The Carter Center announced Friday it will monitor the ongoing hand recount of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia to “help bolster transparency and confidence in election results” — the first time the nonprofit, which has observed elections around the world, will monitor any part of an election process in the United States. The move
Continue Reading Former White House chief of staff John Kelly issued an on-the-record statement Friday night lambasting President Donald Trump for not helping with the transition to a Biden administration. Read the full statement: The delay in transitioning is an increasing national security and health crisis. It costs the current administration nothing to start to brief Mr.
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(CNN Español) — La misión Crew-1 de SpaceX y la NASA será la primera completamente operativa de la cápsula Dragon luego de su exitoso vuelo de prueba en mayo (Demo-2), que demostró que la nave de SpaceX es capaz de llevar seres humanos a la órbita terrestre, acoplarse con la Estación Espacial Internacional y afrontar
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — New Mexico on Friday marked its second-highest daily death count since the pandemic began as health officials reported uncontrollable spread and the governor ordered residents to shelter-in-place in an effort to rein in surging rates of coronavirus infections. Southern New Mexico’s Doña Ana and Otero counties were responsible for nine
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California, which this week announced its 1 millionth Covid-19 case, is seeing the fastest rate of increase in the number of daily reported infections since the start of the pandemic, public health officials said Friday. There has been a 47.1% increase in the number of new cases in a one-week period since the beginning of
Continue Reading As President Donald Trump continues to contest the legitimacy of the election, Joe Biden begins his transition process, announcing coronavirus advisers and a new chief of staff. Meanwhile, the pandemic is still raging, infecting even more inside the White House. Monday Trump fires Secretary of Defense Mark Esper Trump agency tasked with transition process has
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Todo está preparado para que el domingo 15 de noviembre haya una nueva cuenta regresiva. No será un 3… 2… 1… convencional: una tripulación completamente operativa despegará desde la plataforma de lanzamiento 39A del Centro Espacial Kennedy en la Florida, construida originalmente para los enormes cohetes Saturno V que enviaron las misiones
Continue Reading (CNN) — El trastorno económico por la pandemia de covid-19 hace que muchos estadounidenses se atrasen en el pago de sus facturas de servicios públicos. Al menos 79,5 millones de adultos estadounidenses viven en hogares que están teniendo dificultades para pagar los gastos domésticos habituales durante la pandemia, según la última Encuesta del Pulso de
Continue Reading The college football season appears to be in disarray after a 15th Division I game, scheduled for this Saturday, was called off due to Covid-19. The game between Utah at UCLA is the latest to be canceled. The Pac-12 Conference made the announcement Friday, citing Utah’s football program not having the minimum amount of scholarship
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EL PASO, Texas – High school football returned to the Borderland on Friday night with a total of 7 games. Before the start of kickoff, Socorro forfeited their game against Eastwood, and the El Dorado/Del Valle game was postponed to Dec. 4th. Schedule & Scores from 11/13 Andress 28 Austin 21 Burges 49 Bowie 14
Continue Reading The Indianapolis officer who shot and killed a Black man in May, will not face any charges in the case, a special prosecutor announced. Dreasjon Reed, 21, was killed following a high-speed vehicle pursuit and a foot chase, days after video of Ahmaud Arbery’s death in Georgia ignited protests against systemic racism. On Tuesday, the
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – All Las Cruces Public Schools’ athletics programs, in-person learning classes and student organizations meeting in small groups will immediately be suspended, the district announced. That’s to conform to the state’s new shelter-in-place order. About two-dozen students were in classrooms this week for special education, in-person learning, according to the district.
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ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico – The city of Alamogordo is now closing its City Hall starting Monday due to a Covid-19 outbreak. Earlier this week, Alamogordo officials indicated multiple city employees had tested positive for Covid-19, prompting a deep cleaning of City Hall. Officials had initially sought to keep City Hall open, but said they decided
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Late last month, Ireland entered a strict, six-week lockdown against the spread of Covid-19, under which social gatherings are prohibited, exercise permitted only within five kilometers of the home, and bars and restaurants closed. But as he announced the new restrictions, Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Micheál Martin emphasized that schools and childcare facilities should stay open.
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El poderoso estruendo de un cohete espacial puede sacudir -tal vez- hasta las fibras de la infancia. En tantas ocasiones desde el programa Apolo, miles de personas se han agolpado en las cercanías de Cabo Cañaveral para ver los despegues, para seguir con fascinación la estela de humo y fuego que produce
Continue Reading A human error that briefly led to incorrect election results in a Michigan county has spiraled into a sprawling, baseless conspiracy theory suggesting that glitches in widely-used voting software led to millions of miscast ballots. Conservative media figures, social media users, and President Donald Trump have spread rumors about problems with Dominion Voting Systems, an
Continue Reading (CNN) –– Una firma de abogados que representa a la campaña del presidente Donald Trump en un controvertido y arriesgado intento por bloquear el voto popular de Pensilvania a favor de Joe Biden abandonó el caso. La firma, Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, tenía dos abogados en Pittsburgh, quienes lideraban el esfuerzo de la campaña
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man has been jailed on animal cruelty charges, accused of repeatedly beating a puppy and breaking the young dog’s ribs. Police said in a statement Friday that investigators determined that 32–year old Robert Ryan Washington “continuously beat his 6–month-old Doberman Pincer puppy, ‘Rocky.'” Authorities said a veterinarian who
Continue Reading With the US on the cusp of a coronavirus vaccine, states are scrambling to nail down their distribution plans as they await key information — like how many doses of the vaccine they’ll receive. Multiple federal agencies are involved in the process, and some state officials are concerned about a lack of transparency and clarity
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Bumble is swiping right on Wall Street. The female-focused dating app is planning for an initial public offering as early as the first quarter of 2021, according to a Bloomberg report citing people with knowledge of the matter. The report said Bumble is working with Goldman Sachs and Citigroup on the planned listing, and is
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EL PASO, Texas – The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is teaming up with William Beaumont Army Medical Center to open a 16-bed mobile intensive care unit on the campus of the Army hospital and the El Paso VA in central El Paso. The VA has transported the mobile ICU from Florida to El Paso
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — With non-essential businesses recently the target of closures and so-called “big box” stores deemed essential, questions arise as to whether aisles at these stores carrying non-essential items should be blocked off. The owner of Literarity Book Shop, a book store in west El Paso, is asking for that intervention in move
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Continue Reading New York City’s public school system, the nation’s largest, could shut down all classrooms as early as Monday in the midst of a growing second wave of coronavirus infections, officials said. The decision signals a grim turnabout for a city that was an epicenter of the pandemic in late March and mirrors the move back
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Click here for updates on this story Phoenix, AZ (KPHO/KTVK) — A string of crimes with a number of victims across the Valley has been tied to a pair of young suspects. Police accuse the teenagers of murdering two people during a two-month crime spree. The suspects in the case are only 16 years old.
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EL PASO, Texas — UTEP’s football game against UAB, scheduled for next Friday in Midland, has now been canceled after numerous UAB players tested positive for Covid-19 and were quarantined. UAB also cancelled its game vs. North Texas this Saturday for the same reason. UTEP Director of Athletics Jim Senter said he was “disappointed that we won’t be able to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Chandler, AZ (KPHO/KTVK) — Parents in the east Valley are concerned about a message going around on social media urging people to hide positive COVID-19 tests and not report it if they’re sick. Some parents say they’ve been hearing about other families having that mentality. “In the mom
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Denver, CO (KCNC) — Some of the youngest patients in the world to test positive for COVID-19 are being treated at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children in Denver. CBS4’s Dillon Thomas has learned infants, some just days old, are getting symptoms and testing positive for the virus. “We’ve
Continue Reading Lawyers for the Trump campaign have dropped a lawsuit seeking a review of all ballots cast on Election Day after finding that the margin of victory for the presidential contest in Arizona could not be overcome. The Trump campaign filed the lawsuit on Saturday alleging some voters were confused on Election Day and feared that
Continue Reading Canadian Thanksgiving was just last month, and the country has seen consequences as Covid-19 cases reach record highs. Now, Canadian leaders say Christmas celebrations are in jeopardy. Thanksgiving in Canada fell on October 12 this year, and as family and friends gathered, it fueled a widespread surge in coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Now, public
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