daily dos: actress Lupe Ontiveros dies, Olympic athletes devour junk food, Los Recoditos' new video and a man who loves chivas
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daily dos: actress Lupe Ontiveros dies, Olympic athletes devour junk food, Los Recoditos' new video and a man who loves chivas
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Mexico's National Banking and Securities Commission has fined HSBC bank $27.5 million for failing to report nearly 40 "suspicious transactions" and for being late to report more than 1,700 suspicious transactions. Last week, a United States Senate committee said HSBC was guilty of allowing Mexican drug cartels to use their banks for money laundering.
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Louisiana State University has offered a football scholarship to Dylan Moses, a 14-year-old boy who is still in junior high. Dylan's father, Edward Moses said he didn't believe it: "Really, I thought that they were joking around until I saw the serious look on their faces." Despite the early offer, the six-foot-tall eighth grader can't officially sign for LSU until 2017.
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A different kind of "chivas" fan: wildlife officials in Utah are concerned for the safety of a man who was photographed wearing a goat suit. The man is believed to be living among wild goats, a move that officials say could put him in danger of running into hunters. Phil Douglass of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources: "People do some pretty 'out there' things in the name of enjoying wildlife. But I've never had a report like this."
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In the wake of the Colorado theater shooting, President Obama has called for some sort of gun control: "A mentally unbalanced individual should not be able to get his hands on a gun so easily," said Obama during a speech to the National Urban League. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney disagreed, saying: "I don't happen to believe that America needs new gun laws."
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Love is a drag race in "En Resumen," a new leaked video by Banda Los Recoditos.
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Lupe Ontiveros, the Mexican-American actress best known for portraying murderer Yolanda Saldivar in the film Selena,
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The McDonald's in London's Olympic Park might be busier with Olympic athletes than you think. Some elite athletes have to take in between 4,000 and 6,000 calories to avoid losing too much weight (the average person consumes 2,000 calories a day). How do they pack the calories in? Junk food. Dr. Michael Joyner of the Mayo Clinic: "You can only eat so much oatmeal and tofu."
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