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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration struggled to properly vet and monitor the homes where they placed a surge of migrant children who arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2021, according to a federal watchdog report released Thursday. The Department of Health and Human Services is required to screen adults who volunteer to take in children arriving in the country …

VARSOVIA (AP) — Los ministros de Exteriores de Reino Unido y Polonia apelaron el jueves al Congreso de Estados Unidos y al presidente de la Cámara de Representantes para que tomen una decisión que “haría época” y aprueben 60.000 millones de dólares en ayuda militar para Ucrania. El canciller británico David Cameron y su colega polaco Radek Sikorski enfatizaron que …

MANASSAS, Virginia, EE.UU. (AP) — Oficiales de policía abatieron a tiros a un hombre armado con un cuchillo y sospechoso de matar a puñaladas a una persona y herir gravemente a otra en un centro de capacitación para trabajadores de la electricidad, dijo el martes la policía. Policías del condado Prince William recibieron una llamada del centro de capacitación en …

BEIRUT (AP) — The slow-simmering cross-border conflict between Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group and Israeli forces escalated Wednesday, reviving fears that the daily clashes could expand into an all-out war. A rocket fired from Lebanon struck the northern Israeli town of Safed, killing a 20-year-old female soldier and wounding at least eight people. Israel responded with airstrikes that killed at least …

BEIRUT (AP) — The slow-simmering cross-border conflict between Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group and Israeli forces escalated Wednesday, reviving fears that the daily clashes could expand into an all-out war. A rocket fired from Lebanon struck the northern Israeli town of Safed, killing a 20-year-old female soldier and wounding at least eight people. Israel responded with airstrikes that killed at least …

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California cities and counties still don’t know how much they’ll have to pay for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s pandemic program to house homeless people in hotel rooms after the Federal Emergency Management Agency said in October that it was limiting the number of days eligible for reimbursement. State and local officials say they were stunned to learn …

GLEN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — William Post, a Michigan man who played an important role in the development of Pop-Tarts, has died at age 96. Post died Saturday, according to a family obituary which provided no details on his death but says he was raised in Grand Rapids as “one of seven children of Dutch immigrants” and had retired at …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three police officers were shot trying to make an animal cruelty arrest that touched off an hourslong standoff in the nation’s capitol on Wednesday, which ended late at night with a man’s arrest. The officers were hospitalized and expected to recover from gunshot wounds, authorities said. A fourth officer was hurt at the scene, but not shot. …

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese electronics and entertainment company Sony’s profit rose 13% in October-December on growing sales of music, image sensors and video games, the company said Wednesday. Tokyo-based Sony Corp.’s quarterly profit totaled 363.9 billion yen, or $2.4 billion, up from 321.5 billion yen the year before. Quarterly sales for the maker of the PlayStation game machines and Bravia …

El gobernador de Georgia, Brian Kemp, dijo el martes que enviará más soldados de la Guardia Nacional de su estado para apoyar la iniciativa del gobernador de Texas, Greg Abbott, de controlar los cruces ilegales en la frontera sur de Estados Unidos, mientras el también republicano Abbott continúa con su enfrentamiento con el gobierno federal en cuanto a la aplicación …