(CNN) — El área cerca de donde han estado creciendo dos grandes incendios forestales durante días en el este de Arizona está tan seca que los bomberos que intentan controlar el incendio han provocado incendios provocados por sus propios equipos, dijeron las autoridades este martes. El incendio Telegraph ha quemado más de 30.756 hectáreas y
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LUFKIN, Texas — The hateful reaction to an LGBTQ Pride-inspired sugar cookie threatened to tank a bakery in Lufkin. But when cookie lovers from Lufkin and across the US caught a glimpse of the vibrant cookies (and the bakery’s disheartened response to canceled orders and cruel comments), they turned what could have been a potentially
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President Joe Biden on Thursday revoked a series of executive orders signed during the Trump administration targeting TikTok, WeChat and other Chinese apps, and replaced them with a new executive order addressing apps linked to foreign adversaries, including China. Thursday’s order is aimed at protecting Americans’ personal data, according to a White House news release,
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Lo que no ha ocurrido en ningún país del mundo, sucedió en la Asamblea Legislativa de El Salvador. El órgano legislativo del país centroamericano aprobó en la madrugada de este miércoles la ley que convierte al bitcoin en una moneda de uso legal, al igual que el dólar, en una decisión que
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Should we really be surprised by Bennifer 2.0 given that Jennifer Lopez’s 2002 album, “This Is Me…Then,” contained a heartfelt single titled, “Dear Ben?” As Lopez and Ben Affleck are appearing out and about together more often recently and heating up the headlines, let’s take a look back the duo’s history. December 2001 Lopez and
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Dr. Anthony Fauci pleaded with the public Tuesday to get vaccinated, saying the Delta coronavirus variant — the B.1.617.2 variant first identified in India — accounts for more than 6% of the sequenced viruses in the United States. The variant’s spread and dominance in the United Kingdom, which was first hit hard by the Alpha
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The US is making significant strides in curbing the coronavirus pandemic as summer approaches, with average daily cases near a 14-month low and just over half of eligible Americans fully vaccinated. About 50.1% of people ages 12 and older in the US — the cohort eligible to receive a Covid-19 vaccine in the country —
Continue Reading The coming flu season may be a doozy. Even as coronavirus was devastating populations around the world, killing 3.7 million people globally, doctors and public health officials noticed something else was missing: There was almost no flu. One child died from flu this year in the US. In 2019-2020, there were 199 flu-related deaths in
Continue Reading At the end of April, both of Pallav Jha’s parents contracted Covid-19 in India. When his mom called to deliver the news of his dad’s declining health, Jha knew he had be with them, which meant leaving his pregnant wife and 4-year-old son behind in Arizona. “I am whatever I am today just because of
Continue Reading (CNN Business) — La lista de ataques de ransomware de alto perfil se hace más larga y alarmante cada semana, afectando todo, desde gasoductos y suministros de carne, hasta transbordadores. Las empresas y agencias que se ven afectadas deben luchar para proteger sus sistemas y tomar la difícil decisión de si deberían pagar a los
Continue Reading Beech-Nut Nutrition voluntarily recalled an infant rice cereal Tuesday because the product exceeds a US Food and Drug Administration limit of 100 parts per billion of arsenic. The company also announced it would no longer sell baby rice cereal. Research has shown that even low levels of arsenic exposure can impact a baby’s neurodevelopment. The
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An estimated $150 million in equity capital has been invested in Black-owned banks since George Floyd was murdered last year, according to the National Bankers Association, a trade group that represents 24 of the country’s minority-owned financial institutions. Those funds have put the nation’s Black banking community in a stronger position today than it was
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Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — A San Francisco store clerk will lose his left eye after a vicious attack. It happened last Wednesday in the Franklin Market on Franklin Street near Bush. 72-year-old Petros Yohannes, who customers call Peter, owns the Franklin Market in San Francisco. While he’s usually
Continue Reading Best Buy will be closed on Thanksgiving Day, moving many of its Black Friday deals online and offering alternatives to in-store shopping. The decision marks the second straight year that Best Buy stores will be dark on the holiday. Last year, in the midst of the Covid crisis, the store encouraged customers instead to take
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — The fiancée of Allen Waller describes his killing as senseless. The 29-year-old father was killed Sunday after a dispute erupted between him and his neighbor’s landscaper. Waller’s fiancée said they’ve been complaining to their neighbor for years about yard debris left behind by her
Continue Reading Martin Winterkorn has agreed to pay Volkswagen nearly $14 million after an investigation found the former CEO failed to respond properly to signs that the company may have been using illegal diesel engine technology. He also failed to ensure that questions from US authorities about the German carmaker’s 2015 emissions scandal were answered “truthfully, completely
Continue Reading Lordstown Motors, the startup electric truck maker, warned Tuesday it is close to running out of cash and may be forced out of business in the next year. The news, which sent Lordstown shares down about 20% in midday trading Wednesday, is a blow to not only the company but also to the gritty industrial
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President Joe Biden on Thursday revoked a series of executive orders signed during the Trump administration targeting TikTok, WeChat and other Chinese apps, and replaced them with a new executive order addressing apps linked to foreign adversaries, including China. Thursday’s order is aimed at protecting Americans’ personal data, according to a White House news release,
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Retailers are reporting challenges hiring workers to staff stores and warehouses as the US economy reopens and shoppers spend on clothes, home goods and more. There were 965,000 open jobs in the retail sector in April, the Labor Department said Tuesday, more than double the figure from last April. And 106,000 retail workers quit their
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PENSACOLA, Florida (WALA) — A Florida man was arrested on a felony video voyeurism after a hidden video camera was found in a bathroom used by children at a Baptist church. The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office says 37-year-old David Patrick Nims was charged with one count of video
Continue Reading The CMT Music Awards are Wednesday night and it’s bound to keep us all entertained. The show, which will air live from Nashville, is hosted by Kane Brown and Kelsea Ballerini and some of country’s biggest names are set to take the stage. Where to watch You really won’t be able to miss the show
Continue Reading The first round of bipartisan talks have collapsed between the White House and key Republicans, kicking into gear a multi-faceted process on Capitol Hill that will test Democratic unity and President Joe Biden’s own skills in selling his caucus on a signature policy proposal. Bottom line: In the intervening weeks, this process will get messy.
Continue Reading Ferrari has turned to a top tech executive to be its new CEO and lead the company into the age of electric supercars. Benedetto Vigna, currently the president of micro-electromechanical systems and sensor groups at the Geneva-based computer chip maker STMicroelectronics, will take over as CEO September 1. “His deep understanding of the technologies driving
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MIAMI (WFOR) — The chairman of the Miami-Dade County Commission is fed up with the rise in gun violence he’s seeing in South Florida. “Our goal is to eradicate the stupidity that’s taking place,” said Jose “Pepe” Diaz. Diaz has had enough of the gun violence, and is
Continue Reading El Salvador has become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. A majority of lawmakers have approved a proposal from Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele that will allow bitcoin to be used as legal tender in the country alongside the US dollar. The law states that “all economic agents shall accept bitcoin as a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SEAL BEACH, California (KCAL, KCBS) — The landmark Seal Beach Water Tower House could be yours for a mere $5 million. The iconic Sunset Beach Water Tower hit the market last week for $4,950,000. The renovated four-level home along Pacific Coast Highway boasts four bedrooms, four bathrooms and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DENVER (KCNC) — Jerry Schemmel spent 18 season broadcasting Denver Nuggets games and then spent 10 years as the play-by-play announcer for Colorado Rockies games. Now he’s about to embark on the challenge of a lifetime: a 3,000 mile cross-country known as Race Across America, or R.A.A.M. Schemmel
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WELD COUNTY, Colorado (KCNC) — Dozens of residents in northern Colorado stared a destructive tornado in the eye as it tore its way through Weld County between Firestone and Platteville. Homes were destroyed, trailers uplifted, structures overturned and cattle killed. First responders said there were no reports of
Continue Reading A federal judge has ruled that California’s 32-year-old assault weapons ban is unconstitutional — and that the state cannot limit civilian access to weapons he considered to be “fairly ordinary, popular, modern rifles.” Judge Roger Benitez wrote that the weapons under California’s ban were not “extraordinary weapons lying at the outer limits of Second Amendment
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BROCKTON, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Widline Pyrame is a woman on a mission. “We’re trying to preach that representation matters,” says the 33-year-old. Her journey to a booming kiosk business at the Westgate Mall in Brockton began long ago, when, as a young girl growing up in Haiti, Widline
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