(CNN Español) — La Dirección Nacional de Medicamentos de El Salvador aprobó la “importación, distribución y utilización” de la vacuna contra el covid-19 elaborada por AstraZeneca y la Universidad de Oxford, según confirmaron este miércoles las autoridades a través de un comunicado. Se trata de una “licencia especial por emergencia” para contrarrestar la crisis sanitaria
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — La Cámara de Diputados de República Dominicana convirtió en ley este miércoles el proyecto que modifica el Código Civil y prohíbe el matrimonio de menores de 18 años, ahora la iniciativa pasa a manos del Poder Ejecutivo a espera de su observación, promulgación o veto. La ley, previamente aprobada por el Senado,
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — The total number of confirmed Covid-19 infections in New Mexico topped 141,000 on Wednesday, while deaths surpassed 2,430. There were 33 deaths across the state that were added to the fatality count on Wednesday, with five of those occurring in Doña Ana County. The Doña Ana deaths included one woman
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Directivos de la Unidad Médica Nicaragüense, una organización gremial independiente, pidieron este miércoles al Gobierno que presente un plan de vacunación contra el covid-19, tal como en días recientes lo orientó la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS). «No hemos visto una estrategia gubernamental para una vacunación masiva. A estas alturas no
Continue Reading (CNN) –– Al menos 50 periodistas y trabajadores de medios de comunicación fueron asesinados este año en todo, según el resumen anual de Reporteros sin Fronteras (RSF). La gran mayoría se registraron fuera de los países en guerra. La revisión muestra que a los periodistas los atacan y asesinan cada vez más debido a su
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El Servicio de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de Estados Unidos (CBP) cerró durante nueve horas este martes el paso de vehículos en el cruce internacional Santa Fe, que une Ciudad Juárez (México) con El Paso (EE.UU.). La medida se tomó luego de que un grupo de inmigrantes cubanos intentara ingresar por la
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SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — Sunland Park firefighters had to contend with exploding ammunition and propane bottles while trying to extinguish a garage blaze on Wednesday afternoon. The fire, in a garage attached to a house, occurred about 1:30 p.m. in the 100 block of Desert Willow Drive. When firefighters arrived, they said the garage
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New Year’s Eve celebrations around the world will look very different this year as cities take precautions against the spread of Covid-19. The best view of most major cities is going to be from your couch. Most of the large traditional displays of fireworks and celebrations globally have been canceled and replaced with smaller televised
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Boston Dynamics’ robots are back to let you know they can really shake ’em down. In a stunning dance video that’s part celebration of an incredible engineering achievement and part advertisement for the robotics company, Boston Dynamics showed four of its robots performing fully choreographed dance moves to The Contours’ hit “Do you love me.”
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Health officials in a Colorado county believe they’ve found a second local case of a coronavirus variant from the United Kingdom — one that experts have said may be especially contagious. That news Wednesday came a day after the first known case of the variant in the US was announced in Elbert County. Both the
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After strong winds and some snow moved through the region things are starting to slowly get back to normal. Temperatures this morning will be in the 20s and 30s before the sunshine moves back in and temperatures rebound. Thursday will be sunny but still chilly. Temperatures will rise into the upper 40’s and low 50’s
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Leave it to Shonda Rhimes to give us a Black queen. Rhimes’ production company, Shondaland, is behind the new hit period Netflix drama, “Bridgerton” which includes Black and White members of early 19th century British high society. The series was created by its showrunner Chris Van Dusen and is based on a Regency novel by
Continue Reading When biotech company Moderna announced Tuesday that it planned to offer its workforce a chance to get vaccinated with its recently authorized Covid-19 vaccine, their decision raised some eyebrows. In addition to employees, the company said it would offer shots to its board members and the “adult household members of our team.” Moderna’s decision calls
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EL PASO, Texas — More than 2,000 vaccines were sent to the Immunize El Paso’s eastside clinic last week, but won’t be administered until next week leaving the vaccines sitting in a freezer for two weeks. Director of Operations Dusty Warden told ABC-7 they received notice of the shipment on Dec. 22. By the next
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President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team has sent a letter to Democratic senators seeking their recommendations for district court vacancies, a transition official confirmed to CNN. The letter, penned by incoming White House counsel Dana Remus, asks senators to provide diverse names based on race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, veteran status
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The Census Bureau announced it will miss Thursday’s deadline to produce the population count used to divide seats in Congress between the states. The Wednesday announcement was expected, and the key question remains whether the Census Bureau and Commerce Department will present the tally to President Donald Trump prior to his departure from office on
Continue Reading “You can’t figure it out by thinking,” Jon Kabat-Zinn advised Anderson Cooper on embracing the present moment through mindfulness. “It’s more of a way of being.” Kabat-Zinn, the founder of mindfulness-based stress reduction and professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, joined “Full Circle” to share some simple strategies on how
Continue Reading Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley said Wednesday he will object when Congress counts the Electoral College votes next week, which will force lawmakers in both the House and Senate to vote on whether to accept the results of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Hawley is the first senator to announce plans to object to the results,
Continue Reading(CNN) — President Donald Trump received information earlier this month that China sought to pay non-state actors to attack American forces in Afghanistan, a senior administration official said. The intelligence, which will be declassified by the Trump administration, was provided to the President in his daily brief on December 17, the official said. His national
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A Michigan doctor and his silver pickup truck are playing a key role in getting the Covid-19 vaccine to remote parts of the state. Dr. Richard Bates drove almost 150 miles earlier this month to take a cooler carrying 130 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine from the MidMichigan Medical Center in Midland to their hospital
Continue Reading The man who detonated an RV bomb in downtown Nashville early Christmas morning was a loner with no significant criminal record and as yet no signs of a political ideology. Anthony Quinn Warner, a 63-year-old from Antioch, Tennessee, died when his recreational vehicle exploded on 2nd Avenue North, damaging more than 40 buildings and injuring
Continue Reading A woman who said she was the girlfriend of the man who set off the Christmas Day explosion in Nashville told police last year he was making bombs in his recreational vehicle, according to a statement and documents the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department provided to CNN. On August 21, 2019, police received a call from
Continue Reading Officials in Navarro County, Texas, said a tornado touched down in the town of Corsicana on Wednesday morning. The Office of Emergency Management posted on its Instagram page that the area affected is about 100 yards wide and 600 yards long. At least 13 mobile homes were damaged but there were no reports of any
Continue Reading Florida’s county-by-county plan to vaccinate its elderly population has created a mass scramble for a limited number of doses, leading to hourslong lines at vaccination sites and overwhelmed county hotlines and websites. In southwest Florida, the Lee County Department of Health encouraged anyone 65 and older and high-risk frontline health care workers to come to
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Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL ) — GBI Director Vic Reynolds made it clear Wednesday that his special agents did not find widespread fraud in Cobb County during a signature audit of absentee ballots. “Out of the 15,118 absentee oath envelopes that were randomly audited all of those were appropriately counted
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NORWCIH, Connecticut (WFSB) — The pandemic decimated the arts community along with restaurants and establishments. Now, the State of Connecticut is coming to the aid of many of the non-profit arts organizations in Norwich and New London to keep them afloat. Several Norwich area art organizations have been
Continue Reading Dawn Wells, who played the lovable castaway Mary Ann Summers on “Gilligan’s Island,” died in Los Angeles on Wednesday from Covid-19 complications, her publicist Harlan Boll confirmed to CNN. She was 82. Tina Louise portrayed movie star Ginger Grant on “Gilligan’s Island” and said in a statement to CNN, “I was sad to learn of
Continue Reading Just after the Christmas morning bombing in downtown Nashville, a terrified woman told a 911 dispatcher she thought the roof of the building where she lives on 2nd Avenue North was collapsing — but she didn’t know quite what was happening, or why. She scrambled for her shoes and keys and hustled her dog downstairs
Continue Reading Here’s a look at the January 8, 2011 shootings in Tucson, Arizona. Six people were killed and 13 were wounded including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Shooter Jared Lee Loughner pleaded guilty in 2012 and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Victims Christina Taylor Green, 9Born on September 11, 2001 Dorothy “Dot”
Continue Reading In the waning days of his presidency, Donald Trump continues to spread nonsense conspiracies over the 2020 election and the officials who oversaw it, attacking Georgia’s governor and secretary of state on Twitter Tuesday. Following Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s announcement that a ballot signature match audit found no evidence of absentee voter fraud in
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