The United States could face as many as 100,000 more Covid-19 deaths in less than a month, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, although the CDC’s new leader offered a glimmer of hope, saying that “healthier days lie ahead.” The nation reported more than 4,000 Covid-19 deaths Wednesday, only the third
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say twin suicide bombings have ripped through a busy market in Iraq’s capital, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens. The rare suicide bombing attack Thursday hit the Bab al-Sharqi commercial area in central Baghdad amid heightened political tensions over planned early elections and a severe economic crisis. Blood smeared
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President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday looked a bit different from past ceremonies ushering in a new administration. The day’s historic events navigated heightened security measures in Washington, DC, Covid-19 precautions and the absence of the outgoing President, the first time that’s happened in more than a century and a half. Still, the unprecedented day
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As state leaders clamored for more Covid-19 vaccine doses, Joe Biden became President on Wednesday with an eye toward changing approaches to the pandemic that has claimed more than 400,000 lives in the US. Some state officials say they aren’t seeing as many doses as the federal government reports distributing and the demand for the
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China is rushing to build a massive quarantine camp that can house more than 4,000 people, after an outbreak of Covid-19 this month that has left tens of millions of people under strict lockdown. The quarantine camp is located on the outskirts of Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital of Hebei province, which surrounds the country’s capital,
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Other inaugural celebrations have festooned chilly Washington, DC, nights in white ties, gilded gowns, and crowded dance floors. Not this one. Forget the imperial pomp, gaudy bunting, multi-kilowatt star power summoned, say, 60 years ago on this same night when John F. Kennedy, the first Roman Catholic President and the youngest man ever elected, was
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(CNN) — En lo que constituyó su último espectáculo divisivo antes de dejar la Oficina Oval, Donald J. Trump es en el primer presidente en la historia moderna de Estados Unidos en renunciar a la tradición de asistir a la toma de posesión de su sucesor. En cambio, Trump —un magnate acostumbrado a llamar la
Continue Reading (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden dijo el miércoles que el expresidente Donald Trump le dejó una «carta muy generosa» antes de salir de la Casa Blanca. Biden, en declaraciones desde el escritorio Resolute en la Oficina Oval después de firmar los decretos del primer día, dijo que no revelaría de inmediato el contenido de
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Human rights lawyer Tara Murray had hopes of somehow witnessing Kamala Harris’ vice-presidential oath in person. But a raging pandemic and the January 6 violent siege on the US Capitol by a pro-Trump mob got in her way. So on Wednesday, Murray — the founder of a pro-Harris group, Mamas for Momala — celebrated the
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Fox News host Judge Jeanine successfully lobbied former President Donald Trump in an eleventh-hour effort to pardon her ex-husband in the final hours of Trump’s presidency, CNN has learned. Pirro was upset that her ex-husband Albert J. Pirro Jr. wasn’t on Trump’s final pardon list that came out early Wednesday morning, and that message was
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California health officials have given providers the all-clear to “immediately” resume administering the Moderna vaccine from a specific lot after pausing earlier this week due to possible allergic reactions. The state’s health department previously said it was aware of fewer than 10 people who received shots from the lot and required medical attention. “Out of
Continue Reading (CNN) — China se apresura a construir un enorme campo de cuarentena que pueda albergar a más de 4.000 personas, después de un brote de covid-19 este mes, que ha dejado a decenas de millones de personas bajo estricto confinamiento. El campo de cuarentena está ubicado en las afueras de Shijiazhuang, la capital provincial de
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The moment Kamala Harris took her oath of office on Wednesday to become the first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president was an inspirational teaching moment for parents and kids across the country. Harris stood proudly on the steps of the US Capitol as she was sworn in by Sonia Sotomayor, the
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DES MOINES, Iowa — Thanks to math and bad luck, lottery players had another shot at a giant jackpot Wednesday night as a $730 million Powerball prize was on the line. The Powerball jackpot is the fifth-largest ever, and it came only a day after nobody won the even-larger Mega Millions prize, which now stands
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President Joe Biden assumed the office intent on healing a deeply fractured country and reversing former President Donald Trump’s divisive legacy. “A cry for survival comes from the planet itself. A cry that can’t be any more desperate or any more clear, and now arise political extremism, White supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront
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Continue Reading President Joe Biden on Wednesday issued an executive order to dissolve the 1776 commission, a panel stood up by President Donald Trump as a rebuttal to schools applying a more accurate history curriculum around slavery in the US, Biden’s transition team announced Wednesday. The commission had been formed as an apparent counter to The New
Continue Reading THE VIRUS OUTBREAK: Britain hits another record daily virus deaths. Ontario’s leader asks Biden for 1 million vaccine shots due to Pfizer shortfall for Canada. India to start delivering Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines to neighboring countries. Expert panel says both China and the WHO should have acted faster to prevent the pandemic. Surging infections give Spain’s new emergency hospital in Madrid a chance for use.
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — The Department of Homeland Security is pausing deportations for 100 days, the department announced late Wednesday, with some exceptions. The announced pause on deportations joins a list of sweeping changes made by President Joe Biden only hours after taking office, including halting border wall construction, drawing down the controversial “remain in Mexico”
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso city leaders said late Wednesday they were coordinating with federal immigration enforcement agencies to “prepare for a possible migrant surge.” Officials, in a brief statement, said they were also in contact with local nonprofit and community groups that have traditionally provided migrant aid. El Paso’s Emergency Management Office said
Continue Reading Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first-ever youth poet laureate, challenged Americans Wednesday to unify and “leave behind a country better than the one we were left” as she delivered a stirring inauguration poem. Speaking at a US Capitol that just two weeks before was the site of a harrowing attempt to overthrow American democracy, Gorman bridged
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Words matter, and on Wednesday Joe Biden faced the first challenge of what will surely be a challenging presidency. His inaugural address arrived in the wake of a tempestuous, bitter presidency that has left the nation miserably divided, with over 400,000 dead from an out-of-control pandemic, with jobs declining, and with democracy itself having recently
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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris weren’t the only ones in their families to receive new titles on Wednesday after the Inauguration Day ceremonies. There were several young faces on the US Capitol platform where Biden and Harris took their respective oaths of office, and later accompanied them as they walked onto the
Continue Reading President Joe Biden ended his first day in office with a note of hope and optimism, closing his inaugural activities with an appearance at the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday night, where he asked the nation to answer his call for unity, saying it will require “us to come together in common love that defines us
Continue Reading A faction of Senate Republicans has a warning for Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: Stick with former President Donald Trump during his impeachment trial. McConnell, who is the longest-serving Senate Republican leader in history, has long had strong support within the Senate GOP Conference. But some say if the GOP leader votes to convict Trump, his
Continue Reading As crews in Washington, DC, started dismantling some security fencing within hours of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, it remained clear that security in the nation’s capital will likely never return to its pre-insurrection form. It’s unclear what security changes, if any, made across Washington in preparation for the inauguration will remain permanent, or to what
Continue Reading (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden firmó 17 decisiones ejecutivas, entre varios decretos, apenas unas horas después de su toma de posesión el miércoles, actuando más rápido y de manera más agresiva para desmantelar el legado de su predecesor que cualquier otro presidente moderno. Biden firmó una serie de decretos, memorándums y directivas para agencias,
Continue Reading President Joe Biden kicked off his term by signing out a series of immigration executive actions, moving swiftly to undo many Trump administration policies and ending the national emergency that diverted millions of dollars to the border wall. Biden outlined an ambitious immigration agenda on the campaign trail that would reverse the actions of his
Continue Reading (CNN) — Dos semanas después de que una insurrección mortal mostrara la ira de algunos blancos que amenaza la democracia multirracial del país, en el Capitolio se desarrolló una escena drásticamente diferente. El 20 de enero, Joe Biden y Kamala Harris tomaron posesión de sus cargos. La toma de posesión de la primera mujer, la
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Las aglomeraciones para hacer compras a fin de año, las reuniones familiares y celebraciones como la final del campeonato de fútbol son señaladas por el ministro de Salud de Colombia, Fernando Ruiz, como las razones de un aumento de contagios y de la mortalidad en el país debido a la pandemia de
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