Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Thirteen women from the Philippines have been convicted on human trafficking-related charges for acting as surrogates in Cambodia for a ring selling babies to foreigners for cash. They were each sentenced Monday to four years in prison after being found guilty of selling, buying or exchanging a person
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President Joe Biden surprised the nation Monday when he pardoned his son, Hunter, going back on a previous pledge. Biden said in a prepared statement that the pardon was meant to protect his son from being unfairly targeted. But the move drew criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike. Do you think Joe Biden should have
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WCIV, CNN By Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — The South Carolina driver who killed a bride and seriously injured the groom as they departed their wedding reception pleaded guilty in court on Monday and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Just as her trial was set to begin, Jamie Lee Komoroski pleaded guilty
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian media say authorities have released a government critic and popular hip-hop artist who came to fame over his lyrics about the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini. Toomaj Salehi spent a little over a year in jail and faced a death sentence which was overturned in June. Iranian newspapers
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CNN By Nick Paton Walsh and Kosta Gak, CNN Sumy, Ukraine (CNN) — The dawn assault inside Russia’s Kursk region never even got to a gunfight, yet betrayed the intensity of the battle in Kremlin territory. Five Russians edged forward in the grey Sunday dawn but, as thermal drone imagery shows, were killed or wounded
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KOTA BARU, Malaysia (AP) — Severe floods caused by monsoon rains have killed more than 30 people and displaced tens of thousands in Malaysia and southern Thailand, with both countries preparing shelters and evacuation plans in anticipation of more heavy rain. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim says five days of heavy rain that
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a photograph that defined the 2024 campaign. Donald Trump, campaigning for a second term, raises a fist defiantly toward the sky, blood streaked across his face. But the photo captures just one millisecond of a U.S. presidential campaign unlike any that came before it. Associated Press photographers captured voters with raw
Continue ReadingBy Amy Chillag, CNN (CNN) — On Giving Tuesday, you can help Mother Nature in a battle for survival. Pollinators, which provide one out of every three bites of our food, are struggling. Five butterfly species in the United States have gone extinct since 1950, and dozens more are on the verge of extinction according
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (AP) — Miles de esculturas de pandas gigantes darán la bienvenida a residentes y turistas a partir de este sábado en Hong Kong, donde el entusiasmo por estos osos creció desde que nacieron dos cachorros en un parque temático local. ¡Las 2.500 esculturas se presentaron en la ceremonia de inauguración de PANDA GO!
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Habrá una fuerte sensación de déjà vu cuando el presidente de Francia, Emmanuel Macron, elogie masivamente a Donald Trump en París este fin de semana. Pocos líderes extranjeros hicieron más por cortejar a Trump cuando era el 45º presidente. De hecho, Macron lo trató con tanta deferencia en un desfile del
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN Español) — El cantante de música urbana Daddy Yankee confirmó este lunes, a través de sus redes sociales, el divorcio de su esposa, Mireddys González. Ahora puedes seguirnos en WhatsApp Channel “Después de más de dos décadas de matrimonio y luego de muchos meses de intentar salvar mi matrimonio, el cual compartimos mi esposa
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By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — American model Alex Consani has become the first transgender woman to win Model of the Year, following a string of high-profile runway appearances for labels like Chanel, Stella McCartney and Victoria’s Secret. The in-demand 21-year-old, who is known for her distinctive bleached hair and eyebrows, claimed the title at
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — Notre Dame Cathedral, which is set to reopen to the public on Sunday after a five-year restoration following a devastating fire, stands as a jewel of Gothic architecture, a symbol of Paris and a tourist mecca. But behind the grandeur of the cathedral, which took 182 years to build between
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — Una subcomisión de la Cámara de Representantes dirigida por republicanos que investiga amplios aspectos de la pandemia de covid-19 y sus efectos en EE.UU. publicó este lunes un informe final en el que resume su trabajo de dos años, afirmando que espera que el trabajo “sirva de hoja de ruta para
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A court in Vietnam has upheld the death sentence for real estate tycoon Truong My Lan but said it could be commuted to life if she reimburses some $11 billion. That’s three-fourths of what she defrauded in the country’s biggest financial crime. The scale of her fraud shocked the
Continue Reading By Nick Paton Walsh and Kosta Gak, CNN Sumy, Ukraine (CNN) — The dawn assault inside Russia’s Kursk region never even got to a gunfight, yet betrayed the intensity of the battle in Kremlin territory. Five Russians edged forward in the grey Sunday dawn but, as thermal drone imagery shows, were killed or wounded by
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — The U.S. Commerce Department has expanded the list of Chinese technology companies subject to export controls to include many that make equipment used to make computer chips. The 140 companies newly included in the so-called “entity list” are nearly all based in China. But some are Chinese-owned businesses in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ADRE, Chad (AP) — For months, Aziza Abrahim fled from one village in Sudan to the next as people were slaughtered. Yet the killing of relatives and her husband’s disappearance aren’t what forced the 23-year-old to leave the country for good. It was hunger, she said. “We don’t have anything to eat because
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — In a town that has been through it all and is clawing its way back, a man named Omidullah is looking to hit paydirt. The Kabul real estate agent is selling a nine-bedroom, nine-bath, white-and-gold villa in the Afghan capital. On the roof’s gable, glittering Arabic script tempts buyers
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — As he concludes his time as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Jaime Harrison is downplaying his party’s November loss to President-elect Donald Trump and arguing Democrats avoided even greater losses that parties in power have faced around the world. But he acknowledged that Democrats must do a better job
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