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    Carla Herreria

    Carla Herreria

    Reporter, HuffPost

  • Cuban Immigrant Dies Of Apparent Suicide In Louisiana ICE Detention Center

    The asylum-seeker was found unresponsive in his cell at Louisiana's Richwood Correctional Center, which has a history of violence.

  • Obama Endorses Justin Trudeau Despite Blackface Scandal

    The former U.S. president vouched for the Canadian prime minister in his reelection campaign, despite his history of wearing racist makeup.

  • Nancy Pelosi On Impeachment: 'All Roads Seem To Lead To Putin'

    The House speaker linked Russian President Vladimir Putin with President Donald Trump during a news conference.

  • Ex-Trump Adviser Says It's Inappropriate For President To Seek Foreign Political Interference

    Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster denounced foreign interference in U.S. politics but said he saw no such thing while in the White House.

  • Houston Rockets Official Cuts Off Reporter For Asking About China

    "Basketball questions only," the official said when stars James Harden and Russell Westbrook were asked about free speech.

  • Trump On Abandoning Kurdish Forces: The Kurds Didn't Help Us In WWII

    The president, on the same day Turkey moved forward on them in Syria, defended his decision to pull support for Kurdish fighters allied with the U.S.

  • How One City Celebrates Memorial Day With A Glowing Sea Of Memories

    As Memorial Day turned to dusk, more than 42,000 people gathered in Honolulu to send 6,000 floating, candlelit lanterns out into the ocean. Lantern Floating Hawaii, an annual Memorial Day event hosted by the Shinyo-en Buddhist Order of Hawaii, has become one of the largest memorial observances in the country, according to event organizers. The lantern-floating ceremony is traditionally a Japanese Buddhist ritual but in 1999, Her Holiness Shinso Ito held Hawaii's first non-denominational ceremony on Memorial Day to make it more relatable to Americans.

  • Devastating Photos Show How An Oil Spill Consumed Santa Barbara's Coastline

    Animals and marine life are washing up on Santa Barbara's shores after a ruptured underground pipeline leaked an estimated total of 105,000 gallons of crude oil on Tuesday -- 21,000 gallons of which ended up in the ocean.

  • Make-A-Wish Grants 4-Year-Old's Simple Request To 'Live Comfortably' At Home

    It's not often that Make-A-Wish is stumped by a request, but 4-year-old Micah, who has a cranial malformation that causes seizures, had a surprisingly humble wish: To live comfortably in his own home. Because of his condition, Micah can't communicate verbally and requires essential medical equipment always within reach. Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today.

  • Cat Who Survived 36 Days In A Box To Be Reunited With Family On Valentine's Day

    UPDATE: After surviving one month trapped inside a moving box without food or water and then spending a few more months quarantined at a veterinarian hospital, Mee Moowe is scheduled to be reunited with her family on the island of Maui on Valentine's Day. “I don’t think we could get a more perfect date!" Ashley Barth, Mee Moowe's owner, told local news channel KHON2. When the day finally came for Ashley Barth and her family to make the big move to the Hawaiian island of Maui, they were heartbroken.

  • Shark Attack Survivor Says Surfing With A Prosthetic Leg Keeps Him 'Stoked'

    It's been almost two decades since Mike Coots lost his left leg to a shark, but he wants the world to know that he's still in the water -- and he's still stoked about it. When he recently got a new prosthetic leg -- one custom-made with carbon fiber by Össur, an Icelandic orthopedics developer -- Coots filmed the 18-second video above with his Go Pro to show how surfing with it made him feel. "I was surfing on my previous legs, but it was uncomfortable because they were made of wood and metal," Coots told HuffPost.

  • The Odd Friendship Between North Korea And Its First American Surfers

    Julie Nelson was something of a pioneer in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The 27-year-old American citizen was one of the first people to ever surf in North Korean waters. It is now known to the locals as "Pioneers" -- North Korea's very first surf spot.

  • Classic '80s Song Inspires 3 Men To Survive Capsizing

    Last Sunday night, a powerful wave capsized Zack Romanak's boat off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Romanak, his 10-year-old son Noah, and Brad Warren, a tourist from California they had met earlier that day, clung to the boat for nearly four hours in dark waters. The impact of the wave had snapped Warren's femur in three places and broke his prosthetic hip, according to local news site The Garden Island.

  • Researchers Embark On Mission To Explore Hawaii's Newest 'Island'

    Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of Minnesota, IFREMER Centre de Brest and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute departed Wednesday on an expedition to map and uncover the secrets of Loihi -- the (slowly) emerging member of the Hawaiian archipelago -- according to a press release. The fledgling island is located off the southeast coast of Hawaii's Big Island and is basically just a seamount -- or an underwater volcano -- sitting in very, very deep water. Brian Glazer, lead researcher and associate professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, said that the expedition will provide a "window to the ancient Earth," so the trip will shed light on the growth processes of the planet we know today.