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8+ min ago (218+ words) HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. " President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of former investment manager David Gentile, who was convicted of defrauding investors " the latest in a series of clemency actions Trump has taken in white-collar criminal cases. Gentile had reported to prison on Nov. 14, just days before Trump commuted his sentence, according to a White House official who requested anonymity to provide details of the clemency action. Gentile had been the CEO and co-founder of GPB Capital, which had raised $1.6 billion in capital to acquire companies in the auto, retail, health care and housing sectors. He had been sentenced to seven years in prison after an August 2024 conviction for his role in what the Justice Department at the time described as a scheme to defraud more than 10,000 investors by misrepresenting the performance of three private equity funds. But the…...

1+ hour, 4+ min ago (264+ words) Su deceso fue confirmado en un comunicado por su familia difundido por West Ham el domingo. El club de la Liga Premier dijo que Bonds "falleci" apaciblemente" el domingo por la ma'ana. Antiguo capit'n de los "Hammers", Bonds fue el jugador con m's a'os de servicio en la historia del club, con 799 apariciones a lo largo de un per'odo de 21 a'os. Conquist" dos Copas FA antes de retirarse a la edad de 41 a'os. Dirigi" a West Ham desde 1990 hasta 1994. "Pap' amaba al West Ham United y a sus maravillosos hinchas con todo su coraz"n y atesor" cada momento de su tiempo en el club", expres" su familia en un comunicado. "Siempre estar' en nuestros corazones y ser' eternamente extra'ado. Nos consuela saber que su legado vivir' para siempre". En 2018, los aficionados de West Ham votaron a Bonds como el…...

1+ hour, 18+ min ago (54+ words) A winter storm watch will be in effect for much of northern and central Illinois and parts of northwest Indiana until 6 a.m. Sunday, with possible snow accumulations of over 6 inches. Chicagoans dig out and enjoy the weather after over 8 inches of snow were recorded across the region Saturday and Sunday....

1+ hour, 29+ min ago (241+ words) Zootopia 2" had a roaring, record-setting opening at the box office. The animal city sequel from the Walt Disney Company brought in $96 million in North America over the weekend, earned $156 million over the five-day Thanksgiving frame, and scored a staggering $556 million globally since its Wednesday opening, according to studio estimates Sunday. That made it the highest international opening ever for an animated movie, the fourth highest global debut of any kind, and the top international opener of 2025. Wicked: For Good" stayed aloft in its second weekend for Universal Pictures, earning another $62.8 million domestically over the weekend for a North American total of $270.4 million. The second half of the Wicked" saga has brought in $393 million internationally. The pair of sequels combined to make the Thanksgiving weekend a glimmering exception to an otherwise dark year at movie theaters. Zootopia 2" arrives almost a decade…...

1+ hour, 39+ min ago (800+ words) Por REGINA GARC'A CANO Pero mientras la Casa Blanca reflexiona ahora sobre si el ej'rcito estadounidense deber'a atacar a Venezuela, Maduro adopta el ingl's, canta "Imagine, de John Lennon, aboga por la paz, y baila al ritmo de un remix de su "ltimo eslogan en ingl's: "No War, Yes Peace (No guerra, s' paz). Si bien su cambio de postura es visto como una se'al de desesperaci'n por los partidarios de la oposici'n pol'tica en Venezuela, cuyos l'deres han reiterado a quienes los apoyan en Washington que la amenaza de una acci'n militar quebrar" el c'rculo 'ntimo de Maduro, meses de presi'n a"n no han producido deserciones ni una transici'n de gobierno. Detr"s de esta habilidad para mantenerse en el poder se esconde un sistema que castiga severamente a los aliados desleales y permite que ministros, jueces, l'deres…...

1+ hour, 46+ min ago (1262+ words) The college football regular season is complete. Now it's on to conference championship weekend and then the playoffs and bowl games. Before we turn our attention to the postseason, here's a quick look at how Big Ten teams and Notre Dame finished Week 14 " including a few wild weather games. Illinois was clinging to a four-point lead against Northwestern in the fourth quarter Saturday at Gies Memorial Stadium when Miles Scott darted forward to intercept a Preston Stone pass and returned it 33 yards. The Illini turned that takeaway into a David Olano 27-yard field goal and a seven-point lead. Five Northwestern plays and a minute later, Scott did it again. His second interception off a tipped pass helped Illinois pull off a 20-13 victory over the Wildcats (6-6, 4-5) on a snowy night in Champaign. The Illini (8-4, 5-4) held off one final NU drive to…...

1+ hour, 57+ min ago (224+ words) November 30, 2025 / 1:26 PM CST / CBS Chicago A family was reeling with grief this holiday weekend after three children died in an apartment fire in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Thanksgiving. The Kenosha Police Department said in a statement that at 10:40 p.m. Thanksgiving Thursday evening, the city's fire department was called for a fire at a multi-unit apartment building in the 5200 block of 43rd Avenue. Police said two young brothers died at the scene, while their sister was taken to an area hospital via a flight for life and died there. Their father was also hospitalized and treated for smoke inhalation, police said. The children's mother, Jourdan Feasby, spoke with CBS 58 Milwaukee reporter Ellie Nakamoto-White. She identified her sons as Rylee Levi, 10, and Connor Liam, 9, and her daughter as Alena Ellen, 7. Jourdan Feasby told the station she had spent Thanksgiving morning with the three children and…...

2+ hour, 14+ min ago (710+ words) ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE " Pope Leo XIV doubled down Sunday on the Holy See's insistence on a two-state solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying in his first airborne news conference that it was the "only solution" that could guarantee justice for both sides. Leo made the comments as he flew from Istanbul to Beirut for the second and final leg of his maiden voyage as pope. Though Leo has been fielding journalists' questions at informal gatherings at his country house, the brief encounter marked his first news conference as pope and followed the tradition of his predecessors of using his foreign trips to engage with the media. Because of the short flight, the news conference was limited to two questions from Turkish journalists. When Leo returns to Rome on Tuesday, the encounter will presumably be longer. The American pope…...

2+ hour, 37+ min ago (285+ words) Stuttgart apretaba por un gol tard'o para someter a un Hamburgo en inferioridad num'rica, pero el tiro libre de Angelo Stiller fue directo a un oponente y Fabio Bald' se escap" por la izquierda antes de pasarle el bal"n a Vieira. El volante portugu's hizo enloquecer a los aficionados locales al depositar el bal"n en el fondo de la red a los 94 minutos. Hamburgo se defend'a con todo tras expulsi"n de Alexander R'ssing-Lelesiit, un extremo noruego de 18 a'os, a los 81 minutos al recibir su segunda tarjeta amarilla por una entrada a destiempo sobre Josha Vagnoman. R'ssing-Lelesiit gest" una jugada brillante para asistir a Robert Glatzel en el primer gol a los 17 minutos, desairando a varios defensores y luego mantener el equilibrio despu's de una falta para ceder el bal"n a su compa'ero mejor posicionado. Deniz Undav…...

2+ hour, 43+ min ago (243+ words) VERSAILLES, France " A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, which was hidden for more than four centuries, sold at 2.3 million euros ($2.7 million) at an auction Sunday in Versailles. The painting was recently found in a private townhouse in Paris. It depicts the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It was part of a French collection and was initially thought to be from one of the many Rubens workshops that existed at the time. The artwork was rarely valued at more than 10,000 euros ($11,500). Nils B'ttner, an expert known for his research on Rubens, explained before the auction that the master often painted crucifictions but rarely depicted "the crucified Christ as a dead body on the cross." "So this is the one and only painting showing blood and water coming out of the side wound of Christ, and this is something that…...