NBA legend Kobe Bryant, who died tragically last year at age 41, will likely be best known for his gifts with the roundball. He was one of the greatest to take the court and one of basketball’s greatest ambassadors, heralding the men’s and women’s game at its youth, college, pro and international levels. Yet the
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The European Union is calling out vaccine makers AstraZeneca and Pfizer over delivery delays that could slow its recovery from the pandemic. Officials are even threatening to take legal action and introduce export controls on doses produced in the bloc as anger mounts. AstraZeneca will not be able to deliver as many doses of its
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Monday that he will allow the 50-50 Senate to officially organize so Democrats can take control of key committees in the chamber after a weeklong battle with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer over the rights of the minority to stall legislation. The breakthrough came as GOP leaders were eagerly
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A teenager left to care for his family. One who found his faith, and another who watched his father relapse into addiction. They are the firsthand accounts of a group of New Jersey high school students living during the pandemic, brought together in one powerful memoir. The idea for the memoir came from Shawn Adler,
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Increases in air pollution are linked to an increased risk of irreversible sight loss, according to a new study. Researchers from University College London (UCL) found that even low exposure to air pollution across England, Scotland and Wales appears to impact the risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). AMD is the leading cause of irreversible
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C.J. Diegel scrolled down the Arizona Secretary of State’s website until he saw the box for “no party affiliation.” He clicked it, ending his lifelong registration as an Arizona Republican, in just seconds. Diegel had hoped that his state party, after seeing the US Capitol insurrection earlier this month, would reverse course away from Donald
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One of the few US senators who led the effort to object to the electoral college results on January 6, Josh Hawley is now claiming that he was never trying to overturn the 2020 election. After being asked Friday by CNN’s Manu Raju about the rioters who believed the electoral vote could be changed —
Continue Reading The pandemic could slam the brakes on a global economic turnaround this year despite mass vaccination programs and unprecedented levels of stimulus, according to the International Monetary Fund. The IMF expects the global economy to grow by 5.5% this year, it said on Tuesday, or 0.3 percentage points faster than its previous forecast in October.
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(CNN) — Se espera que el presidente Joe Biden firme una serie de decretos y acciones ejecutivas que giran en torno a la política de «equidad» el martes, centrándose en la reforma policial, la reforma penitenciaria y la vivienda pública, según un borrador de un documento de calendario enviado a los aliados de la administración
Continue Reading Pizza Hut’s newest pizza doesn’t look like its other pizzas. The chain is launching a new Detroit-style pizza, which ditches the traditional round shape for a rectangular crust with cheese to the edges that’s popular in the Michigan city. It’s Pizza Hut’s second major product launch this month as the pandemic-era pizza wars show few
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Texas Dept. of Transportation shut down Transmountain Road early Tuesday morning due to overnight snow in the Borderland. The agency closed the road just after 5 a.m. and it reopened over five hours later around 10:30 a.m. Meantime, a semi-trailer that flipped over on the slick pavement forced the
Continue Reading The Department of Homeland Security, largely hollowed out over the last four years, is moving with urgency to staff agencies with people who had front row seats to the hardline immigration limits rolled out under former President Donald Trump, in order to rescind them. The department — the third largest in the US government —
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Los científicos están averiguando qué tanto se han propagado las nuevas variantes del coronavirus detectadas en varios lugares del mundo, cómo difiere la enfermedad entre quienes se contagian con estas variantes y cómo estas afectarían los tratamientos y vacunas existentes. «Los virus cambian constantemente a través de la mutación, y se espera
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President Joe Biden on Monday offered his most extensive comments since taking office on former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, telling CNN, “I think it has to happen.” Biden made the comment during a brief one-on-one interview with CNN in the halls of the West Wing. He acknowledged the effect it could have on his
Continue Reading It hasn’t even been a week since Chuck Schumer assumed his long-sought goal of becoming Senate majority leader. But he’s already been in a staring contest with Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, over the future of the institution. He faces outright opposition from Republicans over President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda, including a $1.9 trillion
Continue Reading Hong Kong (CNN Business) — China quiere liderar la recuperación global de la pandemia y ser más influyente que nunca en el escenario mundial. Podría tener el impulso y la confianza para llevar a cabo ese plan. La segunda economía más grande del mundo se sobrepuso a gran parte de las consecuencias de la pandemia
Continue Reading Leon Black will step down as CEO of Apollo Global Management, the investment firm said, as it also announced that an internal investigation into Black’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein found no wrongdoing. Black will retire by the end of July and will be succeeded by Marc Rowan, a co-founder of the private equity firm, as
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Chief Justice John Roberts has long been a student of history, but this is one part of history — presiding at the second trial of Donald Trump — he can do without. Roberts apparently believes the Constitution offers him a reprieve from another ordeal with Trump, a man who challenged judicial integrity, declared he could
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– Una nueva variante de covid-19, que preocupa a las autoridades de salud, se detectó por primera vez en Estados Unidos, informaron funcionarios en Minnesota este lunes. Según explicaron, se identificó la variante P.1 del coronavirus en un viajero de Brasil. La P.1 es una de las cuatro variantes de covid-19 que vigilan
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A tornado described as “large and extremely dangerous” by the National Weather Service (NWS) in Birmingham, Alabama, left at least one person dead, others with serious injuries and caused significant damage throughout Jefferson County and surrounding areas Monday night, including ripping through a hotel and tearing off part of the roof of a church. Injuries
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — -Mientras algunos gobiernos ya están vacunando contra el coronavirus, otros países de América Latina esperan a que sus líderes pongan en marcha los itinerarios de vacunación y así hacerle frente a una pandemia que ya se ha cobrado más de 2,1 millones de vidas en el mundo. Los países más afectados en
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Alex Saab, el empresario colombiano señalado por Estados Unidos de ser testaferro del presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, fue trasladado a una “casa privada” luego de que un tribunal de Barlavento, Cabo Verde, le concediera el jueves una medida de arresto domiciliario, informó este lunes su defensa. Aunque CNN no ha confirmado
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso health officials announced five new coronavirus-related deaths and 654 new cases Tuesday morning. It’s the highest, single-day increase in new cases since Jan. 9. The latest deaths included a man in his 50s, a man in his 60s and three women in their 70s. The pandemic death toll
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China wants to lead the global recovery from the pandemic and become more influential on the world stage than ever before. It might just have the momentum — and the confidence — to pull that plan off. The world’s second largest economy shrugged off much of the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic last year, and
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It’s been a year since Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash, and teammates and loved ones are still coming to terms with the loss. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You
Continue Reading Despite the vocal pledges from some companies to take bold action following the deadly January 6 siege on the US Capitol, many of America’s corporate giants are instead taking a wait-and-see approach about their future political giving, a new CNN analysis shows. And even when the companies vowed to suspend campaign contributions, most declined to
Continue Reading ¿Debemos usar mascarillas N95 en vez de tapabocas de tela? Apple advierte que debes mantener tu iPhone lejos de los marcapasos. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad. 1 Envían cargo de juicio político al Senado El cargo “incitación a la insurrección” con el que la Cámara de Representantes
Continue Reading Washington (CNN) — Cuando el presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, habló el viernes con el presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, los temas más controvertidos que complican la relación entre ambos países no estuvieron en la agenda. Es una señal de que Biden busca restablecer su relación con el líder mexicano, quien desarrolló
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Dogs have been following humans for thousands of years. Archaeological and genetic data has revealed that dogs accompanied humans when they were migrating to the Americas from East Asia, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dogs were likely domesticated over 23,000 years ago in Siberia, said
Continue Reading The United States crossed the terrible milestone of 400,000 deaths from coronavirus early last week, and there are currently over 2.1 million reported deaths worldwide, Johns Hopkins University data shows. There are also new variants with mutations that could make Covid-19 even more transmissible and possibly even more deadly. However, there is also encouraging news,
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