Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Varios autobuses llenos de inmigrantes fueron dejados frente a la residencia de la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris en Washington, en la víspera de Navidad, con una temperatura de -7 grados Celsius el sábado por la noche. Los primeros dos autobuses fueron llevados a refugios locales, según un funcionario del gobierno.
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN With much of the United States still reeling from a nearly weeklong winter storm, flight cancellations and delays and other transportation challenges continued to pile up on Christmas Day. At least 3,181 flights within, into or out of the United States were canceled Sunday, according to flight tracking website FlightAware. And
Continue ReadingBy ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Designated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a rare rebuke of his new coalition allies on Sunday for saying they would advance laws allowing discrimination against LGBTQ people, pledging there would be no harm to their rights by his upcoming government. Netanyahu is set to form
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Drive down any highway in America or turn on the TV for 10 minutes and you’ll probably see an advertisement for a personal injury lawyer. “Hurt in car crash? Injured on the job? Slipped in the store? Call this lawyer to get compensated now,” a typical ad for a plaintiff’s personal
Continue ReadingCNN By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Drive down any highway in America or turn on the TV for 10 minutes and you’ll probably see an advertisement for a personal injury lawyer. “Hurt in car crash? Injured on the job? Slipped in the store? Call this lawyer to get compensated now,” a typical ad for a plaintiff’s
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A section of the new $1.7 trillion spending bill from Congress has been billed as a dramatic step toward shoring up retirement accounts of millions of workers. But the real windfall may go to a far more secure group: the financial services industry. A variety of financial
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A section of the new $1.7 trillion spending bill from Congress has been billed as a dramatic step toward shoring up retirement accounts of millions of workers. But the real windfall may go to a far more secure group: the financial services industry. A variety of financial
Continue ReadingBy BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The leader of former communist rebels has become Nepal’s new prime minister with the support from his ex-opponent and other smaller political parties. The announcement was made by the office of President Bidhya Devi Bhandari on Sunday after the Maoist communist party leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Continue ReadingBy CHARLES ODUM AP Sports Writer ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Kearis Jackson insists he and his Georgia teammates are not content. No. 1 Georgia won the national title last season but Jackson says the new goal is to win back-to-back championships for the first time. The Bulldogs won their first national title since 1980 last
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is coming to grips with the full extent of the destruction and deaths caused by a Christmas Eve tanker truck explosion. Officials reported on Sunday that the death toll has risen to 15. The truck was carrying gas when it got stuck under a low-lying
Continue ReadingBy LAURA UNGAR and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press Could the COVID-19 surge in China unleash a new coronavirus mutant on the world? Scientists don’t know but worry that might happen. It could be similar to omicron variants circulating there now. It could be a combination of strains. Or something entirely different, they say. “China has
Continue ReadingBy FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis used his Christmas message Sunday to lament the “icy winds of war” buffeting humanity and to make an impassioned plea for an immediate end to the fighting in Ukraine, a 10-month-old conflict he decried as “senseless.” At noon in Rome, Francis delivered the traditional
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN A Kentucky woman brought home the best present at her office gift exchange. Lori Janes, from Louisville, won $175,000 after receiving a lottery ticket at her office holiday party, according to a news release from the Kentucky Lottery. Janes, an officer manager and treatment coordinator at Harmon Dental Center, participated in
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, Svitlana Vlasova and Dennis Lapin, CNN President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Ukrainians to have “patience and faith” in a defiant Christmas address after a deadly wave of Russian strikes pounded the southern city of Kherson. Ten months into Russia’s war on Ukraine, Zelensky spoke of endurance and pushing through to the end,
Continue ReadingA Christmas Eve shooting at a pub in northwest England killed a young woman and wounded three men, police said Sunday. The Merseyside Police force said it was investigating the 11:50 p.m. Saturday shooting at the Lighthouse pub in the town of Wallasey as a murder case. Police have not detained any suspects. “This investigation
Continue ReadingBy Tina Burnside, Jennifer Feldman and Chris Boyette, CNN Four people died in a Christmas Eve bus crash that sent more than 50 people to hospitals in southern British Columbia, according to Canadian authorities. “We can confirm, tragically four passengers were found deceased,” a news release from the BC Highway Patrol and Royal Canadian Mounted
Continue ReadingWe do an Oregon trivia question each weeknight on our 10 p.m. Fox newscast. So to wrap up this holiday weekend weather special, how about some weather trivia to test yourself?
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Emergency responders evacuated a JetBlue flight at JFK International Airport in New York City as a result of a small fire in a passenger’s laptop on Saturday evening. the New York Daily News reports officials from the FAA, JetBlue and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey say the
Continue ReadingBy RENATA BRITO and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press BOBRYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians usually celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, as do the Russians. But not this year, or at least not all of them. Some Orthodox Ukrainians have decided to observe Christmas on Dec. 25, like many Christians around the world. Yes, this has to
Continue ReadingBy ABDUL SATTAR Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani security forces have killed a militant in a shootout near the border with Afghanistan. The military said Sunday that a group of militants attempted to sneak in the country’s northwest and triggered a shootout that also killed a soldier. The clash erupted overnight in the
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