MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans will vote in the country’s first judicial elections Sunday. The fiercely debated question is whether electing judges will deepen democratic decay or purge courts of rampant corruption and impunity.
“He’s been through a lot,” said Myrtle’s grateful owner, Tiffany Emanuel. “I know that he knows just as much as I do that every step of the way I’m going to be there helping him, caring for him, making sure he gets, you know, the help that he needs.”The Emanuel family fled their home in the rural Kokomo area as a
on March 15. They returned to find two pine trees had fallen on top of their tortoise’s backyard home.Weeks later, a neighbor found the injured tortoise. He was taken to the Central Mississippi Turtle Rescue for medical treatment on April 4.“The lady who found the tortoise called me and she said she had run into the owners,” said Christy Milbourne, the organization’s founder and codirector. “She said, ‘I think they’re going to be calling you.’ So, I was excited, and then the owners did call and say, ‘Yeah, that’s my tortoise.’”
Emanuel is now nursing Myrtle back to health.“It feels good to kind of have some kind of happy out of so much sad and grief and loss,” Emanuel said.
clinched the political support needed to become the nation’s top health official by
the decades-old federal system for approval and use of vaccines. Yet his regulators are promising big changes that cloud the outlook for what shots might even be available.Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, stands for a portrait in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sept. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, File)
The Chicago-born Prevost, 69, is prefect of the Vatican’s powerful dicastery for bishops, in charge of vetting nominations for bishops around the world. He has extensive experience in Peru, first as a missionary and then archbishop. Francis had an eye on him for years, sending him to run the diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, in 2014. He held that position until 2023, when Francis brought him to Rome for his current role.Cardinal Joseph William Tobin attends a Mass on the fifth of nine days of mourning for late Pope Francis, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
Cardinal Joseph William Tobin attends a Mass on the fifth of nine days of mourning for late Pope Francis, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)Tobin, 72, is archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, and a veteran of the Vatican bureaucracy who speaks five languages. The Detroit native was ordained in 1978 and earned master’s degrees in religious education and divinity at Mount St. Alphonsus Seminary in Esopus, New York. Benedict appointed Tobin in 2010 as secretary of the Vatican’s office overseeing religious orders. Tobin reportedly ruffled feathers by seeking to mend its frayed ties with U.S. nuns facing complaints they had become too liberal. Benedict appointed Tobin archbishop of Indianapolis in 2012. Francis