Noticias de Hoy

The NBA veteran is the first openly gay male athlete in a major professional team sport.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A spokeswoman for Catherine Zeta-Jones says the actress has "proactively" checked into a mental health facility for treatment of her bipolar condition.

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Carrie Fisher just won’t give us a straight answer!Though George Lucas seems to have spilled the beans that Carrie, Harrison Ford, and Mark Hamill will all be back for Star Wars 7, Carrie is enjoying being a tease! She says: “I like being bought by Disney, because they never wanted to buy me before. “Well, that seems like a confirmation, right? But you’ll notice she gets sillier and sillier the longer she talks about it! She says:”I’m glad they are doing a new movie because they are sending a trainer to my house so I can get in really good shape. So I’m really eating a lot of sugar in advance, as you can see. By the time I really get down to it I will have eaten everything. “Well, unless she wants to come back as Leia the Hutt, we’re guessing she’s kidding about the eating everything! We just hope she’s serious about getting bought!Well, not bought! Just well paid! Bought makes her sound like a slave Leia! LOLz!

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HOUSTON (AP) ? The Houston Rockets finally found a way to close out a game in their playoff series with the Oklahoma City Thunder.

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By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – An influential U. S. panel is calling for HIV screening for all Americans aged 15 to 65, regardless of whether they are considered to be at high risk, a change that may help lift some of the stigma associated with HIV testing. The new guidelines from the U. S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a government-backed panel of doctors and scientists, now align with longstanding recommendations by the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for testing of all adults aged 15 to 65, regardless of their risk. . . .

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? Despite significant improvements since the hard-line Taliban ruled Afghanistan, religious freedom remains poor, especially for minorities, and Afghans still can’t debate religion or question prevailing Islamic orthodoxies without fear of being punished, a U. S. commission said in a new report on Tuesday.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday that he’s not talking about running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016 and he’s not waiting to see if Hillary Clinton runs.

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By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) – Former Governor Mark Sanford deflected criticism of an extramarital affair leveled in a debate on Monday by his opponent for a South Carolina congressional seat, political newcomer Elizabeth Colbert Busch. Sanford, a Republican, is hoping to revive his political career after he famously disappeared from the state in 2009 while he was governor to visit his mistress in Argentina, telling aides that he was hiking the Appalachian Trail. . . .

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A 27-year-old giant panda died in Mexico City’s Chapultepec Zoo this weekend, reducing the country’s panda population from three bears, to two.

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By Stanley White and Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s household spending surged in March at the fastest pace in nine years in a sign that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s bold efforts to end two decades of stagnation are lifting consumer confidence and setting the stage for an economic revival. A recent run of data has provided encouraging early hope that Abe’s push for aggressive fiscal and monetary policies to get the world’s third-largest economy motoring is having the desired effect. . . .

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