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THERMAL, California (KESQ) – Una persona ha fallecido y otras tres han resultado gravemente heridas tras una colisión frontal entre dos vehículos ocurrida el viernes por la tarde en Thermal.

El accidente se produjo alrededor de las 14:05 h en el número 58000 de la avenida Fillmore, cerca de la avenida 58.

La Patrulla de Carreteras de California confirmó que entre los heridos había dos hombres, una mujer y un menor.

Posteriormente, los agentes de la CHP confirmaron que se había declarado el fallecimiento de la mujer. No llevaba puesto el cinturón de seguridad.

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DAVIS, Calif. (KEYT) - UCSB ace Jackson Flora shined on the road as the Gauchos match a program record with their 13th straight win blanking UC Davis 4-0.

Flora, who is expected to be a high first round selection in this summer's MLB Draft, pitched 7 1/3 innings of 2-hit shutout ball, striking out 11 and walking just one. He is now 5-0 on the year and lowered his ERA to a microscopic 1.15 on the season.

The Gauchos (14-2, 4-0 in Big West) collected 11 hits which included a 2-run double by Nick Husovsky in the fifth inning.

(Husovsky celebrates after driving in a pair of runs. UCSB Athletics)

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By Helen Regan, Laura Sharman, CNN

(CNN) — During the first two weeks of the latest war in the Middle East, as US and Israeli strikes rained down on military and energy facilities across Iran, one site went conspicuously untouched.

Despite its tiny size, Kharg Island is an economic lifeline for Iran, handling roughly 90% of the country’s crude exports – meaning any assault on it risks major escalation.

But on Friday the US hit military facilities on the island. Sites related to the oil trade were not hit, according to US officials and Iranian state media. But Trump has threatened to strike those too, if Iran continues blocking ships from traversing the Strait of Hormuz.

Here’s what to know about this crucial spigot in Iran’s oil exports operation.

Why is the island so important?

Kharg Island is a coral outcrop around a third of the size of Manhattan just 25 kilometers (15 miles) off Iran’s coast, in the Persian Gulf.

Almost every day, millions of barrels of crude oil gush from Iran’s major fields – including Ahvaz, Marun and Gachsaran – through pipelines to the island, known among Iranians as the “Forbidden Island” due to tight military controls.

Its long jetties, jutting into waters deep enough to accommodate oil supertankers, make the island a critical site for oil distribution. It processes 90% of Iran’s crude exports.

The island has long been key to Iran’s economy. A CIA document from 1984 said the facilities are “the most vital in Iran’s oil system, and their continued operation is essential to Iran’s economic well-being.” Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid recently said that destroying the terminal would “cripple Iran’s economy and topple the regime.”

Iran supplies about 4.5% of global oil, pumping 3.3 million barrels of crude and 1.3 million barrels of condensate and other liquids daily, according to Reuters.

And the island has been loading tankers “non-stop since the war broke out,” according to TankerTrackers.com, which uses satellite imagery, shore photography and data to track crude oil shipments.

In the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, exports from Kharg were ramped up to near-record levels, US investment bank JP Morgan said in a note reported by Reuters.

Storage capacity on Kharg is estimated at roughly 30 million barrels and, according to global trade analyst Kpler, about 18 million barrels of crude are currently stored there, Reuters reported.

What happened to Kharg?

Trump announced Friday that the US military conducted what he called “one of the most powerful bombing raids in the history of the Middle East,” wiping out military assets on Kharg Island.

Video posted to Truth Social by Trump and geolocated by CNN showed US strikes on Kharg’s airport facilities and runway.

A US military official told CNN the strikes were “large-scale” but avoided hitting the island’s oil infrastructure. Targets included naval mine storage facilities, missile storage bunkers and other military infrastructure, the official added.

Iran said more than 15 explosions were reported on the island but no oil infrastructure was damaged, according to state-affiliated Fars news agency.

Trump, however, threatened to attack the island’s oil assets if Iran continues blocking ships from the Strait of Hormuz.

What impact would strikes have on the war and global oil prices?

Iran has said any attack on its oil and ener

By Lisa Respers France, CNN

(CNN) — The winners of the 46th Razzie Awards have been announced, and one film had a bit of a sweep when it comes to the best of the worst.

“War Of The Worlds” (the 2025 version) won a slew of the dubious honors, timed to coincide with Oscars weekend, including worst picture, worst remake/rip-off sequel, worst screenplay, worst director and worst actor, for Ice Cube.

“War of the Worlds,” like the 2005 film of the same name starring Tom Cruise, is based on H. G. Wells’ 1898 novel “The War of the Worlds,” racked up six nominations total, losing only worst screen combo, which went to all seven CGI dwarfs in last year’s Disney live-action reimagining “Snow White.”

The artificial septet also nabbed the trophy for worst supporting actor.

The Golden Raspberry Awards, known as the Razzies, take a tongue-in-cheek approach to cinema by handing out awards for those films that are, shall we say, viewed as less than stellar.

As is tradition, the “winners” are announced the day before the Academy Awards ceremony.

This season’s Razzie Redeemer Award went to Kate Hudson for “Song Sung Blue,” after her 2021 win for worst actress for “Music.”

Below is the list of nominees with winners noted in bold.

Worst Picture

“The Electric State”

“Hurry Up Tomorrow”

“Disney’s Snow White” (2025)

“Star Trek: Section 31”

“War of the Worlds” (2025) *WINNER

Worst Actor

Dave Bautista / “In The Lost Lands”

Ice Cube / “War of the Worlds” *WINNER

Scott Eastwood / “Alarum”

Jared Leto / “Tron: Ares”

Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye / “Hurry Up Tomorrow”

Worst Actress

Ariana DeBose / “Love Hurts”

Milla Jovovich /”In The Lost Lands”

Natalie Portman / “Fountain Of Youth”

Rebel Wilson / “Bride Hard” *WINNER

Michele Yeoh / “Star Trek: Section 31”

Worst Remake/Rip-off Sequel

“I Know What You Did Last Summer” (2025)

“Five Nights At Freddy’s 2”

“Smurfs” (2025)

“Snow White” (2025)

“War Of The Worlds” (2025) *WINNER

Worst Supporting Actress

Anna Chlumsky / “Bride Hard”

Ema Horvath / “The Strangers: Chapter 2”

Scarlet Rose Stallone / “Gunslingers” *WINNER

Kacey Rohl / “Star Trek: Section 31”

Isis Valverde / “Alarum”

Worst Supporting Actor

All Seven Artificial Dwarfs / “Snow White” (2025) *WINNER

Nicolas Cage / “Gunslingers”

Stephen Dorff / “Bride Hard”

Greg Kinnear / “Off The Grid”

Sylvester Stallone / “Alarum”

Worst Screen Combo

All Seven Dwarfs / “Snow White” (2025) *WINNER

James Corden & Rihanna / “Smurfs” (2025)

Ice Cube and His Zoom Camera / “War of the Worlds” (2025)

Robert DeNiro and Robert DeNiro (as Frank & Vito) / “The Alto Knights”

The Weeknd and His Colossal Ego / “Hurry Up Tomorrow”

Worst Director

Rich Lee / “War of The Worlds” (2025) *WINNER

Olatunde Osunsanmi / “Star Trek: Section 31”

The Russo Brothers / “The Electric State”

Trey Edward Shults / “Hurry Up Tomorrow”

Marc Webb / “Snow White” (2025)

Worst Screenplay

“The Electric State” / Screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. Adap

By Christopher Lamb, CNN

(CNN) — On Saturday May 3, 2025, one week after the funeral of Pope Francis, President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself dressed in the white cassock and miter of a pope. The image appeared on his Truth Social platform and was re-shared by the White House’s official X account. Within seconds it had gone viral. A few days earlier, when asked by reporters who he would like to see elected as Francis’s successor, the president had quipped, “I’d like to be pope. That would be my number one choice.”

The reaction from Catholics around the world varied from disquiet to outrage. The AI image, as is so often the case with Trump’s posts, was both tongue-in-cheek and provocative. For Catholics, it was, at the very least, disre-spectful. Nor did the image go unnoticed by the cardinals who had started gathering in Rome ahead of the conclave set for May 7 – the election process that would decide the new pontiff. Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David – an outspoken Filipino prelate who had received death threats when he had criticized President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal drug war – replied to Trump on Facebook saying, “Not funny, sir,” which he translated into ten different languages. Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, who was known to be friendly with Trump, said the image “wasn’t good,” but when asked by Reuters if an apology was needed, replied, “Who knows?”

Trump’s post only seemed to intensify the media interest in the papal election proceedings. More than 4,000 reporters were descending on the Vatican to cover the event and the cardinals found themselves mobbed as they walked to meetings. The public’s interest, too, was unusually high because of the popularity of the 2024 movie “Conclave,” a thriller that depicted the worldly ambitions of men in vying to become pope.

During his pontificate, Francis had shaken up the College of Cardinals – the body that would appoint his successor. He had made its membership more international and diverse to reflect the fact that the Church was changing. For years its axis had been shifting away from Europe and the West to encompass the growing numbers of Catholics in Africa and Asia… The conventional wisdom had always been that the cardinals would not choose an American pope. Given the enormous power of the United States politically, culturally, and economically, the cardinals were unlikely to elect a pope from that country. But something had changed since the election and re-election of Trump on an America First agenda. There was a distinct sense that the role of the US in the world was shifting.

A few days before the conclave started, I interviewed Cardinal Oswald Gracias, the retired archbishop of Bombay and a hugely respected figure across the Church in Asia. Could there be an American pope, I asked? In the past, he said, this was “unthinkable.” But then he paused and said, “There could be an American pope… why not?”

There was in fact an American name on my shortlist of “papabili,” someone who could become pope: Cardinal Robert Prevost. I knew him as the leader of the Vatican’s powerful office for the department for bishops, which played a crucial role in appointing bishops and in holding them to account. And I had recently been hearing his name mentioned…

I had met Prevost on one occasion in Rome. He had struck me as thoughtful and a good listener. A low-key figure who didn’t give interviews, someone who seemed at peace with himself. And, intriguingly, although he had been born in Chicago, he had spent decades of his life working as a missionary and bishop in Peru. He was, you could say, “an un-American American.”

As the cardinals prepared to enter the conclave in early May, the fierce criticisms some of them had had of Francis melted away. The focus now was on how the next pope could continue his predecessor’s reforms and, crucially, exhibit a prophetic spirit which