Shortages due to the coronavirus pandemic are causing groceries to ration sales of chicken, pork and beef to their customers. But there’s a delicious and healthy way to cut back on your use of meat while it’s expensive and scarce: Start cooking like you live in one of the 21 sun-soaked countries that surround the
Continue Reading On New Year’s Eve, more than 1 million people from around the world gathered in Times Square to ring in 2020. It was a moment full of hope, optimism … and crowds. Fast-forward to today, when the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it’s difficult to even know when live events and larger
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For the first time since officials began implementing widespread lockdowns to slow the spread of coronavirus, all 50 states are now partially reopen. On Wednesday, Connecticut became the final state to begin lifting restrictions, now allowing retail shops and restaurants to reopen their doors. Despite the reopening milestone, health officials say, Americans remain at risk
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Law enforcement officials in central Florida have denied accusations of racism after several people were arrested when police tried to disrupt a block party of approximately 3,000 over the weekend. Participants who spoke to local media said law enforcement’s response to the gathering in the city of Deland was an instance of racial bias and
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Here’s a bold prediction: President Donald Trump is going to say something either totally outlandish, verifiably false or completely ridiculous soon. Maybe all three. Maybe multiples of all three. On Monday, it was, most notably, that he’s taking hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malarial drug the Food and Drug Administration has said you should not self-prescribe to treat
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EL PASO, Texas — Thousands of college seniors just crossed a major milestone: graduating college. Now, those grads are applying for jobs, a task made more challenging during the pandemic. Maria Angeles just graduated from UTEP with her Bachelor’s degree in English and American Literature and a minor in Communication Studies. Angeles wants to be
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Mukesh Ambani wants to build the next global technology company. And if he plays his cards right, his mobile carrier and technology juggernaut Jio Platforms could soon hold rank alongside the likes of Google, Amazon, Alibaba and Tencent. Jio Platforms already has an ecosystem of apps — which feature everything from online grocery shopping to
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Police in Glynn County, Georgia, attempted to use a Taser on Ahmaud Arbery during an incident in 2017, according to a police report and police body camera video obtained by The Guardian. The events captured on the body camera do not appear to line up entirely with what the first responding officer wrote in his
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Police in Glynn County, Georgia, attempted to use a Taser on Ahmaud Arbery during an incident in 2017, according to a police report and police body camera video obtained by The Guardian. The events captured on the body camera do not appear to line up entirely with what the first responding officer wrote in his
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Missouri carried out the first execution in the country Tuesday since the rapid escalation of the coronavirus outbreak in the US. Walter Barton was executed Tuesday by the state of Missouri at Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, according to the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC). Barton, 64, had been found guilty
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — One Las Cruces family was supposed to celebrate not one, but three graduation ceremonies this year. Stephanie Baca and her two daughters, Leilani and Gabriela Sandoval, were all set to celebrate graduations in May. Stephanie from New Mexico State University and her daughters from The New America High School of
Continue Reading Dr. James “Charlie” Mahoney, a physician in Brooklyn for over 30 years, is another frontline casualty in the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic. But to those who knew him, he lived every day serving others and fought the virus with his endless positive spirit until he physically couldn’t. Mahoney devoted his entire career to
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EL PASO, Texas – The libraries of El Paso have a long road ahead of themselves. On Tuesday, the city put out a statement saying: “To ensure the health and safety of the public and our workforce and given the budget and staffing shortfalls caused by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, all City libraries, museums, recreation
Continue Reading Chinese leader Xi Jinping made preserving diplomatic ties in Africa a centerpiece of his opening address at the World Health Assembly earlier this week, as Beijing faces a backlash among some Western democracies for its role in the coronavirus pandemic. With the traditional big donors to Africa, such as Europe and the United States, focused
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CVS Health is returning more than $43 million it received from the federal government as part of coronavirus relief. In a letter Tuesday to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, CVS chief executive Larry Merlo indicated his company received the funds as part of the CARES Act Provider Relief Fund. He said it was
Continue Reading CVS Health is returning more than $43 million it received from the federal government as part of coronavirus relief. In a letter Tuesday to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, CVS chief executive Larry Merlo indicated his company received the funds as part of the CARES Act Provider Relief Fund. He said it was
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mayor Armando Cabada announced Tuesday evening that his doctor said he’s re-tested negative for Covid-19 and is now officially “recovered.” He declared himself virus-free in a social media video. (You can see it above.) That makes the Juarez leader one of 182 people in his city to officially be listed as
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As Tara Reade was leaving her job at Joe Biden’s Senate office in 1993, she told a close colleague that she believed she was being let go for an unfair reason — that she was being terminated because of a medical issue she had been dealing with. The former colleague, Ben Savage, described this decades-old
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President Donald Trump said at a White House roundtable event on Monday: “I’m taking it, hydroxychloroquine. Right now, yeah. Couple of weeks ago, I started taking it. Cause I think it’s good, I’ve heard a lot of good stories.” This admission about his use of hydroxychloroquine makes Trump’s previous musings about using disinfectant to treat
Continue Reading Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency for one county after two dams failed in the area — following heavy rains and flash floods across the state. Both the Edenville and Sanford Dams breached Tuesday night, the governor said in a news release, and urged residents to evacuate the affected areas in Midland
Continue Reading A man who was abducted as a toddler 32 years ago was finally reunited with his biological parents Monday, with the help of facial recognition technology. Mao Yin was taken from his family in 1988 when he was two years old while outside of a hotel in the Chinese city of Xi’an, in Shaanxi province.
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CLICK HERE for updates to this story. EL PASO, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court halted eviction proceedings statewide on March 19 due to the coronavirus pandemic. But that moratorium expired Tuesday and one northeast El Paso woman said she’s already on the receiving end of the backlash, saying her landlord has shut off her
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Kids who may have multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C, a troubling complication of Covid-19 infection, need immediate attention and will probably need to be hospitalized, doctors said Tuesday. Symptoms do not look like the classic symptoms of coronavirus and may mostly include stomach pain and vomiting, along with fever and perhaps a rash,
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Kids who may have multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C, a troubling complication of Covid-19 infection, need immediate attention and will probably need to be hospitalized, doctors said Tuesday. Symptoms do not look like the classic symptoms of coronavirus and may mostly include stomach pain and vomiting, along with fever and perhaps a rash,
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EL PASO, Texas — The discussion around creating a unified COVID-19 task force was front and center this week for El Paso County Commissioners. The task force is starting to be put together now and is expected to field a roster of top medical and scientific representatives from around El Paso, Juarez and New Mexico.
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has posted 60 pages of detailed guidelines on how to reopen the United States from coronavirus pandemic stay-at-home orders on the agency’s website. The guidance was a slightly shorter version of a 68-page document shelved by the White House last week after concerns it was too specific.
Continue Reading In a few hours, Connecticut will allow residents to dine at a restaurant outdoors or go into a retail shop. The state will be the final one of those that ordered people to stay home and most businesses to close up for a while to start to reopen. Connecticut is taking “baby steps,” Gov. Ned
Continue Reading A family got the heartbreaking news of their father’s death from coronavirus as they were trying to lift his spirits with signs outside his hospital window. However, despite their grief, they decided to continue encouraging the staff who had worked to care for him. It all started with a simple sheet Rene Johnson, 65, contracted
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