EL PASO, Texas — Student athletes from Montwood High School had to return to El Paso from out of town tournaments after the Socorro Independent School District banned all school travel outside the region. For the Montwood baseball team this meant losing their last chance to go all out in Lubbock. “People work hard. They
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When dinosaurs walked the Earth, days on our planet were a little bit shorter than the full 24 hours we know today. Earth turned more quickly, meaning that a day lasted about 23.5 hours and a year equated to 372 days, according to a new study. Researchers discovered this fact from a surprising resource: ancient
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Anxiety and insomnia are two related issues that can cause their sufferers to worry over the possibility of another sleepless night, wondering if they’ll ever again get a wink of sleep that will help them function the next day. “Anxiety and insomnia are bad bedfellows; they often coexist,” said Todd Arnedt, associate professor of psychiatry
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Nota del editor: Ana Mateu Meléndez es secretaria de Política Pública de la Gobernación de Puerto Rico desde diciembre de 2019. Las opiniones expresadas en esta columna pertenecen a la autora. (CNN Español) — En el Día Internacional de la Mujer se conmemora la lucha por la equidad, por la justicia y la paz social
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EL PASO, Texas — A planned reunion tour after two decades by Rage Against the Machine is being postponed, the latest event to be delayed over fears about the coronavirus. In a social media post late Thursday night, the group said it was postponing roaring back onto concert stages with a world tour that was
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Before there were any cases of novel coronavirus confirmed in South Korea, one of the country’s biotech firms had begun preparing to make testing kits to identify the disease. On January 16, Chun Jong-yoon, the chief executive and founder of molecular biotech company Seegene, told his team it was time to start focusing on coronavirus.
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EL PASO, Texas — The City of El Paso has announced it is suspending all special programming at parks, libraries, museums and other locations until further notice. A notice Thursday night from the city said it was doing so “in the interest of protecting the public’s health and safety from the evolving COVID-19 pandemic.” You
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Charles Barkley reveals he fell ill and has been self-quarantined, has taken a coronavirus test but has not yet gotten the results pic.twitter.com/yyZnZ7z0eH— gifdsports (@gifdsports) March 13, 2020 ATLANTA, Georgia — Former NBA great and “NBA on TNT” analyst Charles Barkley announced on Thursday night’s broadcast that he was under self-quarantine for possible coronavirus as
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An employee of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Washington metro area is suspected to have coronavirus and is showing symptoms, intelligence officials told CNN on Thursday. The employee doesn’t work at agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia, in the Washington suburbs, but does work in the area and the individual’s condition is not a result
Continue Reading (CNN Español) – El gobierno de Panamá anunció este jueves 13 casos nuevos de coronavirus en el país, por lo que el número total de personas contagiadas se eleva a 27. “Los casos nuevos reportados son producto de la búsqueda activa entre los contactos de personas que han dado positivo al nuevo coronavirus y otros
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Princess Cruises will halt global operations of its 18 cruise ships for two months, after two of its ships carried passengers who were diagnosed with the coronavirus. The move came after another cruise ship operator, Viking, announced it would also suspend all ocean and river cruises until May 1. Viking has 16 ocean-going ships and
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DALLAS, Texas — Officials have announced a ban on gatherings and events of more than 500 people in Dallas County in an attempt to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The decision came as the state’s second-most populous county reported five new virus cases, two of which resulted in the victims currently being hospitalized. The announcement
Continue Reading Disney’s tourism business has come to a halt because of the coronavirus. Disney is closing Walt Disney World, its flagship theme park resort in Orlando, Florida, because of the global pandemic. The company also announced the closure of Disneyland Paris and the suspension of all new departures with the Disney Cruise Line. Earlier on Thursday
Continue Reading The US Department of Defense on Thursday said it wishes to re-evaluate its decision to award the Pentagon’s multibillion-dollar cloud contract with Microsoft, signaling a potential victory for Amazon in its protest of the award. The department “wishes to reconsider its award decision in response to the other technical challenges presented by AWS,” it said
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — La NBA anunció que la temporada se suspenderá después de que un jugador de los Jazz de Utah dio positivo por COVID-19. “El resultado de la prueba se informó poco antes del inicio del partido de esta noche entre el Jazz y el Oklahoma City Thunder en el Chesapeake Energy Arena. En
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EL PASO, Texas — A two-car crash involving a police car shut down a busy east El Paso intersection for several hours Thursday evening as traffic investigators tried piecing together what happened. The collision occurred around 5 p.m. at George Dieter and Edgemere. Emergency dispatchers said the two officers in the police vehicle weren’t hurt,
Continue Reading (CNN Español) – El gobierno de Guatemala anunció este jueves que queda restringido el ingreso de salvadoreños por vía aérea, marítima o terrestre al país, mientras dure el estado de calamidad pública. La medida se produce en “prevención y reciprocidad a la decisión del gobierno salvadoreño”, según un comunicado de las autoridades de Guatemala en
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The dizzying number of cancellations and suspensions prompted by the coronavirus pandemic just kept growing Thursday, a day that saw the NCAA call off its March Madness, Major League Baseball bench spring training and Disney World and Disneyland shut their gates for a while. America, as we knew it, is on hold. Local and state
Continue Reading (CNN Español) – Más de 100.000 personas se vieron forzadas a abandonar Nicaragua y buscar asilo en otros países por la persecución o violación a sus derechos humanos desde el comienzo de la crisis política y social en abril de 2018, según reveló un informe de la Agencia de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados
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A source close to Donald Trump said the President is telling people close to him that he is indeed concerned about coming into contact with people who have contracted the coronavirus, including the Brazilian official who tested positive after coming face-to-face with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. “He is very concerned about all the people he met
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Independent School District announced that students will receive an extended three-week spring break beginning on Monday due to concerns regarding the coronavirus. Classes will resume on April 6, school leaders said in a statement on Sunday. “EPISD previously had made the proactive decision for an extended closure. Given
Continue Reading Besides a few landscapers bagging up the remnants of pruned trees, hardly anyone was outside in this part of New Rochelle, New York, on a balmy Wednesday as residents prepared for life to change dramatically. “It’s a mixture of boredom and anxiety,” said Eli Epstein, 66. “We’re cut off from our lives, our friends, our
Continue Reading (CNN Español) – El presentador de Univision Jorge Ramos estuvo posiblemente expuesto al coronavirus. Según un tuit publicado por la cadena, el periodista estuvo “en la proximidad de alguien” que a su vez tuvo contacto con una persona infectada con coronavirus y como precaución decidió no participar en el debate demócrata del próximo 15 de
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Once paquetes con 219 kilogramos de cocaína fueron incautados en aguas internacionales por las autoridades de El Salvador, informó este miércoles en redes sociales el ministro de defensa, René Francis Merino Monroy. La Fuerza Naval llevó a cabo la incautación a 292 millas náuticas (540 kilómetros) al suroeste del municipio de Acajutla.
Continue Reading President Donald Trump’s Oval Office remarks on Thursday before a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar were so thoroughly inaccurate it was a challenge to figure out which to fact check first. We’re still looking into some of Trump’s claims. But here are the two we picked as most egregious: Trump falsely claimed anybody
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Kansas — Kansas state officials are reporting their first novel coronavirus death, a man in his 70s who lived in a nursing home in the Kansas City, Kansas, area. It marked the 40th American death since the virus outbreak began. Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly said Thursday evening that the man died at a
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Click here for updates on this story HILLSBORO, Ore. (KPTV) — The new rules on social gatherings in Oregon during the coronavirus outbreak are impacting the private event industry. John Lee the owner of Northwest Management Group says this is a loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars. “I don’t know how I’m going to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TOPEKA, Kan. (KCTV/KSMO) — On Thursday, Kansas had its first COVID-19 related death. According to Governor Laura Kelly, the patient who died was a man in his 70s from Wyandotte County. He lived in a long-term care facility and had underlying health conditions that he was receiving treatment
Continue Reading Top negotiators were unable to clinch a final agreement on a sweeping legislative package to address the economic fallout of the escalating coronavirus crisis Thursday night, pushing talks into Friday as they sought to close out a handful of outstanding issues. After hours of talks and trading of proposals, including eight separate phone calls over
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