(CNN Business) — Las acciones estadounidenses cayeron una vez más el viernes, a medida que los temores de coronavirus continúan aumentando. Las acciones están en camino para su peor semana desde la crisis financiera. Las acciones abrieron fuertemente a la baja y extendieron sus pérdidas en la primera hora de negociación. El Dow cayó casi
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The world economy could stumble into a recession if the coronavirus outbreak is not contained quickly, former White House economist Kevin Hassett warned on Friday. Hassett, speaking in the midst of the worst week on Wall Street since 2008, expressed concern about the rapid spread of the coronavirus around the world, including in warmer-weather places
Continue Reading Nueva York (CNN Business) — Los fabricantes de productos electrónicos enfrentan semanas de demoras en los envíos de piezas debido al coronavirus. Eso podría afectar la disponibilidad de una serie de productos tecnológicos en el futuro. Aproximadamente el 65% de los fabricantes de productos electrónicos informaron que los proveedores les dijeron que debido al brote
Continue Reading (CNN Business) — Las acciones de Gilead Sciences subieron ligeramente este jueves, incluso cuando el Dow cayó en estado de corrección. ¿La razón? La compañía de biotecnología se está acercando a encontrar un tratamiento potencial para el coronavirus mortal. Planea comenzar a administrar su medicamento remdesivir a los pacientes el próximo mes. Moderna envía su
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Click here for updates on this story Lilburn, GA (WGCL) — Police have arrested a woman who allegedly threatened to kill everyone inside a Gwinnett County police precinct. On February 25, a call came in to the GCPD 911 Center from a woman identifying herself as ‘Jessica,’ saying “a lot of people are going to
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Plans to open a Philadelphia facility that would allow and supervise the injection of illegal drugs have been put on hold. On Thursday, the nonprofit group looking to open the site, Safehouse, delayed the opening to have “community conversations” with concerned neighbors. Then the building owner decided to not move forward with the lease. “The
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Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign challenged the results of the Iowa caucuses recount just hours after the state’s Democratic Party released its results Thursday night. The recount had been requested by both Sanders’ campaign and the campaign of former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg. In a complaint sent to the Iowa Democratic Party and
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Lucy the Elephant, a Margate, New Jersey-based attraction whose claim to fame is being the world’s largest elephant and the oldest roadside attraction in the United States, will soon open its doors to overnight guests for the first time in over 100 years. Save Lucy Committee, the nonprofit responsible for Lucy’s continued existence, has partnered
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Beaverton, OR (KPTV) — Thirty people can’t go home after a fire ripped through an apartment complex in Beaverton and injured two people Thursday morning. The injured people were transported to an area hospital with burn injuries. Their current conditions are not clear. Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue
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The big question continues to loom: Where will Tom Brady play next season? The New England Patriots quarterback is set to become a free agent, and the speculation is in full effect. Will Brady return to the Patriots, teaming up again with head coach Bill Belichick? Or will Brady — who turns 43 in August
Continue Reading Global stock markets plummeted for a seventh consecutive day on Friday as the coronavirus continued to spread, increasing fears that the epidemic will wipe out corporate profits and push some of the world’s biggest economies into recession. China’s Shanghai Composite closed down 3.7%, bringing losses for the week to 5.6%, the index’s worst performance since
Continue Reading South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn, the third highest-ranking Democrat in the House, said Friday that Democrats are concerned about picking a presidential nominee who “would cause down-ballot carnage” to Democrats running for as other offices, in an apparent reference to front-runner Sen. Bernie Sanders. Some House Democrats have already expressed significant unease at the prospect
Continue Reading Investors had nowhere to hide this week. Following Thursday’s stock market drubbing, there were just four S&P 500 companies trading in positive territory. And after Friday’s massive Wall Street slide, that list of winners was down to one. Regeneron is still clinging to gains even though it isn’t one of the biotechs working on a
Continue Reading (CNN) — El director general de la OMS, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, dijo que los epidemiólogos de la organización han estado monitoreando la evolución de los casos de coronavirus a nivel mundial y “ahora hemos aumentado nuestra evaluación del riesgo de propagación y el riesgo de impacto de COVID-19 a un nivel muy alto a nivel
Continue Reading Former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday acknowledged that he wasn’t arrested in South Africa during a visit to the country in the 1970s despite recently claiming that he had been. “When I said arrested, I meant I was not able, I was not able to move … I wasn’t arrested, I was stopped. I
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Milwaukee, WI (WDJT) — The community is coming together to show their support of the victims in the mass shooting at Molson Coors on Wednesday, Feb. 27. Fundraisers to help the families of the victims popped up all over the city, including one at McBob’s Pub & Grill
Continue Reading Sofia Vergara is taking a seat at the judge’s table on “America’s Got Talent.” “AGT” announced the news on Instagram Thursday. “There’s a new judge joining the #AGT FAMILY! Introducing @simoncowell, @howiemandel, @heidiklum, AND @sofiavergara as the Season 15 Judging Panel, with @terrycrews as your host!” “I’m so happy to join my new family on
Continue Reading Four children ages 3 and 4 were injured when a woman crashed her car through the window of a day care center, Pennsylvania authorities say. The black BMW on Thursday traveled through a classroom of the Children of America Educational Childcare center before stopping at a back wall, the Bucks County Attorney’s Office said in
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Ser diagnosticado con una enfermedad crónica, cualquiera que esta sea, ya es algo difícil. Pero, imagina visitar infinidad de veces durante meses o incluso años a médicos que no puedan encontrar qué es lo que ocurre contigo. Y luego, al final, ser diagnosticado con una enfermedad de la cual muy poca gente
Continue Reading The stock market is having its worst week since 2008. Officials are scrambling to trace the first US case of coronavirus not linked to travel. And the man in charge of the country’s response to the virus is heading to Florida to raise money for the Republican Party. Vice President Mike Pence is billed as
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Fatigue with Syria’s endless conflict can’t hide the enormity of this moment. It is highly unlikely that the Syrian regime had the will or the firepower to target and kill over 30 Turkish troops without Moscow’s backing, or arms, or direct involvement. In the past, an error would be confessed. A phone call between Moscow
Continue Reading What a wild ride. The finale for the hit Netflix dating show “Love Is Blind” aired Thursday and now we’ve got some answers. Here’s how it ended up with the couples: Cameron and Lauren Wedding bells rang for this couple who actually tied the knot after finding love in the pod. Damian and Giannina While
Continue Reading It’s not the moon, but you can call it mini-moon. Earth has captured a tiny object and pulled it into orbit. The asteroid, known as 2020 CD3, is only the second asteroid known to orbit Earth. And while it won’t last, this asteroid acts as a temporary mini-moon whirling around our planet. The asteroid is
Continue Reading Triple Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang has been banned from the sport for eight years for missing an out-of-competition doping test, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Friday. CAS said it had accepted an appeal from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) against a decision by the world swimming body FINA to clear
Continue Reading US drug stores, retailers and suppliers are racing to keep up with surging interest for cleaning products as fears over coronavirus intensify. Demand for products like hand sanitizers, face masks and cleaning wipes has spiked, according to CVS, Walgreens and others. CVS warned it may cause supply shortages. “This demand may cause temporary shortages at
Continue Reading A record-breaking explosion created by a black hole 390 million light-years away has been discovered by astronomers. “In some ways, this blast is similar to how the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 ripped off the top of the mountain,” said Simona Giacintucci, lead study author at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC.
Continue Reading South Korea is one of the world’s most tech savvy countries. So when the deadly novel coronavirus outbreak reached the Korean peninsula, app developers there knew exactly how to react: They started coding. Mobile apps that help track the disease in South Korea ranked as six of the top 15 downloads on the country’s Google
Continue Reading The head of Nigeria’s National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says the country is more than capable of dealing with coronavirus as Africa’s most populous nation records its first case. “Nigeria is ready,” Chikwe Ihekweazu said. “We successfully managed Ebola and we manage outbreaks all the time and are currently managing Lassa fever. We have
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. US stocks have already notched their worst week since the global financial crisis. The pain is deepening on Friday. What’s happening: Global stocks have entered their seventh straight trading day in the
Continue Reading All hell didn’t break loose, after all. Before the new coronavirus epidemic gripped the globe — about a million supercharged news cycles ago — we seemed to be on the brink of a major US-Iran war. But two months later, the feared backlash of the US killing of top Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani has
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