Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Nueve empresas de combustibles fósiles de Estados Unidos y Europa han pagado en conjunto US$ 15.800 millones a Rusia en varios tipos de impuesto y aranceles desde la anexión de Crimea en 2014, según afirmó un grupo de organizaciones no gubernamentales este jueves. Los grupos Global Witness, Greenpeace USA y Oil
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By Ethan Cohen, CNN A Maryland judge on Friday blocked the state’s new congressional map, which could have shut Republicans out of the state’s delegation, ruling that it unfairly benefits Democrats. The map is “a product of extreme partisan gerrymandering” and violates the state constitution, Senior Judge Lynne A. Battaglia wrote in her decision. The
Continue ReadingBy Jessica De Nova Click here for updates on this story ANAHEIM, California (KABC) — Police in Anaheim are asking the public’s help in finding a man who was caught on surveillance video attacking a library employee for no apparent reason, leaving him unconscious. It happened at the Anaheim Central Library on Thursday, March 3.
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By Nicole Chavez and Tiffany Anthony, CNN A hotel in South Dakota is accused of refusing to rent a room to at least two Indigenous women after its owner reportedly threatened to ban all Native Americans from the property. The NDN Collective, an Indigenous rights group in South Dakota, and Sunny Red Bear, the group’s
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez and Tiffany Anthony, CNN A hotel in South Dakota is accused of refusing to rent a room to at least two Indigenous women after its owner reportedly threatened to ban all Native Americans from the property. The NDN Collective, an Indigenous rights group in South Dakota, and Sunny Red Bear, the group’s
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By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Auto Racing Writer JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Despite a raging fire at a nearby oil depot following an attack, the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix has maintained business as usual. The Formula One race on Sunday is also expected to go ahead. But meetings dragged on in the paddock late into
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Junior guard Aijha Blackwell enters transfer portal making her the third member of Mizzou’s women’s basketball team to enter this week. Blackwell tweeted this morning confirming that she will be leaving Mizzou and entering the portal. During her time at Mizzou, Blackwell made the All-SEC Freshman Team in the 2019-2020 season and
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El pleno de 15 magistrados que conforman la Corte Suprema de Justicia de Honduras se reunirá este lunes para resolver el recurso de apelación presentado por la defensa del expresidente Juan Orlando Hernández, y definir si el exmandatario es extraditado a Estados Unidos o no. Asà lo informó este
Continue Reading By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer BEREA, Ohio (AP) — New Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson maintained his innocence and strongly denied committing any sexual misconduct despite allegations made by 22 women against him. Wearing a dark pinstriped suit and orange tie at his introductory news conference, Watson showed little emotion while saying he’s done nothing
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By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Miami Beach officials have spent recent years trying to control the raucous crowds, public drinking and growing violence associated with the city’s world-famous South Beach neighborhood. Business owners claim they’re being unfairly targeted by regulations, and civil rights advocates say the city is trying to
Continue Reading KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Four Chinese badminton players are on probation for two years for failing to try their best to win a doubles match in 2018. The incident happened in the Fuzhou Open quarterfinals in China in November 2018. World-ranked No. 2 pair Li Jun Hui and Liu Yu Chen were playing No.
Continue Reading By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — States and localities are increasingly tapping federal funds to help finance efforts to build more affordable housing, repair dilapidated units or reduce their homeless numbers. Housing advocates believe the money from the $350 billion Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds could transform the way communities address
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By Rachel Ramirez and Hafsa Khalil, CNN An ice shelf in Antarctica nearly the size of Los Angeles disintegrated in mid-March within days of extraordinary warmth on the continent, scientists say. The Conger Ice Shelf, spanning approximately 460 square miles, collapsed around March 15. It was around the time temperatures soared to minus-12 degrees Celsius,
Continue Reading MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Seeded women continue to have major struggles at the Miami Open. More than half of the women who were seeded going into the tournament won’t even be around for the first weekend. Iga Swiatek of Poland plays later Friday and can be assured of taking over for Ashleigh Barty as
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By Zeena Saifi, Eoin McSweeney, Bear Hutchison and Becky Anderson, CNN The European Space Agency may seek closer ties with NASA on its upcoming missions, especially the ExoMars rover, after it became clear ESA needed “to sever” its ties with Russia, the agency’s director general, Josef Aschbacher, said. “Certainly one option which we are studying,
Continue Reading By Zeena Saifi, Eoin McSweeney, Bear Hutchison and Becky Anderson, CNN The European Space Agency may seek closer ties with NASA on its upcoming missions, especially the ExoMars rover, after it became clear ESA needed “to sever” its ties with Russia, the agency’s director general, Josef Aschbacher, said. “Certainly one option which we are studying,
Continue Reading By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s unemployment rate has fallen to 5.4% after employers added a surprising 138,100 jobs in February. New data released Friday from the state’s Employment Development Department show California has regained 87.2% of the jobs that the state lost in March and April of 2020 at the
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Es posible que hayas oÃdo el proverbio ‘Marzo entra como un león y sale como un cordero’. Bueno, el último fin de semana de marzo tendás al cordero vistiendo una camiseta sin mangas y sandalias en el oeste de Estados Unidos. En el oeste del paÃs las personas experimentarán un
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El automóvil en el que iban seis adolescentes y que murieron tras chocar con un camión en Oklahoma no se detuvo completamente en una señal de alto antes de ingresar a la carretera, dijeron testigos, según una actualización de una investigación de la Junta Nacional de Seguridad en el Transporte (NTSB,
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