Day: April 7, 2023

200 firefighters in Mexico City battle huge blaze at wholesale market

4:01 pm April 7, 2023

Some 200 firefighters battled a huge blaze in Mexico City’s sprawling wholesale market Thursday night without any reported injuries. The Central de Abasto supplies the capital’s other neighborhood markets, restaurants and other parts of the country. Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said the fire started in an area of the market where wooden pallets and […]

Elon Musk praised by CEO of once-banned company for restoring free speech at Twitter

4:00 pm April 7, 2023

A year after Elon Musk first made his intentions clear about buying Twitter, the CEO of the satire website that may have helped sway the billionaire’s purchase praised how the Tesla chief brought free speech back to the social media giant. Twitter suspended the Babylon Bee for tweeting a headline naming U.S. Assistant Secretary for […]

Kansas Legislature passes abortion pill plan, lawmakers expect Gov. Laura Kelly to veto

3:18 pm April 7, 2023

Abortion opponents pushed a bill through the Kansas Legislature early Friday to require providers to tell patients that a medication abortion can be “reversed” once it’s started — a measure that could face a state court challenge if its supporters can overcome the governor’s expected veto. Republican lawmakers pursued the bill even though experts dispute […]

Pope Francis won’t preside over Good Friday’s late-night Way of the Cross event due to cold weather in Rome

3:14 pm April 7, 2023

The Vatican says Pope Francis, who was recently hospitalized for bronchitis, won’t preside over Good Friday’s late-night Way of the Cross event due to extremely cold weather in Rome. It said that instead of presiding over the torch-lit procession at the Colosseum, Francis will watch from the hotel where he lives in the Vatican. He […]

New Hampshire group proposes 1st offshore fish farming in the East Coast

3:13 pm April 7, 2023

A New Hampshire group wants to be the first to bring offshore fish farming to the waters off New England by raising salmon and trout in open-ocean pens miles from land, but critics fear the plan could harm the environment. The vast majority of U.S. aquaculture, the practice of raising and harvesting fish in controlled […]