Sigue nuestra cobertura en español A week after the deadly twin earthquakes in Venezuela, the official death count still strikes both Venezuelans and outside observers as remarkably low. Venezuelan authorities said Wednesday at least 2,295 people were killed in the earthquakes, an increase of around 300 from the previous day’s update. One forensic pathologist, who asked to remain anonymous due to her fear of retaliation, told CNN she believes the government death toll to be a vast undercount, amounting to “not even a third of what is actually there.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/02/americas/venezuela-earthquakes-morgue-death-toll-latam-intl
Two daredevils on Wednesday evaded security and climbed to the top of the needle of the Empire State Building, where they unfurled a banner about 1,450 feet above the sweltering city and appeared to propose before their stunt ended up with them in police custody. The extraordinary breach of security at one of New York City’s most iconic landmarks occurred just around noon during a whirlwind summer in the city. It comes weeks after the New York Knicks’ first championship in 53 years led to raucous, sometimes destructive celebrations and a heightened NYPD presence amid World Cup matches and the upcoming wedding celebration of pop star Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce expected at Madison Square Garden.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/01/us/empire-state-building-banner
Every 40 seconds of nighttime for the next 10 years, a camera the size of a small car will capture strikingly detailed images of the southern sky, stitching together a time-lapse panorama of intergalactic evolution that could help unlock some of the universe’s lingering mysteries. The historic effort, called the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), began on Tuesday, according to the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the state-of-the-art facility in Chile that houses the world’s largest digital camera weighing 6,600 pounds. During its decade-long study, a series of colored filters will give the camera superhuman vision as it scans the sky each night and creates a living image of how celestial objects — from asteroids to supernovae — morph and move.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/01/science/rubin-observatory-legacy-survey-space-and-time
The Vatican announced Thursday that priests and members of a breakaway Catholic group that ordained four new bishops in defiance of Pope Leo XIV’s wishes are in schism and excommunicated. The Society of Saint Pius X, an ultra-traditionalist group, went ahead with the ordinations on Wednesday without papal approval and despite appeals from Leo to reverse the decision. In response, the Vatican’s doctrinal office on Thursday published a decree saying that the four bishops are excommunicated, along with the two bishops who participated in the ordination ceremony. Excommunication means they are excluded from the sacraments of the church.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/02/europe/vatican-excommunicates-breakaway-catholic-group-intl