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Brittney Griner exige liberación de periodista estadounidense detenido en Rusia

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:33:42 GMT

WASHINGTON DC — La estrella estadounidense del baloncesto Brittney Griner y su esposa están preocupadas por la detención en Rusia del reportero del Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich y dijeron que “debemos hacer todo lo que esté en nuestro poder para traerle a él y a todos los estadounidenses a casa”.“Cualquier estadounidense que sea detenido es nuestro para luchar por él y cualquier estadounidense devuelto es una victoria para todos nosotros”, dijo Griner, que estuvo casi todo el año pasado detenida en Rusia, en un comunicado con Cheredelle Griner publicado el sábado por la noche en Instagram.Las autoridades rusas de seguridad detuvieron el jueves a Gershkovich, de 31 años, y le acusaron de espionaje. El diario rechazó las acusaciones y exigió su liberación.El presidente, Joe Biden, instó el viernes a Rusia a liberar a Gershkovich, el primer corresponsal estadounidense detenido por acusaciones de espionaje desde la Guerra Fría. Tragedia en México: se lanzan al vacío...

Anthony Joshua sets sights on Fury in tweak to rebuild plan

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:33:42 GMT

Anthony Joshua’s rebuild plan was to have three or four fights to gain momentum for another crack at a world heavyweight title.He’s happy to take a short cut.An all-British fight with WBC champion Tyson Fury could be back on the cards after Joshua beat Jermaine Franklin on points on Saturday in an unconvincing comeback fight following successive damaging losses to Oleksandr Usyk.Well, Joshua hopes so, anyway.“It’s 100% Tyson Fury,” Joshua said in the bowels of London’s O2 Arena early Sunday about who he wanted to fight next.“That’s the pot of gold. The WBC heavyweight champion of the world — that’s what it’s all about. Definitely Tyson Fury.”Fury might have something to say about that, though he is yet to respond to being called out by Joshua.And arranging a so-called “Battle of Britain” won’t be easy. A look at the two fighters’ previous attempts at negotiations point to that.In 2020, after some unseemly back-and-forth over social media, a Joshua-Fury fight to crown the winner the ...

Denver weather: Warm, windy before snow Tuesday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:33:42 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver’s weather will stay warm and windy through Monday ahead of the next snow chance on Tuesday. High fire danger continues on Sunday while winter storm watches and warnings are ready for the incoming snow Monday night. Pinpoint Weather: Watches and warnings on April 2.Weather today: Warm and windyOn Sunday, the metro will stay dry and windy with gusts reaching around 30 mph in Denver. Pinpoint Weather: Wind gusts on April 2. Bear Fire burns several acres in Golden Gate Canyon Temperatures will be a touch warmer than they were on Saturday and reach the upper 60s.Pinpoint Weather: Afternoon highs on April 2. Looking ahead: Snow TuesdayMonday is another warm and windy one with highs reaching the mid-60s. This will be ahead of the next system that will bring snow late Monday into Tuesday, followed by much cooler weather for the rest of the workweek.The mountains will see most of the snow, and light accumulation is expected across the metro and east.Pinpoint Weather:...

Trump’s lawyer expects to make motion to dismiss charges

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:33:42 GMT

Joe Tacopina, one of former President Donald Trump’s lawyers, said Sunday that he eventually expects to move to dismiss the charges against the former president.“I very much anticipate a motion to dismiss coming because there’s no law that fits this,” Tacopina told Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union.”Trump was indicted Thursday by a Manhattan grand jury in a case related to hush money his lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election. The exact charges against the former president have yet to be unveiled.The move to dismiss the charges against Trump won’t come until after his arraignment Tuesday, Tacopina said.“We’re not doing anything at the arraignment because that would be showmanship and nothing more because we haven’t even seen the indictment yet.”“We will take the indictment. We will dissect it. The team will look at every — every — potential issue that we will be able to challenge and we will challenge,” he added.

Former Arkansas Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson announces White House bid

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:33:42 GMT

(CNN) — Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has announced that he’s running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, launching a challenge to former President Donald Trump, who remains the front-runner despite his looming criminal indictment.“I’m convinced that people want leaders that appeal to the best of America, and not simply appeal to our worst instincts,” Hutchinson, 72, said in an interview on ABC New that aired Sunday, noting that a formal announcement would come later this month in his hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas.The GOP primary field is still in its early stages. Trump announced a third presidential campaign last year, while Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and US ambassador to the United Nations, became the first major rival to challenge him when she announced her bid in February. A number of other Republicans, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence, have...

With Bam Adebayo out, Heat may have found their next big things

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:33:42 GMT

No, the Miami Heat were not the big story in South Florida basketball on Saturday night, not with the emotional ends of the season for the University of Miami and Florida Atlantic University at the NCAA Final Four.But there still was a big story for the Heat in a season that now is assured of rolling on beyond the April 9 end of the NBA regular season.On a night center Bam Adebayo was unable to go because of a hip contusion, the Heat found salvation and redemption by alternate means in their power mix in their victory over the Dallas Mavericks, steps forward that could yet solidify the team’s rotation going into the postseason.With Adebayo out, amid uncertainty of where he stands for the team’s final four regular-season games, veteran journeyman Cody Zeller moved into the starting lineup and produced a 20-point, eight- rebound game.In addition, Kevin Love then stepped back into the reserve role in which he thrived last season with the Cleveland Cavaliers and led the Heat...

As Oceanside hospital reconsiders women and newborn services, nurses demand it stay open

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:33:42 GMT

OCEANSIDE, Calif. -- Registered nurses at Tri-City Medical Center gathered outside the Oceanside hospital on Friday to demand that women and newborn services remain open, as the Board of Directors reconsiders the recently underutilized department.This comes as the department has seen a decline in referrals of pregnant patients to Tri-City, prompting the board to re-evaluate the department's financial viability. At the rally and board meeting Friday, nurses who work in the department -- which is made up of the neonatal intensive care, labor and delivery and postpartum units -- voiced their concerns about shuttering these crucial services to hospital management. EPA gives green-light to phase out diesel-powered semi-trucks in California “Save our unit, we are important,” said NICU nurse, Marinnee Schompe. “We are not just a part that we can be replaced easily. I feel like we are important enough to maintain us."But with decreased deliveries over the last few years, Tri-City Interim ...

More Ecuadorians move to US, spared many others’ hurdles

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:33:42 GMT

SPRING VALLEY, New York (AP) — Kléver Ortega and Cristina Lema had a good life until COVID-19 crippled Ecuador’s economy.Ortega was a house-painting contractor and there was work until demand dried up in the pandemic. The entrepreneurial couple launched a pair of food stands. “Then the pandemic hit those, too,” Lema said. With unemployment, instability and crime rising, they decided to leave for the U.S., following many friends, family and acquaintances.“We used to hear it in the street: ‘They left. Look who else abandoned their business and took off,’” Lema said. “That’s when we, too, told ourselves, ‘We aren’t earning enough to survive or pay debts.’”Ecuador — long known for remarkably low rates of crime, despite sitting in South America’s cocaine heartland — is earthquake-prone and has been struggling economically, fighting higher violence and losing its people in record numbers. Like Ortega and Lema, many are headed to the U.S.; the number of Ecuadorians detained near the border...

Christian faithful mark Palm Sunday in Jerusalem

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:33:42 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Christian pilgrims participated in Palm Sunday celebrations in Jerusalem at the start of the Holy Week.Worshipers carried palm fronds and olive branches and marched from the top of the Mount of Olives to Jerusalem’s historic Old City, home to holy sites of the three Abrahamic monotheistic faiths.Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa and other Catholic clergy took part in the traditional procession, and handed out palm fronds to believers before leading them in a procession inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where tradition holds that Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected. Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem and is the start of the church’s most solemn week, which includes the Good Friday re-enactment of Jesus’ crucifixion and death and his resurrection on Easter.The procession made its way from the Mount of Olives past the Garden of Gethsemane where, according to biblical tradition, Jesus was betrayed, t...

Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto dies at 71

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:33:42 GMT

TOKYO (AP) — Ryuichi Sakamoto, a Japanese musician who scored for Hollywood movies such as “The Last Emperor” and “The Revenant,” has died. He was 71.Japan’s recording company Avex said in a statement that Sakamoto died on March 28.Sakamoto, who had suffered from cancer in recent years, had also acted in films, including playing a Japanese soldier in “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence.” He was a pioneer in electronics music of the late 1970s, founding the Yellow Magic Orchestra with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi. He has been nominated several times for the Grammy Award, and won for his work in “The Last Emperor.” The Associated Press