Netflix is bringing back its widely talked about docuseries “Tiger King” for one more episode. The streaming giant announced Thursday that it would release an eighth episode of the show, titled “The Tiger King and I,” on April 12. The episode is an aftershow hosted by comedian Joel McHale, who is featured in Netflix’s announcement
Continue Reading San Francisco‘s iconic City Lights bookstore is on the brink of collapse as the coronavirus pandemic is forcing the business to keep its doors shut. Elaine Katzenberger, who is the Publisher and CEO of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers — both the store and its publishing arm — has started a GoFundMe campaign to raise
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The pace at which Covid-19 spread around the globe left governments and international institutions paralyzed. But few experienced the scale of the whiplash currently being felt in Brussels. The European Union began this year reinvigorated, having seen off the threat of Brexit with a unity of purpose that typically eludes it when faced with such
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Former President Barack Obama on Thursday gave some advice to a group of mayors on how to deal with the coronavirus outbreak, saying that “the biggest mistake any (of) us can make in these situations is to misinform.” Obama was speaking during a virtual meeting organized by Bloomberg Philanthropies. “Speak the truth. Speak it clearly.
Continue Reading A street in New Zealand just got its title back after the Guinness World Records organization changed the way it measures these things. Baldwin Street, in Dunedin, New Zealand, held the record for over a decade until June 2019. That’s when Ffordd Pen Llech, a winding street in Harlech, Wales, swiped the title. Representatives of
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The Chinese government has issued a new draft list of livestock that can be farmed for meat in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic, which is suspected to have originated from wild animals in a Wuhan wet market. Beijing temporarily banned all trade in wild animals for food following the outbreak, which has now spread
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The United States is already in a recession and will remain that way for the first half of the year, according to a survey of 45 economists. The economists predict a sharp, short recession for the first half of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic “severely restricts economic activity,” the survey from the National Association for
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — La Clinica de Familia in south Las Cruces received a large donation of handmade masks for their medical staff thanks to a Revolution 120, a local nonprofit. “Personal protective equipment (PPE) is extremely important in the health field,” said Virgil Medina, CEO of La Clinica de Familia. “There’s such shortage
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HATCH, New Mexico — Covid-19 is quickly spreading and impacting the Borderland including rural communities like Hatch. Mayor Andy Nuñez, who has been mayor for about 20 years, told ABC-7 he wishes he can provide testing of Covid-19. “Nobody comes here to test us,” Nuñez said. “If we wanted testing, we need to go to Las
Continue Reading Mort Drucker, whose distinctive caricatures of celebrities appeared in the pages of Mad Magazine for more than five decades, has died, according to tweets from the magazine and CNN’s Jake Tapper. Drucker was 91. Drucker’s death was not a result of the novel coronavirus although he was having trouble breathing, Tapper tweeted. The cartoonist had
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AUSTIN, Texas — The volume of patients in Texas with the illness caused by the novel coronavirus topped 10,000 cases Thursday, with the number of deaths topping 200, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers. The case numbers updated hourly by the university’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering tallied 10,439 cases in Texas as of
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The current coronavirus pandemic has put a damper on the plans for high school seniors in the Borderland. However, ABC-7 is sharing with our viewers photos of some of the seniors from the class of 2020. If you would like to submit a photo of a senior, send an email to adrian.ochoa@kvia.com. Include a photo
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There is a man at the center of this story, but it is really about three women. One went on to become a US senator and run for president, twice, unsuccessfully. Another spent decades trying to hide, heal, reinvent and give back. The third — her name was Linda Tripp — lived in relative obscurity.
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Two separate research projects suggest that the novel coronavirus may have been circulating in New York City earlier than thought and the earliest cases likely originated with travelers coming from Europe and other parts of the United States, not Asia. The new data come from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the
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A sailor from the USS Theodore Roosevelt who had tested positive for coronavirus was admitted to an intensive care unit in Guam Thursday after being found unresponsive, according to a Navy official. The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Teddy Roosevelt sailors was at the center of a controversy that led to the Tuesday resignation
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Activist Phyllis Lyon, who spent more than 50 years fighting for LGBTQ rights, died of natural causes. She was 95. California Gov. Gavin Newsom shared the news of Lyon’s death in a post on Twitter on Thursday, calling her a “dear friend.” When Newsom served as mayor of San Francisco, he officiated the wedding between
Continue Reading Although Hawaii officials have urged people not to travel to the state during the coronavirus pandemic, some still aren’t listening. Over 160 visitors arrived in the islands, not including inter-island travelers, on Wednesday, the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau said. That number is a huge decrease compared to the roughly 30,000 visitors a day Hawaii
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Congressional Republicans are toughening their stance against Democrats’ efforts to provide states more funding for mail-in voting in the next stimulus package to address the coronavirus pandemic as President Donald Trump rails against the proposal on Twitter and at his daily press briefings. The dispute could lead to a major stand-off as Congress begins negotiations
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A weeks-long testing delay that effectively blinded public health officials to the spread of the coronavirus in the US might have been avoided had federal agencies fully enacted their own plan to ramp up testing during a national health crisis. The plan, which is spelled out in an April 2018 agreement between the Centers for
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A weeks-long testing delay that effectively blinded public health officials to the spread of the coronavirus in the US might have been avoided had federal agencies fully enacted their own plan to ramp up testing during a national health crisis. The plan, which is spelled out in an April 2018 agreement between the Centers for
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Bernie Sanders launched his first presidential campaign in near obscurity. He ended his second on Wednesday having inspired a movement that changed American politics. Sanders never fully embraced the Democratic Party, even as he sought its nomination. But many in the party — including the voters who cast a ballot for another candidate this year
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Microsoft is giving its workers an additional three months of paid parental leave to deal with extended school closures due to the coronavirus outbreak. Parents who work for Microsoft can choose how and when to use the leave — whether it’s a three-month stretch or a few days a week — a company spokesperson told
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Microsoft is giving its workers an additional three months of paid parental leave to deal with extended school closures due to the coronavirus outbreak. Parents who work for Microsoft can choose how and when to use the leave — whether it’s a three-month stretch or a few days a week — a company spokesperson told
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The Senate is at an impasse over approving additional Covid-19 aid after Republicans and Democrats blocked competing proposals on Thursday, creating uncertainty over whether and when there will be bipartisan agreement to approve further relief measures amid the ongoing crisis. Democrats blocked an effort by Senate Republicans to approve by unanimous consent an increase in
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HIDALGO, Texas — A U.S. Border Patrol agent wouldn’t let Jackeline Reyes explain why she and her 15-year-old daughter fled Honduras and needed asylum, pointing to the coronavirus. It was just days after the Trump administration essentially shut down the nation’s asylum system. “The agent told us about the virus and that we couldn’t go
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When I was a young boy, I witnessed unrelenting verbal abuse and saw the results of the physical harm inflicted on my mother, Margaret. The perpetrator was not some stranger, but my father, a New York City cop. The emotional and physical pain she suffered scarred her life, and mine, too. I was fortunate, though,
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EL PASO, Texas — Calling it a “very somber” moment, El Paso Mayor Dee Margo announced the city’s first coronavirus death on Thursday afternoon, as he noted that the total number of confirmed cases had grown to 225. The death involved a man in his 80s. He had been in an intensive care unit at
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said the state’s case total was nearing 1,000 – with 989 diagnosed with the virus as of Thursday. There were 124 new cases statewide in the past 24 hours, including five new infections in the Las Cruces area. That brings Doña Ana County’s total cases to
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WASHINGTON, DC — As the nation’s top health expert said Thursday that he thinks the U.S. death toll from Covid-19 could be far less than the original White House projection of up to 240,000 lives, President Donald Trump is preparing to form a second coronavirus task force focused on reopening the economy — while jobless claims soared for the third week in a row. Fauci
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Coronavirus deaths in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, which includes Juarez, have risen to 11 as of Thursday, government health officials said. Juarez is responsible for 26 out of the state’s 43 confirmed cases. The other communities in the state showing cases are: Chihuahua city, 10; Namiquipa and Bachíniva, 2; as
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