President Joe Biden on Friday touted the progress the US has made in its recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and argued now is the time to “seize on the economic momentum” and pass his large-scale infrastructure proposal. “While our progress is undeniable, it is not assured,” Biden said after the government reported Friday morning that 559,000
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(CNN) — Estados Unidos enfrenta una batalla cuesta arriba para cumplir el objetivo del presidente Joe Biden de vacunar al 70% de los adultos con al menos una dosis de la vacuna contra el covid-19 para el 4 de julio, según un análisis de CNN. Pero el gobierno continúa avanzando con nuevos programas e iniciativas,
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California workers will no longer be required to wear face masks in the workplace, as long as all employees in a single room are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to new rules approved Thursday by California’s Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board. The change, expected to be effective June 15, comes after the board
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A statue of colonial slave trader Edward Colston has gone on public display in Bristol, England, almost a year after it was toppled during Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the city. On June 7 last year, demonstrators denouncing historic and systemic racism and oppression defaced the controversial monument with red and blue graffiti. They used
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CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — Mexico announced Friday a plan to vaccinate border cities against Covid-19 in the hopes of ending crossing restrictions this summer. During a morning news conference, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the U.S. was donating a million Johnson & Johnson one-dose vaccines to Mexico. The president said the doses will
Continue Reading The US is pushing to have 70% of adults get at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by July 4, but an expert said that number is important to reach at the state level too — and those states who are falling well below may be vulnerable to another outbreak. “There are 12 states
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Here’s a look at Operation Enduring Freedom, which began on October 7, 2001 with allied air strikes on Taliban and al Qaeda targets. The United States linked the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to al Qaeda, a group that operated under the Taliban regime’s protection in Afghanistan. The operation was launched to stop the Taliban
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America’s job market recovery picked up some steam in May, with 559,000 positions added back to the economy. It was a second sizable miss of analyst expectations after a big disappointment in April. Economists had predicted 650,000 jobs added in May. The unemployment rate fell to 5.8%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. This
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Russian tennis player Yana Sizikova was arrested in Paris on Thursday evening for sports corruption and fraud in an organized group, two French law enforcement sources have told CNN. She was arrested and taken into custody on Thursday for “sports corruption and fraud in an organized group, concerning acts that may have been committed in
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Click here for updates on this story RALEIGH, North Carolina (WTVD) — Twenty-seven days. That’s how long tenants at a Raleigh apartment complex have to find a new place to live. The units in southeast Raleigh, just off MLK Blvd., were recently sold. The low-income tenants who live there were told last month they have
Continue Reading Hate crimes against Asian people in New York City have increased by 335% this year when compared to the same period last year, according to the latest New York Police Department (NYPD) crime statistics report. From January 1 through May 31, the city recorded 87 hate crimes against Asians, compared with 20 such crimes for
Continue Reading As a pediatric infectious disease specialist, Dr. Amy Edwards has fielded a lot of questions from worried parents during the pandemic. As case numbers drop — among children, Covid-19 cases have fallen to levels not seen since October — the question she’s getting is: Do younger children really need to be vaccinated against Covid-19 when
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story GREENVILLE, North Carolina (WTVD) — Four teens died when a box truck crossed a median and hit their vehicle head on in Pitt County. North Carolina State Highway Patrol said it happened on US 264 west of Greenville just a few minutes before noon Thursday. The box truck
Continue Reading (CNN) — Miras el techo de tu habitación, deseando irte a dormir. Los pensamientos corren por tu cabeza, manteniendo tu mente como rehén. O reflexionas sobre la incómoda conversación que tuviste con tu jefe de camino a casa desde el trabajo. Pensar demasiado puede suceder en cualquier momento del día o de la noche y
Continue Reading The number of African Americans serving on boards of directors for the nation’s largest corporations has remained dismally low this year despite the ongoing movement to increase C-suite diversity throughout the business world. Some of America’s most prominent companies are addressing the problem by backing the Black Boardroom Initiative, a new program unveiled Wednesday with
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — A suspect involved in a 29-hour barricade last week in the south valley took a babysitter and a 4-year-old child hostage after drilling a hole between two motel units, according to an arrest report from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. According to police,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — It’s been nearly a month since the disappearance and death of Amari Nicholson. The case of the 2-year-old boy gripped and angered the Las Vegas community. Now a social media army is not stopping their work to help other children. More than 7,500 people
Continue Reading President Joe Biden on Friday touted the economic progress the US has made in its recovery from the coronavirus pandemic after the government reported 559,000 jobs were added in May. “No other major economy in the world is growing as fast as ours. No other major economy is gaining jobs as quickly as ours. And
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The cameras seem to always be rolling on the Kardashian-Jenner family and now we get a behind-the-scenes look at Kim Kardashian’s breakup with Kanye West. The reality star filed for divorce from the controversial rapper in February, and in a clip from “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” released Thursday, Kardashian is shown getting pretty emotional
Continue Reading President Joe Biden has entered a critical moment where the decisions he makes will dictate the success of his sweeping $4 trillion legislative agenda — and potentially his first term in office. On its face, that may appear hyperbolic, just four months into Biden’s presidency. But as he continues infrastructure negotiations with Senate Republicans on
Continue Reading The price of bitcoin sank on Friday after Elon Musk appeared to lament the end of his relationship with the cryptocurrency. The Tesla CEO tweeted a meme about a couple breaking up along with the bitcoin hashtag and a broken heart emoji. The post included lyrics from a song by rock band Linkin Park titled
Continue Reading A UK company is to build what it says is the world’s biggest and deepest pool, in a new project backed by British astronaut Tim Peake. The aptly named Blue Abyss pool will be built in Cornwall, south west England, and will hold 42 million liters of water — equivalent to that of 17 Olympic
Continue Reading The Biden administration on Thursday announced a plan to share the first 25 million Covid-19 vaccine doses with the rest of the world and an overall framework of distributing at least 80 million doses by the end of June. At least 75% of these donated vaccines will be shared with the global vaccination program called
Continue Reading The United States faces an uphill battle to meet President Joe Biden’s goal of vaccinating 70% of adults with at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine by July 4, according to a CNN analysis. But the administration continues to push ahead with new programs and initiatives, and key players remain hopeful that the goal will
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– El video viral de una adolescente de 17 años que se enfrentó a una mamá osa, con toda su fuerza, por salvar a sus perros ha captado la atención de miles de personas. Las imágenes, que captó una cámara de vigilancia, ya acumulan millones de reproducciones en TikTok. Hablamos con la valiente protagonista.
Continue Reading It’s not just tourists who invade Florida in the summer. The colorfully named, obnoxious — and sometimes deadly — microorganisms known as red tide and blue green algae also take advantage of the change in temperature to proliferate. And it causes major problems. Both types of algae bloom are starting to make their presence known
Continue Reading The last time an amateur took the lead after a round in the US Women’s Open was when Jane Park did so at Newport Country Club in 2006. When that happened, Megha Ganne was just a child. Fast forward to 2021 and Ganne — a 17-year-old high school junior — pulled off the same feat
Continue Reading “The Kings” is ostensibly about four great boxers who reigned supreme via a series of epic fights in the 1980s, picking up the sport’s mantle from Muhammad Ali. But the filmmakers have ambitiously reached — and at times overreached — to transform that rich backdrop into a referendum on a changing America, devoting ample time
Continue Reading A cadre of aides and advisers working to tame Donald Trump‘s obsession with the 2020 election, including his fixation with debunked voter fraud theories and ballot audits, are realizing the task at hand is much tougher than they thought. Over the past few weeks, Trump has faced pleas from inside his orbit to move the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DOUGLAS COUNTY, Kansas (KCTV KSMO) — “There’s always traffic on Kansas Highway 10 throughout the day,” says Officer Michael Rubow of the Eudora Police Department. It was no different last Friday when officer Rubow and members of the Eudora Police Department responded to a very scary call, at
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