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WASHINGTON (AP) — El secretario de Defensa estadounidense Lloyd Austin fue hospitalizado de nuevo el domingo para tratar un problema de vejiga mientras sigue recuperándose de un cáncer de próstata, y transfirió su autoridad a su subsecretaria, informó el Pentágono. A Austin le diagnosticaron el cáncer en diciembre y se sometió a una intervención denominada prostatectomía para tratarlo el 22 …

DENVER (AP) — A county coroner reported suspicions about bodies being poorly treated by a Colorado funeral home more than three years before nearly 200 decomposing bodies were discovered inside a decrepit building in October, according to newly unsealed court documents that raise questions about how the mistreatment of corpses was able to continue for so long. The concerns raised …

MALIBÚ, California, EE.UU. (AP) — Un sismo de magnitud preliminar de 4,6 sacudió el viernes la costa del sur de California, cerca de Malibú, y se sintió ampliamente en la región de Los Ángeles. Hasta el momento no había reportes de daños graves ni lesiones. El sismo se produjo a las 13:47 horas a una profundidad de 13 kilómetros (8 …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Legislation in West Virginia to narrow the definitions of gender would give women no further rights and is a way for Republicans to suppress transgender people, speakers at a public hearing said Thursday. Dozens of speakers condemned the “Women’s Bill of Rights” while a handful spoke in favor of it during the 45-minute hearing in the …

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A judge has thrown out a lawsuit that sought to block the University of California from renaming the former Hastings College of the Law because its namesake was linked to the slaughter of Native Americans. Descendants of Serranus Hastings filed the $1.7 billion breach of contract lawsuit over the decision to change the name to the …

PITTSTOWN, Nueva York, EE.UU. (AP) — Diez vagones de un tren de carga que llevaba bolitas de plástico y aceite para cocinar se descarrilaron en el norte del estado de Nueva York y dos de ellos terminaron en un río, informaron autoridades. Los vagones, de un tren que llevaba 94 vagones, se descarrilaron a eso de las 10:15 p.m. el …

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A “whistling sound” was heard on a previous flight of the Boeing 737 Max 9 whose door plug blew out during an Alaska Airlines flight last month, an attorney representing passengers in a lawsuit said in new court documents. Mark Lindquist is representing 22 passengers of Alaska Airlines flight 1282, which made a harrowing emergency landing …

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Confirman muerte de cinco marines en helicóptero que se estrelló cerca de San Diego.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A man who sued Buffalo police after he was ticketed for shouting at an officer to turn on his headlights can move forward with his legal action, an appeals court ruled. The decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals last week reversed a ruling by a U.S. district judge in Buffalo who had dismissed the case, …

LIZELLA, Ga. (AP) — A sheriff’s deputy died Tuesday night after hitting another car while responding to a call in middle Georgia. Local news outlets report Crawford County Deputy Timothy Tavarus Rivers was responding to a call to assist another officer when he crossed the center line on a road south of Lizella. Rivers tried to correct his path and …