EL PASO, Texas – Thursday marked the first day of the UIL Texas State Bi-District playoff round. For all scores and highlights, make sure to tune into KVIA ABC-7 Sports! 6A Boys Bi-District Eastlake 5 – Odessa High 0 Montwood 2 – San Angelo Central 1 (OT) Pebble Hills at Midland (Friday) 6A Girls Bi-District
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(CNN Español) –– El presidente de Colombia, Iván Duque, anunció este martes varias medidas de prevención contra el covid-19, como toque de queda, que se aplicarán durante los próximos días, incluyendo Semana Santa, en municipios donde la ocupación de camas UCI esté por encima del 50% y 70%. «Pico y cédula en aquellos municipios donde
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ELEPHANT BUTTE, New Mexico — The Elephant Butte Irrigation District said the area could see the driest water year since 2013, having a large impact on farmers in southern New Mexico. The low water levels means farmers will have less water for their crops. The Elephant Butte Irrigation District said in 2020 the snowpack runoff
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The US government in coordination with Eli Lilly said it will no longer distribute the Covid-19 monoclonal antibody therapy bamlanivimab for use on its own. The halt is due to the “sustained increase” in coronavirus variants in the United States. The government stopped distributing the treatment on Tuesday. Last week, the US Food and Drug
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Just days after playing in the NCAA tournament, Oscar Frayer, a forward on the men’s basketball team at Grand Canyon University, died Tuesday in a vehicle accident near Lodi, California, the school’s athletics department said Thursday. Frayer, 23, his older sister Andrea Moore, and a friend died in the crash, the Antelopes’ athletics department said.
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– Fedecámaras, organización que agrupa la empresa privada en Venezuela, planteó este jueves en rueda de prensa un plan de vacunación para el sector. Según la agrupación, la meta inicial sería de 6 millones de dosis para 3 millones de personas y se implementaría con el apoyo de unas 100 clínicas privadas en
Continue Reading (CNN) — Jay Leno, expresentador de «Tonight Show», se disculpó por hacer chistes sobre los asiáticos, de acuerdo a un grupo de defensa de los estadounidenses de origen asiático. La organización Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA) montó una campaña de un año de duración sobre el historial de comentarios racistas del expresentador, según
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The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday deadlocked in a party-line vote on the nomination of Vanita Gupta to be associate attorney general, but her confirmation is still on track with the expected support of moderate Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. The committee voted 11-11 along party lines in a tie vote Thursday, which
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A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent suspended for being at the US Capitol during the January 6 insurrection said Tuesday that he has since been fired from the agency and is now “the subject of a criminal investigation,” even though he claims he “never even stepped foot on the stairs of the Capitol building.” Mark
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The 21-year-old suspect in Monday’s massacre at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket allegedly used a Ruger AR-556 pistol — what one expert called “a semiautomatic made for combat” that is easy to carry and has “the firepower of a long gun.” Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa purchased the weapon six days before the shootings in which 10
Continue Reading Small town America had big dreams in the shape of the Keystone XL Pipeline. After a decade of stop-and-go progress, the project spearheaded by Canadian energy giant TC Energy seemed tangible for residents of central South Dakota. Along I-90, small towns lie dormant waiting for warmer weather and a return of tourism to kick into
Continue Reading As Alabama residents continue sheltering in place from disastrous storms, residents who spoke to CNN described scenes of terror, devastation and shock. “I was like this is probably it. I’m probably dead,” Cesar Villaseñor, 22, told CNN after he and his boss were caught in a potential tornado in Pelham. Fourteen tornadoes were reported in
Continue Reading Watching President Joe Biden’s first press conference today, all I could think was that his performance showed there’s little chance he is running for reelection — despite the fact that he said his “expectation” was to do so. He equivocated on this matter when CNN’s Kaitlan Collins followed up later. Over the course of an
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Colombia manifestó su preocupación por los “graves efectos humanitarios” que los enfrentamientos armados en la región limítrofe del departamento de Arauca pueden tener en la sociedad civil del estado venezolano de Apure. En una serie de tuits publicados este miércoles, la Cancillería de Colombia hizo un
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H&M, Nike and other big Western apparel brands are facing a boycott in China because of the stand they’ve taken against the alleged use of forced labor to produce cotton in the country’s western region of Xinjiang. H&M and Nike said months ago that they were concerned about allegations that forced labor has been used
Continue Reading Poverty has soared during the coronavirus pandemic, but it would have been even worse without successive federal relief packages last year. The $600 stimulus checks and $300 weekly boost to unemployment benefits contained in Congress’ December assistance package stemmed the rise in poverty in the second half of last year, according to researchers at the
Continue Reading An Arizona businessman who secured more than $1 million in Covid-19 relief funding and then purchased a Porsche and a new home is now facing federal fraud charges. James Polzin, 47, is accused of filing fraudulent applications for government loans by claiming “nonexistent employees and revenues for businesses he supposedly owned and operated.” CNN revealed
Continue Reading Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a vocal critic of Donald Trump who wants to save his party from the former President, thinks politicians have learned that “fear is the most compelling emotion.” “Fear will make you do anything,” the Illinois Republican said Thursday in a conversation geared toward students and young Americans, noting that politicians have
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — La vida de Raúl Reeves dio un giro con la pandemia del covid-19. Ahora su lugar de trabajo está a 100 metros de la playa y a cientos de kilómetros de su natal Chile. La emergencia por el covid-19 lo obligó a cerrar las oficinas de su emprendimiento en mercadeo en ese
Continue Reading The Biden administration expelled more than half of the migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border in recent weeks under a Trump-era health order that has been continued by the Biden administration, according to preliminary data reviewed by CNN. Of the some 103,000 migrants encountered by Customs and Border Protection in the three weeks through March
Continue Reading Chinese hackers targeted Uyghur activists and journalists living in the United States in an attempt to spy on them, an investigation by security staff at Facebook has found. “They targeted activists, journalists and dissidents among Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities from Xinjiang in China primarily living abroad in Turkey, Kazakhstan, the United States and other
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– El fiscal general de Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, anunció este jueves el inicio de una investigación penal contra el líder opositor Juan Guaidó y sus colaboradores, por lo que denominó el secuestro de activos en el exterior. Los cuales, según el gobierno del cuestionado presidente Nicolás Maduro, equivalen a 7.000 millones de
Continue Reading Rutgers University is requiring students attending classes in person this fall to be vaccinated against Covid-19. It is among the first US universities to make such a mandate as schools begin preparing for a return to campus life after a year of remote or hybrid learning due to the pandemic. “In support of Rutgers’ commitment
Continue Reading (CNN) — Quitarse algunas capas de ropa cuando la temperatura sube puede ser lo más natural del mundo. Sin embargo, pocos de nosotros lo intentaríamos ante una multitud de cientos de personas mientras estamos frente a un volcán que escupe lava. El guía turístico Sveinn Snorri Sighvatsson se volvió viral por hacer precisamente eso durante
Continue Reading House committee chairs are requesting documents and communications from before, during and after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol from a wide range of entities, including the White House, federal agencies, local law enforcement and the House and Senate sergeants-at-arms. The committees are requesting documents and communications prior to January 6 regarding the
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With more than 44 million people fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in the United States, many adults are hopeful that a more normal life is on the horizon. Now families are wondering when vaccines will be available for teens and children. Covid-19 vaccines currently authorized in the United States are only available for adults, except Pfizer/BioNTech’s
Continue Reading The University of Southern California will pay a record-setting $1.1 billion to settle scores of lawsuits over the sexual abuse allegations against former campus gynecologist Dr. George Tyndall. The staggering sum comes from multiple settlements: An $852 million settlement announced by the university Thursday, a previous federal class-action settlement totaling $215 million, as well as
Continue Reading President Joe Biden held the first formal news conference of his presidency on Thursday, taking questions in the East Room of the White House on immigration, foreign policy, the Senate filibuster, his political future and other subjects. Here is a fact check of some of the claims he made. Migrant families and the border Defending
Continue Reading They are 10 people who went to the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, on Monday and never returned. Now they are victims of yet another mass shooting in the United States, whose lives are being remembered by family and friends. Their names are: Boulder police Officer Eric Talley, 51; store manager Rikki Olds,
Continue Reading A scheduled trip to Alabama by first lady Jill Biden on Friday was canceled Thursday evening after deadly tornadoes swept through the state. Biden was to have been accompanied on her visit to the cities of Birmingham and Jasper, Alabama, by actress Jennifer Garner. A statement from the East Wing said the trip was being
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