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Month: October 2024

En días de huracanes, resurge la teoría de conspiración de los chemtrails o estelas químicas

Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN) — Mitos antiguos y desacreditados sobre los llamados chemtrails, o estelas químicas, se han convertido en la parte central de una teoría de conspiración que afirma falsamente que el Gobierno de EE.UU. utilizó tecnología inexistente de manipulación climática para crear la devastación causada por los huracanes Helene y Milton. La teoría de

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Un hombre desarrolla un tumor de 30 centímetros en el cuero cabelludo tras décadas de practicar breakdance

Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Investigadores en Dinamarca publicaron un informe de caso que revela una consecuencia inesperada de uno de los movimientos más emblemáticos del breakdance: el headspin. El breakdance, o breaking como lo llaman sus atletas, hizo su debut como deporte oficial en los Juegos Olímpicos de París de 2024. Los breakdancers

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Deschutes National Forest expands emergency closure area around Little Lava Fire; cooler weather helping crews

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Effective immediately, the Deschutes National Forest has updated and increased the temporary emergency fire closure area on the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District for the Bachelor Complex. The expansion of the closure area is due to continued fire activity on the Little Lava Fire as hot and dry conditions persist and incursions into

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1 dead and 23 rescued after elevator issue at Colorado tourist mine left some trapped 1,000 feet underground for 6 hours

By Jeff Winter, Sarah Moon and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — One person has died and 23 people have been rescued after an elevator malfunction trapped them hundreds of feet underground at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine, a tourist mine in Cripple Creek, Colorado, officials said Thursday. At around noon Thursday, the mine experienced a

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Long-term recovery is the key to HB 4002 ‘deflection’ success, Bend treatment center says

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ)– It’s still early days for House Bill 4002, which recriminalized drug possession in the state, as local governments and law enforcement learn from its first month in place. Recover Together Bend reports early success, having treated more than a dozen people this month. “Good treatment centers can take a 1% bit of willingness and turn it

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Condemned inmate Richard Moore wants someone other than South Carolina’s governor to decide clemency

Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate scheduled to be executed in just over three weeks is asking a federal judge to take away the power of granting clemency from the governor and place it with a parole board. Attorneys for 59-year-old Richard Moore say Republican Gov. Henry McMaster can’t fairly decide

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New Zealand ship didn’t sink because its captain was a woman, the ‘appalled’ defense minister says

Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s Defense Minister Judith Collins has decried what she called misogynistic online comments about the woman commander of a navy ship which ran aground, caught fire and sank off the coast of Samoa on Sunday. Collins told reporters in Auckland on Thursday that women in New Zealand’s

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NCAA pilot study finds widespread social media harassment of athletes, coaches and officials

AP Sports Writer COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An NCAA study on social media abuse of athletes, coaches and other officials during championship events found nearly one in five posts that were flagged by an AI-based algorithm and determined to be abusive involved sexual harassment and 12% were related to sports betting. The college athletics governing

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That online ‘pharmacy’ could kill you, feds warn

By Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — The order from an online “pharmacy” was for oxycodone, a powerful narcotic used to treat pain. The pills looked exactly like the real things, their true contents masked by meticulous counterfeiting. Days after receiving her online shipment, the woman who ordered them was dead from acute fentanyl poisoning. The incident is recounted in a new public

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