ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has hit a record high in new COVID-19 infections for a second day running. The government is ruling out a lockdown or school closures but is warning that it might have to mobilize private doctors in badly afflicted areas. A total 8,613 new infections were recorded Tuesday, a substantial leap
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Cuando el superintendente de la escuela de Perrysburg, Thomas Hosler, envió una encuesta a los padres de su distrito del área de Toledo para ver cuántos querían vacunar a sus hijos contra el covid-19, recibió más de 20.000 respuestas negativas. Su distrito solo tiene 5.700 alumnos. “Está claro que alguien
Continue Reading ISTANBUL (AP) — Rescue workers in Turkey were searching for people trapped under the rubble of a building that collapsed Tuesday in eastern Turkey. The governor of Malatya province, Aydin Barus, said 15 people were thought to be in the two-story building at the time of the collapse in the city of Malatya but he
Continue Reading By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s House is investigating whether the state’s attorney general should be impeached for his conduct surrounding a car crash last year that killed a pedestrian. A sizable majority of the Republican-dominated House voted Tuesday to have a committee recommend whether Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg should
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS (AP) — Prosecutors in Las Vegas have filed additional felony charges against a 22-year-old man accused of killing a local filmmaker sitting in a parked car outside a convenience store but missing customers inside. Jesus Javier Uribe appeared briefly Tuesday before a Las Vegas judge on 31 charges including murder, attempted murder, assault,
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By Nicole Chavez, CNN Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has directed state education officials to create new standards that would keep “pornography” and “obscene” content out of public schools after Republican lawmakers have recently targeted LGBTQ books. In a letter sent Monday, Abbott urged leadership at the Texas Education Agency (TEA), Texas State Library and Archives
Continue Reading By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations says at least 16 of its local employees have been detained in Ethiopia’s capital. A government spokesman says they are held because of “their participation in terror” under a state of emergency as the country’s yearlong war escalates and ethnic Tigrayans face a
Continue Reading TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in Florida have determined the fatal shooting of a teenager who pointed what turned out to be an air rifle at police was justifiable homicide. Pinellas-Pasco County State Attorney Bruce Bartlett said in a letter released Monday that an investigation into the Oct. 16 shooting of 17-year-old Alexander King
Continue Reading By David Close and Amir Vera, CNN Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers reappeared on “The Pat McAfee Show” Tuesday and took “full responsibility” for his comments last week about his vaccination status and being “in the crosshairs of the woke mob right now” over his vaccination status. “I made some comments that people might
Continue Reading Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers reappeared on “The Pat McAfee Show” and took “full responsibility” for his previous comments about his vaccination status.
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Un burdel de Austria ofrece vales de entrada gratuita para animar a los hombres a vacunarse contra el covid-19. El burdel “Funpalast” de Viena, que se describe a sí mismo como un “saunaclub de estrellas del sexo” en su página web, reparte los vales, por valor de 40 euros (U$S
Continue Reading CNN’s Anusha Rathi, Mitchell McCluskey, and Sophia Saifi Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pakistani activist, has gotten married, she announced on Instagram on Tuesday. “Today marks a precious day in my life. Asser and I tied the knot to be partners for life. We celebrated a small nikkah ceremony at home in Birmingham with
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN) — Malala Yousafzai, la activista paquistaní ganadora del Premio Nobel de la Paz, se casó, según anunció este martes en Instagram. “Hoy marca un día precioso en mi vida. Asser y yo nos hemos casado para ser compañeros de por vida. Celebramos una pequeña ceremonia de nikkah en casa en Birmingham con
Continue Reading By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge has resentenced a death row inmate to life in prison for the second time in two years after finding that his trial was marred by racism during jury selection. The trial court judge on Tuesday resentenced Abu-Ali Abdur’Rahman to three consecutive life sentences.
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz told a story about the Holocaust to promote the company’s benefits to a group of employees in a meeting this past weekend. Schultz, who is Jewish, said a rabbi in Israel told him about the experiences of prisoners at concentration camps in Poland: They were
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By FRANK JORDANS and DÉBORA ÁLVARES Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Powerful businesses are urging Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro to give up the country’s long-standing resistance on key issues at this year’s U.N. climate talks. The head of the CEBDS business group argues that Brazil can’t afford to pass up the chance to use
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EL PASO, Texas — An east El Paso man was jailed on animal cruelty charges after he allegedly shot two cats with an air rifle, police said Tuesday. Robert Lee Ramirez, 68, was being held on $4,000 bond in the El Paso County Detention Facility, following his arrest a week ago. Investigators said a warrant
Continue Reading Surveillance footage shows a person setting fire to the Pulse Interim Memorial’s offering wall. The Orlando Fire Department has opened an investigation.
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette, Gregory Lemos and David Williams, CNN The Orlando Arson/Bomb squad announced the arrest of a man accused of setting fire to part of the Pulse Interim Memorial, which honors the victims of one of the worst mass shootings in US history. Authorities charged a 64-year-old man with felony criminal mischief for allegedly
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EL PASO, Texas – Tony Lovitt graduated from New Mexico State University in 1977, was a student assistant in NMSU’s sports information office, sports information director for the Sun Bowl in 1975 and even did radio play-by-play for the El Paso/Juarez Sol professional volleyball team. Now you can add children’s book author to his resume.
Continue Reading By Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Hidden beneath the stark partisan polarization of American politics today are sharp intraparty divisions over some of the most central issues facing the nation, according to a new analysis from the Pew Research Center. The study assesses the public’s views on a range of issues and segments Americans
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By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — America’s commercial casinos are marking the industry’s best quarter ever and pushing U.S. casino revenue past what it was for all of 2020. Figures released Tuesday by the American Gaming Association show U.S. casinos are poised to have their best year ever in 2021 as
Continue Reading By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — America’s commercial casinos are marking the industry’s best quarter ever and pushing U.S. casino revenue past what it was for all of 2020. Figures released Tuesday by the American Gaming Association show U.S. casinos are poised to have their best year ever in 2021 as
Continue Reading By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The founder of a Florida big cat sanctuary featured in the popular “Tiger King” series is suing Netflix and a production company to prevent the use of interviews and footage involving her in an upcoming sequel. Netflix counters that Big Cat Rescue founder
Continue Reading AMES, Iowa (AP) — Lexi Donarski scored 18 points, making six 3-pointers, Ashley Joens added 15 points and No. 12 Iowa State beat Omaha 65-38 in a season opener for both teams. Donarski, the Big 12 freshman of the year last season, was 6 of 12 from distance and Joens, who led the conference and
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Los que se atreven a viajar internacionalmente en la era del covid se enfrentan a un laberinto cambiante de normas y restricciones en los aeropuertos. Si quieres evitar quedarte varado durante dos semanas, será mejor que compruebes que tus documentos están en orden antes de cruzar cualquier frontera internacional. Más aún
Continue Reading By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business If you’re among the millions of people who use payment apps like PayPal, Venmo, Square, and other third-party electronic payment networks, you could be affected by a tax reporting change that goes into effect in January. Payment app providers will have to start reporting to the IRS a user’s business
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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The bizarre nature of the college football season in the Big 12 can be summed up by the fact that TCU and Texas Tech, both having already fired their coaches, could be headed to bowl games in a few short weeks. In fact, half
Continue Reading By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The bizarre nature of the college football season in the Big 12 can be summed up by the fact that TCU and Texas Tech, both having already fired their coaches, could be headed to bowl games in a few short weeks. In fact, half
Continue Reading By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Mexico’s president is warning that the world is sliding from “civilization to barbarity.” Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for the thousand richest people, the thousand largest private corporations and the 20 major economies to improve life for the 750 million people now existing on less
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