Still haven’t received your $600 stimulus payment? Check the mail for a debit card. The Internal Revenue Service sent out more than 100 million payments in January, which were approved by Congress late last year. The vast majority of payments were directly deposited into personal bank accounts, but others are receiving either a paper check
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The GameStop mania that’s hijacked US markets is grabbing the attention of investors all over the world, as traders from London to Mumbai try to get in on the action. What’s happening: Shares of companies that are heavily shorted — indicating that institutional investors are betting they will fall — have been scooped up on
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, has sent a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency asking for the agency to host a mass vaccination site in El Paso. In a tweet, the congresswoman shared the letter she sent Thursday night to Robert Fenton Jr., the acting FEMA administrator. NEW:
Continue Reading The frenzy over GameStop has inspired amateurs everywhere to shake up stock markets. Now China’s massive army of retail investors wants to get in on the action. Talk of the video game retailer’s epic share surge has taken over Chinese social media and the eye-popping gains in that stock and others have become the envy
Continue Reading The frenzy over GameStop has inspired amateurs everywhere to shake up stock markets. Now China’s massive army of retail investors wants to get in on the action. Talk of the video game retailer’s epic share surge has taken over Chinese social media and the eye-popping gains in that stock and others have become the envy
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Nearly two-thirds of respondents believe that climate change is a “global emergency,” according to a survey of 1.2 million people in dozens of countries around the globe — and many want urgent action to tackle the problem. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which ran the poll with Oxford University, described it as the largest
Continue Reading Robinhood raised $1 billion from existing investors just hours after it halted purchases of GameStop, suggesting the free-trading app faced a potential cash shortage. The startup faced a bipartisan backlash Thursday for its decision to limit trading — a move that ran counter to its stated mission of democratizing investing. “This is a strong sign
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(CNN) — No hay suficientes datos para decir si un medicamento antiparasitario llamado ivermectina puede ayudar a los pacientes con covid-19, dijeron el jueves los Institutos Nacionales de Salud (INS). Algunos médicos han promovido fuertemente el fármaco, pero la mayoría de los profesionales médicos convencionales han sido cautelosos con su uso. Debido a que no
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — De cara a la pandemia que parece estar acelerándose, en los últimos días, la colchicina, la ivermectina y la plitidepsina han llamado la atención del mundo y los expertos están investigando si ayudarían o no a los pacientes con covid-19. Esto es lo que sabemos sobre estos medicamentos. Ivermectina La ivermectina es un
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — During the pandemic, many services have become more accessible from home. A local physician says telemedicine visits have surged over the past few months. These visits include medical appointments done by phone or video chat. Dr. Diego De La Mora, the Chief Health Informatics Officers at Texas Tech Physicians of
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HOUSTON, Texas — The families of a man and woman killed in a botched police raid in Houston have filed lawsuits against the city and police department, according to two separate complaints filed Wednesday. Rhogena Nicholas and her husband Dennis Tuttle were killed along with their dog when a tactical team raided their home on
Continue Reading Severe cases of Covid-19 might impact the quality of a man’s sperm, thus possibly impacting his fertility, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Reproduction. “This report provides the first direct evidence to date that COVID-19 infection impairs semen quality and male reproductive potential,” the study said. However, experts not involved in
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Last March former President Donald Trump said “anybody that wants a test can get a test” for Covid-19. That wasn’t true then, and in some parts of the country, finding a test appointment is about as easy to get as Super Bowl tickets. Regular and affordable testing, if done right, could not only diagnose people
Continue Reading A year into the pandemic, winter is the last of the four seasons we’re newly experiencing during this crisis. Each season has had its curveballs, but one winter challenge may be staying warm if you can’t afford or are cutting back on indoor heating. Since we still need to prevent spreading the coronavirus, pre-pandemic ways
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Former President Donald Trump may be gone from the White House but his legacy of catastrophic mistrust is poisoning Washington, dimming hopes of a unified effort to crush the pandemic before mutant viral strains take root. Nine days after newly sworn-in President Joe Biden told America that “every disagreement doesn’t have to be a cause
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GameStop traders sent the stock on a wild ride Thursday, and it looks set for another manic session Friday. The stock lost more than 44% of its value on Thursday after surging nearly 40% at one point earlier in the day. Adding to the drama? The trading platform Robinhood restricted trading in the red hot
Continue Reading (CNN) – Seguro que Anthony Dowe no sintió que era su día de suerte cuando accidentalmente atropelló a dos ciervos con su auto nuevo. Pero unas horas más tarde, el hombre de Carolina del Norte revisó sus billetes de lotería y descubrió que había ganado un premio de US$ 2 millones en Mega Millions. Dowe
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Dogecoin is the latest target of hyped-up Reddit users. The virtual currency, which originally started as an internet parody based on a viral dog meme, has skyrocketed 373% in the last 24 hours, according to Coinbase. At one point, it was up 613%. One dogecoin is now worth a mere $0.0469, but that’s still easily
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The United Arab Emirates’ first mission to Mars is almost ready for a rendezvous with the red planet. The Emirates Mars Mission, known as the Hope Probe, will go into orbit around Mars on February 9. The mission was one of three that launched to Mars from Earth in July, including NASA’s Perseverance rover and
Continue Reading (CNN) — En el lapso de un año y medio, una pareja cubana que vive en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México fue amenazada repetidamente, atacada y perdió a un bebé después de ser agredida, mientras esperaban su próxima cita en la corte de inmigración en Estados Unidos bajo una política de la era
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A frightened policeman fires a live round as a warning shot. Young men cowed by baton-wielding officers, drenched in foul smelling chemicals from water cannon, scream abuse. Ultra-Orthodox Jews clashing with Israeli authorities has become an almost daily routine. At the immediate heart of the tensions is the refusal of some elements within the community
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Even as increasingly worrisome Covid-19 variants reach the United States, a senior adviser on the White House Covid-19 response team offered hope Thursday, saying they can be defeated with the right tools. On Thursday, South Carolina confirmed two cases of a variant of the virus first identified in South Africa, a more contagious strain than
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There’s an official term for that! Merriam-Webster has added “second gentleman” to describe VP Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff’s role. 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.)
Continue Reading Biden firma un decreto para reabrir la inscripción a Obamacare. Ivermectina: el medicamento no probado que estalló en América Latina. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad. 1 La economía de EE.UU. tuvo en 2020 su peor contracción desde 1946 La economía estadounidense creció a una tasa anualizada y
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — The former head of a Chinese state-owned asset management company was executed Friday on charges of taking bribes in an unusually severe penalty for a recent corruption case. Lai Xiaomin of China Huarong Asset Management Co., was among thousands of officials snared in a long-running anti-graft campaign led by President Xi Jinping.
Continue Reading (CNN) — Es posible que el expresidente Donald Trump se haya ido de la Casa Blanca, pero su legado de desconfianza catastrófica está envenenando a Washington, atenuando las esperanzas de un esfuerzo unificado para aplastar la pandemia antes de que arraiguen las mutaciones de nuevas cepas. Nueve días después de que el recién juramentado presidente
Continue Reading (CNN) — Hace 35 años, la NASA sufrió una tragedia cuando el transbordador espacial Challenger se desintegró poco después de su lanzamiento. En el siniestro murieron los siete miembros de la tripulación a bordo. Al despegar del Centro Espacial Kennedy, en Cabo Cañaveral, Florida, las condiciones climáticas frías de esa mañana, combinadas con un defecto
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A Robinhood customer filed a class-action lawsuit against the stock-trading app Thursday after the company barred traders from buying shares of GameStop promoted by WallStreetBets, a popular Reddit group for investors. The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, claims that Robinhood’s actions rigged the market against its customers. “Robinhood’s actions were done
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The premise of “Supernova” couldn’t be simpler, as a longtime couple grapples with the dire challenge of early-onset dementia. Having that duo played by Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci, happily, elevates the material, in a small but poignant story about love, loss and letting go. Firth’s Sam and Tucci’s Tusker have been together for decades,
Continue Reading The premise of “Supernova” couldn’t be simpler, as a longtime couple grapples with the dire challenge of early-onset dementia. Having that duo played by Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci, happily, elevates the material, in a small but poignant story about love, loss and letting go. Firth’s Sam and Tucci’s Tusker have been together for decades,
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