39+ min ago (830+ words) TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras'Hondurans voted Sunday to elect a new president only days after President Trump intervened in a close race with an endorsement of one candidate and announced that he would pardon a former Honduran president convicted of trafficking cocaine into the United States. At a voting site in the capital, the country's major parties were represented outside with tables, banners, flags and music. Several dozen people lined up outside the gate to the neighborhood school and were allowed in about 30 minutes after the official start of voting. In addition to a new president, voters will elect a new Congress, as well as hundreds of local positions. Among the five presidential candidates on the ballot, polls indicated three had a chance to win and were finishing in close competition. They are: " Rixi Moncada, who served as finance and later as defense…...

39+ min ago (830+ words) TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras'Hondurans voted Sunday to elect a new president only days after President Trump intervened in a close race with an endorsement of one candidate and announced that he would pardon a former Honduran president convicted of trafficking cocaine into the United States. At a voting site in the capital, the country's major parties were represented outside with tables, banners, flags and music. Several dozen people lined up outside the gate to the neighborhood school and were allowed in about 30 minutes after the official start of voting. In addition to a new president, voters will elect a new Congress, as well as hundreds of local positions. Among the five presidential candidates on the ballot, polls indicated three had a chance to win and were finishing in close competition. They are: " Rixi Moncada, who served as finance and later as defense…...

53+ min ago (381+ words) Lo que parec'a imposible ahora es realidad: el "rey" de la Bachata, Romeo Santos, y el "pr'ncipe" del g'nero, Prince Royce, unen sus t'tulos nobiliarios para lanzar "Better Late Than Never", su primer "lbum conjunto. Santos y Royce sorprendieron a los fans de la bachata al mantener en absoluto secreto el proyecto, sin sencillos previos. El disco, ya disponible, est" conformado por trece temas in'ditos, compuestos por Santos, y cuenta adem"s con la pluma de Royce en cuatro de ellos. Santos encabez" toda la producci"n del trabajo, jugando con los arreglos tradicionales del g'nero y moderniz"ndolo mediante la fusi"n con otros ritmos. En "Jezabel", Santos y Royce nos envuelven en una historia de pasi"n e incorporan elementos del R&B y beats del reggaet"n, lo que refuerza la narrativa del tema. Por su parte,…...

1+ hour, 1+ min ago (617+ words) WASHINGTON'Lawmakers from both parties said Sunday that they support congressional reviews of U.S. military strikes against vessels in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, citing a published report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order for all crew members to be killed as part of a Sept. 2 attack. The lawmakers said they did not know whether last week's Washington Post report was true, and some Republicans were skeptical, but they said attacking survivors of an initial missile strike poses serious legal concerns. "This rises to the level of a war crime if it's true," said Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.). Rep. Michael R. Turner (R-Ohio), when asked about a follow-up strike aimed at people no longer able to fight, said Congress does not have information that that happened. He noted that leaders of the Armed Services Committee in both the…...

1+ hour, 29+ min ago (1080+ words) HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla.U.S. and Ukrainian officials completed about four hours of talks Sunday aimed at finding an endgame to Russia's war against Ukraine, days before a U.S. envoy is due in Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters afterward that the session with the Ukrainian team in Florida was productive but work remains in the search for a peace deal. President Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, is scheduled to meet with Putin in Moscow in the next few days. Rubio, Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, represented the American side in the high-level talks, held at a sensitive time as Ukraine continues to fend off Russian military attacks while dealing with a domestic corruption scandal. Diplomats have focused on revisions to a proposed U.S. plan that was developed in negotiations between Washington and Moscow....

1+ hour, 29+ min ago (1080+ words) HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla.U.S. and Ukrainian officials completed about four hours of talks Sunday aimed at finding an endgame to Russia's war against Ukraine, days before a U.S. envoy is due in Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters afterward that the session with the Ukrainian team in Florida was productive but work remains in the search for a peace deal. President Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, is scheduled to meet with Putin in Moscow in the next few days. Rubio, Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, represented the American side in the high-level talks, held at a sensitive time as Ukraine continues to fend off Russian military attacks while dealing with a domestic corruption scandal. Diplomats have focused on revisions to a proposed U.S. plan that was developed in negotiations between Washington and Moscow....

2+ hour, 12+ min ago (497+ words) Surely, someone has made a hash of the plot. Yes, he was 88, but the Czech-born, British playwright, the true 20th century heir to Oscar Wilde, would never have arranged things so banally. "A severe blow to Logic" is how a character describes the death of a philosophy professor in Stoppard's 1972 play "Jumpers." But then, as this polymath wag continues, "The truth to us philosophers, Mr. Crouch, is always an interim judgment " Unlike mystery novels, life does not guarantee a denouement; and if it came, how would one know whether to believe it?" Few people were more agnostically alive than Stoppard, who loved the finer things in life and handsomely earned them with his inexhaustible wit. A man of consummate urbanity who lived like a country squire, he was a sportsman (cricket was his game) and a connoisseur of ideas, which he…...

2+ hour, 14+ min ago (454+ words) CHARLOTTE, N.C.Humility, as Sean McVay likes to say, is only a day away. The Rams lived it on Sunday. The Carolina Panthers defeated the Rams, 31-28, before 71,292 at Bank of America Stadium, ending the Rams" six-game winning streak, dropping their record to 9-3 and knocking them out of the top seed in the NFC. The Rams could not overcome three turnovers, including Matthew Stafford"s first interceptions since a Week 3 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles and a fumble by Stafford on a strip sack with less than three minutes left. When the Rams play the Panthers in Carolina on Sunday, the 12-year veteran will again look to flash his skills when the team looks to improve to 10-2. Stafford passed for two touchdowns and Kyren Williams and Blake Corum each rushed for touchdowns, but the Rams ultimately were not able to overcome their…...

2+ hour, 14+ min ago (454+ words) CHARLOTTE, N.C.Humility, as Sean McVay likes to say, is only a day away. The Rams lived it on Sunday. The Carolina Panthers defeated the Rams, 31-28, before 71,292 at Bank of America Stadium, ending the Rams" six-game winning streak, dropping their record to 9-3 and knocking them out of the top seed in the NFC. The Rams could not overcome three turnovers, including Matthew Stafford"s first interceptions since a Week 3 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles and a fumble by Stafford on a strip sack with less than three minutes left. When the Rams play the Panthers in Carolina on Sunday, the 12-year veteran will again look to flash his skills when the team looks to improve to 10-2. Stafford passed for two touchdowns and Kyren Williams and Blake Corum each rushed for touchdowns, but the Rams ultimately were not able to overcome their…...

2+ hour, 29+ min ago (1701+ words) Lane Kiffin announced Sunday he is leaving his one-loss Ole Miss team to become the coach at LSU, taking over a Tigers program that has won national titles under three of its previous four coaches. The move, disclosed by Kiffin on social media, comes two days after No. 6 Mississippi's 39-19 victory over Mississippi State in the rivals' annual Egg Bowl game that all but guaranteed the Rebels a playoff berth. "I was hoping to complete a historic six season run with this year's team by leading Ole Miss through the playoffs, capitalizing on the team's incredible success and their commitment to finish strong," Kiffin wrote, adding that he would maintained "guardrails in place to protect the program in any areas of concern." Kiffins said Ole Miss athletic director Keith Carter denied his request "despite the team also asking him to allow…...