LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal jury in Las Vegas has awarded more than $34 million to a woman who served more than 15 years in prison for a 2001 killing she did not commit. Kristin Lobato was arrested at age 18 and wrongly convicted twice. She is now 41 and uses the name Blaise.
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump has praised the polio vaccine as the “greatest thing,” but a lawyer affiliated with Trump’s pick to lead the country’s top health agency has petitioned the US Food and Drug Administration to revoke approval of the vaccine used in the United States. The lawyer, Aaron Siri,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Googly eyes have been appearing on sculptures around the central Oregon city of Bend, delighting many residents and sparking a viral sensation covered widely by news outlets and featured on a popular late-night talk show. On social media, the city shared photos of googly eyes on installations in the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Googly eyes have been appearing on sculptures around the central Oregon city of Bend, delighting many residents and sparking a viral sensation covered widely by news outlets and featured on a popular late-night talk show. On social media, the city shared photos of googly eyes on installations in the
Continue ReadingPor Artemis Moshtaghian, Polo Sandoval, Andy Rose y Josh Campbell, CNN Las agencias federales se encuentran bajo intensa presión este viernes debido a la demanda del público de más detalles sobre los avistamientos inexplicables de drones en el área metropolitana de la ciudad de Nueva York. Los drones son vistos desde hace semanas en vecindarios
Continue ReadingCNN en Español El Alto Comisionado para los Derechos Humanos de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU), Volker Türk, dijo estar “profundamente preocupado” por la situación política en Venezuela, a cuatro meses y medio de las controvertidas elecciones presidenciales del 28 de julio y a menos de un mes del comienzo de un nuevo
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Lynsey Harris sits down with Karen Bures, executive director of the BEAM Program, an after-school program geared toward serving neurodivergent children in the community, while also explaining the term and the challenges they address.
Continue ReadingBy Barry Pintar Click here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Some have called Ken Andreen an angel, and most would agree he’s a hero. The Pittsburgh man rescued two different people from two different house fires. Two years ago, a home on Old Barn Drive was engulfed in flames. A neighbor saw
Continue ReadingBy Peter D’Oench Click here for updates on this story MIAMI (WFOR) — For years Joseph Maya said he’s allowed a friend to take pricey watches from his store and sell them. Now, he said, that friend has disappeared. “Destroyed in December. Destroyed. I am a hard-working man and I work seven days a week,”
Continue ReadingPor Karina Tsui, CNN Crystal Mangum, la exbailarina exótica que acusó a tres jugadores de lacrosse de Duke de abuso sexual en 2006, desatando una tormenta en EE.UU., ahora dice que mintió sobre el encuentro. “Testifiqué falsamente contra ellos diciendo que me violaron cuando no lo hicieron, y eso estuvo mal. Y traicioné la confianza
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — “My Driver and I” was supposed to be made in 2016, but was scuttled amid Saudi Arabia’s decades-long cinema ban. Eight years later, the landscape for film in the kingdom looks much different. And the star of “My Driver and I” now has an award. Roula Dakheelallah was
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Walmart’s Mexico subsidiary says it plans to appeal a $4.6 million fine for alleged monopolistic practices involving suppliers. Walmart de Mexico said in a statement Friday that it had talked with suppliers to see if there were any concerns. Mexico’s anti-monopoly regulatory agency, which is soon to be eliminated, levied the
Continue ReadingAP Media Writer Donald Trump got something this year that no other person designated Time magazine’s Person of the Year had ever received. He got a fact-check of claims that the president-elect made in the interview accompanying the magazine’s piece. Trump earned the recognition of the year’s biggest newsmaker for the second time, also winning
Continue ReadingMOUNT VERNON, N.Y. (AP) — A report from the Department of Justice finds that the police department in a New York City suburb grossly violated residents’ rights, documenting illegal strip searches of people who weren’t under arrest, and arrests of people for verbally criticizing officers. The report on the approximately 160-officer department blames financial mismanagement
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, CNN Damascus, Syria (CNN) — At Umayyad Square in central Damascus, tens of thousands of people had the party of a lifetime on Friday. Filling the roundabout to the brink, they partied late into the evening, celebrating the moment many thought would never come: the exit of their brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad.
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Gov. Tina Kotek on Friday signed Senate Bill 5801, passed in Thursday’s legislative special session, that allocates $218 million to the Department of Forestry and the Oregon State Fire Marshal to pay for costs associated with the 2024 wildfire season.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A judge who helped orchestrate a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks was among the 1,500 people whose sentences were commuted by President Joe Biden this week. Biden’s decision to commute the 17-year prison sentence of Michael Conahan angered many in northeastern Pennsylvania, from the governor to the
Continue ReadingCNN en Español El Gobierno de Guatemala pidió este viernes a sus ciudadanos “precaución” al transitar por la frontera con Chiapas, México, debido a los “desafíos con la seguridad” que “se han intensificado en los últimos meses”, consignó en un comunicado el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de ese país (Minex). “De acuerdo con reportes de
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Senate Republicans are recommending that the state write laws banning transgender girls and women from participating in school and college sports. The recommendation on Friday sets the stage for action in the 2025 legislative session. Republican Lt. Gov. Burt Jones announced almost identical goals at the panel’s first meeting
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — The US Environmental Protection Agency is failing to protect the public from a dangerous flame retardant — decabromodiphenyl ether, or decaBDE — according to a lawsuit filed this week on behalf of indigenous people in Alaska and California and consumer protection organizations. DecaBDE has been found in black plastic
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