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WASHINGTON (AP) — El gobierno del presidente estadounidense Joe Biden anunció el martes que los estados se repartirán 5.800 millones de dólares en fondos federales para proyectos de infraestructura hídrica en todo el país, financiados por una de sus victorias legislativas clave. La nueva ronda de fondos ayudará a financiar proyectos a nivel nacional, llevando el total concedido a los …

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Influential labor groups announced Tuesday they are opposing efforts to move two professional sports franchises from the nation’s capital to northern Virginia, citing in part an apparent inability to reach a satisfactory deal for union workers on the construction projects. The opposition of the Northern Virginia AFL-CIO and member unions including UNITE HERE Local 25, which …

COLUMBIA, Carolina del Sur, EE.UU. (AP) — El primer juicio federal por un delito de odio basado en la identidad de género comenzó el martes en Carolina del Sur, donde un hombre enfrenta cargos por haber matado a una mujer transgénero de raza negra y haber huido después a Nueva York. El Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos señaló que …

PHOENIX (AP) — For nearly two decades, it was a mystery who had left “Baby Skylar” — an unidentified newborn found dead inside a Phoenix airport trash can. On Tuesday, Phoenix authorities announced that the infant’s mother, 51-year-old Annie Anderson, was arrested in Washington state after DNA and genealogical research helped investigators crack the case. Police said Anderson is awaiting …

DENVER (AP) — A judge on Tuesday raised the bond for a student being held in the deaths of two people shot in a dorm room at a Colorado college to $5 million after a prosecutor said there were indications he tried to flee and had a gun when he was arrested. The bond for Nicholas Jordan, 25, had been …

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man accused of killing his 5-year-old daughter said he hated the girl “right to his core” because she reminded him of her mother, a friend of his testified Tuesday. Rebecca Maines, who is in prison for a parole violation, testified that Adam Montgomery told her in the summer of 2021 that he had …

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Paul Powell, the southern Illinois political powerhouse who died and left behind $800,000 in cash in the notorious “Shoebox Scandal,” used to say, “The only thing worse than a defeated politician is a broke one.” For more than half a century, a Powell-established $250,000 trust sustained his legacy, for better or worse. But the account that …

BERKELEY, California, EE.UU. (AP) — El hijo de 19 años de una exejecutiva de YouTube falleció la semana pasada en el campus de la Universidad de California en Berkeley donde vivía, informaron funcionarios y un familiar. Marco Troper fue hallado inconsciente en el sector Clark Kerr Campus de la universidad el martes en la tarde, confirmó la institución académica. Fue …

DALLAS (AP) — After World War II, the U.S. Army’s art experts set out to find and return millions of works stolen by the Nazis. Known as the Monuments Men, they included Mary Regan Quessenberry, who from her base in Berlin traveled to examine stolen works, tracked looting cases and investigated suspicious art dealers. Decades later, Quessenberry and the other …

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — No charges will be filed in the shooting deaths of a man and woman in a gun battle with Ohio state troopers following a police pursuit and kidnapping last summer, authorities said. The Montgomery County prosecutor’s office said Friday that a grand jury reviewed the Aug. 2 shooting of Rodney Helman, 54, and Elaine Helman, 51, …