Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El líder opositor venezolano Juan Guaidó, reconocido como presidente encargado de Venezuela por Estados Unidos y algunos países europeos, descartó este miércoles que se pueda llevar un proceso de negociaciones directas entre el gobierno del cuestionado presidente Nicolás Maduro y Estados Unidos. Al mismo tiempo insistió en que se debe
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The Associated Press Stocks closed lower on Wall Street Wednesday after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting raised expectations that the central bank will move faster to raise interest rates to fight inflation. The S&P 500, The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq fell. Drops in major technology stocks were the biggest weight
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NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL, not surprisingly in the midst of a rise in COVID-19 cases, has looked into other potential sites for next month’s Super Bowl. That’s not unusual because the league does so every year. But with Los Angeles the site for this year’s title game, and restrictions increasing for attendance at
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NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL, not surprisingly in the midst of a rise in COVID-19 cases, has looked into other potential sites for next month’s Super Bowl. That’s not unusual because the league does so every year. But with Los Angeles the site for this year’s title game, and restrictions increasing for attendance at
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By Aleks Klosok, Hannah Ritchie and Helen Regan, CNN Novak Djokovic has arrived in Melbourne ahead of the Australian Open, but a reported visa bungle raised questions about his participation at the season-opening grand slam. Tournament organizers announced on Tuesday that Djokovic had been granted a medical exemption — a decision which has provoked a
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: AT&T, Walmart rise; PG&E, Catalent fall.
Continue Reading By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Case Keenum had a front-row seat to watch Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield play through injuries this season. Keenum, who made one start so Mayfield could let his left shoulder heal, said he’s never seen a tougher performance by an NFL quarterback. Keenum is starting Sunday’s season
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MIAMI (AP) — Hundreds of passengers who embarked on an 11-day cruise from Miami were returned to port after less than two days at sea because of several dozen COVID-19 cases among crew members. The pandemic also prompted a last-minute cancelation of another cruise that was scheduled to depart Wednesday. Norwegian Cruise Line said it
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN Español) — El Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2022 ya dio su banderazo inicial. Este miércoles, el mayor evento de tecnología del mundo comenzó oficialmente con sus actividades de este año. Y se trata de una edición especial, pues es la primera vez desde 2020 que el CES regresa a Las Vegas y además
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CNN By Jeff Zeleny, Chief National Affairs Correspondent President Joe Biden is planning to deliver a speech on voting rights during a visit to Atlanta next week, officials say, traveling to the cradle of the civil rights movement to shine a brighter light on election reform in advance of the national holiday celebrating the life
Continue Reading By Jeff Zeleny, Chief National Affairs Correspondent President Joe Biden is planning to deliver a speech on voting rights during a visit to Atlanta next week, officials say, traveling to the cradle of the civil rights movement to shine a brighter light on election reform in advance of the national holiday celebrating the life of
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By Sara Smart, CNN One Kentucky family recently got a piece of royal mail in their mailbox, sent straight from Windsor Castle. When Katelyn Sutherland checked the mail on December 27, she wasn’t expecting to find a letter addressed to her daughter, Jalayne, with a royal stamp on it. “It was mixed in with our
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos Barreda Nueva York (CNN Business) — Los precios de bitcoin han dado marcha atrás últimamente, pero Goldman Sachs aún ve fuertes ganancias en los próximos años. La criptomoneda más valiosa del mundo ha caído a aproximadamente US$ 46.000 después de subir a una cifra récord que estuvo cerca de los US$ 69.000 en
Continue Reading By Holmes Lybrand Two friends who entered the US Capitol together on January 6, one of whom boasted about breaking in and smoking a joint, were sentenced to 30 days in jail each for unlawfully parading in the building. “This wasn’t Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure,” Judge Tanya Chutkan said before handing down the sentence
Continue Reading CNN By Holmes Lybrand Two friends who entered the US Capitol together on January 6, one of whom boasted about breaking in and smoking a joint, were sentenced to 30 days in jail each for unlawfully parading in the building. “This wasn’t Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure,” Judge Tanya Chutkan said before handing down the
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CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Wall Street ended Wednesday’s session sharply lower, as investors dealt with Omicron headlines as well as the Federal Reserve’s December meeting minutes that confirmed the central bank has its foot on the stimulus brakes. The Dow, which hit a record high Tuesday, closed down 1.1%, or 393
Continue Reading By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland vows to hold accountable anyone who was responsible for last year’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, whether they were physically there or not. In a speech to Justice Department employees Wednesday, Garland said prosecutors remained “committed to holding all January 6th perpetrators, at
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed Wednesday that Russia must de-escalate tensions on the border with Ukraine in order for upcoming diplomatic meetings to succeed, saying “it’s very hard to make actual progress in any of these areas in an atmosphere of escalation and threat, with a gun pointed at
Continue Reading By Chloe Melas, CNN The latest “Pam & Tommy” trailer is here. Hulu dropped a new preview of the upcoming series on Wednesday ahead of the show’s Feb. 2 debut. The eight-episode series tells the story of how actress and model Pamela Anderson and Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee’s sex tape was stolen and then
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama and congressional leaders will speak at Harry Reid’s funeral in Las Vegas on Saturday. A spokesperson for the late Senate majority leader says Obama will deliver a eulogy, while Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will also speak. Reid
Continue Reading BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Employees of a Starbucks store in upstate New York who voted to unionize last month have walked off the job. The employees in Buffalo say they don’t have the staff or resources to work safely amid surging COVID-19 cases. Six employees formed a picket line Wednesday outside the store and led
Continue Reading BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Employees of a Starbucks store in upstate New York who voted to unionize last month have walked off the job. The employees in Buffalo say they don’t have the staff or resources to work safely amid surging COVID-19 cases. Six employees formed a picket line Wednesday outside the store and led
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — The governor of Mexico’s Morelos state is denying any links to drug traffickers after a 3-year-old photo surfaced showing him posing with three men identified as local drug gang leaders. Former Mexican national soccer team star Cuauhtemoc Blanco won the governorship of Morelos, just south of Mexico City, in 2018 after
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Organizers of the Grammy Awards, scheduled for later this month, have postponed the event for a second year in a row, citing the current Covid-19 surge. “After careful consideration and analysis with city and state officials, health and safety experts, the artist community and our many partners, the Recording Academy and
Continue Reading By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A dramatic surge in coronavirus cases has sidelined about 800 Los Angeles city police and firefighters and led to slightly longer ambulance and fire response times. That’s adding to concerns about shortages of critical staff including health care workers. Mayor Eric Garcetti said Thursday that more
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By Matt McFarland, CNN Business General Motors CEO Mary Barra said Wednesday during CES that the automaker hopes to sell self-driving cars to consumers by the middle of this decade. GM has missed its own self-imposed self-driving deadlines in the past. The automaker claimed back in 2017 that it would be mass producing fully autonomous
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un pastor de Shiloh llamado Tinsley ganó golosinas adicionales este lunes por la noche después de llevar a las autoridades hasta donde estaba su dueño, quien resultó herido después de un accidente automovilístico y necesitaba ayuda urgente. La perra salvó la vida de su dueño. Tinsley llamó la atención de
Continue Reading By Chloe Melas, CNN The Sundance Film Festival, scheduled as a hybrid of both virtual and in-person screening events in Park City, Utah later this month, has moved the entire event online, citing Covid-19 concerns. “We have been looking forward to our first fully hybrid Sundance Film Festival and our teams have spent a year
Continue Reading By JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A top Tennessee House Republican lawmaker has apologized for losing his temper and being ejected from watching a high school basketball game after getting into a confrontation with a referee. Video footage of the game appears to show Rep. Jeremy Faison make either
Continue Reading By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Real Madrid and Barcelona have struggled to start their Copa del Rey campaigns with wins at minor rivals. Madrid needed two late goals to beat Alcoyano 3-1, which one year before had stunned the powerhouse 2-1 in the same round-of-32. Ousmane Dembelé and Ferran Jutglà scored
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