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Month: July 2024

19 dogs rescued from Indio home, available for adoption at the Coachella Valley Animal Campus

Riverside County Department of Animal Services rescued 19 dogs from a property in Indio Friday morning. Animal Services officials were notified by Indio Police Department Code Enforcement officers regarding a possible dog hoarding case shortly before 10:30 a.m. According to the Indio Police Department and the City of Indio Code Enforcement, neighbors called with complaints

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Judge rejects effort by Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson to get records from Catholic church

Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington state judge said Friday that Attorney General Bob Ferguson is not entitled to enforce a subpoena seeking decades of records from the Seattle Archdiocese. Ferguson said his office needs the records to learn whether the Catholic church used charitable trust funds to cover up sexual abuse by priests.

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Terrorism and organized crime rampant in Sahel and spilling into West Africa coastal states, UN says

Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. envoy says terrorism and organized crime by violent extremist groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State are a “pervasive threat” in Africa’s volatile Sahel region. And Leonardo Simão adds that those ills are spilling over to West Africa’s coastal countries. The U.N. special envoy for the

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

Arrestan en Costa Rica a presunto implicado en secuestro y homicidio de exmilitar venezolano Ronald Ojeda en Chile

Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — El Ministerio de Seguridad de Costa Rica confirmó a CNN este viernes que las autoridades detuvieron a Maickel Villegas Rodríguez, que contaba con una notificación internacional de búsqueda por su presunta participación en el secuestro y homicidio del exmilitar venezolano Ronald Ojeda en Chile en febrero pasado. El señalado, de

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

Un grupo de científicos presenta un prototipo de traje espacial que recicla la orina como agua potable

Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Una de las maravillas de la saga de películas de ciencia ficción “Dune” es el traje de supervivencia que llevan los Fremen, habitantes del desierto, unos “destiltrajes” que reciclan todos los fluidos corporales para convertirlos en agua potable. Los científicos han presentado un prototipo de traje espacial que convierte la orina

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Federal appeals court says there is no fundamental right to change one’s sex on a birth certificate

Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal appeals court panel has ruled that Tennessee does not unconstitutionally discriminate against transgender people by not allowing them to change the sex designation on their birth certificates. In a 2-1 ruling on Friday, the majority opinion of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel found, “There

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Former Georgia insurance commissioner sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to health care fraud

Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge sentenced former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine to serve three-and-a-half years in prison after Oxendine pleaded guilty to health care fraud. A U.S. District judge also ordered Oxendine on Friday to pay a $25,000 fine and to share in $760,000 in restitution with Dr. Jeffrey Gallups. Oxendine

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Mississippi must move quickly on a court-ordered redistricting, say voting rights attorneys

Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Voting rights attorneys say Mississippi should work quickly to redraw some legislative districts to ensure more equitable representation for Black residents. In papers filed Friday, the attorneys say it’s important to hold special elections in updated districts this November. Three federal judges on July 2 ordered Mississippi legislators to

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