Ya son 29,000 los permisos humanitarios otorgados a cubanos bajo política de patrocinadores

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:11:53 GMT

LA HABANA — Estados Unidos entregó 29,000 permisos humanitarios de viaje a ciudadanos cubanos a partir de patrocinadores desde que se inició una nueva política en enero que autorizó el uso de este mecanismo para intentar poner orden en el flujo migratorio de personas provenientes de la isla y tras meses con llegadas récords de cubanos a la frontera norte de México, informó un funcionario.“Hemos hecho muchos progresos en las últimas semanas y últimos meses para lidiar con el reto de migración que estamos viendo en nuestra frontera”, expresó el subsecretario interino de Política Fronteriza e Inmigración del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de EEUU, Blas Nuñez-Neto, durante una video conferencia enfocada a la situación migratoria de los cubanos.“Pero también reconocemos que es demasiado pronto para sacar conclusiones definitivas o predecir qué va a pasar en las semanas que vienen”, indicó.El funcionario señaló también que en las próximas semanas se darán a conocer nuevas disposicione...

South Korea’s Hyundai and LG announce plans for $4.3 billion plant in Georgia to make batteries for electric vehicles

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:11:53 GMT

ATLANTA (AP) — South Korea’s Hyundai and LG announce plans for $4.3 billion plant in Georgia to make batteries for electric vehicles.Source

Thieves caught on camera breaking into condo mailboxes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:11:53 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Thieves were caught on surveillance camera as they broke into mailboxes at a Denver condominium complex. “It’s harder to catch people at 4 o’clock in the morning when they’re only here for 5 minutes,” said resident Eric Crowley, who had items stolen from his mailbox at the Woodside Village condos. Larimer County deputy saves teen from flooded car Residents tell the Problem Solvers the property has become a common target of mailbox raiders. “This has happened four or five times just in the last couple of months," Crowley said. Surveillance video obtained by FOX31 shows two men enter the mailbox area just after 4:18 a.m. on Thursday, May 25. They quickly move row to row, breaking open each mailbox and removing the items they find. “It’s sad, it’s sad. That’s all I can really say,” said Tashana Pendergrass, who has had mail stolen. Mail theft rises during the summerReports from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service show mail theft is higher during the summer months. Thie...

Major sports complex in Windsor nearly finished

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:11:53 GMT

WINDSOR, Colo. (KDVR) — A major sports complex in Northern Colorado continues to inch toward completion. The Future Legends complex in Windsor is a 118-acre facility that will eventually include a professional baseball field, 12 multi-use fields, two hotels and nearly a dozen restaurants. This is the most common activity in lightning deaths Thursday night, the Northern Colorado Owlz, a minor league baseball team, took the field against the Rocky Mountain Vibes out of Colorado Springs. The Northern Colorado Hailstorm will play soccer here on Saturday. The complex was supposed to open a year earlier but was delayed to weather and construction complications. The Future Legends Complex is located east of downtown Windsor.

Editorial: Congress takes a break while debt default looms

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:11:53 GMT

Note to Congress: get back to work.Though they’ve yet to reach a deal on the debt ceiling, House lawmakers are leaving Washington for the long Memorial Day weekend.Sorry, but this isn’t the time to kick back and watch a parade.The deadline to avoid a debt default is a week away, and as The Hill reported, negotiators say they’re getting closer to making a deal.Close is not good enough – certainly not good enough to warrant a break.“Still working through thorny issues, but there’s goodwill on all sides,” Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), a key ally of Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and negotiator in spending talks with the White House, told The Hill on Thursday.“It’s just tougher issues that remain,” he added.All the more reason to work through the weekend. Because resolving those “tougher issues that remain” are what’s keeping Americans anxious, wondering if their Social Security check, military paycheck, veterans benefits and/or funding for...

Connaughton: Follow the money for key to Beacon Hill payroll blackout

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:11:53 GMT

Article V of the Massachusetts Constitution requires that the branches of government “at all times” be accountable to the people.But few state governments are less accountable to the people than Massachusetts. The latest evidence came when state senators rejected a proposed amendment to the Senate’s budget plan that would have required the state’s quasi-public agencies to post their payrolls on the state comptroller’s website.From DCR summer lifeguards to corrections officers, salaries are available online. Why shouldn’t that be the case for employees of the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency? Perhaps the answer can be found in the words of Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr (R-Gloucester), who sponsored the amendment.“The quasi-public entities have, in many cases, very highly compensated individuals and many of them … do not share that information with the comptroller’s office,” Tarr told the Boston Herald.He might have been referring to the fact that quasi-public agencies are...

‘The Eight Mountains’ soars as tale of friendship, discovery

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:11:53 GMT

MOVIE REVIEW“The Eight Mountains”Not Rated. In Italian and Nepali with subtitles. At the Coolidge Corner.Grade: AEngrossing and joyously rustic, “The Eight Mountains” comes from married Belgian filmmakers Felix van Groeningen (“Beautiful Boy”) and first-timer Charlotte Vandermeersch, who co-wrote the screenplay based on the best-selling novel by Paolo Cognetti. It begins when shy 12 year-old Pietro (Lupo Barbieri) from the city of Turino goes on a modest vacation with his mother (Elena Lietti) at the foot of the Italian Alps in a tiny (and getting smaller by the minute) Alpine village named Grana.The boy meets another boy his age, a rustic semi-brute named Bruno (Cristiano Sassella), whose father works as a bricklayer down among the flatlanders and is mostly absent. Pietro’s father Giovanni (Filippo Timi) is a science-minded company executive, who drives an Alpha Romeo, loves the mountains and takes the boys on climbs. Giovanni keeps track of their journeys on a map he has tac...

Local, small acts also shine on Boston Calling stage

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:11:53 GMT

It’s Boston Calling time again, which means that Harvard Stadium will be overrun with big names like Alanis Morissette and the Foo Fighters. But as usual, you’re not getting the full experience unless you show up early, roam the grounds and catch the best of the local and second-tier bands.The Philadelphia band Mt. Joy is a local favorite; they were one of the first to headline the new MGM Music Hall at the Fenway and will be back there in the fall. Their Boston Calling set promises to be shorter but punchier. “You’re playing in a place where the energy is different,” said frontman Matt Quinn. “You know that people still have a full day of music, so you don’t get too introspective on them. So we put together something that’s high energy, at least for us. When you condense it down to an hour, you can pick out the greatest hits and let it rip.”A Mt. Joy set can still go anywhere, with their originals flowing into cover tunes. Last year at the Fenway they played a tune by Phish —...

‘Little Mermaid” remake flounders

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:11:53 GMT

MOVIE REVIEW“The Little Mermaid”Rated PG. At the AMC Boston Common, AMC South Bay and suburban theaters.Grade: CThis new, live-action “The Little Mermaid” from Disney works on almost no level. It hardly has enough music to be a musical (and some of the songs are sung by off-camera voices), the underwater scenes are murky and look fake, and the lead actors have no emotional connection. Outside of exploiting nostalgia for the 1989 animated version, this new “Mermaid” directed by Rob Marshall of “Chicago,” is just another Disney live-action remake of an animated hit. The fact that it also comes across like a water-logged remake of “Cinderella” only makes it more dull.Ariel, the film’s fish-tailed protagonist, is played by the Grammy-nominated singer Halle Bailey, whose casting caused a racist backlash. Ariel is a mermaid, who once again sports a big, reddish mane of (CG?) billowing hair and for reasons I did not understand in either film, longs to become a part of the world...