BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Thousands have returned after a week to the streets in a dozen of major cities across Slovakia to keep protesting a plan by the new government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to amend the country’s penal code. The changes proposed by the coalition government include a proposal to abolish the special
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges that Republicans who control the North Carolina legislature drew discriminatory maps for congressional and state legislative districts by diluting the power of the state’s Black voters. The lawsuit from the NAACP’s state chapter, Common Cause and several individual Black voters is the latest
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — El presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, criticó al gobernador de Texas, Greg Abbott, después de que firmara este lunes una ley fronteriza que convierte el ingreso ilegal a Texas en un delito estatal. “Es algo inhumano, impulsado por la política”, dijo López Obrador este martes durante su conferencia diaria en
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Warm Springs man was struck and killed by a pickup truck on Highway 97 in Redmond early Tuesday morning, Oregon State Police reported. Troopers responded to the reported pedestrian-vehicle crash on the highway at NW Maple Avenue. A preliminary investigation found that Deschutes County 911 dispatchers received a call around
Continue ReadingBy DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Advocacy groups say thousands of struggling families in New York City are waiting unacceptably long times to receive emergency food and cash aid. The groups, including The Legal Aid Society, filed a contempt motion Monday in federal court in Manhattan asking a judge to order the city to reduce backlogs
Continue ReadingBy GISELA SALOMON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge in Miami has sentenced a former Haitian senator to life in prison for conspiring to kill Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse in 2021, which caused unprecedented turmoil in the Caribbean nation. John Joel Joseph is the third of 11 suspects detained and charged in Miami
Continue ReadingBy QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s first provincial elections in a decade saw a relatively low turnout and largely benefitted traditional parties, according to results announced by the country’s election authorities. The Independent High Electoral Commission has said that some 41% of registered voters turned out in Monday’s general voting and special
Continue ReadingBy Pete Muntean, CNN New York (CNN) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is warning that bad weather could disrupt holiday air travel. “We may see some bad weather around the holidays,” Buttigieg said, alongside FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker during a press conference at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C. “Winter weather may be a challenge,
Continue ReadingBy MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The number of immigrants to the U.S. jumped to the highest level in two decades this year, driving the nation’s overall population growth, according to estimates released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The United States added 1.6 million people, more than two-thirds of which came
Continue ReadingBy FABIANO MAISONNAVE, Associated Press and RUBENS VALENTE, Agencia Publica JACI-PARANA, Brazil (AP) — Authorities in a western Brazil state are taking aim at deforestation of the Amazon with a slew of lawsuits against slaughterhouses and farmers accused of illegally raising cattle in a protected area. The lawsuits seek millions of dollars for environmental damage
Continue ReadingBy GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The European Union’s maritime security force says a Maltese-flagged merchant ship that was hijacked last week in the Arabian Sea is now off the coast of Somalia. One crew member has been evacuated for medical care, but the bulk carrier Ruen remains under the
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INDEPENDENCE, Ore. (KGW/KTVZ) — The victims of a small plane crash in Independence Saturday evening were all Afghan refugees and former pilots for that country, according to new information released by Independence police, KGW reported. Mohammad Hussain Musawi and Mohammad Bashir Safdari, both 35, from Independence, and 29-year-old Ali Jan Ferdawsi of Salem — all were former Afghan Air
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A Syrian man has been convicted of murder, attempted murder and bodily harm over two knife attacks in Germany this year. He was convicted of stabbing a 35-year-old man to death in the western city of Duisburg in April, and attacking four people at a gym nine days later. The court said
Continue ReadingBy Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNN (CNN) — The nation’s largest prison health care provider has come under fire from a group of Democratic senators who say they are alarmed the government contractor’s chronic understaffing and cost-cutting measures may have put inmates’ lives in danger. In a letter sent Monday, the group of lawmakers,
Continue ReadingBy MELINA WALLING Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Christmas tree breeder Jim Rockis knows what it looks like when one dies long before it can reach a buyer. Rockis farms trees in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, where he and other producers often grow their iconic evergreens outside their preferred habitat higher in the mountains. But
Continue ReadingPERRY, Ga. (AP) — A man serving prison time for concealing the death of Georgia teacher Tara Grinstead has pleaded guilty to reduced charges in two unrelated rape cases. Houston County court records show that Bo Dukes made a deal with prosecutors in which he pleaded guilty Nov. 13 to two counts of aggravated assault
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand and Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — Attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea have escalated to a level not seen in decades, leaving the United States and its allies scrambling to protect shipping in a key corridor for the global economy. Houthi rebels have launched at least 100 attacks against 12 different
Continue ReadingWAUPACA, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say an eastern Wisconsin man faces homicide charges for an alleged drunken driving crash last weekend that killed four siblings. Forty-seven-year-old Scott Farmer, of Neenah, is charged with four counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle in Saturday night’s deadly crash in Weyauwega, about 100 miles northwest
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Un nuevo bebé llega a casa, esta frágil criatura de repente bajo tu cuidado, y junto con la alegría hay destellos de terror. Cada nuevo hito parece aumentar el riesgo de catástrofe. Tu hijo se mantiene sentado y luego de pie. Da un primer paso vacilante. Un día, con el mundo
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin’s tourism rocket — designed to vault paying customers on brief trips to the edge of space — successfully launched Tuesday morning on an uncrewed science mission. The New Shepard rocket lifted off at 11:43 a.m. ET from Blue Origin’s facilities on a private ranch
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