Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez fired 11 employees and put six more on unpaid suspension in connection to the in-custody death of a Black man in February, Gonzalez announced Friday. Gonzalez said Jaquaree Simmons, 23, was found unresponsive in his cell February 17 after detention officers used force on him. “I have fired 11 employees
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(CNN) — La ceremonia número 94 de los Oscar se postergó al domingo 27 de marzo de 2022, un mes después de lo programado originalmente, anunció el jueves la Academia de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas. El espectáculo, que estaba programado para el 27 de febrero de 2022, fue reprogramado para que la Academia y sus
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Most Americans reject QAnon-linked conspiracy theories and believe that Donald Trump lost legitimately in 2020, a set of new polling finds. But a substantial minority within the Republican party endorses some of those theories, and most continue to baselessly question the outcome of last year’s election. About one-quarter of Republicans, 23%, agree with a set
Continue Reading Trial-level federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson has handled some of the most politically significant court cases of the Trump era and its aftermath and become one of the most incisive voices on the corruption and political spin of the era. Known for her sharp criticism of the Trump administration’s moves in the criminal proceedings of
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The US Postal Service on Friday proposed raising the cost of mailing a letter to 58 cents, an increase that’s within the range of recent years and comes as Postmaster General Louis DeJoy pursues sweeping changes with an eye on the agency’s finances. DeJoy, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, announced a 10-year plan
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More than 22,000 rounds of ammunition, a dozen firearms, suspected Molotov cocktails and multiple cans of gasoline were found in the home of Sam Cassidy, the gunman who took nine lives at his workplace on Wednesday, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. The motive for Cassidy’s rampage has not been determined, but authorities
Continue Reading The State Department on Friday called on Myanmar’s military regime to release Danny Fenster, an American journalist based in Myanmar who was detained earlier this week as he tried to board a flight out of the country. “We are deeply concerned over the detention of US citizen Daniel Fenster, who was working as a journalist
Continue Reading Investigators are trying to determine what led a gunman to open fire Wednesday at his workplace — a public transit rail yard in San Jose, California — killing nine people before killing himself, officials said. Eight miles away, authorities are looking into the gunman’s home, which officials said was burning around the time of the
Continue Reading President Joe Biden on Friday condemned the rise in anti-Semitic attacks across the country in recent weeks, saying the incidents are “despicable, unconscionable, un-American, and they must stop.” The nation is seeing an uptick in attacks on the Jewish community as tensions flare following the violence in the Middle East between Israel and Palestinian militant
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Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — The NYPD is trying to identify a man seen on video punching a 75-year-old Asian woman in Queens. It happened around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday near 97th Place and 57th Avenue in Corona. Surveillance video shows the suspect randomly sucker punch the woman. She falls
Continue Reading A 26-year-old farm worker was found guilty of first-degree murder Friday in the abduction and fatal stabbing of college student Mollie Tibbetts in July 2018. The verdict comes nearly three years after the body of the 20-year-old woman was found in an Iowa cornfield. Cristhian Bahena Rivera, wearing headphones as interpreters translated the decision in
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los inversores de bitcoin vendieron en mayo. Ahora resta ver si abandonaron la criptomoneda definitivamente o volverán. Los precios de bitcoin cayeron un 8% el viernes. El valor de la criptomoneda se ha desplomado cerca del 36% en mayo, su peor desempeño mensual desde septiembre de 2011. Ahora se cotiza a cerca de
Continue Reading (CNN Español) – En este viernes de estrenos musicales el maestro Juan Luis Guerra nos presenta la versión en vivo de uno de sus clásicos, «Rosalía» (Live). También tenemos varios lanzamientos de álbumes de destacados artistas como Juanes, Natalia Lafourcade, Paula Arenas y Diego Torres. En Zona Pop CNN recopilamos algunos de los estrenos más
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Independent School District said it will follow Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s executive order and will not require face coverings for students, employees or visitors after June 4. Gov. Abbott made the executive order on May 18, stating public schools can no longer require masks on campuses starting June
Continue Reading House Democrats are actively considering mounting a probe of their own into the January 6 US Capitol attack, signaling they don’t plan to let the issue go away in the aftermath of Senate Republicans derailing the creation of an outside commission to probe the deadly insurrection. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made clear repeatedly that moving
Continue Reading The Coast Guard said Friday it will continue searching for 10 people thought to be missing after a boat overturned a day earlier about 16 miles southwest of Key West, Florida. The Coast Guard rescued eight people on Thursday around 1 p.m., the military branch said in a tweet. Two bodies were recovered. When crews
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police arrested 19-year-old Frank James Fuller after officers reportedly seized over 15,000 images of child pornography. Police said that detectives with the El Paso Police Department along with Homeland Security Investigations conducted search warrants on May 13 two apartments at 5249 Wren Avenue, both reportedly residences of Fuller Police
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SOUTH PARK, Paennsylvania (KDKA) — A South Park woman claims Dollar Bank failed to prevent her from being swindled out of millions of dollars. In a lawsuit filed against the bank, Mary Clayton claims the bank broke state law. “Ms. Clayton is a 79-year-old widow who in June
Continue Reading A crucial Senate vote on a bill to create an independent inquiry to investigate the deadly January 6 Capitol Hill riot failed Friday, falling short of the 10 Republican votes needed to advance and illustrating GOP efforts to move on from the insurrection that left five people dead and injured 140 police officers. The vote
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASTON, Pennsylvania (KYW) — Hailed a hero. Ryan Ferris saved his family from a house fire on a fateful November morning in 1998 but he never made it out. The fire was no accident. Now decades later, one question still weighs on his mother’s mind: Who murdered Ryan?
Continue Reading The mother of fallen US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick says she was disappointed that Senate Republicans blocked a bill Friday to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection after what she described as “tense” meetings with many GOP senators on Thursday. In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper Friday, Gladys
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK (WCBS) — The NYPD is trying to identify a man seen on video punching a 75-year-old Asian woman in Queens. It happened around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday near 97th Place and 57th Avenue in Corona. Surveillance video shows the suspect randomly sucker punch the woman. She falls
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MIAMI (WFOR) — Two people are dead and 10 others are missing after their boat overturned Thursday near the Florida Keys, officials said. The U.S. Coast Guard responded to a location about 18 miles south of Key West around 1 p.m. The crew of the Resolute rescued eight
Continue Reading Washington state’s attorney general on Thursday filed felony charges against three police officers in connection with the death of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who died in March 2020 in the custody of the Tacoma Police Department. Officers Christopher Burbank and Matthew Collins are charged with second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter while Officer Timothy Rankine
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MILTON (WBZ) — A Quincy man visiting Houghton’s Pond in Milton with his son drowned Thursday while trying to get a ball that had gone into the water. Massachusetts State Police said the 39-year-old man went into the pond around 6:30 p.m. to get a soccer ball. Witnesses
Continue Reading President Joe Biden on Friday proposed a $6 trillion budget for fiscal year 2022, laying out details of a proposed dramatic increase in federal spending that serves as the underpinning of an economic agenda that seeks to transform the American economy as the country emerges from dual public health and economic crises. The budget proposal,
Continue Reading (CNN) — Kim Kardashian estuvo cerca de aprobar el examen para ser abogada, pero no lo logró. En un fragmento publicado el miércoles del programa de su familia «Keeping Up With the Kardashians», Kim confiesa a sus hermanas Kourtney y Khloe que falló su examen de primer año para estudiantes de Derecho. «Así que, chicas,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GLEN BURNIE, Maryland (WJZ) — Anne Arundel County Police are searching for a man who allegedly carjacked a person inside the parking garage at University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie on Wednesday. Police said the 33-year-old suspect was a mental health patient at the
Continue Reading Two people are dead and 10 are still possibly missing after a boat overturned in 18 miles southwest of Key West, Florida. The US Coast Guard rescued eight people Thursday afternoon around 1 p.m., the military branch said in a tweet. Two bodies were discovered and crews are searching for a possible 10 people still
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — México celebrará elecciones intermedias al inicio de junio en las que las autoridades buscan limitar la influencia de la desinformación en redes sociales y medios electrónicos a través de Inés. Para ello, el Instituto Nacional Electoral, (INE), el organismo independiente encargado de organizar las elecciones en México, se alió con WhatsApp con
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