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Autoridades: las inundaciones tras el colapso de la represa en Ucrania dejan 5 personas muertas

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:53:29 GMT

UCRANIA — El presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, llegó este jueves a la región de Jersón, afectada por las inundaciones causadas por la rotura de una represa, para evaluar la respuesta a los daños.El mandatario escribió en su cuenta de Telegram que estaba ayudando a evaluar los esfuerzos para evacuar a la población civil, para suministrarle agua potable y otras ayudas, y para tratar de atajar los enormes daños medioambientales.Además, Zelenskyy planteó la posibilidad de asignar fondos para ayudar a compensar a los residentes y empresas que se vieron obligados a abandonar sus casas y oficinas por la crecida.Por su parte, el alcalde nombrado por el Kremlin para la ciudad ocupada de Nova Kajovka, que está a 3 millas de la represa y central hidroeléctrica derrumbadas, declaró este jueves a la televisora estatal rusa de que cinco de los siete residentes declarados desaparecidos tras el incidente habían muerto. Las otras dos personas fueron encontradas y se estaba tratando de evac...

Very young children among three critically wounded in knife attack in French Alpine town

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:53:29 GMT

PARIS (AP) — An attacker with a knife stabbed several very young children and at least one adult, leaving some with life-threatening injuries, in a lakeside park in a town in the French Alps on Thursday before he was arrested, authorities said. French President Emmanuel Macron said “children and an adult are between life and death.” He described the assault in the Alpine town of Annecy as an “attack of absolute cowardice.”“The nation is in shock,” he tweeted.Police detained the attacker, said Interior Minster Gerald Darmanin. National police said the attacker was a man in his thirties. Local police said the four child victims were all aged under 5.A witness who spoke to BFMTV said at least one of the children was attacked in a stroller by the man who approached and “started stabbing.” National police said two of the children, both aged around 3, suffered life-threatening injuries. One adult also suffered life-threatening wounds. A witness who spoke to BFMTV said he saw the attacker ...

Denver weather: Isolated storms with low air quality

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:53:29 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) - Denver weather will see a mix of sun and clouds before some isolated afternoon storms form and push out across the plains Thursday evening.Weather today: More storm chancesEarly sunshine leads to some afternoon clouds and the chance for some showers and storms. Highs reach the middle 70s Thursday with a light wind.Pinpoint Weather: daily forecast on June 8. Tubing and swimming restricted on Clear Creek in Golden Levels of ground ozone will reach the category of "unhealthy for sensitive groups" Thursday, so an air quality warning is in effect until 4 p.m.Pinpoint Weather advisories on June 8.Weather tonight: Partly cloudyClouds stick around Thursday night with mild lows in the middle 50s. Winds stay light as a light shower is possible across the plains before midnight.Pinpoint Weather: overnight forecast.Looking ahead: Rain continues and coolerFriday has smaller chances for afternoon showers with mild highs in the lower 70s. Colorado farmers markets near you Satu...

Tom Holland says he’s on a break from acting after ‘difficult’ experience filming ‘The Crowded Room’

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:53:29 GMT

(CNN) — Tom Holland learned about the value of prioritizing his mental health after producing and starring in his upcoming AppleTV+ miniseries “The Crowded Room.”That’s part of what has led to the “Spider-Man” star taking a break from acting to simply be a “regular bloke from Kingston and just relax,” he told Extra in an interview published on Tuesday.With heavy subject matter related to mental health, making “The Crowded Room” was “a tough time,” Holland said, because he was “exploring certain emotions that I have definitely never experienced before.”Inspired by Daniel Keyes’ 1981 novel “The Minds of Billy Milligan,” the miniseries follows a young man’s arrest for a shocking crime and the “unlikely investigator” who solves the mystery behind it, according to a synopsis.And while Holland said he “really enjoyed” making the series, he added that ultimately “the show did break me.”“There did come a time where I was like, I need to have a break. I disappeared, I went to Mexico for a we...

Woman trapped in Iowa building collapse describes her fight for survival before rescuers were forced to amputate her leg

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:53:29 GMT

(CNN) — Quanishia “Peach” White Berry and her wife, Lexus, say May 28 was as normal as any other day: They scrolled through TikTok videos while waiting for the groceries they had ordered so they could cook dinner.Then, they noticed the cracks in their home. First, Lexus spotted one separating a window from the wall of the six-floor apartment building. Her wife saw an even larger one in the bathroom.“I said, ‘Something’s wrong,’” Peach, 24, recalled. “I just felt it in my soul.”The cracks were growing by the second, and they began to make a frightening noise. The pair quickly grabbed their two cats, holding one each, and reached for the door. Lexus grabbed the handle and prepared to turn it.Then, the floor gave out and the building came crumbling down on top of them.Crushed by cement and debrisThree people were killed and dozens of apartment units were destroyed when the Davenport, Iowa, building partially collapsed.Peach and Lexus recalled the disaster to CNN in an exclusive joint i...

Nostalgic photos evoke the ‘golden age’ of American arcades

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:53:29 GMT

(CNN) — Flipping through Franck Bohbot’s photos of Californian arcades is like stepping into a time machine.In one, a dark, cavernous venue is lit up by the screens of retro games like “Terminator 2” and “Pac-man.” Another shows futuristic beams of neon light shooting past players in VR headsets as they fight off unseen enemies. Elsewhere, classic pinball machines stand alongside shiny, ultra-modern consoles; mid-game action shots follow images of eerily empty arcades.Retro arcade machines are seen here at Blipsy Bar in L.A.’s Koreatown. (Courtesy: Franck Bohbot) One minute you’re in the 1980s, the next in the present day. “That’s the power of the arcade,” Bohbot said in a phone interview.Shot largely in 2019, though not published until now because of the pandemic, Bohbot’s new book “Back to the Arcade” brings together almost 150 of his photographs from Los Angeles and southern California — a project intended to “document arcade culture and the escapism it provides,” Bohb...

Russia strikes school where flood evacuees were sheltering after Zelenskyy visits Kherson

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:53:29 GMT

KYIV — Russia unleashed a barrage of missiles on the Ukrainian-held parts of Kherson on Thursday, with eyewitnesses reporting multiple casualties at a school where flood evacuees who fled the rising waters of the Dnipro were sheltering.The shelling came just after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited a crossing point where people were being evacuated from flooded areas and called for “a clear and quick global response” to Tuesday’s bombing of the Nova Kakhovka dam, which Kyiv and its allies say the Kremlin orchestrated.“Orcs have just fired at the school building 2 where people from flooded homes were gathering,” said Yevhen Rischuk, the Ukrainian mayor-in-exile of the occupied town of Oleshky, which has been hard-hit by the floodwaters. “Orcs” is the nickname Ukrainians use for Russian forces.According to multiple eyewitnesses, the shelling targeting major evacuation routes from the city of Kherson, which Ukraine recaptured from Russia...

Trial of man accused of killing Weymouth police sergeant, bystander set to begin

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:53:29 GMT

The trial for a man accused of killing Weymouth police Sgt. Michael Chesna and a woman who was sitting on her porch during a violent confrontation in 2018 is set to begin on Thursday now that a jury has been seated.Emanuel Lopes, 25, has been ordered held without bail since his indictment. Prosecutors say he was fleeing a traffic stop when he hit Chesna with a rock and then murdered him with his own service weapon. Vera Adams, 77, was fatally struck by a bullet while Lopes was shooting at another officer, prosecutors allege.Chesna, 42, a U.S. Army veteran, left behind a wife and two children.The trial is taking place in Dedham Superior Court. Lopes is facing two counts of murder.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Pat Robertson, broadcaster who helped make religion central to GOP politics, dies at 93

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:53:29 GMT

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, has died. He was 93.Robertson’s death Thursday was announced by his broadcasting network. No cause was given.Robertson’s enterprises also included Regent University, an evangelical Christian school in Virginia Beach; the American Center for Law and Justice, which defends the First Amendment rights of religious people; and Operation Blessing, an international humanitarian organization.For more than a half-century, Robertson was a familiar presence in American living rooms, known for his “700 Club” television show, and in later years, his televised pronouncements of God’s judgment, blaming natural disasters on everything from homosexuality to the teaching of evolution.The money poured in as he solicited...

US applications for jobless benefits highest since October 2021

Published Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:53:29 GMT

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week rose to its highest level since October 2021, but the labor market remains one of the healthiest parts of the U.S. economy.The Labor Department reported Thursday that U.S. applications for jobless claims were 261,000 for the week ending June 3, an increase of 28,000 from the previous week’s 233,000. Weekly jobless claims are considered representative of U.S. layoffs.The four-week moving average of claims, which evens out some of the weekly variations, rose by 7,500 to 237,250.Overall, 1.76 million people were collecting unemployment benefits the week that ended May 27, about 37,000 fewer than the previous week.The U.S. economy has added jobs at a furious rate since the pandemic purge of more than 20 million jobs in the spring of 2020. Americans have enjoyed unusual job security, despite the Federal Reserve’s aggressive campaign to cool the economy and labor market in its bid to stifle persistent, decade...