Andrea Saint Martin (CNN) — Millones de personas en el oeste de Estados Unidos experimentan una peligrosa e histórica ola de calor en octubre, con temperaturas tan extremas que serían consideradas altas incluso en el pico del verano. El calor ha sido tan intenso que Estados Unidos alcanzó y empató la temperatura más alta jamás
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Reading, Pensilvania (CNN) — Tim Walz, recién salido de su debate vicepresidencial, llegó el miércoles por la noche a un restaurante de propiedad puertorriqueña aquí, en el sureste de Pensilvania, para hablar con los votantes latinos. “Esto va a depender de nuestros estados del ‘muro azul’, de Pensilvania”, dijo el gobernador de Minnesota
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The public health practice of adding fluoride to water supplies faces new scrutiny as a few recent reports raise concerns about potential health risks and suggest the benefits may not be as significant as they once were. A new report from the Cochrane Collaboration, an independent group that systematically
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has threatened to use nuclear weapons and destroy South Korea permanently if provoked. South Korea’s leader had warned earlier this week that Kim’s regime would collapse if he attempted to use nuclear arms. The exchange of such rhetoric between the rival
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju and Haley Talbot, CNN Bozeman, Montana (CNN) — Tim Sheehy stumped behind closed doors earlier this week here with a crowd of supporters eager to make him the GOP’s Senate majority maker. But the 38-year-old political novice was also eager not to be seen outside those doors. Sheehy and his campaign have
Continue ReadingBy David Close, CNN (CNN) — Trips to a strip club, gun shooting range, and free airfare were some of the perks offered as part of an elaborate scheme by current Las Vegas Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce to woo potential Arizona State University (ASU) football players and their parents while the former NFL player
Continue ReadingAspen Ridge Memory Care in Bend has been categorized as putting residents in “immediate jeopardy condition” by the Oregon Department of Human Services, in the wake of a resident’s recent tragic death.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) — The question of whether a 2-year-old beaver named Nibi can stay with the rescuers she has known since she was a baby or must be released into the wild was resolved Thursday when the Massachusetts governor stepped in to protect Nibi. The state issued a permit to Newhouse Wildlife Rescue
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN) –– Los estadounidenses que tardan para planear viajar al extranjero ahora tienen un poco más de margen de maniobra que antes. El Departamento de Estado anunció este jueves que el tiempo habitual de tramitación de los pasaportes estadounidenses se redujo a entre cuatro y seis semanas. Previamente, la demora era de entre
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — They began a pilgrimage that thousands before them have done. They boarded long flights to their motherland, South Korea, to undertake an emotional, often frustrating, sometimes devastating search for their birth families. These adoptees are among the 200,000 sent from South Korea to Western nations as children. Many
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Dozens of South Korean adoptees, many in tears, have responded to an investigation led by The Associated Press and documented by Frontline (PBS) last week on Korean adoptions. The investigation reported dubious child-gathering practices and fraudulent paperwork involving South Korea’s foreign adoption program, which peaked in the 1970s
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti joined a chorus of major conference leaders suggesting the NCAA Tournament be expanded beyond the current 68 teams. “I think there are some positive feelings towards expansion in our league,” Petitti said Thursday at Big Ten Media Day. The NCAA presented a plan
Continue ReadingBy Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Mexican soldiers opened fire at a pickup truck carrying migrants, killing six people from Egypt, El Salvador, and Peru, in an incident that the country’s President Claudia Sheinbaum described as a “regrettable.” The tragic event occured on Tuesday evening when soldiers spotted a vehicle carrying 33 migrants “going at
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is targeting red and rural counties in the final sprint to Election Day, according to campaign aides, with her appearance in Ripon, Wisconsin, on Thursday just part of a strategy to compete everywhere and narrow Donald Trump’s margins in those counties. “We got to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A U.S. Judge has ruled that the National Nuclear Security Administration failed to properly evaluate its expansion of plutonium pit production at two sites in New Mexico and South Carolina in violation of environmental regulations. Environmental groups on Thursday have applauded the ruling. South Carolina-based Judge Mary Geiger
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — On Thursday, Governor Tina Kotek and Oregon Housing and Community Services announced current and projected outcomes as a result of the governor’s homelessness initiative work since her first day in office. This includes her Emergency Homelessness Response and collaboration with the agency and local partners to implement a transparent, outcomes-oriented budget
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN) –– Eminem asumirá un nuevo papel en su vida: será abuelo. El rapero anunció que su hija Hailie Jade, de 28 años, está esperando su primer hijo. Lo comunicó este jueves a través de un nuevo video musical para su canción “Temporary”, con Skylar Grey. En un momento del video, Jade, una
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Music superstar Bruce Springsteen is throwing his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz in the US presidential election. In a video posted to his official Instagram on Thursday, Springsteen said he is supporting Harris in the election, calling it “one of the most
Continue ReadingJoaquin Doria (CNN Español) — La marcha federal de este miércoles en defensa del presupuesto universitario en Argentina buscó enviar otra vez el mismo mensaje al Gobierno de Javier Milei. Miles de manifestantes repitieron una fórmula ya probada para defender a la educación pública mientras desde la Casa Rosada esgrimen distintos argumentos para llevar el
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio Nueva York (CNN) — Los miembros en huelga de la Asociación Internacional de Estibadores (ILA, por sus siglas en inglés) volverán a trabajar en los puertos el viernes, anunció el sindicato el jueves por la noche, ya que el sindicato y el grupo de gestión que representa a las líneas navieras, operadores
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