Valeria Ordóñez (CNN Español) — Las protestas en Madrid contra las negociaciones del Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) para formar gobierno en España, que podrían incluir amnistía para separatistas, se intensificaron la noche de este jueves, hora local. El corresponsal de CNN Pau Mosquera se encontraba en medio de las protestas en el centro de la
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom and Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — A Manhattan jury on Thursday found actor Robert De Niro’s production company, Canal Productions, liable for gender discrimination and retaliation in a civil trial related to a workplace dispute brought by De Niro’s former assistant, Graham Chase Robinson. Robinson, who worked as De Niro’s executive assistant
Continue ReadingBy Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN New York (CNN) — Bangladesh has been gripped by violent protests for two weeks, as thousands of garment workers take to the streets to demand better wages for the country’s four million garment workers. Protesters clashed with police — resulting in the deaths of three workers. Unions there say police have
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it has approved the first vaccine to prevent disease caused by the chikungunya virus. The single-dose vaccine, Ixchiq, made by Valneva Austria GmbH, is approved for adults who are at an increased risk of exposure to the virus. Ixchiq was
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, Evan Perez and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — FBI Director Christopher Wray raised concerns Thursday about “fairness and transparency” in the decision to select Greenbelt, Maryland, as the new location for the bureau’s headquarters. In a message to FBI employees, Wray questioned the selection process by the General Services Administration and the
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the world’s population has topped 8 billion for the first time. The agency said Thursday that it estimates the global population exceeded the threshold Sept. 26. The bureau says the overall trend is longer lifespans offsetting fewer births. Even so, the global population growth rate
Continue ReadingMcALLEN, Texas (AP) — Police in Texas say they are investigating messages spray-painted on U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz’s office that condemn the Republican’s support for Israel in the war with Hamas. De La Cruz is a first-term congresswoman whose district is on the U.S.-Mexico border. A spokesperson said Thursday that district office was
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Después de más de medio siglo, se reveló finalmente la identidad del anciano que aparece en la portada del álbum “Led Zeppelin IV”. El “hombre del bastón”, que está en el centro de la portada del cuarto álbum de estudio que la banda inglesa lanzó en 1971, era de la época
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Beginning next Monday, a temporary traffic realignment will be in place on U.S. Highway 97 between Grandview Drive and Empire Avenue on Bend’s north end for about the next eight months, part of the next phase of the Bend North Corridor Project, the Oregon Department of Transportation said Thursday.
Continue ReadingBy LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A jury awarded more than $1.2 million to Robert De Niro’s former personal assistant Thursday, finding one of his companies responsible for subjecting her to a toxic work environment. While the jury found De Niro was not personally liable for the abuse, it said his company,
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer The executive director of an Israeli media watchdog organization says it was simply “raising questions” by publicly wondering whether Palestinian photojournalists who documented the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel — and sent some of the first images of its aftermath to a watching world — had been tipped
Continue ReadingBy ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors say two men have been arrested in Indiana and Illinois in connection with the Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021. According to court documents, 53-year-old Troy Allen Koen of Indiana is accused of assaulting law enforcement officers with a flagpole that featured “Trump 2020” and
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez (CNN) — Un avión Airbus A321 despegó del aeropuerto Stansted en Londres en octubre con daños en cuatro cristales, dos de los cuales faltaban por completo, de acuerdo con investigadores de accidentes aéreos de Reino Unido. Nueve pasajeros y 11 miembros de la tripulación estaban a bordo del avión rumbo al Aeropuerto Internacional de
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina State Auditor Beth Wood says she will resign from her elected post on Dec. 15. Wood’s announcement came Thursday, two days after she was indicted on charges that she misused her state-owned vehicle for personal activities. Wood is a Democrat first elected auditor
Continue ReadingBy JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois House on Thursday approved development of new nuclear reactors, reversing a 1987 moratorium and sending to Gov. J.B. Pritzker a plan that addresses the Democrat’s safety concerns over the proposal. The 98-8 vote to allow construction of so-called small modular reactors beginning in
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man who has spent 25 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit has been exonerated and ordered released by a judge after prosecutors agreed he had been wrongly convicted. Miguel Solorio was arrested in 1998 for a fatal drive-by shooting in Whittier,
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez (CNN Español) — El oficialista Morena elegirá este viernes, mediante una encuesta interna, a su candidato a jefe de Gobierno de la capital de México, una ciudad que, además de ser el centro financiero y cultural del país, tiene más de nueve millones de habitantes que la convierten en una de las más
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Bend’s median home sales price dropped a bit in October while Redmond’s rose a bit, but there were no dramatic shifts seen in the monthly report from Redmond’s Beacon Appraisal Group.
Continue ReadingCOUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A former United States senator from Arizona has reported being molested while jogging along the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Martha McSally described the Wednesday morning attack in a video she posted online. She says the man “engulfed me in a bear hug and he molested and fondled me
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in Alaska dealt another blow to climate and Indigenous groups attempting to stop ConocoPhillips’ massive Willow oil drilling project, ruling Thursday that construction could move forward. The project on Alaska’s North Slope – an area that holds 600 million barrels of oil – galvanized a groundswell
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