By Holly Yan and Madeline Holcombe, CNN The crush of patients infected with the Delta variant is affecting hospitals nationwide. Now some Texans trying to get care at their nearest emergency room will have to go elsewhere. Hunt Regional Medical Center at Commerce said its ER is temporarily closing “due to a critical Covid surge.”
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By Madeline Holcombe and Holly Yan, CNN The crush of patients infected with the Delta variant is affecting hospitals nationwide. Now some Texans trying to get care at their nearest emergency room will have to go elsewhere. Hunt Regional Medical Center at Commerce said its ER is temporarily closing “due to a critical Covid surge.”
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN) — Un agente de bienes raíces negro estaba mostrando una casa a un hombre negro y a su hijo de 15 años en un suburbio de Michigan la semana pasada cuando miraron afuera y vieron a agentes de policía rodeando la propiedad con sus armas en la mano. “Sabía que una
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN For the first time in nearly a decade, Singapore’s Changi Airport has lost its place at the top of Skytrax’s annual ranking of the world’s best airports at the World Airport Awards. Doha’s Hamad International Airport, which has been climbing the ranks for years, has been rewarded with the number one
Continue Reading By Amanda Jackson, CNN Last Monday, Dasha Kelly was facing eviction and didn’t know how she was going to pay her back rent. A day later, thanks to strangers, more than $170,000 has been raised so far. On Tuesday, Kelly sat on her couch, one of the last pieces of furniture left in her apartment
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El Paso, Texas– The ABC-7 StormTrack Weather team has issued an ABC-7 First Alert for strong showers and thunderstorms expected to continue overnight. Storm chances will remain in the forecast for the next several days with the strongest storms expected Thursday into Friday. Download the ABC-7 StormTrack Weather and traffic app to stay updated on
Continue ReadingBy Kareem Khadder, Nick Paton Walsh and Jessie Yeung, CNN The Taliban have seized the city of Taloquan in northeastern Afghanistan, marking the fifth provincial capital to fall under their control in just a matter of days, a local journalist confirmed to CNN on Monday. Taloquan, the capital of Takhar Province, is just the latest
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By Gregory Krieg and Sonia Moghe, CNN New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide Melissa DeRosa resigned late Sunday, less than a week after the release of a report from the state attorney general that found Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve the people of
Continue Reading By Kendall Lanier, CNN The 18th Premier of Ontario, Bill Davis, passed away on Sunday morning, according to Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He was 92. “Mr. Davis spent more than 25 years serving his province and was the second longest serving Premier of Ontario. He led the province for 14 years during a transformative
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador touted the importance of public safety during a visit to Juarez on Sunday to inaugurate a new Mexican National Guard barracks aimed at reducing violent crime, which didn’t take a break during his trip. “If we do not solve the problem of insecurity and violence, we
Continue Reading ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide, Melissa DeRosa, has told the media she resigned from her role. She sent a statement to news organizations Sunday night, about a week after a state attorney general report found the governor had sexually harassed 11 women. DeRosa joined Cuomo’s administration in 2013, eventually
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — La guerra contra el covid-19 está cambiando, poniendo de manifiesto la creciente división entre los países que tienen las herramientas para luchar contra el virus y los que no las tienen. A medida que aumenta la preocupación por la variante delta, altamente contagiosa, los países ricos refuerzan sus arsenales de vacunas, mientras
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El Paso, Texas– One El Paso boy became a viral sensation after pulling a double play during a championship baseball game this past June. “So when the batter hit the ball it bobbled but then I recovered it and got the batter out on first then when I saw the runner running to home I
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By Liam Reilly, CNN Actor Julie Bowen of “Modern Family” and her sister helped rescue a hiker when she fainted last week at Arches National Park in Moab, Utah, the hiker told CNN. “They could have just ignored me, passed on, but they didn’t,” Minnie John said Saturday. “She could have gone on — she
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — He estado en todas las ramas del ejército de Estados Unidos en múltiples ocasiones; en zonas de guerra y en la base, pero nada es como una mirada al interior de la recién creada Fuerza Espacial de Estados Unidos. Los “Guardianes” de la Fuerza Espacial, como se les conoce, realizan su
Continue Reading By Julia Hollingsworth, CNN A year and a half since the first Covid-19 cases were identified, many countries in Asia-Pacific feel right back where they started. While Britons hit the nightclubs after a long winter of coronavirus restrictions, millions of people in Australia and China are back in lockdown. Health systems in Malaysia, Thailand and
Continue ReadingCNN By Julia Hollingsworth, CNN A year and a half since the first Covid-19 cases were identified, many countries in Asia-Pacific feel right back where they started. While Britons hit the nightclubs after a long winter of coronavirus restrictions, millions of people in Australia and China are back in lockdown. Health systems in Malaysia, Thailand
Continue Reading By Kay Jones and Amanda Watts, CNN An Ohio man says he will not get vaccinated despite a judge ordering him to get a Covid-19 vaccine shot as a condition of his probation. Judge Christopher Wagner ordered defendant Brandon Rutherford to get vaccinated within 60 days of his court appearance August 4 or face jail
Continue Reading A top US health official says while breakthrough Covid-19 infections can and will happen in people who’ve been vaccinated, the majority won’t get seriously ill or be hospitalized because the vaccines work. In today’s Health Minute, we have what you need to know if you’re vaccinated and get infected.
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EL PASO, Texas — The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center of El Paso is aiming to get the younger age groups vaccinated. Medical officials held a vaccination clinic Sunday specifically looking to vaccinate the 12 to 15 year-old students who are returning to in-person learning. “Kids have died of Covid, twice as many children
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN) — En un artículo de diciembre de 2016 para The Architect’s Newspaper, la periodista Audrey Wachs señaló un problema evidente con el Vessel, la atracción turística de 45 metros de altura que se inauguraría en el nuevo y reluciente vecindario de Hudson Yards en la ciudad de Nueva York. “Cuando uno
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(Courtesy: El Paso Chihuahuas) SACRAMENTO, California – The El Paso Chihuahuas scored four first inning runs against Sacramento starter Matt Shoemaker and beat the River Cats 6-3 Sunday afternoon. El Paso’s victory ended Sacramento’s five-game winning streak. El Paso catcher Luis Campusano went 2-for-4 with a three-run home run and an RBI single. It was the second
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By Liam Reilly, CNN Actor Julie Bowen of “Modern Family” and her sister helped rescue a hiker when she fainted last week at Arches National Park in Moab, Utah, the hiker told CNN. “They could have just ignored me, passed on, but they didn’t,” Minnie John said Saturday. “She could have gone on — she
Continue Reading Marysabel E. Huston-Crespo (CNN Español) — Llegó agosto y con ello dos potentes colaboraciones con las que encabezamos estos estrenos musicales de la semana. La cantante australiana Sia reclutó a Sofía Reyes y a Yandel para el remix de “1+1”. También, el grupo Aventura y Bad Bunny se unen para lanzar “Volví”. En Zona Pop CNN recopilamos
Continue Reading By Kay Jones, Gregory Lemos and Susannah Cullinane, CNN Rising cases of Covid-19 in Louisiana have led to the cancellation of the New Orleans Jazz Fest for the second year running, organizers announced Sunday. Louisiana broke its own record for Covid-19 related hospitalizations on multiple days last week, with 2,421 individuals hospitalized with the virus
Continue Reading By Amanda Watts and Camille Furst, CNN The Dixie Fire in California, the largest wildfire currently burning in the country, has grown to become the second-biggest in the state’s history, according to CalFire. The blaze has scorched 463,477 acres of land in northeastern California and is second only to the August Complex Fire, which ravaged
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN Business) — Si has tomado un sorbo de Coca-Cola Zero Sugar recientemente y has pensado que sabe un poco diferente, no estás loco. La empresa introdujo en Estados Unidos una nueva versión de la bebida diseñada para que sepa más como la Coca-Cola normal. Quizá te guste el nuevo sabor. Tal vez
Continue Reading By Camille Furst, CNN One person died and six others were injured in a shooting early Sunday morning at an after-hours bar in Houston, according to a statement on social media from Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. A fight broke out inside the club and “several individuals produced firearms and began firing,” according to Gonzalez’s
Continue Reading It began with a fight inside the Visions nightclub on FM 1960 near Treaschwig Road early Sunday.
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By Homero De la Fuente, CNN The NBA Summer League game between the Washington Wizards and Indiana Pacers has been postponed due to the league’s health and safety protocols. “Because of ongoing contact tracing within the Wizards, the team does not have enough available players to proceed with tonight’s game against the Pacers,” the league
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