PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Oregon is taking critical steps to ensure children have access to vital nutrition during the summer months by declaring its intention to operate the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer (Summer EBT) program in 2024, its first year as a permanent federal program, anti-hunger advocates said Thursday. Here’s their announcement, calling for state
Continue Readingmacamilarincon Nota del editor: esta historia contiene descripciones explícitas y perturbadoras sobre violencia sexual. (CNN) –– Cinco hombres salieron de la camioneta y capturaron a una mujer, a la que le arrancaron la ropa mientras formaban un círculo a su alrededor. Uno la violó y la mató con un cuchillo. Luego la violó de nuevo,
Continue ReadingOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Two men charged with murder in the death of an Oakland police officer who was shot while answering a burglary report at a marijuana dispensary have appeared in court. Mark Sanders of Tracy and Allen Starr Brown of Chico were in an Alameda County courtroom Thursday but waived arraignment and will
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM and JIWON SONG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The rival Koreas have fired artillery rounds into the sea as part of provocative drills along their disputed sea boundary, in violation of the fragile 2018 inter-Korean military agreement. Friday’s firing exercises are expected to escalate tensions on the Korean Peninsula. South
Continue ReadingBy Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Neri Oxman, an academic and wife of billionaire investor Bill Ackman, plagiarized parts of her doctoral dissertation at MIT, according to a report from Business Insider. Ackman has become one of the most prominent critics amplifying a series of accusations, including plagiarism, against Harvard’s leader, who resigned this week. The Business Insider report, which CNN
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER and RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge was back to work a day after being attacked by a defendant in a felony battery case who was captured on courtroom video charging forward and “supermanning” over the judge’s bench after it became clear that he was being sentenced
Continue ReadingBy ADI MARSIELA Associated Press BANDUNG, Indonesia (AP) — Two trains have collided on Indonesia’s main island of Java, causing carriages to buckle and overturn and killing at least four people. Officials say the accident happened near a train station in West Java province. They say an express train traveling from Surabaya, the capital of
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– Los frentes fríos 22 y 24 que afectan México “ocasionarán temperaturas muy bajas, vientos muy fuertes a intensos, lluvias y chubascos, posible caída de nieve o aguanieve y evento de norte, en diferentes regiones del país”, advirtió la Coordinación Nacional de Protección Civil (CNPC) este jueves, mediante un mensaje en X.
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart, Amy Simonson and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Hoax bomb threats were made against government buildings in several states on Thursday, authorities said, a day after similar threats led to the temporary evacuations of several states’ capitol buildings. Thursday’s threats – this time made against a wider range of government buildings, including
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — El Gobierno del presidente Nicolás Maduro rechazó la decisión, dada a conocer este miércoles, de enviar a Estados Unidos un avión de la estatal venezolana Emtrasur, retenido en Argentina desde junio de 2022, tomada por un juzgado federal del país sudamericano, de acuerdo con un comunicado de la Cancillería
Continue ReadingBy Andrew McNicol, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — When Gary Leung lost complete vision in his eyes nearly 25 years ago, it broke him. The Hong Kong native spiraled into depression – even contemplating suicide – because he thought facing “rock bottom” would be a daily battle. Then he found long-distance running. Now in his
Continue ReadingCNN By Eric Levenson and Mark Morales, CNN (CNN) — After three years of distressingly high levels, homicides in the US declined significantly across the board in 2023 – even as the public’s concerns about crime remained at its highest in over two decades. In particular, the five biggest cities in the US – New
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A city council member in Sacramento, California, has resigned just weeks after he pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he hired undocumented workers at his local grocery stores, underpaid them and cheated the government on COVID-19 relief funds. The December indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice accuses Sean Loloee
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN) — Grupos de votantes de Illinois y Massachusetts presentaron mociones este jueves para eliminar al expresidente Donald Trump de la boleta electoral de 2024, sumándose a la lista de estados donde el exmandatario enfrenta desafíos en su carrera por la presidencia bajo la llamada prohibición insurreccional de la Enmienda 14. En
Continue ReadingWINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities on the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. have charged two tribal members with illegally growing marijuana on the Navajo Nation. Tribal prosecutors announced the charges Thursday, claiming the two men had operated a massive marijuana growing operation in and around Shiprock, New Mexico. The growing operation first
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — Black drivers in California were stopped “more frequently than expected” by law enforcement, compared to their proportion of the state’s population, according to a report released this week by the California Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board. In 2022, 12.5% of traffic stops in California involved drivers that officers perceived to be Black, but Black people only represent about 5.4% of the
Continue ReadingANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Supporters of an effort to repeal Alaska’s ranked choice voting system have been fined more than $94,000 after the commission that enforces state campaign finance rules found disclosure and other violations. The Anchorage Daily News reports that an attorney representing the opponents of ranked voting who were fined by the Alaska
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s governor is proposing a nearly 10% general fund spending increase for the coming fiscal year to shore up housing opportunities, childhood literacy and health care access, with additional payouts for electric vehicles purchases. Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Thursday published the $10.5
Continue ReadingDALLAS (AP) — The family of former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson says the trailblazing Texas congresswoman died after getting an infection and accused a Dallas rehabilitation facility of neglect. Johnson, the first registered nurse elected to Congress, died on Dec. 31 at the age of 89. Les Weisbrod, her family’s attorney, said at a
Continue ReadingBy Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — Mary Ellen Mark couldn’t forget Falkland Road. The late American photographer was known for her ability to put subjects at ease, but connecting with people in the notorious red-light district on the fringes of Mumbai society proved elusive at first. “For 10 years I tried to take photographs on
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