Por CNN en Español El expresidente de Uruguay José “Pepe” Mujica, uno de los referentes de la izquierda en América Latina conocido por sus reformas sociales progresistas, murió el 13 de mayo de 2024 a los 89 años. El exguerrillero es recordado por su modesto estilo de vida durante su gobierno que transcurrió de 2010
Continue Reading
By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Flooding in rural western Maryland forced the evacuation of an elementary school Tuesday afternoon as water began to breach the second floor, according to local officials. Homes and businesses in downtown Westernport were also inundated with floodwaters after hours of heavy rain. Officials reassured the public that
Continue Reading
By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington (CNN) — A business jet that flew over Washington with no response from the pilot – prompting a chase by F-16s which caused a sonic boom – likely lost pressure, causing everyone onboard to pass out, according to the final report from the National Transportation Safety Board. The pilot and
Continue Reading
By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri House on Tuesday endorsed a new framework of financial incentives to try to keep the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals from possibly leaving the state by helping fund new or renovated stadiums for them. The legislation, which has the backing of Republican
Continue Reading By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri House on Tuesday endorsed a new framework of financial incentives to try to keep the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals from possibly leaving the state by helping fund new or renovated stadiums for them. The legislation, which has the backing of Republican
Continue Reading
CNN By Oren Liebermann, Jeremy Diamond, Dana Karni, Abeer Salman and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN (CNN) — Israel has targeted Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar in a strike on a hospital in southern Gaza on Tuesday evening, according to a senior Israeli official and two sources familiar with the matter. He became the militant group’s de facto
Continue Reading
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ed Martin Jr., who will be the Justice Department’s new pardon attorney after President Donald Trump pulled his nomination to be the top federal prosecutor for Washington, said Tuesday that he plans to scrutinize pardons that former President Joe Biden issued on his way out of the
Continue Reading
By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is cutting another $450 million in grants to Harvard University a day after the Ivy League school pushed back against government allegations that it’s a hotbed of liberalism and antisemitism. In a letter to Harvard on Tuesday, a federal antisemitism task force
Continue Reading
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia didn’t even wait for U.S. President Donald Trump to land there before it set out to impress him in a sky-high way. As Trump flew in to Riyadh on Tuesday, he got a ceremonial escort from six Royal Saudi Air Force F-15s as his plane approached the kingdom’s
Continue Reading
By MARTIN MEISSNER and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Competition in the 69th Eurovision Song Contest kicked off Tuesday, with sauna-loving Swedish entry KAJ gaining a place in the final and five countries going home after the first of two semifinals of the pan-continental music extravaganza. Performers from 15 countries battled it
Continue Reading
By Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled his new cabinet at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Tuesday, saying that his ministry will have a “primary focus” on the country’s economy after a whirlwind election catalyzed by tariffs and annexation threats from the United States. “Canadians elected this new government with
Continue Reading
By Haley Britzky, Alex Marquardt, Zachary Cohen and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — Converting a luxury jet gifted by Qatar to President Donald Trump into a replacement for Air Force One could potentially cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and it could take up two years to install the necessary security equipment, communications and
Continue Reading By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge on Tuesday struck down Michigan’s 24-hour waiting period before an abortion, saying it conflicts with a voter-approved amendment that locked abortion rights in the state constitution in 2022. “Michiganders have the fundamental right to reproductive freedom, including the right to abortion care, and the state
Continue ReadingBy Charlie De Mar, Adam Harrington, Joshua Hernandez Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Eleven students were taken to the hospital from an elementary school on Chicago’s South Side Tuesday afternoon. The students got sick just after 2 p.m. at Fort Dearborn Elementary School, at 9025 S. Throop St. in the
Continue ReadingAnálisis de Darío Klein, CNN en Español La Presidencia de José “Pepe” Mujica (2010-2015) se caracterizó por permanentes sorpresas, salidas de protocolo, declaraciones rimbombantes y transformaciones históricas, pero también fracasos, controversias y cuestionamientos de la oposición. Su Presidencia revolucionó el ambiente político local e internacional con leyes que ampliaron los derechos individuales: la ley de
Continue Reading
By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A lack of oxygen that incapacitated the pilot and three passengers is likely what caused a private jet to become unresponsive before flying over the nation’s capital and prompting the military to scramble fighter jets in 2023, according to a final report from the National Transportation
Continue Reading
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — The St. Joseph School District Board of Education will hold a Special Board of Education meeting to review and possibly select a candidate to fill Rick Gehring’s spot on the Board. The Special Meeting agenda came in right after filings closed at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, May 13, where
Continue ReadingPor Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell, Nicki Brown y Antoinette Radford, CNN Cassie Ventura, la exnovia de Sean “Diddy” Combs, subió al estrado este martes en el caso de trata de personas del Gobierno contra el magnate de la música. Entró en la sala del tribunal con los ojos mirando hacia adelante, pasando junto a
Continue Reading
By MATILDE CAMPODÓNICO and ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, plain-spoken philosophy and simple lifestyle fascinated people around the world, has died. He was 89. Uruguay’s left-wing president, Yamandú Orsi, announced his death, which came four
Continue Reading
By FARNOUSH AMIRI and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations’ top humanitarian official blasted Israel on Tuesday for “deliberately and unashamedly” imposing inhumane conditions on Palestinians, including the risk of famine — one of the strongest condemnations by a high-ranking U.N. official during the war in Gaza. Tom Fletcher,
Continue Reading
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former fashion model testifying in Harvey Weinstein ’s retrial on sexual assault charges was confronted on the stand Tuesday with a private journal in which she wrote about people who sexually abused her, but notably left out the disgraced former Hollywood mogul. Michael Cibella, a
Continue Reading By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press Dan Seavey, who helped organize the first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and whose son and grandson have each won the famous Alaska race multiple times, has died. He was 87. The Minnesota native, who had been adamant in wanting to remain at the south-central Alaska home in Seward he
Continue Reading
By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans in Congress are moving with rapid speed to advance President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security funding as leaders work to enact many of his campaign promises. House committees have been laboring for months to draft
Continue ReadingBy John Towfighi, CNN (CNN) — The S&P 500 benchmark stock index hit another milestone in its remarkable march higher from the brink of a bear market in recent weeks: It has now erased all its losses for this year. US stocks were mixed Tuesday as investors digested cooling inflation data and easing trade tensions
Continue Reading
Tracking mid-week heat and sunshine.
Continue ReadingBy Taylar Ansures Click here for updates on this story SPOKANE, Wash. (KXLY) — A man who supplied tens of thousands of fentanyl-laced pills to Eastern Washington has been sentenced to over 16 years in federal prison. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Washington, 32-year-old David Velasquez Jr. was the
Continue ReadingBy Taylar Ansures Click here for updates on this story SPOKANE, Wash. (KXLY) — Conservation efforts along the Spokane River are paying off, the Washington Department of Ecology says in a new study. In 2010, the Department of Ecology adopted a water cleanup plan for the Spokane River. This plan hoped to reduce excess phosphorus,
Continue ReadingBy Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum ruptured his right Achilles tendon in Monday night’s playoff game and will be out for an extended period of time, the team announced Tuesday. ESPN’s Shams Charania was first to report the news. This is a breaking story and will be updated The-CNN-Wire™ &
Continue ReadingPor Darío Klein, CNN en Español En su juventud, José “Pepe Mujica” encaró sus ambiciones políticas inicialmente con el Partido Nacional uruguayo y luego con la revolución armada como guerrillero, una etapa en la que fue detenido y torturado. En la década de 1960, José Mujica cofundó el Movimiento de Liberación Nacional-Tupamaros, una guerrilla urbana
Continue Reading
By Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — Major League Baseball on Tuesday removed Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson – two of the sport’s most famous players who were previously kicked out of baseball for gambling on the game – from the league’s permanently ineligible list. The historic decision by MLB commissioner Rob Manfred allows Rose
Continue Reading