(CNN) — Los 61 esqueletos humanos que fueron desenterrados en el valle del Nilo en la década de 1960, en lo que hoy es Sudán, han sido considerados durante mucho tiempo como la evidencia más antigua de una guerra organizada entre humanos. Los restos descubiertos en Jebel Sahaba, que tienen más de 13.000 años de
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The gunman who authorities say killed nine coworkers in San Jose, California, had a hatred for his workplace that he expressed in notes discovered when he was searched almost five years ago, a Department of Homeland Security official told CNN on Thursday. Samuel James Cassidy was taken into secondary inspection after returning from a trip
Continue Reading (CNN) — Datos obtenidos exclusivamente por CNN muestran que el interés en vacunarse contra covid-19 aumentó justo después de que la Dra. Rochelle Walensky, directora de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU., anunciara hace dos semanas que las personas vacunadas podían quitarse las máscaras. «Esto muestra que los incentivos
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Former House Speaker Paul Ryan criticized former President Donald Trump and his hold on the Republican Party during a speech Thursday night as he warned the GOP about drifting from the “core principles of conservatism.” Ryan, a critic of the former President in the past, said at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley,
Continue Reading The mother of fallen US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick met with more than a dozen Republican senators Thursday, urging them to vote to establish a commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection. But even after those meetings, which two sources familiar said were cordial, most of the senators told her they wouldn’t be changing
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EL PASO, Texas– The shelter at Fort Bliss meant to house migrant children, has El Paso Congresswoman Veronica Escobar concerned for the children in it. “I spoke with kids on Sunday girls who have not spoken to their case worker in two weeks that is absolutely unacceptable, unacceptable they told me their sponsors had no
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Documents due in DC Superior Court on Friday could clear the way for the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer to be deposed as part of a DC attorney general lawsuit that alleges former President Donald Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee abused non-profit funds. The CFO, Allen Weisselberg, is already at the center of two investigations in
Continue Reading Lawmakers in Louisiana sent a bill that would prohibit transgender girls and women in the state from competing on girls’ and womens’ public elementary, secondary and college sports teams to the state’s Democratic governor on Thursday, who will likely issue a veto of the measure, which he previously called “unnecessary and discriminatory.” The state’s Republican-led
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A key part of insurance company Lemonade’s pitch to investors and customers is its ability to disrupt the normally staid insurance industry with artificial intelligence. It touts friendly chatbots like AI Maya and AI Jim, which help customers sign up for policies for things like homeowners’ or pet health insurance, and file claims through Lemonade’s
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Brad Pitt has been awarded temporary joint custody of the six children he shares with Angelina Jolie, two sources with knowledge of the case told CNN. The decision was made a few weeks ago and Jolie’s legal team has already appealed the judge’s decision, the sources said. CNN has reached out to representatives for Pitt
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Poco más de 1 millón de personas se volvieron residentes permanentes legales de Estados Unidos (denominados con la sigla en inglés LPR) en 2019, y cada año los inmigrantes patrocinados por un familiar inmediato representan más del 40% de los nuevos LPR. Únicamente los ciudadanos estadounidenses mayores de 21 años pueden traer
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — La residencia permanente, también conocida como ‘Green Card’, es el permiso que otorga Estados Unidos para que inmigrantes elegibles puedan vivir y trabajar de forma legal y permanente en territorio estadounidense, según el Gobierno de EE.UU. «En la mayoría de casos, un patrocinador (empleador o familiar) es el que solicita la residencia permanente
Continue Reading The Biden administration will not seek to reenter the Open Skies Treaty with Russia in response to that country’s “failure to take any actions to return to compliance,” a State Department spokesperson said Thursday. The 1992 treaty allows member countries to conduct short notice, unarmed, reconnaissance flights over the other countries to collect data on
Continue Reading Federal prosecutors are investigating whether some Ukrainian officials helped execute a sweeping plan to meddle in the 2020 US election, people with knowledge of the matter told The New York Times. The investigation out of Brooklyn includes scrutiny of whether Ukrainian officials used Rudy Giuliani to spread misleading claims about then-candidate Joe Biden in an
Continue Reading More than 600 musicians, including members of The Roots and Arcade Fire, have issued an open letter in support of Palestinian rights. The group, calling themselves #MusiciansForPalestine, published the letter on Thursday, less than a week after Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire ending 11 days of hostilities that left hundreds, mostly Palestinians, dead.
Continue Reading The likelihood that the Earth’s average temperature will at least temporarily breach a crucial tipping point is rising, according to the world’s leading weather and climate organization. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said Thursday there is now about a 40% chance that the annual average global temperature will temporarily reach 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial
Continue Reading Babak Namazi, whose brother and father are detained in Iran, is living in fear that his family members could be left behind again as the Biden administration is engaged in a diplomatic effort to salvage the Iran nuclear deal. Namazi’s deep concerns are not unfounded: While American prisoners have been released from Iran three times
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A new Federal Emergency Managment Agency funeral assistance program aims to help families pay for COVID-19 funerals they did not expect to be having, but more than a month into its launch, thousands are still waiting to be paid. “I was calling on behalf of a family to help,” said
Continue Reading Nota del editor: Sabino Bastidas Colinas es abogado, analista y consultor político. Las opiniones expresadas en esta columna son exclusivas del autor. Puedes leer más artículos como este en cnne.com/opinión. (CNN Español) — Ninguna democracia está exenta de regresiones autoritarias. Las democracias, como lo decía el sociólogo Juan Linz, se quiebran. La democracia mexicana –tan
Continue Reading The Justice Department is taking six immediate steps to improve its efforts to combat the spike in hate crimes, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced in a memo to department employees Thursday, including expanding access to different languages. Thursday’s memo follows a 30-day “expedited review” Garland ordered in March, shortly after he was confirmed, to figure
Continue Reading Nueva York (CNN Business) — Facebook e Instagram están dándole la opción a todos los usuarios de ocultar los ‘Me gusta’ o likes públicos en sus publicaciones, lo que podría alterar la dinámica central de las plataformas de redes sociales donde los recuentos de likes se ven como un signo de la influencia y popularidad de
Continue Reading Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin issued an executive order on Thursday banning mask mandates while Gov. Brad Little was unaware and out of town. “The lieutenant governor did not make Gov. Little aware of her executive order ahead of time,” Marissa Morrison Hyer, Little’s press secretary, told CNN. Morrison Hyer said Little is out of
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Cada año, Estados Unidos ofrece protección a miles de personas que son perseguidas o que tienen un temor fundado de persecución por razones de raza, religión, nacionalidad o por pertenecer a cierto grupo social o político. Según el reporte anual del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos (DHS, por sus siglas
Continue Reading The mother of fallen US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who had asked to meet with GOP senators, met with several of them on Thursday ahead of an expected vote on the January 6 commission that so far is short of the 10 Republican votes needed to pass. Gladys Sicknick told reporters Thursday that she
Continue Reading Nota del editor: Silvina Moschini es emprendedora especializada en la transformación digital del mundo del trabajo. Es fundadora y presidenta de TransparentBusiness, una plataforma que permite gestionar equipos remotos de forma transparente. Además, es fundadora y presidenta ejecutiva de SheWorks!, una tienda virtual para contratar mujeres profesionales con modelos flexibles. Las opiniones expresadas en este
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los republicanos del Senado presentaron este jueves por la mañana una contrapropuesta de US$ 928.000 millones a la amplia propuesta de infraestructura del presidente Joe Biden, mientras uno de los asesores más cercanos al presidente hizo un llamado a sus aliados para que acepten las propuestas de la Casa Blanca. El grupo de
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In the days following George Floyd’s murder, millions of people around the world took to the streets protesting police violence and racial inequality. Rahul Dubey, a health care consultant in Washington, DC, wasn’t one of them. Yet on June 1, 2020, when peaceful protesters were targeted by police in riot gear right outside of his
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los republicanos del Senado presentaron este jueves por la mañana una contraoferta de US$ 928.000 millones a la amplia propuesta de infraestructura del presidente Joe Biden, mientras uno de los asesores más cercanos al presidente hizo un llamado a sus aliados para que acepten las propuestas de la Casa Blanca. El grupo de
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — En un emotivo mensaje, sin precedentes y frente a las cámaras, el príncipe William, duque de Cambridge, hizo más que clara su posición ante la publicación de los resultados de un informe que determinó que un periodista de la cadena pública BBC utilizó métodos engañosos para conseguir una entrevista exclusiva con su
Continue Reading (CNN) — La probabilidad de que la temperatura media de la Tierra supere aunque sea de manera temporal un punto de inflexión crucial está aumentando, según la principal organización meteorológica y climática del mundo. La Organización Meteorológica Mundial (OMM) dijo el jueves que ahora hay cerca de un 40% de posibilidades de que la temperatura
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