By Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — The number of deaths across Mexico due to extreme heat has hit 249 over the past four months, its Ministry of Health has reported. A hundred deaths were registered in Nuevo León, 28 in Tamaulipas, 26 in Veracruz, and 26 in Sonora between March 19 and July 22. The
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press The White House has announced a series of measures that it said would reduce the cost and increase the supply of housing while bolstering protection for renters. The measures announced Thursday would provide communities with funding to reduce zoning barriers, expand financing for affordable and energy-efficient housing as well as
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Un grupo de astrónomos detectó vapor de agua girando en las inmediaciones de una estrella cercana, lo que indica que los planetas que se forman a su alrededor podrían albergar vida algún día. El joven sistema planetario, conocido como PDS 70, se encuentra a 370 años luz de distancia. La estrella
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The Jefferson City Fire Department put out a fire on the roof of a business Thursday morning.
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Simone McCarthy Hong Kong (CNN) — Five weeks ago, the world watched as China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing for high stakes talks between the two powers. But anyone looking for reference to that important event on the website of China’s Foreign Ministry will be
Continue ReadingBy KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shared center stage with senior delegates from Russia and China as he rolled out his most powerful nuclear-capable missiles in a military parade. The event Thursday evening marked a major war anniversary with a show of defiance against the United States
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Hombres con uniforme militar afirmaron haber tomado el poder en Níger horas después de que el presidente Mohamed Bazoum fuera supuestamente retenido este miércoles por miembros de la guardia presidencial, lo que generó protestas en la capital. En un comunicado grabado en video, un hombre que se identifica como el coronel-mayor
Continue ReadingBy ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Immigration advocates say an online appointment system to seek asylum at the U.S. border with Mexico is out of reach for many migrants in a lawsuit marking the latest challenge to the Biden administration’s agenda. Lawsuits filed by critics question a slew of new border policies.
Continue ReadingJuan Alvarado (CNN Español) — La Secretaría de Salud de México informó este miércoles que la cifra de muertes en el país por el calor extremo, desde 19 de marzo al 22 de julio, es de 249. De este número de fallecimientos, 100 se registraron en Nuevo León, 28 en Tamaulipas, 26 en Veracruz y
Continue ReadingGREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A jury has found a Green Bay woman wasn’t mentally ill when she killed and dismembered a former boyfriend and scattered his body parts at various locations. The Brown County jury needed less than an hour Thursday to find 25-year-old Taylor Schabusiness didn’t suffer from mental disease or defect when
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By Rob Frehse, Zenebou Sylla and Nic Anderson, CNN (CNN) — An attorney for a group of women who were sexually abused by former Michigan State University sports physician Larry Nassar filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging the school’s board of trustees held “illegal secret votes” to prevent the release of thousands of documents in the
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — A U.S.-based group has issued a list of 16 Mexican bishops and high-ranking clerics who allegedly covered up for priests accused of sexual abuse. The Massachusetts-based group BishopAccountability said Thursday that the Roman Catholic Church officials, some now retired, “have covered up for” abusers. A representative of the Mexican Council of
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Some little kids grow up dreaming of being pilots. Silva McLeod wasn’t one of them. During her childhood on the Tongan island of Vava’u, she didn’t even know that being a pilot was a possible career. But whenever a plane flew over the thatched hut she lived in with
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By Tierney Sneed and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith expanded his classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, making significant new allegations that Trump and his employees attempted to delete Mar-a-Lago security footage sought by the grand jury investigating the mishandling of the government records. The new charges were presented
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By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday accused Rep. Byron Donalds – the only Black Republican in Florida’s congressional delegation – of aligning himself with Vice President Kamala Harris by critiquing the state’s new standards for teaching Black history. Donalds tweeted Wednesday that the new standards are “good, robust, &
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By Jillian Sykes and Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Taylor Swift fans are in their record-breaking era. After two nights of earth-shaking dancing at Swift’s Seattle “Eras” tour concert at Lumen Field, enthusiastic Swifties caused seismic activity equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake, according to seismologist Jackie Caplan-Auerbach. The “Swift Quake” has been compared to
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Randy Meisner, miembro cofundador de la legendaria banda de rock The Eagles y quien se desempeñó como bajista y vocalista, murió a los 77 años, según un anuncio en el sitio oficial de la banda. “The Eagles se entristece al informar que el miembro fundador, bajista y vocalista, Randy Meisner, falleció
Continue ReadingBy NICK EL HAJJ Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait says it executed five prisoners including an inmate convicted over the bombing of a Shiite mosque in 2015 that killed 27 people and was claimed by the Islamic State group. A statement from Kuwait’s Public Prosecution said the five inmates were hanged
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Vietnam has formally agreed to let a Vatican representative live in the country and open an office. The Holy See announced the conclusion of an agreement during a visit to the Vatican by Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong, who met with Pope Francis. The agreement Thursday still
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president says he has offered to buy an American company’s Caribbean coast property for $385 million to end a bitter, years-long dispute. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday that a formal offer would be presented to Alabama-based Vulcan Materials. The company operated gravel extraction pits at the site before
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