Mario De Alba Montes fought through multiple surgeries and endured feeding tubes for months after shielding his family in the Walmart store massacre in El Paso, Texas. His slow recovery was marked by frustration and dreams of returning to his home in Chihuahua City, Mexico ever since being struck by a bullet from an assault
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While popular destinations are slowly reopening and tourism is beginning to pick up in some spots, the impact of the pandemic on the industry has been nothing short of devastating. Many countries that heavily rely on the revenue from tourism lost one of their main sources of wealth almost overnight back in March, but which
Continue Reading No one is safe from the coronavirus. Dr. Deborah Birx really wants that message to hit home. The White House coronavirus response coordinator warned yesterday that the United States had entered a “new phase” in the pandemic. “What we are seeing today is different from March and April. It is extraordinarily widespread,” Birx told CNN,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso medical professionals had just minutes to prepare for one of the most difficult days in their careers: August 3, 2019, the day of the Walmart mass shooting. In the chaos, some nursing and medical students suddenly found themselves on the front lines. A year later, the sights and
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If college campuses want to remain open this fall, it may take frequent screening of college students, according to a modeling study published Friday in the journal JAMA Network Open. The researchers found that screening college students every two days — even with a low-quality test catching 70% of positive Covid-19 cases — is a
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One of the most iconic questions in advertising history is back. The milk industry is resurrecting its “Got Milk?” slogan that branded a popular ad campaign from 1993 to 2014. The idea, more or less, was to make milk sexy by putting goofy white mustaches on celebrities like Britney Spears, Dennis Rodman, Jonathan Taylor Thomas,
Continue Reading Mayra Ramirez says she was careful about following every health precaution she could before the day she was admitted to a Chicago hospital with coronavirus symptoms. The 28-year-old arrived at the Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s emergency room on April 26 and within minutes — giving her barely enough time to call her family — her harrowing
Continue Reading It may be a tropical storm now, but Isaias is still poised to threaten the Carolinas later today with potentially deadly storm surges and heavy rain. Stay safe, coastal friends. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On With Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need
Continue Reading It may be a tropical storm now, but Isaias is still poised to threaten the Carolinas later today with potentially deadly storm surges and heavy rain. Stay safe, coastal friends. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On With Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need
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Justin Thomas is officially the best golfer in the world again after winning his 13th PGA Tour event on Sunday. The American clinched victory at the WGC FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Tennessee, US, by three strokes to regain the world No. 1 ranking for the first time since June 2018. He ended John Rahm’s
Continue Reading A baby Asian elephant named Avi has died after struggling with health problems since the day he was born. The male calf lived for only 27 days and had developmental impairments limiting his ability to feed, the St. Louis Zoo said in a statement Sunday. He was euthanized and “passed away peacefully” Sunday morning, according
Continue Reading In Part I of this seven-part series, we started our fitness journey by learning how to strengthen the mind-body connection and practice breathing to create good posture. In Part II, we learned how to master fundamental movements in all planes of motion. Building off that foundation, we’re now ready to get stronger. Here I’ll cover
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EL PASO, Texas — As El Paso continues its fight against the coronavirus pandemic, the city’s ‘Visit El Paso’ convention and visitors bureau wanted to give the community a symbol of hope to keep going. “El Paso is a city of resiliency and hope, and we wanted to give the community a focus on something
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EL PASO, Texas — An infant boy who survived El Paso’s mass shooting a year ago that left his parents and 21 others dead now likes to thumb through picture books and dance to a Batman jingle with his grandmother, according to an uncle who helps care for the 1-year-old. It will be years before
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EL PASO, Texas — When Stephanie Melendez, her husband and two young daughters tested positive for the coronavirus, the person she most wanted to call was her father. “I’m married. I have my family. He was still the one I called when I got sick and he’d bring me Gatorade,” said Melendez, 32. “So when
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WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the 30 million unemployed Americans who lost their $600 federal unemployment boost should blame President Donald Trump for the stalemate in Covid-19 relief bill negotiations. “He’s the one who’s standing in the way of that. We’ve been for the $600. They have a $200 proposal, which
Continue Reading Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has announced that his production company will resume shooting the Netflix film “Red Notice” in a “quarantined bubble” next month. Johnson’s team, Seven Bucks Production, and Netflix are working together to provide a “quarantined bubble” for the filmmakers and crew, the actor said Saturday in a message and video posted on
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Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE, WI (KMOV) — More members of the Cardinals organization have tested positive for COVID-19, according to multiple reports. The news comes a day after President of Baseball Operations John Mozeliak confirmed that three players and one staff member had tested positive for the virus. Four others were
Continue Reading Imagine being cut off from reality. Not for a day, a week, a month — but three months. Welcome to P. V. Sindhu’s world in 2016. In the bubble of Rio de Janeiro — at her maiden Summer Olympics — she was phoneless. The decision to relinquish a millenial’s must have device on the advice
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story COOSBAY, OR (KPTV) — Oregon State Police is requesting information from anyone who may have been a witness to reckless driving or a victim of a crash after a man said he hit 26 vehicles while driving along Highway 101. At approximately, 10:37 a.m. a caller reported that
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Zoo on Sunday evening announced the death of Rudo, its only male African lion. Officials said his death came after he suffered a neurological condition last week that left the right side of his body totally paralyzed. The zoo said the announcement of Rudo’s death came with “a
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We’re now more than seven months into the coronavirus pandemic that has upended the lives of most of Earth’s inhabitants. And while it is true that the scientific community has learned many things about the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the disease it causes, Covid-19, there are also many gaps in our understanding. One big mystery: Why
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Single bananas. Hard boiled eggs. Chocolate chip cookies. In convenience stores across Japan these items all have something in common: they are routinely sold tightly swaddled in plastic wrapping. It’s been that way for decades. Retailers believe that if items aren’t wrapped in plastic it’s hard to guarantee food safety standards in the supply chain,
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EL PASO, Texas– Showers and thunderstorms will linger tonight with some strong wind gusts possible. Mainly mountain storms develop on Monday with only an isolated chance across the lowlands. Scattered mountain and isolated lowland storms will be likely through much of next week and the weekend as moisture levels remain low relative to this time
Continue Reading First, the good news: The numbers of new Covid-19 cases each day in about 27 states have generally plateaued this past week compared to the previous week. Now, the bad news: “Our levels are still far too high,” said Dr. Megan Ranney, an emergency physician at Lifespan Health System and associate professor at Brown University.
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in New Mexico has increased by 226 with three additional deaths also reported Sunday. That raises the state’s total number of virus cases to 21,016 with 654 known deaths. All three of Sunday’s deaths happened in the northern part of the state. Health officials
Continue Reading A surfer was bit by a shark while swimming in Florida on Friday. The 22-year-old was in the waters in New Smyrna Beach around 5 p.m. when she was bit on the foot by a shark while in chest deep water, according to Volusia County Beach Safety Ocean Rescue Captain Tamra Malphurs. The woman, from
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EL PASO, Texas — An interfaith community healing service was held at Ascarate Park on Sunday evening to mark one year after the El Paso Walmart massacre. On the eve of the shooting anniversary, Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz and other religious leaders led a solemn and prayerful service of remembrance and healing that took place
Continue Reading SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft — carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley — splashed down into the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, marking a safe end to an historic two-month mission and paving the way for the United States to once again become a world leader in human spaceflight. The Crew Dragon vehicle fired
Continue Reading Thirty-six crew and four guests on a Norwegian cruise ship have tested positive for Covid-19, the cruise company says. All 158 crew members from the MS Roald Amundsen have been tested after four staff became ill and were found to have the disease on Friday, according to a statement released Saturday by Hurtigruten, the owner
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