When Alexandra Leighton set out to get her Covid-19 vaccine, she found herself pleasantly surprised. Leighton, who produces television commercials, found she could get any of the three Covid-19 vaccines — Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson — within a reasonable drive from her Miami home. “At the beginning it was horrible — you wanted
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Click here for updates on this story ORLANDO (WESH) — A Polk County mother and military wife is back in Orlando with her family, after being deported three years ago. Alejandra Juarez entered the United States illegally more than twenty years ago and lived undocumented. She was deported in 2018. Congressman Darren Soto asked President
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Facebook’s plans to launch a version of Instagram for children under the age of 13 continues to get backlash. On Monday, 44 attorneys general signed a letter addressed to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to scrap plans for an Instagram intended for younger users, citing mental health and privacy concerns. The letter comes less
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EL PASO, Texas — Home valuations are expected to increase this year and the more your house is valued, the more property taxes you have to pay. El Pasoans do have an opportunity to protest the valuation. The Central Appraisal District said you can protest if the market value is incorrect, property is not appraised
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused the Hamas militant group of crossing a “red line” with its rocket attack on Jerusalem and promised a tough response. He said Monday that Israel would not “tolerate an attack on our territory, in our capital, on our citizens and soldiers.” He further warned that
Continue Reading It’s the claim that’s suddenly everywhere: The Covid-19 vaccine is going to make women infertile. “No! You don’t know the science!” one woman posted on Twitter in response to naysayers. “The vaccine creates an immune response to the placenta and renders a woman sterile! They know this and this is the objective! It’s a shifty
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One of the largest US fuel pipelines remained largely paralyzed Monday after a ransomware cyberattack forced the temporary shutdown of all operations late last week — an incident that laid bare vulnerabilities in the country’s aging energy infrastructure. The victim of the attack, Colonial Pipeline is a company that transports more than 100 million gallons
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MESQUITE, New Mexico — A Mesquite man has been arrested in connection with the death of his girlfriend’s 5-month-old daughter last month, according to Doña Ana County Sheriff’s officials. They said 23-year-old Israel Ramirez is facing one count of intentional child abuse resulting in the death of a child under 12 and one count of
Continue Reading New York Police Department investigators are looking for a 31-year-old man they believe to be the shooter who left three people injured in Times Square over the weekend, according to two law enforcement officials. The law enforcement officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation, say the man intended to
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(CNN) — Un quiebre en el último informe de empleos del gobierno de Estados Unidos está electrizando la batalla de Washington por los programas enormemente ambiciosos de Joe Biden y ofrece una pista temprana del peligro político que el presidente podría enfrentar si la economía no se recupera con fuerza. Los datos, que muestran que
Continue Reading Dogecoin may have started as (and may still be) a joke. But serious cryptocurrency investors who’ve bet on ethereum are laughing all the way to the bank. Ethereum, or ether for short, hit a new record high of above $4,100 Monday morning. Ether is the world’s second most valuable cryptocurrency, trailing only bitcoin. It has
Continue Reading President Joe Biden will focus in a speech Monday on how the administration is providing funding for states and localities, bolstering child care providers and helping Americans return to work safely, a White House official told CNN. “Today the President will announce additional steps to get Americans back to work, including removing barriers that are
Continue Reading Today in ultra-billionaire news, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has purchased a modest 100-foot schooner as he looks forward to a quieter life and hours of reflection on the open seas … LOL, just kidding. The world’s richest man is reportedly buying a boat, though that word feels inappropriately sensible for the monstrosity going to Captain
Continue Reading The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week it had designated a coronavirus variant first seen in India as a “variant of interest,” adding it to the growing collection of viral variants it’s keeping an eye on. Vaccine makers are so worried about the chance new variants will escape the protection offered
Continue ReadingMay is better hearing month. It also happens to be mental health awareness month. When it comes to hearing loss, there’s an important connection between hearing and your brain. We spoke with Dr. Haley Owen, an audiologist at Livingston hearing aid center to understand the link between the two. She says people with untreated hearing
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(Editor’s note: This story was produced as part of the Puente News Collaborative, a bi-national partnership of news organizations in Ciudad Juárez and El Paso.) By René Kladzyk and Maria Ramos Pacheco/El Paso Matters and Veronica Martinez/La Verdad First of a three-part series Running children and crying babies create a cacophony at El Buen Samaritano
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Biden administration officials worked urgently Monday to ascertain the scope and fallout of a ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, which supplies much of the eastern United States its gasoline — an incident that laid bare vulnerabilities in the country’s aging energy infrastructure. Senior White House officials said Monday the administration was working closely with
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story VILLAGE OF SANFORD, Michigan (WNEM) — A man and his three daughters have a new home after his was destroyed last year. When floodwaters caused by the two dam failures submerged the village of Sanford, his new home was built with community support. “It’s really nice to call
Continue Reading (CNN) — Seamos realistas: las mascarillas han sido un tema candente en Estados Unidos desde el comienzo de la pandemia. Se politizaron desde el principio y rápidamente se convirtieron en un símbolo de la seriedad con la que una persona se tomaba la amenaza del coronavirus. En nuestro nuevo mundo, donde ahora existe una forma
Continue Reading Neil Chatterjee, a top federal energy regulator, is calling on energy CEOs to step up their cyber defenses following a ransomware attack that knocked one of America’s most important pipelines offline. “This is a real wake up call,” Chatterjee, a commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, told CNN Business in an exclusive interview Monday.
Continue Reading SpaceX is claiming it will accept dogecoin — the somewhat satirical but popular cryptocurrency — as payment for an upcoming mission. A Canadian company called the Geometric Energy Corporation confirmed that it will pay SpaceX solely in dogecoin in order to secure a spot for an 88-pound satellite on a mission, called Doge-1, slated to
Continue Reading Police shot and killed a man who repeatedly rammed his SUV through the doors of the police department in Leicester, Massachusetts, early Sunday, Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. said at a news conference. The man managed to drive through the steel double doors and make it inside the station, Leicester Police Chief Kenneth
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Teen Vogue has appointed its second new editor in chief this year. Versha Sharma, managing editor of NowThis, is taking the helm of the Condé Nast brand in a position that was going to be filled in March by Alexi McCammond until the fallout over McCammond’s past racist and homophobic tweets. Sharma joined NowThis, a
Continue Reading (CNN) — Un equipo conjunto de la Marina y la Guardia Costera de EE.UU. confiscó miles de armas ilícitas la semana pasada después de detener un pequeño barco en el Mar del Norte de Arabia, dijo la Armada estadounidense en un comunicado. El crucero de guerra USS Monterey detuvo una embarcación tipo dhow sin bandera
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TULSA, Oklahoma (Tulsa World) — Some Tulsa-area interfaith leaders hope their effort to raise money for Tulsa Race Massacre reparations will ultimately pay off by convincing the city of Tulsa to do the same. Tulsa Metropolitan Ministries, in partnership with All Souls Unitarian Church, reached out to its
Continue Reading HOUSTON, Texas — The operator of a major U.S. pipeline hit by a cyber-attack says it hopes to have service mostly restored by the end of the week. Colonial Pipeline offered that update Monday after revealing that it had halted operations because of a ransomware attack. The FBI has linked the attack to a criminal
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A gunman opened fire at a family birthday party in Colorado Springs on Sunday, leaving six people dead and a community in mourning. There were at least nine mass shootings in the country over the weekend that combined left at least 15 people dead and 30 more wounded, according to CNN reporting and an analysis
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TULSA, Oklahoma (Tulsa World) — The Greenwood Rising History Center building is complete. Now comes the hard part — filling it with stories. Workers from 1220 and Local Projects will spend the next month doing just that in the leadup to the centennial commemoration of the 1921 Tulsa
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ORLANDO, Florida — A man was fatally shot outside a U.S. Customs and Immigration Services building in central Florida, and a suspect has been taken into custody. It happened Monday morning in an office park in south Orlando. Police Lt. Diego Toruno says a man and a woman were entering the building when another man
Continue Reading Bill and Melinda Gates have been in the process of getting divorced for two years, according to The Wall Street Journal. On Sunday, the Journal reported that one factor in the demise of the Gateses’ 25-year marriage was revelations that Bill Gates had spent time with Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex trafficker of minors, according
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