Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Around 2,000 hotel workers went on strike Tuesday at the world’s largest Hilton hotel and the biggest hotel in Hawaii. The workers at the Hilton Hawaiian Village are now among the more than 4,000 hotel workers striking at Hilton, Hyatt, and Marriott hotels in Honolulu, San Diego and San Francisco.
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El Paso, Texas (KVIA-TV)— Tower Productions’ newest award-winning short film, “So, Who Was It This Time?”, starring Ellar Coltrane (“Boyhood,” ‘The Circle,” The Good Lord Bird,” The Last Movie Star,” etc.) and Jessica Meraz (“Major Crimes,” “Nancy Drew,” “Drunk History,” “Chasing Life”, etc.), is premiering at the El Paso Film Festival happening on September 26 – 28, 2024 at the Philanthropy
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Andrea Saint Martin (CNN) — Coca-Cola está descontinuando la producción de su nuevo sabor Spiced solo seis meses después de su lanzamiento, marcando el fin de un intento fallido de atraer a los consumidores más jóvenes. La compañía declaró que Coca-Cola “siempre está observando lo que les gusta a nuestros clientes y ajustando” sus sabores.
Continue Reading Andrea Gomez (CNN) — Los científicos descubrieron una nueva especie de tiburón fantasma que vive en aguas oceánicas profundas cerca de Australia y Nueva Zelandia. El pez fantasma de nariz estrecha de Australasia, o Harriotta avia, fue encontrado en el Chatham Rise, un área de fondo oceánico frente a la costa este de la Isla
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By Oren Liebermann, Sarah Ferris and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — The US plans to announce billions of dollars for Ukraine in the coming days, committing the funding before it expires after Congress failed to include an extension for the aid in its stopgap measure to keep the government open, according to two defense officials and several congressional sources. The first
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By Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Aviation Administration has opened an investigation into the jolt on a United Airlines flight that injured two passengers when the pilots responded to an onboard midair collision system warning. United Airlines says as flight 2428 from Newark, New Jersey, was descending into San Francisco International Airport last Thursday,
Continue Reading Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran’s new president is signaling to world leaders that he wants to open what he’s calling a “constructive” chapter in his country’s international relations. But he’s making clear that everyone else, including the United States, needs to do their part. Masoud Pezeshkian addressed the U.N. General Assembly’s annual gathering
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By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN (CNN) — Republicans running for office in North Carolina and around the country are distancing themselves from Mark Robinson, deleting photos of themselves side by side with the embattled Republican nominee for governor and removing any reference to his endorsement from their campaign materials. Robinson has become politically
Continue Reading Associated Press FLOWOOD, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says legislators should ignore “myths” from opponents who want to block efforts by him and some other Republicans to phase out the state’s income tax. Reeves says Tuesday that erasing the tax will help the state reach its economic potential. Mississippi has long been one
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Associated Press Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ‘ Infowars media platform and its assets will be sold off piece by piece in auctions this fall to help pay the more than $1 billion he owes relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, under an order expected to be approved by a federal judge.
Continue Reading Associated Press Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ‘ Infowars media platform and its assets will be sold off piece by piece in auctions this fall to help pay the more than $1 billion he owes relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, under an order expected to be approved by a federal judge.
Continue Reading Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A jury on Tuesday began deliberating the fate of a former Houston police officer accused of being responsible for the 2019 deaths of a couple during a raid that prompted a probe which revealed systemic corruption problems within the police department’s narcotics unit. Gerald Goines is charged with two counts
Continue Reading Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas inmate who was beaten by a police officer in the back of a patrol car has sued the former officer and his police chief. Attorneys for Billy Lee Coram filed the lawsuit on Tuesday against former Jonesboro police officer Joseph Harris, Chief Rick Elliott and the
Continue Reading Belén Liotti (CNN) –– Los huracanes ya no son lo que eran y a medida que el planeta se calienta se transforman en algo más peligroso: se intensifican más rápido, producen más lluvias y generan marejadas ciclónicas más grandes. Para protegernos de estas amenazas crecientes, los investigadores afirman que la preparación para los huracanes y
Continue Reading CNN By Manu Raju, Ted Barrett and Sam Fossum, CNN Washington (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ vow to gut the Senate’s filibuster rule to pass a bill codifying abortion rights has cost her an endorsement from a leading Senate moderate: Joe Manchin. The West Virginia independent, one of the staunchest defenders of the potent
Continue Reading Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — There was a time when the city of Birmingham, Alabama, earned the nickname “Bombingham,” renowned for senseless violence and its strength in confronting the racial hatred that fueled it. But days after Birmingham endured its third mass shooting of 2024, officials and residents are voicing a new strain of
Continue Reading AP College Football Writer The Pac-12 is suing the Mountain West over what it calls an unlawful and unenforceable “poaching penalty” that would cost the rebuilding conference more than $40 million for adding Boise State, Fresno State, Colorado State and San Diego State, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court. The antitrust complaint
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By Jon Passantino and Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — The FBI on Monday reported that violent crime dropped across the US last year, registering the steepest annual decline in murders in decades. But the report was almost entirely ignored by right-wing media outlets, which have pushed a false narrative that crime is surging under President
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By Michelle Jarboe Click here for updates on this story CLEVELAND, Ohio (WEWS) — On Cleveland’s East Side, a forbidding brick wall is now a canvas. With a paint sprayer and aerosol cans, artists are creating one of the largest murals in the state. Their work surface stretches 728 feet along Woodhill Road, on the
Continue Reading Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — As the first St. Lucian to win an Olympic medal, sprinter Julien Alfred already has poetry, paintings and even a calypso song dedicated to her. On Tuesday, officials also announced that Sept. 27 would be Julien Alfred Day as the 23-year-old known as “JuJu” returned home to
Continue Reading Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a Mexican ice cream shop chain and a local pharmacy used as investments by drug traffickers. Mexican drug cartels often use the proceeds from international drug trafficking to establish businesses, pouring cash into anything from fraudulent timeshare operations to restaurants to launder money.
Continue Reading By Rebekah Ludman Click here for updates on this story September 24, 2024 (LAPost.com) — Do you live in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, or San Bernardino, including the Coachella Valley, counties? You may be eligible to receive $250 to replace your gas-powered lawn mower and garden equipment in a newly expanded rebate program. The South
Continue Reading Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — Los restos humanos hallados el 30 de julio en Uruguay corresponden a Luis Arigón Castel, quien estaba desaparecido desde 1977 ―en el marco de la última dictadura en el país―, informó este martes el fiscal especializado en crímenes de lesa humanidad, Ricardo Perciballe. En conferencia de prensa, Perciballe detalló que
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who authorities say staked out Donald Trump for 12 hours on his golf course in Florida and wrote of his desire to kill him was indicted Tuesday on an attempted assassination charge. Ryan Wesley Routh had been initially charged with two federal firearms offenses. The upgraded charges contained
Continue Reading More than a decade after retiring from football, Brett Favre says he has Parkinson’s disease. Favre told a congressional hearing Tuesday that he had been recently diagnosed. There are nearly 90,000 new Parkinson’s cases each year in the U.S. Parkinson’s is a neurologic disease that robs people of control over their movements. It typically starts
Continue Reading Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Donald Trump is again criticizing the Biden administration’s financial support for Ukraine in its war against Russia. This time he appeared to praise Russia’s military record from defeating Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler during World War II and French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte during an invasion. He argues a defeat may
Continue Reading Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — El presidente de Argentina, Javier Milei, afirmó este martes que la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) ya no vela por los principios que esbozó en su fundación, sino que impone “una agenda ideológica” a sus miembros. “Una organización que había sido pensada como un escudo para proteger el reino
Continue Reading CAIRO (AP) — The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders says new mothers and their children in the Sudanese region of South Darfur are experiencing one of the “worst” health emergencies in the world, one of the consequences of the violence that has engulfed the country since April 2023. Doctors Without Borders, also known as MSF,
Continue Reading By Morgan Rimmer, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Senate unanimously passed a bill guaranteeing that former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris receive the same level of Secret Service protection as a sitting president. Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida brought the legislation to the floor almost days after the House of Representatives
Continue Reading AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Houston slugger Yordan Alvarez is feeling better after spraining his right knee this weekend but isn’t sure when he’ll be able to return. “I wish I knew what was going to happen in the next few days or had a vision for what was going to happen in the
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