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Condenan a excoronel del régimen de Assad a cadena perpetua por crímenes de lesa humanidad en un fallo histórico. Víctimas dicen que falta “un largo camino”

January 13, 2022 10:58 AM CNN Newsource

macamilarincon (CNN) –– Un tribunal de Alemania condenó a un excoronel del Ejército de Siria a cadena perpetua sin posibilidad de libertad condicional, en el primer juicio por tortura contra el régimen del presidente Bashar al-Assad. Anwar Raslan, un alto funcionario del régimen, lideró la unidad de investigación en un destacado centro de detención de

Biden heads to Senate with voting legislation on the line

January 13, 2022 10:57 AM Associated Press

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to meet privately with Senate Democrats at the Capitol, a visit intended to deliver a jolt to the party’s long-stalled voting and elections legislation. Biden will discuss potential changes to Senate rules on Thursday that will be needed to overcome repeated Republican

Fed nominee Brainard: Fighting inflation is top priority

January 13, 2022 10:56 AM Associated Press

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Lael Brainard, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Federal Reserve’s No. 2 spot, said Thursday that combating high inflation is the Fed’s top priority and promised the Fed could bring it down without sacrificing job growth. Brainard’s elevation of inflation-fighting as the Fed’s top goal is

Fed nominee Brainard: Fighting inflation is top priority

January 13, 2022 10:56 AM Associated Press

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Lael Brainard, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Federal Reserve’s No. 2 spot, said Thursday that combating high inflation is the Fed’s top priority and promised the Fed could bring it down without sacrificing job growth. Brainard’s elevation of inflation-fighting as the Fed’s top goal is

Police identify man fatally injured in hit-and-run crash

January 13, 2022 10:55 AM Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines police have identified the man who died after a hit-and-run crash as a 32-year-old Des Moines resident. Police on Thursday identified the man as William “Cody” Kline. Officers were called about 2:40 a.m. Wednesday to a report of a pedestrian who had been hit by a car on

Gobierno de Bolivia dice que juicio contra la expresidenta Jeanine Áñez iniciará en los “siguientes días”

January 13, 2022 10:55 AM CNN Newsource

Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El Gobierno de Bolivia informó este miércoles que el juicio contra la expresidenta Jeanine Áñez iniciará próximamente. El anuncio despertó críticas de la defensa de la exmandataria, la cual aseguró a CNN que aún no han recibido una notificación oficial por parte de los tribunales. En un mensaje

Suspect in 2012 France family slaying freed without charges

January 13, 2022 10:53 AM Associated Press

PARIS (AP) — A French prosecutor has freed a suspect held in custody since Wednesday morning over the 2012 slayings of a British-Iraqi family and a cyclist in the French Alps. The suspect was released Thursday afternoon without any charges, and the Annecy prosecutor said in a short message on Twitter that “investigations are continuing”

Ohio governor facing primary: No pandemic response regrets

January 13, 2022 10:52 AM Associated Press

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — GOP Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine says he has no regrets about his response to the coronavirus pandemic, even if Republican voters who thought he went too far are angry enough to vote him out in the upcoming May primary. DeWine is running for

Officers find dead woman in car near Emporia

January 13, 2022 10:51 AM Associated Press

EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — Lyon County authorities say a person is in custody after deputies found a dead woman inside a vehicle near Emporia. The sheriff’s office says deputies were alerted Wednesday night to check on the welfare of two adults and two children inside a vehicle. Deputies stopped the car on U.S. 50 west

US warns Russia is sounding ‘drumbeats of war’ against Ukraine as crisis talks end with no breakthrough

January 13, 2022 10:50 AM CNN

By Jeremy Herb, Jennifer Hansler, Alex Marquardt and Kylie Atwood, CNN A senior US official warned Thursday that the “drumbeat of war is sounding loud” following a week’s worth of diplomacy between the West and Russia that wrapped up Thursday. The effort ended without clear breakthroughs over the tens of thousands of Russian troops amassed

Cities with the most delivery drivers per capita

January 13, 2022 10:50 AM Stacker

Circuit used data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to rank the metropolitan areas with the most delivery drivers. This was determined by using the estimated number of delivery driver jobs per 1,000 total jobs.

50 essential civil rights speeches

January 13, 2022 10:50 AM Stacker

Stacker compiles a list of 50 essential civil rights speeches using resources including BlackPast, TED, and additional media and educational sources.

Police disperse Bedouin protesters in southern Israel

January 13, 2022 10:48 AM Associated Press

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police have dispersed hundreds of Bedouin protesters who blocked a desert highway during a demonstration against a tree-planting campaign they say is aimed at pushing them off disputed land. It was the third consecutive day of demonstrations by Bedouin residents of southern Israel’s Negev desert against a forestry project they say

Nobel body criticizes Nobel Peace Prize winner Abiy over war

January 13, 2022 10:45 AM Associated Press

BY JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the prestigious Peace Prize, has issued a very rare admonition to the 2019 winner, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, over the war and humanitarian crisis in his country’s Tigray region. Abiy partly won the prize for making peace with

Cool new disk: Spinning ice drawing chilly gawkers again

January 13, 2022 10:44 AM Associated Press

WESTBROOK, Maine (AP) — A swirling disk of ice on a Maine river is drawing onlookers in the heart of winter once again. The disk has formed in the Presumpscot River in Westbrook. A handful of dog-walkers and onlookers stopped to gaze at the curious ice formation on a chilly Thursday morning around dawn. The

Shares of Virgin Galactic — the space tourism company that carried its billionaire founder

Virgin Galactic shares tumble as company says it’s raising $425 million in debt

January 13, 2022 10:37 AM CNN Newsource

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Shares of Virgin Galactic — the space tourism company that carried its billionaire founder, Richard Branson, to the edge of space last summer — took a major price hit on Thursday after the company announced it’s raising as much as half a billion dollars in debt. Its stock shed more

Democrats embrace hardball judicial nomination tactics GOP adopted under Trump

January 13, 2022 10:31 AM CNN

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Former President Donald Trump and Republicans broke with previous Senate tradition to confirm 17 federal appeals court nominees over the objection of Democratic senators representing the states tied to their seats on the bench. Now President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats are using that precedent in their effort to fill vacancies

Senate passes bill to posthumously award Emmett Till and his mother with Congressional Gold Medal

January 13, 2022 10:30 AM CNN Newsource

By Delano Massey, CNN The Senate on Tuesday passed a bipartisan bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Emmett Till, a teenager savagely killed in 1955 by White supremacists in Mississippi, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who decided to have an open-casket funeral because she “wanted the world to see what they did

2021 was the worst on record for unruly airplane passenger behavior in the United States

FAA numbers confirm it — 2021 was terrible for bad behavior in the skies

January 13, 2022 10:30 AM CNN Newsource

By Marnie Hunter, CNN Assaults on crew members. Public intoxication. Verbal abuse. Last year was the worst on record for unruly airplane passenger behavior in the United States, according to Federal Aviation Administration data. A whopping 5,981 reports of unruly passengers were logged by the FAA as of December 31. Of those, 4,290 — nearly

Biden to double free COVID tests, add N95s, to fight omicron

January 13, 2022 10:25 AM Associated Press

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says the government plans to double to 1 billion the rapid, at-home COVID-19 tests to be distributed free to Americans. Speaking at the White House on Thursday, Biden says his administration will also make the most protective N95 masks available for no charge. He

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