President Donald Trump personally asked Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas if he would argue a long-shot election lawsuit seeking to overturrn the election results in four battleground states, should the Supreme Court agree to take it up, two sources told CNN on Wednesday. Trump inquired on Tuesday whether Cruz would argue the case, which
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The inspector general for the Department of Veterans Affairs told prosecutors this fall that his investigation of VA Secretary Robert Wilkie had turned up possible criminal conduct, three current and former federal officials told The Washington Post. The inspector general, Michael Missal, had reviewed claims that Wilkie attempted to discredit a House staff member who
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The Gospel Rescue Mission of Las Cruces says the number of people staying at their shelter has dropped between 50 to 55% during this time of year compared to last. The number of new residents, at most since the pandemic began, has been six people in one week. The shelter’s
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The United States for the first time reported more than 3,000 Covid-19 deaths on Wednesday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. So far on Wednesday, 3,049 have been reported, according to Johns Hopkins. The numbers are not complete for the day. The United States is averaging about 2,230 new death reports per day,
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Google says it will examine the departure of a prominent Black female researcher in the field of ethics in artificial intelligence, whose recent, sudden exit has angered thousands of the company’s employees and others in the tech and academic communities. In a memo sent Wednesday to Google employees, CEO Sundar Pichai said the company needs
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Casey Goodson’s grandmother told a 911 dispatcher that he had been shot in the back and she wasn’t sure if he was breathing moments after his fatal encounter with a law enforcement officer at his Ohio home, according to an audio recording of the call. Goodson, 23, was shot on Friday by a 17-year veteran
Continue Reading President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Katherine Tai as US Trade Representative, three sources familiar with the decision confirmed to CNN. Tai currently is the top Democratic trade counsel for the House Ways and Means Committee and oversaw trade enforcement for China during the Obama administration. As an Asian-American, she is the latest diverse
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Rep. Eric Swalwell told CNN Wednesday that he was “shocked” when the FBI informed him several years ago that he was targeted by a suspected Chinese intelligence operative as part of a broader effort to establish ties with US politicians, reiterating that he immediately cooperated with federal investigators who were looking into the individual in
Continue Reading All 50 states and the District of Columbia have now certified their presidential results, according to CNN’s tally, as the Electoral College process moves forward with the meeting of electors on Monday. West Virginia became the final state to certify its presidential election results Wednesday, formally declaring that President Donald Trump is entitled to the
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Meryl Streep is “a little bit in love” with her costar in “The Prom,” Keegan-Michael Key. The multiple Oscar winner tells People that she enjoyed playing a Broadway diva who finds a connection with Key’s high school principal character. “It was that thing where you’ve watched someone for so long and you’re a little bit
Continue Reading When the Ghanaian government agreed to coordinate with Shenzen Energy Group, a Chinese energy company, to build a 7,000-megawatt coal power plant in the country’s Ekumfi district, Chibeze Ezekiel was concerned. He knew the proposed plant’s wastewater, ash pit and mercury emissions posed serious health and environmental risks to the local fishing and farming communities.
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UPDATE: Police said Thursday that a motorcyclist has died at a local hospital after being gravely injured in a downtown El Paso traffic crash the prior night. Authorities identified the victim as 32–year-old Jose Abel Gonzalez of El Paso and said he was the city’s 66th traffic fatality of the year. Investigators said an SUV
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Londres (CNN) — Los países ricos han comprado suficientes dosis de vacuna contra el covid-19, tres veces más, para inmunizar a sus poblaciones, dijo un organismo internacional de control de vacunas. Los países en desarrollo se están quedando atrás en la carrera global para poner fin a la pandemia de coronavirus, dijo el organismo. En
Continue Reading (CNN) — El titular fue el mismo durante meses: «El acuerdo en el Congreso sobre el paquete de estímulo económico por el covid-19 sigue siendo difícil». Desde octubre al menos, los líderes del Congreso y la Casa Blanca se han involucrado en conversaciones intermitentes sobre la forma y el tamaño de un acuerdo diseñado para
Continue Reading Democrats’ shrinking House majority will test Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s resolve to keep her caucus united and could limit the party’s ability to push through President-elect Joe Biden’s legislative agenda in their own chamber if they can’t stick together. After two years in power with a comfortable margin to lose votes among their own ranks, House
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AUSTIN, Texas — For a second day this week, hospitalizations of people with the coronavirus in Texas topped 9,000, state health officials said Wednesday. The Texas Department of State Health Services said 9,053 were hospitalized Wednesday. The state reported 9,028 hospitalizations the day before. Last week marked the first time Texas surpassed a daily count of 9,000 hospitalizations
Continue Reading (CNN Business) –– A medida que se prolongan los efectos económicos de la pandemia de covid-19, un número creciente de propietarios estadounidenses de viviendas enfrenta dificultades para pagar su hipoteca mensual. Algunas protecciones y beneficios de la Ayuda, Alivio y Seguridad Económica por el Coronavirus, conocida como Ley CARES, expirarán a fin de mes. A
Continue Reading The Senate on Wednesday failed to pass two disapproval resolutions pushed by a bipartisan group of senators to block a $23 billion US arms sale to the United Arab Emirates that was approved by the Trump administration. The first procedural measure failed to advance on a 46-50 vote and the second procedural vote failed to
Continue Reading (CNN) — La Administración de Medicinas y Alimentos de EE.UU. (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés) evaluará este jueves la autorización de uso de emergencia de la vacuna candidata contra el covid-19 de Pfizer y BioNTech después de que un comité asesor publicó el martes un documento informativo sobre esa vacuna. El documento confirma que
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico on Wednesday reported an additional 1,759 Covid-19 cases, bringing the statewide total to nearly 113,000 since the pandemic began. Of Wednesday’s new cases, 119 of those were in Doña Ana County for a pandemic total just two shy of 15,000. That means Doña Ana County has seen 13%
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STARR COUNTY, Texas — A 4-year-old Texas boy was rescued after first responders worked hours to chisel him out of an 8-inch wide water well. “Through prayers and actions from everyone involved a little boy lives today,” said Starr County Sheriff Rene “Orta” Fuentes in a post on social media Wednesday. Authorities responded to an
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WASHINGTON, DC — An attorney representing President Donald Trump, John Eastman, is known for recently pushing a racist conspiracy theory — that Trump himself later amplified — claiming Vice President-elect Kamala Harris might not be eligible for the role because her parents were immigrants. Eastman wrote the Newsweek column that was widely discredited earlier this
Continue Reading A giant experimental rocket built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully soared eight miles above the company’s testing facilities in South Texas on Wednesday and came back down as planned, before crashing into the ground in an enormous plume of flames and smoke. The hulking rocket didn’t have anyone onboard. It was an early developmental model
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BOCA CHICA, Texas — A giant experimental rocket built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully soared eight miles above the company’s testing facilities in South Texas on Wednesday and came back down as planned, before crashing into the ground in an enormous plume of flames and smoke. The hulking rocket didn’t have anyone onboard. It was
Continue Reading There’s not much suspense going into Thursday’s meeting of the US Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisers, who will discuss emergency use authorization for Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine. The EUA is widely expected and has been telegraphed with unusual frankness from the top of the FDA on down. “Our team has done their initial
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Rain is likely to begin Thursday AM and will spread to the E/NE through the day. We are not expecting a lot of rain but any rain will be welcome since its been just shy of two months the last time we had measurable activity. Mostly cloudy skies will be expected Thursday with some breaks
Continue Reading What started as a random act of kindness from one man paying for the car behind him in a Dairy Queen drive-thru resulted in over 900 cars also taking part in the pay it forward chain. There’s no question about it: This year has been tough for so many. Some, fighting battles we may know
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Click here for updates on this story MICHIGAN, USA (WNEM) — The city of Flint has completed the required copper and lead testing under the Safe Drinking Water Act more than a month ahead of schedule. Every six months, the city of Flint must collect at least 60 samples from homes at the highest risk
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The smell of poop is a strong repellant — even against murder hornets. That’s according to new research from the University of Guelph, and published Wednesday in PLOS One. The team of researchers found that honeybees in Vietnam collect animal poop and put it around the entrances of their nests in an effort to protect
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TROUTDALE, OR (KPTV) — Two men are facing charges including abuse of a corpse in connection with a woman found dead off a rural Multnomah County road. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office provided an update Wednesday on the death investigation of Aubriel Leann Haskett, 24, of Silverton. Haskett’s
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