EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Black Pages is relaunching its directory online to showcase more businesses in El Paso with Black owners. “We launched to let the Black businesses in the spotlight,” Curtis Smith said. “To let the community know that we are here, that we are capable of being professionals.” Smith also
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Fraternity parties in Mississippi have continued this summer, and as a result Covid-19 cases have too, the state’s health officer said Thursday. Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs announced 381 new cases and five additional deaths in a press conference on Thursday. Quite a few patients have been linked to fraternity rush parties, said
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Outside of Earth, intriguing ocean worlds in our solar system are of interest to astronomers as potential hubs of life. New estimates and calculations suggest that there are even more Earth-like planets and ocean worlds in our galaxy than previously known, according to new research published this week. So far, Earth is unique in its
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Juan Elias, a father of two in Oakland, California, has been experiencing a feeling that is deeply familiar to most moms since he became the primary caregiver of his two sons during the pandemic. “I’m suffering from guilt. It’s a new feeling, and I have it all the time,” Elias said about the pressure to
Continue Reading As the number of coronavirus cases in Oklahoma continues to rise, some experts are urging health officials to shut down President Donald Trump’s rally in Tulsa tomorrow. But the President is pushing ahead, planning to pack thousands of people into an indoor arena with no requirement for face masks or social distancing. “This is pretty
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From now on, anyone working for Taylor Swift will have the day off for Juneteenth. What’s more, Swift wanted to educate her followers about the celebration so the superstar singer posted information on her official social media accounts about the holiday also known as Freedom Day. June 19 commemorates the day in which slaves in
Continue Reading A few days before Italy is set to lift restrictions across much of the country after being locked down since March 10, the streets of Venice are starting to spring back to life. There are no tourists here just yet. Instead the noise is from vacuum cleaners and sanitation crews inside stores that are getting
Continue Reading The abandoned bus on the Stampede Trail in Alaska — made famous by the book and film “Into the Wild” — has made its first journey in decades. This time by air. Alaska Guardsmen airlifted the bus, also known as the Fairbanks Bus 142 and the “Magic Bus,” Thursday afternoon, via helicopter, the Alaska National
Continue Reading A former Arizona county assessor pleaded guilty to running an adoption fraud scheme that involved bringing pregnant women from the Marshall Islands to the United States to give birth, authorities said Thursday. Paul Petersen, 45, was an adoption lawyer licensed in Utah and Arizona, and an elected assessor for Maricopa County. Petersen pleaded guilty to
Continue Reading Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning woman who survived being shot by the Taliban, has completed her degree at Oxford University. Yousafzai, who is 22, tweeted early on Friday morning to say she had finished her studies. “Hard to express my joy and gratitude right now as I completed my Philosophy, Politics and Economics degree
Continue Reading The US Supreme Court again ruled against President Trump, this time on his attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily.
Continue Reading It’s breakfast time, which means I need to get my temperature checked, put on my face mask, smother my hands in alcohol disinfectant and wear a pair of plastic gloves. That’s all before I have coffee. Welcome to the Riu Concordia — part of a hotel chain headquartered in the Spanish holiday island of Mallorca.
Continue Reading Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, two Canadians detained in China in December 2018, have been formally charged with spying by Chinese prosecutors, in a move that is likely to raise tensions between the two countries. The People’s Procuratorate of Beijing Municipality filed a prosecution against Kovrig on Friday for “for spying on state secrets and
Continue Reading As US President Donald Trump signed a bill into law Wednesday that aims to punish Beijing for its repression of the Uyghur ethnic minority, he was accused by his former national security adviser of endorsing China’s construction of internment camps in its western region of Xinjiang. According to an excerpt from John Bolton’s forthcoming book
Continue Reading You might see another red, white and blue flag flying today over state capitols and city buildings. That banner with a bursting star in the middle is the Juneteenth Flag, a symbolic representation of the end of slavery in the United States. The flag is the brainchild of activist Ben Haith, founder of the National
Continue Reading Until last week, Beijing seemed to have all but moved on from the coronavirus pandemic. For 55 days, the Chinese capital had not reported any locally transmitted infections and life had been returning to normal. Businesses and schools reopened, people went back to work, and the city’s public transports and parks were once again teeming
Continue Reading The bars and restaurants are full. People are out enjoying themselves. Spectacular geological attractions are wide open to tourists. Anyone visiting Iceland right now could be forgiven for thinking they’ve arrived in a parallel universe where the coronavirus never happened. It’s a tantalizing prospect. For people arriving from countries still under lockdown, the sheer normality
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TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico — Evacuations were lifted as crews worked hard to knock down flames from a wildfire in Truth or Consequences near Elephant Butte. The Mims Lake Fire, located on the south side of Mims Lake and burning on private land, was considered contained on Friday and no longer threatening buildings; none
Continue Reading An unarmed police officer has been shot dead while carrying out a routine traffic stop in the New Zealand city of Auckland — the first to be killed in the line of duty in the country since 2009. The officer was one of two shot at after attempting to stop a car in the suburb
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — A proposal to distribute absentee ballots directly to registered New Mexico voters without a request or application was rejected by a state Senate panel on Thursday at the outset of a special legislative session aimed primarily at shoring up state finances. Absentee ballots will continue to be available only by
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — New Mexico State University is rolling out plans for students, faculty and staff as they prepare to return to campus in the fall. The document released this week outlines the steps the university will take to ensure what officials said would be a “welcoming and functioning campus environment” when classes begin Aug.
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VINTON, Texas — There will be social distancing at all TNT Firework stands around the Borderland this year. The area manager for TNT Fireworks, Fernie Viramontes, has been planning a safer way to sell during the Covid-19 era. He has been in contact with county leaders to explain the new procedures they will be implementing
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El PASO, Texas — The Civil Air Patrol is doing its part to contribute in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. The all-volunteer auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force recently flew Covid-19 tests to Midland, where they were then transferred to another flight and flown to Austin. About six planes from the El Paso Civil
Continue Reading In honor of Juneteenth, companies have given employees paid leave in celebration, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is pushing to make it a paid state holiday and there seems to be more awareness around the holiday than ever before. Now, Google is also jumping in, commemorating the 155th anniversary of June 19 — largely celebrated as
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EL PASO, Texas– Looking for a job? ReadyOne Industries in El Paso is hoping they can help you. The company is hoping to hire 80 new employees to help them create one-of-a-kind face masks. “We’re looking to fill mainly sewing machine operating jobs you know anyone that has sewing skills on a variety of machines.
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EL PASO, Texas — The official numbers of Covid-19 cases and deaths in El Paso isn’t a complete picture of the impact the virus is having in our area, local health officials confirm to ABC-7. Mexican nationals and non-El Paso residents who have died in El Paso hospitals are not being included in the daily
Continue Reading After dropping a lawsuit to block the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, a group of Richmond, Virginia, residents on Wednesday filed a second suit with adjusted arguments, according to court documents. The new lawsuit, filed by six residents who own property on Richmond’s Monument Avenue, claims that the statue’s removal
Continue Reading A video surveillance camera recorded a Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy save an unresponsive baby from choking during a Black Lives Matter protest in May. The 11-month-old boy’s mother and another woman were attending the protest on May 31 in Palmdale, California, when the baby became ill, lost consciousness and stopped breathing, according to the Los
Continue Reading When San Francisco implemented its shelter-in-place order in mid-March, the coronavirus continued to spread through the city’s Hispanic population in parts of the densely populated Mission District, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco reported Thursday. For the first six weeks the ordinance was in place, the virus continued to spread among the low-income
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