By Amy Woodyatt and Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — As a professional big wave surfer, charging down mountains of water that reach the size of an apartment block, Garrett McNamara doesn’t scare easily. Perhaps best known for taking on huge walls of water in his television docuseries, “100 Foot Wave,” the 57-year-old Hawaiian earned himself
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — In early April, Wall Street threw a temper tantrum that would make a toddler proud. Fearing President Donald Trump’s chaotic trade war would ignite a global recession, investors scrambled to dump US assets. The rare simultaneous selloff of both stocks and bonds reflected a serious loss of
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Many taxpayers could see even more money in their pockets in coming years under a sweeping tax and spending cuts package that House Republicans hope to finalize before Memorial Day. The tax portion of the legislation, which the House Ways and Means Committee approved on Wednesday, makes permanent essentially
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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Samples of store-bought rice from more than 100 different brands purchased in the United States contained dangerously high levels of arsenic and cadmium, according to a new report released exclusively to CNN. “Even at low levels, both arsenic and cadmium have been linked to serious health harms, including diabetes,
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Apartment owners at a luxury New York skyscraper are suing the building’s developers over a “far-reaching fraud” in which they allegedly hid structurally significant defects — including “thousands” of severe cracks on the tower’s facade. The condo board at 432 Park Avenue, a super-skinny high-rise on Manhattan’s Billionaire’s Row,
Continue ReadingPor Federico Jofre, CNN en Español El Gobierno de Argentina anunció este miércoles que impulsa cambios en el régimen migratorio del país, los cuales se harán efectivos a través de un Decreto de Necesidad y Urgencia (DNU) que aún no fue publicado en el Boletín Oficial. El vocero de la presidencia, Manuel Adorni, aseguró que
Continue ReadingPor John Fritze, CNN La Corte Suprema escuchará este jueves argumentos sobre el plan del presidente Donald Trump de terminar con la ciudadanía por derecho de nacimiento y limitar significativamente el poder de los tribunales federales para frenar su agenda, un caso que ha sido incluido rápidamente en la lista de la corte superior menos
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By Hira Humayun and Avery Schmitz, CNN (CNN) — Valeria Marquez was addressing her TikTok followers in a livestream from her beauty salon in Zapopan, Mexico, when someone arrived at her door to deliver a small parcel. “He’s a little piglet!” the 23-year-old beauty influencer exclaimed as she returned to her viewers and unwrapped the
Continue Reading CNN, INSTAGRAM|@V___MARQUEZ, TIKTOK By Hira Humayun, Avery Schmitz and Veronica Calderon, CNN (CNN) — Valeria Marquez was addressing her TikTok followers in a livestream from her beauty salon in Zapopan, Mexico, when someone arrived at her door to deliver a small parcel. “He’s a little piglet!” the 23-year-old beauty influencer exclaimed as she returned to
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By Eric Levenson, Jean Casarez, Lauren del Valle and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A judge overseeing the pretrial hearings for Bryan Kohberger, the former criminology grad student accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, ordered prosecutors and defense attorneys Thursday to preserve records after an apparent leak made its way
Continue ReadingBy Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Sudden, hurricane-force winds toppled the luxury Bayesian superyacht that sank off the coast of Sicily last August, according to an interim report into the disaster, which found the boat had “vulnerabilities” to extreme wind which were not known to the owner or crew. The 184-foot sailing boat owned by
Continue ReadingAnálisis por Stephen Collinson, CNN El viaje de Donald Trump por Medio Oriente implica mucho más que contratos multimillonarios, desfiles de camellos y el revuelo en casa por la oferta de Qatar de darle al presidente un nuevo Air Force One. Una gira, promocionada por la Casa Blanca como una oportunidad para que Trump demuestre
Continue ReadingBy Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Indian police have killed 31 suspected Maoist rebels in what is being described as the “biggest ever operation” against the long-running insurgency. Security forces spent 21 days attempting to capture the rebels along the border of the states of Chhattisgarh and Telangana in central India, Home Minister Amit Shah
Continue ReadingBy Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — It seems some parents in New Zealand just can’t get the message. Once again, King has topped the list of baby names rejected by the country’s Registrar General. The royal title led the list of banned baby names for 14 years in a row until 2023 when it was
Continue ReadingBy Juliana Liu and Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — Boeing has secured a deal with Qatar for up to 210 jets in what the White House is calling the aircraft maker’s “largest-ever” widebody order, worth $96 billion dollars. The order comes as the Gulf state’s prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani, dismissed
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — American consumers, battle-scarred by the pandemic and the subsequent surge in inflation, are already changing their spending patterns and delaying some purchases due to President Donald Trump’s chaotic tariff policy and the broader economic uncertainty, new survey data shows. The shift in spending plans was among the findings from
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday about President Donald Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship and significantly limit the power of federal courts to slow his agenda – a case that has been rushed onto the high court’s docket less than four months after he returned to the
Continue ReadingPor Fernando Ramos y Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español El Senado de Colombia rechazó este miércoles la propuesta del presidente Gustavo Petro para convocar a una consulta popular sobre sus iniciativas de reformas sociales. El mandatario criticó la decisión, que calificó de “fraude”, y llamó a la ciudadanía a manifestarse en contra. La consulta popular
Continue ReadingBy Ana Melgar, CNN (CNN) — Sitting on a couch in her home in Maracay, Venezuela, Mirelis Cacique López watches her son Francisco Javier García Cacique on her cell phone in the first video released of a group of Venezuelans sent by the United States to El Salvador’s maximum-security prison Cecot. “Among the boys, I
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By Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — Max will rebrand once more as HBO Max. Speaking on stage during Warner Bros. Discovery’s Upfront presentation to advertisers, HBO chief executive Casey Bloys announced that the company’s streaming platform, Max, would revert to its previous name, HBO Max. WBD executives emphasized that the move is an attempt to
Continue ReadingPor Lauren del Valle, Nicki Brown, Eric Levenson y Kara Scannell, CNN Después de estar en el centro de atención durante unas nueve horas en dos días, Cassie Ventura terminó con el interrogatorio directo de los fiscales. A continuación, viene el contrainterrogatorio del equipo de defensa de Sean “Diddy” Combs. Basándose en su testimonio del
Continue ReadingPor Matt Egan, CNN La tasa de inflación más baja en cuatro años fue posible gracias a una tendencia que seguramente hará sonreír a los estadounidenses: la caída de precios. Los precios de los huevos cayeron entre marzo y abril, la mayor caída desde 1984, según la Oficina de Estadísticas Laborales. Los autos y camiones
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By Jenny Hall (CNN) — It was May 4, 1975. The Japanese Women’s Everest Expedition team had been living at a high altitude for six weeks, and were less than a week away from their scheduled bid for the summit of Mount Everest. Exhausted, having established camp five at just below 8,000 meters on the
Continue ReadingPor Kit Maher, CNN El primer ministro y ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de Qatar desestimó la controversia en torno al plan del presidente Donald Trump de aceptar de su país un Boeing 747-8 para ser utilizado inicialmente como Air Force One, y dijo a CNN que es simplemente una “transacción de gobierno a gobierno”, no
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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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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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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Engineers at NASA say they have successfully revived thrusters aboard Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from our planet, in the nick of time before a planned communications blackout. A side effect of upgrades to an Earth-based antenna that sends commands to Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, the
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By Uriel Blanco, CNN (CNN) — Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, is at the center of another controversy, and this time it directly involves Mexico. MrBeast, who is by far the YouTuber with the most subscribers in the world (surpassing the second-place user by almost 100 million), published a video on May 10th in
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By Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — Some X users on Wednesday asked Grok – the AI chatbot available through Elon Musk’s social media platform – questions about simple topics like baseball players or videos of fish being flushed down toilets. One user just asked Grok to talk like a pirate. In response, they got replies
Continue ReadingPor Paula Reid y Casey Gannon, CNN La Corte Suprema de EE.UU. abordará el jueves un caso que podría decidir qué tan rápido el presidente Donald Trump puede implementar la agenda de su segundo mandato, al escuchar argumentos sobre las órdenes judiciales a nivel nacional que permiten a un solo juez bloquear una política para
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