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AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean 06/14/2024 12:07pm • June 7-13, 2024 Within Bolivia, the world’s third-biggest producer of the coca leaf, and of cocaine, the ancient leaf has inspired spiritual rituals among Indigenous communities for generations — and more recently, among the well-heeled with a deluge of coca-related products. Amid Mexico’s hea Centroamérica en alerta ante posibles emergencias por intensas lluvias este fin de semana tras paso de El Niño 06/14/2024 11:33am • (CNN Español) --  Los gobiernos de El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua y Costa Rica se preparan para atender eventuales emergencias este fin de semana, debido a las intensas lluvias que podría provocar el paso de ondas tropicales.La Dirección General de Protección Civil de El Salvador d Anxiety over persistent inflation helps drive down US consumer sentiment for third consecutive month 06/14/2024 11:31am • WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer sentiment fell in June for the third straight month as Americans took a dimmer view of their own finances and worried about persistent inflation. The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index, released Friday in a preliminary version, dropped to 65.6 this Cuban troubadour Silvio Rodríguez, icon of the revolution, dwells on island's troubles in new album 06/14/2024 11:09am • HAVANA (AP) — He was the poetic voice of the Cuban Revolution, an inspiration for millions of Latin Americans living under dictatorships throughout the 1960s and 1970s who dreamt of the ideal Cuba that he — and his guitar — helped to evoke. Cuban troubadour Silvio Rodríguez, 77, one of Latin What happened this week in the UK election campaign, from manifesto launches to robots and Haribos 06/14/2024 11:08am • LONDON (AP) — The U.K.'s general election campaign has now passed the halfway mark, and finally the main political parties have published their plans for government should they win on July 4. Beyond the carefully choreographed set piece events, there's always a potential banana skin around the co Canada's defense investment plans put it on track to meet NATO guideline, minister says 06/14/2024 11:06am • BRUSSELS (AP) — Canada looks on track to meet NATO’s military spending guideline by the end of the decade, Defense Minister Bill Blair said Friday, notably by boosting investment in the Arctic near its shared border with Russia as the region warms quickly because of climate change. After Russia Cambodia burns $70 million of seized illegal drugs while urging public education about their danger 06/14/2024 10:58am • PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian authorities on Friday destroyed more than seven tons of illicit drugs and the ingredients for them, as a drug-fighting official said educating people about their danger is the best way of combating the illegal trade. Some 4.1 tons of the destroyed items were d 'Biden Bingo': The president's campaign adapts a classic game to include malarkey and aviators 06/14/2024 10:49am • PHOENIX (AP) — DeAnna Mireau reached into a container and fished out a scrap of paper. “The next one is — do we have a drumroll?" she called out to a room crowded with some two dozen older adults and a half-dozen journalists. "Justice! Justice for all.” Nobody stirred, so Mireau reached for El Gobierno de Javier Milei desmantela áreas clave para la lucha contra la violencia de género en Argentina 06/14/2024 10:45am • (CNN Español) --  En Argentina, una mujer muere cada 35 horas víctima de un femicidio. En Argentina, además, el presupuesto designado para prevenir la violencia de género sufrió recortes, y este año el gobierno del presidente Javier Milei le dijo “afuera” al organismo encargado de las pol Hurricanes reach 3-year, $9 million deal with defenseman Jalen Chatfield 06/14/2024 10:34am • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes have signed defenseman Jalen Chatfield to a three-year, $9 million extension, retaining a valuable part of what has been a deep position group. The team announced the deal Friday, with interim general manager Eric Tulsky pointing to Chatfield's speed an Chinese journalist who promoted #MeToo movement sentenced to 5 years in prison 06/14/2024 10:25am • BEIJING (AP) — Supporters say a Chinese journalist who promoted women’s rights as part of the country’s nascent #MeToo movement has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges of incitement to subvert state authority, almost three years after she and an activist were detained. The verdi AI startup Perplexity wants to upend search business. News outlet Forbes says it's ripping them off 06/14/2024 10:14am • The artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI has raised tens of millions of dollars from the likes of Jeff Bezos and other prominent tech investors for its mission to rival Google in the business of searching for information. But its AI-driven search chatbot is already facing challenges as some Make mine medium-rare: Men really do eat more meat than women, study says 06/14/2024 09:51am • CHICAGO (AP) — Vacationing in Chicago this week from Europe, Jelle den Burger and Nirusa Naguleswaran grabbed a bite at the Dog House Grill: a classic Italian beef sandwich for him, grilled cheese for her. Both think the way their genders lined up with their food choices was no coincidence. Women, Md. advocates welcome Supreme Court ruling on abortion pill, but fear it’s only a ‘reprieve’ 06/14/2024 09:46am • Reproductive rights advocates were cautiously celebrating Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling that preserves access to the abortion drug, mifepristone, but said they fear it is only a reprieve until more challenges arise. Sharon Blugis, executive director of the abortion-rights advocacy group Repro Here’s what to know about a stalled $237M donation to Florida A&M 06/14/2024 09:40am • NEW YORK (AP) — In early May, Florida A&M University announced a stunning $237 million gift from a 30-year-old donor who cast himself as Texas’ “youngest African American industrial hemp producer.” The donation, which would have been the largest-ever private gift to a historically Black