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CHICAGO (AP) — La causa de la muerte de un niño venezolano de 5 años que falleció en diciembre tras enfermarse en un albergue temporal para migrantes de Chicago fue sepsis y una infección bacteriana que provoca faringitis estreptocócica, reveló una autopsia publicada el viernes. Jean Carlos Martínez falleció el 17 de diciembre a consecuencia de una sepsis debida a …

NEVA YORK (AP) — Donald Trump no enfrentará la pena de muerte empresaria después de todo. El viernes, un juez de Nueva York le perdonó al expresidente este castigo extremo al emitir un fallo en una demanda civil según la cual Trump tergiversó fraudulentamente cifras financieras para obtener créditos más baratos y otros beneficios. Aun así, Trump recibió un duro …

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge sentenced two senior employees at a Wisconsin corn plant to two years in prison Thursday for falsifying records and obstructing an investigation into a fatal corn dust explosion seven years ago. U.S. District Judge James Peterson sentenced Derrick Clark, 50, of Waunakee, Didion Milling’s vice president of operations, and Shawn Mesner, 45, of …

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Texas will build an operations base for up to 1,800 National Guard members in Eagle Pass, expanding the presence of soldiers in the border city where the state has clashed with the Biden administration over immigration enforcement, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced Friday. The 80-acre property along the Rio Grande will open a short distance from …

HOUSTON (AP) — A judge on Friday rejected Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ’s attempts to throw out felony securities fraud charges that have shadowed the Republican for nearly a decade. The decision by state District Judge Andrea Beall, an elected Democrat, keeps Paxton on track for an April 15 trial on charges that he duped investors in a tech …

BOSTON (AP) — The brother of a man suspected in four arsons involving Jewish institutions in the Boston area in 2019 pleaded not guilty in federal court Thursday to charges that he obstructed the investigation. Alexander Giannakakis, 37, formerly of Quincy, Massachusetts, was working in security at the U.S. embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, when he was arrested by Swedish authorities …

AUGUSTA, Maine, EE.UU. (AP) — La policía estatal de Maine defendió el jueves un retraso en la búsqueda en octubre de un hombre armado que acababa de matar a 18 personas, señalando que después de encontrar su automóvil abandonado, temían que pudiera estar planeando una emboscada. La policía tardó dos días en hallar el cadáver del agresor, Robert Card, quien …

ATLANTA (AP) — Excolega de trabajo testifica que relación entre fiscal Fani Willis y Nathan Wade empezó en 2019, antes de lo conocido.

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia senators want to limit how much assessed home values can rise for tax purposes, in an election-year effort to hold down property taxes. The state Senate voted 42-7 on Thursday for Senate Bill 349, which would limit increases in a home’s value, as assessed for property tax purposes, to 3% per year. The limit would last …

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s state courts agency said Thursday that it never received a ransom demand as part of a cyberattack that briefly shut down some of its online services earlier this month and prompted a federal investigation. The attack, called a “denial of services” attack, on the website of the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts disabled some online …