More than 5,000 inmates die at this prison every year
One in five detainees at the Philippines’ national penitentiary die every year, officials at the prison hospital have revealed. About 5,200…
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Goldman Sachs spends less on employee pay as it focuses on tech products
Goldman Sachs is spending less on employee compensation and more on ramping up tech ventures. The bank’s chief financial officer, Stephen…
Continue Reading A New York EMT had a stroke on the job and a colleague who tried to help had an aortic aneurysm
An emergency medical technician raced to assist a colleague who had a stroke on the job, but he fell unconscious before he could help.…
Continue Reading Dreamworks’ ‘Abominable’ pulled from movie theaters in Vietnam over South China Sea map
Vietnam’s largest cinema chain has pulled a new Dreamworks animated movie from theaters because it features a map asserting Chinese ownership…
Continue Reading Man deported three years ago allegedly reentered the US and now stands accused of killing his girlfriend
A man who was deported to the Dominican Republic in 2016 after several criminal convictions was arrested this week and charged with fatally stabbing…
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Crop dusting plane crashes into power lines and explodes in San Elizario, injuring pilot
A small, single-engine plane spraying crops on farmland crashed into power lines on Thursday afternoon and then exploded on the ground. The crash…
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Beto O’Rourke hosts Texas counter-rally to President Trump’s Dallas campaign event
Hundreds of supporters filled the Theatre in Grand Prairie for Beto O’Rourke’s “Rally Against Fear” on Thursday evening. The…
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Drug lord El Chapo’s eldest son captured, but then released by Mexican military after gun battles
The eldest son of “El Chapo,” the jailed notorious Mexican drug kingpin, was captured by Mexico’s military on Thursday, but then…
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Future uncertain for historic landmark Trost building in Las Cruces
One of Las Cruces’s historical landmarks, built in 1929 and designed by Henry Trost, faces the threat of demolition due to illegal activity…
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Trump likens Turkish attack on Kurds to schoolyard fight at Texas rally: ‘You got to let them fight’
President Donald Trump on Thursday night compared the attack by the Turkish military on Syrian Kurds, onetime American allies in the fight against…
Continue Reading Prison workers under investigation for allegedly mocking transgender inmates in private Facebook groups
More than a dozen correctional employees in Illinois are under investigation after they were accused of mocking transgender inmates in private…
Continue Reading Police investigate several assaults on men in downtown Wilmington, North Carolina
Eleven men, including several members of the military, have been assaulted near downtown bars in Wilmington, North Carolina, over the course of…
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Continue Reading Los trabajadores de minorías tienen peores horarios que los trabajadores blancos
(CNN Business) — El trabajo en empresas minoristas y de comida rápida es conocido por sus horarios erráticos. Pero una nueva investigación…
Continue Reading Podría haber relación entre perder peso y muerte prematura en la mediana edad, según estudio
(CNN) — El sobrepeso está relacionado con muchos problemas de salud, y perder algunos kilos a menudo se presenta como la mejor manera de…
Continue Reading Suspect arrested because of a lost SD memory card charged with killing another woman
A grand jury in Alaska returned an additional murder indictment Thursday against a man already charged with the murder and sexual assault of another…
Continue Reading New York City Council votes to close notorious Rikers Island jail
The New York City Council voted overwhelmingly to close Rikers Island jail Thursday and open four new borough-based facilities instead. “Today…
Continue Reading Scientists just discovered ‘stormquakes’ — but don’t worry, you’re not in danger
Hurricanes and earthquakes are bad enough on their own. Now imagine them combined. That’s kind of what a stormquake is, a phenomenon just…
Continue Reading New Orleans officials are about to blow up the cranes at the collapsed Hard Rock hotel. Here’s why
The City of New Orleans plans to bring down two cranes at the construction site of the Hard Rock Hotel that collapsed over the weekend, killing at…
Continue Reading Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg: Private companies should not censor politicians
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t believe Twitter should take away President Donald Trump’s digital megaphone. “My belief is…
Continue Reading Former students of New York School for the Deaf allege abuse by dorm supervisor, new lawsuit says
A dozen women are alleging that a former dorm supervisor at the New York School for the Deaf sexually abused them while they were students, a new…
Continue Reading 50,000 striking GM workers will now vote on tentative agreement
Striking General Motors workers will remain on the picket lines for at least another week, even as the United Auto Workers national council voted to…
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Previously planned pedestrian safety campaign launches in El Paso amid recent deaths
Multiple agencies in the Borderland are teaming up for a second year in an effort to try to reduce pedestrian fatalities on the road. The Texas…
Continue Reading Venezuela wins seat on UN Human Rights Council
It’s like a defendant on trial getting to sit on the jury too. Venezuela has become the latest accused human rights abuser to win a seat on the…
Continue Reading Central Valley Food Plant Worker, Accomplice Accused in Long-Running, Large-Scale Cheese Theft Operation
Click here for updates on this story Central Valley, CA (KTLA) — After a Central Valley food plant uncovered thieves…
Continue Reading Chicago teachers’ strike continues, leaving about 300,000 kids in limbo
Moselean Parker’s 25 years of simmering frustration have boiled over. “I don’t have any reading books in my room! I don’t…
Continue Reading Stockton Woman Who Livestreamed DUI Crash That Killed 14-Year-Old Sister Is Arrested After Police Chase
Click here for updates on this story Stockton, CA (KTLA) — The Stockton woman pleaded no contest to a livestreamed DUI…
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‘Waste of our time’: Ethics complaints against El Paso Mayor Dee Margo dismissed by commission
The city of El Paso’s Ethics Review Commission unanimously voted Thursday afternoon to dismiss ethics complaints against Mayor Dee Margo…
Continue Reading Trump tuiteó esta foto para atacar a Nancy Pelosi. Ella la usó para su perfil de Twitter
Washington (CNN) — Nancy Pelosi, dio un vuelco el miércoles a un ataque del presidente Donald Trump en Twitter. La presidenta de la Cámara de…
Continue Reading El futuro de la UNAM
Nota del editor: Octavio Solís es director de la revista Consideraciones. Académico en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras y Trabajo Social de la…
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