hit the Chicago area especially hard. Hundreds of thousands
Continue ReadingJERUSALEM (AP) — Under American pressure, Israel has pledged to deliver large quantities of humanitarian aid into the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. But at the same time, the U.S. and Israel have allowed tax-deductible donations to far-right groups that have blocked that aid from being delivered. The Associated Press and the Israeli investigative site Shomrim have
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jarring, chaotic and sudden, the bullet whizzed toward the stage where former President Donald Trump stood behind a podium speaking. In its wake: the potential for a horrifying and tragic chapter in American history. But the Republican presidential candidate had a narrow escape — mere inches, possibly less —
Continue ReadingAP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon Prime Day is here, and experts are reminding consumers to be wary of scams. Deceptions such as phony emails from people impersonating online retailers like Amazon are nothing new. But phishing attempts increase amid the heavy spending seen during significant sales events, whether it’s Black Friday or
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Republican National Convention heads into its second day Tuesday in Milwaukee — now with Donald Trump officially as its presidential nominee. Trump energized the crowd Monday night by entering the arena with a bandage on his right ear after being injured during an assassination attempt Saturday. Expect more speakers
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Newark City Council President LaMonica McIver has won the special House Democratic primary to succeed the late Donald Payne Jr. in Congress. McIver emerged victorious Tuesday amid a crowded field to succeed Payne. She has served on the city council of the state’s largest city since 2018 and has
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Donald Trump was celebrated Tuesday at the Republican National Convention by former rivals who just months ago leveled harsh critiques about him, a show of unity that contrasts with the divisions increasingly ripping through the Democratic Party. Nikki Haley, the former U.N. ambassador who was Trump’s final challenger in the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — When Trea Ellinger left a Baltimore drug rehab facility last summer, he assured his anxious mother that everything was fine. He had his medications and was planning to meet up with his girlfriend. By the following afternoon, he was dead — not from the violence his mom feared he might
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