The Biden era is off to a roaring start on Wall Street, even surpassing the euphoria following President Donald Trump’s upset victory in 2016. The S&P 500 has surged 10% since Election Day to all-time highs. That nearly doubles the 5.5% rally during the same post-election period in 2016. The Nasdaq, lifted by high-flying tech
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso’s health department reported 13 new coronavirus-related deaths and 319 new cases Thursday morning. It brings the death toll to 1,371 on Christmas Eve in El Paso County. There are also 581 suspected Covid-19 deaths currently under investigation by local health officials. The latest deaths included: 1 man in
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Te contamos lo que sabemos sobre la nueva variante de coronavirus identificada en el Reino Unido. Trump veta el proyecto de gasto de Defensa luego de arremeter contra el paquete de estímulo. ¡Ya viene Navidad! Aquí te damos unos consejos para pasarla en familia sin temor al covid. Esto es lo que debes saber para
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With Christmas approaching, Pastor Luke Fillmore of the United Methodist Church in Hamburg, Iowa — a small town in the state’s southwest corner that was already reeling from disastrous floods, even before the coronavirus pandemic and the contentious 2020 election — told me he’s been thinking a lot about how to facilitate the desire among
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis pardoned the parents involved in the “Balloon Boy” saga of 2009 as part of nearly two dozen pardons and commutations on Wednesday. Richard and Mayumi Heene pleaded guilty in 2009 after telling authorities that their aptly named 6-year-old son Falcon was inside a silver helium balloon that took off from their
Continue Reading China has launched an antitrust investigation into Alibaba as it steps up scrutiny of the country’s rapidly growing internet firms. The State Administration for Market Regulation, China’s top market regulator, said Thursday that it would probe alleged monopolistic behavior by Alibaba, Jack Ma’s online shopping and cloud computing giant. It gave few details but said
Continue Reading Editor’s Note: Bella’s voice has been digitally altered to maintain her anonymity. Bella says her unplanned pregnancy made her mother so furious that she beat her. She had no idea that the 19-year-old had begun exchanging sex for cash in order to help pay for food for her three younger siblings and two cousins, who
Continue Reading Meghan and Prince Harry released a family Christmas card featuring their 19-month-old son Archie in his first public image in months. In the card, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex focus their attention on a light-haired Archie as the family is surrounded by their two dogs, a miniature home and lush greenery. A small Christmas
Continue Reading Over two million people in California have tested positive for Covid-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, more cases than in all but a handful of countries. The state’s grim new milestone — 2,002,494 cases as of late Wednesday — comes as ICUs are near or at full capacity across the state. California hit
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The nearly yearlong coronavirus pandemic has been full of gloomy numbers but Wednesday brought an encouraging one — more than 1 million people have received their first shot of a Covid-19 vaccine. And that reported number is low, because many doses administrated in recent days have yet to be tabulated in the figures from the
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Janese Cockfield refused to sit idly by as her twin sister, Janice, lay in a coma 600 miles away, batting to survive Covid-19. “I was constantly on the phone calling,” Janese said. “I was just thinking about how do we get Janice back home, and that’s it.” Janese and Janice shared their experiences in an
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It turns out there are no silent nights in the Trump era. Even in the lead-up to Christmas, even in humiliating loss, even as Americans attempt reflection on what has been, for many, the worst year of their lives, President Donald Trump seems bent on maintaining an unrelenting pace of norm-smashing as his term concludes.
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El Gobierno de Nicaragua adjudicó las instalaciones de varios medios de comunicación privados y organizaciones no gubernamentales al Ministerio de Salud, informó este miércoles el periodista Carlos Fernando Chamorro en su cuenta de Twitter. Se trata de sedes clausuradas por la Asamblea Nacional en diciembre de 2018. «Ortega ejecuta la confiscación de
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — En Brasil, el Instituto Butantan y el gobierno del estado de Sao Paulo informaron este miércoles que CoronaVac, la vacuna contra el covid-19 desarrollada en alianza con la compañía china Sinovac Life Sciences, alcanzó “una tasa de eficacia superior al mínimo» recomendado por la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) y, por
Continue Reading NORAD is focusing its formidable tracking systems on Santa Claus and his reindeer as they make their annual flight delivering presents to children around the world. The North American Aerospace Defense Command, which is responsible for protecting the skies over the US and Canada, has activated its official Santa Tracker. You can follow his sleigh
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(CNN) — Pedro Martínez tiene un mensaje sencillo para el Congreso: «¡AYÚDENOS!» El veterano militar y padre de cuatro hijos dijo que los subsidios de US$ 600 aprobados esta semana como parte de un segundo paquete de ayuda para el coronavirus son demasiado pequeños para deshacer el daño financiero que ha sufrido su familia. La
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Thousands of homes and businesses in Las Cruces were without electricity due to power outages on Wednesday night. An El Paso Electric spokesman said there were three different areas in Las Cruces impacted by outages, but they were “all off of the same feeder.” The cluster of outages involving 3,564
Continue Reading A South Carolina man filed a lawsuit against the city of Rock Hill on Monday, alleging that police officers ordered him out of his house naked and held him at gunpoint while searching his home in 2019. Jethro DeVane, 71, is suing the city for gross negligence, civil assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional
Continue Reading The next group of people to receive the Covid-19 vaccine in Ohio will be the state’s teachers and school staff. Ohio teachers and school staff including cafeteria workers, bus drivers, custodians and clerical workers — along with any other worker who comes in contact with the children at that school — will be in the
Continue Reading Michael Worobey, a biologist at the University of Arizona, has seen more than 100,000 different strains of the virus that causes Covid-19. But when he saw the new variant from the UK, he noticed something different. “This is the first variant I’ve seen during the whole pandemic where I took a step back and said:
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The White House coronavirus task force has informed states that it will no longer proactively send its weekly state reports with tailored data and recommendations, according to multiple state officials. Instead, states will need to request the reports each week. This new policy, which one official said came via email, is a departure from the
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EL PASO, Texas– The borderland dealt with another above average afternoon with 64 being the official high for Wednesday. Afternoon temperatures quickly dropped as a cold front pushed through and picked up our winds as well. Winds are expected to remain in the forecast overnight with gusts of up to 35 mph expected. Colder air
Continue Reading President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed the sweeping defense bill that both chambers of Congress recently passed by veto-proof majorities, setting up what could be the first veto override of his presidency, which would pit members of his own party against him. The House is expected to act Monday, when all eyes be watching to
Continue Reading Filmmaker Tyler Perry said he was troubled when he first heard of the movement to defund the police. “I thought, OK, this is going to be weaponized in this political year. I completely thought that that was happening, and that’s exactly what’s happened. It’s been weaponized,” Perry told Anderson Cooper in July. “But I did
Continue Reading A historic amount of packages and rising employee Covid-19 rates are causing significant backlogs at US Postal Service processing facilities before Christmas. All the shopping and shipping Americans have done in the last few weeks has inundated the system with what the USPS says is a “historic volume” of mail and packages. “The packages are
Continue Reading (CNN) — El presidente Donald Trump vetó este miércoles el amplio proyecto de ley de Defensa que ambas cámaras del Congreso aprobaron recientemente con mayorías a prueba de veto. Esto da lugar a una posible anulación del veto que pondría a miembros de su propio partido en su contra. Trump había amenazado anteriormente con vetar
Continue Reading President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening announced 26 new pardons, including for longtime ally Roger Stone, former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner’s father, Charles. The pardons extend Trump’s streak of wielding his clemency powers for criminals who are loyalists, well-connected or adjacent to his family. While all presidents issue
Continue Reading Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has filed paperwork to participate in New York’s 2021 mayoral race, according to city records. Yang’s name appears on a list from the New York City Campaign Finance Board of candidates for the city’s 2021 elections. CNN reported last week that Yang, a former tech executive, was planning to
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — State health officials on Wednesday reported that total confirmed Covid-19 cases in New Mexico since the pandemic began have now topped 133,240. There were 1,174 additional infections reported statewide Wednesday, including 133 in Doña Ana County to take the county’s total case count to 16,507. The statewide death toll stands at
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