New Jersey nurse Sofia Burke said it took one family member letting their guard down “for one second” for Covid-19 to infect seven of the eight people in her household. Burke spoke with CNN’s Don Lemon through an oxygen mask Wednesday. She said she had been treating coronavirus patients throughout the pandemic, but now she
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(CNN) — Un grupo de legisladores y grupos de derechos civiles están exigiendo que el presidente electo Joe Biden designe a personas negras y latinas para algunos de los puestos restantes del gabinete de alto nivel. Biden enfrenta una presión cada vez mayor para hacer más diverso su gobierno. El impulso se produce cuando activistas
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President Donald Trump awarded the Medal of Freedom to former football coach Lou Holtz on Thursday in an Oval Office ceremony. Holtz, 83, has coached several college football teams, but most recently, he served as the head football coach of the University of Notre Dame and the University of South Carolina. The Oval Office ceremony
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Click here for updates on this story SARPY COUNTY, Neb. (KETV) — A Sarpy County dry-cleaning store owner has been sentenced for blowing up his own business. Sarpy County prosecutors had charged Michael McKernan, 53, the former owner of Wardrobe Spa, accusing him of staging the explosion that rocked the business near 168th and Harrison
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NFL stars who spend their Sundays lighting up the scoreboard are making the holidays a little brighter for a number of families in need. On Giving Tuesday, Lowe’s and the NFL announced that they are teaming up to donate $1 million worth of pre-lit Christmas trees to families and organizations impacted by the pandemic. Over
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MARTENSDALE, Iowa (KCCI) — A star athlete at Martensdale-St. Marys High School played the entire football season unaware that cancer was taking over his body. Brooks Trom scored touchdown after touchdown, before the reality of his situation was known. “I was speechless because I have always been a
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“The Morning Show” will feature a new but familiar face next season. Apple TV+ announced on the show’s Instagram page on Wednesday that actress Julianna Margulies will be joining Season 2 alongside Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell. Margulies will play an anchor named Laura Peterson. Greta Lee, Hasan Minhaj and Ruairi O’Connor will
Continue Reading Ryanair is buying 75 additional 737 Max jets from Boeing, by far the largest order for the troubled plane since it was grounded nearly two years ago. Boeing won approval last month from the Federal Aviation Administration for the plane to carry passengers once again. Now Boeing awaits clearance from several other aviation regulators worldwide,
Continue Reading First, there was surprise. Then flashes of anger. But most progressive allies of Sen. Bernie Sanders have quietly resigned themselves — or even offered some modest public support — to Neera Tanden following President-elect Joe Biden’s decision to tap their longtime nemesis for a Cabinet-level job. For years, Tanden, Biden’s pick to lead the Office
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ORLANDO, Fla. (WESH) — A hip-hop and reality television personality is facing charges after allegedly punching a cast member at Disney World. Authorities said Spectacular Blue Smith was walking toward a ride at Disney’s Animal Kingdom when he made a sneezing gesture and said “coronavirus.” The cast member
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ORLANDO, Fla. (WESH) — A hip-hop and reality television personality is facing charges after allegedly punching a cast member at Disney World. Authorities said Spectacular Blue Smith was walking toward a ride at Disney’s Animal Kingdom when he made a sneezing gesture and said “coronavirus.” Please note: This
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ABINGTON, Mass. (WCVB) — Thieves have been caught on video stealing decorations from a treasured Christmas display at a Massachusetts home. Abington resident Scott Leines says multiple carefully handcrafted characters were stolen from his front yard over the past two weekends. There are more than 150 characters in
Continue Reading Walmart will pay its US workers a new round of cash bonuses over the holidays, but critics say the largest employer in this country is not raising workers’ pay enough in the pandemic. Walmart said Thursday that it will pay out an estimated $388 million — $300 to full-time employees and $150 to part-time employees
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A Staten Island bar was shut down after calling itself an “autonomous zone” and defying Covid-19 restrictions, the New York City Sheriff’s Office said. The bar, Mac’s Public House, was also not following face covering rules and social distancing guidelines while continuing to allow indoor dining despite being in a designated “orange zone,” the sheriff’s
Continue Reading Eight months into the pandemic, America is still struggling with its devastating economic fallout. The government’s November jobs report is expected to show America’s job market remains in disrepair. And for millions of laid-off workers already losing hope of returning to the job anytime soon, expiring unemployment benefits could make matters significantly worse. Economists polled
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Eight months into the pandemic, America is still struggling with its devastating economic fallout. The government’s November jobs report is expected to show America’s job market remains in disrepair. And for millions of laid-off workers already losing hope of returning to the job anytime soon, expiring unemployment benefits could make matters significantly worse. Economists polled
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David Beckham is perhaps as famed for his looks as he is for his football career — but a new campaign is showing him as you’ve never seen him before. The 45-year-old former Manchester United and Real Madrid midfielder has been given a digital makeover which imagines what Beckham might look like in his 70s.
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — British police say four people have died following an explosion in a silo that holds treated biosolids at a wastewater treatment plant near the southwest England city of Bristol. A local police chief said three Wessex Water employees and one contractor died in Thursday’s incident and investigators are not treating it as
Continue Reading A longtime volunteer at Big Cat Rescue, the Florida animal sanctuary profiled in Netflix’s “Tiger King,” was attacked by a tiger during a morning feeding, the sanctuary confirmed to CNN. The volunteer, who’d worked at the Carole Baskin-founded sanctuary for five years, had gone to feed the tiger Kimba on Thursday when she noticed the
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los padres de 628 niños migrantes separados de sus familias debido a las políticas de la administración de Donald Trump en la frontera de Estados Unidos y México entre 2017 y 2018 aún no han sido localizados, según un expediente judicial del miércoles. La presentación del Departamento de Justicia y la Unión Estadounidense
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The two largest planets in our solar system are coming closer together than they have been since the Middle Ages, and it’s happening just in time for Christmas. So, there are some things to look forward to in the final month of 2020. On the night of December 21, the winter solstice, Jupiter and Saturn
Continue Reading The dramatic rise in bitcoin may seem overly speculative. Yet bitcoin has actually lagged the surges for some other cryptocurrencies. While bitcoin has soared 15% in the past week to hit a new all-time high just under $20,000, ethereum — the second-largest crypto after bitcoin — is up more than 20% in the past seven
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LANCASTER, Pa. (WPMT) — A Lancaster couple is facing multiple charges of theft and conspiracy after the investigation of a series of vehicle break-ins dating back to the spring, State Police say. Manuel Noel Negron, 26, of the 800 block of Prangley Ave., and Selena Marie Vazquez, 25,
Continue Reading The State Department is imposing new restrictions on travel visas to the United States for members of the Chinese Communist Party, a State Department spokesperson confirmed Thursday. Under the new rules, the travel visas of CCP members and their immediate family members will change from 10 years to one month and will be single entry.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story REXBURG, Idaho (East Idaho News) — After a family experienced the tragedy of a fire ripping through their Madison County home, it serves as a reminder that home fires can happen to anyone. Mindy Fry started cooking bacon on Nov. 8 before 7 p.m. inside the kitchen of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GILBERT, Ariz. (KPHO/KTVK) — There is concern from East Valley parents over a “winter formal” being planned at a Gilbert home this Saturday, since high school dances have been canceled at school due to COVID-19. The event is being advertised on Instagram, and already dozens of tickets have
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) — The City of Phoenix city council unanimously passed a settlement connected to a deadly officer-involved shooting in Ahwatukee. In a 9-0 vote on Wednesday afternoon, a $3,000,000 settlement was approved to go to the family of Ryan Whitaker. Whitaker was shot and killed by Phoenix
Continue Reading House Democrats elected Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York to serve as the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, giving him the difficult task of protecting their slim majority in 2022, when the President’s party typically loses dozens of seats. Maloney defeated California Rep. Tony Cárdenas, pledging that he could replicate his own
Continue Reading The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a California ministry that argued the state’s Covid-related restrictions on indoor services violated its religious liberty rights, the court’s second such ruling on pandemic guidelines for churches in two weeks. In an unsigned order, the justices sent the dispute between the Harvest Rock International Ministry and California Gov.
Continue Reading (CNN) — Hubo 3.157 muertes por covid-19 reportadas el miércoles en Estados Unidos, un récord histórico durante la pandemia, mientras los sistemas de atención médica luchan por soportar el peso de este empeoramiento. El número de muertos más reciente es un aumento de aproximadamente 20% con respecto al récord anterior de 2.603, establecido el 15
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