(CNN Español) — Un helicóptero que transportaba al presidente de Bolivia, Evo Morales, hizo un aterrizaje de emergencia el lunes a las 12:48 pm (local) debido a una falla mecánica, de acuerdo con un comunicado de la Fuerza Aérea boliviana. Según el comunicado, el rotor de cola del helicóptero experimentó un mal funcionamiento durante el
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Yvette Lundy, a heroine of the French Resistance during World War II, died Sunday at the age of 103. Lundy joined the Resistance at the beginning of the Nazi occupation of France and survived spells in two concentration camps in Germany, according to a statement from the office of President Emmanuel Macron released Monday. After
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Click here for updates on this story NEWPORT, KY (WCPO) — A Newport Police Department cruiser was sent into a corner store early Monday morning after the cruiser and another car crashed. Police said the cruiser and the other car crashed near the corner of 10th Street and Isabella Street in Newport before 1 a.m.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, CA (KTXL) — Agents from the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control say they arrested a Sacramento bartender Friday for giving a minor alcohol, which resulted in great bodily harm. Officials identified the man as Kelly Woodward, who has been accused of selling and furnishing alcohol to
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A high school teacher has been placed on administrative leave in California after he wore blackface to school on Halloween, according to the Milpitas Unified School District. A video posted on social media shows the teacher with his face painted black and dressed up in an apparent attempt to imitate the rapper Common. “Opportunities limitless,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NORFOLK, VA (WTKR) — There’s a new sign posted at each entrance of MacArthur Center. “I did not see that sign today,” says Charie Williams. This sign placed at an entrance of Norfolk’s MacArthur Center asks shoppers to “please remove hoods” before entering the mall. She works right
Continue Reading Rudy Boesch, who was a contestant on the first season of CBS’ “Survivor,” has died, the SEAL Veterans Foundation said. “It is with a broken heart that we inform you that Master Chief Rudy Boesch passed away last night,” the foundation posted on their Facebook page Saturday. “Master Chief was a legend in the SEAL
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President Donald Trump is expected to nominate Dr. Stephen Hahn to be the next head of the US Food and Drug Administration. The acting commissioner of the FDA, Dr. Ned Sharpless, will return to his role as the director of the National Cancer Institute, according to a press release from the US Department of Health
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The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday proposed scaling back the requirements around storing and releasing waste from coal-fired power plants, despite also finding an increase in toxic leaks from waste pits. The proposals would relax Obama-era rules from 2015 about the disposal of toxic wastewater and coal ash from the power plants. Coal ash, a
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American Girl’s latest holiday doll is a one-percenter. This year’s highly anticipated holiday doll will be decked out with more than 5,000 Swarovski crystals and beads. Her cost: $5,000, but only three are available for sale — one at each of American Girl flagship stores in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The dolls will
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story AKRON, OH (WEWS) — Every day an estimated 22 American veterans commit suicide, an issue Summit County is working to bring awareness to with a Witness Tree, according to an article by News 5 media partner Akron Beacon Journal. On Friday, just outside the Summit County Courthouse, 22
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It took him 30 years and cost millions of dollars, but Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum finally landed the elusive Melbourne Cup last year. Now he’s back, aiming for a repeat with defending champion Cross Counter. It’s not the money he is after. Sheikh Mohammed, after all, is also Prime Minister of
Continue Reading Nota del editor: Pedro Brieger es un periodista y sociólogo argentino, autor de más de siete libros y colaborador en publicaciones sobre temas internacionales. Actualmente se desempeña como director de NODAL, un portal dedicado exclusivamente a las noticias de América Latina y el Caribe. Colaboró con diferentes medios nacionales como Clarín, El Cronista, La Nación,
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WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, New Mexico — A Boeing spacecraft designed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station shot off a launch pad in New Mexico on Monday to test out its emergency abort system. It was expected to be one of the last milestones that Boeing needs to reach before the spacecraft, Starliner,
Continue Reading I had a pair of new $249 AirPods Pro for less than 12 minutes when one tumbled out of my ear and landed an inch from the edge of a train platform. “I really thought you were going to go after it if it fell,” the stranger next to me scoffed. The high-end earbuds are
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The number of US adolescents admitted to emergency rooms for injuries related to sexual abuse more than doubled between 2010 and 2016, according to a new study. For kids ages 12 to 17, the number increased from 2,280 in 2010 to 5,058 in 2016. The study, published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, found that the number
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The Brendan Dassey case in Wisconsin, made famous by the Netflix series “Making a Murderer,” reflects much of what is wrong with American criminal justice: the blundering treatment of juveniles, the insatiable appetite for long sentences, the wickedly uneven quality of defense lawyers and the structural inability of appellate courts to correct for these problems.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LYNNWOOD, WA (KCPQ) — Two children are dead after a two-alarm fire at a townhouse apartment complex Sunday afternoon, according to South Snohomish County Fire & Rescue. The fire happened at Lynnwood Townhouse Apartments in the 6700 block of 196th Street. A spokesperson says multiple 911 calls started
Continue Reading Police have found 41 people alive in the back of a refrigerated truck during a routine highway check in northern Greece, officials said Monday. The refrigeration system had not been turned on and the migrants, all men and boys, were uninjured, Theodoros Hronopoulos, a police spokesman, told CNN. A small number of the migrants were
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SALT LAKE CITY, UT (KSTU) — The Bionic Engineering Lab at the University of Utah is working with a prototype bionic leg that they hope improve the lives of amputees around the world. Kerry Finn is one of 10 people who’ve been testing it. He lost his left
Continue Reading Nota del editor: Carlos Alberto Montaner es escritor y analista político de CNN. Sus columnas se publican en decenas de diarios de España, Estados Unidos y América Latina. Montaner es, además, vicepresidente de la Internacional Liberal. (CNN Español) — Debo hacer lo que en inglés llaman un “full disclosure”, una revelación total. Soy un exiliado
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EL PASO, Texas — A “false report” of an armed robber on the loose triggered a “significant” police deployment and the lockdown of several schools in west El Paso on Monday morning, authorities said. A woman had claimed to police that she was robbed by an armed man near the intersection of Bishop Flores and
Continue Reading As President Donald Trump has ramped up his attacks on Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council’s top Ukraine expert has continued to report to work, CNN has learned. Behind closed doors, Vindman testified before House impeachment investigators for more than 10 hours last week. He was the first witness who listened to the
Continue Reading Let me skip to the end: The Democratic-majority US House of Representatives, in partisan fashion, is all but certain to impeach President Donald Trump. The Republican-majority Senate, in partisan fashion, will almost certainly acquit him. And the net result will be that Democrats will have abused the US Constitution to satisfy political passions instead of
Continue Reading LeBron James is adding safe housing to the school he founded in his hometown, so students have a stable place to live while they get their education. The NBA star announced Monday that a historic apartment building in Akron, Ohio, is being renovated and turned into transitional housing for families in need at his I
Continue Reading Two years in the making, a revolutionary $7.7 million racing yacht is currently stricken in the Atlantic after colliding with a submerged object. Briton Alex Thomson and co-skipper Neal McDonald were a third of the way into the 4,350-mile Transat Jacques Vabre race from Le Havre, France, to Salvador, Brazil, when the sleek 60-foot yacht
Continue Reading The next time you go to the bathroom, a couple startups are hoping you’ll snap a photo before you flush. For scientific reasons, of course. No, really. Two companies — Auggi, a gut-health startup that’s building an app for people to track gastrointestinal issues, and Seed Health, which works on applying microbes to human health
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It seems like nothing can go wrong on Wall Street these days. Stocks are at all-time highs as investors bet there will soon be a “phase one” trade deal between the United States and China. Restrictions on some US companies selling to Chinese equipment giant Huawei may soon be lifted by the Trump administration. Helping
Continue Reading Steve Easterbrook is out as McDonald’s CEO and president after the board determined that he violated company policy, the company said on Sunday. Easterbrook, who became CEO in 2015, “demonstrated poor judgment involving a recent consensual relationship with an employee,” McDonald’s said in a statement. McDonald’s confirmed on Monday that David Fairhurst, chief people officer
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BOISE, ID (KIVI) — He’s made claims of killing over 40 people, and he’s been sitting on death row in Idaho for nearly 40 years for the murder of one. His name is Thomas Eugene Creech, and he’s been on death row in Idaho for over 37 years
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