By ED DAVEY and DAVID PEREDA ZAVALETA Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Kichwa tribal leader has been shot to death in an area of the Peruvian rainforest that’s seen high tension between Indigenous people and illegal loggers. Quinto Inuma Alvarado was returning by boat from a meeting of Indigenous leaders when his party
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN Kyushu, Japan (CNN) — There is a legend that a group of Portuguese monks were sailing to Macao when their ship hit bad weather and they landed in Nagasaki, Japan, instead. That accidental encounter ended up changing Japan – and its food – forever. One thing these monks, and the many
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Valeria Ordóñez (CNN Español) — El Gobierno del presidente de Panamá, Laurentino Cortizo, relevó a su ministro de Comercio e Industrias, dos días después de que la Corte Suprema declaró inconstitucional el contrato del Estado con la empresa Minera Panamá, que había generado protestas durante el último mes. En conferencia de prensa se anunció que el
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The City Council in Portland, Oregon, has approved $2.6 million for police body cameras. The Oregonian reported Wednesday that all of the city’s roughly 800 uniformed officers who interact with the public will have body-worn cameras by the summer, after training and further negotiations with the police union. However, only around
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Delouya and Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily halted Montana’s groundbreaking statewide TikTok ban, which was set to go into effect at the start of 2024, pending a trial on the matter. In an order, US District Judge Donald Molloy said that despite the state government’s attempt to
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En los próximos años se espera que crezca la demanda para maestros preescolares en el estado de California.
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Maverick Carter, LeBron James’ business partner, told federal investigators he bet on NBA games through an illegal bookie, The Washington Post reported Thursday. Carter made his remarks during an interview as part of an investigation of bookie Wayne Nix, according to the Post’s report. It said that Carter could not remember
Continue ReadingEDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — Visitors to the Edinburgh Zoo had their final chance to see and bid farewell to a pair of popular giant pandas who are returning home to China after more than a decade in Scotland. Yang Guang and Tian Tian are leaving in early December. They have been a popular attraction since
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Oregon State quarterback DJ Uiagalelei and his former high school and college teammate in Clemson receiver Beaux Collins announced plans to enter the transfer portal Thursday as did UCLA freshman quarterback Dante Moore. North Carolina State quarterback MJ Morris said he, too, will join the portal, an announcement coming less than
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Two local teens were arrested for making threats to commit a mass shooting at Yucca Valley High School. According to investigators, an 18-year-old along with a 17-year-old boy threatened to carry out the school shooting in a Snapchat video posted around 8:34 a.m. Thursday. Deputies with the Morongo Basin Sheriff’s Station arrived at the school
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge has blocked Montana’s first-in-the-nation law banning the video-sharing app TikTok in the state while a legal challenge to the law moves through the courts. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy says the ban “oversteps state power and infringes on the Constitutional right of
Continue ReadingBy MANUEL VALDES Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A humpback whale visiting the waters off Seattle dazzled onlookers Thursday morning with several breaches in the bay just beyond the city’s downtown area. The whale has been spotted for the last three days swimming around Elliott Bay. But on Thursday, the whale breached for about 40
Continue ReadingBy DAVID RISING Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A major offensive against Myanmar’s military-run government by an alliance of three militias of ethnic minorities in the northeast has been moving at lightning speed, inspiring resistance forces around the country to launch new attacks. With Myanmar’s military falling back on almost every front, hope is rising
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, JACK JEFFERY and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel released another group of Palestinian prisoners Friday, hours after Hamas freed additional Israeli hostages under a last-minute agreement to extend their cease-fire by another day in Gaza. But any further extension renewal, now in its eighth day, could
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC is shuffling its weekend schedule early next year with an eye toward juicing ratings heading into an election year. It will start “The Weekend,” a two-hour morning ensemble on Saturdays and Sundays with Alicia Menendez, Symone Sanders-Townsend and Michael Steele as hosts. Two current weekend hosts, Mehdi Hasan and Yasmin
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By Tara John, Lauren Izso, Tamar Michaelis, Sophie Tanno and Jerome Taylor, CNN (CNN) — A seventh group of hostages was transferred out of Gaza on Thursday by Hamas after the Palestinian militant group and Israel agreed late on Wednesday to again extend a pause in fighting. So far 105 hostages have been released by Hamas over
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By Tom Page, CNN (CNN) — An audacious collaboration between geneticists and conservationists plans to bring back the extinct dodo and reintroduce it to its once-native habitat in Mauritius. US-based biotechnology and genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences, which is pursuing the “de-extinction” of multiple species, including the woolly mammoth, has entered a partnership with the
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The Israeli military says a total of eight Israeli hostages have been released from captivity in the Gaza Strip. The army said the Red Cross transferred six hostages to Egypt late Thursday, and they were brought to Israel to be reunited with their families. Two additional hostages were turned over earlier
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, CNN Washington (CNN) — The eight airmen who were aboard an Air Force CV-22B Osprey that crashed off the shore of Yakushima Island, Japan, on Wednesday are still missing, deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh said Thursday. “I don’t have an update for you on recovery efforts just yet. Again, we know
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have created tiny living robots from human cells that can move around in a lab dish and may one day be able to help heal wounds or damaged tissue, according to a new study. A team at Tufts University and Harvard University’s Wyss Institute have dubbed these creations
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