South Korea has deported two North Korean fishermen suspected of killing 16 fellow crew members, including the boat’s captain, before fleeing to South Korean waters. The deportees are the first North Koreans to be returned from South Korea to the North since the end of the Korean War in 1953, according to Seoul’s Unification Ministry.
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An American man is in a coma in Thailand after dramatically breaking free of police custody and then shooting himself in the head as police closed in on him and his girlfriend, according to authorities. On Monday, Bart Allen Helmus, 39, from Kentucky and his Thai girlfriend Sirinapa Wisetrit, 30, were in court in the
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Asian stocks were mixed on Friday, with investors reacting cautiously to signs of a thaw in US-China trade tensions. A spokesman for China’s Ministry of Commerce told reporters Thursday afternoon that US and Chinese negotiators have discussed rolling back tariffs, saying the rollbacks could happen even before a “phase one” trade deal is signed. The
Continue Reading The outcry is growing from an army of supporters, including celebrities, clergy and state lawmakers, trying to stop the execution of Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed, who is set to die in less than two weeks. Reed’s execution is scheduled for November 20. More than 20 years ago, he was sentenced to death for
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(CNN) — Un esqueleto con una sola pierna descubierto por un equipo de arqueólogos sería de Charles Etienne Gudin, uno de los generales de Napoleón Bonaparte, según el historiador y exsoldado francés Pierre Malinowski. Un equipo de arqueólogos franceses y rusos descubrió el esqueleto de 200 años en julio, durante una excavación en la ciudad
Continue Reading (CNN) — Un anciano murió después de caer en un tubo de lava en su propiedad en Hilo, Hawai, anunció la policía este miércoles. El hombre fue reportado como desaparecido después de que no se supo nada de él en varios días, según la policía de la isla de Hawai. Cuando fueron a su casa
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Authorities offered a $2,000 reward Wednesday trying to figure out how a man ended up unresponsive and lying along a Las Cruces roadway earlier this month. Tom Henry Croy, 44, has since died at University Medical Center of El Paso after being discovered on Nov. 6 in the 200 block
Continue Reading One New York City Police officer and five of the department’s 911 dispatchers were among 27 arrested for allegedly participating in a vast bribery operation related to no-fault car insurance policies, the Manhattan US Attorney’s office announced Thursday. The 27 individuals were allegedly part of a scheme to funnel individuals involved in motor vehicle accidents
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After more than 70 years, Indian Sikhs will now be able to visit one of the religion’s holiest sites by crossing the international border with Pakistan without a visa. The Kartarpur Corridor is a 4.1 kilometer (2.5 mile) overland passage that links the Dera Baba Nana shrine in northwest India’s Gurdaspur with the Gurdwara Darbar
Continue Reading All Marines now have the right to bear umbrellas, for the first time in their more than 200-year history. Prior to the recent updates in uniform regulations, women in the Marines were allowed to use umbrellas, but the men were not. That rule changes now. Umbrellas were not allowed in part due to their hindrance
Continue Reading A man at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom was arrested and charged with battery after he allegedly groped a female park employee dressed as a Disney character, the arrest affidavit shows. Brian Sherman, 51, and his wife went up to the woman at a grotto in the park Saturday to pose for a photo, according
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There will come a day when Donald J. Trump is no longer the President of the United States. For hopeful Democrats, that day can’t come soon enough; for the millions of Americans who comprise Trump’s base, he deserves to be President for two full terms — if not more. While no one can predict how
Continue Reading This may be the dawn of the post-post-Cold War era. The fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago this weekend was a triumph of Western ideology purchased by American power. Freedom’s torch was borne throughout the Cold War by US Presidents from Harry S Truman to George H.W. Bush, and their mission delivered when
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A lawyer for the Ukraine whistleblower, whose complaint document triggered the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, has sent a letter to the White House warning the President to “cease and desist” attacking his client. “I am writing out of deep concern that your client, the President of the United States, is engaging in
Continue Reading Nine members of a cross-border fentanyl smuggling ring were sentenced at a public hearing in a Chinese courtroom Thursday, a rare display by Beijing of its efforts to crack down on the highly-addictive drug. China has faced intense criticism from policy makers within the United States in recent years over accusations it has failed to
Continue Reading (CNN) – A raíz de múltiples derrotas en las urnas este martes –el fracaso casi seguro del gobernador Matt Bevin en Kentucky y la victoria de los demócratas en la Cámara y el Senado de Virginia– los republicanos, desde el mandatario Donald Trump hacia abajo en la administración han tratado de minimizar la importancia de
Continue Reading The shelter dogs and cats in Taft, Texas, have one woman to thank for saving their lives. Kayla Denney has won the 2019 Petco Foundation Unsung Hero award for taking her local shelter from an almost 100% kill rate to zero. “As of November 1st, we have saved 565 dogs and cats out of Taft,”
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Un tribunal de la Corte Nacional de Justicia de Ecuador ratificó la orden de prisión preventiva contra el expresidente Rafael Correa, el exvicepresidente Jorge Glas y cuatro procesados más por el caso Sobornos 2012-2016, por su presunta participación en los delitos de asociación ilícita, cohecho y tráfico de influencias con el fin
Continue Reading Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday contradicted for a second time sworn testimony about the former US ambassador to Ukraine who was ousted after a smear campaign led by President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. But Pompeo parsed his words extremely carefully, conjuring a straw man argument in what appeared to be an
Continue Reading Magdalena Gomez Gregorio hugged her father for the first time in months after she tearfully begged in front of reporters for his release following a massive immigration sweep in Mississippi. Her father, Andres Gomez-Jorge, was released from immigration detention last week after relatives and friends raised funds to pay his $7,500 bond. His daughter’s voice
Continue Reading (CNN) — Hubo 2.051 casos de lesión pulmonar relacionada con el vapeo al 5 de noviembre, dijeron el jueves los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés). Las lesiones por vapeo se han reportado en 49 estados, el Distrito de Columbia y las Islas Vírgenes
Continue Reading President Donald Trump has made a systematic and highly dishonest attempt to discredit the whistleblower who filed the complaint about his July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump kept it up at his campaign rally in Louisiana on Wednesday night. Appearing to break from his script, he delivered such a rapid series of
Continue Reading CNN host Fareed Zakaria said on Thursday that he had been set to interview Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky before news about the Ukrainian’s call with President Donald Trump broke. The New York Times reported on Thursday that Zelensky had planned to announce an investigation into Trump’s political rivals during a September interview on CNN, but
Continue Reading A lawyer for the Ukraine whistleblower, whose complaint document triggered the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, has sent a letter to the White House warning the President to “cease and desist” attacking his client. Read the letter here: cnn.com/2019/11/07/politics/read-whistleblower-lawyer-letter-to-trump/index.html
Continue Reading An aide to Vice President Mike Pence who listened to the call between President Donald Trump and the Ukrainian President told impeachment inquiry investigators on Thursday that she found the conversation to be unusual because it was political in nature, according to two sources familiar with the testimony. Jennifer Williams, an aide in the vice
Continue Reading A congressional watchdog group is conducting a review to determine whether the Trump administration violated appropriations law when it froze nearly $400 million in aid to Ukraine earlier this year, a decision that is currently at the center of an impeachment inquiry into the President, CNN confirmed Thursday. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle
Continue Reading A lawyer for the Ukraine whistleblower, whose complaint document triggered the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, has sent a letter to the White House warning the President to “cease and desist” attacking his client. Read the letter here:
Continue Reading The government weather forecasters who swatted down President Donald Trump’s incorrect claim that Hurricane Dorian was headed for Alabama did so without realizing he was the source of the misinformation, according to newly released internal documents. The National Weather Service’s Birmingham office was responding to an “increase in calls from anxious and panicked citizens and
Continue Reading (CNN) — Una sobreviviente de Auschwitz de 89 años se encuentra ahora con protección policial tras recibir en Italia ataques antisemitas por internet y en vivo, según informes locales. Liliana Segre, que solo tenía 13 años cuando fue enviada a los campos de concentración de Auschwitz, es una senadora vitalicia que lideró la creación de
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