President Donald Trump lashed out at criticism of his handling of the coronavirus crisis during a grievance-fueled appearance from the White House that featured a propaganda-like video he said was produced by his aides. The appearance only affirmed the impression that some of Trump’s chief concerns amid the global public health disaster are how his
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When British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was released from hospital on Sunday, the country breathed a collective sigh of relief. And with good reason — despite officials’ daily insistence that Johnson was in “good spirits,” Johnson himself has since admitted that his life was in the balance. Questions over whether Downing Street was fully transparent
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The meat supply is at risk. Farm workers are in fear. It’s hard to get groceries. Health professionals — doctors, nurses and everyone down the line — are the rightful and obvious heroes of the pandemic, but if this dark episode has taught us anything about the way we live today, it could be that
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EL PASO, Texas — This past Easter Sunday, one El Paso family decided to surprise their mom with a social-distancing parade. It was all to show their support for her upcoming chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. Irma Vallejo’s family wanted to show her that even though stay-at-home orders are keeping the family apart, they were
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EL PASO, Texas — The number of jobless El Pasoans continues to surge, with over 5,500 new applications for unemployment filed last week, according to newly-released data Monday night from Workforce Solutions Borderplex. Jobless claims for the month of April thus far in the El Paso area have now exceeded 12,000. By comparison, there were
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EL PASO, Texas — A Texas Health and Human Services Commission call center in El Paso’s Lower Valley has been closed temporarily after an employee tested positive for the coronavirus, an agency employee in El Paso told Bob Moore at El Paso Matters. HHSC spokeswoman Christine Mann would only say the “HHSC office at 215
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Dozens of employees at the two major hospitals in Las Cruces have been furloughed following a state prohibition on elective surgeries and other non-essential medical procedures due to the coronavirus pandemic. MountainView Regional Medical Center and MountainView Medical Group confirmed to ABC-7 on Monday evening that it was temporarily laying
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An influential coronavirus model cited by the White House predicts the pandemic will “peter out” in May, but experts are wary about its assumption that there will be no resurgence of the virus in the summer months. The model, from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, was created by
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Italian classical singer Andrea Bocelli gave a moving performance from an empty cathedral on Sunday evening, in a bid to inspire hope amid the global coronavirus pandemic. On Sunday, the 61-year-old tenor — who has been blind since age 12 — sent an Easter message to millions around the world with his “Music for Hope”
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — As New Mexico loses millions of dollars in funding, local leaders are questioning how and why the state grew so reliant on oil revenue. Forty percent of the current state budget relies on oil and gas revenue from the Permian Basin, lobbyist Larry Horan told the Las Cruces City Council
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President Donald Trump said Monday that he will ask for a delay to the 2020 Census to make sure it is completed safely and accurately. “During this difficult time we’re also working to ensure that the 2020 Census is completed safely and accurately. We may be asking for an extension because, obviously, they can’t be
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WASHINGTON, DC — New York’s coronavirus death toll topped 10,000 even as the lack of fresh hot spots in the U.S. or elsewhere in the world yielded a ray of optimism and fueled discussions Monday about how some places might begin to reopen. The brunt of the disease has been felt most heavily in New
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You’ve been daydreaming lately, if you’re anything like me, imagining a glorious celebration with all the people you know and love. Now picture this one: a party in the summertime, a hall packed with brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles and cousins and enough barbecue ribs for everyone. Face-painting and balloon animals for the
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President Donald Trump lashed out at criticism of his handling of the coronavirus crisis during a grievance-fueled appearance from the White House that featured a propaganda-like video he said was produced by his aides. The appearance only affirmed the impression that some of Trump’s chief concerns amid the global public health disaster are how his
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“Ghosts” wrapped in white sheets are roaming the streets of a neighborhood in Indonesia’s central Java province trying to spook people into staying home during the coronavirus outbreak. The “pocong” or “pochong,” is a ghost known in local folklore for haunting graveyards, which wears the remnants of a burial shroud, tied in a knot at
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — The Republican Party is urging New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to allow non-essential small businesses to reopen with some requirements for social distancing. The first-term Democratic governor and state health officials have suspended a variety of nonessential business through at least April 30 in an effort to slow the spread
Continue Reading ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — People who are eligible for unemployment benefits in New Mexico will start receiving an additional $600 as early as next week. The New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions announced Monday that it would begin to implement the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation, which provides the additional money to eligible claimants who complete their
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States on the country’s East and West coasts are forming their own regional pacts to work together on how to reopen from the stay-at-home orders each has issued to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. The first such group to be announced came Monday on the East Coast. Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo
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States on the country’s East and West coasts are forming their own regional pacts to work together on how to reopen from the stay-at-home orders each has issued to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. The first such group to be announced came Monday on the East Coast. Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A group of engineering and physics students teamed up to produce a device that could prevent medical workers from contracting Covid-19. “They always so selflessly give up their time and their energy and are on-call essentially 24/7 to take care of us,” said Joel Cannon, the president of the Society
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico state health officials on Monday reported five new deaths and 107 additional cases of the coronavirus, including one new case in Doña Ana County. The total number of confirmed cases rose to 1,345 in the state, and 50 in the Las Cruces area. The death tally statewide rose to
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso health officials reported eight new coronavirus cases on Monday, bringing the county’s total number to the milestone 300 mark, but the number of deaths remained at two. Among the latest infections was a worker at a state health call center, which has resulted in the facility being temporarily closed.
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — Some parts of northern New Mexico got a late dose of winter Monday, as several inches of snow were reported in some locations. The National Weather Service in Albuquerque issued winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories for several counties through midnight. In the mountains east of Albuquerque, forecasters reported several inches
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It’s April and something that we must have to endure – winds and dust. Those windy conditions that we have been seeing will gradually diminish after 8pm tonight. Gusts have been around 50 mph in parts of the NE side of town. Tomorrow, the winds will be from the NW and not much of a
Continue Reading Drake has apparently never met a record he doesn’t want to break. Billboard announced Monday that the rapper became the first male artist to have debuted three songs at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. The entry of his latest single, “Toosie Slide,” in the top spot helped him tie with Mariah
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at criticism of his handling of the coronavirus crisis during a grievance-fueled appearance from the White House that featured a propaganda-like video he said was produced by his aides. He stepped to the podium armed with a video meant to frame his response in a positive light after
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With the novel coronavirus killing Americans from coast to coast, President Donald Trump is hearing complaints from some of his supporters about Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s leading authority on infectious disease. If the pressure prompts Trump to fire Fauci, this would be very bad news. On Sunday, Trump retweeted a conservative who concluded her tweet
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With the novel coronavirus killing Americans from coast to coast, President Donald Trump is hearing complaints from some of his supporters about Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s leading authority on infectious disease. If the pressure prompts Trump to fire Fauci, this would be very bad news. On Sunday, Trump retweeted a conservative who concluded her tweet
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Even coronavirus hasn’t cooled the years-old simmering animosity between New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. The feuding over the handling of the pandemic has gone on for weeks, including disagreements over calling for shelter-in-place, requiring people to wear masks in public and closing playgrounds in New York City.
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A rash of severe weather that killed 24 people and shredded houses in the South is now pummeling states father north. About 15 million people along the East Coast were under a tornado watch Monday, the National Weather Service said. “Damaging winds of up to 70 mph and a few tornadoes are possible,” CNN meteorologist
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