DEMING, New Mexico — Jana Young of Deming is the owner of Gracie, a five year old Husky-Shepard mix. She is disabled and unemployed and can no longer support Gracie, so she is looking for a foster or permanent home for the canine companion. Young says she has had Gracie since she was a puppy
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The improper design and certification of the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft, coupled with an overwhelmed flight crew battling a malfunctioning system they could not properly identify, led to the crash of Lion Air Flight 610 in October, according to a report by Indonesian authorities. The report documents the investigation by Indonesia’s National Transport Safety
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EL PASO, Texas – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, says inhumane conditions at the El Paso Animal Services shelter is causing dogs to fight and kill each other. In a letter posted Friday, PETA posted graphic photos allegedly given to them by a whistleblower at the El Paso Animal Services shelter.
Continue Reading People across India are preparing for Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. They’re selling colorful lamps, cleaning and decorating homes, and buying clothes for the celebrations. In the capital city New Delhi, residents are also preparing — by scrambling to buy air purifiers and protesting the use of firecrackers. Diwali has created a persistent pollution
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California’s largest utility company is warning about 850,000 customers that another intentional power outage may leave them in the dark this weekend. Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) has been cutting off electricity for customers in northern and central California over the past weeks in an attempt to avoid sparking wildfires. But this could be the
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Police on Monday identified a 58-year-old man who was struck and killed by two separate hit-and-run drivers while crossing the street near a Family Dollar store. Authorities said Jose Alberto Carillo of Las Cruces died at Mountainview Regional Medical Center shortly after being struck Friday night in the 1400 block
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Nota del editor: Roberto Izurieta es director de Proyectos Latinoamericanos en la Universidad George Washington. Ha trabajado en campañas políticas en varios países de América Latina y España y ha sido asesor de los presidentes Alejandro Toledo de Perú, Vicente Fox de México y Álvaro Colom de Guatemala. Izurieta es analista de temas políticos en
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Click here for updates on this story WNEP WEB STAFF (WNEP) — UPDATE: 2-year-old Dawyson Marie Wright has been found safe, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Previous Story: State Police have issued an Amber Child Abduction Alert for a 2-year-old girl who they believe was abducted by her father. Dawyson Marie Wright, of Vernon Township,
Continue Reading Two women, including one who worked briefly at a center for girls impacted by sex trafficking and exploitation, have been accused of human trafficking, a criminal complaint filed this week in Wisconsin says. Arrest warrants were issued Tuesday for Kendra Bey, 27, and Samaria Williams, 23, who face charges of trafficking of a child and
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EL PASO, Texas — After years in court and close to $2 million of taxpayer money spent, the legal battle over the downtown El Paso area known as Duranguito continues. “It is not an exaggeration to say that Duranguito is the birthplace of El Paso,” said historian Max Grossman, who has filed multiple lawsuits against
Continue Reading Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney died from asphyxiation by suffocation the same day she was kidnapped from a birthday party in Birmingham, Alabama, according to reports from AL.com. Jefferson County Circuit Judge Clyde Jones read the suspects’ capital murder warrants during a court hearing on Friday that included details of the 3-year-old’s cause of death, AL.com reported.
Continue Reading Former Blackjewel coal miners, including some in Kentucky who blocked a coal train from moving, were finally paid on Friday after a layoff and months of protests. Around 1,700 coal miners received their money after a settlement for $5.1 million was reached with Blackjewel Sales and Marketing, according to attorney Joe Childers. Among those being
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The Trump Organization is considering selling its three-year-old hotel in downtown Washington, DC, that’s been a focus of ongoing complaints that Donald Trump is profiting off his role as President. Eric Trump, the President’s son and executive vice president of The Trump Organization, said the company has hired real estate firm JLL to assist the
Continue Reading Microsoft has won a hotly contested contract to provide cloud computing services to the Defense Department, besting Amazon in a months-long competition in which President Donald Trump threatened to intervene. The contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure is said to be worth billions of dollars over the coming decade. Amazon had long been considered
Continue ReadingMore than 200 people attended President Donald Trump’s speech at Benedict College, but only about 10 actual students were invited to the event — his first appearance at a historically black college, and an effort to reach out beyond his usual base of support. Columbia, South Carolina, Mayor Stephen Benjamin told CNN that out of
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Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan informed the House Homeland Security Committee on Friday that he won’t testify at a scheduled hearing next week, despite being issued a subpoena. In a testy letter to Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, McAleenan said he was “disappointed, and extremely surprised” to receive the subpoena. The Mississippi Democrat and the
Continue Reading With the death of Elijah Cummings, the United States lost a great statesman. At his funeral in Baltimore on Friday morning, great statesmanship — something that feels so distant in the age of Trump — was again on display. It was a fitting farewell for a man of such integrity and achievement. Cummings died at
Continue Reading A Chicago judge ruled Friday that cross-country runners cannot compete in a Saturday meet while their educators are on strike. Fifteen parents filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Chicago Board of Education and the Illinois High School Association, which governs interscholastic sports. The lawsuit asked for a temporary restraining order that would let the athletes,
Continue Reading ⚠️ Advertencia: imágenes perturbadoras (CNN) — Un oso de circo atacó a su domador durante un espectáculo en Rusia el miércoles, con espectadores horrorizados sentados cerca. El espectáculo itinerante tuvo lugar en la ciudad de Olonets en la República de Karelia, una región en el noroeste de Rusia, según la agencia estatal de noticias TASS.
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A coalition of Inspectors General is urging the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel to withdraw or modify its opinion that the whistleblower complaint regarding President Donald Trump’s communications with Ukraine was not of “urgent concern,” a determination that initially blocked the allegations from reaching Congress. In a new letter sent to Assistant Attorney General
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Russian gun rights enthusiast Maria Butina was released from the Tallahassee Federal Correction Institution on Friday after having served more than 15 months behind bars, according to the US Federal Bureau of Prisons, and was immediately deported to Moscow. Butina, a Russian national who studied at American University in Washington, pleaded guilty last year to
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Robert Chelsea just got a new face, and with it, he is the latest milestone in the burgeoning world of facial transplant surgery. He is the first African American to receive a full facial transplant, with a successful surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. A black patient in Paris received a partial
Continue Reading Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been trying to have his cake and eat it too for quite a while now. And The Kansas City Star is sick of it. See, Pompeo is the nation’s top diplomat, yes. But he’s also Republicans’ top recruit for the open seat being vacated by Sen. Pat Roberts (R)
Continue Reading Lisa and Dave Gott and about 15 other neighbors rallied as the fast-moving Tick Fire descended upon their neighborhood near Santa Clarita, California. Firefighters were busy elsewhere and it was time for residents to do what they could to protect their homes north of Los Angeles late Thursday: They used garden hoses to lay down
Continue Reading Es evidente por qué los diseñadores contemporáneos buscan evocar las artesanías tradicionales mexicanas y arte popular en sus colecciones. Los bordados de colores brillantes y los trabajados abalorios demuestran un oficio transmitido de generación en generación, mientras que las formas tienen un significado que va mucho más allá de los estampados modernos. En la reciente
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — En una de las marchas de protesta en Chile apareció un joven sosteniendo un hombrecito verde que se suele asociar a los marcianos —o los alienígenas en general—, gracias a las numerosas películas de Hollywood. Si bien es cierto que la creatividad se destaca en las protestas del país, no dejó de
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“Call of Duty: Modern Warfare” is out and hopes are high that video game publisher Activision Blizzard has scored another big hit. The first-person shooter is set in a fictitious Middle Eastern country and across Europe. The main narrative forces players to navigate the ambiguous moral choices of war, while a multiplayer mode pits teams
Continue Reading You don’t have to be a player for the New England Patriots to make an important interception. The Foxborough Police Department in Massachusetts arrested 33-year-old Zanini Cineus on Thursday and charged him with stealing memorabilia from an exhibit inside the Patriots’ Hall of Fame. Among the stolen goods was a game-worn Tom Brady jersey, which
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Former NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal, 47, is in mourning after his sister, Ayesha Harrison-Jex, died after battling cancer. O’Neal was scheduled to host an event at Miles College in Fairfield, Alabama, but had to cancel due to the death of his sister, according to the school. O’Neal, who is a host on TNT’s “Inside the
Continue Reading Flights to nine destinations in Cuba, not including Havana, will be suspended by the Department of Transportation. The department issued a notice on Friday suspending US commercial flights from flying to the Cuban destinations. The notice will take effect on December 10. The announcement is another step in the Trump administration’s attempt to tighten the
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