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Month: October 2023

Nobel Prize in physics won by trio who created rapid flashes of light to ‘capture the shortest of moments’

By Christian Edwards, Katie Hunt and Ed Upright, CNN (CNN) — The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a team of scientists who created a ground-breaking technique using lasers to understand the extremely rapid movements of electrons, which were previously thought impossible to follow. Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “demonstrated

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Swiss LGBTQ+ rights groups hail 60-day sentence for polemicist who called journalist a ‘fat lesbian’

GENEVA (AP) — LGBTQ+ groups are hailing the 60-day jail sentence a court in Switzerland gave to a writer and commentator for deriding a journalist as a “fat lesbian” and other critical remarks. The Lausanne court sentenced French-Swiss polemicist Alain Bonnet, who goes by Alain Soral, for defamation, discrimination and incitement to hatred on Monday.

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Michigan school shooter’s parents cleared to stand trial on involuntary manslaughter charges

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The parents of a teenager who killed four students at Michigan’s Oxford High School lost an appeal Tuesday and will face trial on involuntary manslaughter charges, a rare case of prosecutors attempting to pin some responsibility for a school shooting on the perpetrator’s family. James and Jennifer

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In fresh line of attack, DeSantis warns voters that Trump will ‘sell you out’

By Steve Contorno and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — After declaring Donald Trump “missing in action” at last week’s Republican presidential primary debate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis followed up by taking shot after shot at the former president. He challenged Trump to a one-on-one debate, asserted the GOP front-runner’s political shortcomings “turned Georgia and Arizona

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Exclusive: John Kelly goes on the record to confirm several disturbing stories about Trump

By Jake Tapper, Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent (CNN) — John Kelly, the longest-serving White House chief of staff for Donald Trump, offered his harshest criticism yet of the former president in an exclusive statement to CNN. Kelly set the record straight with on-the-record confirmation of a number of damning stories about statements Trump made

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A deal to expedite grain exports has been reached between Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Officials say Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania have agreed on a plan they hope will help expedite Ukrainian grain exports. Needy countries beyond Europe will potentially benefit from speedier procedures. The Ukrainian farm ministry said Tuesday that the deal means that grain inspections would shift from the

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Warming through the week

High pressure is gradually building into the region bringing offshore winds and some warmer temps as well. Warmer conditions will prevail from Thursday into the weekend, with highs in the upper 90s and perhaps a few triple digit readings. Today, by comparison, will be relatively mild with temperatures climbing to 90. This is six degrees

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¿Por qué investigan a Donald Trump? Estas son todas las pesquisas, juicios y acusaciones en su contra

Ángela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — El mapa de investigaciones contra Donald Trump es enredado como una telaraña: hay investigaciones penales y civiles en marcha, así como contrademandas presentadas por el propio exmandatario. Pero esto, según un abogado constitucionalista, no le impide —ni a él ni a cualquiera que estuviera en su muy singular posición—

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Los cruces ilegales en la frontera entre México y EE.UU. alcanzan su máximo de 2023 con más de 200.000 aprehensiones en septiembre

Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La Patrulla Fronteriza detuvo a más de 200.000 inmigrantes que cruzaban ilegalmente la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México en septiembre, según un funcionario de Seguridad Nacional, lo que supone la cifra más alta de este año y subraya los retos a los que se enfrenta el gobierno de Biden

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UK court says the government’s routine housing of unaccompanied child migrants in hotels is unlawful

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s High Court has ruled that the government acted unlawfully when it routinely housed newly arrived unaccompanied child asylum seekers in hotels. A child protection charity brought legal action against Britain’s Home Office and local authorities in Kent, on England’s southern coast, over their treatment of unaccompanied

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