Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — La oleada de migrantes que atraviesa Latinoamérica rumbo a Estados Unidos genera una enorme presión sobre Costa Rica, dijo este lunes el presidente de ese país, Rodrigo Chaves, durante una conversación con CNN. La gran afluencia de migrantes ejerce “presión sobre nuestras comunidades, sobre la seguridad pública, sobre la gestión de
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By Maxime Tamsett, CNN (CNN) — Florida’s minimum wage rose by one dollar Saturday to $12/hour. The increase is the result of a constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2020 to gradually raise the Sunshine state’s minimum wage to $15/hour by September 30, 2026. Florida’s minimum wage stood at $8.56/hour when voters approved the 2020
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Columbia Second Ward Councilwoman Andrea Waner will resign next month when she moves out of the district she represents.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. BLOOD and ADAM BEAM Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When California Gov. Gavin Newsom needed to fill the U.S. Senate seat of his late mentor Dianne Feinstein, he could have turned to a big-city mayor, a member of Congress or a powerful legislator. Instead, he chose Laphonza Butler, a former union
Continue ReadingBy DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A U.S. Army lieutenant who was struck and pepper-sprayed by two police officers during a traffic stop in Virginia is asking for a new trial. Video of the 2020 encounter between Lt. Caron Nazario and Windsor police officers was viewed millions of times and
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Pope Francis has suggested for the first time that people in same-sex unions could be blessed by Catholic priests on a “case-by-case” basis, a seeming reversal of previous statements. The Pope made the suggestion in a letter to his harshest critics within the Catholic ranks, written in
Continue ReadingPOINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are searching a remote section of California’s Point Reyes National Seashore for a swimmer missing since a possible shark attack during the weekend. The swimmer was reported missing Sunday morning northwest of San Francisco Bay. A Coast Guard spokesperson says the disappearance was reported as a shark
Continue ReadingPROVINCETOWN, Mass. (AP) — A 95-year-old painter and his family who were threatened with eviction from their dune shack at the Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts have won a reprieve. Lawyers for the painter worked out a deal with federal officials allowing Salvatore Del Deo and his family to continue living in the shack
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Power lines fell Sept. 20 on a firetruck that was parked on St. Mary’s Boulevard.
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers indicted for shooting a Black man who was sleeping in a car outside his grandmother’s house have entered not guilty pleas. Officers Carl Chandler and Alexander Gregory entered the pleas Monday to charges of battery and criminal recklessness charges. Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears announced Friday
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Two pioneering scientists who created the technology behind life-saving Covid-19 vaccines have won the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology. Dr. Katalin Karikó and Dr. Drew Weissman, both of the University of Pennsylvania, achieved their breakthrough by harnessing the power of genetic material known as messenger RNA, or mRNA.
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As the United Auto Workers strike continues for a third week, one Columbia mechanic says it could soon affect drivers.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The federal government should investigate potential fraud in one of its largest anti-poverty programs, two Republican members of Congress say. In a Sept. 20 letter to Comptroller General Gene Dodoro that was made public Monday by Mississippi’s state auditor, U.S. Reps. Jason Smith, of
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The federal government should investigate potential fraud in one of its largest anti-poverty programs, two Republican members of Congress say. In a Sept. 20 letter to Comptroller General Gene Dodoro that was made public Monday by Mississippi’s state auditor, U.S. Reps. Jason Smith, of
Continue ReadingKALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — A 73-year-old woman was hospitalized after she was attacked by a bear west of Glacier National Park and just south of the U.S.-Canadian Border. The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks says the woman, her husband and a dog were in the Flathead National Forest Sunday afternoon when the bear
Continue ReadingBy STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — European captain Luke Donald was delivering his Ryder Cup victory speech at Marco Simone when his celebrating players standing beside him started a chant that quickly swept through the grandstands. “Two more years” was the cry that was seemingly led by Rory McIlroy and
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — El papa Francisco sugirió por primera vez que las personas en uniones del mismo sexo podrían ser bendecidas por sacerdotes católicos “caso por caso”, y que, aunque es una posibilidad remota, la ordenación de mujeres al sacerdocio debería estudiarse. El papa hizo la sugerencia en una carta a sus críticos
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Banners purportedly from the Sinaloa cartel have appeared in northern Mexico claiming the gang has sworn off the sale and production of fentanyl. But experts are casting doubt on the veracity of the claim, saying fentanyl remains one of the cartel’s biggest money makers. The synthetic opioid has caused tens of
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City woman accused of shooting a woman in the leg this past November has pleaded guilty to first-degree assault, according to the Cole County prosecutor. Victoria Crumble, 41, pleaded guilty to first-degree assault, Prosecutor Locke Thompson told ABC 17 News in an email. She was previously charged with first-degree
Continue ReadingBy ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A judge has denied requests by three former Memphis officers to have separate trials in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop. Lawyers for Tadarrius Bean, Desmond Mills and Justin Smith had filed motions to sever their cases from Demetrius Haley and Emmitt
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