A federal judge postponed the trial for Rudy Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman citing the backlog of criminal trials as courts grapple with the coronavirus pandemic. “We’re almost certainly not going to get on the calendar for March 1 given the number of detained defendant trials, which take priority,” said Judge Paul Oetken
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Click here for updates on this story COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KCNC) — A community in Colorado Springs helped a family in their moment of need. Andi Thomas was diagnosed with breast cancer this year, and her doctors said she had six months to live. She’s now almost to the 10th month since then, but the
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Nota del editor: Jorge G. Castañeda es colaborador de CNN. Fue secretario de Relaciones Exteriores de México de 2000 a 2003. Actualmente es profesor de la Universidad de Nueva York y su libro más reciente es “America Through Foreign Eyes”, publicado por Oxford University Press. Las opiniones expresadas en esta columna son exclusivamente del autor.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO, IL (WBBM) — After eight hours in surgery over Thanksgiving, a Kankakee woman is recovering after she got a new heart. Her case is so unusual doctors say out of the thousands of transplants they do a year, maybe one like this ever happens. Since Nov. 4,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TOWSON, MD (WJZ) — Baltimore County Schools said Friday that they plan to provide daily updates at 4 p.m. on a “catastrophic” ransomware cyber attack that forced schools to close on Wednesday. “Our technology and other central office teams have been working these past few days to address
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story JENNINGS, Mo. (KCTV/KSMO) — A 14-year-old was killed by the person he was trying to carjack Sunday afternoon in Jennings, according to St. Louis County police. Authorities said the unidentified teenager and another person were attempting to carjack a 53- year-old man in the 9300 block of Lewis
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Leaders of the Local Initiatives Support Coalition (LISC) say their organization has received a record total of about $2 billion dollars in donations and investments this year from companies and organizations looking to aid people of color. “This is by far our biggest fundraising year on record,” LISC President and CEO Maurice Jones told CNN
Continue Reading (CNN Business) — Lego lanzó oficialmente el Coliseo, el conjunto de bloques Lego más grande de la historia y una reproducción detallada del famoso anfiteatro ovalado de Roma. Malas noticias: ya está agotado. El modelo, que Lego lanzó el ‘Black Friday’, consta de 9.036 piezas y cuando está terminado, mide 10,5 centímetros de alto, 52
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On Monday, President-elect Joe Biden announced that Neera Tanden was his pick to be the next Office of Management and Budget director. More than 18 hours prior, however, Republicans were already predicting that Tanden would never make it through the confirmation process. Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton referred to Tanden as a “partisan hack.” “Neera Tanden,
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Kim Kardashian West put her considerable influence behind a push to stop the impending execution of a man who killed two people when he was 18 and has been on death row for 20 years. Brandon Bernard was convicted of the 1999 kidnapping and killing of youth ministers Todd and Stacie Bagley on a military
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SAN DIEGO (AP) – The Navy says it will decommission a warship docked off San Diego after suspected arson caused extensive damage, making it too expensive to restore. Officials said Monday that fully repairing the USS Bonhomme Richard to warfighting capabilities would cost $2.5 billion to $3 billion and take five to seven years. The
Continue Reading JCPenney has survived to see its 119th holiday shopping season. How many more it has ahead of it is tough to say. In May, the storied department store chain filed for bankruptcy, having been brought to the brink by a combination of the Covid-19 pandemic, unaffordable levels of debt and years of miscalculation and blunders
Continue Reading Several conservative justices on Monday seemed to suggest they could avoid immediately ruling on whether President Donald Trump’s attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from being counted when seats in Congress are divvied up between the states next year is lawful. In over an hour of telephonic arguments, the justices seemed extremely skeptical that in the
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If you thought Black Friday was peak deals day, think again: Cyber Monday is here, and it’s your last chance to shop the year’s best deals on everything you need for the holiday season and beyond. The deals are just as good — and in some cases, better — than last week. To help you
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story JENNINGS, MO (KMOV) — A 14-year-old was killed by the person he was carjacking Sunday afternoon in Jennings, according to St. Louis County police. Authorities said 14-year-old Damaurio Thomas and another person were carjacking a 53-year-old man in the 9300 block of Lewis and Clark Road around 3:45
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El delantero mexicano Raúl Jiménez fue sometido a una operación en Inglaterra debido a la fractura craneal que sufrió el domingo tras chocar con el futbolista del Arsenal David Luiz. El Wolverhampton, equipo de la Liga Premier en el que milita Jiménez, confirmó que el jugador «está tranquilo después de la operación de
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NBC Universal is apologizing to Selena Gomez after one of its newest shows mocked her kidney transplant. The joke referencing Gomez’s health issues is made on Peacock’s “Saved by the Bell” reboot, during its sixth episode. “I know for a fact that Selena Gomez’s kidney donor was Justin Bieber’s mom. God, I wish that I
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While we’re all cooped up during the pandemic, the World Health Organization wants you to exercise. The organization released new physical activity guidelines recommending that adults get at least 150 minutes — that’s 2.5 hours — of moderate to vigorous physical activity weekly. The WHO’s new physical activity recommendations come at a time when the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Phoenix, AZ (KPHO KTVK ) — A popular restaurant in Moon Valley is shutting its doors after too much financial loss during the pandemic. The married owners had been trying to survive months of shutdown, all the while battling COVID-19 themselves. Sunday sports with a burger and beer
Continue Reading General Motors is giving up its equity stake in Nikola Motors and scrapping plans to build the electric truck maker’s Badger pickup as part of a new, scaled-back deal between the companies. Nikola shares plunged more than 20% on the news. The new deal replaces an agreement announced in September in which GM had planned
Continue Reading Sen. Chuck Grassley returned to his Senate office Monday after testing positive for Covid-19 and completing a quarantine earlier this month, and he called on Congress to pass additional coronavirus relief legislation. Grassley, who is 87 and the most senior Republican in the chamber, tested positive for the virus on November 17, but remained asymptomatic
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GILA COUNTY, AZ (KPHO KTVK ) — A grand jury has indicted the married couple whose two children and niece drowned in floodwaters at Tonto Creek almost exactly a year ago today. According to Gila County Superior Court, Daniel and Lacey Rawlings were each indicted by a grand
Continue Reading (CNN) — El piloto de Fórmula Uno Romain Grosjean estuvo involucrado en un terrible accidente que dejó su auto envuelto en llamas en el Gran Premio de Bahrein el domingo, lo que provocó que la carrera se detuviera. En la primera vuelta, Grosjean se salió de la pista después de la tercera curva luego de
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MANCHESTER, CT (WFSB) — Someone tried to follow a stolen vehicle and ended up getting shot at, according to police in Manchester. Police said the whole thing started around 1 a.m. Monday on Keeney Street near Interstate 384. “Early [Monday] morning a member of the public attempted to
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SANTA FE, New Mexico – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, alongside other state officials, held a briefing Monday on the current trajectory of the Covid-19 pandemic in the state after a two-week statewide shutdown. New Mexico is moving into a three-tiered (red, yellow, green) county-by-county system of reopening to take effect on Wednesday, which the governor discussed.
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Even with coronavirus spiking and new restrictions taking effect, Congress remains stalled on fresh relief for Americans in need. While there’s support from both Republicans and Democrats for sending out another round of payments, it’s unlikely Americans will get a second round of stimulus checks before the end of the year — and lawmakers have
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WASHINGTON, DC — Even with coronavirus spiking and new restrictions taking effect, Congress remains stalled on fresh relief for Americans in need. While there’s support from both Republicans and Democrats for sending out another round of payments, it’s unlikely Americans will get a second round of stimulus checks before the end of the year —
Continue Reading The stock market is near an all-time high — despite a modest pullback on Monday. November has been a stellar month for investors as optimism about a coronavirus vaccine and relief about the outcome of the presidential election have trumped renewed worries about another surge in Covid-19 cases. It seems safe to say that investors
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif. (KSBW) — The start of the holiday season would normally be the time to buy your tickets to see a live performance of the Nutcracker but under covid-19 restrictions those shows can’t go on. Local non-profits and dance studios are pivoting to taped performances this year
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) — Student-athletes gathered at the State Capitol Sunday afternoon to protest restrictions on high school sports. They say the delay, or even cancellations, of their seasons, costs them opportunities to play at the next level. “It’s very devastating that my senior year, this was the
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