After months of waiting and delay, the US Census Bureau finally released its final count of the country’s population and, with it, the states that will gain — and lose — congressional seats for the next decade. The decennial process of reallocating the 435 House districts among the 50 states using population growth (and loss
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(CNN Español) — El músico de salsa Willie Colón y su esposa se recuperan de un accidente de tránsito que sufrieron este martes en Carolina del Norte y que ha dejado al ícono del género en «estado grave pero estable», según un comunicado publicado este domingo en las redes sociales oficiales del artista. El percance,
Continue Reading The US Census Bureau announced Monday that the total population of the United States has topped 331 million people, marking the country’s second slowest population growth rate in US history. Amid that, Texas will gain two seats in the redistricting process, the results found. Additionally, Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon will each gain
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Miscarriages are common. Some 23 million pregnancies worldwide end in miscarriage every year — that’s 15% of all pregnancies or 44 each minute, according to new estimates published in The Lancet medical journal on Monday. However, existing care and support for women and couples is “inconsistent and poorly organized” and amounts to little more than
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CLINT, Texas — Firefighters battled a blaze at a chemical factory late Monday afternoon in the Clint area of El Paso County. The fire broke out at TR Chemicals at 700 Celum Road, the entrance to which was blocked off by sheriff’s deputies. Thick, black smoke from the fire was highly visible near San Elizario
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One Illinois man has bowled a perfect game more than a dozen times — but the last time he went for the perfect 300, there was more at stake. Earlier this month, John Hinkle Jr., of Peoria, Illinois, honored the memory of his father, John Hinkle Sr., by achieving that perfect score while using a
Continue Reading Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a near-total abortion ban and two other abortion restrictions into law on Monday, sending a sweeping message that the state-level fight over access to the procedure is far from over. The Sooner State became the second state this year to enact a so-called heartbeat ban — a law barring
Continue Reading For 90 years, it has become a ritual in American politics to pause and compare the first 100 days of a new presidency to the record of early presidential accomplishments set by former President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. Though President Joe Biden is no Roosevelt, he bears some important similarities. And Biden is off
Continue Reading Getting vaccinated against Covid-19 and receiving a vaccination card has become a rite of passage for many Americans who have endured the pandemic for the last year. Securing a vaccination card, however, doesn’t necessarily mean your Covid-19 vaccine status is in your medical records. Many got the vaccines at drive-in events, sports stadiums and other
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Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE (WSMV) — A Metro Police Officer is on administrative assignment after he shot and killed a man on Clarksville Pike early Saturday morning. Police have not identified the man who died as they continue to notify the next of kin, but said Officer Christopher Royer pulled over
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Organizers of the recall effort against California Gov. Gavin Newsom collected enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot. The California secretary of state’s office announced Monday that more than 1.6 million signatures had been verified, about 100,000 more than needed to force a vote on the first-term Democrat. An election
Continue Reading When Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam looks back at his tenure, the inflection point between being a run-of-the-mill executive and the progressive leader he has become is a painful one. The scandal — born of the discovery of a decades-old yearbook photo that featured someone in blackface — was an existential crisis for Northam and his
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHARLES CITY, Iowa (The Courier) — Sharon Miller could barely contain her excitement in the phone message. “Our girl made it!” she said. “She made it through the Crucible. I like to call it the ‘Crucifixion.’” “Our girl” is Mackenzy Bilharz. On Jan. 25, Bilharz, of Charles City,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TULSA, Oklahoma (Tulsa World) — The Tulsa World recently talked to 10 Tulsans who, each in their own way, have committed to telling the story of Greenwood and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre while helping raise awareness of its too-long-ignored history. 50 years ago, the 1921 Tulsa Race
Continue Reading (CNN) —- Estados Unidos empezará a compartir pronto millones de dosis de la vacuna contra covid-19 de AstraZeneca con otros países, declaró el lunes un funcionario a CNN. EE.UU. tiene almacenadas decenas de millones de vacunas de AstraZeneca, pero ninguna se ha utilizado porque la Administración Medicamentos y Alimentos (FDA por sus siglas en inglés)
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WISDOM, Montana (The Montana Standard) — Two men each illegally shot a gray wolf on private property from a helicopter in the Big Hole Valley near Wisdom in March. The incident comes at a time when the state is grappling with controversy over wolf management. Gov. Greg Gianforte
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHARLESTON, Illinois (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier) — A woman could avoid a record of a conviction if she follows the terms of the sentence she received for stealing money from an elderly woman. Laurie A. Morehead, 59, whose address on record is in Decatur, admitted taking several thousand
Continue Reading For the last 100 days, President Joe Biden and his top advisers have mounted an urgent, wartime effort to get millions of coronavirus vaccines into the arms of Americans in order to beat back a pandemic that has upended the world for the better part of year. The effort, described to CNN during in-depth interviews
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A historic bottle of whiskey can soon be yours — if you have tens of thousands of dollars to spare. The whiskey, bottled in LaGrange, Georgia, is about to go up for auction. The Old Ingledew Whiskey is believed to be the oldest known whiskey in existence, according to Skinner, which is facilitating the auction.
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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is putting up $100 million for a new XPrize competition aimed at spurring the creation of new carbon removal technologies and helping to ease the climate crisis. The prize will be the largest cash incentive in history, according to XPrize, a long-running organization that hosts competitions focused on spurring
Continue Reading The White House is hammering out the details of an increasingly likely European summit between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which could happen as soon as early summer, according to sources familiar with the planning. The planning comes as the Biden administration is preparing to send Secretary of State Antony Blinken to
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EL PASO, Texas — Houston preservationist J.P. Bryan has funded a legal battle against El Paso’s proposed downtown multipurpose arena and donated tens of thousands of dollars to El Paso City Council candidates in the last two elections. Last month, he reached out to Mayor Oscar Leeser — a recipient of a $5,000 Bryan campaign
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story RACINE, Wisconsin (The Journal Times) — Racine historian Jim Mercier is always on the lookout for memorabilia to add to his collection, which contains thousands of items originated from the community. Mercier never knows what he’ll find, he said, but when he came across an online auction in
Continue Reading For the last 100 days, President Joe Biden and his top advisers have mounted an urgent, wartime effort to get millions of coronavirus vaccines into the arms of Americans in order to beat back a pandemic that has upended the world for the better part of year. The effort, described to CNN during in-depth interviews
Continue Reading (CNN) — El presidente de Francia, Emmanuel Macron, le dijo a su homólogo ruso Vladimir Putin en una llamada este lunes que está seriamente preocupado por el estado de salud de Alexey Navalny y el respeto de sus derechos básicos. En una declaración, el Palacio del Elíseo dijo que Macron le pidió a Putin que
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One man was killed and three people were wounded in a Sunday night shooting in the historic and entertainment district in Kansas City, Missouri, police reported. Officers responded to a report of gunshots around 10 p.m. and found four people shot near 19th and Vine streets, the police said in a news release. Officers provided
Continue Reading (CNN) — La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) sigue en «estrecho contacto» con el gobierno de la India para reiniciar las entregas de vacunas del Serum Institute of India (SII), dijo un portavoz de la OMS a CNN el lunes, cuando se le preguntó si el SII está imponiendo actualmente una prohibición de exportar
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Calling it the nation’s largest summer child nutrition effort, the Biden administration announced Monday that it will expand a key coronavirus aid program to help get food to more than 30 million kids after the school year ends. Eligible families will receive roughly $375 per child — or about $6.82 per child per weekday —
Continue Reading (CNN) — Aunque el año 2020 fue duro —por decir lo menos— para la mayoría de las empresas, algunas se opusieron a esta tendencia. La pandemia obligó a los consumidores a aprender, hacer ejercicio, socializar y muchas cosas más de nuevas maneras. Eso impulsó a las empresas a utilizar la tecnología para mejorar el acceso
Continue Reading Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan launched his Senate campaign on Monday, betting that the state that turned red in the Trump era can return to the Democratic party in 2022. Ryan, a Democrat who has represented the Youngstown area since 2003 and mounted a long-shot 2020 presidential bid, is closely aligned with organized labor and often
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