WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for coronavirus. Giuliani was exhibiting some symptoms and was admitted on Sunday to Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to speak publicly. The 76-year-old former New York mayor
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — An historic drug seizure was made by municipal police in Juarez on Saturday night, according to ABC-7’s newsgathering partners at Canal 44. Officials said the drugs, worth the apparent equivalent of over $60 million in the U.S., were seized from a semi-trailer that was being used to “secretly transport” the illicit
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Sergio Perez secured his first ever Formula One win in a thrilling Sakhir Grand Prix in Bahrain on Sunday. It has taken Perez 190 starts before securing victory, which finally came in a highly entertaining race that looked to be going the way of George Russell, another driver chasing a maiden F1 win. Russell switched
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Sergio Perez secured his first ever Formula One win in a thrilling Sakhir Grand Prix in Bahrain on Sunday. It has taken Perez 190 starts before securing victory, which finally came in a highly entertaining race that looked to be going the way of George Russell, another driver chasing a maiden F1 win. Russell switched
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Click here for updates on this story GWINNETT COUNTY, GA (Gwinnett Daily Post) — The Gwinnett Coalition for Health and Human Services typically mobilizes thousands of volunteers for community projects across Gwinnett County around the same time year after year. The event is known as Gwinnett Great Days of Service. Young, emerging leaders also take
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The family of Roald Dahl and the company that manages his copyrights and licenses issued an apology for antisemitic comments Dahl made across his lifetime. The famous writer who penned classics like “James and the Giant Peach,” “Matilda,” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” died in 1990 at the age of 76, but his family
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, LA (KTBS) — It sounds like something out of a Hallmark movie. A family comes down the stairs on Christmas morning to find a new puppy tucked under the tree. But the heartwarming scene tends to end when you think about all the work that goes into
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Members of the Biden transition team are scheduled to receive briefings from the Pentagon’s intelligence agencies beginning on Monday, according to defense officials. “They are meeting with DoD intelligence agencies Monday and Tuesday of this week,” according to a senior defense official. The briefings are to take place days after, according to a former senior
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It has been almost one year since a new coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2 made its presence known to us. What started off as a small cluster of unusual pneumonia cases that cropped up in Wuhan, China, soon rippled out from there, causing infections around the globe. By March, Covid-19 had been declared a pandemic and essentially
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NASA is planning on sending a woman to the moon in 2024, and when she makes the trip, she’ll be in a BE-7 engine from Jeff Bezos’ rocket venture, Blue Origin. The Amazon founder and CEO posted a video of a BE-7 engine test in Huntsville, Alabama, on Instagram over the weekend. “This is the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHIMNEY ROCK, NC (WLOS ) — Santa made his annual stop in the mountains to practice for the big day. Chimney Rock State Park hosted the 23rd Santa on the Chimney on Saturday, Dec. 5. Jolly old St. Nick scaled the mountain, getting ready for all his Christmas
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EL PASO, Texas – Souley Boum and Bryson Williams combined for 60 points and each recorded double-doubles, leading UTEP past a pesky Sul Ross State team, 84-65, on Saturday night in the Haskins Center. The Lobos gave the Miners (2-0) a scare, going into the locker room with the lead (37-35). However, UTEP came out of the second
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After the first cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in the United States on January 20, it took almost 100 days to reach 1 million infections. Now, the country has added more than 1 million cases to its grim total in just five days. From Tuesday to Saturday, 1,000,882 new coronavirus cases were reported in the
Continue Reading Georgia Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan said Sunday that the “mountains of misinformation” about the election that President Donald Trump is spreading, most recently in his remarks at a rally in the state Saturday night, could hurt GOP chances in upcoming Senate runoff races. While campaigning for Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in
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Georgia Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan said Sunday that the “mountains of misinformation” about the election that President Donald Trump is spreading, most recently in his remarks at a rally in the state Saturday night, could hurt GOP chances in upcoming Senate runoff races. While campaigning for Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in
Continue Reading Moncef Slaoui, the head of the US government’s effort to develop a vaccine against Covid-19, on Sunday praised President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to ask all Americans to wear masks to curb the spread of the coronavirus, saying the practice is key as the country awaits widespread distribution of the vaccine. “I think it’s a good
Continue Reading A fast-moving wildfire that began late Wednesday in Southern California is 50% contained as of Sunday morning, a slight increase from the day earlier, according to the Orange County Fire Authority. The Bond Fire has burned 7,375 acres, destroyed 28 structures, damaged 19 others and caused thousands to evacuate since it began in Orange County’s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, NE (WOWT) — Nebraska’s Spanish-speaking community could be in for another blow; they’re among the hardest hit by the pandemic and now mounting concerns over if they’re getting a clear message about vaccinations. “If they want to let people know something about anything, well right now about
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EL PASO, Texas – The El Paso County Parks and Recreation Department’s annual Lights on the Lake holiday event has a different look this year. The event at Ascarate Park is a drive-thru only event this year because of the pandemic. Visitors will not be allowed to exit their vehicles to walk and view the
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico on Saturday reported 1,925 additional known Covid-19 cases and 32 more deaths, increasing the statewide totals since the pandemic’s start to 106,856 known cases and 1,738 deaths. The number of current Covid-19-related hospitalizations dropped to 925 from 934, according to the state’s coronavirus dashboard. Most of the additional deaths across
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SANTA FE, New Mexico – Small New Mexico businesses which have been hurt by the Covid-19 pandemic can apply for grants of up to $50,000 starting on Monday. The grant application window opens at noon Monday and closes at noon on Dec. 18. You can find out information on guidelines, eligibility requirements, required documents and
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EL PASO, Texas – Health officials in El Paso are asking the community to participate in a Covid-19 survey to better monitor the occurrence of the virus in the population. The El Paso Department of Public Health will conduct the four-week-long epidemiology survey using random sampling of the population by census track. Households will be
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Dozens of Las Cruces shelter pets snagged a one-way ticket to paradise on a Cessna 208 Caravan this weekend. “In Las Cruces, you know, we’re facing a major pet overpopulation issue,” said Koko Dean, the executive director of ‘Barkhouse.’ The organization has saved the lives of thousands of shelter pets
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EL PASO, Texas — Saturday was “Buy El Paso Day.” It was part of the Better Business Bureau Paso Del Norte’s ‘Buy El Paso’ campaign. The campaign was created with CARES Act funding when the pandemic first started as an effort to promote local businesses and engrave the importance of shopping small. With the holiday
Continue Reading Every once in a while, as FedEx driver Aubrey Robinson made her regular delivery stops in a neighborhood in rural southeastern Indiana, she’d come across a young boy playing basketball with an old rusty, bent hoop. After thinking about it for months, Robinson decided to get the boy, 11-year-old Elijah Maines, a new basketball and
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President Donald Trump is still in denial about losing the election, and his media diet isn’t pushing him to face the truth. “The junk food weighed him down and contributed to his defeat in November,” CNN’s Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter said on “Reliable Sources” Sunday, referring to Trump relying on One American News, Newsmax
Continue Reading Some hospitals are stocking enough iPads to rival a modest Apple store. But the reason for this reflects a grim reality: They’re being used to connect Covid-19 patients with their families — sometimes, for the last conversation they’ll ever have. When Dr. Mark Shapiro posted about a patient saying goodbye to his family via an
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Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia said Sunday that a proposal for another coronavirus stimulus package could come as early as Monday. Warner, who is part of a bipartisan group of senators hashing out a compromise on a stimulus bill, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” that they are close to an
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso County officially topped the grim milestone of over 1,000 deaths from Covid-19 on Sunday morning. Health officials confirmed 11 added fatalities from the virus to take the official pandemic death toll to 1,010. El Paso’s actual death count from Covid-19 is thought to be much higher as 612 suspected
Continue Reading The Italian city of Naples has renamed Napoli football club’s San Paolo home stadium after Diego Maradona. Maradona, one of the sport’s greatest players who died last month at 60 years old, holds a God-like status in the southern Italian city after spending seven memorable years playing for the Serie A club. Naples city council
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