Dr. Lorna Breen was not struggling with any emotional difficulties or problems with stress prior to being on the front lines of battling a pandemic, her father says. The New York City emergency room doctor who recovered from Covid-19 and continued to treat coronavirus patients died a hero, he says. The 49-year-old’s father, Dr. Philip
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The Pentagon has officially released three short videos showing “unidentified aerial phenomena” that had previously been released by a private company. The videos show what appear to be unidentified flying objects rapidly moving while recorded by infrared cameras. Two of the videos contain service members reacting in awe at how quickly the objects are moving.
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Every year, tourists descend on the Netherlands to revel in the bright and colorful tulip fields. But with coronavirus putting many travel plans on hold, tourists have been notably absent this year. That’s why Dutch Daffodils, a Dutch family flower farm, and Tulips in Holland, a travel blog dedicated to the tulips in the Netherlands,
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A dog that saved her family’s life by alerting them to a deadly tornado before it destroyed their Tennessee home has been found after nearly two months. Eric Johnson was asleep March 3 when Bella, the family’s 6-year-old miniature Australian shepherd, woke him up. Johnson said he noticed Bella behaving extremely erratically, giving him a
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On Sunday, Andrew Adonis, a member of Britain’s House of Lords and onetime cabinet minister, took aim at the idea that the coronavirus pandemic was causing a crisis of capitalism. “Lots of instant commentary on ‘how Covid-19 will change the world’ calls it a ‘crisis of capitalism’. Wrong,” he wrote on Twitter. “It’s a ‘crisis
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EL PASO, Texas — Hundreds of thousands of Texans filed for unemployment within the past two weeks. This week, that number could grow by 450 El Pasoans. That’s how many city employees learned Tuesday that they are being furloughed. The city is calling the furloughs an unpaid leave of absence. Employees arrived at the downtown Convention Center,
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Former Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said Tuesday night that she believes the denial by former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign regarding onetime staffer Tara Reade’s allegation that Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993. “I believe that women deserve to be heard and I believe they need to be listened to, but I also
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EL PASO, Texas — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is laying out some new suggestions and guidelines for pet owners. This is happening after the very first cases emerged of dogs and cats testing positive for Covid-19. Those discoveries included a pair of cats that tested positive in New York and a
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President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that Dr. Anthony Fauci, a key member of the White House coronavirus task force, said in late February that the coronavirus was “no problem.” Fauci didn’t say that. Trump also suggested Tuesday that he was correct when he said in February that the US would go down from 15 coronavirus
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EL PASO, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott is allowing Texas churches to resume religious services, deeming those “essential.” However, El Paso’s Catholic Diocese plans to maintain its suspension of public gatherings and continue televising and streaming Sunday Mass as the virus continues to sicken people around the community. Bishop Mark Seitz issued a detailed explanation
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EL PASO, Texas– During these tough times, El Pasoans are finding creative ways to put smiles on the faces of young kids. For Ruth Holmes, that creative way happened when she decided to do some late night online shopping. The result was, Dino-mite. “I’ve actually had neighbors recording me taking pictures waving at me, you
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Perched on his apartment balcony in Nairobi, 13-year-old Yassin Hussein Moyo curiously watched police patrol the streets with his mother and siblings. A coronavirus-related curfew had just started when a stray bullet struck him in the stomach. His father, Hussein Moyo Molte, was at a nearby friend’s place watching the news and recounts hearing gunshots
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Mexico’s Interior Department urged towns and states Tuesday to stop putting up roadblocks and curfews to stem the spread of the new coronavirus, as hundreds have done. The department said in a statement that such measures violate constitutional rights like the right to free movement, and argued that local governments don’t
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EL PASO, Texas — Andrez Saiz was born and raised in the United States and currently lives in El Paso. Recently, he was furloughed from his job as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and the $1,200 stimulus check was something he was looking forward to. After checking the status of his check, he realized
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso’s elected state leaders are calling for the governor to take action to protect employees and patients at the El Paso Psychiatric Center. “The delegation is concerned with the health of the residents and the employees at the facilities who are front line workers and providing care, and continuing to
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As some researchers say deaths could rise significantly in coming weeks, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States has topped 1 million and the deaths toll has surpassed the total of US troop fatalities during the Vietnam War. As of Tuesday evening, there are more than 1,012,000 people in the United States who have
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Vice President Mike Pence claimed on Monday that much of the American public has a “misunderstanding” of his March 9 claim that 4 million coronavirus tests would be distributed by the end of that week. Pence was doing again on Monday what he had done on March 9 and has done regularly since: leaving out
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas – Two employees at the El Paso Psychiatric Center tell ABC-7 that not enough was done to protect them and patients from contracting Covid-19 inside the state-run facility. According to city health officials, a local ‘health facility’ has 42 positive cases within its wall, but the city has not named that facility,
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The governor of Kentucky apologized on Tuesday for saying someone named Tupac Shakur, who had applied for unemployment in the state, was an example of fraud — when it was actually the person’s real name. In a press conference on Monday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said someone in the state had filed for unemployment under
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EL PASO, Texas — Simon Property Group is reopening 49 of its malls across the country this weekend, including El Paso’s Cielo Vista Mall. That’s according to an internal company memo obtained and reported on Tuesday evening by CNBC, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. The memo indicated Cielo Vista would open May
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Angelina Friedman survived cancer, miscarriages, internal bleeding, sepsis and now not one, but two pandemics. More than 100 years after living through the 1918 influenza pandemic, the 101-year-old woman just beat coronavirus. An administrator at the Mohegan Lake, New York, nursing home where Friedman lives said Friedman is back to her old self and celebrating
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Vice President Mike Pence claimed on Monday that much of the American public has a “misunderstanding” of his March 9 claim that 4 million coronavirus tests would be distributed by the end of that week. Pence was doing again on Monday what he had done on March 9 and has done regularly since: leaving out
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A former neighbor of Tara Reade, a woman who has accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, has come forward to say that Reade told her about the alleged assault in the mid-1990s. The account, purportedly told to the neighbor within a few years of the alleged incident, marks the first detailed and on-the-record corroboration of
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A wrestler from Hanks High School is ready to take the next step in her wrestling career. On Monday, Victoria Nunez signed with Mckendree University, a division 2 school located in Lebanon, Illinois. The wrestling program at Mckendree University is top notch. The women’s team has won back to back national titles, and now Nunez
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso city and county officials announced two new coronavirus deaths and 28 more cases on Tuesday evening while reluctantly lifting the “stay home, work safe” order as of Friday to comply with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s directives to start reopening the state. While the city/county stay-at-home order will be lifted,
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday outlined the phased reopening plan for his state, with retail businesses and schools “weeks away” based on an apparent stabilization in both the numbers of confirmed cases of, and deaths due to, coronavirus. Newsom said on Twitter that Stage 1 is where the state is now, staying home and
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As some researchers say deaths could rise significantly in coming weeks, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States has topped 1 million. As of Tuesday afternoon, there are more than 1,010,000 people in the United States who have or have had the virus, according to a tally from health officials by Johns Hopkins University.
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More than half of Americans now support conducting all US elections by mail, according to a new Pew poll (52%, to be specific) — an important stat as the country grapples with how to hold a presidential election amid a pandemic. The poll also found even more Americans (an impressive 70%) favor allowing any voter
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, a key member of the White House coronavirus task force, said the federal government is still trying to connect the dots with states on testing and that “we need to have a productive partnership” as the US grapples with the novel coronavirus. “We can’t just leave them on their own, on the
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President Donald Trump on Monday urged the nation’s governors to “seriously consider” reopening schools as part of his push to restart the economy, though many states have already recommended against resuming the school year. “Some of you might start thinking about school openings, because a lot of people are wanting to have school openings. It’s
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