Pioneering space journalist Jay Barbree died Friday, according to his former employer, NBC News. He was 87. Barbree joined NBC News in 1958 and covered every non-commercial manned spaceflight in the US, from Freedom 7 to the final space shuttle mission. He worked for the network for nearly six decades. In 1986, Barbree covered the
Continue Reading Three Nashville police officers who raided the wrong apartment last summer will be suspended without pay as well as face other disciplinary measures, the city’s police chief said Friday. Initially, Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake stripped the officers of their policing powers after they executed a search warrant on what he called at the
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Between the first 12-year-olds receiving their Covid-19 vaccines and new guidance that vaccinated people can remove their masks indoors, the outlook for school in the fall resembles what it was like before the pandemic. After more than a year in which many students were learning remotely, children and educators should expect to return to in-person
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Several state governors and big retailers signaled a return to normal on Friday, a day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it’s safe for fully vaccinated people to remove their face masks in most settings. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Friday the state — which just recently battled a surge in coronavirus
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Sabrina Ionescu had a dream that this was coming. On Friday, her first game back since a sprained ankle sidelined her for most of her rookie season in 2020, Ionescu hit a game-winning three with less than one second remaining to give the New York Liberty a 90-87 win over the Indiana Fever in the
Continue Reading The bodies of two contract workers were recovered Friday after they died following an explosion in an Oklahoma dam that was undergoing maintenance, officials said. Three workers were doing maintenance work Thursday at the Robert S. Kerr Dam near Tulsa when the blast happened at about 6:00 p.m. in an 80-foot deep interior inspection shaft,
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MURFREESBORO, Tennessee – The UTEP track and field men’s team opened its 2021 Conference USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships with 13 points on Friday at Dean Hayes Track Complex. The Miners are ranked fourth behind UTSA (22), Rice (26) and Charlotte (38). The UTEP women’s team got off to a slow start with no points. “Not
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EL PASO, Texas – The high school baseball playoffs rolled on with several teams from El Paso in action in the area round. One team from the Borderland has already punched their ticket to the regional quarterfinals after winning both of their games. The Riverside Rangers are area champions after they defeated the Snyder Tigers
Continue Reading Nine people in Rhode Island’s capital were injured in a shooting Thursday, Providence Police Chief Hugh Clements said during a news conference. Three victims are “very seriously injured, maybe critically,” Clements said. Only one patient was taken to the Rhode Island Hospital by ambulance while the rest arrived in private vehicles, according to Clements. Police
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The wreckage of a cargo ship off the Georgia coast caught fire during salvage operations on Friday and seawater is being used to extinguish the blaze, according to the US Coast Guard. The wreckage of the 656-foot Golden Ray caught fire just after lunchtime during cutting operations and spread to some of the vehicles remaining
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(CNN) — El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, revocó un decreto del gobierno de Trump que requería que los solicitantes de visa tuvieran seguro médico o los medios para pagar la atención médica. “Mi administración se compromete a ampliar el acceso a una atención médica asequible y de calidad. Sin embargo, podemos lograr ese
Continue Reading China has successfully landed its rover on Mars, according to state media, becoming the second country in history to have a rover on the red planet. The rover, Zhurong, named after a god of fire in Chinese mythology, landed Saturday morning at the pre-selected area in Utopia Planitia on Mars, according to the state-run Xinhua
Continue Reading A fresh batch of data from a big study of health care workers across the country helped prompt the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to say fully vaccinated people can go without masks in most circumstances, the agency said Friday. The study found that real-life use of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines provided
Continue Reading (CNN Business) — Apple despidió a un nuevo empleado después de que miles de trabajadores le solicitaron a la compañía investigar cómo contrató al hombre que previamente había publicado una autobiografía que, según indicaron, contenía declaraciones misóginas. Antonio García Martínez, exgerente de producto para publicidad dirigida en Facebook y autor de la autobiografía «Chaos Monkeys:
Continue Reading The federal trial for former Minneapolis police officers Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng, and Thomas Lane, accused of civil rights violations in the death of George Floyd, is scheduled for August 2, a judge said Friday. The three men — who were helping former officer Derek Chauvin, who pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck, eventually
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Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — Last week’s ransomware attack on the U.S. Colonial Pipeline has drawn attention to the importance of good cybersecurity, prompting cybersecurity experts to encourage Canadian individuals and businesses to brush up on their cyber hygiene. Last Friday hackers used ransomware to get into the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Ottawa, Ontario (CTV Network) — The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has issued preliminary guidelines detailing what Canadians can expect to do this summer and fall with fewer pandemic restrictions, all dependent on whether the country can meet its vaccine targets. If 75 per cent of Canadians
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — A Calgary researcher says doctors need to be keenly aware of the risks of the rare side effects linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine, which can happen to anyone regardless of age or sex, after a case of a 63-year-old man who was admitted
Continue Reading A Bengal tiger is still at large somewhere in the Houston area, police say, but the man last seen with the big cat is now behind bars. Victor Hugo Cuevas was taken into custody Friday after a Fort Bend County judge revoked his bond on a pending, unrelated murder charge from 2017. The judge set
Continue Reading A Colorado man who was recently charged with murder in the disappearance of his wife a year ago has also been charged with voter fraud for voting for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election using his wife’s mail-in ballot, according to an affidavit. Barry Lee Morphew last week was charged with murder, tampering with
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — En Venezuela, el gerente general del diario El Nacional, Jorge Makriniotis, denunció este viernes que efectivos de la Guardia Nacional Bolivariana embargaron la sede de la publicación en horas de la tarde. El embargo se da semanas después de que el Tribunal Supremo de Justicia de Venezuela ordenara en una sentencia que
Continue Reading It was her last home softball game of the season, and Nicole Pyles, a sophomore at Durham Hillside High School in North Carolina, had just hit a double. Her hair, braided with beads and tied in a bun at the bottom of her neck, was the last thing on her mind. It quickly, however, became
Continue Reading (CNN) — En los últimos días, Estados Unidos ha quedado cautivado por la búsqueda de un tigre que se escapó en un barrio de Houston. Sin embargo, el hecho no es tan exótico como podríamos creer. Hay más tigres en cautiverio en Estados Unidos que en la naturaleza en todo el mundo, dicen los expertos. El
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GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Friday that she is “offended” by some House Republicans who are whitewashing the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, pushing back on the revisionism by some in the party who have tried to shield the pro-Trump mob from blame over the deadly insurrection during the certification of President Joe
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EL PASO, Texas– The border between the U.S. and Mexico initially shutdown on March 20, 2020, due to the rising cases of Covid-19 in both countries. The closure has now lasted well over a year, and there is belief that it may becoming to an end as the U.S. moves forward with a new sense
Continue Reading The first semi truck full of 2020 election ballots rolled slowly through the Arizona State Fairgrounds on Friday, past the “Crazy Times Carnival” set up in the south parking lot to a warehouse where the approximately 2.1 million ballots cast by Maricopa County voters will be stored for the next week. This is the latest
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BEIJING, China — China has landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time in the latest advance for its space program. The official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday that the lander had touched down, citing the China National Space Administration. Plans call for a rover to stay in the lander for a few days
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Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit can race in Saturday’s Preakness Stakes after the final two rounds of blood samples from the horse were deemed clear, officials said Friday. All three of trainer Bob Baffert’s horses scheduled to run at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland, passed their drug tests. Medina Spirit and Concert Tour
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A ransomware group said it published its “full data” on the Washington Metropolitan Police Department this week, claiming the department’s payment offer wasn’t enough to prevent the release, according to screenshots of online posts by the group that were reviewed by CNN. “We publish the full data of the police department, including HR, Gang Database,
Continue Reading (CNN Business) — Los ataques de ransomware (secuestro de datos, en español) acaparan los titulares cuando derriban operaciones importantes: hospitales, ciudades y, más recientemente, un oleoducto de EE.UU. Los ciberdelincuentes no solo estafan a las empresas exigiendo grandes sumas de dinero bajo la amenaza de causar estragos a sus sistemas informáticos, sino que la escasez de
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