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LONDON (AP) — You gotta have more than “Faith” to pocket the new George Michael coin. A commemorative minting of coins that rolled out on Monday ranged in price from a couple of banknotes to a small fortune as the late musician continues to rack up posthumous honors years after his death. A silver-colored version stamped by the Royal Mint …

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — La candidata a la presidencia de México por una coalición opositora, Xóchitl Gálvez, informó el domingo que su número de teléfono fue divulgado en redes sociales, lo que representa un nuevo caso de filtración de datos que han afectado a varias figuras del oficialismo en México. Gálvez publicó en la red social X, antes Twitter, …

Russian authorities on Monday sought a prison sentence of nearly three years for a veteran human rights advocate who spoke out against the war in Ukraine. The prosecution demanded that Oleg Orlov, 70, be convicted of “repeatedly discrediting” the Russian army and sentenced to two years and 11 months in prison. The demand came in a retrial after he was …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is sending the nation’s top health official to Alabama on Tuesday for discussions with patients and doctors about the controversial court ruling that upended in vitro fertilization treatment in the state. The ruling by the Republican-controlled Alabama Supreme Court has unexpectedly propelled the issue of IVF into the presidential campaign conversation right ahead of …

A man convicted of fatally shooting two teenagers at a Southern California movie theater during a 2021 showing of “The Forever Purge” was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Joseph Jimenez Jr., 23, was found guilty in December of two counts of first-degree murder, as well as a sentencing enhancement of personal use of a …

KIEV, Ucrania (AP) — Las tropas ucranianas se retiraron de una aldea en el este del país, informó el lunes un portavoz del ejército, al tiempo que las fuerzas rusas muestran ventajas en personal y municiones en el campo de batalla al cumplirse dos años de la guerra. El último revés para los soldados de Kiev se produjo en la …

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The political consultant behind a robocall that mimicked President Joe Biden’s voice said Monday he was trying to send a wake-up call about the potential malign uses of artificial intelligence, not influence the outcome of last month’s New Hampshire primary. Steve Kramer, in an interview days after he was publicly identified as the source of the …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump appears close to invincible in the Republican primaries and caucuses, but despite his commanding victories, the front-runner’s strength among general election voters remains unclear. AP VoteCast shows that Trump, the former president, has galvanized the core of the GOP electorate in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. His voters so far are overwhelmingly white, mostly …

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s celebrity owl Flaco died from a traumatic impact, zoologists confirmed a day after he reportedly flew into a building, with further testing planned to determine if the Eurasian eagle-owl may have been sick. What happened in Flaco’s final hours is top of mind for his fans across the city, who cheered him on …

OXON HILL, Maryland, EE.UU. (AP) — Javier Milei, el exaltado presidente populista de derecha de Argentina, le dio el sábado a Donald Trump un efusivo abrazo un día después de reunirse con funcionarios del gobierno de Joe Biden en Buenos Aires. Trump y Milei fueron los principales oradores para cerrar la Conferencia de Acción Política Conservadora (CPAC, por sus siglas …