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LOS ÁNGELES (AP) — El calor extremo y el humo de los incendios forestales, dos fenómenos en aumento asociados al cambio climático por investigadores del tema, son dos amenazas individuales para la salud humana. Pero cuando se presentan de forma combinada representan un riesgo cada vez mayor, sobre todo para poblaciones vulnerables como las comunidades de bajos recursos y las …

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The associate medical director of New Hampshire Hospital urged lawmakers to pass gun control legislation Friday, describing the anguish that followed the fatal shooting of a security officer in the facility’s lobby last year. “A coworker was murdered 100 feet from my office,” Dr. Samanta Swetter told the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee. “Then …

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — A district judge said Friday that Pennsylvania prosecutors have sufficient grounds to continue to press escape and other charges against a convicted murderer captured last year after two weeks on the run. The judge found there is enough evidence to forward to county court for trial all of the charges against Danilo Cavalcante, including burglary, …

CARACAS (AP) — La Fiscalía General de Venezuela informó el viernes de la condena a 25 años de cárcel a la autora confesa del asesinato del rapero venezolano Tirone González, conocido como Canserbero, en un controvertido proceso judicial que comenzó con la tesis de que había muerto por suicidio en 2015. La mánager del artista, Natalia Améstica, se declaró culpable …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The chair of Arkansas’ parole board resigned on Friday after personnel records revealed he was fired from a local police department several years ago for lying to investigators about having sex with a minor. Jamol Jones, who Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders named the board’s chair last week, stepped down from the board after his personnel …

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Authorities in Norway issued several landslide and avalanche warnings for the southern part of the country Friday as it continued to get hammered by bad weather that officials said also might close roads in the north at short notice. Flights to and from the airport in the Arctic city of Tromsoe resumed Friday after some 200 …

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered state elections officials Friday to include U.S. Rep Dean Phillips on the state’s Democratic presidential primary ballot, finding that Democrats on a bipartisan presidential selection committee who left him off the ballot without a discussion should have at least talked about him. The unanimous ruling means President Joe Biden will have …

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AP) — Standing solemnly under gray skies, President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden joined grieving families at Dover Air Force Base on Friday to witness the return of three American service members killed in last weekend’s drone attack in Jordan. It’s a ritual honoring fallen troops that is one of a commander-in-chief’ s …

NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Waterston, who has played the spiky, no-nonsense district attorney on “Law & Order” since the mid-1990s, is stepping down from his legal perch. The last episode for Waterston’s Jack McCoy will be Feb. 22, NBC said Friday. He has been in more than 400 episodes of the police drama, earning a SAG Award and Emmy …

TOKIO (AP) — Un hombre que falleció en un hospital de Japón esta semana dijo a las autoridades antes de morir que era uno de los prófugos más buscados del país y que había evadido la justicia durante casi 50 años por ser integrante de un grupo radical que perpetró ataques con bombas en la década de 1970, informó la …