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Month: August 2024

‘J6 praying grandma’ avoids prison time and gets 6 months home confinement in Capitol riot case

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Colorado bed-and-breakfast operator who promotes herself online as the “J6 praying grandma” was sentenced on Monday to six months of home confinement in her Capitol riot case after the judge railed against “offensive” comments she has made about the criminal justice system. Prosecutors had sought 10 months behind bars

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RFK Jr. denied ballot access in New York after judge rules he used ‘sham’ address on petition

By Aaron Pellish, CNN (CNN) — A New York judge ruled Monday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ballot-access petition in the state is invalid, delivering the first major blow to the independent presidential candidate’s bid for nationwide ballot access. New York Supreme Court Justice Christina Ryba accepted the arguments made by Democratic voters and supported

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Colombian villagers release more than 60 soldiers who had been held captive for 3 days

Associated Press BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s defense ministry says 66 soldiers who had been “kidnapped” by villagers in the south of the country were released unharmed and will continue to carry out operations against rebel groups in the province of Guaviare. Colombia’s army has long struggled to defeat rebel groups in the Guaviare area,

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Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, one-time hero to election deniers, convicted in computer breach

Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, the first local election official to be charged with a security breach after the 2020 election as unfounded conspiracy theories swirled, was found guilty by a jury on most charges Monday. Peters, a one-time hero to election deniers, was accused of using someone else’s security

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Los astronautas del Starliner de Boeing podrían permanecer en el espacio otros seis meses; esto es lo que harían

Belén Liotti (CNN) — Cuando los astronautas Suni Williams y Butch Wilmore abandonaron la Tierra rumbo a la Estación Espacial Internacional (EEI) hace dos meses, dejaron sus maletas para llevarse un equipo clave. Al mando de la prueba de vuelo tripulada inaugural de la nave espacial Starliner de Boeing, partieron sin sus propios artículos de

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Judge rules against RFK Jr. in fight to be on New York’s ballot, says he is not a state resident

Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A judge ruled Monday that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name should not appear on New York’s ballot, saying that he falsely claimed a New York residence on nominating petitions despite living in California. The scion of the famed Democratic political dynasty dismissed the decision as partisan

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¿El fin del PRI? Expertos analizan su crisis

Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — El Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), una legendaria fuerza política en México, se enfrenta a la peor crisis de su historia, según coinciden especialistas. Además de quedar como la tercera fuerza política en las elecciones generales del 2 de junio —debajo del ahora hegemónico partido Morena y del derechista Partido Acción

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Suspected Iranian hackers breached Roger Stone’s personal email as part of effort to target Trump campaign, sources say

By Sean Lyngaas, Evan Perez and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — The FBI and other investigators probing the apparent hack-and-leak of Trump campaign documents, which Donald Trump has blamed on Iran, suspect that the hackers were able to compromise the personal email account of longtime Republican and Trump operative Roger Stone, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The hackers

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EE.UU. decide reanudar la ayuda militar a una unidad israelí acusada de violar derechos humanos

Belén Liotti (CNN) — Estados Unidos no restringirá la ayuda militar a una unidad de las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel (FDI) acusada de cometer violaciones de los derechos humanos contra los palestinos en la Ribera Occidental después de determinar que las violaciones fueron “remediadas efectivamente”, dijo el portavoz del Departamento de Estado, Matthew Miller,

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