Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Adria English, una exactriz de cine para adultos que dice haber trabajado para Sean “Diddy” Combs entre 2004 y 2009, acusó al asediado magnate de la música de tráfico sexual y agresión sexual, según una demanda presentada este miércoles. La denuncia, de 114 páginas, alega que Combs y otros acusados
Continue ReadingOpinion by Holly Thomas (CNN) — As any self-respecting movie buff (or man over 40) will tell you, Robert De Niro’s big break came in 1974’s “The Godfather Part II.” De Niro played a younger version of Vito Corleone, the mafia boss whose original portrayal by Marlon Brando is the stuff of legend. Forty-five years later, De
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Japanese climber has died while descending one of the highest mountains in northern Pakistan, the third death of a Japanese on the mountain in less than a month. Officials said Thursday that rescuers have located the body of Hiroshi Onishi, who fell into a crevasse earlier this week
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Se espera que el equipo legal del expresidente Donald Trump utilice la histórica decisión de la Corte Suprema del lunes que le concede inmunidad presidencial parcial para atacar las pruebas en su contra en sus cuatro casos penales, según múltiples fuentes familiarizadas con su estrategia. El equipo legal saludó la
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — En todo Estados Unidos el 4 de julio es un día de fiesta en que los colores rojo, azul y blanco adornan las ciudades, el cielo se ilumina con fuegos pirotécnicos y las parrillas se encienden en los jardines, mientras que en algunas ciudades los amantes de los perros calientes
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 surged Thursday to a record close of 40,913.65, while most other major world markets also advanced. Investors worldwide are keen to see the Federal Reserve cut rates that it has been keeping at two-decade highs to slow growth and tame inflation, and hopes have been
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By Jessie Yeung and Junko Ogura, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — In a landmark decision, Japan’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to pay damages to people who were forcibly sterilized under a now-defunct eugenics law, ruling the practice was unconstitutional and had violated their rights. The Eugenic Protection Law, in place from 1948 to 1996,
Continue ReadingTOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock index has closed at a fresh record high of 40,913.65, pushing past its most recent record close set in March on heavy buying of automaker and technology shares. The index gained 0.8%. The gains followed an overnight rally on Wall Street, where the S&P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq
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By Elizabeth Wagmeister and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN (CNN) — Adria English, a former adult film actor who says she worked for Sean “Diddy” Combs between 2004 and 2009, accused the embattled music mogul of sex trafficking and sexual assault, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. The 114-page complaint alleges Combs and other defendants in the lawsuit used
Continue ReadingRussian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are attending the summit of a security grouping created by Moscow and Beijing to counter Western alliances. Putin and Xi joined the leaders of other countries that are members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization at its annual meeting in Kazakhstan’s capital of Astana on Thursday. The
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — On his way to the Kyiv train station to greet his wife and daughter returning from Poland to Ukraine, Oleksander Tryfonov made a stop. He bought two red roses from one of a half-dozen flower shops lining a dimly lit underpass — something beautiful for the two most precious
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CHEBAA, Lebanon (AP) — With cease-fire talks faltering in Gaza and no clear offramp for the conflict on the Lebanon-Israel border, the daily exchanges of strikes between Hezbollah and Israeli forces have sparked fires that are tearing through forests and farmland on both sides of the frontline. The blazes — exacerbated by supply
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — A medida que Google se ha apresurado a incorporar la inteligencia artificial (IA) a sus productos principales —a veces con resultados menos que estelares—, se ha ido gestando un problema entre bastidores: los sistemas necesarios para alimentar sus herramientas de IA aumentaron enormemente las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — Cybersecurity experts and French officials say Russian disinformation campaigns against France are zeroing in on legislative elections and the Olympic Games which open in Paris at the end of the month. More than a dozen reports issued in the past year point to an intensifying effort from Russia to undermine
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Scientists in South Africa have been stunned to discover that termite mounds that are still inhabited in an arid region of the country are more than 30,000 years old, meaning they are the oldest known active termite hills. Some of the mounds near the Buffels River in
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La familia del presidente Joe Biden sigue apostando por su permanencia en la carrera para 2024, a pesar de las dudas sobre el futuro de su candidatura, según una fuente familiarizada con las ideas de la familia. “No hay ningún cambio”, dijo la fuente. “La primera dama está de acuerdo.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Months of scorching temperatures sometimes over 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in parts of India this year — its worst heat wave in over a decade — left hundreds dead or ill. But the official number of deaths listed in government reports barely scratches the surface of the true
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — After the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, Iranian lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian wrote that it was “unacceptable in the Islamic Republic to arrest a girl for her hijab and then hand over her dead body to her family.” Days later as nationwide protests and a bloody crackdown on
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — The West is sizzling under a major, prolonged heatwave through July 4 and beyond that’s bringing triple-digit temperatures and fueling wildfire risk as thousands have had to flee their homes from an advancing Northern California blaze. The Thompson Fire has consumed over 3,700 acres in California’s Butte County since
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As Iran’s runoff presidential election nears, comments by an official in the campaign of reformist Masoud Pezeshkian raised the possibility of his government increasing government-set gasoline prices — a move that has sparked nationwide protests in the past. While still tentative, economists long have warned Iran needs
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