By TARA COPP and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump really wants to fly on an upgraded Air Force One — but making that happen could depend on whether he’s willing to cut corners with security. As government lawyers sort out the legal arrangement for accepting a luxury jet from the
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — The 2025 Tony Awards are taking place on Sunday from Radio City Music Hall in New York City, as the theater community gathers to celebrate Broadway’s biggest night. The ceremony, presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, will honor the best in theater, with several recognizable
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he realized its cacophony of creaks and rumbles was getting louder. He dropped his work, turned up the sound and found himself unable to look away. “The whole screen exploded,” he
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Republicans have set an ambitious deadline of trying to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping agenda through Congress by the fourth of July, kickstarting an intensive negotiation in the US Senate where Republican lawmakers are all over the map when it comes to the specific
Continue ReadingPor Oren Liebermann, CNN El cuerpo de Nattapong Pinta, un rehén tailandés secuestrado con vida durante los atentados del 7 de octubre, fue recuperado del sur de Gaza en una operación militar este viernes, según un comunicado de las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel (FDI) y el servicio de seguridad Shin Bet. El anuncio se
Continue ReadingPor Kristen Holmes y Kevin Liptak, CNN El presidente Donald Trump ha preguntado a sus asesores y colaboradores si creen que el comportamiento de Elon Musk durante las últimas 48 horas podría estar relacionado con su presunto consumo de drogas. En privado, busca comprender las críticas del multimillonario tecnológico, mientras que públicamente señala que no
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By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The body of a Thai hostage, Nattapong Pinta, who was abducted alive during the October 7 attacks was recovered from southern Gaza in a military operation on Friday, according to a statement from the Israeli military and the Shin Bet security service. The announcement comes just days after Israel
Continue ReadingBy Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — Another game, another overtime needed to proclaim a winner. This time around it was the Florida Panthers defeating the Edmonton Oilers 5-4 in double overtime to win Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final and even the series at 1-1 on Friday at the Rogers Place. Just over eight
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By SAMYA KULLAB and VOLODYMYR YURCHUK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian attacks targeting the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv killed at least four people and wounded more than two dozen others on Saturday, officials said, as hopes for peace dimmed further. The first wave on Ukraine’s second-largest city was a large Russian drone-and-missile
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By SAM MEDNICK and MOHAMMAD JAHJOUH Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel said Saturday it retrieved the body of a Thai hostage abducted into the Gaza Strip during the Hamas-led attack that sparked the war, as Israel’s military continued its offensive, killing at least 95 people in the past 24 hours, according to
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TODAY’S SPORTS SCHEDULE ___ INTERLEAGUE Final Chicago Cubs 6 Detroit 1 Final Texas 5 Washington 0 Final Miami 11 Tampa Bay 10 ___ AMERICAN LEAGUE Final Toronto 5 Minnesota 4 Final Chicago White Sox 4 Kansas City 1 Final Houston 5 Cleveland 3 Final Boston 10 N.Y. Yankees 7 Final L.A. Angels 8 Seattle 6
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Missouri Daybook for Saturday, Jun. 07. 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
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Continue ReadingAssociated Press Nebraska Daybook for Saturday, Jun. 07. 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
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Continue ReadingBy Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — At 83, Paul Kuntzler, a pioneering LGBTQ rights activist, vividly recalls joining a picket line outside the White House that would change the course of American history. “I was just 20 and was the only minor in a tiny gay rights movement consisting of about 150 people in five
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week, the most elite penthouse stays in London’s legendary Mayfair, phenomenal natural landscapes from Turkey to Utah, plus the brothers who want to help find you a one-euro home in Sicily. The Penthouse at Mandarin Oriental Mayfair Struggling to find a four-bed suite in London’s
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CNN By Erika Oreskovich, CNN (CNN) — At first glance, the desert landscape of Southern Utah seems like a sweeping, sun-baked canvas — wide open and endless. But tucked deep within its sandstone folds are narrow slivers of magic: slot canyons, sculpted over millennia by wind and rushing water. They draw hikers from around the
Continue ReadingBy Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — We live in the golden age of grift. Most of us can’t go a day without at least one scammy text about an unpaid toll or a call from an unknown number with a shockingly human-like AI voice on the other side. The scale of the scam
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Kansas City Royals (33-31, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Chicago White Sox (21-43, fifth in the AL Central) Chicago; Saturday, 4:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Wacha (3-4, 2.88 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 50 strikeouts); White Sox: Adrian Houser (1-1, 1.47 ERA, 0.98 WHIP, 14 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Royals
Continue ReadingAnálisis por Brad Lendon, CNN El impactante ataque con drones de esta semana, por parte de Ucrania, contra la flota de bombarderos estratégicos de Rusia, ha hecho que algunos generales y analistas consideren las amenazas a los valiosos aviones estadounidenses ubicados en bases nacionales y en el extranjero. Y la situación es preocupante. “Es un
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By Rosa de Acosta and Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — It’s crunch time in Paris as we reach the business end of the French Open. World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka came through a battle against four-time winner and defending champion Iga Świątek to make the women’s final where she will face American star Coco Gauff,
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By Karina Tsui, Zoe Sottile, Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has signed a presidential memorandum deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen to Los Angeles to disperse protests that began in response to immigration raids, the White House said in a statement Saturday night. Immigration authorities and demonstrators have clashed for two days in the
Continue ReadingPor Priscilla Alvarez y Kaanita Iyer, CNN El caso de Kilmar Ábrego García comenzó discretamente, reduciéndose a un error administrativo que lo elevó en la lista para abordar un vuelo de deportación con destino a El Salvador en marzo. Posteriormente, un documento judicial del Departamento de Justicia de Trump que reconocía el error lo puso
Continue ReadingBy Todd Symons and Kosta Gak, CNN (CNN) — Russia bombarded Ukraine’s second-largest city with massive strikes in the early hours of Saturday, its mayor said, one night after Moscow carried out one of the war’s largest aerial assaults on Ukraine. Russia has conducted extensive attacks on Ukraine in recent days, in what is being
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By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The world’s smallest country has a big budget problem. The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds. It primarily finances the Catholic Church’s central government through donations that have been plunging, ticket sales for the Vatican Museums, as well as income from investments and an
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By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — As a bishop in Peru, Robert Prevost was often on the lookout for used cars that he could buy cheap and fix up himself for use in parishes around his diocese. With cars that were really broken down, he’d watch YouTube videos to learn how to
Continue Reading NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING_F.Freeman, Los Angeles, .354; W.Smith, Los Angeles, .319; Machado, San Diego, .316; Donovan, St. Louis, .315; T.Turner, Philadelphia, .301; Alonso, New York, .298; Friedl, Cincinnati, .297; Ramos, San Francisco, .295; Ohtani, Los Angeles, .294; Frelick, Milwaukee, .292. RUNS_Ohtani, Los Angeles, 66; Crow-Armstrong, Chicago, 50; Carroll, Arizona, 49; E.De La Cruz, Cincinnati, 49; Betts,
Continue Reading AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING_Judge, New York, .397; Ja.Wilson, Athletics, .369; Ramírez, Cleveland, .333; Aranda, Tampa Bay, .324; Peña, Houston, .321; Goldschmidt, New York, .320; O’Hearn, Baltimore, .317; Kwan, Cleveland, .314; M.Garcia, Kansas City, .310; Kirk, Toronto, .304. RUNS_Judge, New York, 59; Raleigh, Seattle, 42; Devers, Boston, 41; Goldschmidt, New York, 40; Ramírez, Cleveland, 40; Rooker, Athletics,
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By AKRAM OUBACHIR and SAM METZ Associated Press CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — Flocks of sheep once quilted Morocco’s mountain pastures, stretched across Algeria’s vast plateaus and grazed along Tunisia’s green coastline. But the cascading effects of climate change have sparked a region-wide shortage that is being felt acutely as Muslims throughout North Africa celebrate Eid
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