(CNN) — El canciller de Ecuador, José Valencia, y la ministra de Salud Pública, Catalina Andramuño, informaron que están analizando opciones para evacuar de China a los ecuatorianos que han manifestado su deseo de querer salir del país ante la crisis que se vive por la presencia del coronavirus. Desde Cancillería han estado en comunicación
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On a gray afternoon in the Chinese city of Wuhan, a suited man lifts a box of 3M masks into the trunk of a black vehicle next to a Red Cross warehouse. White characters on the side of his car read: “Vehicle for government officials.” His actions were livestreamed by a state media outlet Saturday
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Uber practically wrote the playbook for raising and burning through billions of dollars in venture capital in search of rapid growth around the world. Now, the company recognizes it needs to change its approach and stop bleeding money. On Thursday, the ride-hailing company reported losing $1.1 billion in the final three months of 2019, driven
Continue Reading SoftBank is under pressure from a legendary activist investor after a series of bets on money-losing startups backfired on the Japanese tech giant. New York-based Elliott Management revealed Thursday it has built a “substantial” stake in SoftBank, the firm run by billionaire Masa Son known for its $100 billion Vision Fund. Although SoftBank has long
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Pete Buttigieg holds a slim lead over Bernie Sanders in the Iowa caucuses with the Iowa Democratic Party announcing on Thursday night that 100% of precincts are reporting. The former South Bend, Indiana, mayor leads the Vermont senator by one-tenth of one percentage point in the all-important state delegate equivalent count. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren,
Continue ReadingDES MOINES, Iowa — Pete Buttigieg held a slim lead over Bernie Sanders in the Iowa caucuses with the Iowa Democratic Party announcing on Thursday night that 100% of precincts were reporting. The former South Bend, Indiana mayor leads the Vermont senator by two state delegate equivalents out of 2,152 counted, which is roughly one-tenth
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Republican Sen. Mitt Romney did something on Wednesday that he hadn’t done in a quarter century in politics. By voting guilty on the first article of impeachment against President Donald Trump, Romney took a position that was wholly out of step with his party or his raw political self-interest. It’s true that Romney has been
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Cinco personas con síntomas sospechosos de coronavirus permanecerán en cuarentena para observación en el Hospital Militar Ramón de Lara de la Fuerza Aérea de República Dominicana, según informó el jueves el director del centro médico, el coronel Ramón Artiles Santamaría. Artiles indicó que los pacientes, cuatro de ellos de origen chino y
Continue Reading The man accused of killing 22 people and injuring nearly two dozen more in a mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, has been indicted on 90 federal charges, including hate crimes, court documents show. Patrick Crusius has been charged with hate crimes resulting in death, hate crimes involving an attempt to
Continue Reading (CNN) — El número de muertos y el número de personas infectadas por el coronavirus de Wuhan continúa creciendo, sin signos de desaceleración a pesar de los severos métodos de cuarentena y control de la población establecidos en China. El brote de coronavirus ha matado a más de 630 personas e infectado a más de
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Three women who settled with the owner of the famed The Spotted Pig over sexual harassment claims want to buy the site where the closed Manhattan restaurant stood and open their own eatery. Trish Nelson is one of 11 former employees who settled with Ken Friedman and told Vanity Fair this week she wants to
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — In a move that supporters said would help working families, the Democratic-controlled House has approved a bill that would make it easier for workers to form unions and bargain for higher wages, better benefits and improved working conditions. The “Protecting the Right to Organize” or PRO Act would allow more workers to
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ViacomCBS, the recently merged media company, will unveil a new streaming strategy when it reports its fourth quarter earnings on February 20, a person with knowledge of the plans told CNN Business. The new service will build on the company’s current streaming platform — CBS All Access — and will include programming from Comedy Central,
Continue Reading RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia lawmakers passed comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation Thursday that advocates said makes the state the first in the South to enact such protections for LGBTQ people. The measures advanced on bipartisan votes, 59-35 in the House and 30-9 in the Senate as newly empowered Democrats continued to advance bills that Republicans blocked
Continue Reading (CNN Español) – El coronavirus de Wuhan, que durante semanas ha contagiado a miles de personas alrededor del mundo, ya ha cobrado la vida de más de 600 personas, la mayoría de ellas en China. Los casos confirmados del virus ascienden a 28.000. Su rápido contagio ha disparado todas las alarmas sanitarias a nivel global
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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Highly-touted sophomore transfer Kaden Archie was suspended for UTEP’s next two games for “conduct detrimental to the team,” athletic officials announced shortly before tip-off of Thursday evening’s game at Charlotte. Without the 6’6″ guard, the Miners fell to the 49ers, 68-64 after having a five point lead at halftime. Archie did
Continue Reading A man who had oversight over a web of assassins working for the infamous drug trafficker Pablo Escobar is dead. Jhon Jairo Velásquez, also known as “Popeye,” died on February 6 at the National Institute of Cancer in Bogotá, Colombia, the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (INPEC) said in a statement. Velásquez had been hospitalized
Continue Reading Businessman Tom Steyer struck at former Vice President Joe Biden and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg in a new ad launched Thursday, the first explicitly negative ad his campaign has aired against his Democratic presidential rivals. In the ad, a narrator warns viewers that “we simply cannot afford to nominate another insider,” over
Continue Reading SEATTLE (AP) — A venerable restaurant in Seattle’s Pike Place Market has agreed to pay $483,000 to settle wage theft allegations. The Seattle Office of Labor Standards announced the settlement with Lowell’s Restaurant on Thursday. Officials said Lowell’s, which has been open in one of the city’s top tourist attractions since 1957, withheld wages as
Continue Reading Supporters of President Donald Trump worsened this week’s Iowa caucus breakdown by placing prank phone calls that hindered the reporting of results, the Iowa Democratic Party said on Thursday. The malicious calls were part of what Mandy McClure, a state party spokeswoman, said was an “unusually high volume of inbound calls” to the party’s caucus
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — The flu-like virus that exploded from China has researchers worldwide once again scrambling to find a vaccine against a surprise health threat, with no guarantee one will arrive in time. Just days after Chinese scientists shared the genetic map of the culprit coronavirus, researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health had
Continue Reading Harvey Weinstein’s defense team called their first witness Thursday — a former producer who they say casts doubt on actress Annabella Sciorra’s alleged rape allegations. Paul Feldsher testified that he’s known Weinstein for more than 30 years and that he’d been close friends with Sciorra in the 1990’s. Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi questioned
Continue Reading An historical plaque marking the site of a slave auction went missing in Charlottesville, Virginia, and police are offering an award of up to $1,000. The Charlottesville Police Department was notified around 9 a.m. Thursday that the plaque had disappeared, according to a city press release. The plaque, memorializing one of several slave auction blocks
Continue Reading Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio has been selected as the next ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee by the House Republican steering committee, a GOP source tells CNN. Jordan, a fierce defender of President Donald Trump, will replace Rep. Doug Collins, a Georgia Republican who is running for the Senate in a primary against
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Dallas man was executed Thursday evening for a shooting in which he killed his wife, two children and two other relatives during a drug-fueled rage nearly 18 years ago. Prosecutors say Abel Ochoa was high on crack cocaine and looking for money to buy more drugs when he started shooting inside
Continue Reading A Massachusetts man attempting to save his neighbor from a dog attack accidentally shot and killed him with a crossbow, officials said. Police are investigating the incident as an accidental death, according to a release from the Berkshire District Attorney’s office. Police from Adams received multiple 911 calls on Wednesday at approximately 12:09 p.m. “for
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Expect those temps to warm up over the next several days before we bring in some colder air with rain and snow chances next week. High clouds hang out tonight then clearing by morning. Temps will bottom out at around 36 degrees with our high hitting 61 for Friday. The weekend looks nice with 66
Continue Reading Tokio (CNN) — El brote mortal de coronavirus de Wuhan podría afectar los preparativos de Japón para los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 2020 este verano, advirtió un organizador de alto nivel. El virus ha infectado a más de 28.000 personas en más de 25 países y territorios, y se cobró más de 600 vidas, la
Continue Reading A rocket blazed into space Thursday afternoon carrying 34 OneWeb satellites. It’s the latest sign that 2020 will be a year in which new devices are deployed into Earth’s orbit at an unprecedented pace as OneWeb and rival SpaceX race to make global broadband a reality. The OneWeb satellites launched from Kazakhstan at 4:42 pm
Continue Reading Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton furthered her comments discrediting Sen. Bernie Sanders as a viable presidential candidate on Thursday, insinuating that his potential failure to “deliver the moon” would detract from efforts to rebuild public trust. When asked by talk show host Ellen DeGeneres if she wanted to address her prior remarks about the
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