One in five detainees at the Philippines’ national penitentiary die every year, officials at the prison hospital have revealed. About 5,200 inmates at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) die annually due to overcrowding, disease and violence, according to hospital medical chief Ernesto Tamayo, CNN affiliate CNN Philippines reported. Tamayo, speaking at a Senate hearing on
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Goldman Sachs is spending less on employee compensation and more on ramping up tech ventures. The bank’s chief financial officer, Stephen Scherr, said this week that the percent of revenue spent on employee pay is expected to decline as the company zeroes in on tech-based ventures and “four key projects” — which include Apple Card,
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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 White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, whose barn burner of a briefing on a day of political train wrecks, staggering misdirection and reality bending sent a clear message.
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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 sidewalks fill with morning commuters. Behind the gates of Wat Yannawa temple, barefoot monks emerge, their saffron robes a pop of color in the early morning light. From the
Continue Reading 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 sugars, giving the body fuel to increase the intensity and length of a workout. It also keeps you from being fatigued or dizzy. The eat-after camp says you burn more
Continue Reading An emergency medical technician raced to assist a colleague who had a stroke on the job, but he fell unconscious before he could help. “We’re not believers in coincidences, except for today,” Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro told reporters on Thursday. “And it is an extremely tragic coincidence.” Liam Glinane, 63, an EMT with the New
Continue Reading Vietnam’s largest cinema chain has pulled a new Dreamworks animated movie from theaters because it features a map asserting Chinese ownership over the South China Sea. “Abominable” is an animated film about a young Chinese girl who embarks on an elaborate trip across China to return a magical Yeti, named Everest, to the Himalayas. The
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Continue Reading A man who was deported to the Dominican Republic in 2016 after several criminal convictions was arrested this week and charged with fatally stabbing his girlfriend in New York this summer, according to court documents and officials. Luis Severino Colon, 49, was charged and arraigned Tuesday on state charges of second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter
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President Donald Trump on Thursday compared the attack by the Turkish military on Syrian Kurds, onetime American allies in the fight against ISIS, to a schoolyard fight after praising a ceasefire agreed to earlier in the day. While speaking at a rally in Dallas, Trump described his approach to the situation between the Turks and
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A small, single-engine plane spraying crops on farmland crashed into power lines on Thursday afternoon and then exploded on the ground. The crash apparently occurred near San Elizario High School. Witnesses told ABC-7 the pilot was able to get out of the plane before the explosion occurred; he was taken by ambulance to a hospital.
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Hundreds of supporters filled the Theatre in Grand Prairie for Beto O’Rourke’s “Rally Against Fear” on Thursday evening. The Democratic presidential candidate hosted the event in response to President Donald Trump’s “Keep America Great” rally in Dallas. After several speakers and musical acts, O’Rourke took the stage and greeted the crowd by saying “I love
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The eldest son of “El Chapo,” the jailed notorious Mexican drug kingpin, was captured by Mexico’s military on Thursday, but then was released hours later after massive gun battles raged with the Sinaloa cartel on the streets of the northern Mexican city of Culiacan. Security Minister Alfonso Durazo told Reuters that Ovidio Guzmán López was
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One of Las Cruces’s historical landmarks, built in 1929 and designed by Henry Trost, faces the threat of demolition due to illegal activity taking place within the building. Troy Ainsworth, an historic preservationist specialist of the City of Las Cruces, spoke Thursday with city developers about retaining the building and incorporating it into the rest
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President Donald Trump on Thursday night compared the attack by the Turkish military on Syrian Kurds, onetime American allies in the fight against ISIS, to a schoolyard fight after praising a ceasefire agreed to earlier in the day. While speaking at a rally in Dallas, Trump described his approach to the situation between the Turks
Continue Reading More than a dozen correctional employees in Illinois are under investigation after they were accused of mocking transgender inmates in private Facebook groups, state officials said. Earlier this week, a review by Injustice Watch, a nonprofit journalism organization, found that at least 25 employees with the Illinois Department of Corrections — including prison guards, a
Continue Reading Eleven men, including several members of the military, have been assaulted near downtown bars in Wilmington, North Carolina, over the course of nearly two years, authorities said. Police believe the alleged assaults are connected, but solving them has been difficult because many victims don’t recall the details, Wilmington Police Chief Ralph M. Evangelous said in
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Nota del editor: Camilo Egaña es el conductor de Camilo. Las opiniones expresadas en este artículo son exclusivas del autor. (CNN Español) — Alicia Alonso, la última diva del ballet clásico, ha muerto a los 98 años en un hospital de la elite gubernamental en La Habana y no sobre un escenario, como hubiera querido.
Continue Reading (CNN Business) — El trabajo en empresas minoristas y de comida rápida es conocido por sus horarios erráticos. Pero una nueva investigación encuentra que los trabajadores de color por hora en las industrias tienen horarios y horarios de última hora más impredecibles que sus colegas blancos. Los trabajadores de las minorías étnicas en EE.UU., particularmente
Continue Reading (CNN) — El sobrepeso está relacionado con muchos problemas de salud, y perder algunos kilos a menudo se presenta como la mejor manera de evitarlos, sin importar su edad. MIRA: El ayuno intermitente para perder peso: mitos y realidades Pero no es tan simple, según un estudio publicado este miércoles en The BMJ que examina el
Continue Reading Outgoing acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan announced on Thursday the restoration of previously frozen foreign aid to the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. “I have confidence that we will continue to take the necessary steps to establish a regional framework for migration management and a safer, more secure region,” said
Continue Reading A grand jury in Alaska returned an additional murder indictment Thursday against a man already charged with the murder and sexual assault of another woman. Brian Steven Smith, 48, had already been indicted in the death of Kathleen J. Henry, 30, whose assault was captured on a memory card that contained videos and photos of
Continue Reading Doctors and patients should beware if they’re hoping to use steroid injections to relieve the pain associated with osteoarthritis. The shots may be doing more harm than good. In a new study published in the journal Radiology, researchers looked at 459 patients in a US hospital who had received one to three corticosteroid injections into
Continue Reading The New York City Council voted overwhelmingly to close Rikers Island jail Thursday and open four new borough-based facilities instead. “Today is a day that the history books will look back on as a good day for New York City,” Council Speaker Corey Johnson said. “This is a step forward, this is progress, this is
Continue Reading Hurricanes and earthquakes are bad enough on their own. Now imagine them combined. That’s kind of what a stormquake is, a phenomenon just discovered by a team of researchers led by Wenyuan Fan, a professor and seismologist at Florida State University. The findings were published Monday in the scientific journal Geophysical Research Letters. It’s not
Continue Reading President Donald Trump is not pleased with acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney’s press briefing and his acknowledgment on Thursday of a quid pro quo, according to a source close to the President. “He was not happy,” the source said. Mulvaney shocked reporters when he admitted the Trump administration had held up military funding to
Continue Reading We see you, Nancy Pelosi. Demanding answers, demanding to be heard. We see you, Madam Speaker — the highest-ranking woman in Washington — standing up to the world’s most powerful man, President Donald Trump. You are standing alone around a table filled with men, extending your finger, refusing to back down. And we cannot look
Continue Reading 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 intention to resign. Perry said in a YouTube video posted Thursday night that he planned to announce his resignation, without giving an exact date. Bloomberg was first to report on
Continue Reading 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 least two people, according to New Orleans Fire Chief Timothy McConnell. Authorities are citing a potential tropical storm that could enter the area by Friday night. Louisiana Gov.
Continue Reading Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t believe Twitter should take away President Donald Trump’s digital megaphone. “My belief is that in a democracy I don’t think that we want private companies censoring politicians in the news,” Zuckerberg said in an interview with Fox News’ Dana Perino, set to air Friday. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris recently
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