More than 5,000 inmates die at this prison every year
One in five detainees at the Philippines’ national penitentiary die every year, officials at the prison hospital have revealed. About 5,200…
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Goldman Sachs spends less on employee pay as it focuses on tech products
Goldman Sachs is spending less on employee compensation and more on ramping up tech ventures. The bank’s chief financial officer, Stephen…
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The guardrails are off the Trump presidency
Get over it. That apt mission doctrine for a presidency blazing with abuses of power, conflicts of interest and unhinged behavior is the work of…
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Why Thailand is putting its Buddhist monks on a diet
It’s 6 a.m. on a Monday morning, and Bangkok is just starting to wake up. Street food vendors begin to serve breakfast as the streets, and…
Continue Reading Exercising before breakfast burns more fat, study says
Should you eat before or after exercise in the morning? The debate has raged for years. The eat-first camp says food before exercise boosts blood…
Continue Reading A New York EMT had a stroke on the job and a colleague who tried to help had an aortic aneurysm
An emergency medical technician raced to assist a colleague who had a stroke on the job, but he fell unconscious before he could help.…
Continue Reading Dreamworks’ ‘Abominable’ pulled from movie theaters in Vietnam over South China Sea map
Vietnam’s largest cinema chain has pulled a new Dreamworks animated movie from theaters because it features a map asserting Chinese ownership…
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Franklin back in win column following victory over Coronado; other scores from Thursday night
Coronado 14 Franklin 28 Americas 72 Socorro 12 Onate 7 Las Cruces 49…
Continue Reading Man deported three years ago allegedly reentered the US and now stands accused of killing his girlfriend
A man who was deported to the Dominican Republic in 2016 after several criminal convictions was arrested this week and charged with fatally stabbing…
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Trump likens Turkish attack on Kurds to schoolyard fight: ‘Let them fight and then you pull them apart’
President Donald Trump on Thursday compared the attack by the Turkish military on Syrian Kurds, onetime American allies in the fight against ISIS, to…
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Crop dusting plane crashes into power lines and explodes in San Elizario, injuring pilot
A small, single-engine plane spraying crops on farmland crashed into power lines on Thursday afternoon and then exploded on the ground. The crash…
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Beto O’Rourke hosts Texas counter-rally to President Trump’s Dallas campaign event
Hundreds of supporters filled the Theatre in Grand Prairie for Beto O’Rourke’s “Rally Against Fear” on Thursday evening. The…
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Drug lord El Chapo’s eldest son captured, but then released by Mexican military after gun battles
The eldest son of “El Chapo,” the jailed notorious Mexican drug kingpin, was captured by Mexico’s military on Thursday, but then…
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Future uncertain for historic landmark Trost building in Las Cruces
One of Las Cruces’s historical landmarks, built in 1929 and designed by Henry Trost, faces the threat of demolition due to illegal activity…
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Trump likens Turkish attack on Kurds to schoolyard fight at Texas rally: ‘You got to let them fight’
President Donald Trump on Thursday night compared the attack by the Turkish military on Syrian Kurds, onetime American allies in the fight against…
Continue Reading Prison workers under investigation for allegedly mocking transgender inmates in private Facebook groups
More than a dozen correctional employees in Illinois are under investigation after they were accused of mocking transgender inmates in private…
Continue Reading Police investigate several assaults on men in downtown Wilmington, North Carolina
Eleven men, including several members of the military, have been assaulted near downtown bars in Wilmington, North Carolina, over the course of…
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Continue Reading Los trabajadores de minorÃas tienen peores horarios que los trabajadores blancos
(CNN Business) — El trabajo en empresas minoristas y de comida rápida es conocido por sus horarios erráticos. Pero una nueva investigación…
Continue Reading PodrÃa haber relación entre perder peso y muerte prematura en la mediana edad, según estudio
(CNN) — El sobrepeso está relacionado con muchos problemas de salud, y perder algunos kilos a menudo se presenta como la mejor manera de…
Continue Reading US foreign aid reinstated to Northern Triangle countries, DHS secretary announces
Outgoing acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan announced on Thursday the restoration of previously frozen foreign aid to the Northern…
Continue Reading Suspect arrested because of a lost SD memory card charged with killing another woman
A grand jury in Alaska returned an additional murder indictment Thursday against a man already charged with the murder and sexual assault of another…
Continue Reading Steroid injections may lead to more long-term harm than previously thought, new study says
Doctors and patients should beware if they’re hoping to use steroid injections to relieve the pain associated with osteoarthritis. The shots…
Continue Reading New York City Council votes to close notorious Rikers Island jail
The New York City Council voted overwhelmingly to close Rikers Island jail Thursday and open four new borough-based facilities instead. “Today…
Continue Reading Scientists just discovered ‘stormquakes’ — but don’t worry, you’re not in danger
Hurricanes and earthquakes are bad enough on their own. Now imagine them combined. That’s kind of what a stormquake is, a phenomenon just…
Continue Reading Trump unhappy with Mulvaney’s press briefing in which he acknowledged quid pro quo, source says
President Donald Trump is not pleased with acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney’s press briefing and his acknowledgment on Thursday of a quid…
Continue Reading Nancy Pelosi isn’t all women, but for a moment she was
We see you, Nancy Pelosi. Demanding answers, demanding to be heard. We see you, Madam Speaker — the highest-ranking woman in Washington —…
Continue Reading Rick Perry informs Trump of his plans to resign later this year as scrutiny over Ukraine heats up
Energy Secretary Rick Perry said on Thursday that he plans to leave his post later this year after he informed President Donald Trump of his…
Continue Reading New Orleans officials are about to blow up the cranes at the collapsed Hard Rock hotel. Here’s why
The City of New Orleans plans to bring down two cranes at the construction site of the Hard Rock Hotel that collapsed over the weekend, killing at…
Continue Reading Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg: Private companies should not censor politicians
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t believe Twitter should take away President Donald Trump’s digital megaphone. “My belief is…
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