The president and three members of a school board in Northern California have resigned after they were heard making disparaging comments about parents in the school district during a virtual board meeting last Wednesday. Members of the Oakley Union Elementary School District (OUESD) Board of Trustees apparently believed they were speaking privately in the moments
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This week is President Joe Biden’s first big test, as his massive relief Covid-19 relief bill comes together on the Hill with very little bipartisan support. On the cusp of 500,000 deaths and nearly one year into the pandemic that has devastated the economy, spiked unemployment, shuttered businesses and shattered families, Democrats will try to
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Surging iPhone sales in the final three months of 2020 pushed Apple ahead of Samsung as the world’s biggest smartphone maker, according to new research. The launch of the 5G iPhone 12 series propelled Apple to the number one position in the fourth quarter, Gartner said in a statement on Monday. The last time Apple
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College gymnast Margzetta Frazier received the call of a lifetime after going viral with a spectacular floor routine set to some of pop star Janet Jackson’s greatest hits. Earlier in February, the University of Californian athlete took the internet by storm and scored an impressive 9.925 out of 10 at UCLA’s meet against Brigham Young
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Everyone seems to love fried chicken sandwiches. But how about a fried chicken sandwich on a taco? Taco Bell is making that dream come true with its new Crispy Chicken Sandwich Taco. It’s a creative concoction: The all-white piece of chicken is marinated in jalapeño buttermilk and fried with a crunchy tortilla chip coating, served
Continue Reading The loud boom was unmistakable aboard United Flight 328 just after takeoff on Saturday. Something had clearly gone very wrong. Some of the 241 people on the flight from Denver International Airport to Honolulu opened their windows to see an exposed engine spewing flames and pieces of the plane falling away. Others closed their windows,
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It was Super Bowl Sunday — and President Joe Biden was on the phone with Sen. Susan Collins. The Maine Republican had tried to make an urgent plea to the new president: Abandon the idea of going it alone with just Democrats on the $1.9 trillion relief bill and instead continue working on a bipartisan
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The impact of severe winter weather is far from over. Economists fear the financial fallout could be great, but a local economic expert says El Paso might have avoided much of it. Still, El Paso could face higher gas prices for several weeks. UTEP economics and finance professor Tom Fullerton
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Roma, Italia (CNN) — El embajador en la República Democrática del Congo murió en Goma, dijo el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores italiano a CNN. Luca Attanasio murió junto a un soldado italiano después de que su automóvil fuera atacado mientras viajaban en un convoy de la ONU. «Es con profundo pesar que la Farnesina confirme
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She played a major role in three of the biggest groups of the civil rights movement, but Ella Baker somehow still remains largely unknown outside activist circles. Baker grew up in North Carolina, where her grandmother’s stories about life under slavery inspired her passion for social justice. As an adult, she became an organizer within
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From Washington state to Florida, from California to Massachusetts, facilities are opening to help the growing number of Americans who suffer from Covid-19 symptoms many months after their diagnosis. Just a little more than a year into the pandemic, it’s not clear how many Covid-19 patients go on to develop what’s called long-term Covid, or
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Health Department reported 12 new coronavirus-related deaths and 262 new cases Monday morning. The latest deaths included a man in his 40s, two men and a woman in their 50s, two men and a woman in their 60s, three men in their 70s, and two women in
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Ne-Yo’s family is growing — and the R&B musician is delighted. The “So Sick” singer announced the news that his wife, Crystal Smith, is pregnant with their third child in a touching Instagram post on Sunday. “Overjoyed to announce… the family is expanding,” the 41-year-old singer-songwriter captioned a video clip of the couple embracing, with
Continue Reading Boris Johnson is set to announce his long-awaited roadmap for taking England out of lockdown, British government officials confirmed to CNN on Monday morning. The country has been in full national lockdown since January 4 after new variants of coronavirus were found inside parts of England that expedited the spread of the virus and was
Continue Reading Israel is facing one of its most severe ecological disasters ever after a suspected oil spill washed up blobs of sticky tar along its coast. But experts still don’t know the source. 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 We expect love to have an emotional impact on us, but a new report released by the Federal Trade Commission revealed it’s also hurting wallets. A record $304 million was reported lost to romance scams in 2020. Scammers lurk on dating apps and social media, striking up conversation with strangers until they build up trust
Continue Reading For many families, trying to find fun activities during quarantine has been challenging. One Canadian father found the perfect project for his son to work on that will keep the neighborhood dogs entertained, too. David Carter, an educator in Saskatchewan, Canada, realized he had to get creative in order to keep his 10-year-old son, Jeremiah,
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After two nights of staying in her condo on the southwest side of Houston without power, Felicia Maten had no running water, the food in her refrigerator was spoiling and her fingers and toes hurt from the cold. She huddled under blankets with her 65-year-old mother and 23-year-old daughter, together using their breath to warm
Continue Reading Se cumple un mes de la masacre de Santa Anita. Es «posible» que los estadounidenses todavía necesiten usar mascarillas en 2022. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad. 1 Primer caso de cepa de gripe aviar H5N8 en humanos, dice la OMS Las autoridades de Rusia dijeron que detectaron
Continue Reading Sheriff’s deputies in Ohio were called when a suspicious bag was found outside of a church, but what was inside was not what they were expecting. Upon opening the “suspicious package” on Thursday, the bomb unit from the Butler County Sheriff’s Office discovered a cat and her six adorable 1-day-old kittens. “When Specialist Mike Grimes
Continue Reading A Wisconsin restaurant owner is using his own money to help struggling local restaurants during the pandemic. Adolfo Melendez, owner of Tex-Mex restaurant El Mezcal in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, has bought more than $2,000 in gift cards to restaurants in his community to raffle off to his customers. “If you help one person and another
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This could literally be a dream job — making money by sleeping, including a night in a five-star resort. Sleepstandards.com, a website that provides information on sleep quality products and research, is looking for someone willing to make $2,000 to help it study the influence of environmental factors on the quality of sleep. “The chosen
Continue Reading (CNN) — La Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de Estados Unidos (CBP, por sus siglas en inglés) incautó un cargamento de cereal proveniente de Sudamérica que estaba cubierto de cocaína en lugar de azúcar. Los agentes de CBP en Cincinnati, Ohio, interceptaron el 13 de febrero un paquete que contenía alrededor de 44 libras,
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Australia’s government has condemned the “disgusting” behavior of spectators at the Australian Open tennis tournament Sunday, after sections of the crowd loudly booed a speech praising the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine. The negative reaction occurred during an awards ceremony following Novak Djokovic’s victory over Daniil Medvedev in the men’s singles final, which saw the
Continue Reading Two people were injured after pieces of a cargo plane broke off and fell onto a town in the Netherlands, according to authorities there. Pieces of metal fell on the town of Meerssen after a Boeing 747 cargo plane experienced an engine fire shortly after taking off from Maastricht, according to the Veiligheidsregio (the Dutch
Continue Reading (CNN) — El servicio de agua permanecía interrumpido para casi un tercio de los residentes de Texas el domingo por la noche, una consecuencia persistente de los cortes de energía generalizados por el devastador clima invernal y una infraestructura no preparada. Si bien ese número disminuyó en varios millones durante el transcurso del día, más
Continue Reading With the US approaching 500,000 Covid-19 deaths, President Joe Biden will mark the grim milestone Monday with a candle lighting ceremony and a moment of silence, the White House said Sunday. The event, which is set for 6:15 p.m. ET at the White House, will also feature first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris
Continue Reading Time seemed to slow down as Romain Grosjean’s car — split in half from the force of hitting the race barriers — was enveloped in flames. “Twenty-eight seconds I was in the flames, if you look,” the racing driver tells CNN Sport as he remembers the crash at the Bahrain Grand Prix last November. “If
Continue Reading (CNN) — Con Estados Unidos acercándose a las 500.000 muertes por covid-19, el presidente Joe Biden conmemorará el sombrío hito este lunes con una ceremonia de encendido de velas y un momento de silencio, informó el domingo la Casa Blanca. El evento, que está programado para las 6:15 pm, hora de Miami, en la Casa
Continue Reading (CNN) — El expresidente Donald Trump hablará en la Conferencia de Acción Política Conservadora (CPAC) en Orlando, Florida, el próximo domingo, según una fuente familiarizada con el asunto, mientras que el exvicepresidente Mike Pence declinó una invitación para hablar en la conferencia, dijeron dos fuentes a CNN. Una fuente dijo que los organizadores todavía esperan
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