The fried chicken sandwich wars sparked by Popeyes in 2019 are still clucking along two years later — and they’re heating up again. This week, KFC, McDonald’s, Shake Shack and even salad-chain Sweetgreen kicked off the new year with their own takes on the crispy concoction. Cheap, tasty and growing in sales, fried chicken sandwiches
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(CNN Español) — El Dr. Elmer Huerta, oncólogo, especialista en Salud Pública y colaborador de CNN, fue uno de los voluntarios para el ensayo de la vacuna contra el covid-19 de la farmacéutica Moderna. Han sido ya varios meses de estudio y así fue como finalmente le revelaron si le habían administrado un placebo o
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As the NFL regular season came to a close, Michael Carsley knew the penalty for finishing last in his fantasy football league. Their rule: Whoever ended that season at the bottom of the league had to spend 24 hours in a Waffle House. For every waffle eaten, one hour would be removed from the total
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A huge sinkhole, about 22,000 square feet across and 66 feet deep, swallowed several cars and forced the evacuation of a Covid ward after opening up in the parking lot of a hospital in southern Italy on Friday. The incident took place around 6:30 a.m. local time, according to the Ospedale del Mare hospital in
Continue Reading (CNN) –– El 18 de diciembre, una enfermera de emergencias en San Diego se vacunó contra el covid-19. Y una semana después, dio positivo por coronavirus, informó la afiliada de CNN KGTV. Historias como esta serán cada vez más comunes a medida que millones de estadounidenses reciban las vacunas de Pfizer/BioNTech y Moderna en los
Continue Reading It’s been almost five months since Jacob Blake was shot in the back seven times by Officer Rusten Sheskey. Sheskey, a White officer, shot Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, while responding to a domestic incident on August 23, 2020. Blake survived the shooting but was left paralyzed from the waist down. No charges were brought
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On the heels of the country’s deadliest week since the Covid-19 pandemic’s start, state officials are warning of more alarming patterns following the holiday season. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said the state was seeing a “real and significant increase in cases and our positivity rate from people’s gatherings around the holiday.” “This surge that we’re
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The US reported more Covid-19 cases and deaths in the last week than any previous seven days during the pandemic, data showed Friday morning. And more than 4,080 US coronavirus deaths were reported on Thursday alone — the most ever reported in a single day during the pandemic and the first time the daily tally
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Men and women who endorse “hegemonic masculinity” — an idealized form of manhood where White, heterosexual men have power, status and dominance over women, gay men, men with disabilities, racial or religious minorities and other groups — are more likely to be supporters for US President Donald Trump than those who don’t embrace dominant masculinity,
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British filmmaker and documentarian Michael Apted died Thursday night in Los Angeles at the age of 79, the Directors Guild of America (DGA) announced in a statement Friday. No details about his death were immediately available. “Our hearts are heavy today as we mourn the passing of esteemed director, longtime DGA leader and my friend
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EL PASO, Texas – Friday night saw the return of UTEP basketball fans to the Don Haskins Center. It was the first conference home game for the Miners, and they wanted nothing more than to send the fans home happy with a victory. UTEP did just that after defeating the Rice Owls, 101-89. UTEP improves
Continue Reading For Augustine Tang, driving a taxi was a way to carry on his father’s legacy, who died unexpectedly in 2015. But the coronavirus pandemic has turned his taxi into a burden, a sentiment shared by thousands of other cabdrivers in New York. “It’s a ghost town,” Tang remarks, as he drives through Chinatown. With ridership
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“Jeopardy!” had a simple message ahead of the broadcast of the very last episode featuring the legendary Alex Trebek: Thank you. In a tweet on Friday evening, the show posted a tribute video to Trebek, who hosted the show for 37 seasons and passed away in November. This week was the last week of new
Continue Reading Nota del editor: Thomas Balcerski enseña historia en Universidad Estatal del Este de Connecticut. Es el autor de «Bosom Friends: Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King» (Oxford University Press). Puedes encontrarlo en Twitter @tbalcerski. Las opiniones expresadas en esta columna pertenecen exclusivamente al autor. Ver más artículos de opinión
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President-elect Joe Biden will aim to release nearly every available dose of the coronavirus vaccine when he takes office, a break with the Trump administration’s strategy of holding back half of US vaccine production to ensure second doses are available. Releasing nearly all vaccine doses on hand could quickly ratchet up the availability of coronavirus
Continue Reading A federal judge on Friday blocked a sweeping asylum rule that had been scheduled to take effect nationwide in a matter of days, issuing yet another legal blow to the Trump administration. The administration has released a series of rules restricting asylum over the last four years, making it nearly impossible for asylum seekers to
Continue Reading Parler, the alternative social media platform popular with conservatives, has been banned from the Google Play Store, Google told CNN Business Friday evening. Google said its app store has long required that apps displaying user generated content have moderation policies in place to prevent the spread of violent rhetoric. “We’re aware of continued posting in
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EL PASO, Texas – The Ysleta School District has been approved by the state to be a vaccine administrator and is line to get Covid-19 vaccines. How many vaccines the district will get and who they will be used for is unclear at this time. A district spokesman said the district will learn more about
Continue Reading The relentless surge of Covid-19 patients has strained resources and health care workers at Los Angeles hospitals to the point that officials are preparing to ration care with triage officers, who will decide which patients receive what treatment. Once a hospital reaches a phase called “crisis care mode,” triage officers at the county’s four public
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Security footage released Friday shows protesters entering the Oregon Capitol last month after a Republican state legislator allegedly opened a side door and walked out. Oregon State Police have opened an investigation into state Rep. Mike Nearman’s actions, according to spokesman Timothy Fox. CNN has reached out to Nearman’s office but has not received a
Continue Reading Maj. Dwight Christensen remembers the sense of shock he felt first walking through the doors of St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley, California. “I was seeing patients, just lining up in the hallway, in the emergency room … ICU patients just throughout the hospital,” he told CNN. Christensen is part of a National Guard
Continue Reading (CNN) — El hombre fotografiado sentado en el escritorio de la presidenta de la Cámara de Representantes, Nancy Pelosi, durante los disturbios del miércoles en el Capitolio de Estados Unidos, fue arrestado y acusado de tres cargos federales, incluido el robo de propiedad pública, dijeron el viernes funcionarios federales. Funcionarios federales dijeron que Richard Barnett
Continue Reading An Alabama man allegedly parked a pickup truck packed with 11 homemade bombs, an assault rifle and a handgun two blocks from the US Capitol building on Wednesday for hours before authorities ever noticed, according to federal prosecutors. The revelation is one of the most unsettling details federal prosecutors have made public this week as
Continue Reading House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday Democrats are prepared to move forward with impeachment next week if President Donald Trump doesn’t resign, as momentum quickly built among House Democrats furious with Trump to hold an impeachment vote. Following a Democratic caucus call earlier in the afternoon, Pelosi said in a statement that the House would
Continue Reading President Donald Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani both mistakenly made calls to Republican Sen. Mike Lee as deadly riots were unfolding at the US Capitol earlier this week, a spokesman for the senator confirmed to CNN — calls that were intended for another GOP senator the White House was frantically trying to convince to
Continue Reading Tommy Lasorda, who spent seven decades in the Dodgers organization — first as a player in Brooklyn and then in Los Angeles as a two-time World Series winning manager — has died. He was 93. Lasorda had a sudden cardiopulmonary arrest while home Thursday evening. Less than an hour later, he was pronounced dead at
Continue Reading “Trump or war. Today. That simple.” “If you don’t know how to shoot: You need to learn. NOW.” “we will storm the government buildings, kill cops, kill security guards, kill federal employees and agents, and demand a recount.” In the weeks, days and hours ahead of Wednesday’s siege on the Capitol by President Donald Trump’s
Continue Reading A year ago, a rare thing happened to American women. For three months, they held more jobs than men in the US economy — something that had only occurred one other time in history, during a short period in 2009 and early 2010. Sure, there were still many other gender gaps: women were more likely
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Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — No matter how old we get there’s still a kid in all of us. The town of Winthrop is learning that first hand thanks to 91-year-old Dean Conklin and his sledding skills. John Lauritsen shows us the reason why his trip down the hill was
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