LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – New Mexico State athletic director Mario Moccia is celebrating a championship! But it’s not with the Aggies, but with local softball team — the Las Cruces Boom! The Boom are fresh off a USSSA Southwest National Championship last week, capping an incredible weekend in Plano, TX where they beat teams
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By Melanie Zanona, CNN Rep. Andrew Clyde, the Georgia Republican who compared scenes from January 6 to a “tourist visit,” has found a way to evade the House’s mask and metal detector fines, according to one of his GOP colleagues. Rep. Thomas Massie, who is suing Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the chamber’s mask penalties, said
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Alejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN) — El Senado de Estados Unidos confirmó este viernes a Ur Mendoza Jaddou como directora del Servicio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de Estados Unidos (USCIS, por sus siglas en inglés) lo que le otorgó a la agencia una jefa permanente —y la primera mujer en ocupar ese puesto— después de años
Continue Reading By Donald Judd President Joe Biden announced Friday that he was appointing Khizr Khan, a Gold Star father who drew then-candidate Donald Trump’s ire when he spoke at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. Khan, who endorsed Biden in 2020, said in 2016 that Trump “sacrificed nothing
Continue Reading By Annie Grayer, Phil Mattingly, Kristin Wilson and Melanie Zanona, CNN An eviction moratorium for renters from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is on track to expire Saturday night, after the House of Representatives adjourned for August recess without passing an extension. Democratic leaders scrambled throughout the day Friday to try and
Continue Reading The federal eviction moratorium, put in place by the CDC last September, will not be extended leaving those who have relied on it at risk of losing their homes. CNN’s Nick Watt reports.
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Chance of storms over the weekend with rain chances around 20-30%. Temps will be in the low to mid 90’s. Our storm chances begin to go up next week with a 40% for Monday thru Wednesday. Some of these storms will have a lot of moisture to work with so they could produce some good
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — La terrible sequía que ha estado asfixiando a gran parte del oeste de Estados Unidos durante meses empeoró aún más esta semana. Algunas áreas en California y el noroeste del Pacífico han experimentado una expansión de condiciones más secas, que han alimentado incendios forestales amenazantes en toda la región. “Ya no
Continue Reading CNNEE (CNN Español) — Un sismo de magnitud 6,1 sacudió este viernes el norte de Perú, según reportes del Servicio Geológico de EE.UU. (USGS, por sus siglas en inglés) . El foco sísmico estuvo localizado a 33,2 kilómetros de profundidad y el epicentro estuvo ubicado a 8 kilómetros al este de Sullana. ¿Qué hacer durante
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN When NASA returns humans to the moon, SpaceX will build the vehicle to land the first woman and next man on the lunar surface. The US Government Accountability Office denied protests that were filed by Blue Origin and Dynetics on Friday. The protests were filed by the companies in April after
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Jeff Bezos is offering NASA up to $2 billion in a bid to reignite the battle for space between his rocket company Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX. CNN’s Kristin Fisher reports.
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Bob Odenkirk thanked his fans on Friday after his health scare earlier this week. The actor tweeted, “Hi. It’s Bob. Thank you. To my family and friends who have surrounded me this week. And for the outpouring of love from everyone who expressed concern and care for me. It’s overwhelming. But
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP’s week-long auction and fundraiser dubbed “Paydirt’s Rally” received a boost on Friday as former Texas Western student-athlete and long-time Miner supporter Larry K. Durham vowed to match all proceeds raised at this year’s event up to $100,000. “I am extremely honored to support Paydirt’s Rally,” Larry K. Durham said. “As a former
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN Español) — La cuenta regresiva ya comenzó para la consulta popular en México que debe pronunciarse sobre si se debe llevar a juicio o no a varios expresidentes del país por posibles actos ilícitos cometidos en el pasado. El jueves 15 de julio comenzó en México la difusión en tiempos oficiales de la consulta popular que impulsa el gobierno de Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Así
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CNN staff If you’re planning to travel to Hawaii, here’s what you’ll need to know and expect regarding Covid-19 if you want to visit. The basics The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has lifted its requirement for travelers to test negative for Covid-19 before entering the United States. Hawaii’s entry policy for international
Continue Reading By Kate Sullivan and Maegan Vazquez, CNN The Biden administration outlined a number of efforts related to its Cuba policy on Friday — including new sanctions and assistance to Cuban dissidents — as President Joe Biden met with members of the Cuban-American community and key members of Congress at the White House. “Earlier this month
Continue Reading By Sonnet Swire, CNN This week, the Senate voted to start debate on a $1 trillion infrastructure bill after a bipartisan group of lawmakers finally struck a deal. Meanwhile, the White House moved to mitigate the rise of Covid-19 cases and the CDC rang the alarm over the apparent severity of the Delta variant. Monday
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BROWNSVILLE, Texas — The Biden administration has resumed fast-track deportation flights of undocumented immigrants, Department of Homeland Security officials confirmed to The Washington Post. On Friday, two deportation flights left Texas’ Rio Grande Valley for Central America with 73 immigrants onboard. The planes were originally supposed to carry 147 adult and child deportees, but many were unable
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed The Biden administration is taking Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to court over an executive order he issued earlier this week targeting the transport of migrants recently released from US Customs and Border Protection custody. In a lawsuit filed Friday, the Justice Department alleged the order — in which Abbott directed state troopers
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Amanda Knox is claiming the new Matt Damon film “Stillwater” is profiting off her life and her struggle for a wrongful murder conviction. Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted and later acquitted in an Italian court for the 2007 killing of Knox’s roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy,
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN Español) — Estados Unidos tiene una larga historia importando trabajadores temporales extranjeros, ya que en el pasado estos eran necesarios para hacerle frente a la escasez de trabajadores estadounidenses durante tiempos de guerra. En 2020, el Departamento de Estado (DOS, por sus siglas en inglés) declaró que “el programa H-2 es
Continue Reading By Fredreka Schouten and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Republican lawmakers in Georgia are requesting that the state undertake a performance review of local election officials in Fulton County — a move that could result in a GOP takeover of election operations in a heavily Democratic region of this battleground state. A letter sent Friday to the
Continue Reading By Anna Bahney Ronald Leonard expects the sheriff to arrive at the door of his Daytona Beach, Florida, home any day after the federal ban on evictions expires on Saturday. “I’m kind of a wreck,” said Leonard, a retiree who lives on a fixed income. “If I end up on the street, I’ll never survive.”
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, Jonny Hallam, Barbara Starr and Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN Two crewmembers died when a tanker connected to an Israeli billionaire was attacked off the coast of Oman, the ship’s management firm said Friday. A Briton and a Romanian were killed amid what the company described as a “suspected piracy incident” onboard the
Continue Reading By Moira Ritter, CNN Business Disney and Walmart, two of America’s largest employers, announced Friday that they are requiring employees be vaccinated. Disney is requiring all its salaried and non-union hourly employees in the US to be vaccinated. Workers who are working on-site but are not yet vaccinated must do so within the next 60
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EL PASO, Texas — Three cases of the very contagious Covid-19 Delta variant have been confirmed in El Paso, all among unvaccinated people. The announcement came from El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser and County Judge Ricardo Samaniego at a briefing on Friday afternoon. The three variant cases involved women in their 20s, 40s and 60s,
Continue Reading By Lauren Fox and Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department told the Treasury Department that it “must” turn over former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee, which first requested them more than two years ago. The direction came in an opinion released Friday by the Justice Department’s Office of
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — Los terremotos se producen sin previo aviso, no los puedes evitar. Entonces, ¿cómo puedes actuar? Para las autoridades la cuestión de supervivencia está en la prevención, no solo de parte de los gobiernos y los organismos estatales, sino de parte de las familias. Entidades como la Oficina Nacional de Emergencia
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El doctor Álvaro Ramallo Zamora, un urólogo que vive en la ciudad de Tarija, cerca a la frontera de Bolivia con Argentina, dice que se le “cayeron las lágrimas” cuando uno de sus pacientes llegó a su consultorio con dos gallinas como pago por una cirugía de próstata que
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine, CNN Bowling Green State University in Ohio announced on Friday that it has permanently expelled three students and suspended 17 in connection to the death of a sophomore participating in fraternity hazing in March of this year. The suspensions range from three to eight years and one student received a deferred suspension,
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