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WEST CALN, Pa. (AP) — A small plane crashed Thursday in a central Pennsylvania neighborhood, and it was not immediately clear if there were any injuries, authorities said. The crash in West Caln occurred around 1:30 p.m., according to police. The pilot was the only person aboard the aircraft when it went down just minutes after taking off from nearby …
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She hoped to sing for a rap icon. Instead, she was there the night Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay died
NEW YORK (AP) — She was a teenaged aspiring R&B singer and rapper who had gotten an appointment at Jam Master Jay’s recording studio. But just minutes after Yarrah Concepcion met the Run-DMC star, he was shot dead. Concepcion was brought to tears as she testified Thursday in the trial of two men charged in the 2002 killing. One of …
Read More »Musk wants Tesla investors to vote on switching the carmaker’s corporate registration to Texas
Elon Musk wants Tesla investors to decide on moving the company’s corporate listing to Texas after a Delaware court decided he shouldn’t get a multibillion-dollar pay package. The electric car company’s CEO said early Thursday that Tesla would get shareholders to vote on whether to switch its corporate registration to Texas, where its physical headquarters is located. “Tesla will move …
Read More »Pueblos en el nordeste de España tratan de mantener el agua corriente pese a la grave sequía
GUALBA, España (AP) — Con garrafas de plástico en la mano, Joan Torrent se adentra por una senda entre los árboles en busca de agua potable. Llena las botellas de 8 litros (dos galones) en un manantial y después las carga de vuelta a su casa en Gualba, un pintoresco pueblo cerca de Barcelona, que como muchas poblaciones españolas sufre …
Read More »A Dallas pastor steps into Jesse Jackson’s role as leader of his Rainbow PUSH Coalition
DALLAS (AP) — The civil rights group founded by the Rev. Jesse Jackson in the 1970s got a new leader for the first time in more than 50 years as a Dallas pastor became his successor at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition on Thursday evening. The Rev. Frederick D. Haynes III was formally installed as president and CEO in a ceremony …
Read More »Juez británico desestima demanda de Trump que acusaba a exespía de dañar su reputación con un informe \”escandaloso\”
LONDRES (AP) — Juez británico desestima demanda de Trump que acusaba a exespía de dañar su reputación con un informe “escandaloso.”
Read More »Students and police clash in Greece as debate rages over legalizing private universities
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Police and student protesters clashed in the center of the Greek capital on Thursday after a demonstration against government plans to allow private universities. Demonstrators in Athens attacked police cordons, set fire to trash dumpsters and threw stones at riot police near parliament and later during clashes along the capital’s narrow streets. Police responded with tear …
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