It was especially refreshing to see President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris use their CNN interview with Jake Tapper on Thursday to make clear that leading America is, first and always, a complex effort requiring the cooperation and good will of millions. Coming less than a day after a bizarre, unhinged video rant
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(CNN) –– Millones de personas en California podrían enfrentar un nuevo confinamiento regional por el covid-19, bajo las nuevas restricciones anunciadas este jueves por el gobernador Gavin Newsom. La nueva orden se implementará en las regiones de California donde los hospitales están presionados en su capacidad para tratar el aumento de pacientes con covid-19. Una
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexico’s president says he plans to give the military a role in distributing coronavirus vaccines, which he says U.S. President Donald Trump helped him get after a meeting in Washington in July. Mexico has registered 1.1 million confirmed cases and 107,500 confirmed deaths, the fourth-highest death toll in the world. However,
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Thursday marked yet another bleak day of the pandemic, with the United States reporting a record high of 100,667 Covid-19 hospitalizations, according to the Covid Tracking Project. So far, each day this week has brought a new record. More than 2,800 Covid-19 deaths were reported Wednesday in the United States — the most the country
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A North Little Rock, Arkansas, police sergeant who had Covid-19 is the first officer in the state to die in the line of duty from the disease, according to the police department. “It is with saddened hearts that the NLRPD announces the passing of Sgt. J.L. ‘Buck’ Dancy, 62. Sgt. Dancy is the first Police
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El desarrollo de las vacunas contra el coronavirus avanza a toda marcha. Empezamos a tener detalles sobre cómo van a ser transportadas, almacenadas y distribuidas. Ahora muchos se preguntan si los gobiernos de sus países harán obligatorio vacunarse. Esto es lo que han manifestado públicamente los funcionarios en algunos países de América Latina hasta este
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The White House liaison to the Justice Department has been barred from entering the building after she attempted to access sensitive information about possible election fraud, CNN has learned. Heidi Stirrup was put in the position after chief of staff Mark Meadows informed federal agencies in September the White House was replacing all of their
Continue Reading Embattled Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn met with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows for the second day in a row on Wednesday as President Donald Trump remains frustrated no Covid-19 vaccine has been granted US emergency approval yet. The previously unscheduled meeting comes as Trump and White House officials have grown
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EL PASO, Texas — After a UTEP study was published showing that international bridge wait times in September averaged around 75 minutes then decreased to 35 minutes by late October, ABC-7 asked U.S. Customs and Border Protection why the significant drop in time within only a month. “The operation began as an effort to discourage
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Two people in Haines, Alaska, remain missing after heavy rains and flooding caused a landslide a day earlier. Four of the six people initially reported missing were located Thursday morning, according to a Haines Borough Government Facebook post. Search and rescue teams are still looking for the other two, the post said, adding that the
Continue Reading The Trump administration’s most senior intelligence official issued a stark warning Thursday that China is preparing for “an open-ended period of confrontation with the US,” urging bipartisan action to address “the greatest threat to America today” and to “democracy around the world since World War II.” Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe also charged in
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President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris may have been fierce rivals in the Democratic primary, but now, as they prepare to take control of the White House, they say they are full partners who agree on how to approach the country’s most pressing issues. “Look, there’s not a single decision I’ve made yet about personnel
Continue Reading President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris may have been fierce rivals in the Democratic primary, but now, as they prepare to take control of the White House, they say they are full partners who agree on how to approach the country’s most pressing issues. “Look, there’s not a single decision I’ve made yet about personnel
Continue Reading (CNN) – La Administración de Seguridad en el Transporte (TSA, por sus siglas en inglés) considera eliminar la revisión de seguridad a pasajeros en más de 150 aeropuertos pequeños y medianos en todo Estados Unidos, según altos funcionarios de la entidad y documentos internos obtenidos por CNN. La propuesta, si llega a implementarse, marcaría un
Continue Reading A driver in Washington was pulled over after police noticed the headlights on his car had been replaced by flashlights. A Washington State Patrol officer pulled over a motorist on I-90 near North Bend early Monday morning after seeing the vehicle with “super dim” headlights, WSP officer Rick Johnson told CNN. Upon inspection, the officer
Continue Reading A Black former Massachusetts state trooper who served on Gov. Deval Patrick’s protection detail from 2007 to 2013 was the victim of racial and age-related discrimination when he was removed from that unit, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination has ruled. The ruling, which was made in June, was first reported Wednesday by The Boston Globe.
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ARLINGTON, Texas — In a season of so much uncertainty, the Dallas Cowboys can count on one thing: being alone in last place in the NFL’s worst division going into Week 13. While the Cowboys will say there’s still hope because no team in the NFC East will have more than one win than they
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President-elect Joe Biden revealed Thursday that “more than several” Republican senators have called to privately congratulate him on his election win, despite the fact that most of them have not publicly acknowledged his victory last month. Speaking alongside Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to CNN’s Jake Tapper during their first joint interview since the election, Biden
Continue Reading President-elect Joe Biden revealed Thursday that “more than several” Republican senators have called to privately congratulate him on his election win, despite the fact that most of them have not publicly acknowledged his victory last month. Speaking alongside Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to CNN’s Jake Tapper during their first joint interview since the election, Biden
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Este jueves, el Senado de Chile aprobó en particular el segundo retiro de hasta un 10% de los fondos de pensiones por la pandemia, quedando a solo un paso de convertirse en ley. Con 41 votos a favor y 1 abstención, la Cámara Alta aprobó las modificaciones hechas anteriormente por la Cámara
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TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico — Virgin Galactic has been selected to provide regular access to flights for NASA payloads as the space agency conducts more research and development and plans for future exploratory missions. NASA announced the partnership by saying the flight and integration services will benefit the agency’s Flight Opportunity program managed out of
Continue Reading Joe Biden said Thursday he would keep his commitment to nominate a Cabinet that reflects America’s diversity, as the President-elect faces increasing pressure to appoint Black and Latino nominees to remaining high-level Cabinet positions. “I’m going to keep my commitment that the administration, both in the White House and outside in the Cabinet, is going
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Click here for updates on this story HOBOKEN, NJ (WCBS) — When seniors and families in Hoboken started going hungry at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, a group of local volunteers decided to not let it continue. As CBS2’s Christina Fan reported Wednesday, they built a pantry from nothing. At Hoboken Food Pantry, each
Continue Reading Patterns of missing credit card and loan payments could be an early indicator of dementia years before diagnosis, a new study says. The study, published Monday in the medical journal JAMA, looked at Medicare patients living alone across the United States and analyzed their credit data and payments over time. Researchers found that patients with
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HAUPPAUGE, NY (WCBS) — There was a crackdown Wednesday on an alleged birth tourism fraud ring on Long Island. Prosecutors say more than 100 pregnant women from Turkey came this country to give birth to babies to instantly be granted U.S. citizenship. They then allegedly used benefits like
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico officials announced a record 44 virus-related daily deaths on Thursday, breaking the previous record of 40 that was set just a day earlier. In Doña Ana County, it was the second deadliest day of the pandemic, with eight new deaths reported. That’s just one less than the record
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The homeowner in Duluth, Georgia, opened her screen door and softly said, “I’m not good at English.” The two volunteers, clutching clipboards and political fliers, were on the Korean woman’s porch to talk about the January 5 Senate runoffs. “I speak some Korean,” said Grace Pai, in Korean. “It’s terrible,” Pai added in broken Korean.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, CA (KOVR) — An elementary school student killed himself while in his distance learning class late Wednesday morning, the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office confirmed. Deputies confirm the 11-year-old boy was in his Zoom class with his microphone and camera off when he took his own life.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, CA (KOVR) — An elementary school student killed himself while in his distance learning class late Wednesday morning, the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office confirmed. Deputies confirm the 11-year-old boy was in his Zoom class with his microphone and camera off when he took his own life.
Continue Reading (CNN) — Estados Unidos alcanzó este jueves un nuevo récord de personas hospitalizadas actualmente por covid-19, según el Proyecto de Seguimiento del Covid. Al jueves había 100.667 personas hospitalizadas con covid-19, de acuerdo al proyecto. Este es el segundo día consecutivo en el que el país supera las 100.000 personas hospitalizadas con la enfermedad. LEE:
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