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Month: July 2024

Guatemala grants temporary residency to Mexican minors who fled violence

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s government has given temporary residency to 207 Mexicans, mostly children, on humanitarian grounds, after they fled across the border last week to escape drug violence. National Immigration Institute Director Danilo Rivera announced Monday that they will have 30 days of legal status after which they could request asylum if they

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Texas senators grill utility executives about massive power failure after Hurricane Beryl

Associated Press/Report for America AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A special committee of the Texas Senate has convened to hear executives from Houston’s largest utility provider explain the massive electricity failure that occurred when Hurricane Beryl hit the city on July 8. CenterPoint Energy’s chief executive officer told a panel of state senators in the Texas

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Fact check: Vance falsely claims Harris is calling to end the child tax credit, which she is actually calling to increase

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance is facing criticism over his previous comments about people without children, including one 2021 remark denouncing “childless cat ladies” in government and another in which he said that, in order to “tax the things that are bad and not tax the

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Text messages, radio chatter show confused communications around tracking Trump’s would-be assassin

By Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz and Scott Glover, CNN (CNN) — Text messages released and radio chatter detailed Monday show that law enforcement officers lost sight of Donald Trump’s would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, and further illustrate the confused communications around tracking him at the July 13 rally. According to documents released by Sen. Chuck

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Utility cuts natural gas service to landslide-stricken Southern California neighborhood

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. (AP) — Natural gas service is being cut in a neighborhood on Southern California’s Palos Verdes Peninsula due to worsening conditions in an area where a long-running landslide has damaged houses, roads and utilities. Southern California Gas Co. cited “significant strain” on its infrastructure in announcing that natural gas service would

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