Por Alli Rosenbloom, CNN

En “Margo’s Got Money Troubles”, Margo, interpretada por Elle Fanning, pinta todo su cuerpo de un verde metálico. ¿Su objetivo? Encarnar completamente a su personaje de OnlyFans, una alienígena terrestre llamada The Hungry Ghost, que ofrece desnudez ligera y críticas severas a la genitalidad de sus suscriptores voluntarios.

Las ganancias que Margo, madre soltera, obtiene de este trabajo van directamente a mantener a su hijo pequeño después de perder su empleo en un restaurante, el cual no involucraba a personas excitadas en internet.

Al igual que Margo, más de 4,6 millones de personas en todo el mundo se han convertido en creadores en OnlyFans, la plataforma basada en suscripciones conocida por ofrecer desde fotos de fetiches de pies hasta contenido adulto explícito. Una década después de su fundación, OnlyFans también aparece en la televisión convencional, incluso en “Euphoria”, donde Cassie, interpretada por Sydney Sweeney, alcanza la fama en la plataforma.

También juega un papel en una trama de “Industry” de HBO e incluso fue parodiada en “Abbott Elementary” de ABC, el programa más familiar de la televisión. ¿Una señal de que la cultura estadounidense atraviesa una fase de hipersexualización? Más bien: la gente está luchando en una economía estadounidense complicada y en constante cambio.

Las motivaciones de los personajes para unirse (o pensar en unirse) a OnlyFans pueden variar, pero la razón es, en esencia, la misma: el mercado laboral tradicional no está funcionando para ellos.

Rufi Thorpe, la autora de la novela en la que se basa “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” de AppleTV, cree que el “aumento de las dificultades económicas en este país” tiene algo que ver con la creciente relevancia cultural de una plataforma como OnlyFans.

“Ves el auge de la cultura del ajetreo, y puede verse como conducir para DoorDash o conducir para Uber, o puede verse como OnlyFans”, dijo. “Pero la gente está intentando desesperadamente poder pagar el alquiler”.

Por muy ficticias que sean las tramas, están arraigadas en algunas de las realidades que millones de personas enfrentan hoy en día.

Una nueva encuesta de CNN encontró que la mayoría de los estadounidenses son pesimistas sobre la economía, con los altos precios y el costo de vida llevándolos a reducir sus gastos, incluso en comestibles. La inflación también sigue en alza, lo que reduce los salarios de los estadounidenses, mientras que quienes buscan empleo en la mayoría de las industrias han enfrentado grandes desafíos en el mercado laboral en los últimos años. A menos que estés buscando trabajo en el sector de la salud —una de las únicas industrias que realmente está contratando en este momento y un campo en el que ninguno de los personajes de estos programas de televisión trabaja—, la situación es bastante desalentadora.

Esa realidad económica está cambiando la forma en que el trabajo sexual se representa en la televisión. Durante mucho tiempo, las trabajadoras sexuales

Por Kosta Gak, Svitlana Vlasova y Lauren Kent, CNN

Una enorme oleada de ataques rusos durante la noche que tuvo como objetivo la capital de Ucrania, Kyiv, mató a al menos ocho personas e hirió a otras 44, según las autoridades ucranianas.

El presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelensky, dijo que Rusia ha disparado más de 1.560 drones contra Ucrania desde el comienzo del miércoles, lo que constituye el mayor ataque aéreo contra el país en un periodo de dos días desde que comenzó la guerra. Además, durante la noche se lanzaron otros 56 misiles, informó Zelensky este jueves.

Las alarmas antiaéreas sonaron durante aproximadamente 11 horas a lo largo del miércoles y durante la noche, según el equipo de CNN sobre el terreno.

Al menos siete personas murieron en un ataque contra un edificio residencial de nueve plantas en Kyiv, según los servicios de emergencia. Las autoridades han recuperado varios cuerpos de entre los escombros en las horas posteriores al ataque, incluido el de una niña de 12 años.

Es posible que aún haya residentes atrapados bajo los escombros del edificio derrumbado, ya que el Servicio Estatal de Emergencias ha informado que más de una docena de personas han sido reportadas como desaparecidas.

“Oí una fuerte explosión. Salí corriendo hacia la cocina y vi a gente corriendo por el patio, pidiendo ayuda. Entonces salí precipitadamente del edificio y vi que la entrada principal había desaparecido”, relató a CNN Olena Suntovska, de 38 años y residente del edificio. “Estaba asustada; es una situación muy estresante para mí porque estaba preocupada por los niños”, añadió la madre de tres hijos.

Otra residente, Polina, de 76 años, relató que se despertó y descubrió que la ventana de su balcón había estallado.

“Nunca imaginé que los daños serían tan graves. Cuando salí al patio, no podía creer lo que veían mis ojos”, dijo Polina, quien pidió ser identificada únicamente por su nombre de pila. “Aquí no tenemos un refugio antiaéreo adecuado. Solo hay uno en un edificio cercano, no en el nuestro, así que no bajamos (al subsuelo) a ningún sitio”.

Otro hombre en Kyiv falleció en el hospital a consecuencia de las heridas sufridas en un ataque contra una gasolinera, informó la policía.

El alcalde de Kyiv describió el suceso como “el ataque a mayor escala del enemigo contra la capital” y declaró un día de luto para mañana. Zelensky afirmó que la oleada de ataques aéreos de dos días se produjo después de que Rusia “acumulara drones y misiles durante un periodo de tiempo y planificara deliberadamente el ataque para asegurar que su magnitud fuera significativa y que los desafíos para nuestra defensa aérea fueran lo mayores posible”. Añadió que Ucrania está preparando una respuesta.

Mientras tanto, los ataques contra la ciudad de Járkov en la mañana del jueves dejaron al menos 28 personas heridas, según Zelensky. Dos personas resultaron también heridas en la región de Odesa.

Esta ola de ataques rusos a gran escala tuvo como objetivo también a otras regiones, incluidas Poltava y Zaporiyia, y causó daños en parte de la infraestructura energética y ferroviaria.

Una subestación eléctrica y una línea de alta tensión resultaron dañadas en Kyiv tras un ataque con misiles y drones, informó en un comunicado la compañía energética DTEK. Una locomotora de tren fue alcanzada en la región de Járkov, según Ukrzaliznytsia (los ferrocarriles ucranianos), aunque la tripulación de la locomotora logró evacuar a tiempo.

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By Kaanita Iyer, Katelyn Polantz, CNN

(CNN) — The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Washington, DC’s attorney disciplinary authorities following their recommendation to disbar Jeffrey Clark, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, over his efforts to “cast doubt” on the 2020 election results in support of the president.

The lawsuit against DC’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel, Board on Professional Responsibility, Court of Appeals, related authorities and the city itself argues that Clark — who in 2020 was an assistant attorney general — should not be disciplined over “internal Executive Branch deliberations.”

The Justice Department’s lawsuit comes as the Trump administration has taken a renewed interest in the 2020 election, narrowing in on Georgia — where Trump has claimed the election was rigged. For example, the Justice Department has subpoenaed Fulton County — home of Atlanta — for 2020 election workers’ personal information.

In its July 2025 recommendation to disbar Clark, the DC Board on Professional Responsibility wrote that after the 2020 election, he “urged Justice Department leadership to issue a letter he had drafted that cast doubt on the election results” despite being told by department leadership his theory was not correct.

The letter Clark wrote, but never sent, urged the Georgia state legislature to investigate election “irregularities” and, if necessary, appoint electors themselves that go against the results of the popular vote. The letter was meant to be a “proof of concept” that would eventually be sent to several states.

A majority of the board — which examines attorney discipline cases but does not have the final say the local courts have on law licenses in the district — recommended disbarment. Clark is still an attorney in good standing in the DC bar, according to bar records.

The Justice Department argued in its Wednesday lawsuit, “Defendants are punishing Mr. Clark because he tried to persuade his superiors within the Department of Justice that they should issue a draft letter that he felt reflected the actual law and facts about the 2020 election.”

“But D.C. disciplinary authorities may not punish a United States official for disagreeing with a superior or coworker or for sharing an opinion just because those disciplinary authorities disagree with it,” the lawsuit adds.

It goes on to claim that such disciplinary actions will set a chilling precedent.

“Weaponizing state bar discipline against Executive Branch attorneys in this way chills them from giving candid legal advice to others in the Executive Branch, including the President and Attorney General,” the lawsuit says.

Clark said in a social media post on X that the lawsuit “is an important step to vindicate the separation of powers.” CNN has reached out to Clark for further comment.

In its July 2025 recommendation, the DC Board on Professional Responsibility argued that lawyers should have “the highest standard of professional conduct. At a minimum, they must be honest.”

Clark “should be disbarred as a consequence,” the board wrote, adding that it would send a message that his behavior would not be tolerated.

The board’s recommendation was then sent to the DC Court of Appeals for a final decision.

At the time of the board’s recommendation, Clark served as the acting administrator of the White House Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

He is now

By Andy Rose, CNN

(CNN) — It might sound like a tale from the Gold Rush: Three men leave Tennessee hoping to strike it rich in California.

But the twists of their saga, as laid out this week in a federal indictment, are closer to a horror story – with pistol-whipping, lives threatened and people tied up in their own homes. And investigators say the men weren’t looking for gold – they sought something you can’t hold or even see.

The trio, according to prosecutors, wanted to make quick millions by stealing cryptocurrency, according to an indictment unsealed last month. Federal prosecutors say the defendants — Elijah Armstrong, 21; Nino Chindavanh, 21; and Jayden Rucker, 25 — all from the Nashville area, swept across several California cities in a little more than a month. They are accused of using several ruses to force their way into people’s homes, assaulting unsuspecting residents and holding them hostage for their own money, and demanding access to their crypto accounts.

“The scheme was not only sophisticated, it was brazen, violent and dangerous,” US Attorney Craig H. Missakian said in a news release this week.

Threatening violence against crypto owners to give up access to their funds is becoming more common, according to cryptocurrency experts, with hundreds of millions of dollars expected to be ripped off just this year. Thieves who might otherwise force people to go to an ATM to withdraw a limited amount of cash are instead demanding potentially unlimited crypto that is hard to trace.

“Bad guys always go where the money is,” said Ari Redbord of TRM Labs, which monitors cryptocurrency fraud and helps businesses and law enforcement respond to theft. “I think more and more right now, the money is in crypto, and we see bad actors taking advantage of that.”

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The case of the three men from Tennessee appears to have begun five days before Thanksgiving last year with a couple of pizza orders to a house in San Francisco, according to the indictment.

But these orders weren’t done as a prank, prosecutors say. They allegedly were an effort to see whether their mark was home.

The date and details in the federal charges match a case in Mission Dolores – San Francisco’s oldest neighborhood and one of its most expensive – that was previously being investigated by local police.

The initials of the victim in the federal indictment match the name of a resident in the home, a prominent tech financier who previously worked for the venture capital firm Y Combinator.

The CEO of Y Combinator, Garry Tan, said on social media he was a friend of the victim and posted surveillance video showing the hooded suspect approaching the door and asking for the victim, claiming to have a UPS package for him. The video shows the suspect following the person who answered the door inside after asking to borrow a pen.

Tan later took down the public video. CNN is not naming the victim because his full name is not listed in the federal indictment.

The intruder bound the victim with duct tape, threatening to kill him if he didn’t give access to his cryptocurrency, the indictment says. Getting instructions by phone from “unknown co-conspirators,” the kidnapper allegedly was able to get about $6.5 million from the account.

The victim told San Francisco police he was forced to crawl downstairs and had liquid dumped on him, with the intruder claiming he was going to burn the house down, according to a police report

By Nicki Brown, CNN

(CNN) — Before a judge sentenced Kouri Richins for fatally poisoning her husband, the couple’s three young sons made their feelings clear.

They urged Judge Richard Mrazik to sentence their mother – who two of them referred to as “Kouri” – to life in prison, saying they would fear for their safety if she were ever released.

“I don’t want you out of jail because I will not feel safe if you are out,” the middle child, identified as A.R., wrote in a statement read aloud in court Wednesday. “You have never said sorry for anything that you have done to me and my brothers. I don’t want you to hurt anyone again.”

The youngest son, W.R., said he wanted her to go to jail “forever.”

“If she got out, I would be so scared, really mad, and I wouldn’t want to go with her anywhere,” he wrote.

After listening to statements from the couple’s children and loved ones of Kouri Richins and the victim, Eric Richins, Mrazik ultimately sentenced the mother of three to life in prison without parole – the most severe sentence she faced.

Richins’ defense attorneys told the court they plan on appealing the sentence and filing a motion for a new trial.

Earlier this year, an eight-person jury convicted Kouri Richins, 36, of aggravated murder for fatally poisoning Eric in March 2022.

At trial, witnesses testified about troubles in the couple’s marriage, her yearslong affair and her spiraling debt – all reasons prosecutors say she killed him. Kouri Richins was also found guilty of attempted murder for trying to kill him weeks earlier, on Valentine’s Day, as well as insurance fraud and forgery related to his life insurance coverage.

“A person convicted of those things is simply too dangerous to ever be free,” the judge said during the sentencing.

The sons have their say

Before Mrazik handed down the sentence, three therapists read the children’s victim impact statements, explaining the boys each decided how their remarks would be shared with the court.

“Our roles are to read their words exactly as they wrote,” one of the therapists, Jessica Black, explained. “The boys want the court and the world to hear their side.”

The kids were all younger than 10 years old when their father was found dead in their Utah family home with roughly five times a lethal dose of fentanyl in his system.

Their mother, Kouri Richins, published a children’s book on grief about a year after his death, saying she wrote it to help their sons cope with their loss. She was arrested shortly after the book’s publication.

“You took away my dad for no reason other than greed, and you only cared about yourself and your stupid boyfriends,” A.R. wrote in his statement. “You were not caring and watching over me and my brothers.”

The two oldest children said they felt like had to take care of each other, with one describing how they would walk the youngest sibling to the bus stop and feed him. The oldest son, identified as C.R., said his mother was “always drunk or gone,” and would frequently lock him in his room.

“Kouri would lock me up if I told her she was drunk,” he wrote. “This happened pretty much daily.”

C.R. and A.R