The US Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday it is requiring a boxed warning — the agency’s most prominent warning — for the asthma and allergy medication montelukast, sold under the brand name Singulair. The boxed warning advises health care providers to avoid prescribing montelukast for patients with mild symptoms. It strengthens an existing warning
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China is stepping up measures to prevent coronavirus cases being imported back from other virus-hit nations, as the outbreak slows within the country but picks up speed across the world. The deadly virus has spread to more than 75 countries and territories worldwide since emerging from China late last year. The number of new daily
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EL PASO, Texas – EL Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego appeared on ABC-7 at Four to talk about the county’s efforts to improve transportation infrastructure in the years to come. The county was part of a recent meeting with the Metropolitan Planning Organization to discuss upgrades to I-10 and how the Border West Expressway will
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When the novel coronavirus outbreak hit China in late December and January, the government sprang into crisis mode. Hard-hit cities like Wuhan, where the outbreak began, went into complete lockdown. Millions worked from home or self-quarantined for weeks on end. New hospitals were built in a matter of days to treat the sheer number of
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso Locomotive this week announced another offensive threat to the roster in attacking midfielder Dylan Mares, pending league and federation approval. Dylan comes to El Paso after spending three years with perennial NPSL powerhouse Miami FC where he played three seasons. Before that, he spent four seasons with Indy Eleven in both the
Continue Reading An East Nashville couple and at least five young children died when two powerful tornadoes touched down in Tennessee earlier this week. They were among the 24 people killed across four counties after storms moved through the state, shredding buildings and toppling power lines. Authorities have identified the majority of the victims. Their ages range
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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — It wasn’t an easy road getting there, but for the UTEP Miners it doesn’t really matter. Wednesday night in Murfreesboro, the Miners defeated the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders by a final score of 60-56. With the victory, UTEP secured a spot in this year’s Conference USA Tournament. Last season, UTEP failed to
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EL PASO, Texas — Residents in one east-side El Paso neighborhood can now drive out of their homes after torrential rains left them boxed in with a partially destroyed street. An El Paso Water utility project along Sam Snead Drive was washed away in Tuesday’s torrential rains. The rain eroded the dirt around one water
Continue Reading A college basketball player stepped on the court for the first time in his career after almost five years of recovery from a car crash that gave him a traumatic brain injury and put him in a coma for several weeks. Josh Speidel, a 23-year-old senior at the University of Vermont, scored two points in
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A federal jury in Las Cruces has convicted a former Sunland Park militia leader of impersonating a U.S. Border Patrol agent last year. Prosecutors said Wednesday that 45-year-old James Christopher Benvie was found guilty of two counts of false personation of an agent and faces up to three years in prison on each
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — New Mexico State University won the Western Athletic Conference Indoor Track & Field Championship for the first time ever this past weekend while competing out in Idaho. It is a signature win that will help usher in some much needed change to the team’s facilities. NMSU officials have confirmed that
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Nota del editor: Kari Nixon es profesora asistente de inglés en la Universidad de Whitworth y autora del libro “Kept from All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature”. Puedes seguirla en Twitter @HalfSickShadows. Las opiniones expresadas en esta columna son exclusivas de la autora. (CNN) – La
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A woman was dead and a man injured following gunfire Wednesday night at the Abraham Gonzalez International Airport in Juarez, prosecutors confirmed Thursday, but no arrests had yet been made. The shooting occurred around 6:45 p.m. Wednesday in a parking lot outside the airport and the gunmen were chased off by National
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The Trump administration has tapped Marshall Billingslea, the current undersecretary for terrorism financing at the Treasury Department, as special envoy for nuclear talks, according to two sources familiar. The decision comes nearly one month after US national security adviser Robert O’Brien said the US was preparing to begin negotiating a new nuclear arms agreement with
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As officials around the country urged local communities to think about ways to stop the novel coronavirus from spreading, California authorities said Wednesday that a person who died from Covid-19 had recently been on a cruise. The patient, whose name wasn’t released, had underlying health conditions, and probably was exposed to the virus on a
Continue Reading Two black students at a Missouri middle school were sent a racist meme by a white classmate, the school district said, and the parents of one of the students want changes to the district’s policies dealing with acts of racism. “Upon learning of what has reportedly happened, the school’s administrators responded immediately,” Webster Groves School
Continue Reading Laura Harlin and her family hunkered down in their basement as a tornado barreled through Tennessee on Tuesday. When they emerged to assess the damage outside, they spotted an airport sign in their backyard. The green and white metal sign has the word “terminal” printed on it with an arrow pointed up. The metal sign
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EL PASO, Texas — A SWAT standoff ended late Wednesday night with the arrest of an armed man who had been holed-up in an east El Paso apartment building after he allegedly slashed another man following what was said to be dispute over a dog, according to police and witnesses. Jonathan Macias, 40, was being
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United Airlines and JetBlue Airways became the first airlines to cut their US flight schedules on Wednesday, as passenger worry about the coronavirus has caused a sharp drop in demand. While airlines around the world have been making steep cuts in international flights, these are the first set of cuts made to a US flight
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SAN FRANCISCO, California — In the latest twist on a key Trump administration immigration policy, a federal appeals court said it will prevent the government from making asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for U.S. court hearings starting next week unless the U.S. Supreme Court steps in sooner. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San
Continue Reading (CNN) – Escribe en Google “cuándo las mujeres empezaron a….” y una de las primeras sugerencias de búsqueda que aparece es “¿cuándo las mujeres empezaron a depilarse?”. La respuesta se remonta siglos atrás. La depilación, o el hecho de eliminar los pelos del cuerpo, ha modelado durante mucho tiempo las dinámicas de género, ha funcionado
Continue Reading (CNN Español) – La Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) condenó este miércoles, a través de su cuenta de Twitter, la violencia de civiles afines al gobierno de Nicaragua contra un grupo de periodistas mientras se realizaba una misa en la Catedral de Managua por la muerte del poeta y sacerdote Ernesto Cardenal. La CIDH
Continue Reading The American Israel Public Affairs Committee announced that some people who were potentially in contact with a coronavirus patient attended the group’s Washington conference earlier this week — as did several political leaders. The annual three-day event, which ran from Sunday to Tuesday, attracts more than 18,000 people, according to the pro-Israel lobbying group’s website.
Continue Reading After Joe Biden‘s stunning comeback on Super Tuesday, the Democratic Party is once again facing the nightmare of 2016: a collision course between its establishment candidate and Bernie Sanders that could leave the party fractured and weakened come November. Four years ago, some of Sen. Sanders’ most ardent supporters — including many young voters —
Continue Reading The warning signs around Mike Bloomberg’s campaign started flashing in early February. And by Tuesday night, it was clear that all the money in the former New York mayor’s bank account couldn’t save his sinking campaign. By the time he made his late entry into the Democratic primary race last November, Bloomberg knew that his
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Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare statement rebuking Chuck Schumer for comments the Senate minority leader made about Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Schumer, speaking at a rally of abortion rights supporters, appeared to threaten Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s two Supreme Court nominees who were
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Supergirl has some super news. Actress Melissa Benoist, star of CW’s “Supergirl,” has announced she’s expecting her first child with her husband, actor Chris Wood. “A non-canine child is coming to our family very soon!!!” Benoist wrote on Instagram. “@christophrwood has always been an old dad by nature but now he’s going to be a
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico’s governor said Wednesday that two people in the state have been tested for coronavirus infection, with one negative result and the other result still undetermined. The governor’s office would not reveal where the two patients live. While there are no confirmed cases yet of coronavirus in New Mexico,
Continue Reading A noose was once placed on the locker of the man who shot and killed five coworkers at the Molson Coors complex in Milwaukee before taking his own life, the company said. The noose was found on Anthony Ferrill’s locker in 2015, Molson Coors spokesman Adam Collins said. The company has not been able to
Continue ReadingMultiple US military branches are screening new recruits for the novel coronavirus as part of a sweeping effort to prevent the virus from spreading among the armed forces. While recruits are always screened for health issues, the coronavirus is now a particular concern for the US Navy, Air Force and Army who have implemented new
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