(CNN) — Los miembros del Congreso obtendrán una mayor seguridad mientras viajan por los aeropuertos después del ataque al Capitolio de Estados Unidos el miércoles y después de que varios senadores hubieran sido acosados en terminales aéreas, según un aviso enviado a los legisladores el sábado. La policía del Capitolio de Estados Unidos y la
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los llamados para nuevas protestas en Washington y otros estados de todo el país tienen a las fuerzas del orden público preparándose para una posible mayor violencia en los próximos días después de que los agitadores armados pro-Trump irrumpieron en el Capitolio de Estados Unidos la semana pasada y dejaron cinco personas muertas,
Continue Reading Nota del editor: Joe Lockhart es analista político de CNN. Fue secretario de Prensa de la Casa Blanca de 1998 a 2000 durante la administración del presidente Bill Clinton. Es coanfitrión del podcast «Words Matter». Las opiniones expresadas en este comentario son suyas. Ver más opinión en cnne.com/opinion. (CNN) — Decenas de millones de estadounidenses
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Biotechnology company Moderna believes its vaccine should protect people against Covid-19 for at least a year, a top official told investors Monday. “Our expectation is that the vaccination should last you at least a year,” Moderna’s chief medical officer Tal Zaks told the JP Morgan 39th Annual Healthcare Conference. Both Moderna’s and Pfizer/BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccines
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THE VIRUS OUTBREAK: — President-elect Joe Biden faces challenge in guiding America past the Trump era, but success on virus, economy may help — Health expert says worst time for Britain’s National Health Service is hitting now — China says World Health Organization experts will arrive Thursday to investigate the origins of the pandemic — A doctor using a horse-drawn cart to reach
Continue Reading KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s king has approved a coronavirus emergency that will suspend parliament and hold off calls for elections in a political reprieve for embattled Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin. Muhyiddin assured citizens the emergency was “not a military coup and curfew will not be enforced.” The emergency will last until Aug. 1
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Two US Capitol Police officers were suspended and at least 10 more are under investigation for their behavior during last week’s assault on the Capitol, and federal agents will look at whether current and former law enforcement officers played a role in the riot. One of the Capitol police officers took a selfie with someone
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Bitcoin prices surged to a new all-time high of nearly $42,000 on Friday, only to plunge all the way back to about $31,000 Monday morning. That’s a more than 20% drop — which means bitcoin is now in a bear market, as bizarre as it sounds. Bitcoin is still up a lot over the past
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Parler, the alternative social media platform favored by the far-right, sued Amazon on Monday in response to being deplatformed, alleging an antitrust violation, breach of contract and interference with the company’s business relationships with users. The complaint asks a federal court for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against Amazon and calls Amazon Web Services’ decision
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Chief Justice John Roberts has received his two doses of the coronavirus vaccine, the Supreme Court said Monday. “The Chief Justice has taken steps to protect against infection, including minimizing contact with staff, regular testing, and receiving both doses of the Pfizer vaccine,” public information officer Kathy Arberg wrote in an email, responding to questions
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The more new video we see of the storming of the Capitol by Trump-inspired rioters, the more aggravating it becomes. Specifically, the violent dragging of a Capitol Police officer from his perch into the mob to be beaten is incredible and sickening. The Capitol Police officer distracting charging rioters from the Senate floor is heroic
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EL PASO, Texas – In the pandemic-revised Conference USA schedules, UTEP is playing conference opponents back-to-back on Friday and Saturday making it difficult to gain momentum over a long season. As such the Miners (5-4, 2-2 C-USA) have split weekend series with their first two C-USA opponents, Southern Mississippi and Rice, and sit in the
Continue Reading (CNN) — El entrenador de los Patriots de Nueva Inglaterra, Bill Belichick, anunció que declina la Medalla Presidencial de la Libertad, que tenía previsto recibir por parte del presidente Donald Trump el jueves. Belichick citó los «trágicos acontecimientos de la semana pasada» como causa de su decisión. LEE: Estos son los arrestos clave hechos hasta
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Michigan GOP Rep. Peter Meijer said Monday evening he is “strongly considering” voting to impeach President Donald Trump following last week’s riot at the US Capitol, assessing that the President is “no longer qualified to hold that office.” “I would prefer that we have a more fulsome investigation into what happened. Most of what I
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused the Voice of America news service of “demeaning America” in a speech that a watchdog group criticized as “political propaganda” and a violation of the government-funded agency’s own rules. Pompeo delivered remarks in person to a command audience of VOA staff despite the Covid pandemic, urging them to report
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House Democrats plan to vote Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told Democrats on a caucus call Monday, setting up an impeachment vote one week after rioters incited by Trump overran Capitol police and breached some of the most secure areas of the US Capitol. The House will vote Tuesday
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Members of the general public in Kentucky were mistakenly allowed to sign up for Covid-19 vaccine appointments meant for health care workers, according to Louisville-based health system Baptist Health. Baptist Health provided the Kentucky Department of Health with an online vaccine appointment scheduling tool that could be linked to the state’s vaccine website for health
Continue Reading Anderson Cooper was asked by a viewer on Full Circle about how old he was when he accepted that he was gay. “I think I really, truly accepted it. And not just accepted it, but fully embraced it and came around to really loving the fact that I was gay right after college,” Cooper said.
Continue Reading Disinfectant gadgets, next-generation fitness equipment and robots that help you cook dinner. Those are a few of the countless new products expected to be unveiled next week at CES, the annual splashy tech conference that typically sets the tone for the biggest trends of the year. Home automation, health and 5G will once again be
Continue Reading The Trump administration has designated Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday, reversing an Obama-era decision to remove the label and potentially hindering the efforts of incoming president Joe Biden to normalize relations with the country. Pompeo said the State Department gave Cuba the designation “for repeatedly providing support
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In the wake of the attack on Capitol Hill last week, and myriad questions about how rioters breached the building and what is happening in response, federal law enforcement agencies have yet to brief the public directly. The US Capitol Police, FBI, Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security have yet to hold a
Continue Reading Chad Wolf is resigning as the acting secretary of Homeland Security, he said in a letter to the department Monday obtained by CNN. Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Pete Gaynor will be the new acting secretary, taking over in the wake of the US Capitol attack and as the national security apparatus prepares for possible
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With Covid-19 hospitalizations surpassing 100,000 for 40 days in a row, officials are trying to ramp up the pace of vaccinations across the United States. “We really need to get this vaccine out more quickly, because this is really our only tool,” Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, said
Continue Reading (CNN) — El FBI ha recibido información que indica que se están planeando «protestas armadas» en los 50 capitales estatales y el Capitolio de Estados Unidos en Washington en los días previos a la toma de posesión del presidente electo Joe Biden el 20 de enero, según un boletín interno obtenido por CNN. Autoridades de
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los demócratas de la Cámara de Representantes presentaron formalmente su resolución para acusar al presidente Donald Trump el lunes, acusándolo de «incitación a la insurrección» por su papel en los disturbios de la semana pasada en el Capitolio de Estados Unidos. La resolución de juicio político que la Cámara está a punto de
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Juliana Jimenez Sesma stared down at her mother’s casket. Her mother’s face was made-up, and her hair done just so. Her expression was frozen. As Sesma mourned, mariachi music sliced through the silence. “I’d rather be asleep than awake because of how much it hurts that you’re not here,” the band belted in Spanish. The
Continue Reading Sixty-one: That’s the number of arrests Washington, DC, police made the day rioters laid siege to the Capitol in protest of President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory. More have been arrested since, and several jurisdictions are now involved in hunting down the supporters of President Donald Trump who invaded and ransacked the Capitol during a joint
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EL PASO, Texas – The fans are here to stay, at least for the time being. Monday, UTEP announced that fans will be able to attend UTEP basketball games until further notice. A limited number of fans will be permitted in the Don Haskins Center for UTEP games, beginning with this weekend’s women’s matchups versus
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Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Ever since journalist Ben Raines found the wreckage of America’s last slave ship in 2019, local leaders have been debating the best way to preserve the history. On Monday, the Mobile County Commission took a major step, approving more than $1.3 million for an
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The coldest air since 2013 hit El Paso Monday AM – dropping to 18 degrees (by the way, the record for the coldest ever in El Paso was -8 on this very day in 1962). Very cold again overnight with lows in the teens and low 20’s Tuesday AM. Afternoon highs should hit the low
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