(CNN) –– Michelle Obama intervino sobre la negativa del presidente Donald Trump y de la primera dama Melania Trump para avanzar en la transición de poder de la siguiente administración. Obama reflexionó acerca de la posición en la que estaba hace cuatro años. Y relató cómo ––a pesar de que el proceso de ceder la
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The NBA trade moratorium had been lifted for barely an hour on Monday before the league saw its first blockbuster deal, as the Phoenix Suns acquired 10-time All-Star Chris Paul in a trade with the Oklahoma City Thunder. In return for the 35-year-old veteran guard and forward Abdel Nader, the Thunder receive Kelly Oubre Jr.,
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Rudy Giuliani’s increasingly outlandish claims of election fraud have former federal officials worried that theories peddled by the man once dubbed “America’s mayor” could be dangerous to democracy in the US. In the two weeks since Election Day, Giuliani has become a super-spreader of election disinformation. His eyebrow-raising claims — from Republican observers being barred
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President Donald Trump last week asked senior aides what possibilities he had for an offensive strike on Iran’s primary nuclear site, The New York Times reported Monday. Citing four current and former US officials, the paper reported that the meeting occurred in the Oval Office on Thursday. A day before, the International Atomic Energy Agency
Continue Reading President Donald Trump last week asked senior aides what possibilities he had for an offensive strike on Iran’s primary nuclear site, The New York Times reported Monday. Citing four current and former US officials, the paper reported that the meeting occurred in the Oval Office on Thursday. A day before, the International Atomic Energy Agency
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The University of California system has reached a $73 million settlement Monday with alleged victims of sexual abuse by a former obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. James Heaps. Heaps had worked part-time as a gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles’s (UCLA) student health center from about 1983 to 2010, and was hired by UCLA Health in
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The US received more good news on the vaccine front this week — with Moderna’s clinical trial data showing its vaccine is more than 94% effective. But the country is still battling a Covid-19 crisis that’s ravaging communities and hospital systems and is projected to get a lot worse before a possible vaccine could offer
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Taylor Swift is speaking out about Scooter Braun’s sale of her masters. The singer took to Twitter on Monday to post a lengthy and emotional message about the music executive, who acquired the master recordings of her first six albums from her former label — Big Machine Label Group in June 2019 — despite her
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Huawei has been battered by a long US campaign against the company. Now it is hunkering down for survival by selling off its budget smartphone business. A consortium of buyers said on Tuesday that it has acquired Huawei’s Honor smartphone brand for an undisclosed amount of money. The buyers include more than 30 Chinese agents
Continue Reading President Donald Trump’s refusal to coordinate with President-elect Joe Biden on the critical Covid-19 vaccine is bringing a staggering possibility into clearer view: that an outgoing US commander in chief is actively working to sabotage his successor. Trump’s denial of his election defeat, his lies about nonexistent mass coordinated voter fraud and his strangling of
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Darkness covers the Norwegian city of Tromsø from late November through January, a long, polar night when the sun never rises at all. The island community, which is more than 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, is flanked by snowy peaks and frigid water. Northern lights flicker in the sky there. “If winter were
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los niños menores de dos años que reciben antibióticos tienen más probabilidades de tener una serie de enfermedades o afecciones en curso en el futuro, según encontró un nuevo estudio. Los bebés y los niños pequeños que recibieron una dosis de antibióticos tenían más probabilidades de tener asma, eccema, rinitis alérgica, alergias alimentarias,
Continue Reading China has just joined forces with more than a dozen countries across the Asia Pacific region to sign a huge free trade deal nearly a decade in the making. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership spans 15 countries and 2.2 billion people, or nearly 30% of the world’s population, according to a joint statement released by
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The new Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 392 has a 470-horsepower 6.4-liter V8 engine and can go from zero to 60 miles an hour in 4.5 seconds. That makes it the quickest and most powerful Wrangler the company has ever produced. This will be the first time in almost 40 years that the Wrangler or its predecessor,
Continue Reading (CNN) — Las buenas noticias dieron esperanza al mundo. El 9 de noviembre se anunció que una de las posibles vacunas contra el covid-19, fabricada por Pfizer y BioNTech, tuvo más del 90% de efectividad para prevenir que los voluntarios contrajeran el virus. La atribulada industria de los viajes recibió un impulso inmediato. Los precios
Continue Reading (CNN) — El expresidente de EE.UU. Barack Obama dijo que los resultados de las elecciones, en las que cada candidato recibió más de 70 millones de votos, muestran que la nación permanece amargamente dividida. «Lo que dice es que todavía estamos profundamente divididos. El poder de esa cosmovisión alternativa que se presenta en los medios
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The limbs of a lifeless body hang off a stretcher in a hospital ward as coronavirus patients battle for their lives just a few feet away. An elderly woman gasps for breath, her desperate panting a grim soundtrack to one of many disturbing cell-phone videos emerging from hospitals across Russia. “This is how our nights
Continue Reading Paul Ewell, the now former dean of the Virginia Wesleyan University Global Campus, resigned from both his deanship and his faculty post after allegedly writing a Facebook post on his since-deleted account that referred to voters for President-elect Joe Biden as “anti-American” and “anti-Christian.” When asked for additional comment and whether he stood by his
Continue Reading Actualización: Iota toca tierra en Nicaragua como huracán categoría 4 (CNN) — Por primera vez en la historia registrada, las islas colombianas de San Andrés y Providencia sufren los efectos de un huracán categoría 5, a medida que Iota se acerca a tocar tierra, dijo este lunes el presidente de Colombia, Iván Duque. Sigue el recorrido
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso mother and grandparent is now mourning the loss of six family members to Covid-19 after the recent deaths of her aunt and uncle. “This morning at 12:30 a.m. we lost another wonderful man to Covid-19,” Bonnie Soria Najera wrote Sunday in a Facebook post. “My Tio Louie and my dad weren’t
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A Maryland businessman paid Harvard University’s former fencing coach at least $1.5 million in bribes, including payments for a car and a house in the suburbs, to get his sons admitted to the Ivy League school, federal prosecutors said in a criminal complaint released Monday. Jie “Jack” Zhao, 61, and Peter Brand, 67, were arrested
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Click here for updates on this story Grand Prairie, TX (KTVT) — Two and a half years after a standoff that resulted in Grand Prairie police shooting and killing a man believed to be mentally ill after he pointed a gun at officers, the police body cam video has been released. Back in April 2018,
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The U.S. Hurricane Center said Iota made landfall Monday night on the Nicaraguan coast as a dangerous Category 4 storm. The powerful hurricane made landfall on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast, threatening catastrophic damage to the same part of Central America already battered by equally strong Hurricane Eta less than two weeks ago. Iota
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Plano, TX (KTVT) — An immigrant business owner in Plano needs help from police and the public to get through a heartbreaking situation. The small, family-owned Queen’s Jewelry has already struggled to survive through the pandemic. Now right before the holidays, a thief made off with their most
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — SpaceX’s newly launched capsule with four astronauts has arrived at the International Space Station. The Dragon capsule pulled up and docked late Monday night, following a 27-hour, completely automated flight from Florida. This is the second astronaut mission for SpaceX. But it’s the first time Elon Musk’s company delivered a crew
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger stood firm Monday on his account that Sen. Lindsey Graham had hinted that he should try to discard some ballots in Georgia, where a recount is underway after the state went for President-elect Joe Biden in the presidential election. “He asked if the ballots could be matched back to
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los comandantes militares estadounidenses anticipan que el presidente Trump dará una orden formal tan pronto como esta semana para comenzar una nueva retirada de los soldados estadounidenses en Afganistán e Iraq antes de que Trump deje el cargo el 20 de enero, según dos funcionarios estadounidenses familiares. El Pentágono ha emitido un aviso
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EL PASO, Texas — Three separate teams of 20 military medical providers with the U.S. Air Force have now been in the Borderland for over a week providing support for fatigued medical staff. 1st Lt. Ian Krug, a critical care nurse who is also an active-duty soldier with the Air Force, deployed to El Paso
Continue Reading (CNN) –– El gobierno del presidente Donald Trump empezó este lunes un proceso de arrendamiento para sitios de perforación de petróleo y gas frente al Refugio Nacional de Vida Silvestre del Ártico (ANWR, por sus siglas en inglés). Una decisión que grupos ambientalistas creen es un posible regalo de último minuto para el sector energético.
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas – Walmart has resumed monitoring and counting the number of customers entering its stores in El Paso and across the nation as coronavirus cases surge to record rates. The City of El Paso sent out a news release announcing the change Monday evening and implying that Walmart’s move locally was the result of
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