By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters and numerous studies credit forest thinning projects with helping to save communities like those near Lake Tahoe. But dissent from some environmental advocacy groups is roiling the scientific community. States in the U.S. West and the federal government each year thin thousands of acres of
Continue Reading By KATHY GANNON Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United States and Pakistan have held difficult talks over the path forward in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan at a time when relations between the two countries are shaky. The meeting on Friday between Washington’s deputy secretary of state and Pakistani leaders came amid an array of unsettled issues.
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — High-level delegations from Mexico and the United States are building a new security framework for the bilateral relationship that they hope will govern how the two countries cooperate on a broad range of issues. The so-called U.S.-Mexico Bicentennial Framework for Security, Public Health and Safe Communities
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By Ehsan Popalzai and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN A suicide blast ripped through a Shia mosque in northern Afghanistan Friday, killing 46 people and injuring 143 others, provincial spokesman Matiullah Rohani told CNN. The attack occurred during Friday prayers at the Sayed Abad mosque in Kunduz, Rohani said. A Taliban spokesman said security forces were on
Continue Reading By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Newly released documents from the investigation of a woman accused of conspiring to kill her children and husband reveal sordid details of a cult-like belief system of “zombies” and “vibrations.” Documents from the Chandler Police Department in Arizona examine the lives of Lori and Chad Daybell
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Se espera que la lluvia de meteoros de las Dracónidas alcance su punto álgido este viernes 8 de octubre y dure hasta el próximo domingo 10 de octubre, trayendo consigo una llovizna de meteoros para los observadores de las estrellas. Las Dracónidas son lluvias notoriamente “somnolientas”, que solo producen cinco
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — El Premio Nobel de la Paz 2021 fue otorgado a dos periodistas por sus esfuerzos para salvaguardar la libertad de expresión. Se trata de Maria Ressa y Dmitry Muratov. Te contamos aquí sus historias. Maria Ressa, Premio Nobel de la Paz 2021 Maria Ressa es nativa de Filipinas. Periodista y
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — Fueron sufragistas, líderes, artistas y astronautas que transformaron Estados Unidos, incluso si no las conoces por su nombre. Ahora, serán inmortalizadas en las monedas de 25 centavos estadounidenses. La Casa de la Moneda de EE.UU. ha anunciado la lista completa de cinco mujeres pioneras que aparecerán en la primera parte del “Programa
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By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s company lost more than $70 million operating his Washington D.C. hotel while in office. That is according to documents released Friday by a House committee investigating his business. The company had to inject millions into the hotel and get Deutsche Bank to
Continue Reading By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s company lost more than $70 million operating his Washington D.C. hotel while in office. That is according to documents released Friday by a House committee investigating his business. The company had to inject millions into the hotel and get Deutsche Bank to
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has issued the first-ever presidential proclamation of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. That lends the most significant boost yet to efforts to refocus the federal holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus toward an appreciation of Native peoples. Biden also issued a proclamation for Columbus Day
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By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN New York City will phase out its controversial gifted and talented student program after years of debate that the exclusive classes further segregated students. City officials say the new policy will allow all rising kindergarteners to have access to accelerated learning, in what the Mayor says will provide an equitable model
Continue Reading By RAGAN CLARK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After reevaluating friendships and emotions during the pandemic, James Blake channeled his reflections into a 12-track LP, his fifth studio album. “Friends That Break Your Heart” strays from traditional love songs, focusing instead on friendship heartbreak, complacency, comparison and hope. The pandemic not only changed the
Continue Reading NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian magistrate has rejected the release on bail of Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan’s son, who was arrested this week in a drug raid on a luxury cruise ship, as the state narcotics agency expressed fear that he could tamper with evidence and influence witnesses. The magistrate sent Aryan Khan
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By Meg Dunn, CNN When runners cross the finish line during Monday’s 125th Boston Marathon, Heather Abbott will be there cheering them on. For Abbott and her friends, catching a Red Sox game and walking through downtown Boston to watch the race had been an annual tradition. But on April 15, 2013, their fun day
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Nobel literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah has criticized the “lack of compassion” of governments, including Britain’s, that treat migrants as a problem or a threat. Gurnah arrived in England from Zanzibar as an 18-year-old refugee in the 1960. On Thursday the Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize
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By Katie Bo Lillis President Joe Biden on Friday signed into law long-delayed legislation to provide support to victims of the mysterious “Havana syndrome,” a strange confluence of symptoms that have sickened diplomats, spies and service members around the globe. “I was pleased to sign the HAVANA Act into law to ensure we are doing
Continue ReadingBy Laura Studley, Alex Harring and Mallika Kallingal, CNN Two staff members were killed in a shooting at a Maryland senior living facility outside Washington, DC, on Friday morning, and a suspect was taken into custody, officials said. The shooting happened at the Gateway Village National Church Residence in the town of Capitol Heights, Prince
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN A 25-year-old woman from Illinois has been sentenced to four days in federal custody for staying too close to a grizzly bear and her cubs at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. Samantha Dehring pleaded guilty on October 6 to “willfully remaining, approaching, and photographing wildlife within 100 yards,” according to a
Continue Reading By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a Christmas album from Norah Jones and the return of “Succession,” with the wealthy, dysfunctional Roy family up to more power-grab shenanigans. In more music offerings, Coldplay look to the heavens with their 12-track collection, “Music of the Spheres.” The Max Martin-produced album has waves
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