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Month: October 2024

A violent start to the term of Mexico’s new president raises questions about strategy, the army

Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum, in just over three weeks in office, has inherited a whirlwind of violence that many say was set up by her predecessor’s policy of not confronting drug cartels and using the army for law-enforcement. Sheinbaum, who took office Oct. 1, would rather be talking about

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President Joe Biden speaks at the Gila River Crossing School in the Gila River Indian Community

Biden apologizes to Native Americans for abusive government-funded boarding schools

By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden on Friday formally apologized to Native Americans for what he described as “one of the most horrific chapters in American history,” government-funded boarding schools that abused indigenous children and forced them to assimilate over a 150-year period. “Quite frankly, there is no excuse that this apology

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Republican presidential nominee former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a Turning Point PAC campaign rally at the Gas South Arena on October 23

Fact check: How Trump’s TV ads deceive viewers with misleadingly edited quotes

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s late-campaign television ads are littered with deceptively edited and misleadingly described quotations. Multiple Trump ads omit critical words from quotes by and about Vice President Kamala Harris on the subject of tax policy. One Trump ad misleadingly depicts comments about fracking from Trump’s campaign

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El Distrito de Gestión de la Calidad del aire regalará purificadores a residentes del este del Valle de Coachella que califiquen

Cientos de unidades de filtración de aire para el hogar gratuitas están disponibles para los residentes del este del Valle de Coachella de bajos ingresos que experimentan mala calidad del aire como en Mecca, Thermal, Oasis, North Shore y Salton City. Las solicitudes para los aparatos para purificar el aire gratis disponibles en internet donde

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Is a new plan for delivering Delta water worse than Trump’s rules? Environmentalists say yes.

CalMatters When the Trump administration presented a new plan exporting more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta five years ago, state officials and environmentalists objected that the new rules would increase the chances that salmon, smelt and steelhead would go extinct. Now, state and federal agencies are nearing the finish line on a replacement plan

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