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Se espera que cinco estadounidenses detenidos en Irán sean liberados este lunes, dice el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores iraní

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:51 GMT

(CNN) — Se espera que cinco estadounidenses que habían sido encarcelados en Irán sean liberados este lunes como parte de un acuerdo más amplio entre Estados Unidos e Irán, dijo el portavoz del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores iraní, Nasser Kanaani.Habló en una conferencia de prensa que se mostró este lunes en Press TV, afiliada al estado.El gobierno de Estados Unidos había designado a los cinco estadounidenses como detenidos injustamente.Esta es una noticia en desarrollo.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

‘Isn’t that special?’ Dana Carvey joins WTOP to talk ‘Church Lady’ to ‘Wayne’s World,’ Biden to Trump

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:51 GMT

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Cardinals start 4-game series against the Brewers

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:51 GMT

Milwaukee Brewers (84-65, first in the NL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (66-83, fifth in the NL Central)St. Louis; Monday, 7:45 p.m. EDTPITCHING PROBABLES: Brewers: Freddy Peralta (12-8, 3.73 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 200 strikeouts); Cardinals: Adam Wainwright (4-11, 7.95 ERA, 1.98 WHIP, 52 strikeouts)FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLB LINE: Brewers -171, Cardinals +145; over/under is 9 runsBOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals host the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday to begin a four-game series.St. Louis has a 32-42 record in home games and a 66-83 record overall. The Cardinals have the seventh-ranked team batting average in the NL at .252.Milwaukee has an 84-65 record overall and a 39-35 record on the road. The Brewers have gone 53-19 in games when they record at least eight hits.The matchup Monday is the seventh time these teams match up this season. The season series is tied 3-3.TOP PERFORMERS: Nolan Arenado has 26 doubles, two triples and 26 home runs while hitting .273 for the Cardinals. Willson Con...

Braves host the Phillies to open 3-game series

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:51 GMT

Philadelphia Phillies (81-68, second in the NL East) vs. Atlanta Braves (96-53, first in the NL East)Atlanta; Monday, 7:20 p.m. EDTPITCHING PROBABLES: Phillies: Zack Wheeler (11-6, 3.65 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 196 strikeouts); Braves: Kyle Wright (0-2, 7.48 ERA, 1.89 WHIP, 23 strikeouts)FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLB LINE: Braves -115, Phillies -104; over/under is 9 1/2 runsBOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves host the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday to begin a three-game series.Atlanta has gone 47-25 in home games and 96-53 overall. The Braves have a 74-7 record in games when they have more hits than their opponents.Philadelphia has gone 38-37 on the road and 81-68 overall. The Phillies have a 57-36 record in games when they record at least eight hits.Monday’s game is the 11th meeting between these teams this season. The Braves are up 7-3 in the season series.TOP PERFORMERS: Matt Olson has 26 doubles, three triples, 52 home runs and 129 RBI while hitting .278 for the Braves. Ronald Acuna Jr. is 1...

Ukraine, impeachment, workers strike and more: Biden’s U.N. balancing act

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:51 GMT

President Joe Biden will offer another defense of democracy this week at the annual United Nations General Assembly, the last such global gathering before the stretch run of the U.S. election season — but one already at risk of being overshadowed by messy domestic politics.Biden will again attempt to rally the world behind Ukraine, but the urgent calls to back Kyiv will be aimed just as much at home where he faces a looming funding fight with House Republicans.As he meets with world leaders, the president also will be grappling with possibly sweeping economic consequences of the United Auto Workers strike as well as ongoing fallout from the indictment of his son, Hunter, and an impeachment inquiry from Congress. His reelection bid will also be top of mind — and that campaign will likely pit him against someone who challenged the American democracy that Biden will try to showcase to the world during his four days in New York.“He will lay out to the world the steps that...

NATO’s Bulgaria finds crashed killer drone on its land

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:51 GMT

A drone carrying an explosive device was discovered on Bulgarian territory over the weekend.The Bulgarian defense ministry said Monday that it sent a special unit to destroy the drone, which was found overnight in the northern city of Tyulenovo on the Black Sea coast of the NATO country.Tyulenovo is about 30 kilometers from Romania’s southern border and hundreds of kilometers from Ukraine’s Danube River ports which Russia has bombarded with missiles and drones over the summer. The Bulgarian defense ministry said a five-member team from the Varna Naval Base was sent after a request from the regional governor and the defense chief. According to Bulgarian media, citizens found the drone on Sunday evening. The investigators discovered that 82 millimeter high-explosive ammunition was attached to the remains of the drone. Bulgarian Deputy Minister of Defense Yordan Bozhilov reportedly said it is difficult to determine the drone’s origin, and whether it belongs to Russia ...

Former Pats player Sergio Brown is missing and his mother has been found dead near a creek in a Chicago suburb

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:51 GMT

(CNN) — Former NFL player Sergio Brown is missing, and his mother was found dead Saturday near a creek in a Chicago suburb, according to police.Family of Brown and his mother, Myrtle, alerted police after they said they’d been unable to find or contact either of them, the Maywood Police Department said in a news release.“Maywood Police Officers initiated a missing person report and began making attempts to locate both individuals,” the news release read.Authorities searched a wide area and discovered Myrtle’s unresponsive body near a creek behind her home, according to the department.The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office determined Myrtle, 73, died from multiple injuries related to an assault, and the manner of death was homicide, according to records obtained by CNN affiliate WBBM.Sergio Brown, 35, played for Notre Dame before signing with the New England Patriots as an undrafted free agent in 2010. He played seven seasons in the NFL as a member of the Patriots, India...

Up in smoke: Cannabis Commission to meet without suspended chairwoman

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:51 GMT

The Cannabis Control Commission meets Monday absent its chairwoman after she was suddenly suspended from her job last week.On Thursday, Treasury Secretary Deb Goldberg removed pot boss Shannon O’Brien from her post just a year after the former gubernatorial candidate took the job steering marijuana policy for the state. The suspension, with pay, was made public the next day.O’Brien, who previously won election as State Treasurer, was appointed to lead the five member commission by Goldberg last August. The chairwoman is paid $181,722 per year for her work.At the time of her appointment, Goldberg said she was confident that O’Brien’s “financial background, experience in corporate governance, executive management, and business development, combined with outstanding leadership skills and an acute knowledge of the legislative process, will help the Massachusetts cannabis industry be fairly regulated, equitable, and successful.”After Thursday’s suspension, it’s quite clear th...

In the dark: RMV records restricted with immigrant driver’s license law

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:51 GMT

The state department of transportation will no longer release driving records to the public after the implementation of an immigrant driver’s license law this summer, which has given the agency cover to deny records requests for the documents.The records were considered public and easily accessible from MassDOT before July 1, the start date of the driver’s license law, which provides a pathway to legal driving for immigrants who can provide some form of documentation.But language included in the law bars the state from releasing any information related to a Massachusetts license holder. The statute says the information shall “neither be a public record nor disclosed by the registrar, except as authorized by regulations promulgated by the attorney general.”The Herald requested on Aug. 21 all city councilors’ and Mayor Michelle Wu’s driving records to test whether the documents remained publicly accessible under the new law. In a letter Thursday, MassDOT Records Access Officer W...

Russia urges UN’s top court to toss out Ukrainian case that seeks to halt Moscow’s invasion

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:51:51 GMT

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Russia on Monday called a Ukrainian case alleging that Moscow abused the Genocide Convention to justify its invasion last year an “abuse of process,” as lawyers for Moscow sought to have judges at the United Nation’s highest court throw it out.The leader of Moscow’s legal team at the International Court of Justice, Gennady Kuzmin, told the 16-judge panel that Ukraine’s case that seeks to halt the invasion “is, hopelessly flawed and at odds with the longstanding jurisprudence of this court.”He said Ukraine’s filing is “a manifest disregard of the proper administration of justice and constitutes an abuse of process.”Kyiv’s case filed shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, argues that the attack was based on false claims of acts of genocide in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions of eastern Ukraine and alleges that Moscow was planning genocidal acts in Ukraine.Ukraine claimed that “Russia has turned the Genocide Convention on its head — m...