Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — Following Wednesday’s announcement that Health Canada has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children ages 12 and up, provinces are now deciding how their vaccine rollouts will reflect this information moving forward. Although Health Canada has announced their approval based on recent clinical trials,
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Asian Americans are often labeled as a singular group, but the fastest growing population in the US is far from a monolith — and their complex history and cultures are often glossed over. While they have been in America since the nation’s infancy, Asian Americans continue being harmed by stereotypes like the “model minority” as
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The divorce of Bill and Melinda Gates has sent shockwaves through China, where the Microsoft co-founder has achieved a level of fame unlike almost any other Western entrepreneur. The “Bill Gates’ divorce” hashtag had generated more than 830 million views and 66,000 discussion posts on China’s Twitter-like platform Weibo by Wednesday — far surpassing the
Continue Reading As the pandemic crushed the US economy last spring, sawmills shut down lumber production to brace for a housing slump. The slump never arrived and now there isn’t enough lumber to feed the red-hot housing market. The shortage is delaying construction of badly needed new homes, complicating renovations of existing ones and causing sticker shock
Continue Reading I clipped a keychain with one of Apple’s tiny new Bluetooth trackers, AirTags, onto my son’s book bag and waved goodbye to him on the school bus. I watched on my iPhone’s Find My app as the bus stopped at a light a few blocks down from our street. But then the tiny “key” icon
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Covid-19 restrictions are loosening and new federal aid money is on the way, yet major productions of the Nutcracker ballet, a classic hallmark of the holiday season, could yet be put on hold for a second year in a row. Dance companies from Boston to Los Angeles remain unsure if live performances will take place
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(CNN Español) — La bandera mexicana ondea a media asta. La Ciudad de México está de luto. El trágico accidente en el que colapsó un tramo de la Línea 12 del metro elevado de la capital se ha cobrado la vida de al menos 25 personas y dejó decenas de heridos. Enrique Bonilla, sobreviviente del
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Vaccinations could soon open up for children 12 to 15 years old, a development that could be key to protecting the United States against Covid-19 as overall vaccination rates slow. “High school kids, in particular, are known to be just about as susceptible and just about as good at passing along this virus as other
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Allies of Rudy Giuliani continue to call on former President Donald Trump and Republicans to pay for his efforts around the election and, in turn, subsidize the mounting legal bills facing the former New York City mayor. Trump was recently informed directly by Giuliani associates of the increasing debts incurred by his onetime personal lawyer,
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Will we see a pandemic baby boom? Maybe not. The US birth rate fell more than 6% in the last quarter of 2020, which includes the first weeks babies conceived in the early days of the pandemic would have been born. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — UTEP has announced that it reached an agreement with U.S. Customs and Border Protection that would allow upcoming graduates and their parents to cross into the U.S. for the school’s commencement ceremonies. The school said in a statement that it is still ironing out the exact details with CBP, and
Continue Reading The Black diplomat who was handed a set of keys in the State Department parking garage by a White colleague who seemed to assume he worked there, not in the offices above, and could fetch her car. The young Latina in tears after an older White diplomat counseled her on being “too vibrant.” Her boss,
Continue Reading Serial entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk is selling a new use case for NFT: “Smart event” tokens that have real value rather than digital art. Vaynerchuk’s VeeFriends NFT collection will give buyers three-year access to his VeeCon business and marketing convention. Customers can buy the tokens with etherium cryptocurrency. But he sees a broader future for NFTs
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los adultos jóvenes ahora están timoneando el curso de esta pandemia como los mayores propagadores del coronavirus. Pero muchos dicen que no planean vacunarse, lo cual tiene mayores consecuencias de lo que creen. «Realmente necesitamos vacunar a las personas de 20 a 49 años porque ellos son los que están impulsando la pandemia
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– La Unión Europea podría seguir los pasos de Estados Unidos y apoyar la exención de la protección de la propiedad intelectual sobre las vacunas contra el covid-19. Así lo anunció este jueves la presidenta de la Comisión Europea, Ursula von de Leyen, quién mostró su voluntad para “discutir cualquier propuesta que sirva
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — La alcaldesa de Bogotá, Claudia López, quien este miércoles pidió apoyo de fuerza pública por las fuertes protestas en la ciudad, dijo en Conclusiones que tanto los policías como los manifestantes son los mismos jóvenes humildes. López explica que la pandemia ha exacerbado los problemas de pobreza y desempleo previos y que
Continue Reading Senior Democrats are treading carefully around Justice Stephen Breyer these days, worried that a progressive push to get him to retire could either anger him or come off as overtly political — in either case potentially dashing their hopes of getting a young new liberal on the Supreme Court in his place. The clock is
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You might gawk at Premier League footballers’ million dollar salaries but playing careers are short and can sometimes be curtailed by injury, illness or poor form. And when a career comes to its inevitable end, many players are left scrambling to reinvent themselves. That’s why former Bulgarian international Stiliyan Petrov, along with other ex-pros, such
Continue Reading Chelsea ensured it will be an all English affair in the Champions League final this season after beating Real Madrid in the semifinals on Wednesday. The Blues went into the second leg level at 1-1, but goals from Timo Werner and Mason Mount settled the tie, setting up a clash against Premier League rival Manchester
Continue Reading A California man who died in police custody this month was restrained on his stomach on the ground for about five minutes before he became unresponsive and officers began CPR, body camera footage released Tuesday by the Alameda Police Department shows. The April 19 death of Mario Gonzalez Arenales, 26, is under investigation by the
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Vaccinations could soon open up for children 12 to 15 years old, a development that could be key to protecting the United States against Covid-19 as overall vaccination rates slow. “High school kids, in particular, are known to be just about as susceptible and just about as good at passing along this virus as other
Continue Reading The South Carolina House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that allows for firing squads to carry out death penalty sentences and makes electrocution a more likely means of execution. The potential change in South Carolina law comes as states nationwide have hit barriers executing those on death row due to problems administering lethal injections,
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — La alcaldesa de Bogotá, Claudia López, informó la noche de este miércoles que las protestas de este día en la capital de Colombia han dejado un saldo de 23 civiles heridos y 6 policías heridos. López informó a través de su cuenta verificada de Twitter que 16 personas que la Defensoría del
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EL PASO, Texas– The month of May is Mental Health Awareness Month and NAMI El Paso is encouraging the community to continue the conversation of mental health beyond this month. “There’s different reasons for the stigma and it’s one of the leading causes and reasons that individuals don’t seek help,” said Isidro Torres, executive director
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El exministro de Salud de Brasil Nelson Teich dijo a una comisión de legisladores que investigan el manejo de la pandemia de covid-19 por parte del presidente Jair Bolsonaro que presentó su renuncia cuando llevaba menos de un mes en el cargo debido a la presión del mandatario para promover la hidroxicloroquina
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EL PASO, Texas – It’s been nearly 20 years since they took the field together, but the band is back together. Dana Dimel has been at the helm of the Miners since 2018. In his years he’s recruited many players and coaches alike, some of whom he shares a whole lot of history with. First
Continue Reading Arkansas Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Wednesday evening that it’s a “bad look” for the GOP to move on ousting Rep. Liz Cheney from party leadership amid her continued opposition to former President Donald Trump. “In terms of Liz Cheney, she’s a conservative, she did a vote of conscience and she should not be ousted
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Las protestas en Colombia no cesan. Desde hace una semana, Cali, Bogotá y diversas partes del país se han manifestado contra el Gobierno de Iván Duque, lo que ha dejado, según cifras oficiales, 24 muertos y cientos de heridos. Y estas manifestaciones llegan hasta el ámbito digital, con la bandera colombiana como
Continue Reading Remember that pandemic baby boom some thought we’d see about nine months after coronavirus lockdowns swept across the US? Well, as experts predicted, so far it seems to be shaping up to be more of a baby bust. New data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics
Continue Reading California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner said Wednesday that she is committed to building former President Donald Trump’s wall at the southern border but that she favors “modernizing” the nation’s immigration system to help some of the undocumented immigrants in this country gain US citizenship. Jenner, who is challenging Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom in the
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