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3 weeks ago

Salinas Loses $5.5 Billion in a Day on Elektra Slump

-- Shares of Grupo Elektra tumbled 71% on Monday as trading resumed following a months-long halt, wiping off $5.5 billion from the fortune of billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego and pushing him out of the world’s top 500 wealthiest list. “It is our obligation to reiterate that the resumption of trading in these, in addition to causing irreparable damage, could involve …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

In a purple Pacific Northwest pocket three Latina candidates face tough House races

NPR

In a purple Pacific Northwest pocket three Latina candidates face tough House races toggle caption Celeste Noche for NPR If you look a typical political map of the United States, Oregon and Washington look safely blue — neither state has voted for a Republican for president since 1984. "We are all feeling like we’re scraping tooth and nail to get …

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2 months ago

A 'Flood' Of Solar Panels Threatens Puerto Rico's Farmers

Huff Post

This story is the second installment of a three-part series on Puerto Rico’s energy transition. “They’re flooding us with panels.” Diana Santi, a local store owner in the El Coquí neighborhood of Salinas, Puerto Rico, points to where the floodwaters gushed during the last major hurricane. They use our land, affect our aquifer, and our electricity rate is higher than …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Mexico’s president touts austerity on his way out of office but lavishes largesse on friends

Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s outgoing president has always taken pride in his reputation as a penny-pincher but on Friday, three days before leaving office, Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced generous cash giveaways for his allies in a radical union movement. Meanwhile, in a rush to finish López Obrador’s pet projects — mostly rail and refinery projects of questionable profitability — …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Ken Paxton’s vote harvesting investigation in Texas renews questions over politiqueras

Raw Story

McALLEN — Filomena Leo began to weep this week as she reminisced about her late husband William “Billy” Leo and how he would encourage their neighbors to vote. “He was very clear with those that helped him get the vote out — yes, he would pay them for their day, but never, never to offer voters pay for their casting …

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4 months ago

Toddler’s apple juice mistakenly swapped for wine in Salinas restaurant

LA Times

A 2-year-old girl was mistakenly given alcohol instead of apple juice at a Salinas restaurant and ended up in the emergency room. What was supposed to be apple juice was actually cooking wine that had been mislabeled and served to the child at Fujiyama Japanese Restaurant, her parents and restaurant officials told KSBW on Thursday. A trip to the emergency …

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4 months ago

He murdered two people. Then he was killed in a California prison

LA Times

A man serving a life sentence for two murders died Monday after he was attacked by another inmate at a state prison in Salinas, according to state officials. Michael Spengler, 38, was attacked Monday around 10:30 a.m. at Salinas Valley State Prison by Miguel Espino, 31, who allegedly used an “inmate-manufactured weapon,” according to the California Department of Corrections and …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Wildfires are growing under climate change, and their smoke threatens farmworkers, study says

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — As wildfires scorched swaths of land in the wine country of Sonoma County in 2020, sending ash flying and choking the air with smoke, Maria Salinas harvested grapes. “We always expose ourselves to danger out of necessity, whether by fire or disaster, when the weather changes, when it’s hot or cold.” As climate change increases the frequency …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Los incendios forestales son un riesgo creciente para la salud de campesinos, según investigación

Associated Press

LOS ÁNGELES — En 2020, durante los incendios forestales en el condado de Sonoma en California, María Salinas continuó cosechando uvas mientras caía ceniza y el humo llenaba el aire. Según una investigación reciente los incendios forestales representan un riesgo para la salud de los trabajadores agrícolas migrantes, como Salinas, que laboran en áreas propensas al fuego. “Cientos de trabajadores …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Tropical weather brings record rainfall. Experts share how to stay safe in floods.

Associated Press

The extreme weather seen in places across the United States in recent weeks shows that it doesn’t take a catastrophic hurricane to cause significant damage — the torrential rain from Tropical Storm Debby in parts of the Southeast is just one example. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre asked Americans during a press briefing “to remain vigilant, heed the warnings …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Tropical weather brings record rainfall. Experts share how to stay safe in floods.

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. White House Press Secretary Karine …

Weather Water Storm Your Home Salinas

5 months ago

Could AI robots with lasers make herbicides — and farm workers — obsolete?

LA Times

The smell of burnt vegetation wafted through a lettuce field here one recent summer morning as nearly 200 farmers, academics and engineers gathered to witness the future of automated agriculture. “It’s a hurdle for people to get over, but the reality is, the numbers don’t lie,” said Tim Mahoney, a field representative for Carbon Robotics, a Seattle-based company that created …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

$2.7 million meant to build homeless housing ended up with L.A. nonprofit, court records say

LA Times

Tod Lipka, CEO of nonprofit Step Up on Second Street, shown in 2009 at an apartment building in Santa Monica. Lipka says he’d believed the payments came from Shangri-La’s “existing funds,” not funds intended for construction, and would not have approved the transaction if Step Up knew they were Homekey funds. Prior to their Homekey collaboration, Step Up and Shangri-La …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Peru archbishop who sued 2 journalists over reports on abuses, financial corruption resigns early

Associated Press

ROME — A Peruvian archbishop who sued two journalists over their reports about sexual abuse and alleged financial corruption in his religious movement, Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, has resigned amid a Vatican investigation. Last year, the Vatican sent its two top sex abuse investigators to Peru to investigate not only allegations of sexual and psychological abuses still in the Sodalitium, but …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Native groups sit on a treasure trove of lithium. Now mines threaten their water, culture and wealth

Associated Press

TUSAQUILLAS, Argentina — Irene Leonor Flores de Callata, 68, treks along a bone-dry riverbed, guiding a herd of llamas and sheep through stretching desert. That’s because the parched waterways surrounding their town are intrinsically connected with spanning white salt flats below, subterranean lagoons with waters jam-packed with a material that’s come to be known as “white gold” – lithium. At …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Masked shooters kill 4 people and wound 7 at an outdoor party in California, police say

Associated Press

KING CITY, Calif. — A group of men in masks got out of a car and opened fire at an outdoor party in central California, killing four people and wounding seven others before driving off, police said Monday. Police responded to a reported shooting around 6 p.m. Sunday in King City and found three men with gunshot wounds who were …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Monterey County mass shooting: Suspects still at large after 4 killed at King City party

LA Times

King City police are investigating a weekend shooting that left three men and a woman dead. King City police responded to a report of shots fired at a residence in the 200 block of North 2nd Street around 6 p.m. Sunday, according to a department news release. KSBW-TV reported that it was a suspected gang shooting, but King City Police …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

In rural Utah, concern over efforts to use Colorado River water to extract lithium

Associated Press

GREEN RIVER, Utah — A plan to extract lithium — the lustrous, white metal used in electric vehicle batteries — in southeast Utah is adding to an anxiety familiar in the arid American West: how the project could affect water from the Colorado River. Gayna Salinas stands near a trailer, left, on land owned by Anson Resources, and a defunct …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Eagle Pass standoff: The Texas border town’s locals are tired of Gov. Greg Abbott’s Shelby Park takeover.

Slate

Throughout January, a right-wing militant group based out of North Carolina called upon supporters to travel to a small Texas border town to “gather” and help “do the work of closing our borders.” “By Ballot, by choice,” the group’s website promised. Greg Abbott has been feuding with the Biden administration, pitting federal Border Patrol against Abbott’s Texas National Guard and …

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11 months ago

In Eagle Pass, a tense border standoff between Texas and the federal government grows

Raw Story

Jan. 22, 2024 "In Eagle Pass, a tense border standoff between Texas and the federal government is reaching a crescendo" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Clothes left behind by migrants are scattered by the bank of …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Mayor says Texas closed park without permission in border city where migrant crossings had climbed

Associated Press

McALLEN, Texas — The mayor of a Texas border city at the center of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ‘s aggressive measures to curb migrant crossings accused the state Thursday of a new escalation as state troopers closed a large public park along the Rio Grande without asking permission. The park is a new tension point in Eagle Pass, where large …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas has arrested thousands on trespassing charges at the border. Illegal crossings are still high

Associated Press

EAGLE PASS, Texas — Before settling in New York City like thousands of other migrants this year, Abdoul, a 32-year-old from West Africa, took an unexpected detour: Weeks in a remote Texas jail on local trespassing charges after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Since 2021, Texas authorities have arrested nearly 10,000 migrants on misdemeanor trespassing charges under what Abbott has called …

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1 year ago

Mother of two died after going back into burning apartment to save cat, husband says

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Andrew Salinas said his wife, 33-year-old Keila Almonte, …

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1 year ago

SBF, FTX, and effective altruists poured millions into a congressional race in Oregon.

Slate

The trial of Sam Bankman-Fried was pitched by close observers as something of a reckoning: for the cryptocurrency industry, for the Silicon Valley move-fast-and-break-things ethos, for the freewheeling zero-interest-rate era, and more generally for the blind spots of American capitalism. Between Jan. 6 and 19, Flynn’s campaign received such donations from Zabel and Hopkins, who had just received “gifts” from …

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Salinas Loses $5.5 Billion in a Day on Elektra Slump

In a purple Pacific Northwest pocket three Latina candidates face tough House races

A 'Flood' Of Solar Panels Threatens Puerto Rico's Farmers

Mexico’s president touts austerity on his way out of office but lavishes largesse on friends

Ken Paxton’s vote harvesting investigation in Texas renews questions over politiqueras

Toddler’s apple juice mistakenly swapped for wine in Salinas restaurant

He murdered two people. Then he was killed in a California prison

Wildfires are growing under climate change, and their smoke threatens farmworkers, study says

Los incendios forestales son un riesgo creciente para la salud de campesinos, según investigación

Tropical weather brings record rainfall. Experts share how to stay safe in floods.

Tropical weather brings record rainfall. Experts share how to stay safe in floods.

Could AI robots with lasers make herbicides — and farm workers — obsolete?

$2.7 million meant to build homeless housing ended up with L.A. nonprofit, court records say

Peru archbishop who sued 2 journalists over reports on abuses, financial corruption resigns early

Native groups sit on a treasure trove of lithium. Now mines threaten their water, culture and wealth

Masked shooters kill 4 people and wound 7 at an outdoor party in California, police say

Monterey County mass shooting: Suspects still at large after 4 killed at King City party

In rural Utah, concern over efforts to use Colorado River water to extract lithium

Eagle Pass standoff: The Texas border town’s locals are tired of Gov. Greg Abbott’s Shelby Park takeover.

In Eagle Pass, a tense border standoff between Texas and the federal government grows

Mayor says Texas closed park without permission in border city where migrant crossings had climbed

Texas has arrested thousands on trespassing charges at the border. Illegal crossings are still high

Mother of two died after going back into burning apartment to save cat, husband says

SBF, FTX, and effective altruists poured millions into a congressional race in Oregon.