Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Este viernes en Chile entró en vigor la ley que reduce gradualmente la jornada laboral de 45 a 40 horas semanales, iniciando este año con una hora menos. La llamada “ley de 40 horas” aplicará cambios paulatinos cada año, reduciendo durante 2024 la jornada de trabajo a 44 horas semanales.
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By Helen Regan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — All but one of the 100 cities with the world’s worst air pollution last year were in Asia, according to a new report, with the climate crisis playing a pivotal role in bad air quality that is risking the health of billions of people worldwide. The vast
Continue ReadingBy Christian Olaniran and Jessica Albert Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A former high school athletic director was arrested Thursday morning after allegedly using artificial intelligence to impersonate the school principal in a recording that included racist and antisemitic comments about individuals at the school. One-time Pikesville High School employee
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden went on “The Howard Stern Show” on Friday and repeated his familiar story about the time he supposedly “got arrested” trying to defend the civil rights of Black Americans. As in the past, Biden told the story on Friday while recounting what his mother supposedly said while urging
Continue Reading By Thomas Lake, CNN (CNN) — The recording went viral in January, provoking rage in suburban Baltimore. It seemed that Pikesville High School Principal Eric Eiswert had been caught making racist and antisemitic comments. Angry phone calls overwhelmed the front desk. Employees felt afraid. Security was tightened. Eiswert was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. He
Continue Reading WBAL, CNN By Thomas Lake, CNN (CNN) — The recording went viral in January, provoking rage in suburban Baltimore. It seemed that Pikesville High School Principal Eric Eiswert had been caught making racist and antisemitic comments. Angry phone calls overwhelmed the front desk. Employees felt afraid. Security was tightened. Eiswert was placed on administrative leave pending an
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Belarusian hacker activist group claims to have infiltrated the network of the country’s main security agency and obtained access to personal files of over 8,600 staffers of the KGB, the security service that still goes under its Soviet name. The authorities have not commented on
Continue ReadingFORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Officials say Google plans to invest $2 billion to build a data center in northeastern Indiana to help power its artificial intelligence technology and cloud business. The Journal Gazette reports that the planned data center in Fort Wayne was announced in January, but Google and Gov. Eric Holcomb’s office disclosed
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Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that New York can move ahead with a law requiring internet service providers to offer heavily discounted rates to low-income residents. The decision from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Friday reverses a lower court ruling from 2021 that blocked the
Continue Reading Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) — La Federación de Exportadores de Carne de Estados Unidos, USMEF por sus siglas en inglés, sostiene que las restricciones impuestas por el gobierno colombiano a los productos vacunos de ocho estados por supuesta gripe aviar, “no tienen base científica”, afirmó a CNN este viernes John Herath, portavoz de la Federación.
Continue ReadingCLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The owner of a suburban Detroit business that caught fire and exploded, killing a man, was arrested at a New York airport as he was preparing to depart for Hong Kong on a one-way ticket. Authorities say Friday that 31-year-old Noor Noel Kestou was arrested Saturday. He was brought back
Continue ReadingSEWARD, Neb. (AP) — A former Nebraska deputy has been jailed after a grand jury indicted him on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with the shooting death of a man in October. Lancaster County Attorney Pat Condon on Friday announced the indictment of former Seward County Deputy Anthony Gann. Gann is jailed on $100,000 bond
Continue ReadingBy JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — #MeToo founder Tarana Burke has heard it before. Every time there’s a legal setback, the movement is declared dead in the water. A legal success, and presto, it’s alive again. So Burke, who nearly two decades ago coined the phrase “Me too” from her work
Continue ReadingBy JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — #MeToo founder Tarana Burke has heard it before. Every time there’s a legal setback, the movement is declared dead in the water. A legal success, and presto, it’s alive again. So Burke, who nearly two decades ago coined the phrase “Me too” from her work
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wildlife activists and others are calling on a boycott of Wyoming tourism as Yellowstone National Park opens for its busy summer season. The reason is the state’s laws that give people wide leeway to people to kill wolves with little oversight in most of the state.
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A real estate company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to pay $250 million to settle lawsuits nationwide. The lawsuits claimed that longstanding practices by real estate brokerages forced U.S. homeowners to pay artificially inflated broker commissions when they sold their homes. HomeServices
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Nikola Jokic moved LeBron James out of the way as they battled for a rebound, grabbed the ball, got fouled and scored off the putback. And all James could do was turn his palms skyward, as if to ask “what else can I do?” That sequence in the third
Continue Reading Sofía Benavides (CNN) — El rey Carlos III del Reino Unido reanudará sus funciones públicas la próxima semana tras “un período de tratamiento y recuperación”, anunció este viernes el Palacio de Buckingham, dos meses después de revelar que el monarca estaba siendo tratado por cáncer. Carlos, de 75 años acompañará a su esposa, la reina
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says an Israeli drone strike on a car in the eastern part of the country has killed two people. The strike came after Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group carried out an attack along the border that killed an Israeli civilian. Meanwhile, Egypt has sent a high-level delegation
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