Ángela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Fue el mayor terremoto de la historia de Japón y desencadenó una serie de desastres cuyas consecuencias se viven aún hoy en día. Repasamos los hechos clave sobre el sismo, el tsunami posterior y el desastre nuclear de Fukushima. A las 2:46 p.m. del 11 de marzo de 2011 se
Continue ReadingBy LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The style called Beaux Arts translates simply as “fine arts.” It was anything but simple, though, in the hands of New York City’s wealthiest families. They were called Astor, Carnegie, Frick, Morgan, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt, to name a few. The ruling class and their architects produced
Continue ReadingPONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama has withdrawn from The Players Championship because of a back injury. His manager says it has been troubling him since last weekend at Bay Hill. Matsuyama is a month away from his title defense at Augusta National. He became the first Japanese man to win
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Parkhill Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Videos of captured Russian soldiers in Ukraine are circulating widely on the internet, shared by some media outlets as well as the general public. But does the creation of these videos – or even the sharing of them on social media
Continue ReadingBy Rhythm Sachdeva Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Do you know what you are feeding your pet? It turns out ingredients listed on your pet’s favourite food as ‘fish,’ ‘ocean fish,’ or ‘white bait’ could be referring to endangered shark meat. A new study published in Frontiers in Marine
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Spain’s conservative opposition is joining with increasingly influential national-populist politicians to govern Spain’s northwestern Castilla y León region, marking the first major power grab for the far-right Vox party. The “legislature agreement” was announced Thursday in a tweet by the incumbent chief of Castilla y León. His center-to-right Popular Party won a
Continue ReadingBy JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A U.N. official says the crisis in Ukraine and Russia, one of the world’s main sources of grain, fertilizers and energy, is presenting new challenges in securing food supplies on top of a prolonged pandemic. Gabriel Ferrero de Loma-Osorio, head of the Committee on World Food
Continue ReadingBy JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A U.N. official says the crisis in Ukraine and Russia, one of the world’s main sources of grain, fertilizers and energy, is presenting new challenges in securing food supplies on top of a prolonged pandemic. Gabriel Ferrero de Loma-Osorio, head of the Committee on World Food
Continue ReadingBy Tara John, CNN When Denmark became the first liberal democracy to tell Syrian refugees to return to their war-torn home in 2019, Russian jets were still dropping missiles in Syria, in an effort to help President Bashar al-Assad’s regime regain control of the country. Ukraine is now being pummelled by the same Russian military,
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, Laura Smith-Spark, Olga Voitovych and Rob Picheta, CNN An injured woman, heavily pregnant, is carried on a stretcher past the smoldering wreckage of Mariupol’s maternity and children’s hospital. Her face is pale, one hand cradles her belly in a protective gesture. Every window on that side of the building appears to be
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN The federal government has taken clear steps toward a new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic in recent weeks: The Biden administration released the National Covid-19 Preparedness Plan, and new guidelines from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dropped masking recommendations for most of the country. As many Americans try
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The growth of Israel’s settler population in the occupied West Bank accelerated last year despite renewed American pressure to rein in construction. Statistics compiled by a pro-settler group and based on official figures show the settler population grew to 490,493 as of Jan. 30. That’s a nearly
Continue ReadingBy EVGENIY MALOLETKA Associated Press MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — With bodies piling up in Russia’s nine-day siege of Mariupol, the port city of 430,000 in southeastern Ukraine, local authorities are hurrying to bury the dead in a mass grave. City workers made quick signs of the cross gestures as they pushed bodies wrapped in carpets
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Se espera que una fuerte tormenta invernal afecte a una gran franja de Estados Unidos, trayendo nieve este jueves a la región central antes de formarse en una bomba ciclónica en su camino hacia el este durante el fin de semana. Alrededor de 11 millones de personas estaban bajo alertas
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer Colleges across the U.S. are pulling students from study abroad programs in Russia, ending research partnerships and cutting financial ties to condemn the invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, colleges have promised to support Russian students on their campuses, opposing calls from some in Congress to remove them
Continue ReadingBy COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer Colleges across the U.S. are pulling students from study abroad programs in Russia, ending research partnerships and cutting financial ties to condemn the invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, colleges have promised to support Russian students on their campuses, opposing calls from some in Congress to remove them
Continue ReadingBy AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Social media users are suggesting soaring fuel prices in the U.S. are part of a government scheme to get drivers into electric vehicles. The conspiracy theory posts are spreading across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The posts ignore that rising gas prices are actually the result of increased
Continue ReadingBy AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Social media users are suggesting soaring fuel prices in the U.S. are part of a government scheme to get drivers into electric vehicles. The conspiracy theory posts are spreading across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The posts ignore that rising gas prices are actually the result of increased
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN As US oil and gasoline prices skyrocket, politicians in both parties have called for a seemingly easy solution: Drill our way out of the problem to ease prices at the pump and supply additional energy to Europe. “The president must end his war on American energy,” Republican Sen. John Barrasso of
Continue ReadingBy AMANDA BARROSO of NerdWallet Mapping out planned expenses like vacations, holiday gifts and membership renewals in advance gives you time to save in smaller chunks. “Sinking” your funds into buckets created for each savings goal is one way to avoid feeling overwhelmed as the deadline approaches. Once you set your deadline for a particular
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