Prosecutors won’t seek to restore the death penalty against Scott Peterson, convicted of killing his wife and unborn child nearly two decades ago, a Northern California district attorney said Friday in a court filing. Stanislaus County District Attorney Birgit Fladager says she won’t retry the penalty phase of the trial after consulting with the family
Continue ReadingFor the first few months of New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, the campaign seemed to be trundling along in search of a defining issue. Covid-19 numbers were dropping, Democrats in Washington delivered financial aid to head off a potential budget crisis and, with the outlook generally bright, the candidates’ plans — many of them
Continue ReadingA family in Oregon says daughter is in ICU after trying a TikTok challenge.
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(CNN Español) — El mayor general Jorge Ramírez, inspector general de la Policía Nacional de Colombia informó este viernes a través de un video que se ha dispuesto una investigación por parte de la Policía y Justicia Penal Militar en el marco de las denuncias y evidencias en video de presuntos civiles armados que se han
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Try to imagine for a moment, if you will, what it must be like to walk in space. After suiting up, you step outside the airlock. The International Space Station, nearly the length of an American football field, dwarfs you. Its exterior will be your workspace for the next six-and-a-half hours. Planet Earth appears before
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At least seven people were wounded during a shooting late Friday in Miami, police said. Officers responding to gunshot detection system alerts in Wynwood shortly before midnight found several people with what appeared to be gunshot wounds, Miami Police Department spokeswoman Kiara Delva said. Some shooting victims arrived at the hospital on their own, Delva
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Pastor Greg Locke has grown his congregation over the last year by preaching that Covid-19 is a “fake pandemic” and the vaccine is a scam. CNN’s Elle Reeve
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Pastor Greg Locke has grown his congregation over the last year by preaching that Covid-19 is a “fake pandemic” and the vaccine is a scam. Many people who were eager to get around pandemic restrictions drove from out of state to attend services at Locke’s Global Vision Bible Church in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. His following
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Bonnie is a very good girl. But every time the 4-year-old Shepherd mix goes outside in the yard to play or relieve herself right now, her owner, Julie Matthews, straps a muzzle over Bonnie’s face. The goal? To keep her from indulging in a potential buffet of Brood X cicadas that have recently begun emerging
Continue Reading Since the start of the pandemic, scientists have been seeking to better understand immunity to the novel coronavirus. How long is a person immune after having Covid-19, after getting vaccinated, or both? And what could long-lasting immunity mean for booster shots? It’s still too early to tell — but experts are getting closer to cracking
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The trucking industry has been short drivers for years, but the pandemic made it worse. The shortage means the price of groceries and moving costs are going up. CNN’s Vanessa Yurkevich reports.
Continue Reading Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the body of a child found by hikers Friday morning. The boy is believed to be Hispanic and about 10 years old, Lt. Ray Spencer of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said. He was 4 feet, 11 inches tall and weighed 123 pounds.
Continue Reading As more schools reconsider the role of legacy status in college admissions, Colorado has taken a significant step toward leveling the playing field. Gov. Jared Polis signed a law earlier this week banning officials at state-supported higher education institutions from considering family relationships to alumni — otherwise known as legacy preference — as a criteria
Continue ReadingThe intelligence community’s push to uncover the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic has largely relied on traditional intelligence-gathering tools up until now, but President Joe Biden’s 90-day “redoubled” effort is intended in part to elevate scientific analysis. The effort will bring in the National Labs, a collection of 17 elite research facilities under the Energy
Continue Reading (CNN) — Encontraron más de 22.000 municiones, una docena de armas de fuego, supuestos cócteles Molotov y múltiples latas de gasolina en la casa de Sam Cassidy, el hombre que mató a nueve personas en su lugar de trabajo en San José el miércoles, según la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Santa Clara. El
Continue Reading It’s all true. Memorial Day weekend may very well look like it did before the coronavirus pandemic upended life more than a year ago. Vaccines have made the gradual return to normalcy possible. To date, more than 166 million people have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, according to the US Centers
Continue ReadingWhile Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start to summer, it may actually feel like summer across the West while the Northeast will endure instead record cold temperatures and heavy rain.
Continue Reading A Philadelphia restaurant owner celebrated his birthday and a return from lockdown in the most Philadelphia way possible — a 510-foot-long cheesesteak. Rene Kobeitri, owner of Rim Cafe, said it was the longest Philly cheesesteak in the world, breaking the previous record of 480 feet. Kobeitri told CNN that chefs from across the United States
Continue ReadingMarjorie Taylor Greene has turned herself into one of the most visible Republicans in the country — stoking an endless stream of controversies that has caused headaches for a defeated party trying to find its footing while she rakes in campaign cash without fear of consequences. Her most recent incendiary comments have followed her home
Continue Reading Nota del editor: Mariela Belski es directora ejecutiva de Amnistía Internacional Argentina. Fue docente, investigadora e integrante de la Clínica Jurídica de Derecho de Interés Público de la Universidad de Palermo. Exconsultora del PNUD y de UNESCO. Trabajó más de 10 años en el sector público. Fue asesora legal de distintas secretarías del Gobierno Nacional
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