Laguna Larga is an unassuming Argentine town of no more than 6,000 inhabitants. Down a long stretch of highway sits the nearest large city, Cordoba, and Paulo Dybala’s father, Adolfo, would drive the promising young footballer on the 140 kilometer round trip so he could train at the academy of the region’s professional team, Instituto.
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Spain’s Mallorca island in the Mediterranean plans to welcome a limited number of Germans and other travelers in late June in a “pilot project” to restart tourism that has been halted due to coronavirus, Francina Armengol, the Regional President of the Balearic Islands said Thursday. The plan would have the large German tour operator TUI
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People are protesting in the streets — they’re angry, exhausted and scared by what they see happening in America. They want to know how we got here … and how we move forward. And I’m ready to have that conversation, too. Today, I launched “Silence Is Not an Option,” a new podcast that will be
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Any English Premier League defender could testify that Marcus Rashford can be a fearsome opponent. Now the UK government can attest to this too. By eloquently and calmly putting forward his case for free school meals to be provided to the poorest families in England over the summer school holidays, the Manchester United star on
Continue Reading It’s been 100 days since a ball was last kicked in the English Premier League and whilst many fans are getting excited about the restart, not everyone is convinced that now is the right time to return. On Wednesday, Aston Villa hosts Sheffield United, while Manchester City faces Arsenal. All of the league’s remaining 92
Continue Reading With the eyes of the world on the English Premier League’s long-awaited resumption, players in both Wednesday’s games took a knee in a powerful and symbolic show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. The headline act on the day the Premier League returned after a 100-day absence was supposed to be Manchester City’s
Continue Reading Many diseases, including Covid-19, can attack men and women in different ways. Why this is depends on a complex mix of biology and behavior that can be difficult to untangle. But we do know that these differences are more likely to be considered if medical research involves female scientists, which makes the current state of
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Global trade is facing another coronavirus crisis just as economies begin to reopen: 200,000 seafarers stranded for months by port closures and the collapse in long-haul aviation could refuse to keep working. Many seafarers extended their contracts by several months to keep supplies of food, fuel and medicine flowing around the world during the pandemic,
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This weekend, stargazers in the Eastern Hemisphere will be treated to an annular solar eclipse on the heels of the summer solstice. This type of eclipse is characterized by its stunning “ring of fire” since it’s not a total eclipse and edges of the sun can still be seen around the moon. “Annular eclipses are
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The actions of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin are being reviewed by state police conduct investigators, according to court documents filed Tuesday. In a letter to the Hennepin County District Court, an official from the Minnesota Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training requested records associated with the state’s prosecution, indicating the standards board
Continue Reading Melvin Evans was in the line at a Wendy’s drive-through in Atlanta last week when he heard people arguing. Shortly after, a man ran toward the Chevrolet TrailBlazer that he was in. “The officer who was chasing him … had a Taser in his right hand,” Evans said. “The victim had a Taser in his
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EL PASO, Texas — The University Interscholastic League legislative council has lifted the ban for Friday night live broadcasts of Texas high school football games during the 2020 season Wednesday morning. The unprecedented decision, made due to fears of CoVid-19, reverses the “Friday night rule” which banned Friday night footballs games from being broadcasted on
Continue Reading On an early October evening in 2014, a group of New York University law school students gathered for a joint birthday party at (Le) Poisson Rouge, a popular bar and music venue a few blocks from campus. One of the birthday celebrants, Colinford Mattis, quickly hit it off with another guest, Urooj Rahman, who was
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EL PASO, Texas— The Ysleta Independent School District Board of Trustees On Wednesday evening Became the latest El Paso County school system to adopt a ‘year round’ calendar for the upcoming school year. The first day of school will be Aug. 3, which is the date suggested by the Texas Education Agency, which is also
Continue Reading More than 120 alleged sexual abuse victims of Larry Nassar, the disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor, sent a letter to the Justice Department requesting a copy of a report on the FBI’s handling of its investigation into Nassar. The letter, sent Wednesday to Inspector General Michael Horowitz, says the alleged victims don’t want the report “withheld
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Editor’s note: Following an update from CMS on June 23, 2020–a nursing home that was showing 11 patient deaths in El Paso, as of May 31, pertained to deaths other than COVID-19. CMS says the data in column Q of the nursing home data (Residents Total All Deaths) is NOT related to COVID-19. Also, this
Continue Reading The now-fired Atlanta Police officer who faces a felony murder charge for fatally shooting Rayshard Brooks last week kicked the 27-year-old man after he fell to the ground, Fulton County’s district attorney said Wednesday. DA Paul Howard announced 11 charges against Garrett Rolfe, who five days ago fired three shots at Brooks, two of which
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EL PASO, Texas — It’s been almost a week since Texas reached Phase 3 of reopening, allowing restaurants to open at 75 percent capacity, however not every restaurant in El Paso is able to do so. According to the Texas Restaurant Association, there’s a long way to go to help restaurants fully recover. The association told
Continue Reading “You get treated like an animal.” Those were the words of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks who was shot and killed by an Atlanta police officer this month. Brooks spoke those words in February, just a few months before his death, during an interview he gave to a company called Reconnect, which focuses on fighting incarceration. The
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The federal government is stuck with 63 million doses of hydroxychloroquine now that the US Food and Drug Administration has revoked permission for the drug to be distributed to treat coronavirus patients. The government started stockpiling donated hydroxychloroquine in late March, after President Trump touted it as “very encouraging” and “very powerful” and a “game-changer.”
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EL PASO, Texas– “Ever dream of owning an award-winning bakery?”Those were the words written on a Facebook post that came as a shock to many Bella Cora Bakery fans. Jonathan Bowden is the owner and pastry chef at Bella Cora Bakery. He has been baking sweets in the Borderland for more than 20 years now.
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EL PASO, Texas — Bishop Mark Seitz, with the El Paso Catholic Diocese, is authorizing the second phase of church re-openings within El Paso County to include allowing weekday masses. Weekday in-person masses can take place at 25% church capacity, he said in a statement on Wednesday evening. Churches must strictly follow disinfection and social
Continue Reading I moved to Hong Kong on the day of a huge protest marking China’s National Day on October 1 and thought it would probably be the wildest experience I’d have all year. Two months later, during Hanukkah, I found out that I had breast cancer. So, while the global coronavirus crisis was the most challenging
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EL PASO, Texas — A 42-year-old El Paso man has been arrested by the FBI and faces federal charges after he allegedly uploaded a racist video to YouTube threatening to kill Black Lives Matter protesters, authorities said Wednesday. A criminal complaint filed against Manuel Flores by the U.S. Attorney’s Office contends he recorded and uploaded
Continue Reading A man drove his car into a group of protesters in downtown Portland, Oregon, injuring three, and then attempted to escape, a police statement says. The incident, which happened early Wednesday, occurred as protesters marched in downtown Portland as part of the weekslong protests calling for police reform. It mirrors an incident last week in
Continue Reading A fired police officer in suburban St. Louis was charged with assault, a day after video was released showing his unmarked SUV striking a man and the officer getting out of the vehicle and kicking him, a prosecutor said. Joshua Smith, who worked for the Florissant, Missouri, Police Department, faces first- and fourth-degree assault charges
Continue Reading More than two minutes passed before two Atlanta police officers rendered first aid to Rayshard Brooks after he was shot. Now, they are facing more than a dozen charges combined for their actions. Brooks had fallen asleep in his car in a Wendy’s drive-thru lane in Atlanta last week when police were called. After he
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexico’s coronavirus cases continued to increase at near-record levels Wednesday, as officials acknowledged the country is on a plateau with few signs of decrease, even as the economy starts reopening. The Health Department reported that confirmed cases in Mexico rose by 4,930, the second-highest daily increase to date, to reach an
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EL PASO, Texas — The UTEP Miners began the process this week of trying to get back to football during the era of Covid-19. Monday, members of the football team returned to campus for voluntary workouts. As of now only around 45 members of the team are allowed to train at UTEP facilities. That number
Continue Reading Just as much of the US was improving, 10 states are seeing their highest seven-day average of new coronavirus cases per day since the pandemic started months ago, according to a CNN analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University. The data includes new cases reported by Johns Hopkins through Tuesday. The states seeing record-high averages
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