Nearly a year ago, New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that all nonessential workers in the state would have to stay home. The announcement was one of many that marked the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. From there, Cuomo’s popularity rose, just like that of his fellow politicians California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat,
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Good news for those living in the Aloha State: Hawaii residents have the highest life expectancy in the nation, according to newly released data by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers in the CDC’s Division of Vital Statistics estimated the life expectancy of people in all 50 states and the District of Columbia
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Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez are going their separate ways. The duo split “a few weeks ago,” a source close to couple told CNN Friday. “It doesn’t seem like they will get back together,” the source said, adding that Rodriguez has been out socializing in recent weeks without Lopez, who is usually by his side.
Continue Reading Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, who led a review of security at the US Capitol in the wake of the January 6 riot, said Friday that the fencing surrounding the compound “will do nothing to prevent another attack” and the threat to our democracy “lies within our borders.” “The four miles of fences that now
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The Biden administration warned Friday that organizations face enormous risks from the recently disclosed Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities that have affected thousands of private organizations. As attacks leveraging the vulnerabilities have escalated, the window for updating exposed servers is incredibly short — “measured in hours, not days,” a senior administration official told reporters. President Joe Biden
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso health officials on Saturday morning reported ten more deaths due to Covid-19, bringing the county’s death toll to 2,244. The latest victims included: 1 woman in her 30s1 man in his 40s2 women in their 50s1 woman in her 60s2 men in their 70s1 woman in her 70s1 man
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Chris Harrison’s journey with “The Bachelorette” is over, at least for now, after a controversy over racially insensitive comments. The longtime host of “The Bachelor” reality franchise will not be back to guide the next “Bachelorette” on her search for love, producers announced on Twitter late Friday. Former “Bachelorette” stars Tayshia Adams and Kaitlyn Bristowe
Continue Reading We have passed a year since the initial Covid-19 shutdowns. That means a year of working from home, business casual from the waist up, and staring at your colleagues’ faces in a 13-inch grid. Zoom has become a huge part of today’s work flow, with a 470% increase in customers having more than 10 employees
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I spent the week of March 9, 2020, in the office, sitting across from my patients, one after another, in my office. We talked about relationship issues, depression and anxiety, and the other stressors of everyday life. No distance, no masks. There was this vague idea of an impending pandemic. But we felt if anything
Continue Reading Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, an outspoken advocate of gun rights, has for years told a dramatic story about why she began openly carrying a gun. She says it was because a man was beaten to death in 2013 outside Shooters Grill, her restaurant in the municipality of Rifle, Colorado. Boebert, a Republican, told the story
Continue Reading Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover Jr. spent their Saturday conducting a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station. The spacewalk, which assists with continued upgrades to the orbiting laboratory, began Saturday morning and lasted for six-and-a-half hours. Glover and Hopkins arrived on the space station in November as part of the NASA-SpaceX Crew-1 mission.
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It’s that time of year again. This weekend, you’ll sacrifice an hour of sleep in exchange for a few months of extra daylight. Benjamin Franklin first thought up the idea of daylight saving in 1784. It wasn’t instituted until World War I, when it went into effect to save energy used for lights. The Standard
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Eli Lilly and Company’s experimental intravenous drug donanemab could slow the cognitive decline of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, according to early clinical trial results, published in The New England Journal of Medicine on Saturday. The study included 257 patients with early symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease; 131 received donanemab, while 126 received a placebo. The researchers found
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Americans will start seeing the next round of stimulus payments hit their bank accounts as early as this weekend, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday. The payments are worth up to $1,400 per person and were included in the $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill signed by President Joe Biden earlier in the day.
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El Paso, Texas- Your typical Borderland spring weather pattern is here to stay for the next several days. The windy weather will also blow in some possible blowing dust in certain areas across the region, and temperatures will also take a plunge thanks to a cold front. Westerly winds will gust around 40 MPH this
Continue Reading Scientists are celebrating the first discovery of a dinosaur preserved while sitting on a nest of eggs with fossilized embryos, including at least three that were visible. The oviraptorosaur fossil was uncovered from rocks that are 70 million years old in Ganzhou City, China, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) said in a news
Continue Reading It’s been hellish, and it will likely go down as the toughest stretch in many Americans’ lives. One year ago Saturday, the country went into its first stage of lockdown, though some adhered to guidelines better than others. Three hundred and sixty-five days later, Covid-19 has snuffed out more than 530,000 lives in the world’s
Continue Reading Tucked into the massive $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill signed by President Joe Biden on Thursday is about $200 million for public libraries. It’s one of the reasons Republicans have criticized the bill, which they argue is too big and includes funding for things that have nothing to do with fighting Covid or the resulting
Continue Reading Growing up as a child of a White woman and a Black man in a small town in Maine, Victoria Anderson was constantly reminded she was different. A close relative nicknamed her “jungle bunny,” she said. Another relative once turned her framed photo so her face wasn’t visible. And she wasn’t allowed to play with
Continue Reading Tamika Palmer has been in the same battle for justice in Breonna Taylor’s death for the last year. Palmer said her daughter was killed senselessly by police and in her eyes no one is being held accountable for it. Facing this reality makes her angry. But Palmer said she will never give up her fight
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(CNN Español) — El presidente de Colombia, Iván Duque, informó este viernes que el miércoles pasado se reunió en Bogotá con miembros del partido Comunes, entre ellos el jefe de la agrupación Rodrigo Londoño, conocido como «Timochenko», para dialogar sobre la implementación del acuerdo de paz y la seguridad para los desmovilizados de las FARC,
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It’s customary for pro golfers to buy a drink for all their fellow players after hitting a hole-in-one. Well, the field at the Players Championship probably had an excellent Friday evening after two players achieved the unlikely feat within hours of each other. In the second round of the PGA Tour event, Denny McCarthy was
Continue Reading (CNN Español) – Los premios Grammy se llevan a cabo este domingo 14 de marzo. Beyoncé lidera las nominaciones con nueve menciones y figura en dos de las categorías más importantes de la noche: grabación del año y canción del año. Taylor Swift con su «folklore», Dua Lipa con «Future Nostalgia» y el rapero estadounidense
Continue Reading Teachers and school staff want to return to the classroom with their students, education experts said. But after a year of the pandemic, managing Covid-19 still poses obstacles to in-person learning. “That’s how they were trained to teach, and work with them, and they miss them. They want to be back in person,” Becky Pringle,
Continue Reading Covid-19 numbers may be on the decline in the United States after a year of collective grief. But with tens of thousands of deaths expected over the next few months, experts are warning Americans not to drop their guard just yet. “I think we are going to get fooled,” Dr. Paul Offit, director of the
Continue Reading What was nice about the Before Times was that, for most people, social interactions and outings could be carefree. We miss them, and that’s a big reason why we long for the pandemic to end. But when life stabilizes in the new, new normal, how will we really feel about resuming activities we used to
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada – The NMSU Aggies are once again headed to the WAC Tournament Championship game. Friday night in the semifinals of the tournament, the Aggies defeated Utah Valley by a final score of 78-62. It was another dominate performance by NMSU. The Aggies led from start to finish going into the half up
Continue Reading The Norman, Oklahoma, Public Schools District is condemning an announcer who “made racist and hateful comments targeted at our Norman High student athletes” on a livestream of a state basketball tournament, a statement from the district superintendent said. On Thursday, the Norman High School girls’ basketball team was set to play Midwest City in the
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FRISCO, Texas – The UTEP women’s basketball team (17-8) fell to No. 1-seed Middle Tennessee (16-7) by a score of 74-58 in the semifinals of the 2021 Conference USA Basketball Championships on Friday at Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas. Destiny Thurman scored a career-high 16 points (7-12 FG) to lead the Miners offensively, while
Continue Reading It only took one blood donation to save Marcos Perez’s life. He’s now paid that donation forward more than 960 times. According to the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center, his blood has helped over 3,000 people. “Mr. Perez’s story is very moving and emotional because you know why he does it — it saved
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