(CNN) — Brasil registró casi 80.000 nuevas infecciones diarias por covid-19 y miles de muertes relacionadas con el virus el sábado, un día antes de que empiece el torneo de fútbol más grande del continente a nivel de selecciones. El Ministerio de Salud de Brasil informó el sábado 78.700 nuevos casos de covid-19, lo que
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Inmates in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) began receiving tablets this week as part of a plan to supply all state prisoners with secure tablet computers. More than 21,000 inmates at over 20 facilities will receive tablets that will give them access to books, college classes, music and even a way to communicate with
Continue Reading Dallas resident Stephanie Houston was driving from the store with her teenage son one day six years ago when he blurted out words that changed their lives forever. “Oh by the way,” Pierre, then 17, told his mom. “I’m going to live my life as a woman now.” Houston was stunned, but she maintained her
Continue Reading About 19 million years ago, roughly 90% of the world’s open-ocean sharks died off, and scientists don’t know why. The recent discovery left researchers stunned, unable to explain the immense loss or the reason behind the deaths of one of the ocean’s most powerful predators. It began when scientist Elizabeth Sibert and her team were
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The US is reopening far and wide just in time for the summer, a sign that millions are ready to get their life back. But the loosening of restrictions come as new Covid-19 vaccination rates decrease from spring highs, leaving some areas vulnerable to potential pandemic hotspots and risking the progress the nation has made.
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EL PASO, Texas – If you ask their head coach, Saturday’s match vs. Colorado Springs was a game Locomotive FC should have won. But it ended as a game that El Paso didn’t lose, playing Colorado Springs Switchbacks to a 1-1 draw in front of 6,589 on Saturday night at Southwest University Park. Macca King’s
Continue Reading A 39-year-old man was arrested Saturday in connection with three separate shootings in less than 24 hours that wounded five people across the Columbus, Georgia, metro area, according to police. “They were able to apprehend the suspect in the downtown area,” Columbus Police Chief Freddie Blackmon said at a news conference Saturday. Justin Tyran Roberts
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When Joe Biden was preparing for his first audience with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II as a young senator, his mother — an Irish American born with the surname Finnegan — had a piece of advice. “Don’t you bow down to her,” she told him in 1982, according to a memoir Biden published several years ago.
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Police are looking for two gunmen in a shooting in Chicago early Saturday that sent 10 people to the hospital, where one woman died. People were standing on a sidewalk in the city’s South Side when two men approached and opened fire, police said. The woman who was killed, 29, was shot in the abdomen
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — La Copa América va tomando forma y las selecciones participantes están confirmando los planteles que participarán en una competición que históricamente han dominado Uruguay y Argentina. La Celeste ha ganado en 15 ocasiones, mientras que Argentina se ha impuesto en 14 oportunidades. Pero Brasil ha comenzado a acercarse porque ha alzado el
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Una persona que llegó hasta una oficina del Servicio Postal de Estados Unidos para dejar un paquete se encontró a un caimán de más de 2 metros de longitud en la recepción de la sucursal, informó la Oficina del Sheriff del condado de Hernando. El hallazgo se reportó alrededor de las 3:32
Continue Reading A Springfield, Illinois, man is suing the city and six of its police officers for opening a small urn containing his daughter’s ashes and allegedly “desecrating” it during a traffic stop. In his lawsuit, Dartavius Barnes claims that the officers violated his Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure. Barnes also claims the officers
Continue Reading Ex-top Trump Justice Department official Rod Rosenstein has told people in recent days he was not aware of a subpoena that targeted the data of Democratic members of Congress while he was deputy attorney general, a source familiar with Rosenstein told CNN on Saturday. The attorney general at the time of the Apple subpoena, Jeff
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EL PASO, Texas — With a nationwide shortage of skilled tanker truck drivers, fleets of transport vehicles sit idle in their lots. That’s according to National Tank Truck Carriers, an industry trade group, which estimates that between 20 and 25% of all tanker trucks are not currently being utilized. Angel Ponce of Erives Enterprises, an
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Twitter is under siege in two countries that are critical for its global growth plans. The social media giant has been ensnared in a battle with the Indian government for months over free speech and other issues, and is contending with restrictive new rules pushed by New Delhi. If that wasn’t enough, even more dramatic
Continue Reading (CNN) — Barbara Poma, propietaria del antiguo club nocturno Pulse, se despertó en el quinto aniversario de uno de los peores tiroteos masivos en la historia de Estados Unidos con la noticia de que ocurrieron más tiroteos masivos. «Hay un problema de violencia con armas de fuego. Hay un problema de odio», dijo Poma, fundadora
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EEL PASO, Texas– The ABC-7 StormTrack weather team has issued an ABC-7 First Alert as we continue to experience record breaking heat. El Paso had a record breaking start to the weekend as we broke the record high of 106. The borderland hit 109 Saturday afternoon. Temperatures will remain warm overnight. Chances for showers are
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El gobierno de México informó este sábado que hallaron dentro de una vagoneta en la vía federal Monterrey-Reynosa a 33 hondureños en estado de hacinamiento y sin haber ingerido alimentos, luego de que la Guardia Nacional indicara al vehículo que se detuviera como parte de las inspecciones de seguridad que se realizan
Continue Reading A 20-year-old man was killed and seven others wounded in a Friday night shooting in Savannah, Georgia, according to police. In a news conference Saturday, Savannah Police Chief Roy Minter revised the number of victims down to eight total and clarified that the victims’ ages ranged from 18 months to 33 years old. Initial reports
Continue Reading As the nation marks the fifth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, Florida, on Saturday, it has a staggering and grim new statistic to contend with for 2021. So far this year, we have suffered 267 mass shootings. That’s the new tally after four incidents occurred across the country between Friday afternoon and
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AUSTIN, Texas — Authorities have arrested one person in connection with the mass shooting overnight in downtown Austin, Texas, that left 14 people injured, Mayor Steve Adler’s office said. Two of the people injured were in critical condition, Austin Interim Police Chief Joseph Chacon said at a press briefing Saturday. There was no information immediately
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YouTube suspended GOP Sen. Ron Johnson’s account on Friday after he posted comments regarding dubious treatments for Covid-19. “We removed the video in accordance with our COVID-19 medical misinformation policies, which don’t allow content that encourages people to use Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin to treat or prevent the virus,” a YouTube spokesperson said in a statement
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — As the nation marks the fifth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, Florida, on Saturday, it has a staggering and grim new statistic to contend with for 2021. So far this year, we have suffered 267 mass shootings. That’s the new tally after four incidents occurred across the country between
Continue Reading Barbara Poma, owner of the former Pulse nightclub, woke up on the five-year anniversary one of the worst mass shootings in US history to news of more mass shootings. “There is a gun violence problem. There is a hate problem,” said Poma, the founder and executive director of the OnePulse Foundation, a local nonprofit created
Continue Reading A shooting in Savannah, Georgia, Friday night killed a 20-year-old man and left seven others wounded, according to local police. In a news conference Saturday, Savannah Police Chief Roy Minter revised the number of victims down to eight total and clarified that the victims’ ages ranged from 18 months to 33 years old. Initial reports
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Singer-songwriter and former “American Idol” contestant David Archuleta says he is a part of the LGBTQIA+ community. But he says that shouldn’t mean he can’t be a person of faith, too. In a lengthy Instagram post Saturday, Archuleta said he came out as gay to his family in 2014, but then had similar feelings for
Continue Reading (CNN) — Funcionarios locales, estatales y nacionales reaccionan al quinto aniversario de la masacre de junio de 2016 en el club nocturno Pulse de Orlando, Florida, cuando un hombre armado mató a 49 personas, en su mayoría latinos. El bar de Orange Avenue era un club nocturno conocido por sus shows drag y “Noches Latinas”
Continue Reading The rapper Polo G was arrested Saturday morning on multiple charges in Miami, Florida, Miami-Dade County Corrections records show. The 22-year-old, whose real name is Taurus Bartlett, faces five charges including battery on a police officer, threatening a public servant, resisting an officer with violence, resisting an officer without violence and criminal mischief, jail records
Continue Reading On her third full day in the United Kingdom to accompany President Joe Biden on his first G7 Summit, Jill Biden peeled off from her husband, and the rest of the program’s leader-spouse events, for a solo excursion of her own — one of several the first lady has taken while abroad that highlight the
Continue Reading Campfires and other activities were banned Friday on Arizona federal land as crews battle two massive wildfires that have charred more than 150,000 acres over the past week, officials said. The Telegraph and Mescal Fires, both burning nearly 100 miles east of Phoenix, began earlier this month and continue to engulf the area. The US
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