EL PASO, Texas — The Texas Military Department is now standing down for “mortuary duty” and won’t be replacing jail inmates who have been used to move bodies of Covid-19 victims at the El Paso County morgue, according to Texas state Rep. and Senator-elect Cesar Blanco. Blanco told ABC-7 Thursday evening that he was informed
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State judges in Arizona and Pennsylvania and a federal judge in Georgia rejected election-related lawsuits Thursday from Republicans and the Trump campaign. The hat trick of losses were the latest round of defeats for the Trump campaign in its long-shot and increasingly far-fetched bid to block President-elect Joe Biden’s win before the Electoral College certifies
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Kelly Stafford, wife of longtime Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, apologized on Thursday after calling Michigan a “dictatorship” in response to news of the state’s new Covid-19 restrictions. “should never have used the word ‘dictatorship,’ ” Kelly Stafford wrote Thursday in an Instagram post. “i got caught up in the heat of the moment, that
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Kelly Stafford, wife of longtime Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, apologized on Thursday after calling Michigan a “dictatorship” in response to news of the state’s new Covid-19 restrictions. “should never have used the word ‘dictatorship,’ ” Kelly Stafford wrote Thursday in an Instagram post. “i got caught up in the heat of the moment, that
Continue Reading More than 20,000 species of bee exist throughout the world — and they are dying, thanks to climate change, pesticide poisoning and plant loss. Researchers have taken an important first step toward bee conservation by creating the first modern map of bee species represented globally, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Current
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(CNN) — En menos de 10 meses, el covid-19 ha matado a más personas en Estados Unidos que los accidentes cerebrovasculares, los suicidios y los accidentes automovilísticos combinados en un año completo en el país. En este gráfico se puede comparar la cantidad de muertes por covid-19 en 10 meses con las que suceden cada
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ODESSA, Texas — Denise Mourning tried to hold back the tears behind her face shield. The acute care nurse practitioner in Odessa was reflecting on the emotional arc of the coronavirus pandemic, one that began with a sense of unity but has unraveled into exasperation. “At first it was, ‘Thank you so much, you’re frontline,
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EL PASO, Texas — The holiday season is here. Thanksgiving is a week away and Christmas is only a month away. As you head out for those holiday activities, do you know what your risk is for getting infected with Covid-19? Physicians with the Texas Medical Association Covid-19 Task Force put together a chart of
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Chinese social media platform Joyy on Thursday tried to fend off an attack by short-seller Muddy Waters, saying a report that sent its share price plunging was full of “errors, unsubstantiated statements, and misleading conclusions.” Shares in Joyy closed down more than 26% in New York on Wednesday after Muddy Waters published its report accusing
Continue Reading Diamonds might be forever, but that doesn’t mean they have to take eons to form. The gemstones are usually created after carbon is crushed and heated far beneath the Earth’s surface over billions of years — which is what makes them so coveted. Now, scientists in Australia say they have sped up the process into
Continue Reading (CNN) — Georgia terminó su auditoría estatal de la cerrada carrera presidencial y el presidente electo Joe Biden derrotó al presidente Donald Trump, según un comunicado de prensa de la oficina de la Secretaría de Estado. Biden venció a Trump por 12.284 votos, de acuerdo a los resultados finales de la auditoría. Esto significa una
Continue Reading When coronavirus first hit in March, Dr. David Burkard found himself having some of the toughest conversations of his life. He had to let patients know when it was time to say their final goodbyes to their families. “The hard thing is having to be the person that talks to the patient with Covid, who
Continue Reading President-elect Joe Biden has expedited the selection of his Cabinet and is planning to make the first of several key announcements next week, an official said, as part of a concerted effort to show that he is moving forward despite President Donald Trump’s increasingly brazen attempts to sabotage the election. On Thursday, Biden said he
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico — A top health official says Mexico has passed the 100,000 mark in Covid-19 deaths, becoming only the fourth country – behind the United States, Brazil and India – to do so. José Luis Alomía Zegarra, Mexico’s director of epidemiology, announced Thursday evening that Mexico had 100,104 confirmed deaths. That death toll
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Dreams of playing in the NBA are one step closer to fruition for former NMSU Aggie, Trevelin Queen. Queen didn’t hear his name get called during the first and second rounds of the NBA Draft, but an opportunity still came his way. Queen will get his shot after he was
Continue Reading President Donald Trump told an ally that he knows he lost, but that he is delaying the transition process and is aggressively trying to sow doubt about the election results in order to get back at Democrats for questioning the legitimacy of his own election in 2016, especially with the Russia investigation, a source familiar
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President Donald Trump told an ally that he knows he lost, but that he is delaying the transition process and is aggressively trying to sow doubt about the election results in order to get back at Democrats for questioning the legitimacy of his own election in 2016, especially with the Russia investigation, a source familiar
Continue Reading One day before the Trump campaign’s legal team needed to convince a federal judge that Joe Biden shouldn’t have won Pennsylvania, Rudy Giuliani didn’t like what he was hearing. Lawyers were going over arguments for the case at the Trump campaign headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, when Giuliani suddenly interjected. “You’re out,” he said angrily, summarily
Continue Reading (CNN) — El presidente Donald Trump invitó a legisladores estatales republicanos de Michigan a la Casa Blanca el viernes, según una persona familiarizada con el asunto. La convocatoria llega en el marco del esfuerzo del presidente y su equipo legal para hacer que se reviertan los resultados de la elección que perdió ante el presidente
Continue ReadingATLANTA, Georgia — A top Georgia elections official says a hand tally of the presidential race in Georgia is complete, and the results affirm Democrat Joe Biden’s lead over Republican President Donald Trump. Gabriel Sterling released the information to The Associated Press on Thursday. The hand recount of nearly 5 million votes stemmed from an
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El Paso hit 85 today blowing away the old record of 79 degrees. Another record high is forecast tomorrow with highs again in the low to mid 80’s across the area. Lots of sunshine and light winds will be the weather story for your Friday. The weekend looks nice too. Some high level clouds but
Continue Reading A federal court judge agreed Thursday to delay the execution of Lisa Montgomery after her attorneys argued they needed more time to work on her clemency petition because they contracted the coronavirus. Earlier this week, attorneys from the Cornell Law School International Human Rights Clinic, arguing on behalf of Montgomery’s attorneys, Amy Harwell and Kelley
Continue Reading Popular tween gaming platform Roblox filed to go public on Thursday. The company declined an interview, citing a quiet period. The company reported revenue of $589 million and an operating cash flow of $345 million for the nine months ending in September. It is not yet profitable, reporting a net loss of $203.2 million in
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UPDATE #2: TERRE HAUTE, Indiana — The U.S. government has executed a man who kidnapped and raped a 16-year-old Texas girl before dousing her with gasoline and burying her alive. Orlando Hall is the eighth federal inmate put to death this year after a nearly two-decade hiatus. Hall died by injection Thursday night at the
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Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse says he used money from a stimulus check to purchase the gun he allegedly used to kill two people and wound one other on the night of August 25. “I got my twelve hundred dollars from the coronavirus Illinois unemployment cause I was on furlough from YMCA. And I got my
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ATLANTA (AP) – A top Georgia elections official says a hand tally of the presidential race in Georgia is complete, and the results affirm Democrat Joe Biden’s lead over Republican President Donald Trump. Gabriel Sterling released the information to The Associated Press on Thursday. The hand recount of nearly 5 million votes stemmed from an
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State judges in Arizona and Pennsylvania and a federal judge in Georgia rejected election-related lawsuits Thursday from Republicans and the Trump campaign. The hat trick of losses were the latest round of defeats for the Trump campaign in its long-shot and increasingly far-fetched bid to block President-elect Joe Biden’s win before the Electoral College certifies
Continue Reading Incoming White House chief of staff Ron Klain said Thursday that President Donald Trump and General Services Administrator Emily Murphy are failing to follow the law by refusing to allow the official transition process to move forward. “What the President’s doing, with his administrator of general services, is failing to do their job, failing to follow the law, so
Continue Reading The most populous county in Washington state is moving forward with a plan that will allow community groups — instead of courts — decide the punishment for some low level felonies. King County, which includes Seattle, approved funding for criminal justice diversion programs on Tuesday as part of its $12.59 billion, two-year budget. The budget
Continue Reading Tyson supervisors at a pork processing facility in Waterloo, Iowa took bets on how many workers would get infected with Covid-19, even as they took measures to protect themselves and denied knowledge of the spread of the illness at work, according to new allegations in a lawsuit against the company and some employees. The wrongful
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