EL PASO, Texas — A pandemic face mask requirement for students, faculty and visitors to the UTEP campus was lifted Thursday by university President Heather Wilson. Face coverings for both indoor and outdoor settings at UTEP will no longer be mandated effective immediate, Wilson indicated, and campus signs about masking requirements were in the process
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Nearly 70 big cats have been seized from an Oklahoma animal park owned by Jeff Lowe and his wife, Lauren, who were featured in the Netflix documentary, “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” a news release from the Department of Justice said Thursday. A total of 68 protected lions, tigers, lion-tiger hybrids and a jaguar
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Mainly clear tonight and overnight with some high clouds. Skies will be partly cloudy Friday with a slight chance for rain at 10%. I expect at least a 10% of rain through the weekend with temps in the low to mid 90’s and partly cloudy skies.
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RIGBY, Idaho — An Idaho teacher who disarmed a sixth grader after she opened fire at school earlier this month is breaking her silence for the first time. Krista Gneiting, a math teacher at Rigby Middle School in the small town of Rigby, about 15 miles northeast of Idaho Falls, was preparing her students for
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(CNN) — Un médico de Florida coleccionó durante más de cuatro décadas tarjetas de béisbol y objetos deportivos, algunos de los cuales se remontan a la década de 1880. Ahora, su colección, valorada en US$ 20 millones, sale a subasta. El Dr. Thomas Newman, neurólogo, falleció en enero a causa de complicaciones derivadas del covid-19,
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The CEO of Colonial Pipeline is set to testify to lawmakers next month after a cyberattack caused a six-day shutdown of the pipeline that delivers nearly half of all the diesel and gasoline consumed on the East Coast of the United States. Joseph Blount, who has run the Colonial Pipeline company for nearly four years,
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas — When Bridget Wiedenmeyer learned Texas was banning mask mandates in public schools, she immediately worried about her 11-year-old daughter — who has a chronic lung condition but is too young to be vaccinated against Covid-19. “There’s a large contingent of people who are like, ‘Well, only this teeny tiny percent of kids
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Click here for updates on this story O’AHU, Hawaii (KITV) — During the pandemic, Toni Floerke, a nurse at Project Vision Hawaii, has been putting shots in the arms of hundreds of homeless on O’ahu. Many of them are hard-to-reach and reluctant to receive a dose of a vaccine. It’s forced nonprofit groups to go
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EL PASO, Texas – After serving on the Miner coaching staff for nine seasons from 2004-12, UTEP head football coach Dana Dimel announced the return of Aaron Price to the staff as the new special teams coordinator for the Miners on Thursday. Price, the son of former UTEP head coach Mike Price, returns to El Paso
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LONG ISLAND, New York (WABC) — Police on Long Island are looking for the persons who vandalized a mosque, burning a sacred flag and spray painting pro-Trump graffiti on the marble base. It happened around 2 a.m. Monday at the Islamic Center of Suffolk County on 3rd Street
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President Joe Biden on Thursday touted the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas during a hastily arranged White House speech in response to the quick-moving developments in the Middle East. “We’ve held intensive high-level discussions, hour-by-hour, literally, (with) Egypt, the Palestinian Authority and other Middle Eastern countries with the aim of avoiding the sort of prolonged
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hailing the impending cease-fire in the fighting between Israel and Hamas, saying he sees a “genuine opportunity” toward the larger goal of building a lasting peace in the Middle East. Biden is crediting the Egyptian government with playing a crucial role in brokering the cease-fire and says he
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It was a rubbish tee shot, wasn’t it? Sebastián Muñoz hit the rarest form of hole-in-one on Thursday at the 2021 PGA Championship, and one that he appeared to be unwilling to retrieve his ball from. On the 18th hole at Kiawah Island’s Ocean Course, the Colombian golfer hit his drive off to the left
Continue Reading (CNN) — Una vacuna de refuerzo contra el covid-19, cuando esté autorizada, probablemente será necesaria dentro de un año después de la vacunación inicial, dijo el miércoles el Dr. Anthony Fauci, director del Instituto Nacional de Alergias y Enfermedades Infecciosas de Estados Unidos. «Creo que probablemente será dentro de un año», dijo Fauci durante una
Continue Reading Londres (CNN) — No existe tal cosa como un nivel «seguro» de consumo de alcohol, y un mayor consumo de este está asociado con una peor salud cerebral, según un nuevo estudio. En un estudio observacional, que aún no ha sido revisado por pares, investigadores de la Universidad de Oxford estudiaron la relación entre la
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MANCHESTER, Connecticut (WFSB) — A vehicle was stolen from a gas station in Manchester with a 9-year-old child sleeping inside. Police said they received the report about it around 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday. They said the vehicle was taken from the Shell Gas Station on Hartford Road. The
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WINDSOR, Connecticut (WFSB) — The Greater Hartford NAACP continues to push for something to be done after ropes tied like nooses were found at the Amazon construction site in Windsor. Last month, ropes tied into a noose was found at the Windsor jobsite. A few days later, five
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GRANT COUNTY, New Mexico – An El Paso truck driver was killed in a traffic crash involving four tractor-trailer rigs along Interstate 10 between Deming and Lordsburg, New Mexico State Police said Thursday. The victim was identified by NMSP as 33-year-old Steven Carpenter. The deadly crash occurred Wednesday evening at a rest stop exit on
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — A restaurant in Buckhead is catching heat over perceived inconsistencies in its dress code. Monica Johnson had brunch reservations on Sunday at Le Bilboquet. She wasn’t aware the restaurant had a business casual dress code and showed up in a track suit. The restaurant lists
Continue Reading Nueva York (CNN Business) — Si no te importan los anuncios, HBO Max ahora será más barato. El servicio de transmisión de WarnerMedia, la empresa matriz de CNN, anunció el miércoles que una nueva versión de la plataforma con publicidad costará US$ 9,99 al mes. Eso es menos que la versión sin publicidad, que cuesta
Continue Reading President Joe Biden plans to address quickly moving developments in the Middle East from the White House on Thursday evening. It will be the first time in a week that Biden has spoken publicly about the fighting that has raged between Israel and Hamas. He’ll speak at 5:45 p.m. ET Thursday. His remarks come as
Continue Reading After taking back the House in 2018, Nancy Pelosi called herself “a bridge to the next generation of leaders” and agreed to a deal: she’d serve again as speaker for no more than four years. Time is now ticking — and no one knows what Pelosi will do in 2022. Confidantes of the 81-year-old speaker
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The US military has seen a 55% jump in Covid-19 vaccinations among active-duty service members over the last month, a senior defense official told CNN. The increase comes after the Pentagon opened up vaccinations to the general population on April 19. Of the approximately 1.4 million active duty service members, some 500,000 had received their
Continue Reading Republican lawmakers have recently downplayed or outright denied the violence of the January 6 insurrection as a bipartisan agreement to investigate the siege is in limbo on Capitol Hill. But the mounting pile of evidence in the nearly 450 Capitol riot criminal proceedings — including hundreds of hours of videos, seized weapons, text messages and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A leisurely paddle along the Mississippi River is a great way to relax and enjoy a few hours. But what a foursome in one canoe just accomplished is anything but relaxing. They just set the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to row the
Continue Reading Sen. Chris Murphy, who’s been leading the charge to secure a long-shot bipartisan deal on a gun background checks bill, told CNN on Thursday he thinks “it’s close” to the point where “we’ve got to put a bill on the floor,” a signal that hopes for a bipartisan agreement have faded and Democrats are all
Continue Reading President Joe Biden became increasingly impatient with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following a blunt phone call Wednesday in which the US President set a deadline for violence to ease between Israel and Hamas. The call, which took place a day before Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire in the 11-day conflict, was more
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHARR, Texas (KTVT) — A 28-year-old woman from Edinburg, Texas was arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border with $1,500,000 worth of alleged heroin hidden inside the tires of a Volkswagen Jetta she was driving. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations at the Pharr International Bridge discovered
Continue Reading (CNN) — El Gabinete de Seguridad de Israel discutió un posible alto el fuego durante más de dos horas. Votó a favor de un alto el fuego. «El Gabinete de Seguridad se reunió esta noche. Y aceptó por unanimidad la recomendación de todos los elementos de seguridad – el Jefe de Estado Mayor, el jefe
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Los Angeles police are searching for the man captured on video stabbing a homeless woman in the head as she was sleeping on the sidewalk. The violent attack happened at 12:02 a.m. Tuesday near the intersection of 25th and San Pedro streets in
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