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Bangladesh court sentences former prime minister to death
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh addresses the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 23, 2022. Hasina was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death Monday, a triumph for the interim government that promised to deliver justice for the hundreds of unarmed protesters killed during a brutal crackdown last year. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By SAIF HASNAT and ANUPREETA DAS The former prime minister of Bangladesh,

The San Juan Daily Star
Nov 184 min read
Wall Street indexes fall 1%; investors brace for jobs data, Nvidia results
U.S. stocks were about 1% lower on Monday as investors considered the health of the consumer ahead of quarterly results from retailers this week and a long-delayed U.S. jobs report, while they also braced for earnings from Nvidia later this week. Losses accelerated in afternoon trading, with the S&P 500 trading below its 50-day moving average, a key technical marker, and on track to close below that level for the first time in months. Results this week from retail giants Walm

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Nov 182 min read


Peter Watkins, provocateur with a movie camera, dies at 90
In Watkins’ sprawling output of movies the unifying principles were an utmost distrust of authority and the threat of civic annihilation. (Instagram via icarusfilms_) By J. HOBERMAN Peter Watkins, a British filmmaker and artistic provocateur whose movies blurred the line between documentary and fiction, most powerfully in “The War Game,” his Oscar-winning 1965 evocation of a nuclear attack that the BBC deemed “too horrifying” to air, died Oct. 30 in Bourganeuf, France. He was

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Nov 186 min read
Policías municipales repelen agresión en Isla Verde
POR CYBERNEWS ISLA VERDE – La Policía informó el lunes que agentes municipales de Carolina repelieron una agresión en hechos ocurridos en la madrugada frente al hotel Courtyard by Marriott, en la avenida Isla Verde. Según las autoridades, un sargento municipal se encontraba detenido en la vía mientras atendía una situación relacionada con un hoyo en la carretera, cuando observó a un individuo a bordo de un Toyota Yaris realizando varios disparos. Al intentar intervenir, el co

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Nov 181 min read


Santa Isabel avanza al Final Four del Béisbol Femenino en su temporada debut
POR CYBERNEWS SAN JUAN – Las Ponys de Santa Isabel lograron el lunes su clasificación al Final Four de la Liga de Béisbol Femenino (LBF), en su primer año como franquicia, tras barrer en dos juegos a las Estrellas del Guamaní de Guayama, subcampeonas de la pasada temporada. Santa Isabel dominó la miniserie con marcadores de 7-4 y 5-3. En el primer encuentro, Iadmar Torres obtuvo la victoria en relevo tras trabajar cuatro entradas sin permitir anotaciones, mientras Leslianie B

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Nov 181 min read


Ciencias Médicas lanza nuevo ciclo de su red de investigación clínica y traslacional
POR CYBERNEWS SAN JUAN – El Recinto de Ciencias Médicas de la Universidad de Puerto Rico presentó el lunes el nuevo ciclo de la red académica para investigación clínica y traslacional, respaldado por una subvención de veinticinco millones de dólares otorgada por el Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas Generales para el periodo de 2025 a 2030. “Esta estructura es un componente de suma importancia para el Recinto y la comunidad científica, pero su norte es no quedarse a nivel

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Nov 182 min read


The power grab that embodies Trumpism
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Nov. 10, 2025. “Today’s Supreme Court has been far too tolerant of Trump’s steamrollering of Congress,” The New York Times editorial board writes. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The Constitution gives the authority to tax and spend not to the head of state, but to the elected representatives who are closest to the people: the members of Congress. Money is po

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Nov 184 min read
Acting FEMA administrator is out, injecting uncertainty at agency in limbo
By SCOTT DANCE and MAXINE JOSELOW David Richardson has resigned as acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, injecting even greater uncertainty into the Trump administration’s plans to overhaul the federal role in disaster response. Karen Evans, a senior political appointee at FEMA who earlier this year led an overhaul of the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, will take over as acting FEMA administrator Dec. 1, according to the Ho

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