Miami Beach will give socially distant recreation another try at South Pointe Park. Starting Monday, the 17-acre park will reopen to the public on weekdays from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., according to the city’s press office. Police or park employees will check for non-compliance of the rules, as they do at all city parks
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Mayor Dee Margo has responded to a photograph being circulated on social media. (See it at the bottom of this article.) It shows him and his wife sitting at a table with another couple at an outdoor restaurant. Some have criticized the mayor for ignoring the city’s own advice
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Anticipating mommy shaming when she had to take her 5-year-old daughter with her to the grocery store, on her daughter’s back MaryAnn Resendez taped a sign that read, “I am only 5. I can’t stay home alone so I have to buy groceries with mommy. Before you start judging, stay back 6 feet.” After an
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Canada is hiking wages for essential workers across the country, in a blunt admission that many who are now risking their health to work during the pandemic are in some cases making the least. “If you are risking your health to keep this country moving and you’re making minimum wage, you deserve a raise,” Canadian
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WASHINGTON, DC — Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary has the coronavirus, the White House said Friday, making her the second person who works at the White House complex known to test positive for the virus this week. President Donald Trump, who publicly identified the affected Pence aide, said he was “not worried” about the
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The two white men arrested Thursday evening in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery told police they believed he was a suspect in a series of break-ins. But no such string of crimes was reported in the weeks preceding the shooting, a police lieutenant told CNN. Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son, 34-year-old Travis McMichael,
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It was always going to come to this. From the moment the coronavirus surfaced in this country, it was clear that it could exact a brutal toll of sickness and death and that, absent a vaccine or treatments, managing it would require Americans to make wrenching sacrifices on a massive scale. To rally the country
Continue Reading It’s the first and only drug shown to be effective against the novel coronavirus in a rigorous trial. Its effects are modest but significant — shortening a patient’s hospital stay by about four days. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease specialist, has called it the new “standard of care” for Covid-19. But as
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It’s the first and only drug shown to be effective against the novel coronavirus in a rigorous trial. Its effects are modest but significant — shortening a patient’s hospital stay by about four days. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease specialist, has called it the new “standard of care” for Covid-19. But as
Continue Reading “The Simpsons” have continued their streak of being our pop culture Nostradamus. Fox’s long-running animated series — actually the longest running in history — has an episode from 1993 which appears to foreshadow 2020 with the pandemic and “murder hornets.” Titled “Marge in Chains” the season 4 episode features a sick Asian worker sneezing on
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The popular Nintendo game “Animal Crossing” has reached the halls of Congress. Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told her Twitter followers on Thursday that she is indeed playing the game, which many Americans have embraced while socially isolating at home amid the Covid-19 outbreak. Ocasio-Cortez is even making what she is calling “House calls” — a
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Despite push-back from city councilors, Mayor Ken Miyagishima plans to require all voters to wear masks when casting their ballots inside Las Cruces City Hall. “If you want to vote, wear a mask,” Mayor Miyagishima said. “Your proposal would disenfranchise some people,” said Councilwoman Yvonne Flores, who represents District 6,
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The fearsome raptors that terrorized visitors to “Jurassic Park” may not have hunted in packs, like they did on screen. That’s the finding of a new study that analyzed teeth from Deinonychus antirrhopus, wolf-sized raptors that lived in what is now North America during the Cretaceous Period more than 100 million years ago. In the
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The fearsome raptors that terrorized visitors to “Jurassic Park” may not have hunted in packs, like they did on screen. That’s the finding of a new study that analyzed teeth from Deinonychus antirrhopus, wolf-sized raptors that lived in what is now North America during the Cretaceous Period more than 100 million years ago. In the
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To staffers inside the White House, it was clear by mid-April the “big bang” economic revival once predicted by President Donald Trump wasn’t in the cards. By April 23, they decided to do something about it. That day during his televised coronavirus briefing, Trump had made his much-maligned suggestion that injections of disinfectant could somehow
Continue Reading An initial glimpse into social distancing enforcement in New York City shows that the majority of those arrested in Brooklyn were black, according to the first statistics made public. Of the 40 people arrested for violating social distancing rules in the borough between March 17 and May 4, 35 were black, four were Hispanic, and
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Faced with a mounting death toll from the coronavirus pandemic and historically high unemployment numbers, President Donald Trump went looking for a friend Friday morning. And as always, he was welcomed into the warm embrace of “Fox & Friends.” The interview — such as it was — allowed Trump to give voice to his various
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump predicted Friday that the coronavirus pandemic could kill “95,000 people ultimately” across the U.S. — again subtly adding to the numbers he has been using. More than 76,000 people have died due to the virus in the U.S. already, according to a daily tally tracked by Johns Hopkins University.
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A member of Vice President Mike Pence’s staff has tested positive for the coronavirus, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany confirmed Friday. The announcement came following an hour-long delay to Pence’s Friday morning flight to Iowa, when individuals were seen exiting Air Force Two before the plane lifted off of the tarmac at Joint Base
Continue Reading “Chaos” was how Dr. Kevin Hanson described his emergency department at EvergreenHealth hospital in suburban Seattle. Nearly 20 coronavirus patients were coming in every day. Staff members were running out of personal protective equipment. Even one of the doctors became severely ill with the virus. “It’s very sobering,” Hanson said. “It gave us all a
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“Chaos” was how Dr. Kevin Hanson described his emergency department at EvergreenHealth hospital in suburban Seattle. Nearly 20 coronavirus patients were coming in every day. Staff members were running out of personal protective equipment. Even one of the doctors became severely ill with the virus. “It’s very sobering,” Hanson said. “It gave us all a
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The Chihuahua Health Secretariat on Friday said there was one new coronavirus death in the city of Juarez, but no additional cases were reported. The latest Juarez death was the city’s 105th Covid-19 fatality, and one of 132 deaths throughout the state of Chihuahua. There were only 10 new virus cases
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Millions of American workers have been laid off or furloughed during the coronavirus pandemic, with a record 20.5 million US jobs lost in April. But some companies are still hiring thousands of new employees to keep up with shifting consumer demands and spending habits. Here’s a list of some key employers hiring — rapidly —
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GALLUP, New Mexico — Like clockwork, payday arrives and tens of thousands of people from the Navajo reservation and other rural stretches along the New Mexico-Arizona border flood into Gallup, a freewheeling desert oasis of just 22,000 that can quickly quadruple in size with all the visitors. Not now. As the modern-day trading post reels
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It’s National Teacher Appreciation Week, and there’s rarely been a more important time to be grateful for their hard work. CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta highlights some teachers’ struggles and most creative adaptations to teaching during a pandemic. You can listen on your favorite podcast app or read the transcript below. Jimmy Fallon,
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El Paso, Texas — Ysleta Independent School District Board of Trustees member Richard Couder has resigned from his seat representing the Parkland area. According to a news release from the school district, Couder resigned from this seat after a clerical error was brought to his attention involving the employment of his wife with the district.
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As various states begin to reopen, the federal government has taken a small but significant step in that direction with the agency that serves a human resources function for the rest of the agencies issuing a new notice on its website about a “phased transition.” The Office of Personnel Management has updated its operating status
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During the past seven weeks, more than 30% of the March labor force in Kentucky, Hawaii and Georgia filed initial claims for unemployment benefits. They’re the three hardest-hit states in the nation, yet their employment landscapes have been rocked in unique ways. Kentucky Department of Labor data released Thursday showed 671,288 Kentuckians filed initial claims
Continue Reading They were accused of crimes ranging from molesting children to public lewdness. Under California state law, all were supposed to serve at least six months in jail for violating terms of their parole by evading electronic law enforcement monitoring. Now, they’re out of jail. And a local elected prosecutor is fuming, even while some criminal
Continue Reading As many as 75,000 Americans could die because of drug or alcohol misuse and suicide as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to an analysis conducted by the national public health group Well Being Trust. The group is sounding the alarm that the growing unemployment crisis, economic downturns and stress caused by isolation and
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