Skip to Content

Month: May 2025

Criminal investigation opened in rape and sexual assault allegations against Smokey Robinson

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Thursday that it has opened a criminal investigation into rape and sexual assault allegations against Motown music luminary Smokey Robinson. The department said in a statement that its Special Victims Bureau is “actively investigating criminal allegations” against Robinson.

Continue Reading

Trump administration officials say Secret Service is investigating Comey’s ’86 47′ social media post

WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday that federal law enforcement is investigating a social media post made by former FBI Director James Comey that she and other Republicans suggest is a call for violence against President Donald Trump. In an Instagram post, Comey wrote “cool shell formation on my beach walk”

Continue Reading

Latin America’s leftist leaders remember Uruguay’s ‘Pepe’ Mujica as generous, charismatic leader

By NAYARA BATSCHKE Associated Press MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — In the soaring palace of Uruguay’s parliament, leftist presidents from the region came to remember former President José Mujica on Thursday as a generous and charismatic leader whose legacy of humility remained an example for the world’s politicians. “A person like Pepe Mujica doesn’t die,” Brazil’s

Continue Reading

California man who used underwater scooter in lake to try to evade arrest pleads guilty to fraud

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California man who tried to evade arrest by jumping into a lake with an underwater scooter pleaded guilty Thursday to fraud, money laundering and witness tampering in connection with a $35 million investment fraud scheme, federal prosecutors announced. Prosecutors say that between 2015 and 2020, Matthew Piercey, 48, of Shasta

Continue Reading

Más de 100 muertos en Gaza por las acciones de Israel mientras Trump sugiere una “zona de libertad”

Por Tim Lister, Ibrahim Dahman, Kareem Khadder, Eugenia Yosef y Mohammad Al-Sawalhi, CNN Las fuerzas israelíes intensificaron sus operaciones en Gaza el jueves, matando a más de 100 personas, y se comprometieron a continuar los bombardeos mientras el presidente de EE.UU. Donald Trump sugería establecer una “zona de libertad” en el enclave. Muchas de las

Continue Reading

FEMA’s acting chief says agency will shift more disaster recovery responsibilities to the states

By GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Associated Press The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s acting chief plans to shift responsibility for disaster recovery to states during the upcoming hurricane season, he said during a staff town hall on Thursday. David Richardson said his intention was to “return primacy to the states” as part of an agencywide transformation. In

Continue Reading
A nurse reaches for a vial of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a pop up vaccine clinic in the Arleta neighborhood of Los Angeles

House GOP requests records from Pfizer CEO and former executive in probe of Covid vaccine delay allegation

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee is requesting records from Pfizer’s CEO and an interview with a former company executive to investigate an allegation that clinical testing related to the development of the company’s Covid-19 vaccine was purposefully delayed until after the 2020 presidential election. Pfizer’s CEO has previously said

Continue Reading
Heavy police presence and first responders near the scene where several were injured after being struck by a vehicle near Espanyol's RCDE Stadium in what the Catalan police are saying was an "accidental collision."

At least 13 people injured as car drives into crowd outside FC Barcelona-Espanyol match. Police say it’s ‘accidental’

By Max Saltman, Pau Mosquera and Jorge Venegas, CNN (CNN) — At least 13 people were injured when a car drove into a crowd outside a stadium in Spain hosting a soccer match between major crosstown rivals FC Barcelona and Espanyol, according to local authorities. Catalan Police described the incident as an “accidental collision” to

Continue Reading

Un día de confusión y caos mientras Rusia y Ucrania acuerdan las primeras conversaciones directas en 3 años

Por Clare Sebastian, CNN Tras cinco días de confusión sobre la propuesta del presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, de entablar conversaciones directas con Ucrania, el día en que debían comenzar solo trajo consigo más de lo mismo: una vigilancia de siete horas a orillas del Bósforo, una polémica en el consulado ruso y, finalmente, una

Continue Reading

El sector tecnológico advierte: “Es difícil competir con China en una economía abierta”

CNN Radio Argentina (CNN Radio Argentina) – Ana Vainman, directora ejecutiva de AFARTE, dialogó este jueves con CNN Economía y Actualidad, el programa de Julieta Tarrés, sobre la medida anunciada por el Gobierno para eliminar los aranceles de importación de teléfonos celulares y reducir los impuestos internos tanto para equipos importados como para los producidos

Continue Reading

Así fue cómo agentes de inmigración trataron de construir el caso de que la Universidad de Columbia “albergaba a extranjeros”

Por Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Equipos de agentes federales revisaron bases de datos, obtuvieron fotografías, tocaron puertas y escucharon lo que les pareció que era una mujer hablando con acento indio. Además, estuvieron vigilando durante días y solicitaron grabaciones de video y datos de tarjetas de acceso mientras intentaban construir un caso para mostrar que la

Continue Reading

National League Leaders

NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING_F.Freeman, Los Angeles, .362; Machado, San Diego, .340; W.Smith, Los Angeles, .324; Abrams, Washington, .317; T.Hernández, Los Angeles, .315; Donovan, St. Louis, .313; Alonso, New York, .311; Tatis, San Diego, .308; Ohtani, Los Angeles, .307; Stowers, Miami, .300. RUNS_Ohtani, Los Angeles, 46; Carroll, Arizona, 36; Tatis, San Diego, 36; Betts, Los Angeles, 33;

Continue Reading

Charles Strouse, Broadway composer of ‘Annie’ and ‘Bye Bye Birdie,’ dies at 96

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Three-time Tony Award-winner Charles Strouse, Broadway’s industrious, master melody-maker who composed the music for such classic musical theater hits as “Annie,” “Bye Bye Birdie” and “Applause,” died Thursday. He was 96. Strouse died at his home in New York City, his family said through the

Continue Reading

Walz contrasts Minnesota’s bipartisan budget breakthrough with Washington’s deep divisions

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz and leaders of the Minnesota Legislature announced a hard-fought budget deal Thursday, contrasting the bipartisan cooperation that produced the agreement with the deep divisions that have tied Washington in knots. The Democratic governor and former vice presidential candidate noted that he was

Continue Reading