macamilarincon (CNN) –– Se necesita ayuda urgente en Hawái a medida que los devastadores incendios forestales arden sin control en la Isla Grande y Maui. Los fuertes vientos asociados con el huracán Dora han avivado las llamas, que a su vez generaron interrupciones en las comunicaciones locales y destruyeron casas y edificios históricos, incluido el
Continue ReadingBy Ashlyn Mitchell Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — A MCPSS teacher is facing serious charges. Police say 25-year-old Kenishia Gilmore is accused of shooting into a vehicle with four people inside. According to a MCPSS spokesperson, Gilmore is a seventh-grade science teacher at Scarborough Middle School. She has been
Continue ReadingBy EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations says the agreement it reached with Syria to reopen the main border crossing from Turkey to the country’s rebel-held northwest for six months safeguards the independence of U.N. operations and allows it to provide aid to all parties. The agreement, which was
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The world’s oldest moss, called Takakia, has persisted in some of Earth’s most extreme environments for millions of years. And despite the fact that this ancient plant is one of the fastest-evolving species of moss known to science, it may not survive the climate crisis. A team of researchers
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In a story published August 9, 2023, about three gas plants in Southern California, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a Flex Alert during a heat wave last September. The California Independent System Operator issued the alert.
Continue ReadingBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The discovery of an illegal medical lab in central California by a code enforcement officer has unleashed an uproar in a rural community and fed anti-Chinese rumors online. In December, the officer in Reedley stumbled upon what she described as a shoddy private lab that
Continue ReadingCNN, KSL By Hannah Rabinowitz, Betsy Klein and Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — FBI special agents shot and killed a Utah man Wednesday while attempting to arrest him for allegedly making threats against President Joe Biden ahead of the president’s trip to the state. FBI SWAT agents were giving commands to the man when he
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Gun safety groups are joining together to endorse President Joe Biden in 2024, as the president continues to push for stricter gun laws as a major part of his political platform that was all but unthinkable for Democrats even a few years ago.
Continue ReadingBy WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is raising money for his reelection campaign by offering donors the chance to meet himself and Barack Obama, meaning the former president will be entering the 2024 political fray earlier than he did during last year’s midterms or the last presidential election. An email
Continue ReadingMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Police in Alabama arrested two boaters on misdemeanor assault charges in connection with a riverside brawl that drew national attention. Major Saba Coleman of the Montgomery Police Department said the two men turned themselves in on Wednesday. The three men are charged in connection with an attack on a riverboat captain
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court in August struck down a decades-old law barring users of illegal drugs from possessing firearms – another blow to US gun regulations after the Supreme Court cleared the way for courts to reexamine the nation’s gun laws under a new legal standard – and a
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– El crimen de la colombiana Luz Mery Tristán, excampeona mundial de patinaje ―que las autoridades investigan como feminicidio―, causó conmoción e indignación en el país. La Fiscalía General de la Nación informó este lunes que un juez de garantías de la ciudad de Cali dictó medida de aseguramiento privativa de la
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — In the week since devastating wildfires tore through parts of Hawaii, destroying the historic West Maui town of Lahaina, more information has emerged about the near-term effects of the fires on tourism. Here’s what we know right now about how travel has been affected. What is
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) — Pese a ser hijo y nieto de actores reconocidos, el español Daniel Sancho era desconocido por el público tanto en España como en el exterior. Actualmente, su nombre está en todas las portadas de medios de comunicación, luego de que este fin de semana se diera a conocer su detención en Tailandia
Continue ReadingBELEN, N.M. (AP) — President Joe Biden says he’s open to granting assistance for people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing, including in New Mexico, where the world’s first atomic bomb was tested in 1945. Biden brought up the issue while speaking Wednesday in Belen at a factory that produces wind towers.
Continue ReadingKaren Esquivel (CNN Español) — El municipio de Lorica, departamento de Córdoba, en el norte de Colombia, está desolado por el asesinato del médico cirujano Edwin Arrieta en Tailandia. El alcalde Jorge Negrete López decretó tres días de duelo por la tragedia. La Defensoría del Pueblo de Colombia expresó su rechazo a lo que calificó como “brutal” asesinato que, según
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — The wildfires that ripped through Hawaii on Tuesday and Wednesday are “unnerving,” and comparable to the landscape-altering wildfires that are common in the West, said Erica Fleishman, director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University. But Fleishman told CNN she wouldn’t be surprised “if wildfires
Continue ReadingBy DENISE LAVOIE and SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Department of Corrections, under scrutiny over the death of an inmate that raised broader questions about conditions at a southwest Virginia prison, is refusing to release public records documenting inmate complaints about the facility. Allegations that multiple inmates were treated for
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Yang Huiyan, the chair of real-estate giant Country Garden and one of China’s richest women, has lost more wealth than any billionaire in the world in the past two years, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, as her building conglomerate sits on the edge of default. Her net worth has
Continue ReadingCNN By Darya Tarasova, Tim Lister and Radina Gigova, CNN The founder and former CEO of Russia’s largest internet company, Arkady Volozh, has slammed Vladimir Putin’s “barbaric” war in Ukraine, becoming one of the most prominent Russian businessmen to express criticism of what Russia still calls euphemistically its “special military operation.” “I’ve been asked a
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