(CNN)– Bienvenidos a la edición de los premiosOscar del boletín Pop Life Chronicles. Incluso antes de que se abran los sobres, la 93ª edición de los Premios de la Academia ya dejó huella con algunas primicias históricas. El espectáculo tendrá lugar este domingo, pero sigue leyendo para saber por qué deberías sacar las palomitas y
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Diapers are a pricey, essential item for parents. Now, they’re getting even more expensive, hurting low-income families already struggling with the pandemic’s economic woes. Disposable diaper prices rose 8.7% during the year ending April 10, according to the latest numbers from NielsenIQ, which tracks point of sale data from retailers. Diaper makers recently said they
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer issue fines to undocumented immigrants who have failed to depart the United States, the agency announced Friday, a reversal from the Trump-era policy that threatened immigrants with thousands of dollars in debt to the federal government. ICE officials said the agency rescinded the two Trump-era orders on the
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Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office has arrested two men accused of leading deputies on a vehicle chase Thursday evening, April 22, in the area of Smokey Park Highway and Asbury Road in Candler. Deputies were initially responding to a breaking and entering call, and
Continue Reading (CNN) — Hemos tenido que adaptarnos a un mundo que cambió rápidamente durante el último año y ciertos hábitos recién adquiridos merecen conservarse cuando termine la pandemia. Algunos de nuestros comportamientos han beneficiado al medio ambiente, como comprar en los comercios locales, reducir nuestros desplazamientos y viajar menos en avión. Otros hábitos han reducido nuestras
Continue ReadingFORT WORTH, Texas — Multiple high school students in Texas are facing disciplinary action after they created a social media group pretending to auction off their Black peers. The group, called “N***** Auction” on the app Snapchat, was started by a handful of students at the Aledo Independent School District, just outside of Fort Worth.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (WFSB) — A data breach has impacted Yale New Haven Health. On Friday, the healthcare system announced that Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven is among many hospitals nationwide that were impacted by software issues at Elekta. Elekta is the company that provides the
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A Nevada death row inmate is scheduled to die by lethal injection at the beginning of June, but he’s fighting his sentence, and in a recent court filing, he said he’d prefer to die by firing squad rather than a deadly drug cocktail. In a document filed this month, attorneys for Zane Floyd, sentenced to
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When Apple unveiled its colorful new iMac line at a virtual product launch earlier this week, reactions were divided: They’re beautiful. They’re ugly. What is with that ‘chin’? The event was one of the most exciting product launches from any tech company in a while. Apple introduced an entirely new product — its AirTag location
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Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas suggested on Tuesday that Democrat Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia House minority leader and gubernatorial candidate, had initially supported a boycott of Georgia in response to the state’s controversial new elections law. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on voting rights, at which Abrams testified, Cotton said, “March 31st,
Continue Reading A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. Anticipation is building for the Facebook Oversight Board’s looming decision on whether to keep or reverse a ban on former President Trump’s account. The board has said the decision will be announced “in the coming
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Former Manchester United star Ryan Giggs, who is the manager of the Welsh national football team, has been charged with assaulting two women and “coercive and controlling behaviour,” police said on Friday. Giggs has been charged with “causing actual bodily harm to a woman in her 30s and common assault of a woman in her
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Parents who were exposed to radiation from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster did not pass genetic changes caused by radiation exposure on to their children, a new study has found. The 1986 reactor explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant forced a region-wide evacuation, sending radioactive fallout billowing across Europe. While the explosion itself
Continue Reading The United States is sending search and rescue gear to help Indonesia search for a submarine that went missing with 53 crew members on board, a defense official tells CNN. Three C-17 aircraft are expected to depart Dover Air Force Base Friday with watercraft and underwater search and rescue gear to assist with ongoing efforts
Continue Reading House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn has been fined for violating the procedure of going through the metal detectors installed off the House floor, the first Democrat to receive such a fine. The House Ethics Committee confirmed in a statement Friday that Clyburn had been fined, one day after the South Carolina congressman told CNN about
Continue Reading Honda became the latest automaker to promise an emissions-free future. In his first press conference as CEO of the Japanese automaker, Toshihiro Mibe said Friday the company “will strive” to sell only battery-electric vehicles and fuel cell electric vehicles by 2040 in the three major markets where it primarily sells cars — North America, China
Continue Reading Protests over deputies’ fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. kicked off for a third straight day Friday in North Carolina’s Elizabeth City, with demonstrators calling for authorities to release officers’ body camera footage of Wednesday’s killing. Demonstrators stood in the streets early Friday afternoon, blocking a few intersections in a commercial section of the city
Continue Reading (CNN) — Luego de una última probada de invierno esta semana, el tiempo extremo de la primavera volverá a rugir con tornados, granizo y vientos fuertes durante la próxima semana. Más de 30 millones de personas están bajo amenaza de tiempo severo el viernes de Texas a Alabama. Otros 20 millones se verán afectados el
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EL PASO, Texas — April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Covid-19 has impacted the way we do everything, and a Borderland shelter that works with sexual assault survivors is no different. “It’s just very difficult right now and all we need to let them know is that we’re here for them,” said Bridgette Vejil, a
Continue Reading (CNN) — Un preso que escapó de una cárcel de Nevada hace 27 años está nuevamente bajo custodia de Estados Unidos después de ser capturado en México, dijo el Departamento de Correcciones de Nevada y el Servicio de Alguaciles de Estados Unidos. Samuel Avalos Gallardo, de 52 años, fue descubierto viviendo en Nayarit, México. Fue
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A former Waukesha South High School student who brought two pellet guns to school agreed to a plea deal. Tyrone Smith, who was 17 at the time of the incident, allegedly pointed the weapon at a student’s head and was shot after police said
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Two Las Cruces nurses credit the Pfizer vaccine with protecting them from the coronavirus after all four of their children tested positive for Covid-19 back in January. “We put it to the test,” said Kara Carrasco, an operating room nurse at Memorial Medical Center said Friday. “We are proof. We
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EL PASO, Texas — Retired U.S. Army Sgt. Patrick Parker of Killeen, Texas travels the U.S. to bring awareness to hunger. The decorated Iraqi War veteran who goes by the name “Sgt. Pushup” does between 500 and 1,000 pushups at every event he attends to show his thanks to those who donate to the cause.
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EL PASO, Texas — Former El Paso Congressman Beto O’Rourke called the the Castner Range of the Franklin Mountains “7,000 acres of rugged wilderness in an urban setting.” Now current Congresswoman Veronica Escobar is following in her predecessor’s footsteps with a legislative effort announced at a news conference on Friday to get the Castner Range
Continue Reading Washington (CNN) — Un objeto no identificado fue visto en el sitio de la búsqueda en curso de un submarino indonesio desaparecido con 53 miembros de la tripulación a bordo. Las autoridades advierten que el oxígeno se agotará en pocas horas. Un buque naval indonesio detectó un objeto con «fuerte resonancia magnética» a una profundidad
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EL PASO, Texas — A new television game show called “The Cube” is coming to the TBS cable network and will feature a Borderland couple, Samantha and TJ Stukes. competing for up to $250,000 in prize money. The premise of the show: A couple will be placed in glass box and then tasked with answering
Continue ReadingABILENE, Texas — A fresh manicure makes Trevor Wilkinson feel a little more like his true self. And now, after a fight that lasted most of his senior year, the teenager can breathe easily in his Texas high school knowing that he fought for the right to be unapologetic about who he is. Wilkinson, 18,
Continue Reading Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast ever and one of the world’s greatest athletes, is leaving endorsement powerhouse Nike for a deal with Athleta, the athletic clothing unit of Gap Inc. Biles is a significant signing for Athleta’s marketing efforts. She’s the first woman to capture five all-around gymnastic world championship titles, and the winner
Continue Reading Another gender reveal party turned dangerous, this time in New Hampshire, with an explosion that shook nearby homes. The partygoers detonated around 80 pounds of explosives, Kingston police said in a statement. They used an explosive called Tannerite, a target used for firearms practice that also comes in a gender-reveal variety. After Kingston police arrived
Continue Reading On Thursday, 94 senators voted to pass legislation denouncing the recent wave of hate crimes directed at Asian Americans and creating a new position at the Justice Department to expedite those sorts of cases in the future. One senator voted against the legislation: Missouri Republican Josh Hawley. “My big problem with Sen Hirono’s bill that
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