(CNN Español) — En Perú, el Poder Judicial dictó 18 meses de prisión preventiva a 14 de 16 árbitros judiciales acusados, por la Fiscalía, de favorecer a la empresa Odebrecht en diferentes laudos arbitrales en los que participaron. El arbitraje es una forma alternativa de resolver conflictos. Las partes acuerdan, previamente, hacerlo a través de
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The winner of Mississippi’s gubernatorial election Tuesday will not only have to capture the state’s popular vote, but will also have to prevail in the state’s unique election process for electing a governor and other statewide officials that was established during the Jim Crow era. Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, a Republican, is running against
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Usually you have to talk to voice assistants to get them to do what you want. But a group of researchers determined they can also command them by shining a laser at smart speakers and other gadgets that house virtual helpers such as Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Google’s Assistant. Researchers at the University of
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Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE, WI (WDJT) — The community came together on Monday, Nov. 4 to remember and celebrate the lives of A’Lisa and Amea Gee. The two sisters died after being injured in a hit-and-run crash near 22nd and Center on October 24. Their 10-year-old cousin was also hurt in
Continue Reading(CNN) — House Democrats on Tuesday released excerpts of the transcripts of their closed-door depositions with former US Special Envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker and US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland. The House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees are expected to release the full transcripts for Sondland and Volker later Tuesday, which
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It’s finally happening. Three and a half years after the UK sent itself into Brexit-induced political paralysis, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is trying to break through by calling an election in December. And if you know anything at all about British politics, right about now, you’re thinking: “Wait, what? An election … in December?” Yes,
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C-H-A-O-S. That’s been the watchword of Donald Trump’s presidency — a roiling, sprawling circus of content and controversy that never slows down and never rests. Which is why it’s hard to say that things are ever, somehow, more chaotic. Because what’s more chaotic that utter chaos? The answer to that question is the last five
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It’s been nearly a decade in the making, but this new Porsche-designed superyacht looks more than worth the wait. Described as “a spaceship on water,” the innovative Royal Falcon One went up for sale earlier this month, and it’s as sleek as any luxury sports car. Developed by Singapore-based firm Royal Falcon Fleet and designed
Continue Reading “Cancel culture” has jumped the shark. Deeming that people, usually celebrities, are canceled — in other words, no longer worthy of society’s investment in them — has been a growing practice by online mobs as a means to attack someone for something they said or did. Last week, Barack Obama called out this phenomenon as
Continue Reading House impeachment investigators have requested acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney testify on Capitol Hill on Friday, ratcheting up their investigation to target the President’s top aide. The House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees sent Mulvaney a letter Tuesday requesting he appear for a closed-door deposition as part of the Democrats’ impeachment
Continue Reading Last week, Deadspin’s editorial staff resigned in the wake of a “stick to sports” mandate handed down to them in a memo. On Tuesday, the person whose name was on that memo — Paul Maidment — announced that he has resigned from his position as editorial director of G/O Media, Deadspin’s parent company. Maidment said
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Fernando Camacho, abordó este martes una avioneta para trasladarse de regreso a Santa Cruz, luego de no haber podido abandonar el aeropuerto de El Alto, en las afueras de La Paz, según informó el ministro de Gobierno, Carlos Romero. “A las ocho de la mañana, cuando la gente había rebasado la guardia
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Voters in Dona Ana County were deciding whether to renew an existing tax to support students at Las Cruces Public Schools on Tuesday. Officials with LCPS said if voters approve the mill levy, known as HB33, it will generate approximately $10 million each year to fund health and safety projects,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story VANCOUVER, WA (KPTV) — A K-9 who was caught on camera attacking a bystander in Vancouver has been retired early, according to police. The incident occurred on Sept. 22 when officers were responding to a call near West 13th Street and Columbia Street. In video shot by a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story EL MIRAGE, AZ (KNXV) — Neighbors describe it as a zoo, but there was only one kind of animal living — and breeding — inside the walls of a small El Mirage home. “The total count is over 600 now,” said Jody Kieran, owner of Fallen Feathers Sanctuary.
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Italian football club Hellas Verona has been given a one-match partial stadium closure following racist abuse aimed at Brescia striker Mario Balotelli. Serie A’s disciplinary tribunal on Tuesday ordered the club to close the Poltrona Est Stand, the section of its stadium where the abuse was heard in Sunday’s game, for its next home fixture
Continue Reading Tent cities emerged across Austin this summer after the city effectively made it legal for homeless residents to camp under highway overpasses. The move sparked a fierce debate across the city over the best way of dealing with what some residents describe as a homelessness crisis. Steve Adler, Austin’s mayor, says while it might seem
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Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg will take a significant cut in pay for 2019 and 2020, according to the company’s new chairman. In an interview on CNBC Tuesday morning, Dave Calhoun, who was named Boeing’s chairman last month when the board stripped Muilenburg of that title, said that the CEO called him Saturday morning to suggest
Continue Reading In the first few minutes of his bus tour that began Saturday, Pete Buttigieg said he misspoke. He hadn’t meant to say that the 2020 Democratic primary was a two-person race between himself and Elizabeth Warren. His message this weekend, however, told a markedly different story. Buttigieg spent much of his time on his three-day,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BOULDER, CO (KMGH) — A demonstration over the weekend is not sitting well with many in and out of the Jewish community in Boulder. On Saturday, a group of men dressed in traditional Jewish garb passed out fliers, denying the Holocaust and blaming Jews for the slave trade
Continue Reading On Monday night at a campaign rally in Kentucky, home state Sen. Rand Paul stood beside Donald Trump and urged the media to out the whistleblower who lodged a formal complaint against the President for conducting a pressure campaign against Ukraine. Here’s what Paul said: “We also now know the name of the whistleblower. The
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A man was stabbed to death Monday at a Maryland Popeyes after what appears to have been an argument over the restaurant’s re-released chicken sandwich, police said. The victim, a 28-year-old man, was stabbed outside the restaurant around 7p.m., Prince George’s County Police spokeswoman Jennifer Donelan said at a news conference Monday. He had been
Continue Reading A California rapid transit employee is being hailed as a hero for rescuing a man who fell onto the tracks as a train was approaching the platform. The dramatic rescue happened at the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station at the Oakland Coliseum after an NFL game Sunday between the Oakland Raiders and the Detroit
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Many of our favorite fast food and restaurant chains continue to contribute to the growing threat of antibiotic resistance, according to a report released Thursday by advocacy groups. The World Health Organization calls the development of bacteria that can’t be killed by some of our current medicines “one of the biggest threats to global health,
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In the Trump age we often talk about “alternative universes” of information — about the administration, about impeachment, about the economy, about pretty much everything. The divide between these two universes of information is extreme — so extreme that I sometimes find it hard to describe. That’s why I was so struck by something that
Continue Reading “Harriet” is a unique Hollywood offering that avoids the common pitfalls of blockbuster films about American slavery. Co-written and directed by a black woman, the film sidesteps the prevailing white savior trope and effectively presents what scholar Saidiya Hartman has described as the antebellum period’s “profound indifference to black suffering” by illustrating ideas and practices
Continue Reading The impact of impeachment faces a test on Tuesday as Kentucky voters head to the polls to select their next governor. Incumbent Republican Gov. Matt Bevin has cast himself as a close ally and defender of President Donald Trump, in a state the President won in 2016 by nearly 30 points. Republicans here hope that
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It has so far fought overtourism by limiting the number of cruise ships that dock in its ports, banning four in five souvenir stalls, and cutting the number of tables and chairs outside restaurants by 20%. And now the Croatian port of Dubrovnik has suggested an even more stringent measure: an effective ban of all
Continue Reading Emma Watson has said she prefers to call herself “self-partnered” rather than single as she approaches her 30th birthday. Watson, 29, who rose to fame as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, coined the phrase in an interview with British Vogue in which she discussed the pressures of turning 30. The actor and activist,
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