By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) — Christmas will start next month in Venezuela, authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro has decreed – even as thousands of Venezuelans look set to pass the holidays behind bars amid his government’s crackdown on political unrest. “September smells like Christmas!” Maduro said in his weekly television show on Monday, to the
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AP Basketball Writer Kelsey Mitchell has become the perfect backcourt running mate with Caitlin Clark, and the two guards have led the Indiana Fever’s resurgence since the Olympic break. Now they have Indiana in the playoffs. The team has won six of seven and is over .500 for the first time since June 13, 2019.
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By Cecilio Padilla Click here for updates on this story RIPON, California (KOVR) — A Central California police officer suffered second-degree burns while rescuing a person from a burning vehicle Monday night. Ripon police say, around 9 p.m., they got a report about a Tesla that was being driven erratically at the Love’s truck stop
Continue Reading KOVR By Cecilio Padilla Click here for updates on this story RIPON, California (KOVR) — A Central California police officer suffered second-degree burns while rescuing a person from a burning vehicle Monday night. Ripon police say, around 9 p.m., they got a report about a Tesla that was being driven erratically at the Love’s truck
Continue Reading By Julie Sharp Click here for updates on this story California (KCAL/KCBS) — Riders on the Metro system will now have to tap their fare card to exit all 10 end-of-line stations as the results of a pilot TAP-to-exit program showed a crime reduction. The three-month pilot program, introduced in late May at the Metro
Continue Reading HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas deputy constable who was driving to work in his personal vehicle was fatally shot Tuesday by a man who walked up to his car at a Houston intersection and fired multiple times, police said. A suspect in the shooting later led authorities on a chase that ended about 60 miles
Continue Reading HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas deputy constable who was driving to work in his personal vehicle was fatally shot Tuesday by a man who walked up to his car at a Houston intersection and fired multiple times, police said. A suspect in the shooting later led authorities on a chase that ended about 60 miles
Continue Reading CNN By Daniel Wine, CNN Editor’s Note: CNN’s 5 Things newsletter is your one-stop shop for the latest headlines and fascinating stories to start and end your busy day. Sign up here. 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! A cocktail called The Honey Deuce has been a big winner at the US Open. The $23 beverage
Continue Reading By Daniel Wine, CNN Editor’s Note: CNN’s 5 Things newsletter is your one-stop shop for the latest headlines and fascinating stories to start and end your busy day. Sign up here. 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! A cocktail called The Honey Deuce has been a big winner at the US Open. The $23 beverage comes
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A former state employee who said he leaked information about the plans to build golf courses and hotels in Florida’s state parks has apparently been fired. But James Gaddis told the Palm Beach Post that he doesn’t regret making the public aware of the proposals. Tasked with illustrating the plans to
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Belén Liotti (CNN) –– La leyenda del rock and roll Elton John está en proceso de recuperación. El cantante de “Rocket Man” compartió este martes en su página de Instagram que ha estado “lidiando con una infección ocular grave que lamentablemente me ha dejado con una visión limitada en un ojo”. “Me estoy recuperando, pero
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An Afghan refugee convicted of first-degree murder in one of three fatal shootings in 2022 that shook Albuquerque’s Muslim community pleaded no contest Tuesday to two homicide charges stemming from the other killings. Prosecutors said Muhammad Syed, 53, entered the pleas to two counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of
Continue Reading Belén Liotti (CNN) –– Más de una decena de miembros de una organización juvenil nacionalista de Turquía fueron detenidos en la ciudad turca de Esmirna después de que, según las autoridades locales, agredieran a dos infantes de Marina estadounidenses. Los infantes de Marina, asignados a la 24ª Unidad Expedicionaria de Marines, estaban en libertad en
Continue Reading By Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — Uganda’s main opposition leader Bobi Wine has been “seriously injured” in a confrontation with police, his party the National Unity Platform (NUP) said Tuesday. The NUP said in a post on social media that Wine was shot in the leg in an attempt on his life, just outside the
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By Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris is adding tax relief for small businesses to her economic policy platform aimed at helping middle-class and working Americans. Harris unveiled Wednesday a proposal to massively increase the existing small business tax deduction for startup costs and cut the red tape that
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is pleading not guilty to the charges laid out in special counsel Jack Smith’s retooled election subversion indictment against him in federal court. The pleading came in a Tuesday court filing, which also indicated he wants to be excused from appearing in
Continue Reading By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge Tuesday denied Donald Trump’s request to move the New York hush money case to federal court, finding there is nothing in the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling that alters his view of the fact that the payments were “private, unofficial acts.” Last week, the former president’s
Continue Reading ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An Afghan refugee convicted of first-degree murder in one of three fatal shootings in 2022 that shook Albuquerque’s Muslim community pleaded no contest Tuesday to two homicide charges stemming from the other killings. Prosecutors said Muhammad Syed, 53, entered the pleas to two counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of
Continue Reading MIAMI (AP) — Police say a Venezuelan opposition member and former political prisoner has been arrested in Miami after fleeing the scene of a fatal crash. Miami police say 50-year-old Gilber Caro was charged Monday with leaving the scene of a crash involving death. Caro is a member of former opposition leader Juan Guaido’s party,
Continue Reading Andrea Saint Martin (CNN) — El Departamento de Justicia de EE.UU. acusó a varios altos dirigentes de Hamas por el ataque terrorista del 7 de octubre, de acuerdo con un escrito de acusación presentado este martes. El escrito de acusación es el primer paso penal del Departamento de Justicia para responsabilizar a las personas por
Continue Reading Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Elon Musk’s satellite-based internet service provider Starlink has backtracked and announced it will comply with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice’s order to block the billionaire’s social media platform, X. Starlink said in a statement posted on X that it will heed Justice Alexandre de Moraes’ order despite him having
Continue Reading By Neal Riley Click here for updates on this story BRIDGEWATER, Massachusetts (WBZ) — It took more than four hours, but rescuers freed a worker trapped waist-deep in coal on a freight train car in Bridgewater, Massachusetts Tuesday. The man was reported trapped around 9 a.m. He was pulled out high above the car around
Continue Reading Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for the South Carolina inmate scheduled to be put to death later this month say state prison officials didn’t provide enough information about the drug to decide whether he wants to die by lethal injection. Freddie Owens’ attorneys want prison administrators to provide the actual report from state
Continue Reading Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — La Suprema Corte de Justicia de México determinó este martes en sesión privada la suspensión de actividades en apoyo al paro de labores que llevan adelante los trabajadores del Poder Judicial, informó el máximo tribunal de justicia. Con ocho votos a favor del paro y tres en contra, se decidió
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department announced criminal charges Tuesday against Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and other senior militants in connection with the Oct. 7, 2023, rampage in Israel, marking the first effort by American law enforcement to formally call out the masterminds of the attack. The seven-count criminal complaint filed in federal
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Channing Tatum knows how hard his fiancée, actor and first-time director Zoë Kravitz, worked on their new movie “Blink Twice.” Tatum shared some insight into that process in a swoon-worthy message posted to his Instagram page on Tuesday, where he gushed about the “Big Little Lies” star next to
Continue Reading By Andrew Adeolu Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A Baltimore man was arrested for attempting to take off with an airplane at Martin State Airport in Middle River, according to the Maryland State Police. Police arrived at Martin State Airport on August 30 around 5:10 p.m. after receiving reports of
Continue Reading By Andrew Adeolu Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — BALTIMORE — A Baltimore man was arrested for attempting to take off with an airplane at Martin State Airport in Middle River, according to the Maryland State Police. Police arrived at Martin State Airport on August 30 around 5:10 p.m. after receiving
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris plans to propose on Wednesday a tenfold increase in federal tax incentives for small business startup expenses, from $5,000 to $50,000, hoping to help spur a record 25 million new small business applications over her four-year term should she win the presidency in November. She’s set
Continue Reading By Kayla Tausche and Tami Luhby, CNN Washington (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris is set to propose a handful of new benefits to entrepreneurs and small business owners to spur the creation of millions of new businesses, as part of a second wave of economic proposals set to be unveiled Wednesday. In an economic
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