About two dozen states have decided to scale back their daily tracking of Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths as President Joe Biden’s administration and other federal officials continue trying to get more Americans — and the rest of the world — vaccinated. The scaleback comes as eight states — all in the Northeast — have
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(CNN) — La Luna bloqueará parcialmente al Sol este jueves para crear un eclipse solar conocido como «anillo de fuego». Algunas personas que se encuentran en el hemisferio norte podrán ver este 10 de junio el primero de los dos eclipses solares del año. Un eclipse solar ocurre cuando la Luna cruza entre el Sol
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Bitcoin’s value shot up after El Salvador became the world’s first country to accept it as legal tender. As of 3:30 a.m. ET on Thursday, the virtual currency was trading at $36,849 per coin, jumping about 7.9% over the last 24 hours, according to CoinDesk. Salvadorian lawmakers made history on Wednesday by approving a proposal
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After 65 years, a grisly double murder case of two teenagers in Great Falls, Montana, was solved with DNA evidence, according to investigators. “It was such a big case,” Cascade County Sheriff’s Office lead investigator Sgt. Jon Kadner told CNN Wednesday night. Investigators have determined that the killer was Kenneth Gould, a Great Falls native
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation just unveiled a newly created position to tackle its decades-old diversity problem: chief diversity officer. Scott McMillion is a 23-year veteran of the FBI who is stepping into the role at a time when racial tensions have boiled over nationwide, with the FBI taking the lead in a growing number
Continue Reading As a renewed sense of optimism sweeps the US this summer with lower reported Covid-19 cases, the US Surgeon General has issued a warning for those not vaccinated: don’t let your guard down quite yet. “For those who are unvaccinated, they are increasingly at risk as more and more variants develop,” Surgeon General Vivek Murthy
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EUGENE, Oregon – The UTEP Miners began their quest for gold Wednesday at the NCAA Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Seven Miners qualified for nationals and will compete in a total of five events over the next three days. On Wednesday, four of those Miners took to the track on day one of
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(Courtesy: El Paso Locomotive FC) EL PASO, Texas – El Paso Locomotive FC earned a full three points with 2-0 victory over Eastern Conference foe Indy Eleven on Wednesday. Midfielder Nick Ross got the ball rolling early with a goal in the second minute while Midfielder Diego Luna recorded his second goal in as many starts in the 49’.
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The moon will partially block out the sun this Thursday to create a “ring of fire” solar eclipse. Some people in the Northern Hemisphere will be able to catch the first of two solar eclipses this year on June 10. A solar eclipse happens when the moon crosses between the sun and the Earth, which
Continue Reading Hundreds of mysterious fast radio bursts have been detected in space thanks to a Canadian telescope and an international group of researchers. The origins of these bright, millisecond-long flashes of light are unknown because the bursts, or FRBs, are unpredictable and vanish quickly. Scientists first observed them in 2007. In the decade following, they only
Continue Reading Asia’s drug cartels adapted quickly to the pandemic in 2020, flooding markets with synthetic narcotics worth tens of billions of dollars even as the global economy ground to a halt, according to a new United Nations report. Methamphetamine seizures in East and Southeast Asia surged 19% from 2019 to a new record-high, the UN Office
Continue Reading The US Park Police did not clear racial injustice protesters from Lafayette Park to allow for then-President Donald Trump‘s march to St. John’s Church last June, but instead did so to allow a contractor to install a fence safely around the White House, according to a new inspector general report. The Park Police had the
Continue Reading The wife of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who was a regular fixture at his federal trial, will plead guilty Thursday to being a “minimal participant” in helping her husband run his drug empire, The New York Times reported. Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, was arrested in February on international drug trafficking charges at Dulles International Airport
Continue Reading (CNN) — Lo han calificado como una «noche de los cuchillos largos en versión tropical». En menos de una semana, y solo unos meses antes de una elección crucial, la policía nicaragüense detuvo a siete líderes de la oposición, según declaraciones oficiales de la policía. La detención más reciente, que tuvo lugar este miércoles, es
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Continue Reading Investors managing more than $41 trillion in assets are loudly calling on world leaders to immediately step up their climate game if they don’t want to miss out on a wave of clean energy investment. More than 450 major investors signed a letter that was released Thursday urging governments to set more ambitious emission reduction
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WASHINGTON, DC — The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has pleaded guilty to charges in the U.S. that alleged she helped her husband run his multi-billion-dollar criminal empire. Emma Coronel Aispuro pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington on Thursday to three criminal charges at a plea agreement hearing. She wore
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A giant chunk of the internet briefly broke on Tuesday because of an outage at a company most people have probably never heard of before. Reddit, CNN, Target, Amazon, a UK government website and countless others all went dark after a technical issue at cloud service provider Fastly. Although the outage was short-lived, it served
Continue Reading Mattel is launching a new line of Barbies made from plastic that would otherwise become ocean waste. The “Barbie Loves the Ocean” collection, which has a summer theme, comes with three dolls, a beach shack play set and a starter assortment play set. The toy company is teaming up with plastics recycling company Envision Plastics,
Continue Reading Does one of the front-runners to be the next mayor of New York City live in New York City — and if so, where exactly? Those were the questions Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams addressed on Wednesday as he spoke to reporters in front of the three-unit building he called “my primary residence.” Adams then
Continue Reading President Joe Biden told a hangar of US troops on Wednesday he was in Europe to defend the very concept of democracy, setting high stakes for his first presidential trip abroad and warning Russian President Vladimir Putin he planned to raise touchy issues during their upcoming summit. “I’m headed to the G7, then to the
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas made an argument about climate change at a House subcommittee hearing Tuesday that appeared to elicit confusion from a government official and ridicule on Twitter. During the Natural Resources Subcommittee hearing, Gohmert appeared to draw a connection between the moon and Earth’s orbit and solar flares
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Police in Juarez rescued 140 migrants on Wednesday who were forced to stay inside a small house that was just 16-by-16 feet. The migrants were from different parts of Central America. They were mostly men, but there were a few women and some children as well. The migrants said they could
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Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman and University of Mississippi Professor Linda Keena donated $1 million to the school in order to establish a new center focused on policing. The new Center for Evidence-Based Policing and Reform at the University of Mississippi looks to “build relationships and share data with policing agencies as well as use the
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — La organización de derechos humanos Human Rights Watch denunció en un nuevo informe «brutalidad policial» contra manifestantes en Colombia y pidió al Gobierno del presidente Iván Duque «tomar medidas urgentes para proteger los derechos humanos» de quienes protestan, y llevar ante la justicia a los responsables de estos hechos. El reporte publicado
Continue Reading Facebook is giving its employees more flexibility to work outside the office — and Mark Zuckerberg is leading by example. The Facebook CEO told employees in a memo Wednesday that he plans to work remotely for at least half of the next year, a company spokesperson confirmed to CNN Business. The memo was previously reported
Continue Reading A Moscow court on Wednesday ruled that two organizations linked to jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny are “extremist” groups — forcing them to shut down and rendering their members ineligible to run in upcoming elections. Wednesday’s ruling targeted both Navalny’s regional political offices and the Anti-Corruption Foundation which he founded. The foundation, known as FBK,
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EL PASO, Texas — For the fourth time since 2010, El Paso has been named an All-America City. The Sun City received this latest prestigious designation on Wednesday evening at the 2021 edition of the annual All-America City awards, which recognizes just ten communities each year for outstanding civic accomplishments. “I have always known El
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EL PASO, Texas – The Las Cruces High School cheer team overcame a lot of obstacles in route to winning a state title. From injuries, to exposure to Covid-19, the team banded together to bring home the 6th state title in cheerleading to Las Cruces. It was back in May that the Bulldawgs won the
Continue Reading The federal judge who overturned California’s decades-old assault weapons ban last week opened his 94-page ruling with an eye-opening analogy. “Like the Swiss Army Knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment,” US District Judge Roger T. Benitez wrote. In another section, he downplayed the risk
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