President Donald Trump has a favorite way to illustrate what he says is the strength of his relationship with the critical swing state he is visiting on Thursday. He tells a story about how he was once named Michigan’s “Man of the Year,” though there is no evidence this ever happened. It’s worth fact checking
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Two months into the pandemic battle, national politics have hardened into an ugly, dispiriting limbo amid a sense that during a generational crisis, there is no one in charge. Haunted by an invisible pathogen that has drained trademark energy and optimism from American life, the ordeal has clearly not drawn the country together — it’s
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We all know the type. They can eat all they want, spend zero time at the gym and don’t put on an ounce. Now, according to new preliminary research published Thursday in the journal Cell, scientists may have discovered the gene that helps these super-skinny individuals stay so slim, potentially opening up a new frontier
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – Customs and Border Protection announced its agents in the El Paso area seized 1,000 counterfeit Covid-19 test kits last weekend. “Some appear to be exploiting the pandemic for financial gain, leaving the consumer at risk. These products may result in serious consequences to the consumer, whether that end user is
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Three El Paso CVS pharmacies will start offering drive-thru coronavirus testing on Friday. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made the announcement Thursday morning. In total 44 CVS pharmacies will be screening patients across the state. The three locations are: CVS Pharmacy, 12051 Tierra Este Road, El Paso, TX 79938 CVS Pharmacy,
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As the novel coronavirus has spread across the globe, President Trump has repeated one phrase like a mantra: It will go away. Since February Trump has said the virus will “go away” at least 15 times, most recently on May 15. “It’s going to disappear one day,” he said on February 27. “It’s like a
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Some passengers will arrive at the airport and find their flight is too full to allow for the neighboring seat to remain empty, according to data from a US airline industry group. The group maintains, however, that the vast majority of flights continue to allow for many open seats, even as the average number of
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health released new data on Thursday morning which showed three more people have died from Covid-19 in El Paso County, and the total number of cases now stands at 2,046. The death toll from the virus has reached 57. There are also 116 new
Continue Reading As the pandemic pokes holes in America’s meat supply chain, many people are thinking about eating less meat or even going vegetarian. Maybe you’re thinking about the safety of plant workers, animal welfare, cleanliness or costs. That leads to the following questions: What should a newbie eat? How do you get enough nutrients? And importantly
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A Virginia family was just trying to get out of the coronavirus blues by taking a long drive when they found what turned out to be nearly $1 million in cash in the middle of the road. It happened last weekend. A car in front of the Schantz family had swerved out of the way
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A Virginia family was just trying to get out of the coronavirus blues by taking a long drive when they found what turned out to be nearly $1 million in cash in the middle of the road. It happened last weekend. A car in front of the Schantz family had swerved out of the way
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For the ninth week in a row, millions of Americans filed for initial unemployment benefits. Even as the economy is beginning to reopen in parts of the country, layoffs and furloughs have taken hold of the US labor market. Another 2.4 million Americans filed for first-time benefits last week, the Department of Labor reported on
Continue Reading Amanda Stanton responded to backlash after she drove from her home in California to Arizona for a hair appointment. The contestant from the 20th season of “The Bachelor,” who went on to appear on “Bachelor in Paradise,” had documented on her verified Instagram account traveling with her 8-year-old daughter Kinsley to a Arizona hair salon.
Continue Reading “Trading Spaces” designer Genevieve Gorder is talking about using your home to improve mental health at a time when most of us are spending lots of time inside due to the coronavirus pandemic. Home is important, she says, because “it’s where we nest and it’s where we repair, we recalibrate and reinvent so we can
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Dry and windy this afternoon with temperatures reaching the upper 80s. Temperatures will remain in the low 90s through the weekend.The chance for a few showers and thunderstorms will return early next week.
Continue Reading Stop worrying about those runners and cyclists without a mask, whom you scoff at as you walk outside. Worry instead about the loud talkers in crowded indoor spaces. That’s according to Erin Bromage, a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth associate professor of biology, who started a blog about the ways in which coronavirus spreads to keep
Continue Reading Award-winning singer and songwriter Lana Del Rey has confirmed that her latest album will be released September 5 and has hit back at critics who, she claims, have “crucified” her. The 34-year-old “Born to Die” singer released a lengthy statement on Instagram Thursday, addressing criticism her music has received, including accusations that she is “glamorizing
Continue Reading For the ninth week in a row, millions of Americans filed for initial unemployment benefits. Even as the economy is beginning to reopen in parts of the country, layoffs and furloughs have taken hold of the US labor market. Another 2.4 million Americans filed for first-time benefits last week, the Department of Labor reported on
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Volkswagen has apologized for posting a racist video promoting its new Golf 8 on the company’s official Instagram page. The video clip has been withdrawn but not before it was re-posted elsewhere on social media. It showed an outsized white hand pushing a black man away from a parked VW Golf, before flicking him into
Continue Reading Volkswagen has apologized for posting a racist video promoting its new Golf 8 on the company’s official Instagram page. The video clip has been withdrawn but not before it was re-posted elsewhere on social media. It showed an outsized white hand pushing a black man away from a parked VW Golf, before flicking him into
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For the first time in three months, South Korean high school students are back in the classroom. But in many ways, it’s not schooling as usual. As high school seniors returned to school Wednesday, they had their temperatures checked, wore masks on campus, and sat at desks that were spaced apart, in line with commonplace
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For the first time in three months, South Korean high school students are back in the classroom. But in many ways, it’s not schooling as usual. As high school seniors returned to school Wednesday, they had their temperatures checked, wore masks on campus, and sat at desks that were spaced apart, in line with commonplace
Continue Reading Racism has officially been declared a public health crisis in Ohio’s largest county. Commissioners in Franklin County, which encompasses the state’s capital of Columbus, passed a resolution on Tuesday that asserts racism “rises to the definition of a public health crisis proposed by Dr. Sandro Galea.” Galea, dean at Boston University School of Public, notes
Continue Reading Green snow created by blooming algae in the Antarctic Peninsula is likely to spread as temperatures increase as a result of climate change, researchers have said, after creating the first large-scale map of the organisms and their movements. Satellite data gathered between 2017 and 2019, combined with on-the-ground measurements over two summers in Antarctica, allowed
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South Korean football team FC Seoul has said it has been handed a 100 million KRW ($81,300) fine after being accused of placing sex dolls in its stands to add to the atmosphere during a closed match. Sporting events around the globe have been halted because of coronavirus, but South Korea’s K League is one
Continue Reading Greece has brought forward its planned reopening to tourists to June 15 as pressure mounts on European destinations to roll back coronavirus restrictions to stave off economic collapse. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the new date in a national address on Wednesday, saying only tourists from countries with acceptably low rates of virus infection
Continue Reading The tweet was when Eric Yuan knew something had to change. Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, shared a photo from his first ever virtual cabinet meeting. The cybersecurity red flags jumped out immediately. Some cabinet secretaries’ Zoom screen names were visible, you could see which platform the cabinet was running its computers on, and
Continue Reading The world’s biggest tourist playground has been roped off since it became a coronavirus epicenter, but as summer looms Europe is desperate to lift restrictions to get visitors pumping much needed cash into stricken economies. Across the continent, various nations currently sitting behind the firewall of quarantines or sealed frontiers, are figuring out how they
Continue Reading Margaret Maughan, Great Britain’s first Paralympic champion, has died at the age of 91. Maughan won the landmark gold medal in archery at the 1960 Paralympics in Rome and went on to compete at five more Games. She was a strong advocate for the Paralympic movement and lit the cauldron during the opening ceremony of
Continue Reading When “Pac-Man” debuted in Tokyo 40 years ago, no one could have predicted it would become the most successful arcade game of all time. Though video games were a relatively new medium, the recipe for success at the time was already well-established: People wanted to shoot things. But the creator of “Pac-Man,” a young game
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