President-elect Joe Biden on Monday will nominate William Burns as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, CNN has learned, tapping a respected veteran American diplomat who has served in posts around the world from the Reagan to the Obama administrations. “The American people will sleep soundly with him as our next CIA Director,” Biden said
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First lady Melania Trump has broken her silence on the Capitol insurrection incited by her husband in a letter posted on the White House website early Monday morning in which she lashes out at her critics and then condemns the violence. “I am disappointed and disheartened with what happened last week,” the first lady, whose
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Parler, the alternative social media platform favored by conservatives, now finds itself virtually homeless on the internet as Amazon, Apple and Google have all booted it from their platforms in a span of a little more than 24 hours. Amazon said it would remove Parler from its cloud hosting service, Amazon Web Services, Sunday evening,
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The United Kingdom is entering its most challenging weeks since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a top official said Monday, as hospitals face being overrun and morgues fill up. “We’re now at the worst point of this epidemic for the UK. In the future we will have the vaccine, but the numbers at the
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden has chosen veteran diplomat William Burns to be his CIA director. Biden made the announcement on Monday. A former ambassador to Russia and Jordan, Burns rose through the ranks of the State Department to become deputy secretary before retiring to run the Carnegie Endowment of International Peace in 2014.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health announced seven coronavirus-related deaths and 561 new cases Monday morning. That brings the death toll in El Paso County to 1,520. Hospitalizations greatly decreased from 421 to 392. The number of ICU patients also decreased from 165 to 138. The number of active
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Trump podría enfrentar un nuevo juicio político. Detectan en Japón nueva variante de covid-19 en viajeros desde Brasil. Advierten amenazas de extremistas antes de la toma de posesión de Biden. Empieza el CES 2021 totalmente en línea. Además, un vórtice polar afectará EE.UU. y Europa en las próximas semanas. Esto es lo que debes saber
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ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has changed church law to explicitly allow women to do more things during Mass, granting them access to the altar, while reaffirming they cannot be priests. Francis amended the law to formalize what is common practice in many parts of the world: that women can read Scripture and serve on
Continue Reading The progressive group Justice Democrats is throwing their support behind former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner, a top ally of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, in her campaign to succeed Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge, who is poised to join President-elect Joe Biden’s cabinet. Fudge was nominated by Biden in December to lead the Department of Housing
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Tennis star Ana Konjuh kept alive hopes of competing at her first grand slam in more than two years after outlasting Anna-Lena Friedsam in Australian Open qualifying in Dubai. Konjuh, a former world No. 20, has endured 18 months away from the game and undergone four elbow surgeries over the course of her young career.
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has advanced plans to build 800 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, a move that could strain ties with the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced the move on Monday. It would include 100 homes in a settlement where an Israeli woman
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Smoking weed may expose you to the same type of toxic chemicals found in tobacco smoke, a new study finds. People who only smoked marijuana had higher blood and urine levels of several smoke-related toxins such as naphthalene, acrylamide and acrylonitrile than nonsmokers, according to the study published Monday in the journal EClinicalMedicine. Naphthalene is
Continue Reading House Democrats are barreling toward impeaching President Donald Trump for the second time over his role in inciting last week’s riots at the US Capitol. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told House Democrats on Sunday evening that the House would proceed with bringing an impeachment resolution to the floor this week unless Vice President Mike Pence
Continue Reading Chinese search giant Baidu is teaming up with carmaker Geely to build electric vehicles, the latest move by a tech company to shape the future of the autos industry. Baidu is creating a company to manufacture intelligent electric cars, it said in a statement on Monday. Geely, the largest privately-owned carmaker in China, will invest
Continue Reading As Ashlyn Atigre prepared to take her healthy son to the pediatrician for his 3-year-old well visit recently, a nagging concern was on her mind. “I want to talk about the social impact of the pandemic with the doctor,” said the Tampa, Florida, mother. “I’m an introvert but clearly need people. And I’m seeing his
Continue Reading Midway through his mission to learn chess, Tom Vanderbilt found himself facing off against an 8-year-old child. Vanderbilt had a successful writing career, a college degree and decades of real-world experience. The kid, though, had superior skills. Vanderbilt lost in a few dozen moves. Defeat, however, couldn’t dampen Vanderbilt’s enthusiasm for chess, one of five
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The sports world already knows Tom Brady as the greatest quarterback of all time, but he proved it to Tampa Bay this weekend after leading the Buccaneers to their first playoff win since 2002. Simply beating the Washington Football Team would be impressive, but pair it with the fact that the Bucs have not even
Continue Reading (CNN Business) — El Campeonato de la PGA 2022 no se jugará en el Trump National Golf Club Bedminster en Nueva Jersey, según un anuncio del presidente de PGA of America, Jim Richerson, el domingo por la noche. «La Junta Directiva de PGA of America votó esta noche para ejercer el derecho a rescindir el
Continue Reading (CNN) — El Ministerio de Salud de Japón informó que varios pasajeros que, a principios de enero, viajaron desde Brasil, se pusieron en cuarentena y dieron positivo por covid-19, estaban infectados con una variante del virus distinta a las variantes que se vieron por primera vez en Reino Unido y Sudáfrica. México confirma el primer
Continue Reading (CNN) — Cuando el presidente Donald Trump firmó el proyecto de ley de alivio y financiamiento gubernamental por el coronavirus de US$ 2,3 billones en diciembre, comenzó la cuenta regresiva de 180 días para que las agencias de inteligencia de EE.UU. le informen al Congreso lo que saben sobre los objetos voladores no identificados, u
Continue Reading JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s Food and Drug Authority on Monday green-lighted emergency use of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by China-based Sinovac Biotech Ltd., with vaccinations of high-risk groups expected to start later this week. Conditional vaccination of healthcare workers and other civil servants using the vaccine, called CoronaVac, is expected to begin this week.
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It took about 90 days for the United States to reach its first 2 million cases of coronavirus last year. But it took just 10 days to hit 2.2 million cases in 2021, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. And new infections, hospitalizations and deaths keep soaring. “We’re in a dire situation,” said Dr.
Continue Reading 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) — Un estremecedor video de los disturbios del miércoles en el Capitolio muestra a un agente aplastado entre los empujones de una turba a favor del presidente Trump y agentes que defendían el edificio. Durante el enfrentamiento, capturado en video por el medio de investigación Status Coup, un agente quedó atrapado entre una puerta
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Un ciudadano extranjero que llegó a México fue confirmado como el primer portador de la nueva variante de covid-19, la cual fue detectada primero en el Reino Unido, informó este domingo en conferencia de prensa el director general de Epidemiología de la Secretaría de Salud mexicana, José Luis Alomía. Alomía indicó que
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Tras el incendio ocurrido este sábado en un transformador eléctrico en un edificio del Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro de la Ciudad de México, que dejó una policía muerta y al menos 30 personas heridas, el gobierno capitalino informó este domingo que alista un puesto de mando temporal y el reinicio paulatino
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — La jefa de Gobierno de Ciudad de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, indicó este sábado en su cuenta de Twitter que el incendio en el puesto central de control del metro de la ciudad está 90% controlado. Sheinbaum comunicó que al menos una persona falleció por «una caída» y que 29 trabajadores fueron trasladados
Continue Reading A manhunt is underway for six inmates who escaped from the Merced County Downtown Jail in Northern California, according to a press release from the Merced County Sheriff’s Office issued Sunday. The inmates, ages 19 to 22, were able to make it to the roof of the jail and used a “homemade rope to scale
Continue Reading (CNN) — El Ministerio de Salud de Japón informó que varios pasajeros que, a principios de enero, viajaron desde Brasil, se pusieron en cuarentena y dieron positivo por covid-19, estaban infectados con una variante del virus que parece similar a las variantes que se vieron por primera vez en Reino Unido y Sudáfrica. México confirma
Continue Reading A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. So many lies led up to last Wednesday’s riot in Washington. Now there are new lies being proffered on the right-wing web to defend the indefensible. And President Trump’s cheering section is desperately trying to
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