Gonzalo Zegarra (CNN) — Una empleada de la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA, por sus siglas en inglés) ha sido destituida de su cargo después de que aconsejara a su equipo de ayuda ante catástrofes que evitara las casas con carteles de apoyo al entonces candidato presidencial Donald Trump mientras hacían labores
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Rafael has weakened to a tropical storm and was expected to dissolve over the Gulf of Mexico in the coming days after barreling across Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane. Rafael was located 2,490 miles (470 km) north-northwest of Progreso, Mexico on Saturday. It had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph
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KTVT By Julia Falcon, Andrea Lucia Click here for updates on this story Texas (KTVT) — For the first time in years, the State of Texas confirmed the sighting of a mountain lion in North Texas. Video was taken last week in a Frisco backyard that showed a mountain lion on the prowl. But if
Continue Reading By Julia Falcon, Andrea Lucia Click here for updates on this story Texas (KTVT) — For the first time in years, the State of Texas confirmed the sighting of a mountain lion in North Texas. Video was taken last week in a Frisco backyard that showed a mountain lion on the prowl. But if you
Continue Reading Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees have returned to their country since Israel launched a massive aerial bombardment on wide swathes of Lebanon in September. Many who fled to Lebanon after the war in Syria started in 2011 did not want to go back. But for officials in Lebanon, the
Continue Reading Associated Press QUITO (AP) — Ecuador’s Vice President Veronica Abad has been suspended for 150 days accused of “unjustified abandonment” of her duties. It comes during a public rift between Abad and President Daniel Noboa that could have implications for Ecuador’s February elections. Abad’s suspension without pay came at midnight, her lawyer Dominique Dávila told
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By Becky Anderson and Tamar Michaelis, CNN (CNN) — Qatar is suspending its role as a mediator in talks between Israel and Hamas after concluding that the two sides are no longer negotiating in good faith, its foreign ministry said Saturday. Qatar, which has hosted Hamas’ political office in Doha since 2012, has alongside Egypt
Continue Reading Associated Press Actor Tony Todd, known for his haunting portrayal of a killer in the horror film “Candyman” and roles in many other films and television shows, has died, his longtime manager confirmed. He was 69. Todd died Wednesday at his home in the Los Angeles area, his manager Jeffrey Goldberg said in a statement
Continue Reading By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Rod Ashby was desperate to find his wife Kim Ashby after their newly built home in Elk Park, North Carolina, was swept away by Hurricane Helene’s floodwaters in late September and she went missing. His daughter, Ansley Ashby, told CNN her father needed a four-wheel drive pickup to
Continue Reading CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Another man charged with carrying a flaming torch with the intent to intimidate during a 2017 rally at the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville has agreed to a plea deal. The Daily Progress reported that 32-year-old Dallas Medina of Ravenna, Ohio, was originally indicted on a felony intimidation charge, but
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Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department will appeal a military judge’s ruling that plea agreements struck by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and two of his co-defendants are valid, a defense official said Saturday. The ruling this past week voided Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s order to
Continue Reading Gonzalo Zegarra (CNN) — Hace millones de años, las “aves del terror”, de patas largas, grandes picos y carnívoras, acechaban América. Estas imponentes criaturas dominaban los ecosistemas terrestres como principales depredadores, y los científicos acaban de descubrir a una de las mayores jamás descubiertas. Cuando los paleontólogos analizaron un hueso de una pata procedente de
Continue Reading AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Election officials say a ranked-choice voting tabulation aimed at determining the winner of a key congressional race in Maine starts in the coming week. Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden claims he won the election but the secretary of state said neither Golden nor Republican Austin Theriault surpassed 50% of first-place votes.
Continue Reading Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — Lithuania’s defense minister says European nations should not repeat the same mistake of creating a barrier between them and President-elect Donald Trump but instead cooperate on issues of common interest. Assuming that Trump will again apply what Laurynas Kasčiūnas called “his contract approach to our relations,” Kasčiūnas outlined areas where
Continue Reading Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Justin Heap, a Republican state legislator who questioned the administration of elections in Arizona’s most populous county, has been elected to oversee the vote as Maricopa County Recorder. Heap could dramatically alter the way elections are handled in Maricopa County, the fourth-largest U.S. county with a population of some 4.5
Continue Reading Paulina Nares (CNN Español) — La Fiscalía General de Oaxaca, en el sureste de México, informó este viernes del hallazgo de 71 migrantes de varias nacionalidades, entre ellos 19 menores de edad, que estaban hacinados en el interior de una vivienda. En el operativo, que fue realizado el jueves, las autoridades encontraron 32 personas de
Continue Reading Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian police say a 31-year-old American tourist has been killed while on vacation in the capital. The suspect is a 37-year-old Irish man who was arrested. The victim is Mackenzie Michalski from Oregon. She was reported missing on Nov. 5 after she was last seen at a nightclub in
Continue Reading SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Russia has opened the first ministerial conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum in the city of Sochi, seeking to deepen ties with African nations and dispel a notion that it’s isolated by Western sanctions. The conference is billed as building on last summer’s Russia-Africa summit, where Russian President Vladimir Putin courted
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host President-elect Donald Trump for a traditional postelection meeting in the Oval Office on Wednesday, the White House said Saturday. Such a meeting is customary between the outgoing president and the incoming president, and is meant partly to mark the start of a peaceful transfer of
Continue Reading GENEVA (AP) — Authorities in eastern Switzerland on Saturday ordered residents of a tiny village to prepare to evacuate as an Alpine rockslide looming overhead threatened to break loose and spill down on their homes. It was the second time that residents of Brienz received evacuation orders after a similar threat last summer. Local officials
Continue Reading Associated Press TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — A resident of the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre says an Israeli airstrike has left at least seven dead, among them five siblings, three of whom were deaf and mute. Elsewhere in Lebanon, Israeli airstrikes killed 31 people. Israel meanwhile carried out airstrikes on different parts of southern
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, it wiped multiple Roman towns off the map — but it also froze them in time. Ash raining down from the volcano blanketed Pompeii and surrounding cities, preserving frescoes, buildings and citizens where they fell. Over time, Pompeii was forgotten, and it
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WPTV, CNN By Steve Contorno, CNN West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN) — Dozens of people beamed alongside Donald Trump early Wednesday morning as he was elected America’s next president – including three generations of family, longtime friends, key advisers, his running mate, close political allies and Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White – but the
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Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A prominent Iranian American human rights activist has expressed shock but also defiance about Iranian murder-for-hire plots to kill her and Donald Trump that were disclosed by the U.S. Justice Department. Masih Alinejad was in Berlin on Saturday to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
Continue Reading Gonzalo Zegarra (CNN) — Varias agencias de las Naciones Unidas volvieron a alertar sobre el rápido deterioro de las condiciones humanitarias en gran parte de Gaza y el saldo de civiles muertos en más de un año de operaciones militares israelíes. Ahora puedes seguirnos en WhatsApp Channel En un informe detallado en el que se verifican las
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By Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — A plane carrying the Auburn men’s basketball team had to be diverted following an altercation on the flight, according to CNN affiliate WBRC. The Tigers were heading to Texas where the No. 11 ranked program is scheduled to face No. 4 Houston on Saturday at the Toyota Center. According
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree arrived in New York City on Saturday, signaling the start of the holiday season in the Big Apple. The 74-foot Norway spruce was driven into Manhattan’s Center Plaza, where it was hoisted in place by a crane. It will take 5 miles (about 8 kilometers) of
Continue Reading AP Health Writer The majority of strokes could be prevented, according to new guidelines aimed at helping people and their doctors do just that. Stroke was the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and more than half a million Americans have a
Continue Reading Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Tens of thousands have celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago in Germany’s capital. There were open-air concerts, art installations and official events on Saturday commemorating one of the country’s most historic days on Nov. 9, 1989. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that it was “a lucky
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