THE VIRUS OUTBREAK: — Two in five Americans live where COVID strains hospital ICUs — Pandemic stress puts medical workers at high risk of depression, anxiety, substance abuse — UK ramps up vaccination program, gives first shot to 6 million, but health secretary says nation is “long, long, long way” from easing its lockdown — A year after virus lockdown, Wuhan
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CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — Mexican authorities say they have found 19 shot and burned bodies near a town across the Rio Grande from Texas in an area that has seen violent territorial disputes between organized crime groups in recent years. The Tamaulipas state prosecutor’s office said that the bodies were discovered along a dirt road
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AUSTIN, Texas — There has been a decrease in the number of reported new deaths in Texas due to Covid-19, according to the state health department. There were 208 additional deaths reported Sunday after 407 new deaths were reported Saturday following three consecutive days of more than 1,200 new deaths, according the department. The death toll stands at
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President Joe Biden is expected to repeal former President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender individuals serving in the military as early as Monday, according to a source familiar with the plans. The policy, which has been roundly derided by LGBTQ activists as cruel and irrational, was first announced by Trump in July 2017 via Twitter.
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President Joe Biden on Monday will reinstate the Covid-19 travel restrictions on non-US citizens who have been in Brazil, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and much of Europe, a White House official confirmed to CNN. Biden will also extend the restrictions to travelers who have recently been to South Africa, the official said. The step, which
Continue Reading Federal transportation officials are considering a range of options to enforce President Joe Biden’s new face mask requirement for interstate travelers, including the possibility of fines in the thousands of dollars, multiple sources told CNN. The normal rulemaking process can take months, at least, to complete, so officials are believed to be considering emergency actions
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A Tacoma, Washington, police officer is under investigation after he drove his vehicle into a crowd, running over at least one person and possibly striking others, according to a press release from the Tacoma Police Department. Along with other police units, the officer was responding to reports of an incident at the intersection of South
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(CNN) — Los Tampa Bay Buccaneers derrotaron a los Green Bay Packers 31-26 en el Campeonato de la NFC para avanzar al Super Bowl LV. Tom Brady lanzó para 280 yardas, tres touchdowns y tres intercepciones en la victoria. El jugador de 43 años está listo para hacer su décima apertura en el Super Bowl
Continue Reading Dr. Deborah Birx “always” considered quitting then-President Donald Trump’s White House coronavirus task force and was troubled by colleagues’ perceptions that she had become political, she said in an interview clip released Friday. “I mean, why would you want to put yourself through that, um, every day?” Birx told CBS’ Margaret Brennan in a clip
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri — It took the Kansas City Chiefs five frustrating decades to make their second Super Bowl appearance. Now, the defending champs are headed there for the second straight year. Showing no lingering effects from his concussion, Patrick Mahomes sliced up Buffalo’s secondary with ruthless efficiency Sunday night, helping the Chiefs roll to
Continue Reading The brother of an alleged US Capitol rioter is a US Secret Service agent who once led former first lady Michelle Obama’s detail, CNN has learned. Preston Fairlamb III, the brother of Scott Fairlamb — a man who faces five charges connected to his alleged role in the Capitol insurrection — is a member of
Continue Reading Money for vaccine distribution was viewed as the top priority on a Sunday call that President Joe Biden’s top economic official held with a group of senators to discuss the administration’s proposed Covid-19 relief package, according to one person on the call. Sunday’s meeting, which came as the White House pushes for bipartisan support of
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — La Fiscalía General de Justicia del Estado de Tamaulipas informó este sábado a través de un comunicado que abrió una investigación por homicidio, luego del hallazgo de 19 cuerpos y dos vehículos calcinados en el poblado de Santa Anita del municipio de Camargo. En la ampliación del reporte, se detalla que en un
Continue Reading Sarah Sanders, President Donald Trump’s former press secretary, is expected to announce Monday that she is running for governor of Arkansas, a source familiar with the plan told CNN. Sanders has been seen as a likely candidate ever since she left the White House in the summer of 2019. The daughter of former Arkansas Gov.
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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has tested positive for Covid-19, he said on Sunday evening. The President, who tweeted from his official Twitter account, said his symptoms are mild and that he was receiving medical treatment. “I regret to inform you that I have contracted Covid-19. The symptoms are mild, but I am already
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Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has tested positive for Covid-19, he said on Sunday evening. The President, who tweeted from his official Twitter account, said his symptoms are mild and that he was receiving medical treatment. “I regret to inform you that I have contracted Covid-19. The symptoms are mild, but I am already
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are headed to the Super Bowl after defeating the Green Bay Packers 31-26 in the NFC championship Sunday. This will be the team’s second trip to the big game. The team won its first trip to the Super Bowl in 2003 against the Oakland Raiders. “Guys came through. Everyone stepped up
Continue Reading (CNN) — El luchador estadounidense de artes marciales mixtas Dustin Poirier derrotó a Conor McGregor la madrugada del domingo en una muy esperada revancha del Ultimate Fighting Championship que dejó a McGregor fuera de combate en el segundo round. «Simplemente no estaba tan cómodo como tenía que estar. Es la inactividad», dijo McGregor, de Irlanda,
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Conor McGregor volvió a la pelea después un retiro que (una vez máz) no duró mucho. Antes de subirse al octágono del UFC 257 en una revancha ante el estadounidense Dustin Poirier, el irlandés aseguró sentirse “revitalizado”. Las imágenes del segundo round parecieran desmentir eso. Poirier lo noqueó y posteriormente McGregor dijo
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A senior campaign official tells The Associated Press that former White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders plans to run for Arkansas governor. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The official said Sanders plans to announce her candidacy Monday. The daughter of former
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EL PASO, Texas– The ABC-7 StormTrack weather team issued an ABC-7 First Alert for strong winds across the borderland Sunday afternoon. Parts of town experienced gusts of up to 45 mph as a storm system moved through the area cause blowing dust and sand to become an issue for commuters. A wind advisory is in
Continue Reading Five people and an unborn child were killed Sunday after an early-morning shooting in Indianapolis’ northeast side, police said — an incident the mayor called “a mass murder.” A juvenile was also in critical condition after being shot in the incident, which marks Indianapolis’ “largest mass casualty shooting in more than a decade,” according to
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Sunday he has tested positive for Covid-19 and that the symptoms are mild. Mexico’s president, who has been criticized for his handling of his country’s pandemic and for not setting an example of prevention in public, said on his official Twitter account that he
Continue Reading (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden restablecerá el lunes las restricciones de viaje por el covid-19 para los ciudadanos no estadounidenses que hayan estado en Brasil, Irlanda, Reino Unido y gran parte de Europa, confirmó un funcionario de la Casa Blanca a CNN. Biden también extenderá las restricciones a los viajeros que hayan estado recientemente
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WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, New Mexico – After being canceled last year because of the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the Borderland’s premier events is returning but with a radically different look. This year’s Bataan Memorial Death March is going virtual, and sign-ups have already begun. Participants will be able to march in their hometown or
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It took just over a year for the US to go from one to 25 million coronavirus infections. That’s an average of about 67,934 new infections every day, or an average of one new infection every 1.2 seconds since January 21, 2020. As infections kept soaring this weekend, so did the death toll. As of
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Nine months. That’s how long it took the world’s top 1,000 billionaires to recoup their fortunes after the coronavirus pandemic hit. More than a decade is how long it could take the world’s poorest to recover, according to Oxfam International’s annual inequality report. The report, released on Sunday ahead of the World Economic Forum’s virtual
Continue Reading Former President Donald Trump remains committed to reelecting Republicans and is not currently considering launching a third party, a senior Trump adviser said Sunday while noting that things could change. Jason Miller, who had served as a senior campaign adviser to Trump, said that the former President “has made clear his goal is to win
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Health officials in New Mexico on Sunday reported 635 new Covid-19 cases and 30 more deaths, with 10% of those happening in the southern counties of the state. The latest figures pushed the state’s totals to 169,205 cases and 3,145 known deaths since the start of the pandemic. Bernalillo County had the most
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Click here for updates on this story DOUGLAS COUNTY, Oregon (KPTV) — A fluffy cat named Lexi is back in the arms of her 10-year-old mom after being lost in Oregon for several months. In July, the McMillans, from the Phoenix, Arizona-area, took a trip to Oregon. “We decided to take the kids on an
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