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Month: July 2023

Las intensas tormentas dejan inundadas las calles del noreste, obligan evacuaciones y cierran el centro de la capital de Vermont

Gonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Las intensas tormentas que inundan el noreste de Estados Unidos están convirtiendo las calles en ríos, obligando a evacuaciones y llevando a las autoridades de Montpelier, la capital de Vermont, a cerrar el centro de la ciudad. Las catastróficas inundaciones que amenazan Vermont han suscitado comparaciones con el huracán Irene en

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Olympic champion Caster Semenya wins human rights case but testosterone rules may remain for years

By GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer Champion runner Caster Semenya won a potentially landmark legal decision for sports on Tuesday when the European Court of Human Rights decided she was discriminated against by rules in track and field that force her to medically reduce her natural hormone levels to compete in major competitions. The ruling

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‘I will not stay quiet’: Israel evicts Palestinian family from home after 45-year legal battle

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities have evicted a Palestinian family from a contested apartment in Jerusalem’s Old City after a decades-long legal battle. Activists say the Ghaith-Sub Laban family’s removal on Tuesday is part of a wider trend of Israeli settlers encroaching on Palestinian neighborhoods and cementing Israeli control by

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Book sales, a lure for money and more takeaways from the AP investigation into Supreme Court ethics

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a monthslong inquiry, which included reviewing tens of thousands of pages of documents from more than 100 public records requests, The Associated Press has examined what happens behind the scenes when Supreme Court justices travel to colleges and universities for lectures and other events. The AP

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Live Updates | NATO leaders move to simplify path for Ukraine to join alliance

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — The NATO chief says alliance leaders on Tuesday agreed to allow Ukraine to join “when allies agree and conditions are met” — after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted the organization’s failure to set a timetable for Ukrainian membership. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters at the alliance’s summit in Lithuania that the

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Spain’s right-wing opposition leader puts Socialist prime minister on defensive in election debate

By CIARÁN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s right-wing opposition leader has put Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on the defensive in an election TV debate that saw both leaders accusing each other of pacting with parties they deem dangerous for Spain. The debate between Popular Party leader Alberto Feijóo and Sánchez, watched by

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