Covid-19, meet democracy. It’s one thing to battle an epidemic in an authoritarian state like China, which can isolate an entire epicenter city. It’s another in a free nation like Italy, where government curfews and curtailed rights are relics of a tortured history. The world is now finding out what happens when a contagion hits
Continue Reading A Holocaust-themed parade in Spain featuring dancing Nazis, death camp prisoners in striped pajamas and a float decorated with crematorium chimneys has caused global outrage. Women in bloodstained death camp uniforms waved Israeli flags and men dressed as German officers posed with guns at Monday’s regional carnival in the small town of Campo de Criptana
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Fashion tycoon Peter Nygard’s New York office was raided Tuesday as the magnate faces allegations of sex trafficking in a civil lawsuit. The FBI and New York police executed the search warrant, said Nicholas Biase, a spokesman for the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Nygard’s spokesman Ken Frydman said authorities
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There have been very few basketball prospects who have entered the NBA accompanied by as much excitement as when LeBron James was drafted in 2003. That was until Zion Williamson was drafted first overall by the New Orleans Pelicans in 2019. The former Duke sensation earned comparisons with James due to their similarities in physicality,
Continue Reading The science is looking pretty unanimous on this one: Drivers of expensive cars are the worst. A new study has found that drivers of flashy vehicles are less likely to stop and allow pedestrians to cross the road — with the likelihood they’ll slow down decreasing by 3% for every extra $1,000 that their vehicle
Continue Reading(CNN) — Senate Democrats are preparing to request $8. 5 billion to combat the coronavirus, a senior Senate Democratic aide told CNN Wednesday, setting up a spending showdown in Congress where lawmakers are grappling with how to help contain the disease. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, is expected to formally
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If you are a bit of an exhibitionist and can handle the exposed snowy shuffle from the snow-covered chairs down to the pool, this is the wintery night time soak for you. During the day, clothing is required at Strawberry Park Hot Springs, about a 15-minute drive from downtown Steamboat Springs, Colorado. A small mountain
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As the storm system continues to move away from the borderland, winds will be lighter this afternoon. The region will be under sunny skies, it will still be chilly as cold air continues to move into the region. High temperatures will only top out in the upper 40s, almost 20 degrees below normal for this
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Food and drink giants Danone and Diageo are the latest companies to warn that the coronavirus outbreak will cost them millions of dollars in sales and hurt profits. They join a growing list of businesses, from airlines, car manufacturers and smartphone makers to shipping companies and tourism firms, to disclose financial damage linked to the
Continue Reading You’d think all animals would need oxygen to live, right? Wrong. Researchers just discovered a unique organism that doesn’t need to breathe. Instead, the tiny parasite lives in salmon tissue and evolved so that it doesn’t need oxygen to produce energy. It’s a brilliant simplification that proves, sometimes, less is more, said Stephen Atkinson, senior
Continue Reading Kim Kardashian West and Kourtney Kardashian have been known to verbally spar on their family’s hit reality show, but did things turn physical? That’s what a clip that E! released Tuesday would lead some viewers to believe. In announcing that “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” will move to Thursday nights for Season 18, the network
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(CNN Business) — Apple se asoció con Johnson & Johnson para reducir el riesgo de accidentes cerebrovasculares en las personas mayores. J&J y Apple anunciaron el martes que los ciudadanos estadounidenses mayores de 65 años (con un plan tradicional de Medicare) serán elegibles para participar en la investigación clínica a través de la aplicación Heartline
Continue Reading After years of tinkering, Chipotle is confident it’s finally found the right queso recipe. The chain first added the melted cheese dip to the menu in 2017. But many customers didn’t like it, complaining that the texture was “gritty.” A few months later, Chipotle released a tweaked version. Now, it’s launching a whole new recipe.
Continue Reading A group of paleontologists say the tiny freckles they found on a rock could hold the key to understanding the origins of plant life on earth. The freckles, Virginia Tech researchers say, are actually billion-year-old seaweed microfossils. They substantially push back the current record of the multicelluar green plant by nearly 200 million years, according
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EL PASO, Texas — Mardi Gras celebrations in the Cincinnati Entertainment District were quieter this year than in year’s past. There was an increased police presence on Cincinnati this year. Just last month, a crackdown led to the arrest of 21 people in the district for things like drugs, traffic violations and public intoxication. Still,
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los videos son inquietantes. Muestran a dos agentes de policía de Recursos Escolares de Orlando arrestando a Kaia Rolle, de 6 años, mientras ella les suplica por una “segunda oportunidad”. “Ayúdenme”, dice Kaia entre sollozos mientras sus manos están restringidas con una brida de plástico. “Puedes decirme qué pasó en el auto, ¿de
Continue Reading The man who may be the second most-important person in the history of Disney, behind only Walt himself, is stepping down. Bob Iger has stepped down as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, effective immediately. Bob Chapek is the new CEO, the board of directors announced on Tuesday. He most recently served as chairman of
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Manchester City is appealing against its two-year ban from European football competitions, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced Wednesday. City was punished by UEFA, European football’s governing body, for “serious breaches” of club licensing and financial fair play regulations and will not be able to play in the Champions League for two seasons.
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No drug manufacturers have reported that they anticipate shortages of particular drugs due to the novel coronavirus, according to the US Food and Drug Administration, but the agency and experts in the pharmaceutical industry are paying close attention to the potential challenges the virus might pose. “FDA is keenly aware that the outbreak will likely
Continue Reading Are you ready to give up caffeine for 40 days? What about your social media accounts? While giving up those things may seem hard for you, Christians long ago used to give up a whole lot more. Ash Wednesday is today. It marks the first day of Lent in Western churches. The ashes symbolize penance
Continue Reading A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. The global selloff in stocks has entered its fifth straight trading day as investors show increasing concern that the coronavirus outbreak could turn into a pandemic that will seriously hurt corporate earnings
Continue Reading Most evenings, Abigail Hounkpe can be found paddling her wooden canoe on the murky waters in Makoko, a waterfront community on the Lagos lagoon in Nigeria’s southwest. She stops in front of a church perched precariously on top of stilts. Holding the wooden paddle in one hand, she stretches the other to take a photo
Continue Reading US markets plummeted for the second straight day Tuesday, adding to Monday’s sharp losses as news about the spread of coronavirus gripped jittery investors. The Dow finished 879 points, or about 3.2% lower, bringing the index’s total loss over the past four days to about 2,267. The index’s gains for the year had been wiped
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los ultramaratonistas y otros corredores de resistencia tomen nota: no se puede confiar en bebidas y suplementos deportivos con electrolitos para mantener los niveles de sal esenciales en equilibrio y prevenir enfermedades durante y después de estas agotadoras carreras, según un nuevo estudio. Investigadores de la Universidad de Stanford evaluaron a 266 atletas
Continue Reading A woman insisted she needed a liver transplant. But doctors wouldn’t allow it, removing her from waiting lists and recommending treatment for alcohol addiction instead. She denied, again and again, any problems with alcohol. Her urine ethanol levels, though, told a different story. When the patient showed up on the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s
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New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law Tuesday legislation that will allow courts to order the temporary seizure of firearms from individuals deemed a danger to themselves or others. “The Legislature had the strength to pass this measure because we all recognize: Enough is enough,” Lujan Grisham said in a statement. “This law
Continue Reading The novel coronavirus may have originated in Wuhan, China, but it’s since spread to more than 30 countries across the world. Despite significant efforts to contain the virus, the number of cases outside Asia have shot up over the past week, with Italy currently experiencing the largest outbreak in Europe. During a press briefing on
Continue Reading It’s not just General Electric’s share price, dividend and bottom line that have contracted. GE’s once-sprawling workforce is also shrinking in dramatic fashion. GE employed 313,000 people around the world at the end of 2017, the final year Jeff Immelt led the light bulb and jet engine maker. By the end of last year, that
Continue Reading Missouri deer hunters donated nearly 350,000 pounds of venison to food banks and pantries across the state this season, the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) said in a news release. The hunters donated the meat to Missouri’s Share the Harvest program, which provides “lean, healthy” venison to help feed hungry Missourians. “Hunters started Share the
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