A lot is riding on whether cities, states and countries can reopen their economies without sparking a wave of new infections. On the health front, dispatches from around the world remain sobering. A new cluster of infections in South Korea is growing, the epidemic is worsening in Russia and a key model often cited by
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After weeks of being unconscious during his battle with Covid-19, Broadway actor Nick Cordero is awake his wife announced Tuesday. Amanda Kloots posted an update about her husband’s condition on her Instagram Stories as she held her and Cordero’s infant son Elvis. “He is awake,” she said. “We did it.” A viral hashtag campaign, #WakeUpNick,
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EL PASO, Texas — The unemployment rate has surged nationwide to 14.7 percent. In the two-week period between April 26 and May 9, Workforce Solutions Borderplex reports 11,605 people filed for unemployment benefits in the Borderplex region. Those claims came primarily from El Paso County, but the region’s data also includes numbers from Hudspeth, Culberson,
Continue Reading For many retired Australians, home is not always a fixed address. Dubbed “gray nomads,” an increasing number of older Aussies are scrapping their suburban setups to spend months, if not years, on the road. According to Tourism Research Australia, 30,000 to 40,000 gray nomads travel domestically each quarter, on average. After retiring from real estate,
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No president is above the law — and there were powerful arguments made to support that view in Tuesday’s Supreme Court proceeding. The court heard oral argument on a group of highly consequential presidential immunity cases involving subpoenas issued by various House committees and the Manhattan District Attorney’s office to obtain Donald Trump’s tax returns.
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High school librarian Andrea Kneeland started homeschooling her daughters part time before distance learning was up and running. “I wanted to keep a sense of structure and normalcy because my 8-year-old has anxiety, and I know that not having structure would be worse,” said Kneeland, of Oakland, California. They did math with lemons as they
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The owner of a home under construction in the Georgia neighborhood where Ahmaud Arbery was killed says he had reported no crime after surveillance video seemed to show the young man on the property. The February 23 footage, captured moments before Arbery’s death, appears to show him looking around but never touching anything — and
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Contact tracing is quickly becoming a popular way to battle the spread of Covid-19, and Johns Hopkins has a free online course to help people — yes, including you — learn more about it. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5
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Contact tracing is quickly becoming a popular way to battle the spread of Covid-19, and Johns Hopkins has a free online course to help people — yes, including you — learn more about it. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5
Continue Reading Billions around the world are staying home, confined to their neighborhoods by the coronavirus pandemic. But as we walk those quiet streets on the way to the grocery store or getting some essential exercise, the silence is still broken by the intermittent distant hum of a jet engine in the skies above. Where are these
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is preparing to release an alert warning doctors to be on the lookout for a dangerous inflammatory syndrome in children that could be linked to coronavirus infection, a CDC spokesman told CNN Tuesday. The syndrome, marked by persistent fever, inflammation, poor function in one or more organs,
Continue Reading The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is preparing to release an alert warning doctors to be on the lookout for a dangerous inflammatory syndrome in children that could be linked to coronavirus infection, a CDC spokesman told CNN Tuesday. The syndrome, marked by persistent fever, inflammation, poor function in one or more organs,
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Two grand slam titles and a rapid rise to the top of world tennis was a head-spinning ascent for Naomi Osaka. But in this moment of pause, a period of lockdown with no tennis and no expectations, the 22-year-old is looking to confront an opponent from within: her crippling shyness. “For me, I have a
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In a first for humans in space, NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Andrew Morgan and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano got slimed on the International Space Station — all in the name of science. Even though things got as messy as can be expected, the biggest surprise of all was the strange and fascinating
Continue Reading After five months of being at the forefront of the coronavirus pandemic, new infections in Hong Kong have slowed to a trickle, and the city is slowly getting back to normal. Which, these days, means protests. Many are not waiting for the final coronavirus restrictions to be lifted. During protests over the weekend, police arrested
Continue Reading The Calgary Zoo in Canada is sending two giant pandas back to China due to a shortage of bamboo. The zoo said in a statement that it usually flies in bamboo from China to feed the animals, but the Covid-19 pandemic had disrupted flights and caused delays in supplies. The duo, named Er Shun and
Continue Reading A cluster of coronavirus cases connected to clubs frequented by South Korea’s gay community has sparked an outpouring of hate speech towards the country’s already-embattled LGBTQ population. More than 100 cases have been linked to nightlife venues in the South Korean capital, and on Saturday, Seoul ordered all clubs and bars to temporarily close. The
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A cluster of coronavirus cases connected to clubs frequented by South Korea’s gay community has sparked an outpouring of hate speech towards the country’s already-embattled LGBTQ population. More than 100 cases have been linked to nightlife venues in the South Korean capital, and on Saturday, Seoul ordered all clubs and bars to temporarily close. The
Continue Reading The Highland Park Police Department is investigating a Dallas-area man for a threatening Facebook post, according to Community Relations Officer Lt. Lance Koppa. Kevin Bain was also fired by the law firm where he worked as a document service manager. Thompson & Knight, LLC confirmed to CNN that Bain was dismissed after the law firm
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EL PASO, Texas — The antiviral medication remdesivir is on the way to El Paso and will soon be used by the staff at University Medical Center. Preliminary data from clinical trials has shown remdesivir’s ability to cut down on recovery time in Covid-19 patients. “There is a use for it that will be appropriate
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EL PASO, Texas — An 85-year-old El Paso man has died at a local hospital after being struck by a car late Tuesday night, authorities said. Police on Wednesday identified the victim as Marco Antonio Menier and indicated he died just a block away from his home. He was hit in the 1800 block of
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WASHINGTON, DC — Democrats controlling the U.S. House have unveiled a $3 trillion-plus coronavirus relief bill — the fifth coronavirus response legislation so far — and are planning to pass the measure on Friday. The legislation replenishes existing accounts to respond to both the Covid-19 health care crisis and to try to ease the economic
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is set to announce a plan for the “gradual” resumption of economic activities on Wednesday. It comes after Mexico’s top advisory body on the coronavirus pandemic says it will issue guidelines that would allow for the re-opening of construction, mining, and car and truck manufacturing. The
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Just before Anthony Fauci testified on Capitol Hill on Tuesday (by video conference and from partial quarantine), CNN released a new poll conducted by SSRS. The main thrust of the poll was that overall approval of the government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak is negative, but with a massive partisan divide. Trusting Trump or trusting
Continue Reading A young child accidentally killed his 12-year-old brother Saturday after shooting him with an abandoned gun he found in the woods behind their home, police said. The 5-year-old told officials he found the weapon and, thinking it was a toy, accidentally shot his brother in the chest, the police department in Griffin, Georgia, said in
Continue Reading Federal agents have arrested an Arkansas professor who allegedly failed to disclose his ties to Chinese entities during the course of securing funding for a NASA research project, the Justice Department announced. Simon Saw-Teong Ang, 63, of Fayetteville, was arrested by FBI agents on Friday and charged with wire fraud, according to a criminal complaint
Continue Reading In January this year, Kerala became the first Indian state to report a coronavirus case. Now, four months later, it claims it has flattened the curve. Although India has been under a strict nationwide lockdown since late March, cases have continued to rise — the country of 1.3 billion now has more than 74,000 confirmed
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico — A Mexican nursing supervisor who touched the hearts of the nation when she made a tearful appeal for respect for health care professionals said Tuesday she has tested positive for the new coronavirus. Fabiana Zepeda is the head of nursing for the Mexican Social Security Institute. The institute republished a Tweet
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DALLAS, Texas — Police have arrested two people after finding a 6-year-old boy locked in a shed in Dallas. Esmeralda Lira, 53, and Jose Balderas, 66, were booked into the Dallas County jail on child endangerment charges. Bonds are set at $100,000 each. Court records state both are Mexican citizens and were in the United
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Hospitals across the United States are seeing fewer stroke and heart patients coming to their facilities for care — and two new reports suggest that concerns around the coronavirus pandemic are keeping people from seeking the care they need. Early research posted on Monday to the online health sciences server medRxiv found a nearly 18%
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