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Month: September 2023

France’s Macron says schools will be ‘intractable’ in enforcing ban on robes often worn by Muslims

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron says public school students won’t get past the door if they show up dressed in long robes mainly worn by Muslims. He says authorities will be “intractable” in enforcing a new ban on the garments when classes resume next week. French Education Minister Gabriel Attal announced four days

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Sec. Buttigieg looking for reductions in unruly passengers, close calls after busiest air travel summer on record

By Greg Wallace, CNN (CNN) — As an increasing number of passengers are acting out on crowded aircraft this summer, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has an admonition for passengers. “If you’re onboard an airplane, do not get in the way of the flight crew,” he said Friday before boarding a flight at O’Hare International Airport

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

El miembro de “Proud Boys” que rompió la ventana del Capitolio el 6 de enero fue condenado a 10 años de prisión

Sofía Benavides (CNN) — El miembro del grupo Proud Boy que atravesó una ventana del Capitolio de Estados Unidos con un escudo antidisturbios de la Policía el 6 de enero de 2021, permitiendo que la primera oleada de alborotadores irrumpiera en el edificio mientras los miembros del Congreso eran evacuados, fue sentenciado este viernes a

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Civil rights group wants independent probe into the record number of deaths in Alaska prisons

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska is asking the courts to order an independent investigation into the Alaska Department of Corrections after a record number of deaths were reported last year. The ACLU request came when it announced separate lawsuits against the state Department of Corrections on behalf of two

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Billionaires want to build a new city in rural California. They must convince voters first

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Silicon Valley billionaires behind a secretive $800 million land-buying spree in Northern California have finally released some details about their plans for a new green city, but they still must win over skeptical voters and local leaders. After years of ducking scrutiny, Jan Sramek, the former

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Billionaires want to build a new city in rural California. They must convince voters first

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Silicon Valley billionaires behind a secretive $800 million land-buying spree in Northern California have finally released some details about their plans for a new green city, but they still must win over skeptical voters and local leaders. After years of ducking scrutiny, Jan Sramek, the former

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Death toll from Johannesburg fire rises to 76 as city turns to tough job of identifying victims

By GERALD IMRAY and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Search teams finished checking a derelict Johannesburg apartment building a day after one of South Africa’s deadliest fires broke out there as pathologists faced the grisly task Friday of identifying charred bodies and body parts that were transported in large trucks to mortuaries across

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Sofia Coppola’s ‘Archive’ features rare photographs of Kirsten Dunst, Emma Watson and Elle Fanning

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — With the deaths of the five blonde Lisbon sisters, the 1998 adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel “The Virgin Suicides” from filmmaker Sofia Coppola told a tragic tale through gauzy, sunlit suburban scenes. Her characters in the movie, and her subsequent works including “Lost in Translation,” “Somewhere,” and the soon-to-be-released

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