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En la corte de Indio el juez sentenció a un sujeto de 21 años quien se declaró culpable de intento de asesinato al protagonizar una balacera en Palm Desert.

Se trata de Jorge Arturo Morales quien fue sentenciado a 14 años y 8 meses en prisión.

El individuo fue arrestado junto con Jaden Xavier Garcia quien fue su cómplice y quien durante su juicio se declaró culpable y el juez lo sentencio a 24 meses en libertad condicional, ambos fueron acusados de herir con arma de fuego a dos personas en mayo del 2024.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—At Santa Barbara’s Organic Soup Kitchen, each container of soup has essential nutrients that benefit everyone from cancer patients to those with auto immune conditions.
  
And the vegetables are locally sourced.
 
“When you are going through treatment after treatment and you are deteriorating, having a really good food that is nutrient dense and delicious, I think it keeps you physically going, but I think it keeps you mentally and emotionally going as well,” said Organic Soup Kitchen Program Manager Brooke Bigelow.
 
Brooke Bigelow runs the Medically Tailored Soups Program, a program where just last year, patients were able to get 36 consecutive weeks of soup covered by insurance.
 
One of Organic Soup Kitchen’s major insurance partners has lowered its coverage policy from 36 weeks of soup to just 12 weeks.
  
“Somebody who needs medical support and food support for the rest of their lives, getting 12 weeks is like getting a taste of exactly what they need and having it taken away,” said Bigelow.
 
And those 12 weeks are consecutive, which means the meals can’t be paused or spread out.
 
“Unfortunately, that means if someone is hospitalized and can't receive soup to their home, if someone is going on a trip, someone is out of town for any reason,” said Bigelow.
 
Going down from 36 weeks to 12 weeks is a 24 week difference. When each soup is valued at $20 apiece, that translates to $3,360 that's not covered by insurance.
 
“We are trying to roll over the people from the medically tailored Meals program that's partnered with this insurance provider and put them into our program, after the 12 weeks. So that makes our wait list for our nutrition program, swell up,” said Organic Soup Kitchen Communications Director Natasha Nazerian.

Organic Soup Kitchen is asking community members and local leaders to help stabilize services through emergency funding, partnerships, and collaborative solutions.
 

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Por Karen Esquivel, CNN en Español

Cuando Camila Aracil llegó a Hialeah, Florida, hace casi dos años no sintió que había salido de su natal Cuba, solo que había cambiado de barrio, con la misma cultura y los mismos compatriotas.

“Sentí que estaba en otra Cuba, pero con tecnología, con comida. La esencia es casi la misma, por no decir que la misma. Solo fue un cambio de ubicación”, dice a CNN la joven de 26 años, quien pidió no utilizar su apellido real por su seguridad.

Y es que Hialeah —la segunda ciudad más grande del condado de Miami-Dade, en el sur de Florida— ha sido el refugio de generaciones de inmigrantes que han hecho de esta la urbe más latina de toda Florida. La gran mayoría de sus habitantes se identifican como latinos o hispanos y más de la mitad son cubanos.

Hasta 2024, la población de Hialeah era de 235.384 personas, según la Oficina del Censo de Estados Unidos. De esa cifra, más de 224.000 se identifican de como hispanos o latinos, es decir un 95,2 % y solo un 4,7 % se identifican como blancos (no hispanos).

Hialeah es conocida como la capital del exilio cubano y no es en vano: el 72,6 % de sus residentes son cubanos (171.151), le siguen los puertorriqueños (4.880) y mexicanos (1.448).

Los cubanos han hecho de Hialeah su hogar, uno en el que mucha gente se apoya, donde se escucha música cubana en las esquinas, abundan los negocios ambulantes y muchos de los restaurantes más reconocidos son de comida cubana.

“No puedo decir que extraño algo de Cuba porque aquí la mayoría son cubanos, nos entendemos; la vida es casi como allá”, dice a CNN Lucía, quien llegó con su hijo a la ciudad en 2019 y prefirió omitir su apellido por miedo a la situación inmigratoria en el país.

Lucía decidió salir de la isla porque una prima que ya vivía en Hialeah la convenció de que ahí podría darle una mejor vida a su hijo, de entonces 8 años. La mujer, de 49 años, dice que los connacionales que llegan a Hialeah son muy trabajadores, son alegres y disfrutan la vida. “Si en Cuba la disfrutábamos, por qué aquí no”.

Camila, graduada de la carrera de Ingeniería Industrial, indica que salió de Cuba debido a la situación laboral, económica y la escasez de servicios básicos. “No había futuro básicamente, además toda mi familia estaba fuera del país”, detalla.

El exilio cubano hacia Estados Unidos se intensificó a raíz de la Revolución cubana en 1959 y ha tenido varias olas migratorias: el cierre del puerto de Camarioca en 1965, el éxodo del Mariel en 1980, la crisis de los balseros en 1994 o la política “pies secos, pies mojados” entre 1995 y 2017 que permitió la llegada, sin visa, de cubanos a EE.UU., según el Centro Cubano de Investigaciones de la Universidad de Florida.

Para 2021 comenzó otro éxodo masivo tras las protestas generalizadas por la crisis económica agravada, cortes de electricidad, escasez de alimentos y la falta de libertades civiles. Hasta 2024, más de 2,9 millones de cubanos residían en territorio estadounidense, según datos del Censo.

Camila, nacida en La Habana, describe a Hialeah como una ciudad muy “dinámica”, donde en cada esquina hay música, se habla español y es fácil relacionarse con las personas.

“Vas a cualquier lugar, preguntas algo y la gente te responde y se meten en conversaciones ajenas, es parte de la cultura del cubano. La vida es muy colorida, muy alegre y nos apoyamos unos a otros”, agrega.

Lucía coincide con esa descripción al afirmar que las personas son cálidas y siguen conectadas a sus raíces, a la salsa, el merengue, el baile. “A veces olvido que estamos en Estados Unidos… solo porque aquí tenemos luz, agua, comida, ¿entie

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN

Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — The sun was still low on the horizon when 19-year-old Piper James walked toward the Pacific Ocean for a morning swim on an island whose name in the local language means “paradise.”

Within two hours, she was found dead, her body surrounded by dingoes, wild Australian native dogs that roam freely on K’gari, a national park famous for its natural beauty off the country’s eastern coast.

It’s not yet clear what caused the death of the Canadian backpacker, a young woman with an adventurous spirit, who had been working on the World Heritage-listed island for several weeks, fulfilling a long-held dream of visiting Australia.

Preliminary autopsy results found evidence of drowning, but also dingo bites inflicted before and after she died. “Pre-mortem dingo bite marks are not likely to have caused immediate death,” the Queensland Coroner’s Court said in a statement.

“Of course, we all want to believe it was drowning,” said her grieving father, Todd James. “It’s horrific, but maybe a little more peaceful than the alternative.”

Pathology tests to determine the cause of Piper’s death could take several weeks, but if dingoes are found to have played a significant role, it would be only the third fatal dingo attack in Australia in nearly 50 years – and the first involving an adult.

In 1980, a dingo infamously snatched baby Azaria Chamberlain from her parents’ tent in the Northern Territory. At that time, no one believed a dingo would take an infant and, despite her claims of innocence, the baby’s mother Lindy Chamberlain was jailed for murder. She was exonerated years later, when new evidence supported her story, inspiring a courtroom drama starring Meryl Streep.

The second fatality occurred in 2001, when 9-year-old Clinton Gage was mauled on K’gari, then called Fraser Island, by two dingoes who also attacked his younger brother.

“That’s when we started to see the fences being put up around the townships and the resorts,” said George Seymour, mayor of the Fraser Coast region that includes K’gari.

In the days afterward, more than 30 dingoes on the island were “humanely destroyed,” a decision that prompted public outcry.

A possible third fatality has put some in the community on edge. Not because of any change in the perceived risk – which they know well – but because they fear it could drive calls for another cull.

James said if dingoes are ultimately found to be responsible, Piper would not have supported a cull. “We want no harm done to any animals over this, because Piper would not want that number one, and would be devastated to be any part of that,” he said.

Visitors to K’gari are warned of the risks, but James says young foreign nationals like his daughter, who work on the island, need firmer guardrails. Piper had told her parents that dingoes looked “cute.”

“They look like her dog from home,” said James.

“Those dogs, I said, ‘You don’t touch them. You can’t touch them.’ And she’s like ‘I know.’”

Do not go into the water

Around half a million people visit K’gari every year for its white-sand beaches, sparkling blue lakes and native wildlife – including dingoes, or wongari, as they’re known in the local Aboriginal language.

Up to 200 dingoes roam the island, and while they look similar to their relatives on the mainland, their isolation from domestic and feral dogs means they have some of the purest dingo DNA. To Australia, their conservation is considered an issue of “national significance.”

While dingoes are treasured, they’