LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — New Mexico State has added head-coaching experience to it’s basketball bench. And while Chris Jans is still the head man, the addition of Dominique Taylor should be a big boost for the Aggies. NMSU confirmed to ABC-7’s Nate Ryan that the Aggies have indeed added Taylor, a former interim head
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By Dianne Gallagher, Wesley Bruer and Jade Gordon, CNN The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a state district judge’s temporary restraining order that had prevented the arrest of Texas House Democrats, who left the state last month in an attempt to stop the passage of restrictive voting bills. The ruling means that many of
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN The Louisiana Civil Rights Trail is steadily growing after officials in the state unveiled a fourth marker this week honoring a historic march against anti-Black violence. The new marker, unveiled on Monday, is in Young Park in Baton Rouge — marking the 105-mile march from Bogalusa to Baton Rouge. The march,
Continue Reading By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Senate Democrats’ push to advance their $3.5 trillion budget resolution is headed for a procedural speed bump known as a “vote-a-rama.” The time-consuming and stamina-challenging process is the only remaining hurdle for Senate Democrats before the chamber can adopt the budget resolution after voting to open debate earlier Tuesday. Politically, it
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El canciller de Perú, Héctor Béjar, dijo este lunes que el gobierno está a favor de “toda acción dirigida a contribuir al diálogo necesario entre el gobierno de Venezuela y la oposición, con la finalidad de que se pueda llegar a un acuerdo para la convocatoria de elecciones libres, justas
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By Danielle Prokop, El Paso Matters El PASO, Texas — One of El Paso’s largest food distribution sites will close and others will reduce hours despite the amplified need for food due to the pandemic, officials said, citing a lack of manpower. “We’re still able to manage all of the logistics, the trucking, finding the
Continue Reading By Kristin Fisher and Ashley Strickland, CNN NASA’s goal of returning American astronauts to the moon by 2024 isn’t feasible because of significant delays in developing spacesuits, NASA Inspector General Paul K. Martin said in a new report. Even though NASA will have spent more than a billion dollars on the next-generation spacesuits, Martin concluded
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ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria’s president has announced that 25 soldiers were killed saving residents from the wildfires ravaging forests and villages east of the capital. The president of the sprawling North African nation tweeted that the soldiers saved 100 citizens from the blazes in two areas in the mountainous Kabyle region, home of the
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By Chauncey Alcorn, CNN Business Shanta Matthews and her family were three months behind on rent last week and were preparing to be booted from their two-bedroom condo in Charleston, South Carolina, when they got a last-minute reprieve from the federal government. US health officials issued a new eviction moratorium on August 3, temporarily barring
Continue ReadingBy Megan Marples, CNN Common colds share many symptoms of the coronavirus, so if your child becomes ill as the school year gets underway, it might be difficult to immediately tell whether it’s Covid-19, said CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen. Adults catch the common cold around two to three times a year, and children
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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The American Bar Association’s policymaking body is supporting the U.S. Interior Department as it works to uncover the troubled legacy of federal boarding schools that sought to assimilate Indigenous youth into white society. The resolution was adopted Monday at the bar association’s annual meeting. It
Continue Reading Judi Hayes, the mother of a student with Down syndrome, is suing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over his anti-mask mandate. She discusses with CNN.
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Will Hayes was supposed to start the new school year Tuesday, but instead he’s staying home because of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ban on mask mandates in schools, his mother said. Will, 10, has Down syndrome and other underlying health conditions, but has always been included in a general education class
Continue Reading By Gregory Lemos and Eric Levenson, CNN A report of an active shooter at a high school in northeast Tennessee on Tuesday morning led to an emergency evacuation and lockdowns, but that report was a hoax, authorities said. “This was a hoax. There was no gunfire, nobody injured, and thank God everybody is safe,” Hawkins
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WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Senate passed a rare bipartisan initiative Tuesday that would deploy at least $30 billion across the state to repair bridges, build roads and increase broadband internet access, without the support of either senator from Texas. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, with a $1.2 trillion price tag, had bipartisan support,
Continue Reading By Kylie Atwood, CNN There are active discussions about a further drawdown of the US embassy in Kabul among State Department officials, according to two sources familiar with the discussions, as the Taliban continues to gain ground in Afghanistan. Those gains — which have occurred much more rapidly than many US officials expected — have
Continue Reading Afghanistan’s swift descent into violence following the withdrawal of US and NATO troops supporting the government has shocked many. Afghan commandos gave CNN’s Clarissa Ward exclusive access to one of their bases along Kandahar’s front line amid fears it, with other provincial capitals, will fall.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – As the Las Cruces Police Department seeks to fill dozens of positions, the department has removed most of its school resource officers from city schools. “I feel like it’s like a safety concern since there’s not good gun control in this country,” said Sergio Hernandez, a sophomore at Las Cruces
Continue Reading Opinion by Rep. Derek Kilmer and Sen. Chris Coons for CNN Business Perspectives As our economy has changed in recent years, communities have been left behind. Many of them have gone from exporting products to exporting young people as job opportunities erode. In Claymont, Delaware, a bustling steel mill that was once the beating heart
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AUSTIN, Texas — House Democrats who refuse to show up for the state Legislature could soon be detained by law enforcement and brought back to the state Capitol, after the Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday voided a state district judge’s temporary restraining order barring their arrest. The all-Republican high court’s order came at the request
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Casi mil estructuras han sido afectadas por el incendio Dixie, el segundo más grande en la historia de California. Y con gran parte del fuego aún no contenido, miles más están en riesgo. El incendio ha destruido 873 estructuras y dañado otras 61, según el Departamento de Silvicultura y Protección
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN) — El gobierno de Joe Biden no entregará las declaraciones de impuestos del expresidente Donald Trump a la Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos al menos hasta noviembre, a pesar de la reciente opinión del Departamento de Justicia de que el Servicio de Impuestos Internos (IRS, por sus siglas en inglés) “debe”
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By Neelam Bohra and AJ Willingham, CNN Gabe Moses prefers to work his eight-hour shift for a call center while lying on his stomach, resting on a mattress set out on the floor of his apartment. Moses uses a wheelchair because of conditions including dysautonomia, which arises from a dysfunctional nervous system and can affect
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CNN staff If you’re planning to travel to Croatia, here’s what you’ll need to know and expect if you want to visit during the Covid-19 pandemic The basics Croatia has had one of the highest death rates in Europe from Covid-19. While the country reopened to tourists for the 2021 summer season, it soon began
Continue Reading With America only half-vaccinated, experts say the time has come to impose mandates on the resistant and/or raise their health care premiums.
Continue ReadingBy Moira Ritter, CNN Business Citigroup is the latest big bank to mandate vaccines for employees returning to the office as the Delta variant of Covid-19 surges. Starting September 13, employees working in the bank’s New York headquarters as well as other offices in the New York metropolitan area, Chicago, Boston, Washington and Philadelphia, will
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Robinhood’s stock surged and halted trading leading many to think it’s the newest meme stock. Omar Aguilar, Chief Investment Officer at Charles Schwab, explains what to keep in mind when investing in meme stocks.
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Robinhood’s Wall Street debut was tepid, just like Facebook’s initial public offering more than nine years ago. But despite the lackluster start, Robinhood has roared back to life in the past week. Can it continue to climb and eventually become the Facebook of financial services? It’s way too
Continue Reading By John Harwood A top economic aide to President Joe Biden moved to reassure moderate Democratic that the new $3.5 trillion budget bill would not fuel long-term inflation as they begin pivoting toward the next obstacle to the administration’s economic agenda. In a new memo to lawmakers, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese called on
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