By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press A Navy veteran of World War II is being mourned after his death en route to France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Friends say Robert “Al” Persichitti of Fairport, New York, fell ill on a stop in Germany last week and died in a hospital. He was 102.
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press A U.S. district judge has dismissed claims by Native American tribes and environmentalists who sought to halt construction along part of a $10 billion energy transmission line. Judge Jennifer Zipps says in her ruling Thursday that plaintiffs were years late in bringing their challenge. It follows an earlier decision
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By Marshall Cohen and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Wilmington, Delaware (CNN) — The prosecution’s most important witness against Hunter Biden, his sister-in-law-turned-girlfriend Hallie Biden, testified Thursday that she believed he was using drugs when she saw him in October 2018, the month he claimed on a federal background check that he was clean. Jurors sat forward in
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By Kaila Nichols, CNN (CNN) — A trove of ancient Mexican artifacts brought to Seattle decades ago is finally going home. In January 2022, Homeland Security Investigations received a tip that a Seattle resident was in possession of 36 ancient artifacts originating from Chiapas, Mexico, a spokesperson for the agency’s Seattle office told CNN. The resident,
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has signed a bill that would impose another hurdle for the implementation of ranked-choice voting, which may be on the November ballot. The new law would require that the system first be tested at a municipal level, delaying implementation. The system
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Un edulcorante bajo en calorías llamado xilitol, utilizado en muchos alimentos y productos de consumo con bajo contenido en azúcar, como chicles y dentífricos, puede estar relacionado con un riesgo casi dos veces mayor de infarto de miocardio, apoplejía y muerte en las personas que consumen los niveles más altos del
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) An advocacy group shared in a Thursday social media post that it was submitting a petition that asked for clemency for a man convicted of murder. Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty said in a video that its petition had more than 6,000 signatures. David Hosier, 69, was found guilty by
Continue ReadingLesther Alemán (CNN Español) — Aquí tienes alguna información a fondo sobre las finales de la NBA (la liga de baloncesto masculina de EE.UU. y Canadá) y las de la WNBA (la liga femenina). Las finales siguen las temporadas regulares de las ligas de baloncesto profesional. Finales de la NBA de 2024 6 de junio
Continue ReadingBy MATILDE CAMPODONICO Associated Press MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Nearly five decades after Uruguayan security forces seized Amelia Sanjurjo from the street, disappearing the newly pregnant woman into the maw of the military’s prison system, she received a proper burial in her hometown of Montevideo. The bone fragments of Sanjurjo were exhumed exactly a year
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN) — En lo que se cree que es el primer encuentro de este tipo presenciado por científicos, se vio a un tiburón tigre vomitando un equidna muerto entero frente a la costa de una isla australiana. Los equidnas, mamíferos con forma de cúpula cubiertos de espinas, son comunes en Australia. Investigadores de
Continue ReadingOpinion by Lawrence Lessig (CNN) — In April, Daniel Kokotajlo resigned his position as a researcher at OpenAI, the company behind Chat GPT. He wrote in a statement that he disagreed with the way it is handling issues related to security as it continues to develop the revolutionary but still not fully understood technology of
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN Español) — La justicia francesa decidió prohibir la subasta del Balón de Oro que la FIFA y France Football le entregaron a Diego Maradona en 1986 por ser el mejor jugador del Mundial de México. Después del fallo provisional del 30 de mayo que habilitaba la venta, el Tribunal de Apelación de
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Golden Corral on Clark Lane in Columbia reopened on Thursday. According to previous reporting, the restaurant caught fire at 10 p.m. Dec. 31, 2022. Columbia fire crews had the fire under control within 40 minutes, the report states. Around $250,000 in damage was reported. No one was in the building at
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By Juliet Lemar Click here for updates on this story California (KSBY) — “I was watching my son die in front of me and knowing addiction and recovery and knowing he had to reach his bottom and I had to let him… that was the scariest part,” said Ann Drummond, a mother and addiction recovery
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Eight books dealing with subjects including racism and transgender issues must be returned to library shelves in a rural Texas county that had removed them in an ongoing book banning controversy, a divided panel of three federal appeals court judges ruled Thursday. It was a partial
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to address a joint meeting of Congress on July 24, setting the stage for what is expected to be a contentious speech at a crucial moment for the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Congressional leaders confirmed the date
Continue ReadingGUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan lawyer who worked closely with organizations representing farmworker and Indigenous groups has been killed in an apparent ambush. Human rights organizations said Thursday that José Domingo was with two members of the United Farmworker Committee when they were shot by a group of men Wednesday south of the capital.
Continue ReadingBelén Liotti (CNN Español) — En medio de la controversia política en Colombia por la posibilidad de una convocatoria a una Asamblea Constituyente por parte del Gobierno de Gustavo Petro —esto por la interpretación de un párrafo del acuerdo de paz firmado con las FARC en 2016—, el mandatario negó este jueves a través de
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN) — Los empleados de seguridad que trabajan por horas en comercios llevan ahora cámaras corporales similares a las de la policía en las principales tiendas. El gigante minorista TJX, matriz de TJ Maxx, Marshalls y HomeGoods, dijo que está equipando a algunos empleados de las tiendas con cámaras corporales para
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By Radina Gigova and Joseph Ataman, CNN (CNN) — French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed on Thursday that a French national has been detained in Moscow, but denied that the man was working for the French government. “In no way was he working for France. Now we are very vigilant, he will receive all the consular protections that apply
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