The deputy chief of staff to the secretary of defense has resigned, a US defense official told CNN on Thursday, becoming the latest official to depart the Pentagon amid a purge that began Monday when President Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper. Alexis Ross has resigned, the official said, joining now-former chief of staff
Continue Reading
Click here for updates on this story Newtown Square, PA (KYW) — A very special Veterans Day parade in Delaware County honored a retired Navy lieutenant on his 105th birthday in a very fitting way. Eugene Vickers has quite the story to tell, and pouring rain and overcast skies did not stop dozens of emergency
Continue Reading
EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso Zoo elephant who has waged a courageous battle for four years against an unusual cancer will now undergo complex surgery in the hopes of saving her life, zoo officials announced Thursday. Juno, one of two Asian elephants at the zoo, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016. Since then, she’s
Continue Reading
If you want to visit your family for Thanksgiving and avoid passing coronavirus on to them, experts say you need to quarantine for 14 days. That’s two weeks of doing even less than we’re doing now, and it needs to start today. CNN talked to CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and
Continue Reading Pfizer released surprisingly positive data about its experimental coronavirus vaccine this week and may hope to apply for regulatory approval by the end of the month, but it will take several weeks more to get a vaccine through the approval process, experts noted. Americans should not be hoping for any authorization from the US Food
Continue Reading
WASHINGTON, DC — A group of national, state and private election officials said in a joint statement Thursday that there is no evidence of any voting system being compromised in the 2020 election despite President Donald Trump’s deluge of election fraud conspiracies. “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history. Right now,
Continue Reading How much longer President Donald Trump continues waging battle over an election he lost remained in question Thursday as more of his advisers voiced doubt his gambit to contest the results would succeed. One person who spoke to him called him “dejected” over the ordeal. Trump himself was waffling by the hour and day between
Continue Reading
(CNN Español) –– La Fiscalía de Perú solicitó al Poder Judicial este jueves que prohíba la salida del país al expresidente Martín Vizcarra por 12 meses. Al exmandatario lo investigan por sospechas de actos de corrupción. El Poder Judicial informó en Twitter que la audiencia para decidirlo será este viernes en el primer juzgado de
Continue Reading The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts there will be 260,000 to 282,000 coronavirus deaths by December 5, according to a forecast published Thursday. There are currently at least 10.5 million cases of coronavirus in the US and more than 242,000 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University data. Unlike some individual models,
Continue Reading Former President Barack Obama slammed Republican officials for condoning President Donald Trump‘s false claims of election fraud in the wake of his loss to Joe Biden, saying in an interview clip released Thursday that such allegations endangered democracy. “They appear to be motivated, in part, because the President doesn’t like to lose, and never admits
Continue Reading
Former President Barack Obama slammed Republican officials for condoning President Donald Trump‘s false claims of election fraud in the wake of his loss to Joe Biden, saying in an interview clip released Thursday that such allegations endangered democracy. “They appear to be motivated, in part, because the President doesn’t like to lose, and never admits
Continue Reading
EL PASO, Texas — A divided Texas appeals court on Thursday evening issued a temporary emergency order effectively halting El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego’s mandated shutdown to stem the surge of Covid-19. The Eighth Court of Appeals granted a request sought by Texas’ attorney general and local restaurant owners by striking down portions of
Continue Reading
Temps will be warmer overnight with lows in the mid and upper 40’s. Clouds will hang around tonight and again tomorrow as clearing will take place Friday evening. Temps will warm to the low and mid 70’s through Saturday then cool a little behind a weak cold front Saturday night.
Continue Reading Cracks are growing in the GOP defense of President Donald Trump’s long-shot effort to overturn the 2020 election outcome, with many top Republicans contending that Joe Biden should immediately get national security briefings, some calling for the official transition process to begin and others are acknowledging that Trump stands little chance at reversing results clearly
Continue Reading (CNN) — Menos de la mitad de los estadounidenses dicen que es muy probable que cumplan con otra orden de confinamiento, a pesar de las crecientes preocupaciones sobre la pandemia de coronavirus, según muestra la última encuesta de Gallup. Alrededor del 49% de los estadounidenses encuestados entre el 19 de octubre y el 1 de
Continue Reading (CNN) — El presidente Donald Trump ha buscado durante mucho tiempo consejos desde diferentes perspectivas a lo largo de su carrera, pero en un momento crucial para definir su legado como presidente, está recibiendo consejos contradictorios de sus asesores más cercanos y de mayor confianza, sus hijos mayores, mientras elabora su próxima estrategia de cara
Continue Reading (CNN) –– El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, aún no ha concedido formalmente la contienda presidencial de 2020, pero ya planea postularse nuevamente para 2024. Tanto Axios como The Washington Post informaron recientemente que Trump ha mencionado a sus allegados los planes que tiene de lanzarse nuevamente en 2024. Además, la decisión que tomó
Continue Reading Several GOP lawmakers have publicly defended CIA Director Gina Haspel in recent days as it has become increasingly clear that President Donald Trump is considering firing her as part of his post-election government purge. But outside of Capitol Hill, there are conflicting views about whether Trump should follow through with his threat to oust Haspel,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Bayonne, NJ (WCBS) — A man didn’t think twice about rushing to rescue a driver who plunged into the water off a park in New Jersey. Making him even more heroic, he jumped in with only one leg to save that stranger. It was a moment of
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– United Airlines, Copa Airlines y Aeroméxico retomarán sus vuelos hacia Nicaragua en la primera quincena de 2021, de acuerdo con la información publicada en las redes sociales de las agencias de viaje Aeromundo y Premiere de Nicaragua y la Cámara Nacional de Turismo (Canatur). Según el calendario de Aeromundo, American Airlines tiene
Continue Reading
EL PASO, Texas — An eastside Walmart on Thursday afternoon became the latest of the retail giant’s El Paso stores to be abruptly closed for deep cleaning because of concerns about the surge of Covid-19 in the Borderland. A Walmart spokesperson said the store at 1850 N. Zaragoza Road was shut down Thursday afternoon and
Continue Reading (CNN) — Moderna terminó de acumular datos para un primer análisis de su vacuna contra el covid-19 y espera tener un anuncio sobre la eficacia de esta para fin de mes, dijo la compañía el miércoles en un comunicado. Pfizer anunció el lunes que su vacuna contra el coronavirus tiene una efectividad superior al 90%.
Continue Reading
Google will restrict free usage of a very popular service. The company will phase out unlimited storage on Google Photos, it announced Wednesday. The service, launched in 2015, allows users to easily upload, back up and sort through the thousands of images we fill our smartphones with. Any images users upload beyond June 1, 2021
Continue Reading
At least four people have died and 31 have been rescued after heavy rains inundated Alexander County in the western Piedmont region of North Carolina, officials said Thursday. Three bodies were recovered at the Hiddenite Family Campground on the South Yadkin River after 7 to 10 inches of rain caused major flooding. Another person died
Continue Reading California just became the second state to surpass 1 million Covid-19 infections since the start of the pandemic — closely following Texas, which hit the grim milestone earlier this week. More than 5,000 new cases and 18 new deaths have been reported so far on Thursday, for a total of 1,000,631 confirmed cases and 18,126
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story New York (WCBS) — Millions of Americans are struggling to pay their bills because of the coronavirus pandemic, and hackers are preying on that hardship with new texting scams. As CBS2’s Christina Fan reported Wednesday, there is a warning about three scams prevalent in the Tri-State Area right
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– La Unión Europea informó este miércoles que extenderá hasta noviembre de 2021 las sanciones contra Venezuela. Según el bloque, la medida busca «promover soluciones democráticas y llevar estabilidad política» al país. En un comunicado, el Consejo de la Unión Europea indicó que las restricciones incluyen la prohibición a la venta de armas.
Continue Reading
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Southern New Mexico’s Doña Ana and Otero counties were responsible for seven of the state’s 18 additional coronavirus deaths on Thursday, while Doña Ana also reported a record 312 new virus cases among New Mexico’s 1,753 daily count. The seven latest fatalities in the two southern counties included: Three women
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Bayonne, NJ (WCBS) — A man didn’t think twice about rushing to rescue a driver who plunged into the water off of a park in New Jersey. Making him even more heroic, he jumped in with only one leg to save that stranger. It was a moment of
Continue Reading (CNN) — A medida que las infecciones y hospitalizaciones por covid-19 se disparaban en EE.UU., expertos advertían que pronto seguiría un mayor número de muertes. El miércoles, hubo al menos 1.893 muertes de estadounidenses por el virus, según la Universidad Johns Hopkins, el número de muertes diarias más alto que ha visto el país desde
Continue Reading