By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama will withdraw from a 32-state voter registration database, the incoming secretary of state announced on Wednesday — a decision that drew sharp criticism from his outgoing counterpart. Republican Wes Allen, who will be sworn in as secretary of state in January, sent a letter announcing
Continue ReadingBy PETER SMITH Associated Press SHALER, Pa. (AP) — Until recently it was a garage with a dirt floor. But what had been an outbuilding for the cemetery of New Light Congregation has been transformed into a chapel with stained glass windows and other mementos honoring victims of the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue massacre. At a
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward its eastern waters Thursday, hours after the North threatened to launch “fiercer” military responses to the U.S. bolstering its security commitment to its allies South Korea and Japan. The missile fired from the North’s eastern coastal Wonsan
Continue ReadingMarysabel E. Huston-Crespo (CNN Español) – Bizarrap liberó antes de lo esperado la sesión 50 con Duki, uno de los exponentes del urbano argentino más sonados en la actualidad. La anticipación por este tema se hace evidente en lo rápido que obtuvo sus primeros millones de visualizaciones en YouTube. En media hora, el video superó
Continue ReadingCNN By Nick Watt, CNN A group of veterans has filed a lawsuit to force homes to be built for them on land now used for elite sports facilities in Los Angeles. Fourteen unhoused veterans and the National Veterans Foundation filed a complaint in Central California’s federal district court against the Department of Veterans Affairs
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Republican Rep. Mike Garcia, a former Navy fighter pilot, scored a U.S. House win in a strongly Democratic district Wednesday, handing the GOP control of the chamber and giving the party a rare reason to celebrate in a state dominated by Democrats. The conservative
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press Donald Trump’s suspension from Facebook and Instagram will stand for now despite his candidacy for president. Meta, which owns both platforms, said Wednesday it had no plans to lift the ban on Trump, which was imposed after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump may not have
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — El presidente de Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves, dijo este miércoles que “se ha utilizado el régimen de refugiados políticos, nuestra legislación, nuestra apertura, por parte de grupos que no son refugiados políticos, sino migrantes económicos” que buscan quedarse en el país. Por este motivo, el mandatario informó que la cancillería
Continue ReadingBy YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan marked a trade deficit for the 15th month in a row in October as both imports and exports reached record highs. It comes as the costs of energy and food soar and the yen stumbles. The deficit at 2.16 trillion yen, or $15 billion, is
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Ganar la mayoría en la Cámara de Representantes, incluso con un margen menor del que esperaban, dará a los republicanos un nuevo poder para establecer la agenda cuando tomen el control de la cámara en enero. Los republicanos de la Cámara tendrán poder de citación en la mayoría y control sobre
Continue ReadingBy BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Two Republicans who control the board in a rural southeastern Arizona county on Wednesday told a judge they want to withdraw a lawsuit they had filed just two days prior that sought to force their own elections director to hand-count all the ballots cast in-person on Election
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — La representante Karen Bass superó los más de US$ 104 millones en gastos de su rival Rick Caruso para ganar la contienda por la alcaldía de Los Ángeles, haciendo historia como la primera mujer alcaldesa de la ciudad, proyecta CNN. La congresista de Los Ángeles pudo formar una fuerte coalición de votantes
Continue ReadingBy JOHNSON LAI and JOE McDONALD Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s envoy to APEC is the 91-year-old billionaire founder of a computer chip manufacturing giant that operated behind the scenes for decades before being thrust into the center of U.S.-Chinese tension over technology and security. Morris Chang’s dual roles highlight the clash between
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Otra mujer reveló desgarradores detalles de cómo la decisión de la Corte Suprema de hace cuatro meses de anular el fallo del caso Roe contra Wade puso su vida en peligro. CNN ha contado las historias de varias mujeres: una de Houston, otra del centro de Texas y otra de Cleveland,
Continue ReadingCNN By Phil Mattingly, Kevin Liptak, Radina Gigova, Jim Sciutto and Sophie Tanno, CNN The leaders of Poland and NATO said the missile that killed two people in Polish territory on Tuesday was likely fired by Ukrainian forces defending their country against a barrage of Russian strikes, and that the incident appeared to be an
Continue ReadingCNN By Melanie Zanona and Clare Foran, CNN Winning the House majority, even with a smaller margin than they’d hoped, will give Republicans some newfound power to set the agenda when they take over the chamber in January. House Republicans will have subpoena power in the majority and control over powerful committees — and they
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — Los republicanos ganarán el control de la Cámara de Representantes, proyecta CNN, alcanzando el umbral de 218 escaños necesarios para una mayoría en esa parte del poder legislativo. La victoria no será suficiente para la esperada “ola roja”, pero frustrará la agenda interna del presidente Joe Biden y probablemente someterá a
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press Republicans have won control of the U.S. House. A call by The Associated Press on Wednesday for Republican Mike Garcia in California’s 27th District secured the party the 218 seats needed for the majority. The release of thousands of votes in the 27th District allowed the AP to determine that
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A class-action federal lawsuit is accusing 11 of the United States’ largest beef and pork producers of conspiring to depress wages and benefits for its workers. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Denver last week. It alleges that the producers have worked together since at
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