HONOLULU (AP) — Thirteen children and teens in Hawaii took the state government to court over the threat posed by climate change. Now they’re celebrating a settlement that emphasizes a plan to decarbonize Hawaii’s transportation system in the next 20 years. It’s the latest example of frustrated youth in the United States taking their climate
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden begins an intense period of private preparations Friday at Camp David for what may be the most consequential presidential debate in decades. The 81-year-old Democrat’s team is aware he cannot afford an underwhelming performance when he faces Republican rival Donald Trump
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump made a longshot argument Friday that the Justice Department prosecutor who charged the former president with hoarding classified documents at his Florida estate was illegally appointed and that the case should therefore be dismissed. The challenge to
Continue ReadingBy ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Campaigning last year as a libertarian outsider in the presidential race, Javier Milei electrified crowds with his vows to destroy Argentina’s corrupt political elite. But after six months as president, Milei has made a choice that many fear could undermine his central promise. Among his
Continue ReadingBy Dalia Faheid and Allison Chinchar, CNN (CNN) — Extreme summer weather continues to impact much of the US on Friday and into the weekend with a dangerous heat wave ratcheting up in New York and the I-95 corridor, deadly and destructive wildfires still burning in New Mexico and potential tropical threats. Here’s the latest:
Continue ReadingARCO, Idaho (AP) — Two crop dusting airplanes collided near an airport in southern Idaho on Thursday and crashed to the ground, killing one of the pilots and leaving the other with life-threatening injuries, officials said. The crash was reported at about 12:30 p.m. in an area covered by sage and grass near the airport
Continue ReadingBy AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. officials are fining two Hawaii residents $20,000 for their part in the fatal mauling of a female Hawaiian monk seal pup by unleashed dogs. Hawaiian monk seals are a critically endangered species. Only 1,600 remain in the wild. The loss of a female is a particularly
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, David Wright and Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump and his political operation outraised President Joe Biden for the second month in a row in May, as a flood of donations after Trump’s criminal conviction quickly eroded the financial advantage Biden held for much of the campaign cycle.
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump proposed “automatically” giving green cards to foreign nationals who graduate from a US college – comments that break from his efforts to curb both legal and illegal immigration while in office and stand in stark contrast to his inflammatory anti-immigrant rhetoric on the campaign trail.
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle police officer was fired for calling his Chinese American neighbor racist and sexist slurs while off duty in 2022, according to a news report. Officer Burton Hill was fired in May, The Seattle Times reported. The termination stemmed from an altercation with his neighbor, Zhen Jin, over the disposal of
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle police officer was fired for calling his Chinese American neighbor racist and sexist slurs while off duty in 2022, according to a news report. Officer Burton Hill was fired in May, The Seattle Times reported. The termination stemmed from an altercation with his neighbor, Zhen Jin, over the disposal of
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Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN Español) — El director de Epidemiología de República Dominicana, Ronald Skewes, le dijo a CNN que se dispararon los casos de malaria, con dos focos activos detectados en el sur del país, en las provincias de Azua y San Juan. El funcionario dijo que estos casos son mayormente de inmigrantes que se
Continue ReadingMauricio Torres (CNN Español) — La Asamblea de Ecuador aprobó una resolución que rechaza y condena las explosivas declaraciones del presidente Daniel Noboa sobre los mandatarios de El Salvador, Colombia, Chile y Argentina que la revista estadounidense The New Yorker publicó a inicios de semana. “Estas declaraciones afectan gravemente la imagen internacional del Ecuador y
Continue ReadingBy SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Nearly six months into his administration Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo says opposition in the Congress and the Attorney General’s Office have made it difficult to implement the change he seeks for the Central American nation that he says he found “semi-destroyed.” The politician from the
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