Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El Gobierno de España aprobó más de US$ 2.000 millones en gastos para proyectos de agua y ayuda para los agricultores, en un esfuerzo por aliviar los efectos del empeoramiento de la sequía en el país. “España está acostumbrada a lidiar con períodos de sequía, pero debido al cambio
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing new limits on greenhouse gas emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants, its most ambitious effort yet to reduce planet-warming pollution from the nation’s second-largest contributor to climate change. A rule unveiled Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency could force power plants
Continue ReadingBy Bryant Reed and Zoe Strothers Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — All over Spring Grove Cemetery, there’s trash, the grass isn’t cut, and in some sections, tree branches have fallen on graves. Vianca Tejada and her family buried her sister almost a year and a half ago. They say
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of rare photos and other images from the archives of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will be featured in “Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine,” coming out this fall. The new release also will include dozens of essays, with novelist Michael Ondaatje, critic Greil Marcus and former U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo
Continue ReadingDOHA, Qatar (AP) — Asian Cup host Qatar will be undoubtedly happier about its draw six months after a losing debut at the World Cup it staged. Qatar is the defending champion after winning the 2019 Asian Cup and has been placed in a group containing China, Tajikistan and Lebanon, which should be easier to
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story VANCOUVER, Washington (KPTV) — A teenage boy has been arrested in connection with seven drive-by shootings, according to the Vancouver Police Department. Police say the 17-year-old boy, whose name has not been released, is connected to multiple drive-by shootings including four in Vancouver, one in
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN A new report says there was a “sharp increase” in violence at abortion clinics in 2022, the year when Roe v. Wade was overturned, ending the federal right to an abortion. A disproportionate increase occurred in states that protect abortion rights, according to the National Abortion Federation, a professional association for
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN Adults who have obstructive sleep apnea have up to an 75% increased risk, on average, of developing long Covid after a SARS-CoV-2 infection compared with people without sleep apnea, a new study found. Women with obstructive sleep apnea had up to an 89% increased risk, while men had a 59% higher
Continue ReadingCNN By Dakin Andone and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The expiration of a pandemic-era public health restriction that will significantly alter several years of US immigration policy has arrived, threatening chaos as an estimated tens of thousands of migrants mass near the US-Mexico border in anticipation. Issued during the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Title 42
Continue ReadingBy Nathan Vickers Click here for updates on this story COLUMBIA, Missouri (KCTV) — A school board member and former teacher in Columbia has resigned, citing concerns about efforts in Missouri to restrict gender affirming care and participation in sports for youth who identify as transgender. Katherine Sasser, who also taught in Columbia for nearly
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN A second opinion helped turn around actor Dolph Lundgren’s battle with cancer. In an interview on “In Depth With Graham Bensinger,” Lundgren, 65, shared that he has quietly been fighting cancer since doctors found a tumor in his kidney in 2015. The “Rocky” franchise star said he believed he had
Continue ReadingBy Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Whether one’s paycheck can keep pace with inflation is always a concern. But for women, the question is also can their pay keep pace with their male peers? On Wednesday, the White House Office of Personnel Management proposed regulations to prohibit managers at federal agencies from considering a new hire’s salary
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN The United States has never defaulted on its debt, and it remains an unlikely outcome of the current standoff about raising the debt ceiling. But, if it were to happen — which could be as soon as June 1 without intervention — it would further crush an already wounded housing market,
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Twenty years after their version of “Freaky Friday” was released, the film’s stars are in talks to return for a sequel. In a chat with the New York Times about the 20th anniversary of the popular family movie, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan confirmed that they are both interested
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Mena, CNN Wholesale annual inflation slowed in April, adding to signs that price pressures are easing. The Producer Price Index, a key measure of price changes at the wholesale level, slowed to 2.3% for the 12 months ended in April, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday. That was below the annual increase
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Just hours after a reported bank robbery Wednesday afternoon, the Mobile Police Department had a suspect in custody. Police identified 74-year-old Herbert Smith as the suspect in the case. Jail records show this is his first time behind bars, and he
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices in the United States rose modestly last month, the latest sign that inflationary pressures may be easing more than a year after the Federal Reserve unleashed an aggressive campaign of steadily higher interest rates. From March to April, the government’s producer price index rose
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have passed a sweeping bill to build more U.S.-Mexico border wall and impose new restrictions on asylum seekers. The GOP proposal is a hard-line counter to President Joe Biden’s policies just as migrants are amassing along the border with the end of coronavirus pandemic restrictions.
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story RACINE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A suspicious package in Racine led police to the discovery of nearly $400,000 in fentanyl pills. Police say on Tuesday, May 9, agents from the Racine County Metro Drug Unit, sheriff’s investigators, and members of the Milwaukee HIDTA group conducted surveillance
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN The window to prevent catastrophic climate change is closing. Concentrations of planet-warming carbon pollution in the air are at their highest level in more than 2 million years — and the world has yet to even hit peak fossil fuel emissions. The crisis is so urgent that scientists and governments are
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