Buying Girl Scout cookies has become a long-awaited yearly tradition for many people in the US. But this year, the organization is faced with an unusual problem: Millions of boxes of cookies remain unsold, all because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Girl Scouts of the USA has has 15 million boxes of unsold cookies in
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All K-12 public schools in Florida will hold a moment of silence at the start of the day starting next school year, according to a bill signed into law Monday by Gov. Ron DeSantis. According to the law, which was HB 529 in the Florida legislature, principals of each public school shall require teachers in
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(CNN Español) — Tras lograr su tercer año consecutivo de crecimiento en el horario estelar de la televisión y de su mayor audiencia digital desde el lanzamiento de CNNEspanol.com, CNN en Español reveló hoy su nueva programación para 2021-2022 para el horario estelar de los domingos, Domingo de gigantes. Con esta nueva programación, la cadena
Continue Reading (CNN Español) —Definir al Dr. Jorge Gronda como ginecólogo hoy resulta insuficiente: también es el fundador de un sistema de salud accesible para todos en Jujuy, una provincia en el norte de Argentina con gran población indígena que sufre carencias y discriminación. Y desde allí lo está replicando en distintas provincias del país. «Fue mucho
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A Colorado jury on Tuesday found one of the suspects in a deadly Colorado school shooting guilty of more than 40 charges, including murder. Devon Erickson was found guilty of first-degree murder degree with extreme indifference, first degree-murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and 30 counts of criminal attempt of first-degree murder. He also was
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TORNILLO, Texas — El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego outlined a plan to ABC-7 on Tuesday to vaccinate workers from maquiladoras across the U.S.-Mexico border in Juarez in an effort to reach heard immunity from Covid-19 in the Borderland region. Under the judge’s plan, Mexican nationals would be transported by buses from Juarez plants to
Continue Reading (CNN) — Un nuevo telescopio espacial que podría detectar asteroides y cometas potencialmente peligrosos que se dirijan a la Tierra está un paso más cerca de hacerse realidad.El telescopio espacial Near-Earth Object Surveyor, o NEO Surveyor, obtuvo la aprobación de la NASA para pasar a la fase de diseño. El telescopio infrarrojo de 6 metros
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Tuesday brought reopenings in two of the largest states, with New York reaching an important vaccine milestone and joining California in dropping most of its Covid-19 restrictions. “This is a momentous day, and we deserve it because it has been a long, long road,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. “We can now return to
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EL PASO, Texas — Boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya knows just how passionate El Pasoans are about boxing. That was just one of the reasons he wanted to bring a boxing event back to the Sun City. It was back in 1998 that a young De La Hoya fought before a packed house at
Continue Reading The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now calls the Delta variant of the novel coronavirus, also known as B.1.617.2, a “variant of concern.” The variant of concern designation is given to strains of the virus that scientists believe are more transmissible or can cause more severe disease. Vaccines, treatments and tests that detect
Continue Reading After a mistrial was declared last month in the murder trial of Tevin Biles-Thomas, the brother of Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, a judge in Ohio acquitted Biles-Thomas of the charges against him in a retrial on Tuesday, court records show. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Joan Synenberg granted a Rule 29 motion for
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A protester parachuted into Munich’s Allianz Arena moments before the start of the Euro 2020 match between Germany and France on Tuesday, injuring several people who were hospitalized, according to European football governing body UEFA. The yellow parachute had the words “KICK OUT OIL” and “GREENPEACE” emblazoned on it. Footage circulated on social media showed
Continue Reading The US Navy’s highest-ranking officer pushed back strongly against what he called efforts by two Republican congressmen to portray the US military as “weak” and “woke” in a hearing on Tuesday. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday’s comments came during a House Armed Services budget hearing as Reps. Doug Lamborn and Jim Banks questioned
Continue Reading Bipartisan talks on overhauling America’s policing practices are hung up on a key issue: Whether Congress should include new standards for when officers can be charged with crimes. The issue has dogged the two sides for weeks — and it’s far from clear how the matter will get resolved or if it could doom the
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Big Tech critic Lina Khan will chair the Federal Trade Commission, the powerful antitrust agency that’s targeted companies such as Facebook with fines and lawsuits, according to a White House spokesperson. Khan had been confirmed as a commissioner to the FTC earlier on Tuesday, in a 69-28 Senate vote. But her future as agency chair
Continue Reading (CNN Business) — La compañía de cannabis Tilray, que recientemente se fusionó con su rival Aphria, ha visto aumentar el precio de sus acciones en los últimos tiempos gracias a, lo adivinaste, el amor de la multitud de Reddit. Mientras los partidarios promocionan el creciente número de estados que legalizan la marihuana recreativa y medicinal,
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US Capitol Police, Washington Metropolitan Police and local officials requested support from the DC National Guard 12 times on January 6 while the Capitol was under attack, the House Oversight Committee Democrats said Tuesday. RELATED: Meet the internet sleuths tracking down the January 6 insurrectionists Democrats on the committee pressed FBI Director Christopher Wray and
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Click here for updates on this story FORT WORTH, Texas (KTVT) — MedStar said it is prepared for a long week, expecting an increase in heat-related illness calls to come along with the high temperatures and higher heat indices. By 7:00 p.m. on Monday, June 14, seven people were taken to local hospitals, with two
Continue Reading Nearly two dozen Democratic members of the Texas state Legislature are taking their voting rights fight from Austin to Washington this week. The trip is a “Hail Mary” effort of sorts, to apply some Texas-sized pressure on US lawmakers to support the passage of the For the People Act, a comprehensive federal voting rights bill
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DALLAS (KTVT) — Military veterans, women and the socially disadvantaged. People in those categories who own restaurants were supposed to get high priority from the federal Restaurant Revitalization Fund which was part of this year’s COVID-19 Relief Act. But through a series of legal twists and turns most
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story VAN ZANDT COUNTY, Texas (KTVT) — Found in a small, filthy mobile home filled with feces, urine and other debris, 12 dogs who didn’t have access to food and water for days are now safe. The SPCA of Texas removed them from a trailer on a property in
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexican authorities on Tuesday confirmed a half-dozen deaths stemming from shootouts involving police and drug cartel hit men in Juárez, according to ABC-7’s news-gathering partners at Canal 44. There were several separate, and believed to be coordinated attacks, made on police Monday night that ignited the shootouts. Authorities indicated they had
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California lifted most of its Covid-19 restrictions Tuesday as part of a grand reopening in which the state ended capacity limits, physical distancing and — at least for those vaccinated — mask requirements. The new health order went into effect and allows vaccinated people to go without a face covering in most situations, putting the
Continue Reading Olympic runner Shelby Houlihan said she has been banned from the sport for four years following a positive test for anabolic steroids that she attributes to eating a pork burrito. Houlihan said she was devastated to learn of the suspension from the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), an independent body that combats doping, after she tested
Continue Reading Senate Democratic leaders, facing skepticism from liberals about the direction of bipartisan infrastructure talks, plan to formally begin a process that would allow them to pass President Joe Biden’s signature policy agenda along straight party lines. The move is meant to placate progressives who are concerned their priorities won’t be included in a bipartisan plan
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EL PASO, Texas — George Lopez is coming to southern New Mexico this summer, and then to El Paso this fall, on his latest comedy tour. The Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort & Casino announced the comedian is stopping in Mescalero for two shows on Saturday, July 17. The shows will be at 5
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Tuesday morning, dozens joined in front of Mission Hospital in Asheville to express concerns about safe staffing and improvements they say the hospital needs, to retain and recruit experienced registered nurses. The demonstration, organized by National Nurses United (NNC) was held on the
Continue Reading Nota del editor: El senador Ben Ray Luján representa a Nuevo México. John Feinblatt es presidente de Everytown for Gun Safety. Las opiniones expresadas en este comentario son las de los autores. Ver más opinión en CNNE.com/Opinion. (CNN) — En los últimos meses, los estadounidenses han recibido una serie de horribles recordatorios de que incluso
Continue Reading The US reached another sobering milestone in the Covid-19 pandemic, with 600,000 lives lost to the disease as of Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University data. While daily deaths have decreased in recent months, hundreds of Americans are still dying every day from the disease that’s largely preventable by vaccines. Over the past week, the
Continue Reading Republican Rep. Chris Stewart of Utah made a false claim about his voting record in an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Monday night, wrongly saying that he had voted to remove Georgia’s Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from House committees. Stewart made the assertion after Cuomo, anchor of “Cuomo Prime Time,” challenged him on whether
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