Washington, Aug 15 (EFE).- Amid shouts and slogans, thousands of activists and “Dreamers” demonstrated Tuesday in dozens of US cities to urge President Donald Trump to keep the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program alive on its fifth anniversary. “We’re working people, we didn’t come here to rob anyone. The only thing we want …
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Washington, Aug 15 (EFE).- The CEOs of Intel, Merck and Under Armour have resigned from the President’s Manufacturing Council created by Donald Trump, because of the noncommittal way he responded to the racist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia. The first to take that step was the CEO of the pharmaceutical giant Merck, Kenneth Frazier, who said …
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Los Ángeles, 14 ago (EFE).- California demandó hoy al Gobierno federal por sus amenazas de retener fondos a las “ciudades santuario”, aquellas que han decidido de manera municipal no colaborar con el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) en la persecución de inmigrantes en situación irregular. Por medio de un comunicado de prensa, …
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Washington, Aug 14 (EFE).- US President Donald Trump on Monday condemned the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, white supremacists “and other hate groups” after a man with known Nazi sympathies drove his car into anti-fascist protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one and injuring at least 19. “Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its …
Washington, Aug 14 (EFE).- US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday that the attack over the weekend by a man who drove into counter-protesters following the cancellation of a planned white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing a woman, was an act of “domestic terrorism.” “It does meet the definition of domestic terrorism in our …
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Charlottesville, Virginia, Aug 13 (EFE).- A woman killed when a car slammed into counter-protesters following the cancelation of a planned white supremacist march in this eastern US city was identified Sunday by authorities as 32-year-old Heather Heyer. The paralegal at a law firm and resident of Charlottesville, a college town of 50,000 people, was “struck …
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México, 11 ago (EFE).- El científico mexicano Mario Molina, ganador del Premio Nobel de Química 1995, consideró hoy “irresponsable la salida de la economía más grande del mundo (Estados Unidos) del Acuerdo de París”, y deploró el “mito” de que el cambio climático no tiene relación con la actividad humana. Durante una conferencia en la …
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Washington, Aug 11 (EFE).- The United States’s consumer-price index (CPI) inched up 0.1 percent in July from the prior month and rose 1.7 percent compared to July 2016, the Labor Department said Friday. That latter result compares with an annual increase of 1.6 percent in June. The US Federal Reserve considers an inflation rate of …
Washington, Aug 8 (EFE).- US President Donald Trump warned North Korea on Tuesday that he would respond to any threats “with fire and fury like the world has never seen,” following reports that Pyongyang has developed miniaturized nuclear warheads that can be mounted on a ballistic missile. “North Korea best not make any more threats …
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New York, Aug 8 (EFE).- Google has fired a software engineer who sent a controversial internal memo saying that men’s preponderance in tech jobs and leadership positions was partly due to biological causes and questioning company’s efforts to increase diversity. James Damore confirmed in an e-mail to Bloomberg that he had been fired from Google, …
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