Associated Press It’s not an exaggeration to say Nicholas Alexander Chavez had a very good year. Now a member of Ryan Murphy’s unofficial acting troupe, he starred in two of the creator’s new series. First came the Golden Globe-nominated “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” for Netflix. Chavez played Lyle, the elder of two
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AP Business Writer Kroger and Albertsons’ plan for the largest U.S. supermarket merger in history crumbled Wednesday, with Albertsons pulling out of the $24.6 billion deal and the two companies accusing each other of not doing enough to push their proposed alliance through. Albertsons said it had filed a lawsuit against Kroger, seeking a $600
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Por Alicia Wallace, CNN La inflación volvió a calentarse en noviembre, pero probablemente no fue lo suficientemente mala como para evitar que la Reserva Federal recorte las tasas la próxima semana. En una base mensual, los precios subieron un 0,3% después de haber aumentado un 0,2% durante los cuatro meses anteriores. Los precios al consumidor
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By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Between one team booking their spot in the playoffs and others being eliminated from contention, the end of the regular season is beginning to take shape. Week 14 could signal a turning of the page for three teams – the Cleveland Browns, Tennessee Titans and the New York Jets
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Originally Published: 10 DEC 24 22:26 ET Updated: 11 DEC 24 07:59 ET By Brian Rokus and Rashard Rose, CNN (CNN) — US Capitol Police have arrested a person who Rep. Nancy Mace said “physically accosted” her Tuesday, the South Carolina Republican said in a post on X. “I was physically accosted tonight on Capitol grounds over my
Continue Reading Por Sebastian Jimenez, CNN en Español De Cien años de soledad, considerada por muchos como la novela en español más grande desde Don Quijote de la Mancha, se han contado numerosas historias y anécdotas a veces dotadas de la magia que el libro inspira. La más famosa, quizá, es la epifanía de Gabriel García Márquez
Continue Reading Por Rashard Rose, CNN Tom Homan, quien se desempeñará como “zar de la frontera” en el próximo gobierno de Donald Trump, dijo que está trabajando en un plan para usar las cerca de 570 hectáreas de terreno ofrecidas a la administración entrante por funcionarios de Texas para construir edificios de deportación. “Estoy escribiendo el plan
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, Kareem Khadder and Nechirvan Mando, CNN (CNN) — A social media video surfaced Wednesday allegedly showing a warehouse in Syria stacked with captagon, an illicit drug that had transformed the country into a narco-state under former President Bashar al-Assad’s rule. The large warehouse was reportedly located at the headquarters of a military
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AP Baseball Writer DALLAS (AP) — Texas acquired slugging corner infielder Jake Burger from Miami for three minor league players Wednesday during the winter meetings, and the Rangers later signed reliever Jacob Webb to a $1.25 million contract to bolster their bullpen. The Rangers made those moves a day after accomplishing one of their primary
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz has formally set Germany on course for an early election by requesting a confidence vote in parliament next week. Five weeks after his three-party governing coalition collapsed in a dispute over how to revitalize Germany’s stagnant economy, Scholz said he had requested the confidence vote in parliament’s lower house,
Continue Reading Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s spy agency is celebrating the festive season with a riddle wrapped in an enigma inside a mystery. The cyber-intelligence agency GCHQ on Wednesday published its annual Christmas Challenge, a seasonal greeting card that doubles as a set of fiendishly difficult puzzles. The goal is to excite young minds about
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By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Inflation heated back up again in November, but it likely wasn’t bad enough to keep the Federal Reserve from cutting rates next week. Consumer prices were up 2.7% for the 12 months ended in November, moving higher from the 2.6% annual increase seen in October and marking the highest
Continue Reading By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — A cybersecurity attack is hampering some customers from getting their doughnuts at Krispy Kreme, the company revealed Wednesday. The chain said in a regulatory statement that it had detected “unauthorized activity on a portion” of its technology late last month that is still causing “certain operational disruptions,”
Continue Reading By David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — Macy’s said Wednesday that it has concluded its investigation into an employee who intentionally hid more than $150 million in expenses, and it has tightened its controls to avoid a repeat of the embarrassing problem. The troubled retailer said its investigation revealed a single, unnamed accounting employee—who was responsible
Continue Reading Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The father and stepmother of a 10-year-old girl found dead in her home in England were found guilty Wednesday of her murder after what prosecutors called a “campaign of abuse.” They along with an uncle will be sentenced Tuesday in the killing last year of Sara Sharif. Police found her
Continue Reading AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken is returning to the Middle East this week on his 12th visit since the Israel-Hamas war erupted last year. It’ll be his first trip since the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Assad, which has sparked new fears of instability in a region now wracked
Continue Reading By Reuters (Reuters) — Major food companies, including Kraft Heinz, Mondelez and Coca-Cola, were hit with a new lawsuit in the US on Tuesday accusing them of designing and marketing “ultra-processed” foods to be addictive to children, causing chronic disease. The lawsuit was filed in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas by Bryce Martinez, a
Continue Reading Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Thousands of members of youth and student bodies belonging to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party have marched from the capital toward the country’s eastern border with India to protest an attack on a diplomatic mission and alleged desecration of Bangladeshi flags in India. On Wednesday, they drove in cars to
Continue Reading Por Ben Church y Amanda Davies, CNN El organismo rector del fútbol mundial, la FIFA, se reunirá este miércoles para anunciar los anfitriones de los dos próximos Mundiales masculinos. Sin embargo, el resultado no será ninguna sorpresa. España, Portugal y Marruecos serán los anfitriones conjuntos de la Copa Mundial dentro de seis años, mientras que
Continue Reading Edmunds Midsize three-row SUVs are among today’s primary modes of family movement, but some are roomier than others. We don’t think you can ever have enough room in a family SUV, and the best ones offer ample room to stretch out, especially for adults in the third row. They should also be fuel-efficient and have
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EL PASO, TX (KVIA) — As El Paso experiences its first hard freeze of the season, with temperatures plunging to as low as 25 degrees this morning, the El Paso Fire Department is urging residents to prepare their homes to prevent fires and carbon monoxide poisoning. With many El Pasoans turning on their heating
Continue Reading Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s main international airport has reopened to commercial flights, one month after gangs opened fire on planes. It was the second closing this year because of gang violence. Soldiers and police along with a U.N.-backed mission have boosted security in the area, and Haiti’s government said a test flight
Continue Reading By Masoud Popalzai and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — The Taliban’s refugee minister was killed in a suicide bombing carried out by ISIS in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, according to officials. Khalil Haqqani is the uncle of current Taliban Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, who leads the powerful Haqqani network, a division of the
Continue Reading CNN By Dalia Faheid, Michelle Watson, Bonney Kapp, John Miller and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — [Breaking news update, published at 2:17 p.m. ET] The gun CEO killing suspect Luigi Mangione had when he was arrested this week in Pennsylvania matches shell casings found at the crime scene last week in Midtown Manhattan, the New
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CNN By Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — Bianca Tse is among a growing number of artists embracing AI. “It’s shortened the path between my ideas and my visions,” said the 43-year-old, sitting in front of “Breathing Room,” a photo recently showcased at the Blue Lotus Gallery in Hong Kong. In it, three Chinese men appear
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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — The food you eat may be affecting your body’s ability to fight cancer cells in the colon, according to a new study. The potential culprit: an overabundance of certain omega-6 fatty acids — perhaps from ultraprocessed foods in your diet — that may hinder the anti-inflammatory and tumor-fighting properties
Continue Reading AP Business Writer TikTok has challenged a Canadian government order to shut down the Chinese video-sharing app’s business operations in the country that was imposed over national security concerns. The company said Tuesday that it filed an application for a judicial review with the Federal Court in Vancouver on December 5. The application seeks to
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — We remain under an ABC-7 First Alert this morning as we are waking up to freezing temps! Temperatures overnight have dipped below freezing. Most areas throughout the region will be below freezing this morning. El Paso is expected to dip to 26 and Las Cruces 22 within the 6 o’clock
Continue Reading Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court has convicted a woman of crimes against humanity for keeping a Yazidi woman as a slave in Syria and sentenced her to 10 years in prison. The Hague District Court found Hasna A. was guilty of multiple offenses for traveling to Syria in 2015 to
Continue Reading By Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — For those unable to visit the Tokyo National Museum, where Iwasa Matabei’s famous 17th-century epic gold leaf painting “Rakuchu Rakugai Zu Byobu” currently hangs, the Gagosian gallery in London is displaying a large-scale replica this December. Look closer, however, and not all is quite as it seems. In
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