Once upon a time in a town in central Argentina, hailstones the size of footballs were so big that researchers needed a new category to describe them. Meet gargantuan hail. It’s hail that’s 6 inches across and larger, according to researchers who proposed the name. “In the last two decades, there’s been about 10 reports
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Kim Jong Un made an appearance at a May Day celebration, at which he was pictured smoking and laughing, North Korean state-run media has reported. This would be the leader’s first public appearance in about three weeks after global speculation over his health. Kim spoke to officials at an event to celebrate Labor Day and
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El Paso, Texas- Plenty of sunshine in the forecast this Saturday. Though we may be a few degrees cooler than Friday, it will still be near our record high temperature that we hit in 2006. For El Paso, the record high temperature to beat is 95 degrees. I have us hitting 96 today. Afternoon winds
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“Go There” is a deeper look at the cultural, political and economic challenges affecting our lives. We’re going to take you to the center of the story alongside our correspondents across the globe. Episodes premiere weekdays at 8 p.m. ET on Facebook. Check out some of our recent content below. Inflated medicine costs create ‘death
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Andy Murray is backing a merger between the men’s and women’s tennis tours, a topic that rose to the forefront after a tweet from Roger Federer during the sport’s lockdown due to coronavirus. Alignment of the ATP and WTA has been discussed on and off for years but might be closer than ever following Federer
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A moving truck came to Rebecca Stevens-Walter’s New York apartment this week. But she wasn’t there to help pack boxes or supervise the crew. In mid-March, the 39-year-old pastor flew to New Mexico with her husband and two kids. They left so suddenly they barely had time to prepare for the trip. “We fled,” she
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Kim Jong Un made an appearance at a May Day celebration, at which he was pictured smoking and laughing, North Korean state-run media has reported. This would be the leader’s first public appearance in about three weeks after global speculation over his health. Kim spoke to officials at an event to celebrate Labor Day and
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Isolation isn’t a new concept for Olympic hopeful Mandy Marquardt. As a track cyclist she’s become inured to the discipline of a sport that demands the toughest of psyches in dealing with hours of solo training. So the new global norm of social distancing hasn’t been that daunting for the 28-year-old. But trying to keep
Continue Reading Isolation isn’t a new concept for Olympic hopeful Mandy Marquardt. As a track cyclist she’s become inured to the discipline of a sport that demands the toughest of psyches in dealing with hours of solo training. So the new global norm of social distancing hasn’t been that daunting for the 28-year-old. But trying to keep
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Tripoli, Lebanon (CNN) — A large bag of the thistly gundelia plant arrives at Um Ahmad’s door as it does nearly every day. Wearing a double layered headscarf, she settles into a blue armchair. She has until the afternoon to trim the spines off the wild plant for her customers to cook. “We work on
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EL PASO, Texas — With the start of a new month, rent is now due once again. However, many are still struggling to get on their feet as the outbreak of Covid-19 continues. The Texas governor’s executive order protecting tenants from eviction is set to expire on May 18, leaving many tenants wondering what to
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Actor Sam Lloyd, who appeared on several television shows and portrayed lawyer Ted Buckland on the comedy, “Scrubs,” has died. He was 56. Lloyd’s agent confirmed his death Friday night but did not provide details on the cause. Variety reported that he was diagnosed with a brain tumor and cancer last year, and it spread
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Taxi companies have gone through some difficult times in recent years. Ride-share apps have deeply cut into their profits, and now the coronavirus pandemic is putting the whole industry at risk. “When it all started. our bookings dropped substantially,” Andale Ride owner Joe Olivar said. “Half of our drivers decided
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Republican U.S. House candidates in a crucial race in southern New Mexico say they want to participate in televised and radio debates as they seek to convince GOP voters who is the most pro-President Donald Trump. Oil executive Claire Chase last week challenged to her two GOP opponents to participate
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Las Cruces man is facing charges after authorities say he attacked a woman and her family with a machete. The Las Cruces Sun-News reported this week that Zachary Tanner Cadena was arrested following a fight with the woman and her family. According to Doña Ana County Sheriff’s deputies, Cadena went to
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When it became clear that Barack Obama would be the nominee of the Democratic Party in the spring of 2008, he commissioned a team of lawyers to begin an in-depth vetting process of potential candidates for vice president. Dozens of women and men under consideration were reviewed. Those who rose on the list of contenders
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Former Vice President Joe Biden broke his silence Friday on the sexual assault allegation against him, offering an unequivocal denial. As expected, many of his supporters — champions of the #MeToo movement among them — are so far taking his words at face value. However, for a candidate running, as he said in his Thanksgiving
Continue Reading Oprah Winfrey invited fans into her home (virtually) Friday night for a spiritual discussion. Winfrey kicked off the 24-hour global livestream event called “The Call to Unite,” organized in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Her discussion featured the event’s organizer, Timothy Shriver, Bishop TD Jakes and Eckhart Tolle. “I’ve had a lot of time
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On Friday, Joe Biden finally responded to the accusation that he sexually assaulted an aide, Tara Reade, in the early 1990s. He said her charge was false (“this never happened”), and asked the Secretary of the Senate to have the National Archives identify any record of the complaint and release it to the press. No
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Juarez continues to be the focal point of the Covid-19 infection in the state of Chihuahua. Not only is it home to 70-percent of the fatalities in the state, but two-thirds of the doctors who have contracted the disease in Chihuahua are in Juarez.On Friday, the medical director for the state
Continue Reading Most Floridians hitting the newly reopened beaches are trading stay-at-home sweatpants for shorts and swimsuits. But when he heads out, Daniel Uhlfelder dons a raggedy black robe, conceals his face with a black cloth and wields his scythe. Uhlfelder, an attorney, is haunting Florida beaches dressed as the Grim Reaper to protest their reopening, which
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Public Health Department on Friday evening reported one new Covid-19 death, a man in his 60s, bringing the total number of deaths in the county to 22. Officials also reported 37 new virus cases, bringing El Paso County’s total case number ever closer to the 1,000 mark, standing
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TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico — Virgin Galactic’s spaceship VSS Unity landed in the New Mexico desert on Friday, marking its first glide flight from Spaceport America as the company moves toward commercial operations. The company announced the flight on social media and shared photos of the craft on the runway and members of the
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“Our death totals, our numbers, per million people, are really very, very strong,” President Donald Trump boasted on Thursday, despite the fact that the US ranks far worse than most countries in deaths-per-million people from Covid-19, according to Worldometers. “We’re very proud of the job we’ve done,” Trump gushed. “Strong” is not the word that
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At the first official briefing by a White House press secretary in 417 days, Kayleigh McEnany promised journalists, “I will never lie to you.” McEnany proceeded to say a bunch of things that weren’t true. Whether they were deliberate lies or inadvertent false claims, we can’t be certain; since it was her first time at
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A replenishment in the heavily criticized Paycheck Protection Program resulted in a firehose of small business lending from JPMorgan Chase, the financial institution said Friday. JPMorgan, the largest US bank by assets and a target of recent PPP-related complaints, received approval for 211,000 loans totaling about $15 billion under the second wave of the US
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The new coronavirus is likely to keep spreading for at least another 18 months to two years—until 60% to 70% of the population has been infected, a team of longstanding pandemic experts predicted in a report released Thursday. They recommended that the US prepare for a worst-case scenario that includes a second big wave of
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EL PASO, Texas — Friday marks seven weeks since El Paso’s first reported Covid-19 case. It’s also the day that Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Texas economy to begin reopening. Seven weeks into efforts to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, the number of new cases is growing, but at a slower rate. Covid-19
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You can buy a lot of things with $1.6 million: a fancy car, a big house and maybe even an early retirement. It’s a one-way ticket to the good life. When Larry Connor made that sum over eight days of coronavirus volatility in the stock market, he decided to give it back to his employees.
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Days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at keeping meat-processing facilities open amid the coronavirus pandemic, plants across the country are scrambling to balance worker safety with pressure from the federal government to remain operational. But the order, which gives Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue the power to invoke the Defense Production
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