SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Cayman Islands plans to hold a referendum on whether to make the possession of small amounts of marijuana a minor crime. Tourism Minister Kenneth Bryan says there is widespread support among legislators to hold a public vote. Bryan says if voters approve the measure, possession would be treated
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Federal authorities say a rare whale found dead off Massachusetts earlier this year died as a result of entanglement in Maine lobster fishing gear. The North Atlantic right whale was found dead off Martha’s Vineyard in January. The whales are declining in population and are at the center of
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — And Common is telling you he’s not going nowhere, Jennifer Hudson. The singer and daytime talk-show host had her rapper/actor boyfriend on “The Jennifer Hudson Show” this week, where their conversation turned to Common’s recent remarks about marriage. Hudson brought up Common’s appearance on “The Breakfast Club” this
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MILAN (AP) — An Italian family hopes to prove definitively that a painting discarded from a villa on Capri more than 60 years ago is a Picasso. They have been gathering scientific data to persuade Picasso’s estate administration in Paris to make the definitive call. The rolled-up canvas of a female figure was
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. ports from Maine to Texas shut down this week when the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for the first time since 1977. Workers began walking picket lines early Tuesday near ports all along the East and Gulf coasts. A shutdown lasting more than a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. authorities and Microsoft say hackers linked to Russian intelligence targeted dozens of former military and intelligence officials, journalists and civil society groups with a sophisticated campaign designed to steal information. The group is known as Star Blizzard, and officials say it sent emails to victims that appeared to come
Continue ReadingEVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana man convicted of child neglect for a rat attack that left his 6-month-old son with disfiguring injuries has been sentenced to the maximum 16 years in prison. A judge sentenced 32-year-old David Schonabaum on Wednesday after a jury convicted the Evansville man in September on charges of neglecting a
Continue ReadingBy Francis Page, Jr. Click here for updates on this story October 3, 2024 (Houston Style Magazine) — The relentless quest for truth has found a worthy champion in Special Counsel Jack Smith, the man tasked with unraveling Donald Trump’s sprawling effort to overturn the 2020 election. The latest revelations, detailed in a wide-ranging legal
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Work began Thursday on two dozen new affordable housing units in central Columbia to help shorten the list of families waiting for a place to live.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Rescuers are searching for dozens of migrants from Africa still missing after smugglers apparently forced them out of two boats in the Red Sea off the coast of Djibouti earlier this week. At least 48 people were earlier reported to have drowned. The boats had departed from Yemen —
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A TikTok personality known as Mr. Prada is charged in the bludgeoning death of a Louisiana therapist whose body was discovered over the weekend in a rolled up tarp near a state highway, authorities said Thursday. The body of Nicholas Abraham, 69, of Baton Rouge, was found Sunday in
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — A salvo en su casa de Illinois el viernes por la tarde, Matthew Cloyd sabía que el huracán que había azotado la zona del Big Bend de Florida durante la noche iba a continuar su brutal embestida por el Sureste. Sin embargo, nunca pensó que eso incluyera la casa de sus
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A look at some major recalls in the last week.
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Justice Department and Microsoft on Thursday announced the seizure of more than 100 web domains that a Russian intelligence agency allegedly used to try to hack current and former US officials, civil-society groups and Russians living in the US. The sweeping hacking campaign sought to gather intelligence
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian opposition leader in exile Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on Thursday said 224 political prisoners in Belarus must be urgently released. More than 65,000 people have been detained since Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko in 2020 unleashed a brutal crackdown on dissent. It followed mass protests that broke out after an
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Lionel Messi’s first MLS Cup playoff match with Inter Miami will be on Oct. 25. And it’ll be aired live on a massive screen spanning an entire block of New York’s Times Square. Major League Soccer announced Thursday that Inter Miami’s opener will be the lone playoff
Continue ReadingAP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is pumping more artificial intelligence into its search engine. New features will enable people to voice questions about images and rely on the still-faulty technology to organize the presentation of an entire results page. The latest changes announced Thursday herald the next step in an AI-driven makeover
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By Jack Guy and Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — The Vatican Bank has fired two employees whose recent wedding violates a newly-introduced ban on marriages between staff. In a statement published Wednesday, the Institute for the Works of Religion, as it is officially called, said it had made the “difficult decision” to fire the pair
Continue ReadingMADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of eight guards charged in the deaths of two inmates at a troubled maximum security prison in Wisconsin has pleaded no contest to a reduced charge. The Wisconsin State Journal reports former Waupun Correctional Institution guard Sarah Ransbottom pleaded no contest last week to a charge of violating a law
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) – – El vestido que usó la presidenta de México Claudia Sheinbaum el día de su asunción llamó la atención por los llamativos bordados que presentaba. El tejido es la creación de Claudia Vásquez Aquino, una artesana de Oaxaca, y trabaja en “Lari Guie’ Arte hecho moda”. “Fue un honor bordar
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