Actor Kevin Costner, the star of “Field of Dreams” and “Dances With Wolves,” will endorse South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg this weekend, the campaign announced Friday. “The momentum for Pete on the ground in Iowa is continuing to grow,” Ben Halle, Buttigieg’s Iowa communications director, told CNN in a statement. “On Pete’s last trip
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There is an eerie sense of calm on Wall Street heading to the end of the year. It’s the inverse of last year’s December market panic. Stocks are at all-time highs. The CNN Business Fear & Greed Index is hovering above 90 — firmly in Extreme Greed territory — for the first time since 2017.
Continue Reading ‘Tis the season for holiday tunes, and Amazon Alexa users are here for it — billions of hours of it. So far this holiday season, Amazon customers in the United States have asked Alexa to play holiday music over 100 million times, according to Amazon. The collective time users spent streaming is in the billions.
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Washington (CNN) — El paradero de miles de inmigrantes que esperan en México su próxima cita judicial en Estados Unidos es desconocido, según las cuentas de abogados y datos analizados por CNN. Cerca de 55.000 migrantes, muchos de los cuales son de Centroamérica, han sido enviados de regreso a México como parte de una política
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Despite all the doom and gloom in the news in 2019, this year in sports unified an ever-polarizing world. Some teams won their first championships. Others played their first game after heartbreaking tragedy. And athletes made sure they had a voice on and off the field. Here’s a look back at some of the winners
Continue Reading Jane Fonda said she wants to get arrested every Friday — all to address the climate crisis. She’s done it four out of 11 times. The actress and activist said she moved to Washington for four months to raise awareness about the devastating challenges that are facing the Earth. “There is a collective crisis, requires
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It’s been a magical year for Disney. The stock is up nearly 35%. The movie studio already has six billion dollar box office smashes, with “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” potentially becoming the seventh. And the Disney+ streaming service launched to rave reviews and made “Baby Yoda” a pop culture phenomenon. So what can
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El director general de la Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) de México, Manuel Bartlett, no ha caído en conflicto de interés ni faltó a la veracidad de sus declaraciones patrimoniales, dijo la Secretaría de la Función Pública tras una investigación. Irma Eréndira Sandoval, titular de esa dependencia, dijo en conferencia de prensa
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The quiet weather pattern will stick around through the weekend. The next system will move into the region Tuesday and bring a slight chance for rain on Christmas Day. The afternoon highs will reach the 50s, perfect weather if you need to finish Christmas shopping. Take a jacket if you’re heading Downtown for some Winterfest
Continue Reading Ah, holiday travel. Between huge crowds and weather delays, flying during this time of year is hectic. Now close your eyes and imagine the entire scenario with one additional annoyance: Loud talkers yammering into their cell phones at 35,000 feet. Don’t worry — this potentially ear-splitting scenario isn’t a reality yet. At least not in
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Tim Slaten never lost hope that his mother’s killer would be caught. But the last person he suspected of committing the crime was his youth football coach. Linda Slaten, 31, was strangled in her Lakeland, Florida, apartment in September 1981 while her children slept, Lakeland police said. Nearly four decades later, authorities have zeroed in
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‘Tis the season for some… FOOTBALL!!! Get your holiday football fix this Sunday with 12 heart-pounding match-ups, including Cowboys vs. Eagles. Here’s how to watch all your favorite teams play: Jacksonville Jaguars vs. Atlanta Falcons Watch: 1 p.m. ET on FOX, playing at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Baltimore Ravens vs. Cleveland Browns Watch: 1 p.m.
Continue Reading Xavier Cummings works with rockets every day in his job as a NASA contractor, but he’s never seen a launch like this. Cummings was on a Southwest flight to Atlanta Friday morning, as he traveled to visit his sister in Ohio, when the Atlas V rocket carrying Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft lifted off from Florida. He
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Several high profile recording artists are retreating from the stage lights to make 2020 about family. In November, Pink told Entertainment Tonight that she is taking a break from her “Beautiful Trauma” tour to spend more time with her husband, Carey Hart, and their kids Willow, 8, and Jameson, 2. “We did two and a
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By Charles Hill 2019 Winter and Spring Sports Boys Basketball El Paso area teams usually do very well in the UIL Basketball State Playoffs. This was not the case in 2019. Most of the area’s teams were eliminated by the Area Round in the annual state tournament. Americas was an exception as the Trail Blazers
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A mining company secretly collaborated with the governor of Alaska to lobby the Trump administration to move forward with a mining project that Environmental Protection Agency scientists warned could devastate the world’s most valuable wild salmon habitat, according to newly released emails obtained by CNN. Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s office was given detailed talking points, ghostwritten
Continue Reading Washington (CNN) — La exsecretaria de Prensa de la Casa Blanca Sarah Sanders se disculpó el jueves con el exvicepresidente Joe Biden después de burlarse de un momento del debate en el que Biden, que ha sido abierto sobre haber superado el tartamudeo, parecía imitar a un niño tartamudo para transmitir cómo se conecta a
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EL PASO, Texas – University Medical Center, for the first time in its 115-year history, will have two new satellite emergency departments located away from its main campus, one in east El Paso, the other in northeast El Paso. The UMC Northeast Emergency Department on 4669 Cohen opens for business on Jan. 10. The UMC
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Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX, AZ (KNXV) — The Maricopa County Department of Public Health reports that Maricopa County is facing its first community-wide mumps outbreak in decades. One case was even reported Thursday at La Joya Community High School, according to the Tolleson Union High School District. “This is the first
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Lexington, KY (WLEX) — Former Gov. Matt Bevin has received a lot of scrutiny since pardoning over 400 people during his final days in office. On his list of pardons were several people convicted of violent crimes. On Thursday during a guest radio appearance on the Terry Meiner
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces man is facing charges after authorities say he stole a car without knowing that another man was sleeping inside. Joseph Allen, 40, was arrested in connection with allegedly taking the running car in Vado on Wednesday, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported. According to the Doña Ana County
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HENDERSON, NV (KTNV) — A Henderson police officer has been arrested on one charge of Domestic Battery. 29-year-old Tyler Travers, an officer with the Henderson Police Department, was arrested on Dec. 19 and booked into the Henderson Detention Center Travers was hired by the City of Henderson on
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EL PASO, Texas – Chabad Lubavitch is preparing to celebrate Hanukkah and invites El Paso’s Jewish community to join in the celebration. The Chabad is holding a ceremony to mark the first night of Hanukkah this Sunday at 5 p.m. at 6615 Westwind Drive in West El Paso. Hannukah is a Jewish festival commemorating the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, NE (KMTV) — Children’s Hospital and Medical Center is a great place, but it isn’t where anyone wants to be for Christmas. Firefighter Ryan Loewenstein knows that too well. “Easton had Hertzsprung’s disease, so he had multiple surgeries and spent a lot of time in the hospital
Continue Reading People are feared dead after a possible gas explosion toppled three South Philadelphia row houses and significantly damaged two other buildings on Thursday, officials said. Firefighters were looking for at least one person in one collapsed building after responding to reports of an explosion and fire at a tenement on South 8th Street about 11:30
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SPRING HILL, FL (WFTS) — A “do-it-yourself” project is now helping kids wait more comfortably at their school bus stop. On any given school day, Stephanie Laing says it’s normal to find a handful of kids standing and sitting along Augustine Road in Spring Hill in the dirt.
Continue Reading (CNN) — El presidente de la FIFA, Gianni Infantino, en declaraciones hechas el viernes, sugirió la posibilidad de que la Copa Mundial Femenina de la FIFA se celebre cada 2 años. “Con Francia 2019, tuvimos más de 1.000 millones de espectadores en todo el mundo y algunas cifras increíbles en países donde normalmente el fútbol
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Freshly impeached and eager for vindication, President Donald Trump decamps Friday for warmer climes: a two-week-long stint at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida haven, which this Christmas will act as the crucible for his defense. Trump’s sojourns to his oceanfront resort — filled with hours of unstructured time on his palm-lined patio, random chats in the buffet
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — There are more than 100 asylum seekers camping on the streets of Juarez waiting to come into the U.S. through El Paso’s Santa Fe port of entry. With the holidays upon us one group is helping bring a little comfort for the migrants through prayer and the tradition of the Posada.
Continue Reading On the third Friday in December, it’s exciting to say Today is Ugly Christmas Sweater Day! Tacky sweaters galore! It’s the holiday season! Now, please, don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be, perhaps, that the timing’s just right. It could be that there’s a fun party tonight. It seems that
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