SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Houston Astros placed outfielder Ben Gamel on the 10-day injured list with a broken left leg on Tuesday, three days after he ran into the wall at Angel Stadium while making a running catch. Gamel will be out indefinitely, according to the club, which leads the AL West. He was
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AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has repeated false claims that Chinese automakers are putting up large factories in Mexico. The GOP presidential nominee is also vowing to slap 200% tariffs on any vehicles made in the unbuilt plants and shipped to the United States. During an appearance Tuesday in Flint,
Continue Reading By Tara John, Tamara Qiblawi, Oren Liebermann, Avery Schmitz and Yong Xiong, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of pagers carried by Hezbollah members in Lebanon blew up nearly simultaneously on Tuesday in an unprecedented attack that surpasses a series of covert assassinations and cyber-attacks in the region over recent years in its scope and execution. The Iran-backed militant
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Billie Jean King will become the first individual female athlete to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey announced Tuesday that their bipartisan legislation had passed the House of Representatives and would be sent to President Joe Biden for his signature. The
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By Eric Bradner and Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump told a Michigan crowd Tuesday night that steep tariffs he would impose on products imported from China, Mexico and other countries would rejuvenate the state’s automotive industry and drive an economic boom. Trump, in his first campaign event since Sunday’s apparent assassination
Continue Reading Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The cousin of a New Yorker hit by a stray police bullet says the man underwent cranial surgery to reduce swelling from a bullet wound. Greg Nougues says his cousin Gregory Delpeche was riding the subway to work when Delpeche was hit Sunday as NYPD officers fired at a
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Paul Whelan, who spent five-and-a-half years wrongfully detained in Russia, revealed Tuesday that he had spent the final five days leading up to his release in solitary confinement. “I couldn’t leave my cell, but I made it home,” he said in his first public comments since returning from Russia and completing
Continue Reading FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump says he’s meeting next week with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi is scheduled to be in the United States this weekend, along with the leaders of Australia and Japan, for a summit of the so-called Quad hosted by President Joe Biden in his Wilmington, Delaware, hometown.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — While most Tren de Aragua members who entered the U.S. through El Paso moved on to other areas, some remain here. At the El Paso County Detention Facility, four inmates are suspected members of the gang. However, it can be difficult for law enforcement officers to confirm because there is no
Continue Reading ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — When the Toronto Blue Jays traded Yusei Kikuchi to Houston, it created an opening for Bowden Francis. The right-hander certainly has made the most of the opportunity. Francis is 4-1 with a 1.50 ERA in his last seven starts. He has allowed just 16 hits in 48 innings in the dazzling
Continue Reading Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — An attack on a military base in eastern Colombia killed two soldiers and injured at least 21, Colombia’s military says, as tensions escalate between Colombia’s government and one of the nation’s largest remaining rebel groups. Colombia’s military blamed the National Liberation Army for the attack, with President Gustavo Petro
Continue Reading Associated Press CARACOLLO, Bolivia (AP) — Thousands of anti-government demonstrators marching in support of Bolivia’s former President Evo Morales clashed on Tuesday with counterprotesters blocking their way, a stark sign of an escalating power struggle in the volatile Andean nation. In his most brazen show of force yet against current President Luis Arce, Morales sent
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Belén Liotti Londres (CNN) –– El Brexit está teniendo “efectos sofocantes profundos y continuos” en el comercio de bienes entre el Reino Unido y la Unión Europea, según un nuevo informe que se suma a la evidencia del daño económico causado por la salida de Gran Bretaña del bloque comercial más grande del mundo. Los
Continue Reading Karen Esquivel (CNN Español) — Genaro García Luna, exsecretario de Seguridad Pública de México entre 2006 y 2012, reveló que la Fiscalía de Nueva York le propuso aceptar un acuerdo de culpabilidad que supondría pasar en prisión seis meses, obtener beneficios económicos y convertirse en testigo para señalar a personas e instituciones de México, de
Continue Reading Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court has denied the latest appeal by a man who has been on death row for 30 years. The court ruled 5-4 Monday that Willie Jerome Manning “has had his days in court.” He was convicted of killing two college students in 1992. Manning’s attorney said
Continue Reading Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three bills Tuesday to crack down on the use of artificial intelligence to create false images or videos in political ads ahead of the 2024 election. A new law, set to take effect immediately, makes it illegal to create and publish deepfakes related to
Continue Reading Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Ghana’s biggest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress, has held nationwide protests. It demanded an audit of the voter roll for the upcoming December general election. Millions of supporters reportedly participated in Tuesday’s protests. That’s according to NDC member Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa on TV3. Protests took place in all
Continue Reading Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy announced Tuesday that it is teaming up with yet another energy company as part of a mission to transform portions of government-owned property once used for the nation’s nuclear weapons program into prime real estate for renewable energy endeavors. The federal agency will be
Continue Reading Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A federal court in Brazil has dismissed charges against one of three men arrested in the killings of an Indigenous peoples expert and a British journalist in the Amazon, ruling there wasn’t sufficient evidence to try him. The Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region also decided Tuesday that
Continue Reading Andrea Saint Martin (CNN) — Fiscales ucranianos iniciaron una investigación sobre la presunta ejecución por parte de Rusia de un soldado ucraniano, quien fue encontrado muerto con una espada inscrita con las palabras “por Kursk” en su cuerpo, en un aparente acto de venganza por la reciente incursión de Kyiv en la región fronteriza rusa.
Continue Reading César López (CNN Español) — Campeón del mundo y bicampeón de América, sin duda alguna Rodrigo De Paul es uno de los referentes actuales del fútbol mundial. La tracción mediática del “motorcito”, como le apodan en Argentina, es tan grande como su influencia futbolística junto a Lionel Messi y las figuras de la selección de
Continue Reading By Kayla Tausche, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Biden administration submitted a special request to congressional committees in August asking for a boost to funding for the US Secret Service in the weeks leading up to and after the 2024 election, according to sources familiar with the matter, warning of “insufficient resources” for the agency
Continue Reading ARLIINGTON, Texas (AP) — Two-time All-Star shortstop Bo Bichette was activated from the injured list on Tuesday and returned to the Toronto Blue Jays’ lineup for the first time since July 19. Bichette was sidelined with a calf injury. He said before Toronto’s game against the Texas Rangers that he feels no effects from the
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By Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN New York (CNN) — United Auto Workers union President Shawn Fain said Tuesday the group plans to hold strike authorization votes against Stellantis because the automaker was failing to live up to guarantees it made during a labor deal struck last year. In a speech to members Tuesday
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — At least 30 people have been killed in the past two weeks in Mexico’s northern state of Sinaloa as two factions of the powerful Sinaloa cartel continue to clash. Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval said Tuesday that two military personnel were among those killed in the fighting that started Sept. 9,
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Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. military has moved about 130 soldiers along with mobile rocket launchers to a desolate island in Alaska amid a recent increase in Russian military planes and vessels approaching the state. Eight Russian military planes and four navy vessels, including two submarines, have come close to Alaska in
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — In newly released audio from a 2011 interview with “60 Minutes,” a then-21-year-old Taylor Swift says she was, at the time, not inspired to sing about topics related to politics. It wasn’t until over a decade into Swift’s career, in 2018, that she decided to finally broach the topic
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — In a Costa Rican rainforest, a small, semiaquatic lizard called a diving anole leaps into a stream. Minutes pass, but the anole doesn’t surface for air, as these lizards typically do. Instead, the submerged lizard crouches on a river rock, a small air bubble atop its head expanding like a balloon
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Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — After a meltdown summer, Phoenix finally is getting just a glimpse — ever so briefly — of a cooldown. The National Weather Service said Tuesday’s high temperature was 93 degrees Fahrenheit (33.8 Celsius) at 4 p.m. MST. “It’s not going to go to 100,” meteorologist Gabriel Lojero said. That meant
Continue Reading Andrea Saint Martin (CNN Español) — Un cuarto estadounidense vinculado por el Gobierno del presidente Nicolás Maduro con un supuesto “plan contra Venezuela” fue detenido este martes, dijo el ministro del Interior, Diosdado Cabello. El funcionario agregó que este nuevo arrestado —cuyo nombre no reveló— estaba fotografiando instalaciones estratégicas. “Lo veníamos siguiendo, fue capturado aquí
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