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Month: January 2024

Parts of Downtown Baltimore in the dark after multiple manhole cover explosions

By Christian Olaniran, Mike Hellgren, Rohan Mattu Click here for updates on this story     BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — Multiple manhole cover explosions were reported Thursday night in Downtown Baltimore, and hundreds were left without power through Friday morning as crews investigate. Fire officials say the preliminary cause of the explosions is believed to be electrical.

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CVUSD decide no construir una high school nueva por lo que modernizarán la ya existente

El Distrito Escolar del Valle de Coachella decidió no construir una nueva High School que reemplazaría la existente de Coachella que fue construida hace más de 100 años y lo mejor será remodelarla, modernizarla y hacerle mejoras, aunque el superintendente recalco que tienen problemas económicos para el proyecto. Cabe recordar que el distrito escolar quería

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Opinion: America failed to heed Stanley Kubrick’s warnings. Trump is the proof

Opinion by Noah Berlatsky (CNN) — “I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.” Cigar-chomping Colonel Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) intones those classic lines of anticommunist paranoia in Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove, Or

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Corte Constitucional de Ecuador aprueba preliminarmente 10 de 19 preguntas propuestas por el presidente Noboa para consulta popular. ¿Qué plantean?

Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) —  La Corte Constitucional de Ecuador difundió este viernes tres dictámenes relacionados a los pedidos de consulta popular planteados por el presidente Daniel Noboa con el fin de realizar reformas legales en materia de seguridad, justicia y empleo. El organismo de control constitucional emitió un dictamen favorable únicamente para 10 de

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NJ Transit scraps plan for gas-fired backup power plant, heartening environmental justice advocates

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press New Jersey’s public transit agency is scrapping plans for a backup power plant that would have been fueled by natural gas, heartening environmental justice advocates who targeted it and several other proposed power plants in largely minority areas. NJ Transit said Friday it is redirecting $503 million that would have

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Leader of Somalia’s breakaway Somaliland says deal with Ethiopia will allow it to build a naval base

By OMAR FARUK Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The president of Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland has said his government will press ahead with an agreement signed earlier this month with landlocked Ethiopia to give it access to the sea. The deal has been condemned by regional and international groups, as well as Western

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¿Qué es la llamada “furia bolivariana” que se activó al inicio de un año electoral en Venezuela?

Sol Amaya (CNN Español) — Mensajes escritos con la frase “furia bolivariana” aparecieron este martes en distintos puntos del país en sedes, residencias o instalaciones relacionadas con movimientos opositores, gremios, organizaciones no gubernamentales y vías públicas en la antesala a marchas y protestas en torno a los 66 años de la conmemoración del 23 de

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‘In the Summers’ and ‘Porcelain War’ win top prizes at Sundance Film Festival

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer “In the Summers,” an affecting, years-spanning drama about a complicated parent-children relationship, nabbed the Grand Jury prize at the 40th Sundance Film Festival, while the top honor for documentary went to “Porcelain War,” about a Ukrainian couple who craft fragile, intricately painted ceramics while war rages around them. “Sujo,”

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A British painting stolen by mobsters is returned to owner’s son — 54 years later

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press An 18th century British painting stolen by mobsters in 1969 has been returned more than a half-century later to the family that bought the painting for $7,500 during the Great Depression, the FBI’s Salt Lake City field office announced Friday. The 40-inch-by-50-inch (102-cm-by-127-cm) John Opie painting — titled “The Schoolmistress”

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