The United Nations’ top official in charge of humanitarian aid has criticized the world’s wealthy industrialized nations for their “short sighted” response to the Covid-19 pandemic, warning that their failure to support the developing world could exacerbate the effects of the global health crisis for tens of millions of people. “The pandemic and associated global
Continue ReadingBack-to-school is looking a little different for many teachers nationwide this year, as they grapple with returning to their classrooms amid a pandemic. Added to their list of concerns: Death. “How horrible is it that one of the things on the list to do is to have a plan for students and teachers dying?” Denise
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EL PASO, Texas — Hundreds were forced to wait in line for eight hours and hundreds others were turned away for Covid-19 testing at two test sites in El Paso Thursday afternoon. On the east side at least 150 to 200 cars were turned away as the Marty Robins Recreational Center reached capacity, while a
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EL PASO, Texas — After a redshirt freshman season, the offseason plan for Deion Hankins was pretty straightforward. “I said Deion, ‘You’re not fat, there’s no fat on your body,'” says UTEP Head Coach Dana Dimel. “He’s like ‘Yeah Coach, why would I lose weight if there’s no fat on me?’” So Hankins spent his
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EL PASO, Texas– El Paso saw another triple digit day with 101 the official high. We will continue to track triple digits through the start of the weekend with the chance for isolated showers and thunderstorms remaining in the forecast for the next several days. Temperatures dip down to the mid and lower 90s by
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HOUSTON, Texas — As the number of coronavirus cases in Texas continues to rise and hospitals grow more crowded, Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday evening there is no statewide shutdown looming. Abbott said last week that if the spread of the virus didn’t slow that “the next step would have to be a lockdown.” But in Houston television interviews,
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Our sun was ready for its close-up last month, and the new Solar Orbiter mission captured the closest images ever taken of the sun during its first pass. The images were released on Thursday. The mission, which is a collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency, launched in February and conducted a close pass
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EL PASO, Texas — From Chalk The Block to Neon Desert, many events that host local bands were cancelled due to Covid-19, but that doesn’t mean the music has to stop. “The reason we decided to create the Sound Stage 9 Summer Concert Series is because a lot of our favorite events got cancelled this
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — ABC-7 confirmed an employee working at Las Cruces city hall tested positive for Covid-19 and has been isolated for eight days. Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima said he was made aware of the situation Thursday, adding that the area where the employee works has been disinfected. All employees who came
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Drug overdose deaths in the United States jumped last year by a projected 4.8%, wiping out a slight decline in 2018 and setting a new record high, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. The CDC reported 70,980 projected overdose deaths in
Continue Reading Jeanna Triplicata wasn’t a thrill-seeker, but she decided to try something daring after graduating high school: going skydiving for the first time. The 18-year-old and an experienced instructor died when something went wrong on the tandem jump in Thomaston, Georgia, on Sunday. As her siblings and parents watched from the ground, they saw a parachute
Continue Reading A Northern California man is facing charges after allegedly pulling a gun on a person standing near a Black Lives Matter mural earlier this month, according to the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors say Joseph Osuna, 30, was driving his 2015 Jeep Wrangler near the mural painted in front of the courthouse in
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EL PASO, Texas — This week’s Community Champions are the floorball team from Hanks High School. Community Champions is sponsored by Albertsons and the El Paso Community Foundation. The team recently found out that they will be headed to Kazan, Russia to compete in the Special Olympics World Winter Games. The games were going to
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NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, Texas — A 24-year-old Texas woman who spent nearly three months in a hospital fighting Covid-19 says she wishes she had listened to the advice of officials and experts and worn a mask. Paola Castillo was discharged from Medical City North Hills Hospital in North Richland Hills on Wednesday after 79 days,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — In an effort to deliver the most comprehensive coronavirus coverage, ABC-7 has started a weekly feature where we ask Dr. Jose Burgos, the director of internal medicine at University Medical Center, the same seven questions each week to track how the pandemic is changing. Here’s the Q&A for Thursday, July
Continue Reading With the start of the school year looming across northeast Florida, parents, teachers and students are ringing the alarm. Education chiefs plan to welcome tens of thousands of students to class. But with coronavirus cases soaring in the state, parents and teachers say it’s way too soon. “There may be other cities or countries who
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Health officials in New Mexico reported 300 additional Covid-19 cases and five more confirmed deaths Thursday. That increased the statewide death toll to 562 and the confirmed cases total to 16,138. The New Mexico Department of Health said 103 of the additional cases were in Bernalillo County (Albuquerque area), which led the
Continue Reading Quick testing and quick reporting of results are needed for contact tracing to be as effective as it can be, new research finds. Testing that takes five days or longer is of little use, researchers from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands reported Thursday in the journal Lancet Public Health. “In our model, minimizing
Continue Reading Covid-19 can cause a wide variety of symptoms, but a new analysis of records by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that most patients seemed to share at least one of three symptoms: fever, cough or shortness of breath. The analysis, published Thursday in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, covered
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Twitter accounts belonging to Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Apple, among other prominent handles, were compromised on Wednesday in what Twitter said it believes to be an attack on some of its employees with access to the company’s internal tools. “We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by
Continue Reading Most humans fall into one of four blood groups — A, B, AB or O. Ordinarily, your blood type makes very little difference in your daily life except if you need to have a blood transfusion. However, some studies have people wondering if blood type affects coronavirus risk. One, for instance, suggests that people with
Continue Reading The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s next great observatory, has been delayed once again. The new target launch date is October 31, 2021. The telescope will launch from French Guiana. The impact to the previous launch target of March 2021 is due to a combination of factors brought on by the coronavirus
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With another couple of swishes of that magical right boot, Karim Benzema ensured Real Madrid would be crowned La Liga champion for the time since 2017. Zinedine Zidane’s side went into Thursday’s game against Villarreal knowing a victory would be enough to secure just the club’s third domestic league title this decade — and the
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Click here for updates on this story GRANITE CITY, Ill (KMOV) — Police in Granite City are looking for a missing teen who was last seen Wednesday night. According to police, 15-year-old Gabriel Johnson was last seen leaving his home in the 2100 block of Delmar Avenue around 11:15 p.m. by his mother and he
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, LA (KTBS) — The Caddo Parish Commission has delayed the construction of a protective structure to surround the Confederate monument at the Caddo Parish Courthouse until a design and plan are complete. The decision was made after consultation with a structural engineer, who said further engineering design
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Las Cruces, New Mexico – The preseason accolades for the New Mexico State Aggies keep rolling in. Five NM State football student-athletes were named to Phil Steele’s 2020 Preseason All-Independent Team, headlined by redshirt junior long snapper Austin Reeves’ first-team selection. Redshirt junior running back O’Maury Samuels, redshirt senior offensive lineman Sage Doxtater, senior linebacker Rashie Hodge Jr. and redshirt sophomore
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In 2008, Mountain Lake, made famous by the 1987 film “Dirty Dancing,” dried up and remained that way for over a decade. But this summer, it’s starting to fill back up, astonishing both locals and visitors. Mountain Lake Lodge is a mecca for true “Dirty Dancing” fans who travel to the Pembroke, Virginia, resort to
Continue Reading Fahim Salem, founder and CEO of Gokada, died of multiple stab wounds, New York City’s medical examiner said on Thursday. Saleh, 33, was found dead in his Manhattan’s Lower East Side apartment earlier this week with his body dismembered, a law enforcement source told CNN. An autopsy by the city’s Office of the Chief Medical
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SPRINGDALE, AK (KCTV) — Springdale City Council member Rick Evans has caught a lot of heat online for comments he made before a city council meeting Tuesday (July 14) night. Evans could be heard referencing his opponent for the Ward 2, Position 2, spot on the council, Kevin
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story VANCOUVER, WA (KPTV) — Vancouver police are asking for the public’s help to identify a man accused of hitting and kicking a woman following an argument over COVID-19 safety guidelines. On Wednesday, officers responded to the report of an assault near the running track located between the campus
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