By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Celine Dion made a surprise video appearance at Eurovision on Tuesday, 37 years after winning the song contest for this year’s host nation, Switzerland. The Canadian-born star delivered a heartfelt message to contestants, organizers and viewers at the semi-final event. The singer won the contest for Switzerland in 1988
Continue ReadingPor Tami Luhby, CNN Impulsada por el Departamento de Eficiencia Gubernamental de Elon Musk, la administración de la Seguridad Social está revisando sus bases de datos para verificar si los beneficiarios están vivos o muertos. Ya ha añadido fechas de fallecimiento a los registros de millones de personas, centrándose en aquellos con una edad inverosímil.
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By JAIMIE DING and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge’s ruling made Lyle and Erik Menendez eligible for parole, but they still face multiple hurdles in their fight to be released from prison nearly three decades after they were convicted of murdering their parents in 1989. Los Angeles County Superior Court
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By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A New Zealand parliamentary committee has recommended the unprecedented suspensions of three Māori lawmakers for performing a protest haka in the debating chamber last year. The haka is a chanting dance of challenge of great cultural importance in New Zealand, and the three lawmakers from
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By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Angel City defender Savy King has undergone successful heart surgery, the club confirmed Tuesday, after she collapsed during a National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) match on Friday. The 20-year-old fell to the ground in the 74th minute of Angel City’s game against the Utah Royals and was attended to
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By WAFAA SHURAFA and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes pounded northern and southern Gaza on Wednesday, killing at least 70 people, including almost two dozen children, according to hospitals and health officials, a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there was “no way” he would halt
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By Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — The latest installment of the Donald Trump Cinematic Universe has an audacious plot line: The protagonist wants to put a 100% tariff on all movies made abroad to restore a troubled American film industry to its former glory. But the critics aren’t impressed. “The idea is dumb,” Howard
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By Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — Burberry is aiming to slash 18% of its global workforce by 2027 as it looks for ways to cut costs and revive its ailing business. The British luxury fashion house said Wednesday that around 1,700 jobs were at risk as it reported a loss of £3 million ($4
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By ZEKE MILLER, JON GAMBRELL and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump met with interim Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, the first encounter between the two nations’ leaders in 25 years and one that could serve as a turning point for Syria as it
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CNN, KCAL, KCBS, BILL ROBLES, CA CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION, CNN, CNN, KCAL/KCBS, Bill Robles, CA Corrections and Rehabilitation By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — Nearly three decades after Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced to life in prison for the murders of their parents, a California judge has reopened a door many believed would remain
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By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press A court in Moscow on Wednesday convicted one of the leaders of a prominent independent election monitoring group on charges of organizing the work of an “undesirable” organization and sentenced him to five years in prison. Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of Russia’s leading election watchdog Golos, has rejected the charges as
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By The Associated Press President Donald Trump met with interim Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia, the first encounter between the two nations’ leaders in 25 years and one that could mark a turning point for the region as Syria struggles to emerge from decades of international isolation. The meeting marks a major turn
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By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV vowed to take “every effort” Wednesday to work for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine and to actively promote the spirituality and traditions of the eastern rite churches, those Catholic communities with origins in the Mideast and eastern Europe that have been
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Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Nottingham Forest striker Taiwo Awoniyi has reportedly been placed into an induced coma following “urgent” surgery for a serious abdominal injury suffered during a Premier League match over the weekend. Awoniyi collided with the post during Forest’s 2-2 draw with Leicester City on Sunday but, despite being clearly hampered
Continue Reading Associated Press Kansas Daybook for Wednesday, May. 14. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Kansas City bureau is reachable at 816-421-4844. Send daybook items to Kansas@applanner.com. To
Continue Reading Associated Press Iowa Daybook for Wednesday, May. 14. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Des Moines bureau is reachable at 515-243-3281. Send daybook items to iowa@applanner.com. To
Continue Reading Associated Press Nebraska Daybook for Wednesday, May. 14. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Omaha bureau is reachable at 402-391-0031. Send daybook items to Nebraska@applanner.com. To see
Continue Reading Associated Press Missouri Daybook for Wednesday, May. 14. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Missouri bureau is reachable at 816-421-4844. Send daybook items to Missouri@applanner.com. To see
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — The lowest inflation rate in four-years was made possible by a trend that will surely bring smiles to the faces of Americans: Falling prices. Egg prices plunged between March and April by the most since 1984, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Used cars and trucks
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Spurred by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, the Social Security Administration is combing through its databases to check whether beneficiaries are alive or dead. It has already added dates of death to millions of people’s records, focusing on those who are implausibly old. The problem: Some people who
Continue ReadingBy Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — Born in the Italian town of Brescia, Roberto Beltrami grew up just a few hours’ drive from Venice and the island of Murano, world-famous for producing beautiful glassware. But it was nearly 4,000 miles away in Boston, Massachusetts, that he first came across the art of glassblowing. “I was
Continue Reading By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The nationalist party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán introduced a bill late Tuesday that would allow the government to monitor, restrict, penalize and potentially ban organizations it deems a threat to national sovereignty, marking a significant escalation of the government’s long-running crackdown on critical media
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By GABE LEVIN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Scores of laborers from countries including India, Bangladesh and Nepal have faced preventable deaths from electrocution, road accidents, falling from heights, and more while working in Saudi Arabia, according to a report Wednesday by the advocacy group Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch and
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By Alexandra Skores, Aaron Cooper, Pete Muntean, CNN Washington (CNN) — A meeting to discuss reducing the number of flights at Newark Liberty International Airport is set to continue Friday. The “delay reduction meeting,” called by the Federal Aviation Administration, started Wednesday and will stretch into the end of the week, the agency announced. It
Continue ReadingPor Rosa Rahimi, CNN Las largas horas de trabajo no solo pueden ser malas para ti, sino que también podrían alterar la estructura de tu cerebro, según sugiere un nuevo estudio. La investigación, publicada este martes, encontró “cambios significativos” en los cerebros de personas que trabajaban en exceso, lo que es una combinación de sobreesfuerzo
Continue ReadingBy Juliana Liu, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump didn’t show up empty-handed on the first international trip of his second term. Joining him in Saudi Arabia were almost three dozen CEOs of America’s biggest companies, including Big Tech giants that signed $600 billion worth of deals. They brought some of the most coveted
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By The Associated Press President Donald Trump met with interim Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia, the first encounter between the two nations’ leaders in 25 years and one that could mark a turning point for the region as Syria struggles to emerge from decades of international isolation. The meeting marks a major turn
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By ZEKE MILLER, JON GAMBRELL and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — President Donald Trump urged Qatar on Wednesday to use its influence over Iran to persuade the country’s leadership to reach an agreement with the U.S. to dial back its rapidly advancing nuclear program. Trump, who is visiting the Gulf nation as
Continue ReadingBy Esha Mitra, Immad ud Din, Mukhtar Ahmad, Aishwarya S. Iyer, Sophia Saifi, Ross Adkin and Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Mohammad Iqbal was working the nightshift at a power plant when he got a frantic call from his family saying artillery shells were exploding around their home. “I told them all to hunker down
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