Maria Paul

1 week ago | spokesman.com | Tobi Raji |Angie Orellana Hernandez |Maria Paul |María Luisa Paúl

A New York City sightseeing helicopter carrying six people - including three children - broke apart in midair before plunging into the Hudson River on Thursday afternoon. A Spanish executive from Siemens, a technology company, and his family are among the dead. The pilot was also killed. The National Transportation Safety Board, the Federal Aviation Administration and local agencies are investigating.

1 week ago | spokesman.com | Maria Paul |María Paúl |Emily Wax-Thibodeaux

The fear came back in different ways. In Austin, a Venezuelan exile sensed a familiar knot in his stomach after a newly inaugurated President Donald Trump suggested he has unfettered authority. In Chicago, an Iranian émigré was rattled by Trump’s sudden takeover of an arts center he derided as culturally “woke.” In San Francisco, a Hungarian immigrant listened with trepidation to the president’s speeches: how the country’s greatness had been lost and that he was saved by God to fix it.

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Maria Paul |María Paúl |Emily Wax-Thibodeaux

They fled authoritarian countries. Here they’re experiencing déjà vu. (washingtonpost.com) They fled authoritarian countries. Here they’re experiencing déjà vu. By María Luisa Paúl; Emily Wax-Thibodeaux 2025041110000000 The fear came back in different ways. In Austin, a Venezuelan exile sensed a familiar knot in his stomach after a newly inaugurated President Donald Trump suggested he has unfettered authority.

1 week ago | spokesman.com | Anumita Kaur |Maria Paul |María Luisa Paúl

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin screening immigrants’ social media accounts for antisemitic content as grounds to deny visa and green-card applications, the agency announced Wednesday - a move that immigration-law and free-speech experts said the government could use to target political speech it dislikes.

Aug 17, 2024 | spokesman.com | Ana Vanessa Herrero |Samantha Schmidt |Maria Paul |María Luisa Paúl

CARACAS, Venezuela - Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets Saturday in protests across their country and in cities around the world, demanding that authoritarian president Nicolás Maduro recognize the results of last month’s election they say he lost. In the capital, Caracas, and all over Venezuela, protesters carried the vote tally receipts collected by the opposition showing that their candidate, Edmundo González, won more than twice as many votes as Maduro in the July 28 election.