EL PASO, Texas — Rates for El Paso Water customers will go up starting March 1. Typical residential customers will see a monthly rate increase of $1.37. On Wednesday, the El Paso Public Service Board approved the utility company’s Water, Wastewater and Stormwater budgets, a combined total of $508 million for fiscal year 2021-2022. (Source:
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(CNN) — La decisión de exigir a los miembros del Congreso que pasen por detectores de metales tras el asedio mortal de la semana pasada alimentó aun más las tensiones en el Capitolio, y desencadenó en algunos enfrentamientos a gritos entre republicanos y la policía del Capitolio. Integrantes de ambos partidos manifestaron su frustración el
Continue Reading (CNN) — Una vacuna china líder contra el covid-19 desarrollada por Sinovac Biotech tuvo solo un 50,38% de efectividad en ensayos de última etapa en Brasil. Eso es un porcentaje significativamente más bajo que lo que mostraron los resultados anteriores, según un comunicado publicado el martes por el gobierno de Sao Paulo. Si bien el
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President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday urged the Senate to conduct the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump while simultaneously working on other critical issues, indicating a desire to settle the proceedings against Trump that are likely to remain unresolved when Biden takes office. While he said in a statement Wednesday that the House’s vote “to
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso’s new Mayor Oscar Leeser signaled Wednesday night the first major policy shift of his administration from that of his predecessor Dee Margo. Leeser waded into the fray over the Duranguito neighborhood’s inclusion in a proposed downtown historic district, which could impact plans for the arena project championed by Margo.
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Bryan Monroe, a journalism professor and former CNNPolitics.com editor who once headed the National Association of Black Journalists and helped guide the Biloxi Sun Herald to a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Hurricane Katrina, has died. He was 55. Monroe died Wednesday morning of a heart attack at his home in Bethesda, Maryland, where he
Continue Reading Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and former Flint Public Works director Howard Croft were each charged Wednesday with two counts of willful neglect of duty as part of an investigation into the Flint water crisis, according to court documents. The charges are misdemeanors, punishable with up to one year in prison or a fine of
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The US keep breaking records in the coronavirus pandemic. The latest: 3 million new cases in the first two weeks of the year. But some experts say there’s hope. Vaccines, spring weather and, surprisingly, the high number of infections all offer cause for optimism, Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the
Continue Reading (CNN) — El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, fue expulsado permanentemente de Snapchat, según un comunicado de la plataforma. «La semana pasada anunciamos una suspensión indefinida de la cuenta de Snapchat del presidente Trump y hemos estado evaluando qué acción a largo plazo es lo mejor para nuestra comunidad de Snapchat», dijo un portavoz
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On the day he was impeached for a history-making second time, President Donald Trump lacked a comprehensive legal strategy, had nothing on his public schedule and was without his preferred social media methods of responding — in part because his son-in-law put a stop to efforts establishing his presence on fringe platforms after he was
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WUHAN, China (AP) — A global team of researchers has arrived in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected to investigate its origins amid uncertainty about whether Beijing might try to prevent embarrassing discoveries. The 10-member team sent to Wuhan by the World Health Organization was approved by President Xi Jinping’s government
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Andrew Yang announced his candidacy for New York City mayor on Wednesday, several weeks after he had filed paperwork to run for the office. “I moved to New York City 25 years ago. I came of age, fell in love, and became a father here. Seeing our City in so much pain breaks my heart,”
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History will record that the second impeachment of President Donald Trump branded him forever as a catastrophically immoral and divisive leader. It will also mark most of his defenders in the Republican Party as duplicitous opportunists who claimed at the last moment that the country needed unity after they had contributed to the rhetoric bringing
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FORT BLISS, Texas — Despite more than 500 man hours devoted to search efforts over nearly six months, officials said Wednesday they still lacked answers in the disappearance of a Fort Bliss Army private and put out a new public call for leads to help locate him. Pvt. Richard Halliday, 21, was last seen on
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Klete Keller, who won five Olympic swimming medals, including two relay golds, was charged Wednesday for his alleged participation in the Capitol riot last week, according to court documents. Keller was charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s exports rose in 2020 despite pressure from the coronavirus pandemic and a tariff war with Washington, boosting its politically volatile trade surplus to $535 billion, one of the highest ever reported. Customs data show exports rose 3.6% over 2019 to $2.6 trillion, an improvement over the previous year’s 0.5% gain. Imports
Continue Reading A Northern California hospital was fined $43,000 after it delayed reporting a recent Covid-19 outbreak which resulted in the death of one employee. Santa Clara County said it issued a violation notice to Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center on January 5 “as a result of Kaiser’s failure to timely report 43 cases involving personnel
Continue Reading Members of Congress are starting to express fears about the vulnerable position last week’s violent breach of the US Capitol put them in, as well as concerns they have about their security going forward and some controversial new security measures. “I did not know if I was going to make it to the end of
Continue Reading Nueva York (CNN Business) — Parler, la red social alternativa popular entre los conservadores, ha sido prohibida por Apple, Google y Amazon. A pesar de su audiencia de nicho, Parler está ganando popularidad. La plataforma se convirtió en la aplicación más descargada el fin de semana del 8 de noviembre, el día en que los
Continue Reading (CNN) –– Twitter suspendió al presidente Donald Trump de su plataforma, informó la compañía este viernes. «Después de una revisión detallada de los tuits recientes de la cuenta @realDonaldTrump y el contexto que los rodea, hemos suspendido permanentemente la cuenta debido al riesgo de una mayor incitación a la violencia», dijo Twitter. «En el contexto
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EL PASO, Texas – Even though Ziggy Monnarez wasn’t born when Tommy Lasorda was manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, he still became a fan. Monnarez, 14 is all about the Blue and his knowledge of Dodgers past and present is impressive. In 2017, Monnarez got the experience of a lifetime. When he was 11-years-old
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– La aerolínea Avianca será multada con hasta US$ 6.000, reveló este miércoles a CNN la Dirección General de Migración y Extranjería de El Salvador. La decisión se tomó luego de que personal detectara en el aeropuerto San Óscar Arnulfo Romero, ubicado a 40 kilómetros de la ciudad de San Salvador, que un
Continue Reading Members of Congress are still reeling after the traumatic insurrection of the Capitol last week, and many lawmakers are starting to speak out about the vulnerable position the violent breach put them in, as well as concerns they have about their security going forward. “I did not know if I was going to make it
Continue Reading SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s Supreme Court has upheld a 20-year prison term for former President Park Geun-hye over bribery and other crimes. The ruling concludes a historic corruption case that marked a striking fall from grace for the country’s first female leader and a conservative icon. Park was impeached before being ousted
Continue Reading A high-ranking official with the New York Police Department has been suspended without pay and is now the subject of an internal disciplinary process after a string of racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic posts, the NYPD confirmed. Late last year, an investigation by the City Council connected Deputy Inspector James Francis Kobel to a user under
Continue Reading President-elect Joe Biden is expected to unveil a major Covid-19 relief package on Thursday and his advisers have recently told allies in Congress to expect a price tag in the ballpark of $2 trillion, according to two people briefed on the deliberations. The Biden team is taking a “shoot for the moon” approach with the
Continue Reading (CNN) — Ya no vamos a tener que elegir entre ver los premios SAG o los Grammy. El miércoles se anunció que la 27ª entrega de los Screen Actors Guild Awards se transmitirá simultáneamente en TNT y TBS el domingo 4 de abril a las 9 p.m. hora de Miami. (TNT y TBS, como CNN,
Continue Reading (CNN) –– Donald Trump hizo historia este miércoles al ser el único presidente de Estados Unidos que ha enfrentado un segundo juicio político. Y mientras esto ocurría, un asesor de la Casa Blanca dijo que «todos están molestos con todos» dentro de la Casa Blanca. Además, la fuente señaló el presidente está enojado porque cree
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A new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Covid-19 cases among younger children remained low even after schools restarted for in-person learning. To safely reopen schools, however, transmission in communities must be kept in check. The report, published Wednesday in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, considered more
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