By Tim Fang Click here for updates on this story California (KPIX) — City officials in Berkeley on Friday urged some residents in the Berkeley Hills to consider leaving their homes, as high winds are expected to raise the risk of fires. According to a city statement, residents in the hills are being urged to
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — El expresidente Donald Trump promete que expulsará a millones de inmigrantes indocumentados de EE.UU. cuando regrese al poder. En los meses desde que los partidarios entusiastas agitaron carteles de “deportación masiva ahora” en la Convención Nacional Republicana, Trump y sus representantes han ofrecido varias visiones de cómo lograrían este objetivo. Pero
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — A funeral home in Poland is apologizing after a corpse that it was transporting fell out of a hearse and into traffic. Polish media reported that a man was driving down a street Friday in a city in southeastern Poland when he first saw a sheet on his car window. When
Continue ReadingBy Carlos Castañeda Click here for updates on this story OAKLAND, California (KPIX) — A fast-moving vegetation fire broke out Friday afternoon in the hills of Oakland, California, burning at least two homes before firefighters were able to stop forward progress hours after the incident began. The Oakland Fire Department said the fire was burning
Continue ReadingCNN By Patrick Oppmann, CNN (CNN) — Cuba suffered a second nationwide blackout Saturday morning, hours after officials said power was being slowly restored. “At 6:15 am a new total outage occurred of the national electroenergetic system,” a post on the Cuba Electrical Union’s official Telegram channel said. “The Electric Union is working to reestablish
Continue ReadingAssociated Press The world’s final glimpse of Hamas’ leader was rough and raw, showing him wounded and cornered as he sat in a bombed-out Palestinian home and faced down the Israeli drone filming him, hurling a stick at it. For Israel, the scene was one of victory, showing Yahya Sinwar, the architect of Oct. 7,
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Philip G. Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial “Stanford Prison Experiment” that was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died. He was 91. Stanford University announced Friday that Zimbardo died Oct. 14 at his home in San Francisco. A cause of death was not provided. In the 1971
Continue ReadingBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania has scrambled fighter jets for the second time this week after an unidentified object breached its airspace by the Black Sea. The Defense Ministry said two Spanish air force F-18 jets and two Romanian F-16s were dispatched but did not spot the target, which disappeared from the radar early Saturday.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Brain injuries are a growing problem for the U.S. military. And now, Special Operations Command is testing new ways to protect warfighters from blasts and to evaluate health risks, particularly during training. This includes having troops wear blast monitors and reshaping an explosive charge to reduce blowback. A former special
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: the Chinese pets earning “snack money” in cafés, a European capital that’s had enough of “drunk” tourists, and the New Zealand airport that’s curtailing caresses. Catch flights, not feelings Dunedin Airport in New Zealand has sparked debate around the world with its new sign
Continue ReadingBy Patrick Oppmann, CNN (CNN) — Cuba suffered a second nationwide blackout Saturday morning, hours after officials said power was being slowly restored. “At 6:15 am a new total outage occurred of the national electroenergetic system,” a post on the Cuba Electrical Union’s official Telegram channel said. “The Electric Union is working to reestablish it.”
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — No. 2 Oregon Ducks coasted to a dominant 35-0 win over the Purdue Boilermakers on Friday, delivering the school’s first road shutout victory since 1992. Quarterback Dillon Gabriel starred again, finishing 21-of-25 for 290 yards and two touchdowns while running back Jordan James added two scores. With the win,
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Cuba sufrió un segundo apagón nacional en la mañana de este sábado, horas después de que las autoridades dijeran que se estaba restaurando lentamente la electricidad. “A las 6:15 am ocurrió un nuevo apagón total del sistema electroenergético nacional”, decía una publicación en el canal oficial de Telegram de la Unión
Continue ReadingBy David Wright and Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — In the first two weeks of October, Donald Trump and his allies directed about a third of all their spending on broadcast TV advertisements to ads about transgender health care, a significant increase reflecting a major tactical shift from previous months’ ad expenditures. On the
Continue ReadingBy Sam Joseph, CNN (CNN) — Bronny James, son of all-time NBA leading scorer LeBron James, had the best showing of his young professional career on Friday, posting 17 points in the Los Angeles Lakers’ final preseason game. In his first preseason start, James was 7-for-17 from the field and also recorded four rebounds, one
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which means it’s the perfect time to learn how to protect yourself from scams. “Scams have become so sophisticated now. Phishing emails, texts, spoofing caller ID, all of this technology gives scammers that edge,” said Eva Velasquez, president and CEO of the Identity Theft
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — France’s foreign minister pledged his support for Ukraine’s plan for ending the war with Russia, telling reporters in Kyiv on Saturday that he would work with Ukrainian officials to secure other nations’ backing for the proposal. Unveiled by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier this week, Kyiv’s “victory plan” hopes
Continue ReadingBy Katie Bo Lillis, Ivana Kottasová, MJ Lee, Kevin Liptak and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — It was around 5:30 in the morning on Thursday in Washington, DC, when senior US officials first got word — and photographs — from their Israeli counterparts: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar might be dead. For more than a year since Hamas
Continue ReadingCNN By Katie Bo Lillis, Ivana Kottasová, MJ Lee, Kevin Liptak and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — It was around 5:30 in the morning on Thursday in Washington, DC, when senior US officials first got word — and photographs — from their Israeli counterparts: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar might be dead. For more than a year since
Continue ReadingMAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Gunmen chased down the lawyer for Mozambique’s leading opposition politician and a senior opposition official and fatally shot them in their car in the capital, their party said Saturday. The killings came as the country waits for the results of a tense election that has drawn more allegations of vote rigging
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