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By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he’s traveling to Latin America to discourage people from seeking asylum in the city as it struggles to handle a massive influx of migrants. The Democratic mayor detailed the trip in a news conference Tuesday. He says he wants
Continue ReadingBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s government has issued a long awaited public apology for the extrajudicial killings of 19 civilians who were slain by the military and registered as rebel fighters during one of the most violent periods of the nation’s civil war. The apology comes as Colombia’s government attempts to make amends with communities
Continue ReadingBy GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — As Kevin McCarthy got pushed out of his job as House speaker, in part by colleagues who helped put him on the dais nine months ago, one of his top lieutenants stepped in to preside — at least temporarily. North Carolina GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN Business) — A New York judge ruled last week that former President Donald Trump inflated the value of his Mar-a-Lago estate by an eye-popping 2,300%. That finding, part of shocking ruling that found Trump and his adult sons liable for fraud, was just one of multiple examples in
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has slammed the United States over a Pentagon report that labeled it a “persistent” threat because of weapons of mass destruction, saying it will strongly counter what it called U.S. plans for aggression. Last week, the Pentagon released the unclassified version of its
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La Junta de Supervisores aprobó hoy la asignación de 3,5 millones de dólares de fondos federales de los contribuyentes para apoyar un proyecto de vivienda asequible que está en marcha en Coachella, el cual varios residentes del Condado de Riverside cuestionaron, debido principalmente a las preocupaciones sobre el uso adecuado del dinero público. El voto
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Thousands of Kaiser Permanente health care workers began a three-day strike today in what their union says in the largest action of its type in U.S. history after contract negotiations failed to produce an agreement. The nationwide strike began at 3 a.m. on the East Coast, and strikes started at 6 a.m. in California.
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Israel detuvo este lunes a un exdiplomático mexicano tras una solicitud de extradición de las autoridades mexicanas por acusaciones de delitos sexuales. Andrés Roemer Slomiansky, exembajador de México ante la Unesco y cónsul general en San Francisco, es buscado por las autoridades mexicanas desde 2021. Tras una solicitud de extradición
Continue ReadingBy Sara Murray and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Several defendants in the Georgia election interference case have been approached about their interest in accepting plea deals, as the Fulton County district attorney seeks to pare back the pool of defendants and pick up cooperators ahead of potential trials, according to sources familiar with the
Continue ReadingBy Christopher Hickey, CNN When Speaker Kevin McCarthy failed to keep his leadership post, his 269-day speakership became the shortest in more than 140 years. In a historic move, the US House of Representatives voted Tuesday to oust McCarthy as speaker. The House will now need to elect a new speaker, but there is no clear alternative
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The Board of Supervisors today signed off on a $3 million-a-year contract with a ballot printing firm for upcoming elections in Riverside County, though the chairman and one other supervisor hesitated in supporting the agreement based on another vendor’s complaints about actions by the now-former registrar of voters. “There are some real discrepancies,” Supervisor Karen
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA and MARK VANCLEAVE Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — It took only a week for the central Kansas police chief who led an August raid on the local newspaper to go from looking like he had enough support at city hall to keep his job to resigning. Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody’s
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — Octubre sobrio, enero seco y julio seco: durante un trimestre del año, estas campañas ofrecen una motivación para que la gente se reúna y se desafíe a sí misma a estar sin alcohol. A Annie Grace no le sorprende que estos periodos para reducir el consumo de alcohol sean cada vez más
Continue ReadingSOUTHGATE, Mich. (AP) — A major fire spread through an apartment complex for older residents in suburban Detroit, injuring three residents, severely damaging the roof and forcing crews to fight the flames with aerial hoses. TV stations posted video of fire Tuesday ripping through the roof at the three-story, cross-shaped complex known as the Meadows
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN) –– La Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos votó este martes a favor de destituir a Kevin McCarthy como su presidente, en un hecho histórico que amenaza con hundir aún más en el caos y la agitación a los republicanos de la Cámara. La votación sobre la moción para destituirlo fue 216-210, con ocho
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A 34-year-old child care service provider from Costa Mesa was convicted today of molesting 16 boys, aged 2 to 14, and showing another victim child pornography. Matthew Antonio Zakrzewski was convicted by the Orange County Superior Court jury of 34 felony sex charges related to 17 victims in crimes that prosecutors said took place from
Continue ReadingOTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canada’s House of Commons has elected a Black Canadian as its new speaker, a first. Liberal lawmaker Greg Fergus is the new speaker after a secret ballot by lawmakers. The election was triggered by the resignation of Anthony Rota, who stepped down last week after he invited and honored a man
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — McCarthy says he ‘wouldn’t change a thing,’ feels ‘fortunate’ to have served in first remarks since losing speakership.
Continue ReadingLAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez says his office has charged a Las Cruces police officer with voluntary manslaughter in last year’s fatal shooting of a Black man during a confrontation at a gas station. Police Officer Brad Lunsford allegedly shot Presley Eze on Aug. 2, 2022, at a gas
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House of Representatives has entered uncharted territory after a last-ditch, right-wing effort to remove fellow Republican Kevin McCarthy from the speakership succeeded. A resolution — titled a motion to vacate — was brought forward by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and passed with the support of eight
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