By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Jarrett Allen had 24 points and 16 rebounds, and the Cleveland Cavaliers held off a frantic fourth-quarter rally by the Charlotte Hornets to win 113-110 Monday night and close out a five-game trip on a positive note. Lauri Markkanen scored 21 points, Evan Mobley added
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By Jean Casarez, CNN Robert Durst, the notorious subject of the HBO docuseries “The Jinx” and now a convicted murderer, was indicted Monday by a Westchester County, New York, grand jury for a separate murder charge in connection with his late wife’s death. Durst was charged last month with one count of murder in the
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EL PASO, Texas — State Rep. Claudia Ordaz Perez announced Monday evening that she is challenging a fellow El Paso Democrat, Art Fierro, instead of running for re-election against Rep. Lina Ortega, another El Pasoan who she was pitted against in redistricting. Under the map that Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law last week, Ordaz Perez is drawn into House District 77, the
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By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer The Supreme Court was more than two hours into arguments over a Texas abortion law when Justice Elena Kagan ignited the tension that had been slowly building in the courtroom. “The actual provisions in this law have prevented every woman in Texas from exercising a
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By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Domantas Sabonis scored 24 points and Myles Turner added 19 to lead the Indiana Pacers past struggling San Antonio 131-118. The Pacers snapped a four-game losing streak. It’s just their second win in eight games under new coach Rick Carlisle. Dejounte Murray led the Spurs with
Continue Reading By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Domantas Sabonis scored 24 points and Myles Turner added 19 to lead the Indiana Pacers past struggling San Antonio 131-118. The Pacers snapped a four-game losing streak. It’s just their second win in eight games under new coach Rick Carlisle. Dejounte Murray led the Spurs with
Continue Reading By Oren Liebermann, CNN A US nuclear-powered submarine that struck an underwater object in early October had hit an uncharted underwater mountain, an investigation found, forcing it to head from the South China Sea to Guam for repairs. The USS Connecticut had been operating in the contested waterway when it struck the object on October
Continue Reading By AARON BRACY Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Seth Curry had 23 points to lead the short-handed Philadelphia 76ers to a 113-103 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday night. The 76ers played without leading scorers Joel Embiid and Tobias Harris. Embiid, the four-time All-Star, missed his first game of the season as Philadelphia
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By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Firearms are being banned at the New Mexico state Capitol building with few exceptions starting in early December under rule changes approved by leading Democratic lawmakers. Approved Monday, the gun ban reverses a live-and-let-live approach toward firearms that has endured for more than a century
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The ”Harold & Kumar” star talks with CNN’s Jake Tapper about representation in Hollywood and why he felt it was the right time to come out.
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By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has attacked the credibility of French President Emmanuel Macron as a newspaper quoted a text message that suggested France anticipated “bad news” about a now-scuttled submarine deal. Macron this week accused Morrison of lying to him in June about the fate
Continue Reading By JAKE SEINER AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Acting general manager Zack Scott will not return to the New York Mets after being placed on administrative leave following an arrest on drunken driving charges in August, according to a person familiar with the firing. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Una de las preocupaciones de los padres sobre la vacunación de los niños contra el covid-19 es si la vacuna podría perjudicar de algún modo la futura fertilidad de sus hijos. Una encuesta publicada por la Kaiser Family Foundation la semana pasada reveló que el 66% de los padres de niños
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — La posibilidad de que se le otorgue libertad condicional a Luis Alfredo Garavito, conocido como ‘La Bestia’ uno de los violadores seriales de niños más peligroso de Colombia y el mundo, encendió la polémica en el país. Sin embargo, un juez negó la petición hecha por el Instituto Nacional Penitenciario y Carcelario
Continue Reading By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press PIJIJIAPAN, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities say one migrant was shot to death and four were wounded when a pickup truck carrying over a dozen migrants tried to avoid an immigration checkpoint in southern Mexico and ram a National Guard vehicle. The Guard says the truck ignored orders to
Continue Reading By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its first game with a New York-Toronto matchup, the same as was played on Nov. 1, 1946. So much is different, though. For one, it isn’t even that Toronto franchise. The team the Knicks beat 68-66 that
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California man who fatally tortured a Chihuahua puppy and posted a video about it online has been sentenced to two years in federal prison. The U.S. attorney’s office says 19-year-old Angel Ramos-Corrales of Riverside was sentenced Monday for a February assault during which he broke the skull and ribs
Continue Reading By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit filed by a Texas online freelance journalist. Priscilla Villarreal said officials in Laredo, Texas, violated her constitutional rights when they arrested her in 2017. She was arrested for alleged violation of a little-known Texas law governing the seeking
Continue Reading By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit filed by a Texas online freelance journalist. Priscilla Villarreal said officials in Laredo, Texas, violated her constitutional rights when they arrested her in 2017. She was arrested for alleged violation of a little-known Texas law governing the seeking
Continue Reading By Anna Coren, Jessie Yeung and Abdul Basir Bina, CNN Parwana Malik, a 9-year-old girl with dark eyes and rosy cheeks, giggles with her friends as they play jump rope in a dusty clearing. But Parwana’s laughter disappears as she returns home, a small hut with dirt walls, where she’s reminded of her fate: she’s
Continue Reading CNN By Anna Coren, Jessie Yeung and Abdul Basir Bina, CNN Parwana Malik, a 9-year-old girl with dark eyes and rosy cheeks, giggles with her friends as they play jump rope in a dusty clearing. But Parwana’s laughter disappears as she returns home, a small hut with dirt walls, where she’s reminded of her fate:
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson Londres (CNN Business) — Elon Musk se ofreció a vender algunas de sus acciones de Tesla “ahora mismo” si la ONU puede demostrar que US$ 6.000 millones resolverán el hambre en el mundo. Sus comentarios se produjeron después de que el director del Programa Mundial de Alimentos de la ONU (WFP, por sus
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy, Leyla Santiago and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN The University of Florida now says three professors who initially weren’t allowed to testify as paid expert witnesses against the state can testify, if they aren’t paid. The university had denied the professors’ requests to testify for the plaintiffs in a voting rights lawsuit. The case
Continue Reading According to officials, UF professors can testify in voting rights lawsuit if they do not receive pay.
Continue Reading WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation on Monday reported 34 more COVID-19 cases, but no coronavirus-related deaths for the 21st time in the past 33 days. The latest numbers pushed the tribe’s totals to 36,867 confirmed COVID-19 cases from the virus since the pandemic began more than a year ago. The known death
Continue Reading By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer Knicks Go is the early 5-2 favorite for the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic this weekend at Del Mar. The two-day world championships drew 169 horses from eight countries, including 46 foreign horses to the seaside track north of San Diego. Del Mar is hosting for the second time
Continue Reading By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer Knicks Go is the early 5-2 favorite for the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic this weekend at Del Mar. The two-day world championships drew 169 horses from eight countries, including 46 foreign horses to the seaside track north of San Diego. Del Mar is hosting for the second time
Continue Reading An Army veteran who plotted to bomb a white supremacist rally in Southern California has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison. Prosecutors say 28-year-old Mark Domingo of Los Angeles was sentenced Monday. Authorities say the former combat infantryman wanted to bomb an April 2019 rally in Long Beach, but the plot was foiled
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By BOB CHRISTIE and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican who has served as president of the Arizona Senate for the past three years and oversaw an unprecedented review of 2020 election results in the state’s most populous county says she won’t seek reelection in 2022. Senate President Karen Fann said
Continue Reading By BOB CHRISTIE and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican who has served as president of the Arizona Senate for the past three years and oversaw an unprecedented review of 2020 election results in the state’s most populous county says she won’t seek reelection in 2022. Senate President Karen Fann said
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