macamilarincon (CNN) –– Roger Stone, un aliado incondicional del expresidente Donald Trump, se reunió brevemente este viernes con la comisión de la Cámara de Representantes que investiga la insurrección del 6 de enero. Durante el encuentro, Stone se acogió a sus derechos de la Quinta Enmienda ante cada pregunta que le formularon, dijo después de
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By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer Students will be able to apply to Harvard University without submitting SAT or ACT scores for at least the next four years. Harvard announced the move Thursday amid concerns about students’ access to testing sites during the pandemic. It extends a policy many colleges have adopted during the pandemic
Continue Reading FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Police in northern Virginia say they may have uncovered evidence of a potential serial killer after finding the remains of four bodies in a wooded area. Fairfax County police say the bodies were discovered Wednesday in a container near a shopping cart in the woods. In a news release issued Friday,
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By Daniela Mohor W., for CNN Just ten years ago, Gabriel Boric was a student leader in the Chilean capital, rallying against the country’s privatized education system alongside thousands of other students in Santiago. Now, the 35-year-old progressive congressman is taking that ethos to the polls, where he hopes to stave off his rival, far-right
Continue Reading By AMY FORLITI and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The suburban Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed Black motorist Daunte Wright has taken the stand at her manslaughter trial. Kim Potter has said she mistook her gun for her Taser when she shot the 20-year-old Wright during an April 11 traffic stop
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By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists are suing three federal agencies over an environmental review the government says satisfies requirements to resume the killing coyotes, mountain lions and other wildlife in federally protected wilderness areas in Nevada. The move comes five years after the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Wildlife Services settled a
Continue Reading By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists are suing three federal agencies over an environmental review the government says satisfies requirements to resume the killing coyotes, mountain lions and other wildlife in federally protected wilderness areas in Nevada. The move comes five years after the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Wildlife Services settled a
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By Toyin Owoseje, CNN A “new” song by Aaliyah has hit the airwaves, two decades after her death. “Poison,” which also features Canadian singer-songwriter The Weeknd, was unveiled on Friday, marking her first release since 2012’s “Enough Said.” Aaliyah sings the lines: “How can I explain myself to you? Questions keep lurking through my mind.
Continue Reading SUDHIN THANAWALA A week after a deadly tornado outbreak, families of the victims are still processing the terrible toll. Authorities on Thursday found the body of a Kentucky teenager who had been missing. Nyssa Brown was the seventh member of her family to die in the tornado that hit Bowling Green last week, and family
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The state plans to lift a moratorium on voluntary admissions at Osawatomie State Hospital beginning on Jan. 3. The hospital for adults with mental health issues stopped taking voluntary admissions in 2015 after receiving citations for not doing enough to help suicidal patients and routinely housing three patients in rooms meant
Continue Reading SUDHIN THANAWALA A week after a deadly tornado outbreak, families of the victims are still processing the terrible toll. Authorities on Thursday found the body of a Kentucky teenager who had been missing. Nyssa Brown was the seventh member of her family to die in the tornado that hit Bowling Green last week, and family
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — Criptomoneda, valemadrismo, gentrificación, poliamor, cubrebocas o quinoa. La Real Academia Española (RAE) presentó este jueves las novedades del Diccionario de la Lengua Española, al que también se incorporaron palabras relacionadas con la pandemia del covid-19, la tecnología y el género. Este año son 3.838 modificaciones de la versión en línea
Continue Reading Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Al menos 14 personas han muerto y siete más están desaparecidas tras el impacto del tifón Rai, que se trasladó a las regiones del centro y sur de Filipinas, informó en un comunicado el viernes el Consejo Nacional de Gestión y Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres (NDRRMC) del país.
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — Una mujer en Honduras que deseara evitar un embarazo no planificado utilizando una píldora anticonceptiva de emergencia podría enfrentar cargos criminales en su país. Con el propósito de protestar la dificultad para acceder a este derecho, prohibido solamente en Honduras de todo el continente americano —como constata y denuncia la
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By Zachary Cohen and Holmes Lybrand, CNN Roger Stone, a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump, met briefly Friday with the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot and asserted his Fifth Amendment rights to every question asked, he said. Stone emerged from the deposition after only 90 minutes and told reporters he
Continue Reading By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are endorsing “test-to-stay” policies that allow close contacts of students infected with the coronavirus to remain in classrooms if they test negative. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday decided to more firmly embrace the approach, after research of such
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By Clare Duffy and Jennifer Korn, CNN A content moderator for TikTok is suing the social media platform after she says she developed psychological trauma as a result of her job, which she alleges required her to review videos featuring graphic violence, conspiracy theories and other disturbing imagery. Candie Frazier, a Las Vegas-based contractor for
Continue Reading By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A psychologist says police officers can mistakenly draw their gun instead of their Taser under high-stress situations because their ingrained training takes over. Laurence Miller, who teaches at Florida Atlantic University, testified Friday at the manslaughter trial for Kim Potter, the suburban Minneapolis police
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By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business “Everybody loves a hero.” The immortal words of Aunt May from 2004’s “Spider-Man 2” ring truer than ever this weekend as audiences, Hollywood and especially theaters await the biggest film of the year. “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” the latest Spider-Man adventure from Sony and Marvel, opens this weekend, and is
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By Erwin M. Mascariñas and Rhea Mogul, CNN Usually, Jay Lacia wakes at midnight on Christmas Day to start the festivities — but this year, all he wished for was enough food to eat. “We always celebrated Christmas, but for now, it’s too hard,” the 27-year-old father of one said, as he sat among rubble
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