Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is expected to receive the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday, according to the Biden transition team. A transition official told CNN that Harris will be administered the vaccine live on camera from Washington, DC. The official said Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, would also receive the vaccine on Tuesday.
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Hey, get your finger out of your nose! Nose-picking during a pandemic isn’t just gross — it’s dangerous. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.) 1. Stimulus
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The Washington Football Team parted ways with second-year quarterback Dwayne Haskins on Monday. “This afternoon I met with Dwayne and informed him that we would be releasing him,” Washington’s head coach Ron Rivera said in a statement. “I told him that I believe it benefits both parties that we go our separate ways. We want
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Having lost their first two games of the season, the Dallas Mavericks stormed to a statement victory against the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday, winning 124-73. The team’s young talisman Luka Doncic, 21, led the way with 24 points, eight assists and nine rebounds. The Clippers were without star player Kawhi Leonard, but even with
Continue Reading The names of the three victims killed in a bowling alley shooting over the weekend were released by officials Monday. The Winnebago County, Illinois, State’s Attorney J. Hanley identified the victims as Thomas Furseth, 65, Jerome Woodfork, 69, and Dennis Steinhoff, 73. Three other people — including two minors — were injured in Saturday’s shooting.
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A Japanese anime blockbuster has beaten the Oscar-winning classic “Spirited Away” to become the country’s highest-grossing movie ever — a significant feat as the global entertainment industry reels from the effects of the pandemic. Directed by Haruo Sotozaki, “Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train” has generated ticket sales of 32.47 billion yen ($313.9 million) since
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At one Los Angeles hospital there are five tents outside, one serving as a waiting room. So many patients are coming into Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital some are being put in the gift shop, a chapel or a conference room. Over the past week, almost 100,000 coronavirus cases have been reported in Los
Continue Reading Novavax on Monday announced the start of the Phase 3 trial of its Covid-19 vaccine in the United States and Mexico. It is the fifth company to launch a large-scale trial of a coronavirus vaccine in the United States. The trial for the vaccine candidate, known as NVX-CoV2373, will evaluate safety, efficacy and immune response
Continue Reading We teach kids not to do it. It’s unsanitary. It’s just plain gross to see. Let’s be real, though. Most of us pick our noses — some 91% according to the only (small and old) study that seems to have ever been done on the subject, perhaps revealing how little even scientists want to think
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EL PASO, Texas — One of the Borderland’s most prominent experts on infectious diseases has contracted Covid-19. Dr. Ogechika Alozie, the co-chair of the City of El Paso’s Covid task force and a member of the Texas governor’s infectious disease preparedness task force, told ABC-7 on Monday evening that he and another family member have
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EL PASO, Texas — It was last Wednesday when the city of El Paso received their Covid-19 vaccine for the at-risk populations. The next day, the vaccines were already being administered. According to the Texas Health and Human Services Department, El Paso received 22,075 vaccines. The city said, as of Monday, 10,064 had been administered.
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(CNN Español) — Este martes a las 9 a.m. hora local, 7 a.m. hora de Miami, Argentina comenzará a aplicar la vacuna contra el covid-19 con las primeras 300.000 dosis de la vacuna rusa Sputnik V, que llegaron al país el 24 de diciembre. Son las primeras dosis de un grupo de entre 55 y
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EL PASO, Texas – Starting Tuesday, city residents may recycle their live holiday trees at any of the Environmental Services Department’s Citizen Collection Stations. Citizen Collection Sites are open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. They have been closed for the Christmas holiday and will be closed from Jan. 1-3 in observance of
Continue Reading (CNN) — Más personas viajaron a través de los aeropuertos de Estados Unidos el domingo que durante cualquier otro día de la pandemia, lo que prepara el escenario para oleadas de nuevas infecciones de covid-19 en todo el país. Más de 1,28 millones de personas pasaron por los puntos de control de seguridad, informó la
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In an instant, nursing director Chelsey Earnest can recall the worst day at work she has ever had. Sometimes it comes back without her trying to remember. What happened March 4 before the dawn and into the night haunts her. The sirens seemed to blare endlessly outside the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington. “That
Continue Reading Republican Sen. David Perdue of Georgia spoke to President Donald Trump this week to personally lobby him to sign into law the omnibus spending bill that includes $900 billion in coronavirus relief, a person familiar with their conversation told CNN. Perdue, who is fighting for his political career in a runoff in Georgia next week,
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EL PASO, Texas — Red Parrot owner Darius Belcher has lost over $360,000 in alcohol sales alone since the pandemic began. Belcher has filed for PPP, Lift and SBA financial assistance, but they have all denied him due to his sexually-oriented business. ”The first day, March 19th, it was the first day of the pandemic. I got
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Adam Coy, the Columbus, Ohio, police officer who shot and killed Andre Hill, was fired Monday, according to a statement from Public Safety Director Ned Pettus Jr. Coy’s termination follows a disciplinary hearing held earlier in the day. The local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police represented him at the hearing. “The information, evidence
Continue Reading (CNN) –– La Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos votó este lunes a favor de anular el veto del presidente Donald Trump al amplio proyecto de ley de defensa. Iniciativa que es conocida como la Ley de Autorización de Defensa Nacional. Con su decisión, la Cámara da una reprimenda bipartidista al presidente. Inicialmente, el proyecto
Continue Reading (CNN) — El Dr. James Phillips, médico de la sala de emergencias del Centro Médico Militar Nacional Walter Reed, fue retirado de su cargo después de criticar públicamente el recorrido en automóvil que hizo el presidente Donald Trump alrededor del hospital luego de que le diagnosticaran coronavirus. El jefe de medicina de desastres de la
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The House of Representatives on Monday passed a measure to increase stimulus checks for Americans under a certain income level to $2,000 after President Donald Trump championed the effort, sending the bill to the Senate where its future is less certain. The legislation, which passed with a 275-134 vote, comes a day after Trump signed
Continue Reading The Trump administration isn’t giving up on its campaign against TikTok just yet. The US government on Monday appealed a decision handed down by a federal judge earlier this month that prevented authorities from fully implementing its restrictions against the popular short-form video app. The appeal challenges a Dec. 7 preliminary injunction from US District
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Three days after a Christmas Day explosion rocked downtown Nashville, investigators are still searching for a motive. Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, was identified as the bomber. Warner, a 63-year-old described by one neighbor as a loner, died when his recreational vehicle exploded on 2nd Avenue North in the city’s downtown. The blast injured at least
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Retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key witness in President Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry, said Monday evening he has no regrets about delivering the explosive testimony that garnered fierce backlash from Trump and ultimately informed his early exit from the military. “So I think that, in the end, I have no regrets about how
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NORTHRIDGE, California — There’s the saying that all good things must come to an end, unfortunately for the NMSU Aggies it came too soon. Just three games into the 2020-2021 season, NMSU saw their 21 game win streak snapped at the hands of California State University Northridge (CSUN). The Matadors (4-3) handed the Aggies (2-1)
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Rev. Josh Saefkow walked across the stage before his congregation at Flat Creek Baptist Church in Fayetteville, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, holding up the front page of the Atlanta Journal Constitution. The pastor, an avid news reader, had been saving the paper through 2020, to urge reflection in his final Sunday sermon of the
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After going through their pandemic pregnancies together, two Minnesota sisters thought it would be pretty neat if they ended up giving birth on the same day. Their baby boys apparently agreed and arrived earlier this month about 90 minutes apart. Ashley Carruth told CNN that she and her sister Brittany Schille found out that they
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Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (WOWT) — While Congress tries to figure out whether your next COVID stimulus payment will be $600 or $2,000, those struggling here in the metro are waiting hours in line just to pick up some food. “We come early because we know the line is going
Continue Reading The House of Representatives on Monday voted to override President Donald Trump’s veto of the sweeping defense bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, delivering a bipartisan rebuke to the President. The bill initially passed both the House and Senate with veto-proof majorities, but amid Trump’s continued opposition, it had been unclear if the
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