Originally Published: 19 DEC 24 23:06 ET Updated: 20 DEC 24 01:55 ET By Homero De La Fuente, CNN (CNN) — LeBron James added another historic achievement to his illustrious career on Thursday night, becoming the NBA’s all-time leader in regular season minutes played. The Los Angeles Lakers superstar broke Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s 35-year-old record during the
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AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — An inflation gauge that is closely watched by the Federal Reserve barely rose last month in a sign that price pressures cooled after two months of sharp gains. Prices rose just 0.1% from October to November. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, prices also ticked up just 0.1%,
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By Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge moved slightly higher in November — but not as much as economists were expecting, an indication that price hikes aren’t accelerating in a worrisome fashion. Still, cost of living concerns are growing as 2025 approaches and uncertainty widens about potential inflationary global events
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Por CNN en Español El gobierno del presidente Nicolás Maduro detuvo el 8 de diciembre a Nahuel Agustín Gallo, un gendarme argentino que había viajado a Venezuela para visitar a su pareja y a su hijo, denunciaron las autoridades de Argentina. Gallo, nacido en la provincia de Mendoza, es cabo primero de la Gendarmería Nacional
Continue Reading For the world, 2024 was riven by conflict on two fronts. As the year ends, Gaza is in shambles and tens of thousands are dead. Meanwhile an adjacent conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is playing out across the Lebanon landscape as the year ends. A continent away, the Russia-Ukraine war, which began with Russia’s invasion
Continue Reading Por Stephen Collinson, CNN Estados Unidos está a horas de sufrir un cierre del Gobierno durante la temporada navideña por cortesía de Donald Trump y Elon Musk. Todo el mundo sabía que el presidente electo y su nuevo amigo superdisruptor iban a causar estragos en Washington. Pero nadie pensaba que lo conseguirían incluso antes de
Continue Reading By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — The FBI has arrested a student at George Mason University in Virginia for allegedly plotting a mass casualty attack on the Israeli consulate in New York, according to a federal court filing. Egyptian national Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan faces a slew of federal charges tied to distributing information
Continue Reading Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Hundreds of Serbian students and others again blocked traffic for 15 minutes throughout the country as political tensions continue to simmer following last month’s collapse of a concrete canopy that killed 15 people. Friday’s traffic blockades have been held every week at exactly 11:52 a.m., the exact time on
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A crash late Thursday night sent one person to the hospital with serious injuries. El Paso Fire dispatchers said the crash happened at 11:45 p.m. Thursday on I-10 West near Airway Blvd. Officials say that one person was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. Our ABC-7 crew on the
Continue Reading Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Less than 1% of Catholic nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger. Seyram Adzokpa and Zoey Stapleton are two of the young women who have made the rare decision to join a religious community and begin the long process to become nuns. Here are their stories.
Continue Reading Associated Press Less than 1% of nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger. That number has remained steady in the past decade but shows little signs of increasing. Between 100 and 200 young women enter into a religious vocation each year in the U.S., and not all of them will complete the
Continue Reading By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A small silver amulet discovered by archaeologists in Germany could transform our understanding of how Christianity spread under the Roman Empire, experts have said. The tiny artefact, which measures about 1.4 inches (3.6 centimeters) long, was unearthed in a 3rd-century Roman grave just outside Frankfurt back in 2018. Archaeologists
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Expect another comfortable day as temps remain above average and conditions remain calm. Temps will be chilly in the morning and in the evening pack your jackets. By lunch time however temps are looking to be pretty comfortable as we look to once again trend above average. El Paso is
Continue Reading Associated Press MIRERENI, Mayotte (AP) — Crowds in Mayotte have vented their frustration at French President Emmanuel Macron, with some booing. Particularly tense scenes unfolded Thursday as he toured destruction wrought by the strongest cyclone to hit the French territory in nearly a century. They underscored the discontent that many residents of the archipelago in
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN London (CNN) — Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr got back to where they once belonged on Thursday night – performing together, live on stage in London. Starr made a surprise appearance at the O2 Arena on the last night of McCartney’s “Got Back” tour. Announcing his special guest, McCartney said: “The
Continue Reading By David Goldman and Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump doubled down on his tariff threats Thursday night, pledging to raise tariffs on European Union nations unless they increase their purchases of American oil and gas to narrow the trade gap with the United States. “I told the European Union that they must
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, Vanessa Yurkevich and Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Members of Starbucks Workers United staged their first strike in 13 months Friday and plan an escalating strike between now and Christmas Eve in what would become the union’s largest work stoppage since the organizing campaign started at the coffee retailer three
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards and Marcelo Medeiros, CNN (CNN) — A seven-year-old girl has been killed and eight others have been injured in a knife attack at an elementary school in the Croatian capital Zagreb. The 19-year-old attacker, believed to be a former student, entered a first-grade classroom at the Prečko Elementary School early Friday morning
Continue ReadingBy Robert Shackelford and Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — As Christmas approaches and an expected record number of people across the country set off on their journeys, they may encounter travel trouble as winter storms threaten delays. While major winter storms are not expected in the days leading up to Christmas, several minor storms could
Continue Reading Por Maria Kostenko y Sophie Tanno, CNN Al menos una persona murió y 11 resultaron heridas en una nueva descarga de misiles rusos sobre la capital de Ucrania en la mañana de este viernes. La Administración Militar de la ciudad de Kyiv confirmó la muerte en un mensaje en Telegram, añadiendo que, de los heridos,
Continue Reading By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Big Lots is preparing to close its remaining 963 locations after a sale to save the bankrupt retailer fell through. The company previously announced it was selling “substantially all” of its assets to private equity firm Nexus Capital Management in September, but Big Lots said in a
Continue Reading Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The U.N.’s food agency says more than 40 million people are struggling to feed themselves across West and Central Africa. In a new report released Friday, the World Food Program said that number is set to rise to 52 million by mid-2025, with 3.4 million people facing what it
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Seven inmates are dead after a prison riot in southern Mexico, where inmates resisted transfers to other jails and fought police with guns and knives. Four police officers and six other inmates were injured in the riot in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco. State police chief Víctor Hugo Chávez said
Continue Reading AP Business Writer Tesla is recalling almost 700,000 vehicles because of an issue with the warning light on the tire pressure monitoring system. According to a letter Thursday from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the recall includes certain 2024 Cybertruck, 2017-2025 Model 3, and 2020-2025 Model Y vehicles. The issue is that the tire
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By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Since Ozempic blasted onto the stage in 2017 with its approval for type 2 diabetes, drugmakers Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly have been battling to leapfrog each other with newer and more effective medicines to turbo-charge diabetes and weight-loss results with the class known as GLP-1 receptor agonists. Novo
Continue Reading CNN en Español El Gobierno de Biden registró el mayor nivel de deportaciones desde 2014, según un nuevo informe. Putin dice que está “listo” para una posible conversación con Trump. Juez de Puerto Rico cita a Daddy Yankee y a su esposa. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad.
Continue Reading Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Two men have been charged with assaulting police during a scuffle in July at Manchester Airport that led to outrage when video showed an officer stomping on a man’s head. The Crown Prosecution Service said Friday that no officers will be charged because it didn’t think they could win a
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By Kyle Feldscher, CNN State College, Pennsylvania (CNN) — College football fans around the country are preparing to settle into their seats – most of them at home, some of them in on-campus stadiums for the first time – for the opening round of College Football Playoff games this weekend. The football feast kicks off
Continue Reading By Bryan Mena, CNN Washington (CNN) — America’s housing market is finishing a year of high prices, sluggish sales and elevated mortgage rates. But there are factors that could give it a boost next year. The Federal Reserve began to slash interest rates in September, but mortgage rates have actually risen since then. The average
Continue Reading Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The smooth economy that Donald Trump was poised to inherit suddenly looks a bit rockier — with critics saying the president-elect is contributing to the uncertainty. The Dow Jones stock index essentially ended Thursday flat after having posted 10 days of losses. The Federal Reserve now sees
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