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Month: May 2025

Mourners from all corners of Uruguay bid farewell to iconic former President José Mujica

By NAYARA BATSCHKE Associated Press MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Crowds poured into the streets of Uruguay’s capital on Wednesday to bid a poignant farewell to former President José Mujica, a former guerrilla who became a pioneering leader and icon of the Latin American left, remembered most for his humility, simple lifestyle and ideological earnestness. Thousands

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A mom is accused of buying ammunition and tactical gear for her son, despite repeated warnings about violent plans at school

By Andy Rose, Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Warning signs that a San Antonio middle school student had deadly intentions had been building for months, police say. They took on a new urgency Sunday when his grandmother walked into his bedroom. There, she found rifle and pistol magazines “loaded with live ammunition” and a homemade

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Sean "Diddy" Combs listens as his former girlfriend Casandra "Cassie" Ventura testifies at his sex trafficking trial in New York City on May 14 in this courtroom sketch.

Cassie Ventura faces intense cross-examination today in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial. Here are the takeaways from day 2 of her testimony

By Lauren del Valle, Nicki Brown, Eric Levenson, Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — After being in the hot seat for about nine hours over two days, Cassie Ventura is done with direct questioning from prosecutors. Next comes the cross-examination from Sean “Diddy” Combs’ defense team. Building on her testimony a day earlier, on Wednesday the

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Here is how California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to address a $12 billion budget shortfall

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California would scale back state Medicaid coverage for immigrants without legal status, eliminate coverage for certain weight loss drugs and use money from a key climate program to help fund state fire response under a $322-billion budget proposal announced Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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South African leader and Trump will meet next week after US took in white South Africans as refugees

By GERALD IMRAY and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa are scheduled to meet at the White House next week following allegations by Trump — and denied by South Africa — that “genocide” is being committed against white farmers in the majority

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Missouri lawmakers approve referendum to repeal abortion-rights amendment

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Six months after Missouri voters approved an abortion-rights amendment, Republican state lawmakers on Wednesday approved a new referendum that would seek the amendment’s repeal and instead ban most abortions with exceptions for rape an incest. The newly proposed constitutional amendment would go back to voters in November 2026, or sooner,

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“Nos duele el alma”: familiares de venezolanos en Cecot reaccionan al primer video difundido de los detenidos en El Salvador

Por Ana Melgar, CNN en Español Sentada en un sillón en su casa en Maracay, estado Aragua, Mirelis Cacique López ve en su celular a su hijo, Francisco Javier García Cacique, en el primer video difundido del grupo de venezolanos enviados por Estados Unidos y detenidos en la prisión de máxima seguridad de El Salvador

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Ethics complaint resurfaces as Kentucky Republican Daniel Cameron runs for a U.S. Senate seat

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — An ethics complaint stemming from Republican Daniel Cameron’s failed run for Kentucky governor has resurfaced as the former state attorney general campaigns to succeed U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell in next year’s hotly contested election. The state’s Executive Branch Ethics Commission on Wednesday took another step in

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El Gobierno de EE.UU. acusa por primera vez de narcoterrorismo a supuestos líderes del cártel de Sinaloa en México

CNN en Español El Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos anunció este martes que presentó cargos a dos presuntos miembros del cártel de Sinaloa, Pedro Inzunza Noriega y su hijo, Pedro Inzunza Coronel, por narcoterrorismo y apoyo material al terrorismo en conexión con el tráfico a EE.UU. de grandes cantidades de fentanilo, cocaína metanfetamina y

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