By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A senior lawmaker has split from Australia’s opposition party leadership by supporting a proposal to create a so-called Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Australians are expected to vote in a referendum this year on whether to create the elected group to advocate Indigenous interests to Parliament. Julian
Continue ReadingRocÃo Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Un hombre de 25 años, quien trabajaba como empleado de un banco en Louisville, Kentucky, se enteró de que lo iban a despedir y escribió una nota a sus seres queridos antes de dirigirse a su trabajo en la mañana de este lunes y perpetrar un tiroteo masivo que dejó al
Continue Reading By ROHIT THAYYIL and MOJUDAN GADHAVI, Press Trust of India KOCHI, India (AP) — Eloor smells like it is dying. Once it was an island of rich farmland on the Periyar River, 17 km (10.5 miles) from the Arabian sea, teeming with fish. Now, a stench of putrid flesh permeates the air. Most of the
Continue ReadingRocÃo Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — La FiscalÃa Nacional de Chile informó este lunes que extendió a todo el paÃs el criterio bajo el cual los fiscales que investigan delitos de homicidio puedan solicitar prisión preventiva para los extranjeros que detengan y que carezcan de documento de identidad. A través de su cuenta oficial de Twitter,
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Una droga altamente adictiva que se convirtió en el salvavidas económico de Siria durante una década de aislamiento puede estar funcionando ahora como moneda de cambio en su intento por normalizar los lazos con los estados vecinos, según los analistas. El captagon, una droga relativamente desconocida fuera de Medio Oriente, ayudó
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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Texas Rangers left-hander Andrew Heaney tied an AL record by striking out nine consecutive batters against the Kansas City Royals. Heaney matched a record shared by Detroit reliever Tyler Alexander against Cincinnati on Aug. 2, 2020, and Detroit reliever Doug Fister against Kansas City on Sept. 27, 2012. The major league
Continue Reading ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Texas Rangers left-hander Andrew Heaney tied an AL record by striking out nine consecutive batters against the Kansas City Royals. Heaney matched a record shared by Detroit reliever Tyler Alexander against Cincinnati on Aug. 2, 2020, and Detroit reliever Doug Fister against Kansas City on Sept. 27, 2012. The major league
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess, Amanda Jackson and Andi Babineau, CNN A shelter-in-place order has been lifted for neighborhoods near a burning fishing vessel in the Hylebos Waterway in Tacoma, Washington, officials said. The vessel — which was still burning Monday and believed to be carrying 55,000 gallons of diesel and 19,000 pounds of freon — caught
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A hearing for three men accused in the hazing incident that left a University of Missouri student disabled had a hearing on Monday. Samuel J. Morrison, Blake A. Morsovillo and John James O’Neill are charged with hazing – life endangerment. A motion to continue was filed and granted. Morsovillo and O’Neill are
Continue ReadingBy Andi Babineau and Jeremy Harlan, CNN Tina Peters — the former clerk of Mesa County, Colorado, and the state’s most prominent 2020 election denier — was sentenced by a judge Monday to home detention and community service after she was found guilty last month of obstructing a government operation. Peters was sentenced to four
Continue Reading By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A growing number of states led by Democratic governors are stockpiling doses of drugs used in medication abortions, amid fears that a court ruling could restrict access to the most commonly used method of abortion in the U.S. Massachusetts has purchased enough doses of the drug mifepristone
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic ended Monday as President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years — weeks before it was set to expire alongside a separate public health emergency. The
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) — Al menos seis personas murieron y varias más resultaron heridas en una avalancha que sacudió los Alpes franceses durante el fin de semana. El ministro del Interior, Gerald Darmanin, tuiteó este domingo que se desplegaron equipos de emergencia tras el incidente en el glaciar de Armancette, cerca del Mont Blanc, en el
Continue Reading By DYLAN LOVAN and CLAIRE GALOFARO Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Louisville bank employee armed with a rifle opened fire at his workplace Monday morning, killing five people — including a close friend of Kentucky’s governor — while livestreaming the attack on Instagram, authorities said. Police arrived as shots were still being fired
Continue Reading By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are calling on U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to open an investigation into the undisclosed acceptance of luxury trips taken by Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife that were paid for by a Republican megadonor. Democrats serving on the Senate Judiciary Committee have
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) — La Guardia Costera de Italia lidera las labores de rescate de al menos 400 migrantes a la deriva en una embarcación en el Mediterráneo, entre Italia y Malta, en una ruta migratoria que las ONG advierten que es peligrosa. Actualmente, se llevan a cabo tres operaciones de rescate con varios buques para
Continue Reading By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — American and Filipino forces on Tuesday launched their largest combat exercises in decades in the Philippines and its waters across the disputed South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, where Washington has repeatedly warned China over its increasingly aggressive actions. The annual drills by the longtime
Continue ReadingRocÃo Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — La SecretarÃa de Seguridad Pública de Quintana Roo informó este lunes que detuvieron a tres personas presuntamente relacionadas con un intento de asalto y el homicidio de una persona en una cafeterÃa, ocurridos durante el mediodÃa en la zona turÃstica de Tulum. En su cuenta de Twitter, la institución agregó
Continue ReadingBy Nikki Carvajal, CNN President Joe Biden signed legislation Monday to end the national emergency for Covid-19, the White House said, in a move that will not affect the end of the separate public health emergency scheduled for May 11. A White House official downplayed the impact of the bill, saying the termination of the
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Columbia police had crime scene tape up at an east Columbia gas station after two people were shot Monday.
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