Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El alcalde de Cambridge, Maryland, fue arrestado y acusado de 50 cargos de distribución de pornografía de venganza, según un comunicado de prensa de la Oficina del fiscal del estado de Maryland. Los registros judiciales indican que Andrew Bradshaw, quien asumió el cargo en enero pasado, fue arrestado este lunes
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By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California officials are asking the full 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a ruling that rejected the state’s first-in-the-nation ban on for-profit private prisons and immigration detention facilities. Last month’s ruling by a three-judge appellate panel maintained a key piece of the nation’s detention
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By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s red-hot sports betting industry smashed its own national record in October for the highest amount of bets taken in a single month, topping $1.3 billion. That figure easily surpassed the just over $1 billion worth of bets that Atlantic City’s nine casinos and
Continue Reading By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s red-hot sports betting industry smashed its own national record in October for the highest amount of bets taken in a single month, topping $1.3 billion. That figure easily surpassed the just over $1 billion worth of bets that Atlantic City’s nine casinos and
Continue Reading MYTISHCHI, Russia (AP) — The players hoping to make China’s men’s hockey team for next year’s Beijing Olympics have lost a second trial game against a Russian club as uncertainty builds over whether they will be allowed to play at the Winter Games. International Ice Hockey Federation officials observed Kunlun Red Star’s 4-1 loss to
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Battery-powered vehicles will get top billing at the Los Angeles Auto Show opening this week after a year’s hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. Subaru will unveil its first all-electric vehicle, a smallish SUV named the Solterra. VinFast is a Vietnamese automaker that plans to start selling in the U.S. next
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Battery-powered vehicles will get top billing at the Los Angeles Auto Show opening this week after a year’s hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. Subaru will unveil its first all-electric vehicle, a smallish SUV named the Solterra. VinFast is a Vietnamese automaker that plans to start selling in the U.S. next
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By Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden is not expected to attend the Beijing Winter Olympics as his administration is on the verge of implementing a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Games, a senior administration official told CNN. The President has not yet formally signed off on having no government officials attend, the senior
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EL PASO, Texas — According to a study from 2012, the Natural Resources Defense Council calculated that the average individual in the United States throws out an average of 400 pounds of food a year. That’s just one person – not an entire family. Because of this, ‘No Lost Food’ was created in an attempt
Continue Reading CNN en Español (CNN) — Moderna anunció este miércoles que solicitó “la autorización de uso de emergencia (EUA, por sus siglas en inglés) de su vacuna covid-19 de refuerzo en el nivel de dosis de 50 [microgramos] para todos los adultos de 18 años o más a la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos de los
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court has ordered a freeze on returning a 6-year-old boy who survived a cable car crash in Italy to his relatives there until it decides whether to hear an appeal by family members in Israel. Lawyers representing Eitan Biran’s maternal relatives confirmed the decision on Wednesday. The court is expected
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By Katie Hunt, CNN The 5:2 diet, a type of intermittent fasting, is no more effective than traditional approaches to weight loss, according to what researchers said was the first study of the regimen in a “real-life setting.” However, the researchers found that the approach, which involves two days of heavily restricting calories (500 calories
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Rising summer temperatures could lead to an exponential increase in the number of wildfires and acres burned in the Sierra Nevada in California, researchers have found. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, found that there’s a 19% to 26% jump in wildfire risk for each degree of summer
Continue Reading By JOSEPH WILSON, ALBERTO ARCE and ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A spokesman for Spain’s government says leading Cuban activist Yunior García has flown to Madrid with his wife. His departure from Cuba was unannounced. They arrived Wednesday on tourist visas. García was one of the organizers of a protest on Monday
Continue Reading By Ted Barrett and Ali Zaslav, CNN The Senate on Wednesday night cleared a key procedural hurdle to advance the annual defense policy bill. The procedural vote on the measure passed by a wide bipartisan margin of 84-15. This comes after congressional leaders struck a deal earlier Wednesday evening, agreeing to negotiate on the China
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EL PASO, Texas — A local doctor says the weakening of the coronavirus vaccine over time is causing more breakthrough cases in El Paso County as the hospitalization rate has become one of the highest in the state. El Paso County has the highest vaccination rate among the most heavily populated counties in Texas. Below is
Continue Reading By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer The NCAA’s Division I Infractions Appeals Committee has upheld penalties against UMass’ men’s basketball and women’s tennis programs in a case that garnered national attention. Former UMass tennis player Brittany Collens has waged a public fight against the NCAA since having a conference championship stripped by the
Continue Reading CNN By Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden is not expected to attend the Beijing Winter Olympics as his administration is on the verge of implementing a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Games, a senior administration official told CNN. This is a breaking story and will be updated. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2021 Cable News
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LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Texas Tech has cleared junior Terrence Shannon Jr. to return to play for the Red Raiders after the standout forward was held out of their first three games during a review of eligibility rules. The school says all questions related to Shannon going through the NBA draft process last summer have
Continue Reading LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Texas Tech has cleared junior Terrence Shannon Jr. to return to play for the Red Raiders after the standout forward was held out of their first three games during a review of eligibility rules. The school says all questions related to Shannon going through the NBA draft process last summer have
Continue Reading By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium has extended the use of facemasks and mandatory remote work in an attempt to contain a new surge of COVID-19 cases. Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said Wednesday that facemasks would be mandatory in crowded places for those 10 and older and that remote work, where
Continue Reading By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium has extended the use of facemasks and mandatory remote work in an attempt to contain a new surge of COVID-19 cases. Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said Wednesday that facemasks would be mandatory in crowded places for those 10 and older and that remote work, where
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UPDATE, Nov. 18: A 24-year-old El Paso man is believed to have been intoxicated when his SUV ran over a pedestrian and then crashed into a Lower Valley apartment building, investigators said Thursday. Juset DeSantiago was booked into the downtown jail following his release from Del Sol Medical Center, where he was treated for a
Continue Reading LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Former Kentucky Congressman Larry Hopkins has died. He was 88. Hopkins served as a state lawmaker before representing central Kentucky in Congress for more than a decade. He was elected to Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District in 1978 and served until 1993. He was the Republican nominee for governor in 1991, but
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — A suburban Chicago mayor has pleaded guilty in federal court to taking a cash bribe from a representative of a red-light camera company and has resigned from office. Crestwood Mayor Louis Presta is the latest public official to be caught up in a corruption investigation involving the company. According to his plea
Continue Reading By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Steve Bannon is pleading not guilty to the criminal contempt of Congress charges against him, according to a notice filed in federal court on Wednesday. The notice came in advance of a hearing set for Thursday morning — scheduled to be Bannon’s first appearance before US District
Continue Reading By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s been more than two weeks since the Supreme Court’s extraordinarily rushed arguments over Texas’ unique abortion law, and still no word from the justices. They raised expectations of quick action by putting the case on a rarely-used fast track. The court’s silence means that women in
Continue Reading By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s been more than two weeks since the Supreme Court’s extraordinarily rushed arguments over Texas’ unique abortion law, and still no word from the justices. They raised expectations of quick action by putting the case on a rarely-used fast track. The court’s silence means that women in
Continue Reading By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two of the three men convicted in the assassination of Malcolm X are to be cleared after insisting on their innocence since the 1965 killing. Lawyers and the Innocence Project said Wednesday that a new investigation found authorities withheld evidence favorable to the defense in the
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN) — A medida que se acercan las fiestas y muchos en Estados Unidos están colocando sus árboles de Navidad en la casa, la Comisión de Seguridad de Productos del Consumidor de Estados Unidos (CPSC, por sus siglas en inglés) acaba de enviar una advertencia alarmante. La CPSC tomó a Twitter por sorpresa
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