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• Trump tours Texas flood damage as disaster tests vow to shutter Fema

    
  11 de julio, puesto en línea por Kira Lerner and Associated Press
  Since disaster that has killed at least 120 people, Trump has remained quiet about promises to axe relief agency US politics live – latest updates During a trip on Friday to look at the devastation caused by the catastrophic flooding in Texas, Donald Trump claimed that state and federal (…)

• Engine fuel switches cut off before Air India crash that killed 260, preliminary report finds

    
  11 de julio, puesto en línea por Reuters
  Preliminary investigation into accident in Ahmedabad in June also contains details of pilots discussing the switches A preliminary report by Indian aviation accident investigators said the fatal Air India crash that killed 260 people in Ahmedabad in June showed the plane engines’ fuel switches (…)

• Son of El Chapo pleads guilty in US drug trafficking case

    
  11 de julio, puesto en línea por Associated Press
  Prosecutors allege Ovidio Guzmán López and his brother, Joaquin Guzmán López, ran a faction of the Sinaloa cartel A son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” pleaded guilty on Friday to US drug-trafficking charges, becoming the first of the drug lord’s sons to enter a plea deal. (…)

• Ana Maria Gonçalves becomes first Black woman in Brazil’s literary academy

    
  11 de julio, puesto en línea por Tiago Rogero in Rio de Janeiro
  Author of Um defeito de cor wins seat in 128-year-old institution long dominated by white men Brazil has elected its first Black woman to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, founded in 1897 and modelled on the Académie Française. Ana Maria Gonçalves, 54, is one of Brazil’s most acclaimed (…)

• Georgia Republican’s Ponzi scheme defrauded people of $140m, say officials

    
  11 de julio, puesto en línea por Associated Press
  Brant Frost IV’s First Liberty Building and Loan lied to investors about lending high-interest loans to small firms A prominent Georgia Republican was running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 300 investors of at least $140m, federal officials alleged in a complaint filed on Thursday. The civil (…)