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Incoming Trump team is questioning civil servants at National Security Council about their loyalty

Published:Monday | January 13, 2025 | 8:54 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Incoming senior Trump administration officials have begun questioning career civil servants who work on the White House National Security Council about who they voted for in the 2024 election, their political contributions...

Ex-Green Beret lashes out at CIA and FBI

Published:Monday | January 13, 2025 | 12:09 AM

MIAMI (AP) : A former Green Beret accused of plotting an invasion of Venezuela in 2020 to try to overthrow Nicolás Maduro lashed out Friday at the CIA and FBI, claiming they sabotaged his efforts to oust the leftist leader. His lawyers asserted...

Puerto Rico warned of weak power generation as it prepares for a Trump administration

Published:Monday | January 13, 2025 | 12:08 AM

SAN JUAN (AP): US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm warned Puerto Rico that the US territory needs more power generation as it struggles to recover from a recent massive blackout. It was Granholm’s last official visit to the island as many worry...

Guantanamo’s prisoners have reached a pivotal moment

Published:Monday | January 13, 2025 | 12:08 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): After 23 years, the fate of the last remaining Guantanamo detainees swept up worldwide after al-Qaeda’s shattering September 11, 2001 attacks is reaching a pivotal moment this month. Court battles and dealmaking are deciding the...

A start-up city tries to tackle Africa’s problem of urbanising

Published:Monday | January 13, 2025 | 12:08 AM

KIAMBU (AP): Turn into Tatu City on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, and it feels like entering a different world. Even the country’s most reckless drivers are transformed, slowing to a crawl and not tossing trash out the window — thanks...

California wildfires could be leaving deeper inequality in their wake

Published:Monday | January 13, 2025 | 12:08 AM

ALTADENA (AP): The sight of celebrity mansions and movie landmarks reduced to ashes can make it seem like the wildfires roaring through the Los Angeles area affected a constellation of movie stars. But a drive through the charred neighbourhoods...

6.2 earthquake jolts southwestern Mexico, causing no damage or casualties

Published:Sunday | January 12, 2025 | 5:56 PM

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck a region in southwestern Mexico early Sunday, according to the United States Geological Survey, causing no serious damage or casualties. It said the quake was centred 21 kilometres (13...

Louisiana man charged with murder in stabbing deaths of his son, sister and nephew

Published:Sunday | January 12, 2025 | 2:59 PM

AMITE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man who was arrested for the fatal stabbings of a woman and two children was being treated for schizophrenia and started hearing voices the day before, a relative said. The 30-year-old Amite man was arrested on...

US now offering $25 million for Nicolás Maduro’s arrest or conviction

Published:Sunday | January 12, 2025 | 12:02 PM

CARACAS, Venezuela, CMC – The US Department of State has increased to US$25 million, the reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro who has been charged in a federal indictment for...

Los Angeles wildfires death toll rises as crews fight heavy winds to save homes and landmarks

Published:Sunday | January 12, 2025 | 11:26 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The death toll from the wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area rose to 16 as crews battled to cut off the spreading blazes before potentially strong winds return that could push the flames toward some of the city's...

Why Greenland?

Published:Sunday | January 12, 2025 | 12:13 AM

Remote, icy and mostly pristine, Greenland plays an outsized role in the daily weather experienced by billions of people and in the climate changes taking shape all over the planet. Greenland is where climate change, scarce resources, tense...

What is going on with aviation security?

Published:Sunday | January 12, 2025 | 12:12 AM

People have been found dead hiding in the wheel wells of planes twice in the past month. Two stowaways were arrested on different flights in November and December. Then a passenger opened an emergency door while a plane was taxiing in Boston,...

Trump gets no-penalty sentence in his hush-money case

Published:Saturday | January 11, 2025 | 12:08 AM

NEW YORK (AP): President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday to no punishment at all in his hush-money case, an outcome that cements his historic conviction while letting him return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term...

Maduro takes new oath amid protests and international rebuke

Published:Saturday | January 11, 2025 | 12:07 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in Friday for a new term, extending his increasingly repressive rule in the face of renewed protests and rebukes from the United States and others who believe he stole last year...

Immigration advocates critical of New York mayor

Published:Saturday | January 11, 2025 | 12:07 AM

NEW YORK (CMC): Immigration advocates in New York have criticised New York City Mayor, Eric Adams, over his alleged lack of support for Caribbean and other immigrants, saying that he has “left behind” immigrants in his State of the City Address (...

Guyana accuses Venezuela of violating agreements regarding border dispute

Published:Saturday | January 11, 2025 | 12:06 AM

GEORGETOWN (CMC): The Guyana government has expressed “grave concern” over what it claims to have been “recent actions and statements” by the Venezuela government that constitute ”clear violations” of the Argyle Agreement and the binding order of...

Police probe murder of whistleblower

Published:Saturday | January 11, 2025 | 12:06 AM

BELMOPAN, Belize (CMC): Police Commissioner Chester Williams says the police are “looking at every possibility”, including a hitman being hired to murder 30 year-old Giovanni Ramirez, the whistleblower in the high-profile case that led to the...

Earth records hottest year ever in 2024

Published:Saturday | January 11, 2025 | 12:06 AM

AP: Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold, several weather monitoring agencies announced Friday. Last year’s global average temperature easily passed 2023’s...

Trump, the ‘America First’ candidate, has a new preoccupation: Imperialism

Published:Saturday | January 11, 2025 | 12:06 AM

NEW YORK (AP): Donald Trump ran on a return to his “America First” foreign policy platform. The US, he said, could no longer afford to be the world’s policeman. On his watch, he pledged, there would be no new wars. But since winning a second term,...

Biden extends time in US for 800,000 Venezuelans, Salvadorans as Trump readies immigration crackdown

Published:Friday | January 10, 2025 | 8:44 PM

MIAMI (AP) — About 600,000 Venezuelans and more than 230,000 Salvadorans already living in the United States can legally remain another 18 months, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday, barely a week before President-elect Donald...

US Supreme Court seems likely to uphold a federal law that could force TikTok to shut down on January 19

Published:Friday | January 10, 2025 | 1:01 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The US Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning January 19 unless the popular social media programme is sold by its China-based parent company. Hearing...

Judge sentences Donald Trump in hush money case but declines to impose any punishment

Published:Friday | January 10, 2025 | 11:53 AM

President-elect Donald Trump was formally sentenced Friday in his hush money case, but the judge declined to impose any punishment. The outcome cements Trump's conviction while freeing him to return to the White House unencumbered by the threat...

Nicolás Maduro is set to be Venezuela's president until 2031

Published:Friday | January 10, 2025 | 8:43 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Nicolás Maduro will extend his increasingly repressive rule over Venezuela until 2031 when he is sworn in on Friday, despite credible evidence that his opponent won the latest election and following...

Opposition leader arrested after protest against Maduro

Published:Friday | January 10, 2025 | 12:09 AM

CARACAS (AP): Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was arrested Thursday when her motorcycle convoy was fired upon by security forces as it departed an anti-government protest in Caracas, according to aides. Machado emerged from months...

Attack on presidential palace leaves 19 dead

Published:Friday | January 10, 2025 | 12:09 AM

N’DJAMENA (AP): An attack on Chad’s presidential palace left 18 assailants dead and six in custody, with one soldier killed and three wounded, state media reported Thursday. The attack on Wednesday night occurred while Chadian President Mahamat...

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