Por Nicky Robertson y MJ Lee, CNN

Cuando el Departamento de Justicia publicó millones de archivos relacionados con Jeffrey Epstein, el exitoso autor y gurú del bienestar Deepak Chopra fue una de las muchas personas prominentes que se distanciaron de su antiguo amigo.

“Nunca participé ni participo en ninguna conducta delictiva o explotadora. Todo contacto que tuve fue limitado y no estuvo relacionado con actividades abusivas”, escribió Chopra en X a principios de este mes.

Pero los contactos de Chopra con Epstein no fueron limitados, sino que intercambiaron cientos de mensajes según la “Biblioteca Epstein” del Departamento de Justicia. Y una revisión de su correspondencia por parte de CNN revela que compartían una amistad mucho más íntima de lo que se conocía previamente, manteniendo contacto frecuente entre 2016 y 2019, año en que Epstein fue arrestado bajo cargos por operar una red de tráfico sexual y abusar sexualmente de menores de edad.

La revelación es solo un ejemplo más de cómo Epstein tenía una fuerte presencia en el mundo del entretenimiento, la academia y la alta sociedad, incluso después de cumplir una condena en prisión tras declararse culpable, en 2008, de solicitar servicios de prostitución a una menor. Chopra se une a otras figuras de alto perfil que ahora intentan replantear la naturaleza de su relación con Epstein, minimizando la cercanía que tuvieron en el pasado.

CNN descubrió que Chopra y Epstein se comunicaban regularmente por correo electrónico y mensajes de texto, y en múltiples ocasiones quedaron en verse en persona. Los mensajes indican que Chopra visitó a Epstein en la casa adosada de Nueva York, la casa del sur de Florida y el apartamento de París del condenado.

A lo largo de varios años, ambos hombres bromearon sobre temas como la espiritualidad, la salud, el bienestar y las amistades mutuas. Chopra solía expresarle cariño y afecto a Epstein firmando algunos de sus mensajes con “Con cariño” o “XO [besos y abrazos]”. Chopra le declaró en una ocasión a Epstein: “Estoy profundamente agradecido por nuestra amistad”.

Chopra, quien emigró de la India a EE.UU. hace más de 50 años para ejercer la medicina, se describe a sí mismo en su sitio web como un “explorador de la Conciencia y un pionero de renombre mundial en medicina integrativa”. Es autor de decenas de libros, muchos de ellos récord de ventas, sobre temas que abarcan desde la espiritualidad y la salud hasta la física cuántica, y es una figura destacada del movimiento de meditación trascendental. Oprah Winfrey contribuyó a su presentación al público estadounidense, en la década de 1990.

El portavoz de Chopra no ha respondido a las solicitudes de comentarios de CNN.

En su publicación X a principios de este mes, Chopra dijo estar “profundamente entristecido por el sufrimiento de las víctimas de este caso”, y añadió: “Han salido a la luz algunos intercambios de correos electrónicos anteriores que reflejan un tono poco sensato. Lo lamento y comprendo su interpretación actual, dado lo que se conocía públicamente en aquel momento”.

Al ser contactado recientemente y pedirle que comentara sobre su relación con Epstein, Chopra respondió: “No hay conducta inapropiada”.

En al menos dos ocasiones, Chopra, quien ha estado casado durante décadas, invitó a Epstein a llevar a sus “chicas” de viaje.

“Si quieres usa un nombre falso. Trae a tus chicas”, le escribió Chopra a Epstein en un correo electrónico de 2017, en el que le pedía que fuera a Israel. Chopra agregó en una nota posterior: “A tus chicas les encantar

By Andy Scholes, CNN

(CNN) — Growing up in Houston, Texas, I would beg my parents all the time to take me to my local card shop. If I got birthday money from an aunt, “Please, can we go to the card shop? I’ll do extra chores if we can go Friday.” Opening packs of cards was one of my favorite things to do.

Now, if I had been in my card shop as a kid and Rockets legend Hakeem Olajuwon walked in and started opening packs with me? I would have absolutely lost my mind.

But that’s exactly the kind of memories Fanatics founder and CEO Michael Rubin and Topps are creating for kids – and plenty of adults – these days.

Saturday marked the fifth annual Topps Rip Night, a global celebration of the sports trading card and memorabilia hobby that has grown from a niche in-store promotion into a worldwide phenomenon. More than 100,000 fans descended on more than 800 hobby shops across 25 countries, turning what used to be a quiet Saturday ritual into something closer to a championship parade.

The lines said it all. At Dave & Adams in New York City, fans wrapped around more than three city blocks hours before the doors opened.
Across the globe, similar scenes played out as collectors of all ages waited for a chance to rip packs, trade cards and, in many cases, meet their heroes.

The biggest shock of the night came in Miami when seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady showed up unannounced at Collector’s Club. The crowd erupted as Brady posed for photos, signed autographs and ripped packs alongside stunned fans. At one point, Rubin Facetimed Brady while standing next to New York Giants rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart – prompting fans to start chanting “Eli Manning!” in a moment that felt more like a playoff game than a card shop appearance.

In Minneapolis, Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards walked into Triple Diamond Sports Card to MVP chants. In Indianapolis, Dallas Mavericks rookie Cooper Flagg reportedly dropped more than $7,000 on rookie cards of his former Duke teammate Kon Knueppel, proving even elite prospects still get the collecting bug.

Out west, three-time American League MVP Mike Trout traded a $10,000 card of himself to a young collector – the kind of story that will live in that kid’s scrapbook forever. Meanwhile, four New York Yankees players – Anthony Volpe, Max Fried, Will Warren and George Lombard – pulled up to a Tampa-area shop fresh off a 17-run spring training win, bringing big-league energy straight to the hobby floor.

And Rip Night wasn’t just about athletes. Backstreet Boys frontman Nick Carter surprised fans at a Las Vegas shop he’s frequented during the group’s residency at The Sphere. Joined by his son, he ripped packs and traded cards, blending pop culture with sports nostalgia in a way that felt uniquely 2026.

The scale of the event underscores just how fast the hobby has grown. The first Topps Rip Night in 2023 featured 14 athlete appearances across 50 US shops. This year’s edition included more than 160 athlete and celebrity appearances worldwide, transforming local card stores into global gathering points.

From pack wars and trivia to exclusive Rip Night packs and giveaways, the evening felt less like a shopping trip and more like a festival.
Kids clutched fresh pulls like lottery tickets. Parents relived their childhoods. Celebrities turned into collectors again.

Opening cards used to be something you did with a buddy or two at the kitchen table. Now, it’s a social experience. It’s not only about the cards anymore – it’s about the camaraderie, the shared gasp when a rare card is revealed, the story you’ll tell for years about the night Tom Brady walked

Por Samuel Hart y Curt Merrill, CNN

Una bomba ciclónica está causando estragos en el noreste, causando fuertes nevadas, vientos casi huracanados y otras condiciones peligrosas para millones de personas.

CNN está siguiendo el impacto de la tormenta en mapas y gráficos que se actualizarán a medida que se desarrolle el sistema.

Se ha reportado más de 30 centímetros de nieve en al menos siete estados, y en algunas áreas cayó más de 60 centímetros.

Vientos extremos y nieve intensa y húmeda causaron cortes de energía a cientos de miles de clientes en todo el noreste.

Varias regiones suspendieron el servicio de transporte o emitieron prohibiciones de viajes por carretera en medio de condiciones peligrosas.

Las aerolíneas cancelaron miles de vuelos durante varios días, incluso en algunos de los aeropuertos más concurridos de Nueva York, Nueva Jersey, Filadelfia y Boston.

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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN

(CNN) — Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is one of the solar system’s oddities. Now, researchers have unlocked key insights about this mysterious moon, including how it came to be. The answer may also shed light on the origin of Saturn’s beautiful rings.

Shrouded in a thick haze, Titan is about half the size of Earth and even larger than Mercury — so massive that its gravitational pull makes Saturn wobble and tilt. Titan is also moving away from Saturn at a rate of 11 centimeters (4.3 inches) a year, far faster than astronomers previously thought. Eventually, the moon could be ejected from its orbit entirely.

But Titan’s drifting orbit is just one of many puzzles that astronomers are trying to solve about Saturn and some of its 274 moons. Many of the questions have arisen from data collected by Cassini, a spacecraft that explored the Saturnian system from 2004 to 2017.

New research has combined previous theories of Titan’s formation, data from Cassini and computer simulations to suggest a novel origin story for Saturn’s largest moon. The study was published this month on the open-access repository ArXiv and accepted for publication in The Planetary Science Journal.

“In this paper, I tried to put all these things together, and I propose that there was an extra moon about half a billion years ago that collided with Titan, that actually became part of Titan,” said lead author Matija Ćuk, a research scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. SETI is a nonprofit organization that explores topics such as planetary science, the origin of life and extraterrestrial intelligence.

The collision could also have produced Hyperion, the largest of Saturn’s nonspherical moons, which is far smaller than Titan at about 5% of its diameter. According to this theory, Hyperion could either be a fragment that resulted from the collision between Titan and the lost moon, or it may have formed later from debris that accumulated around Titan’s orbit.

The merger between Titan and the lost moon could also have led to the formation of Saturn’s rings, Ćuk added. “From this event, Titan could have perturbed some of the inner moons into more collisions, which created the rings sometime later, maybe 100 million years ago,” he said.

An extra moon ‘explains everything’

The researchers found telltale signs of an ancient collision in Saturn’s tilt, which is made obvious by its rings; the gas giant rotates at an angle of 26.7 degrees compared with the plane at which it orbits the sun.

Before Cassini’s mission, astronomers believed that gravitational disturbances inflicted by neighbor Neptune’s orbit caused Saturn’s tilt over time.

“The orbit of Neptune has a bit of a

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