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La principal agencia de inteligencia interna de Rusia ha detenido a una mujer con doble nacionalidad estadounidense y rusa por cargos de traición, acusándola de recaudar dinero para el ejército ucraniano. El Servicio Federal de Seguridad informó en un comunicado a primera hora del martes que la mujer, residente de Los Ángeles, había sido detenida en la ciudad de Ekaterimburgo, …

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A court in Montenegro has ruled that Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon should be extradited to the United States to face fraud charges rather than to his native South Korea, a court official in the Balkan Country said Thursday. Kwon, 32, was arrested nearly a year ago in Montenegro on an international arrest warrant in connection …

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s lawmakers voted on Thursday to approve over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill for ages 15 and above in a step to liberalize Poland’s strict reproductive law inherited from the previous nationalist conservative government. The vote in the lower house was the first step in the plans of the new pro-European Union government to loosen the …

AT&T said the hourslong outage to its U.S. cellphone network Thursday appeared to be the result of a technical error, not a malicious attack. The outage knocked out cellphone service for thousands of its users across the U.S. starting early Thursday before it was restored. AT&T blamed the incident on an error in coding, without elaborating. “Based on our initial …

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador denied allegations contained in a U.S. media report published Thursday about a U.S. inquiry into accusations that people close to him took money from drug traffickers shortly before his 2018 election and again after he was president. The New York Times story cited unidentified U.S. officials familiar with the now …

ST. JOHNS, Mich. (AP) — A jury convicted a mid-Michigan man of second-degree murder and a weapons charge Thursday in the fatal 2018 shooting of a Lansing-area hunter. The Clinton County jury found Thomas Olson, 35, of Grand Blanc guilty in the slaying of Chong Moua Yang, 68, at Rose Lake State Park in Bath Township, northeast of Lansing, Attorney …

A Michigan man is the first person to face charges under the state’s new law requiring gun owners to keep weapons in locked storage containers around minors. The case is bringing attention to similar state laws across the U.S. and prosecutors’ determination of when to bring criminal charges using them. The debate is particularly sharp in Michigan, where prosecutors in …

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Democratic-controlled Virginia Senate and House of Delegates on Thursday each passed their own proposed version of the next two-year state budget, documents lawmakers will start to work from to fashion a compromise spending plan to send to Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin. Both chambers signed off on amendments to the 2024-2026 budget Youngkin first proposed in …

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — El presidente mexicano Andrés Manuel López Obrador pidió el jueves al gobierno de Estados Unidos que informe sobre las investigaciones preliminares que habrían avanzado autoridades de ese país sobre el supuesto financiamiento de narcotraficantes a colaboradores del mandatario. López Obrador hizo la petición tras difundir en su conferencia matutina un cuestionario que le envió el …

Private lander makes first US moon landing in more than 50 years CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lander on Thursday made the first U.S. touchdown on the moon in more than 50 years, but managed just a weak signal back until flight controllers scrambled to gain better contact. Despite the spotty communication, Intuitive Machines, the company that built …