Por Andy Rose, CNN

Más de 15 horas después de que se tomaran rehenes y se realizara una amenaza de bomba en un edificio bancario en Bakersfield, California, la situación concluyó a primera hora del miércoles con el sospechoso muerto y los rehenes ilesos, según informó la Policía.

“La situación de los rehenes concluyó tras un tiroteo en el que se vieron involucrados agentes, con la participación de personal de la Oficina Federal de Investigaciones (FBI)”, declaró la Policía de Bakersfield en un comunicado de prensa.

Ninguno de los rehenes resultó herido, aunque recibieron atención médica en el lugar de los hechos, precisó la Policía. Dos rehenes habían sido liberados el martes durante las negociaciones, mientras el enfrentamiento aún estaba en curso, según había informado previamente la policía de Bakersfield.

Un enfrentamiento con rehenes en Bakersfield, California, se extendió durante la tarde del martes y continúa en las primeras horas de la mañana de este miércoles, mientras la Policía informa que un hombre —de quien se cree que tiene una bomba— se ha atrincherado dentro de un edificio bancario.

Los negociadores han estado hablando por teléfono con el hombre, quien, según los investigadores, se atrincheró dentro del edificio de varias plantas del Chase Bank el martes por la tarde junto con varios rehenes, informó la Policía de la ciudad, situada a unos 160 kilómetros al noroeste de Los Ángeles.

Dos rehenes habían sido liberados la noche del martes tras las negociaciones, indicó la Policía. No se dispuso de inmediato de detalles sobre cuántas personas más permanecían en el interior. No se han reportado heridos y la Policía no ha ofrecido detalles sobre las demandas del secuestrador.

“Todos y cada uno de los recursos están a disposición en el lugar”, declaró el sargento de la Policía de Bakersfield, Eric Celedon, el martes por la tarde. “El equipo SWAT, el escuadrón antiexplosivos, el equipo antipandillas, la unidad antipandillas, los negociadores, el equipo de drones… Todos los activos que tenemos para llevar esto a una conclusión están aquí presentes en este momento”.

Miembros del Equipo de Rescate de Rehenes del FBI también se encuentran en la escena, según informó a CNN una fuente policial familiarizada con la operación.

Celedon no especificó el número de rehenes; se limitó a decir que el sospechoso estaba “contenido dentro de una habitación con varios miembros de nuestra comunidad y se niega a dejarlos salir”.

La primera llamada a la Policía de Bakersfield se recibió alrededor de la 1:00 p.m. del martes, informando sobre una amenaza de bomba en el edificio del Chase Bank.

“Durante la investigación, se determinó que un sujeto adulto de sexo masculino se había atrincherado dentro del edificio junto con varios miembros de la comunidad”, señaló la Policía de Bakersfield en un comunicado emitido el martes.

El FBI “continúa brindando apoyo a la respuesta”, según informó la oficina de campo de la agencia en Sacramento.

Además del Chase Bank, el edificio alberga un centro de servicios estudiantiles de la Superintendencia Escolar del Condado de Kern. La Policía no ha especificado en qué parte del edificio se encuentra atrincherado el hombre. Un portavoz de JPMorgan Chase declaró a la agencia Associated Press que su sucursal, ubicada en la planta baja del edificio, se encontraba vacía.

Se colocaron cintas policiales a través de varias intersecciones, acordonando así el área circundante al edificio. Varios edificios gubernamentales —incluyendo el Ayuntamiento y la sede de la Policía—

By Issy Ronald, CNN

(CNN) — The death of a White student who was handcuffed by police after he had been stabbed is provoking a national outcry in Britain, with officers under fire for their conduct and far-right leaders accused of using the teen’s murder to stoke racist violence for political gain.

Earlier, on Tuesday evening, that outcry spilled into clashes when hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside a police station in the southern English coastal city of Southampton, where they were stirred up by far-right activists and clashed with riot police, throwing bricks and other projectiles, injuring 11 officers.

They also chanted “Henry, Henry,” referring to 18-year-old White student Henry Nowak, who police handcuffed as he lay dying from stab wounds inflicted by Vickrum Digwa. The 23-year-old Sikh man had falsely alleged to officers that he had been the victim of a racist attack. In upsetting bodycam footage released by Hampshire Police, Nowak pleaded with officers saying, “I can’t breathe” and “I’ve been stabbed.” An officer replied, “I don’t think you have, mate.”

Digwa was sentenced to life in prison on Monday, concluding a case that the far-right has co-opted for its false narrative that British institutions, including the police, are biased against White Britons. Such a narrative collapses under scrutiny: White defendants, on average, serve a lower custodial sentence than other ethnicities, Black prisoners serve a greater proportion of their original sentence than other ethnic groups, while Black, Asian, mixed and other ethnic groups were more likely to be stopped and searched in London last year, according to government statistics.

But years of anemic economic growth, Britain’s long history of racism and collapsing support for the country’s center-left Labour government, which was elected almost two years ago promising sweeping change it has not yet delivered, have created fertile ground for such ideas to take root.

And, against the backdrop of a crucial upcoming by-election where Nigel Farage’s Reform has a chance to defeat Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham, the hard-right populist party is wary of being outflanked by even more right-wing groups.

“Exploiting this tragedy to create grievance and division would be wrong in any circumstances, but to do it when the family are expressly saying ‘please don’t’ is unforgivable,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Wednesday. He directed his anger specifically toward Farage, who said the public should respond to the incident with “pure cold rage.”

How the murder unfolded

Even as Sikh community leaders condemned Digwa’s crime and Nowak’s father Mark stood outside the court on Monday to say he did not want his son’s death “to be used to create further division, hatred or tension,” far-right and hard-right figures fomented such division.

Nowak called the police treatment of his son “shocking,” and urged the government to “treat knife crime as the national emergency it is.”

“This is not a case about Sikhism. This is not a case about racism. This is a case about murder,” he said, according to UK news agency PA Media. “People should not be able to walk openly through the streets of Britain carrying a 21cm blade.”

Nowak, a freshman finance student, was traveling home from a night out with his friends when he was killed on December 3 2025. Digwa stabbed him five times, causing significant internal bleeding from a chest wound, local police said in Read more

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Falcao sigue siendo una leyenda del fútbol colombiano. Es el máximo anotador de la selección (36 goles) y fue referente de las clasificaciones al Mundial 2014 (que no pudo jugar por lesión) y al de 2018. Pero ya muy lejos de sus mejores años y en el ocaso definitivo de su carrera, la Copa del Mundo 2026 la verá como aficionado y un ejemplo para los convocados.

Mucho se especuló sobre un posible regreso de Radamel Falcao García a la selección con su retorno a Millonarios, el club de sus amores. Pero temporadas en blanco, pocos minutos, escasos goles, nuevas lesiones y una realidad deportiva correspondiente a su edad dan cuenta de que no podía ser uno de los elegidos para viajar al Mundial.

El delantero atravesó un período irregular en 2026, con participación limitada en “Millos” (11 partidos jugados y solo un gol) y dificultades para sostener el ritmo de competencia. El técnico Néstor Lorenzo optó por consolidar un recambio generacional en ataque, que en el caso de Colombia pocas dudas admitía: Luis Díaz, Luis Suárez y Jhon Córdoba son los fijos del equipo, futbolistas con mayor actualidad física y continuidad.

El mismo Falcao lo dijo en una entrevista en mayo: “Soy sincero y consciente de que no he tenido la continuidad para ser tenido en cuenta”. Incluso bromeó: “Tendría que hacer 20 goles en dos partidos”.

La última aparición oficial del “Tigre” con Colombia fue el 28 de marzo de 2023, en un amistoso internacional ante Japón. Desde entonces dejó de ser convocado regularmente.

Aunque circularon versiones sobre un posible rol dentro de la delegación mundialista, el propio jugador descartó ejercer funciones como entrenador o asistente, manteniéndose activo como futbolista profesional.

Así se cierra, al menos en términos mundialistas, el ciclo del máximo goleador histórico del combinado colombiano.

Es el fin natural de una era, la de un referente que marcó a una generación. Su legado permanece intacto.

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By David Goldman, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump pledged to restore his tariff regime after setbacks in the Supreme Court and other legal challenges. Now, he’s doing it — but not in the blustery, fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants, all-caps-late-night-Truth-Social-post manner that once defined his tariff policy.

Trump’s quiet, methodical, patient new approach to tariffs is on purpose. The tools he’s now using to rebuild his tariff engine are far more precise than the last ones.

But if he succeeds, his latest tariffs could be just as drastic as his previous ones. And longer lasting.

What Trump is doing

Late Tuesday night, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer published a 98-page report detailing the result of a monthslong investigation into trading partners’ policies on buying goods made with forced labor.

The report found that 60 economies the United States does business with have failed to impose or effectively enforce prohibitions on importing items into their countries that were made by people who were working against their will or for insufficient funds. Others, Greer said, have taken “initial steps” on restricting forced labor, but he said each US trading partner has to resolve the issue more swiftly.

“The failure of our most important trading partners to address the importation of goods made with forced labor is unacceptable,” Greer said in a statement. “This creates a dynamic where American workers are forced to compete globally on an unlevel playing field.”

As a remedy, Greer proposed a minimum 10% across-the-board tariff on all of the trading partners the administration investigated, citing authority from Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. Several trading blocs that had previously entered into trade negotiations with the United States, including Canada, Mexico, the European Union, Ecuador, Indonesia and Pakistan, would be subject to the new 10% tariff.

Many other countries would face a steeper 12.5% tariff, including China, Brazil, Japan and India. Those are the trading partners the USTR maintains have not even taken initial steps to rid forced labor from their economies of imported goods.

The tariffs won’t go into effect immediately: They’ve entered a public comment period that will last through July 6, and the USTR will hold hearings on the proposal on July 7.

Why Trump is doing it this way

Trump has signaled for a long time that he would use alternate methods to impose his tariffs – even before the Supreme Court in February declared Trump had no authority to use emergency powers to levy import taxes.

Immediately after the Supreme Court ruling, Trump announced a universal 10% tariff for 150 days under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. But in early May, a panel of judges at the US Court of International Trade found the administration lacked the justification to enact tariffs.

That was always intended to be a temporary measure. And the administration has signaled that it could use Section 301 as a more permanent solution.

Section 301 allows the USTR to investigate countries potentially violating other nations’ trade agree

By Jack Guy, CNN

(CNN) — An art museum in France has filed a legal complaint after a banana that makes up part of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s controversial artwork “Comedian” was stolen.

The theft was reported by a security guard at the Centre Pompidou-Metz in the city of Metz, eastern France, on Saturday, according to a statement from the museum published the same day.

The gallery “has filed a complaint with the relevant authorities against persons unknown,” it said in the statement.

The theft “undermines the respect due to the works on display and temporarily deprives visitors of part of the experience offered by the exhibition,” it added.

It noted, however, that “the perishable component of the work has been replaced, and the work has been restored to its original presentation as quickly as possible.”

CNN has contacted the High Court of Metz and the Perrotin Gallery, which sold the artwork, for comment.

This is not the first incident involving “Comedian,” which comprises a fresh banana taped to a wall.

In 2019, when Cattelan unveiled the work at the Art Basel Miami art fair in Florida, performance artist David Datuna grabbed the banana from the wall, before peeling and eating it in front of hundreds of stunned fair attendees.

Then, in 2023, an art student took the banana from a wall at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, and ate it.

And in November 2024, Justin Sun, a Chinese collector and founder of a cryptocurrency platform, acquired “Comedian” for $6.24 million at auction — before eating the banana.

Then, in July 2025, the banana was eaten by a gallery-goer at the Centre Pompidou-Metz.

“Comedian” is intended to demonstrate the “absurdity of financial speculation and the fragility of knowledge systems that underpin the art market,” the museum said in a statement at the time.

Cattelan is known for satirical pieces that challenge popular culture, often provoking debates around conceptual art.

Another one of Cattelan’s viral artworks was a solid 18-carat-gold toilet “entitled” America, valued at around $6 million. It was first installed at New York’s Guggenheim in 2016 and was open to use by visitors.

In 2019, it was stolen from Blenheim Palace in England — the birthplace of Winston Churchill — where it was being exhibited. It has never been found.

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