What did dinosaur meat taste like? Try to eat this bird. Also, we tell you what happened after Trump hung up with Ukraine. This is what you need to know to start the day. First the truth.
1. Ecuador
After a week of protests, violence in Ecuador intensified. The mayor of Quito declared a state of emergency and President Lenín Moreno, who moved the government headquarters to Guayaquil, decreed a traffic restriction near the state buildings. Vandalism acts were reported in the National Assembly and the Attorney General's Office and there are hundreds of people detained. Moreno blamed, without offering evidence, the beleaguered president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and former president Rafael Correa for the violent protests, adding that he will not step back in his decision to abolish fuel subsidies. Meanwhile, Correa, who has said that there is no coup in the country but a reaction to corruption, said in an interview with CNN that "Lenín Moreno is the biggest faker of our era" and that he is the one who "broke democracy."
2. What happened after Trump hung up with Ukraine?
In the hours and days after the president of Ukraine hung up - "Thank you, Mr. President, goodbye" - the news spread nervously among officials of the content of the July 25 call, an early sign of concern that the request of the US President Donald Trump of an investigation into Joe Biden was far from being the "perfect" conversation that Trump insists there was. When did you decide to transfer the transcript of the call? This and other details of the events that occurred after Trump hung up the phone with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.
3. Sexually transmitted diseases in the US
For the fifth consecutive year, combined cases of gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis have increased in the United States, according to a report on sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. posted this tuesday. Possible factors that drive this increase in cases of STDs, which vary depending on where you live, include an increase in people who are tested and cases that are diagnosed. There is also a decrease in people who use condoms.
4. Alleged “dirty money” in campaign in Honduras
The president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, emphatically denied what was declared by a witness in the trial following his brother in New York. On the fourth day of the trial against Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernández, former congressman from Honduras and brother of the president, a witness presented by the Prosecutor's Office said he had participated in a meeting in 2013, in El Paraíso, in which Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín “El Chapo ”Guzmán would have given Tony Hernández a million dollars in cash. Last week, when prosecutors mentioned this alleged payment in their opening arguments, Guzman's lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, said prosecutors' statements against his client are false.
5. Fuel up in California
Gasoline prices have skyrocketed in California, rising well above what most Americans are paying. In some places, Californians pay $ 5 for a gallon. A series of refinery cuts reduced the supply of gasoline in the market. The average regular fuel price in California increased to $ 4.18 per gallon, the highest level since May 13, 2014, according to the Petroleum Price Information Service, which collects data for the AAA. Gasoline prices in California are the highest in the United States: the national average is currently US $ 2.65 per gallon.
At coffee time
Order in the room! Here comes the Barbie judge
The manufacturing company chose a judge as its Race of the Year doll, after learning that only 33% of US state judges are women.
What did dinosaur meat taste like? Try to eat this bird
Scientists know that today's birds are descendants of dinosaurs. Scientists from Yale and Harvard were able to alter chicken embryos so that they could grow snouts of velociraptors instead of spikes.
A dog saved its owner from a devastating fire
Name a better pet than Curly. The dog, adopted from a shelter, pushed him with his nose to wake him up.
The date of the day
"Vizcarra did well to close a Congress of semi-alphabets and pillos."
During his presentation in Spain of his most recent book "Hard Times," the writer Mario Vargas Llosa reaffirmed his support for the president of Peru, Martín Vizcarra, for, he said, "closing a Congress that was a shame for Peru."
The day's figure
Close to a million
The number of immigrants who arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border skyrocketed last year, when the Customs and Border Protection Office stopped and deemed almost one million people inadmissible during the 2019 fiscal year, according to the interim chief of that Department, Mark Morgan.
And to finish
A school band does not allow the irrigation system to ruin its performance
The Corona del Sol high school music band did not lose pace when the irrigation system of a soccer field began to function by mistake during its part-time performance in Tempe, Arizona.
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