By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — Denver Nuggets rookie point guard Bones Hyland is the latest young player to embrace the spotlight during his inaugural postseason appearance. Hyland’s performance has energized his teammates and helped the Nuggets stave off elimination against the Golden State Warriors. He has also given reigning NBA MVP
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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Months of grim wildfire weather are ahead for the Southwest as a handful of large wildfires march across drought-stricken New Mexico. The flames have blackened more than 215 square miles in just the last few days, burning homes and forcing evacuations. But crews got a
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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Months of grim wildfire weather are ahead for the Southwest as a handful of large wildfires march across drought-stricken New Mexico. The flames have blackened more than 215 square miles in just the last few days, burning homes and forcing evacuations. But crews got a
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HOUSTON, Texas – The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has granted a stay in the execution of Melissa Lucio today. This will allow a lower court to review the case. The 52-year-old was set to be executed on Wednesday in Texas for the death of her 2-year-old daughter Mariah. Attorneys for Lucio say there is
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By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business The National Labor Relations Board petitioned in federal court to force Starbucks to rehire three workers who claimed the coffee chain retaliated against them for attempting to unionize. An Arizona-based regional director for the NLRB filed for an injunction asking the court to require Starbucks to reinstate the employees with
Continue Reading By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer The emergence of former LSU teammates Justin Jefferson and Ja’Marr Chase casts doubt on the conventional wisdom that NFL teams can’t count on rookie wide receivers. This year’s draft class is eager to continue the trend. Receivers taken in the first round this year should have a chance to
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By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration, under pressure from lawmakers to prove officials are prepared for an influx of migrants, is expected to lay out more of its plans for the US-Mexico border when a Trump-era pandemic restriction lifts, two sources familiar with the planning tell CNN. The administration has been under intense scrutiny
Continue Reading By Matt Egan, CNN Business Stock markets are turbulent and Morgan Stanley is warning clients the ride is about to get even bumpier. Investors have “very few places to hide” in markets right now, with even defensive stocks succumbing to the pressure in recent days, Morgan Stanley equity strategists led by Mike Wilson wrote on
Continue Reading By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas appeals court on Monday delayed the execution of Melissa Lucio amid growing doubts about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter. Lucio’s effort to halt her execution has garnered the support of lawmakers, celebrities and even some of the jurors who sentenced her to
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By Dakin Andone, CNN The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Monday granted a stay of execution for Melissa Lucio, halting her execution scheduled for Wednesday and sending her case back to the trial court to review new evidence. State Rep. Jeff Leach called Lucio to deliver the news, and she immediately sobbed on the
Continue Reading The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay of execution for a mom convicted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter in 2007, putting Melissa Lucio’s scheduled execution on hold and sending her case back to the trial court to review new evidence. CNN’s Natasha Chen reports.
Continue Reading HOUSTON (AP) — Appeals court delays Texas execution of Melissa Lucio so lower court can review case.
Continue Reading NYON, Switzerland (AP) — Benfica is a European champion again 60 years and 11 losing finals after the storied Portuguese soccer club’s last title in a UEFA competition. Benfica won the UEFA Youth League final on Monday by routing Salzburg 6-0 in Switzerland. Benfica’s last European title was the European Cup in 1962. Since then
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN When thinking of post-traumatic stress disorder, your mind may go to a movie about war. It’s a quiet day at base camp when suddenly the enemy launches an attack. The main character is scrambling to respond to incoming fire, making quick decisions about how to respond to danger that is largely
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe, CNN When thinking of post-traumatic stress disorder, your mind may go to a movie about war. It’s a quiet day at base camp when suddenly the enemy launches an attack. The main character is scrambling to respond to incoming fire, making quick decisions about how to respond to danger that is largely
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — El canciller cubano, Bruno Rodríguez, denunció este lunes en conferencia de prensa que EE.UU. “ha decidido excluir a Cuba de los preparativos de la IX Cumbre de las Américas, que tendrá lugar en Los Ángeles del 8 al 10 de junio”. Frente a diversos medios nacionales y extranjeros, Rodríguez
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – With tens of thousands of acres of land burning in multiple corners of New Mexico, the governor is calling on local leaders to ban the sale of fireworks. “Fire conditions across New Mexico remain extremely dangerous,” wrote Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in a news release. “It’s essential that we mitigate
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HOUSTON, Texas — Texas Democratic candidate for governor, Beto O’rourke, has tested positive for Covid-19. “In addition to being fully vaccinated and boosted, I regularly test for COVID-19 while traveling the state for town hall meetings. I tested negative yesterday morning before testing positive today. I have mild symptoms and will be following public health
Continue Reading By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A jury has been selected in the civil trial of a man who was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2010 death of University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love. A wrongful death lawsuit brought by Love’s mother seeks to hold George Huguely V
Continue Reading EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — Search crews have recovered the body of a Texas National Guard member who went missing after jumping in the river on the U.S.-Mexico border to help a migrant who was struggling to swim across. Authorities say the body of Spc. Bishop Evans was found Monday, three days after he was
Continue Reading César López (CNN)– La maniobra en el aire transmitida en vivo que terminó con un accidente aéreo en el desierto de Arizona está bajo investigación federal después de que los organizadores aparentemente desafiaron una orden del gobierno. Los organizadores del evento dijeron que dos pilotos en aviones separados planeaban lanzarse en paracaídas para cambiar de
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN A man who died on Saturday after setting himself on fire in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, was a climate activist, according to social media posts from various people who claim to know him. Wynn Alan Bruce, 50, from Boulder, Colorado, who self-immolated on Friday — when
Continue Reading By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis coach Taylor Jenkins insists he’s paying his own $15,000 fine for publicly criticizing the officiating in Game 4 of the Grizzlies’ series against the Minnesota Timberwolves despite the offer from a couple of players to cover it. He was fined Monday. Jenkins made
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By Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologist Seventy-six: It’s the number of tornadoes the Jackson, Mississippi, area has experienced in less than five weeks. Seventy-six. If it doesn’t sound exhausting, I don’t know what does. Every week, having to monitor the weather for the potential for severe weather — tornadoes, hail, damaging winds — all of it.
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Continue Reading By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Testimony has begun in the trial of five men charged with murder in the shooting death of South Africa national soccer team captain Senzo Meyiwa eight years ago. The men are charged with killing Meyiwa in a house robbery in the township of Vosloorus
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EL PASO, Texas – A 20-year-old motorcyclist lost one of his legs after being hit by a driver that police say failed to yield the right-of-way. Police say Stephen James Sims was riding north on Lee Trevino on Friday at 12:45 p.m. when 70-year-old Lorenzo Hernandez struck him. Police say Hernandez was exiting a private
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes (CNN Español) — Elon Musk ha insistido en que uno de sus objetivos con la compra de Twitter, que se está negociando en estos momentos, es reforzar la libertad de expresión. ¿Pero qué significa esto? Un analista piensa que Musk podría hacerlo con “muy pocas reglas” y que su gestión podría beneficiar a
Continue Reading By Leyla Santiago, Sara Weisfeldt and Holly Yan, CNN A month after a 14-year-old plummeted to his death from a Florida amusement park ride, his family is suing a bevy of defendants, saying a series of mistakes put visitors in danger and led to their child’s fatal fall. Tyre Sampson was visiting ICON Park on
Continue Reading CNN By Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN CNN has obtained 2,319 text messages that former President Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows sent and received between Election Day 2020 and President Joe Biden’s January 20, 2021 inauguration. The vast trove of texts offers the most revealing picture to date
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