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Natiruts, Ziggy Marley, Yalitza Aparicio Sing for Unity of the Americas
Brazilian reggae band Natiruts, Jamaican musician Ziggy Marley and Mexican actress Yalitza Aparicio hope a trilingual song causes the people of the Americas to unite in a more fair and loving world
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Go Inside This NYC Cat Café: A 360 VR Experience
No cats in your home or cat cafés in your city? Do the next best thing – put yourself in “Koneko,” a Manhattan-based cat café fostering cats from the Angellico Cat Rescue. You’ll have to grab your own cup of coffee, though.
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Colombian Defense Chief Quits Amid Firestorm Over Minors Killed in Military Operation
Colombia’s defense minister resigned Wednesday after coming under fire for failing to disclose the deaths of several minors in a military operation against dissidents belonging to the nation’s once largest guerrilla. Guillermo Botero submitted a resignation letter to President Iván Duque, touting his achievements in reducing crime while stating that the current “political circumstances” had compelled him to step...
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Hamilton Clinches F1 Championship No. 6 at US Grand Prix in Austin, Texas
Lewis Hamilton secured his sixth Formula One championship with a second-place finish Sunday at the U.S. Grand Prix, a race won by his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas.
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DC Council Votes to Rename Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples Day
“Columbus enslaved, colonized, mutilated, and massacred thousands of Indigenous People in the Americas,” Council Member David Grosso said in a statement.
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Immigrant Rights Groups Decry New Trump Asylum Restrictions as ‘Most Egregious,' ‘Extreme' to Date
Immigrant rights advocates and attorneys denounced President Donald Trump’s latest move on Monday to restrict asylum at the southern border as the “most egregious” and “extreme” policy targeting the form of protection by the administration yet, NBC News reports. “The administration has been trying to fight against asylum at the southern border for a long time now and if they...
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Hunt for Sunken Slave Ship Off South Florida Coast
Divers are in the waters of Biscayne National Park and trying to solve a mystery almost two centuries old. The underwater archeologists with the National Park Service are out to make rare find. They are on a hunt for a ship called the Guerrero that was carrying slaves to the Americas.
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Barbie Maker Mattel to Cut More Than 2,200 Jobs
The toy retailer filed for bankruptcy protection last year, announced it was liquidating its business in March and then closed all its stores last month.
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Pence's Office Confuses Peru's President Ahead of Summit
Some bad habits die hard when it comes to U.S. politicians traveling to Latin America. The latest faux pas came from the White House ahead of Vice President Mike Pence’s trip to Peru to attend the Summit of the Americas. Guidance sent to the press by Pence’s office on Thursday said the vice president would attend a Friday banquet hosted...
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Columbus Statues in Connecticut Vandalized
Statues of Christopher Columbus in Middletown and New Haven were found vandalized Sunday.
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Young Ventriloquist Steal Hearts on ‘Americas Got Talent'
A 12-year-old ventriloquist amazed audiences on “Americas Got Talent” Tuesday and punched her ticket all the way through to the live rounds.
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AP Fact Check: Irish ‘Slavery' a St. Patrick's Day Myth
Hundreds of thousands of Irish people were not transported to the Americas as slaves, despite nearly decade-old claims circulating anew online in the run-up to St. Patrick’s Day.
The false articles, trending on social media as Ireland’s national holiday approaches Friday, typically reprint entire sections from a comprehensively debunked 2008 column posted on a website that promotes conspiracy theories. -
Zika Virus Resulted in More Birth Defects in United States
Birth defects in Zika-affected pregnancies are 20-times higher than before the Zika epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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At Least 3 Dead as Storm Lashes Southern California
A powerful Pacific storm blew into Southern and Central California on Friday with wind-driven heavy rains that downed power lines and electrocuted a man, killed a motorist in a submerged car and disrupted hundreds of flights at airports. With the storm feeding on an atmospheric river of moisture stretching far out into the Pacific, precautionary evacuations of homes in some...
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Yoko Ono Public Art Installation Unveiled in Chicago
Chicago welcomed a new piece of public art Monday thanks to Yoko Ono.
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Blues Top Blackhawks 5-2 in Opener
St. Louis Blues coach Ken Hitchcock got what he needed from his top players, and that was more than enough on opening night.
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Puerto Rico Reports 1st Zika-Related Microcephaly Case
Puerto Rico on Friday announced its first Zika-related microcephaly case as concerns grow over an outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus in the U.S. territory.
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CDC Concludes Zika Causes Microcephaly, Other Birth Defects
Confirming the worst fears of many pregnant women in the United States and Latin America, U.S. health officials said Wednesday there is no longer any doubt the Zika virus causes babies to be born with abnormally small heads and other severe brain defects. Since last year, doctors in Brazil have been linking Zika infections in pregnant women to a rise...
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‘This is History': Rolling Stones Concert Caps a Momentous Week for Cuba
The Rolling Stones have arrived in Cuba on the eve of the rock band’s historic free concert in a country where its music was once silenced.
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Zika Has Been in Brazil Longer Than Anyone Thought: Study
The Zika virus has probably been circulating quietly and undetected in Brazil since 2013, a new genetic study shows. A large international team of experts used a “genetic clock” to show Zika virus has changed about as much as would be expected if it had been carried into the country in 2013, NBC News reports. They used samples taken of...