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By Christina Maxouris, CNN Four weeks after a gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 19 young students and two teachers, one of the state’s top law enforcement officials offered a minute-by-minute breakdown of the police response — and called it an “abject failure.” On Tuesday, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS)
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By ANDI JATMIKO and EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia has deported a Japanese man accused of being involved in a fraud scheme that netted $7.3 million intended for small businesses in Japan hurt by the coronavirus pandemic. Mitsuhiro Taniguchi was seen at the immigration office in Jakarta on Wednesday morning before
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown and Marnie Hunter, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday updated its travel advisory page for Covid-19. Just two new places, both in Africa, joined the crowded “high” risk category. But perhaps more notable this week is the news that two destinations in stubbornly high Europe were downgraded
Continue ReadingBy Zachary Cohen, CNN Ivanka Trump, daughter and former senior White House adviser to then-President Donald Trump, said in an interview filmed in mid-December 2020 that her father should “continue to fight until every legal remedy is exhausted,” according to a source familiar with the footage. Ivanka Trump said in the interview clip, which was
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By BOB CHRISTIE and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature began hearings Tuesday on a long-delayed state budget plan that was immediately panned by some Democrats and public school advocates for failing to use a huge surplus to significantly boost school funding. But the plan remained incomplete, short of
Continue Reading SAN DIEGO (AP) — Seventeen people were arrested and nearly 500,000 counterfeit pills were seized during a federal crackdown on drug traffickers suspected of bringing phony pharmaceuticals laced with fentanyl and other illicit narcotics into California from Mexico, authorities said Tuesday. The two-year investigation led to the indictment of 26 defendants, with nine suspects still
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Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — Un grupo de senadores publicó el martes por la noche el texto para un proyecto de ley de seguridad de armas bipartidista, un momento clave para el esfuerzo de aprobar una legislación para contrarrestar la violencia armada en un clima político altamente polarizado. La publicación del texto del proyecto de ley se
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Gustavo Petro fue elegido para ser el próximo presidente de Colombia con una ambiciosa agenda que va desde implementar la justicia social, acabar las desigualdades económicas, garantizar derechos básicos como la educación y salud gratuitas y universales, hasta poner a Colombia como líder en temas de medio ambiente en el mundo.
Continue ReadingBy Cheri Mossburg, CNN A Los Angeles jury found embattled comedian Bill Cosby liable in a civil case brought by Judy Huth, a woman who claimed he sexually assaulted her as a teenager in the 1970s. The jury, comprised of eight women and four men, awarded Huth $500,000 in damages. No punitive compensation was awarded.
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes (CNN Español) — “Este es el verano más caluroso de mi vida”, dice angustiado Bart Simpson y, en el cuadro siguiente, Homero le responde con el dedo índice en alto: “Este es el verano más fresco del resto de tu vida”. Si vives en el hemisferio norte, donde las olas de calor ya amenazan
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Palm Springs Mayor Lisa Middleton just returned from Idaho where she was invited to speak at the nation’s leading center for nuclear energy development and research. Watch the full interview with Mayor Middleton here: Middleton gave two presentations Monday at the Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls. The transgender mayor also met with a local LGBTQ group.
Continue Reading By Justin Gamble, CNN A Latino officer in a suburban Cleveland police department, became the second officer to speak out publicly after filing a complaint earlier this year with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission about alleged racist actions by former Sheffield Lake Police Chief Anthony Campo. Officer A.J. Torres filed his complaint with the state
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — El presidente de Colombia, Iván Duque, anunció este martes que se levantará la medida de emergencia sanitaria por la pandemia de covid-19 a partir del 1 de julio. En una alocución desde la Casa de Nariño, Duque expuso que en el país han logrado la vacunación de una importante parte
Continue Reading By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — About $1.1 billion in unused unemployment benefits returned to California on Tuesday, money state officials said was most likely attempted fraud during the pandemic. The money had been sitting on 780,000 Bank of America debit cards that were never used. State officials worked with Bank of
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A 22-year-old man pleaded not guilty today to attempted murder following his arrest for allegedly shooting a 25-year-old man multiple times in a Coachella parking lot. Issac Vargas was arrested Thursday evening and booked into the John J. Benoit Detention Center in Indio, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. He was charged with one
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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press The Uvalde massacre began after the 18-year-old gunman entered the school through a door that could only be locked from the outside and then got inside a classroom that had a busted lock, experts testified Tuesday. Securing doors has long been a focus of school safety drills, and the inability
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN The Biden administration signaled Tuesday that it will develop a proposed rule to establish a maximum nicotine level in cigarettes and other tobacco products that will essentially lower the amount of nicotine in products available in the US. It is a step that no other administration has taken before and is
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Las tensiones aumentan en torno al enclave ruso de Kaliningrado, un territorio aislado pero estratégicamente importante en la costa del Báltico que pronto podría verse arrastrado a la guerra del Kremlin. Rusia ha reaccionado con furia después de que Lituania prohibiera el paso de mercancías sancionadas a través de su territorio
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, CNN Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers delivered emotional testimony Tuesday about his resolve in the face of enormous pressure to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, vaulting the conservative Republican into the spotlight and the center of the national reckoning over the events of January 6, 2021. Back in Arizona,
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Agentes de la prefectura naval y la gendarmería de Argentina interceptaron este martes más de 1,5 toneladas de cocaína en Buenos Aires que estaba a punto de ser enviada a Europa por mar, según un comunicado publicado en el sitio web del gobierno argentino. Incautan 23 toneladas de cocaína en Europa,
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