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Residents of the Mexican town where cartel leader Ovidio Guzman, the son of notorious drug kingpin El Chapo, was arrested last week say that over 100 people have disappeared from the town since the arrest.Residents of the city of Jesus Maria in the Mexican state of Sinaloa protested outside a government palace on Monday claiming that 140 people have disappeared since Guzman was captured in a violent and deadly clash between Mexican government forces and the Sinaloa drug cartel, Mexico News Daily reported.In the state capital of Culiacan, 200 demonstrators in trucks waved placards and shouted slogans accusing the Mexican…

Two Palestinians were killed Wednesday in separate violent confrontations with Israelis in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian authorities said, one during an Israeli military arrest raid in the territory’s north and another after stabbing and wounding an Israeli civilian at a southern settlement.Wednesday’s violence was the latest in a surge in attacks in the West Bank, following the deadliest year for Palestinians in the territory in 18 years.During a pre-dawn Israeli military incursion into the hardscrabble Balata refugee camp in the city of Nablus, Israeli forces shot 21-year-old Ahmed Abu Junaid in the head and he died several hours later,…

CNN on Wednesday announced a revamped dayside programming lineup that the network said will employ a new format for shows to deliver the news to viewers. The cable news channel — which has been led since last spring by a new chairman and chief executive, Chris Licht — said in a press release that the fresh approach will better showcase CNN’s reporting resources and leverage “innovative use of technology to offer context.” A key component of the new format, a CNN spokesperson said, is that anchors will no longer sit behind desks. Instead, the spokesperson explained, they will be moving…

A 23-year-old individual in Toronto, Canada, has been hard at work “removing” J.K. Rowling’s name from used “Harry Potter” books and replacing not just the book covers with his own custom covers — but removing her name from the copyright pages and titles pages as well, according to SWNS reporting.The individual has completed at least 30 newly “re-bound books” — offering them for sale in their newly bound form.Artist Laur Flom, who runs a website in Canada, apparently started the project to “help out” any “Harry Potter” fans who find they have ethical issues with the author while reading her…

A woman shops in a supermarket as rising inflation affects consumer prices in Los Angeles, California, June 13, 2022.Lucy Nicholson | ReutersThe pace of consumer inflation is expected to have fallen slightly in December from the prior month because of a sharp drop in gasoline and energy prices, but the annual rate is still likely to remain uncomfortably high.According to Dow Jones, economists now expect a decline of 0.1% in the consumer price index on a monthly basis, but inflation is still expected to climb at a 6.5% rate from the prior year. That compares to a gain of 0.1%…

Actor Ezra Miller is expected to plead guilty to a lesser charge of trespassing in Vermont after he was accused of stealing several bottles of alcohol from someone’s home. Miller, who uses they/them pronouns, was alleged to have stolen the bottles just before 5 p.m. May 1 from a house in Stamford, police said in August. They were later charged with unlawful trespassing, two charges of burglary in an unoccupied dwelling and petit larceny. A clerk for Vermont Superior Court confirmed that the parties have agreed to drop the burglary and larceny charges. Miller is expected to enter a guilty…

Washington CNN  —  In its first vote on legislation, the new Republican-controlled House approved a bill Monday that would rescind nearly $80 billion for the Internal Revenue Service – with key GOP lawmakers making the exaggerated claim that the money would be used to hire 87,000 auditors who will target hardworking Americans. “House Republicans just voted unanimously to repeal the Democrats’ army of 87,000 IRS agents,” tweeted speaker Kevin McCarthy after the vote. “This was our very first act of the new Congress, because government should work for you, not against you,” he added. But Democrats approved the $80 billion…

A Canadian woman died after waiting seven hours in the emergency room, with her family blaming complications and shortcomings in the country’s health care system for the death. “I would like to express my deepest condolences to the family of the patient who died at Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre,” Canadian Health and Wellness Minister Michelle Thompson wrote in a statement released Monday. “This is a tragic loss, and my heart goes out to them. I understand they want answers.”Nova Scotia Health has begun an investigation, known as a quality review, into this case to determine what happened, how we can…

“The late Toni Morrison said that your life is already a miracle of chance, just waiting for you to order its destiny,” Angela Bassett told the audience last night as she made Golden Globes history winning best supporting actress performance in a motion picture for her role in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The first actor to be nominated in an acting category for a Marvel film, winning the Globe felt doubly historic. Lighting up the stage in floor-length silver sequins, Bassett referenced standing there nearly 30 years earlier holding the Best Actress award for What’s Love Got to Do With It. Bassett noted…

The Verily website is displayed on a laptop computer in an arranged photograph taken in Arlington, Virginia, on Thursday, May 7, 2020.Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIn an email to employees on Wednesday, Verily CEO Stephen Gillett said the company will lay off 15% of its staff in a restructuring move, as it strives for financial independence from parent company Alphabet. The cuts will affect about 240 people, a Verily spokesperson confirmed.Verily, which specializes in health sciences, is one of Google’s sister companies, operating within Alphabet’s “Other Bets” category.It’s the first known layoff to hit the Google parent company…