(CNN Español) — Luego de una larga batalla contra el cáncer de páncreas, el legendario luchador dominicano Jack Veneno perdió la vida a los 79 años, según informó su hija, Paola Sánchez, a través de Instagram. “Hasta la muerte peleaste!!! Ganaste la faja de la eternidad. Hasta siempre padre,” escribió su hija. View this post
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Walking around my Brooklyn neighborhood as the country comes out of a long, Covid-depressed winter, I notice nearly everyone engaging in a curious pandemic ritual: as we stroll past brownstones, we all pull our masks up as soon as we see one another coming. “Science is real,” the yard signs on the block declare, and
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STANFORD, California — There’s been confirmation of the very first U.S. case of a new Covid-19 “double mutant” variant found in California, ABC affiliate KGO reports. A Stanford University team of researchers has identified the strain, which first originated out of India. The Stanford doctor who leads the laboratory that just identified that “double mutant”
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The race to beat the coronavirus variants, and to get as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible has intensified a debate in the scientific community about what the best strategy is to end the pandemic. The question at the heart of the debate: would delaying a second dose of the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19
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Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff will move in to the Naval Observatory residence Tuesday night after their move was delayed for more than two months because of “repairs to the home,” a White House official told CNN. Harris and Emhoff have been temporarily living at Blair House, the President’s guest quarters
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Evacuation orders near a Tampa-area reservoir where there still is a breach have been lifted, officials said Tuesday. Acting Manatee County Administrator Scott Hopes said the situation at the former Piney Point phosphate plant is “very much under control now.” Water from the breach has been routed to an unused retention pond on site that
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Wind gusts will gradually decrease overnight after peaking at 48 mph in El Paso and 48 mph in Las Cruces. NE El Paso recorded the top gust at 52 mph. Temps will decrease a few degrees Wednesday behind a weak cold front. Winds will peak at 30 mph from the W/NW Wednesday but pick up
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The Biden administration has yet to name a point person for the $178 billion Provider Relief Fund, according to a senior administration official. Congress created the fund last year to help hospitals and other health care providers struggling due to the coronavirus pandemic. Under the previous administration, the role fell to a deputy secretary, but
Continue Reading Less than one week after perhaps the most egregiously anti-transgender bill in modern US history passed the Arkansas legislature, it was vetoed in a surprise move by Governor Asa Hutchinson, a staunch Republican with a poor record on LGBTQ and civil rights. Less than one day later, the General Assembly voted Tuesday to override the
Continue Reading There has been a worrisome trend emerging in recent weeks: Cases among younger people are rising. In Michigan, hospitalizations among people in their 30s have climbed by over 600%, and those in their 40s by 800%. Average daily cases for children have also risen by over 200%. In Massachusetts, the largest increase in Covid-19 infections
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Promoting diversity in the arts has become a mainstream mantra in the entertainment industry since the first #OscarsSoWhite controversy in 2015, but it’s something Sheila Johnson has been doing her entire adult life. It’s been 41 years since the Salamander Hotels & Resorts owner and CEO co-founded the BET network with then-husband Robert Johnson, creating
Continue Reading Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms issued an executive order Tuesday that directs the city’s chief equity officer to implement “a series of actions to mitigate the impact” of Georgia’s new election law imposing a series of voting restrictions. The city of Atlanta does not have authority over state election law, so the administrative order cannot
Continue Reading Arkansas became the first state in the US to prohibit physicians from providing gender-affirming treatment for trans people under age 18 after the state’s General Assembly voted Tuesday to override the governor’s veto of an anti-trans bill that he called a “vast government overreach.” The state’s Republican-controlled House voted 71-24 to override Republican Gov. Asa
Continue Reading A crucial decision this week by the Senate’s parliamentarian could have sweeping ramifications for Joe Biden and future presidents to ram their agendas through the chamber along straight party-lines, putting Democrats on the cusp of pushing the rules further than they’ve gone before. After top Democratic aides privately strategized on a novel plan for weeks,
Continue Reading Dick Parsons had to make countless difficult decisions during his storied corporate career. The decision to speak out on Georgia’s voting law was not one of them. “This was an easy one. There is simply no excuse for what the Georgia legislature has done,” Parsons told CNN Business in his first public comments on the
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office says it will resume allowing in-person inmate visitation at the downtown jail and the jail annex starting April 10. In an effort to protect staff, inmates and visitors from potential exposure to the coronavirus, sheriff’s officials indicated the following safety measures will be in effect:
Continue Reading Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, who led a review of security failures around the January 6 insurrection, said Tuesday that the US Capitol attack was fueled by a “information operation” led by former President Donald Trump that involved feeding Americans “a little BS” and then allowing them to act on those beliefs. Speaking during an
Continue Reading Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have announced their first Netflix project after signing a production deal last year. “Heart of Invictus” a docu-series from Harry and Meghan’s production company Archewell Productions, will follow “a group of extraordinary competitors from around the globe, all service members who have suffered life-changing injuries or illnesses
Continue Reading Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings, a civil rights activist and the longest-serving member of Florida’s congressional delegation, has died, his chief of staff Lale M. Morrison told CNN on Tuesday. He was 84. In January 2019, he announced that he was being treated for pancreatic cancer and planned to remain in Congress during the treatment, calling
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Bryson DeChambeau has muscled his way to becoming a major winner, and he’s now hoping it’ll bring him success at golf’s most famous competition. As he prepares for the Masters, which begin on Thursday, the 2020 US Open winner has brought a new weapon with him: a new driver. DeChambeau had contemplated using a 48-inch
Continue Reading A slick-looking Real Madrid overpowered Liverpool 3-1 in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal on Tuesday night. Despite missing their starting center-back pairing of captain Sergio Ramos and Raphaël Varane, Madrid looked a class above the reigning Premier League winners. First-half goals from Vinicius Junior and Marco Asensio shot the hosts into the
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– Desde este martes, el Ministerio de Educación de República Dominicana comenzó las clases semipresenciales y voluntarias en 48 municipios con menor tasa de incidencia de coronavirus en el país. En los municipios donde empezó la medida había cerca de 420.000 estudiantes convocados voluntariamente, según el Ministerio de Educación. Los alumnos son del
Continue Reading Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte tested positive for Covid-19 Monday after experiencing mild symptoms on Sunday, according to his office. The Republican governor will isolate for 10 days in accordance with his doctor’s instructions and public health guidance and plans to work from home, his office said in a statement released on Monday. Montana’s first lady,
Continue Reading Black adults were more likely than their White and Latino/Hispanic counterparts to report having been discriminated against or judged unfairly by a health care provider or their staff in the months leading up to and during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new analysis finds. The report was released this week by the Urban Institute and the
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WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland of New Mexico announced a new unit within Bureau of Indian Affairs that plans to tackle the decades-long crisis of missing and murdered Native Americans. “Violence against Indigenous peoples is a crisis that has been underfunded for decades,” Haaland said in a statement. “Far too often, murders
Continue Reading The practice of finding new uses for old medications — called repurposing or repositioning drugs — is not new. The most famous (or perhaps infamous) example is sildenafil — aka: Viagra. Originally developed to treat high blood pressure, the little blue pill received US Food and Drug Administration approval in 1998 to treat erectile dysfunction,
Continue Reading (CNN) — El presidente de EE.UU., Joe Biden, anunció este martes que adelantó la fecha límite para que los estados extiendan la elegibilidad de vacunas contra el covid-19 a todos los adultos del país. El nuevo plazo está casi dos semanas antes del previsto inicialmente. En este momento, todos los estados han abierto la elegibilidad al
Continue Reading President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he plans to nominate former Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan as administrator of the General Services Administration, a powerful position whose previous occupant played a role in his delayed transition to the presidency. Carnahan worked at GSA between 2016 and 2020, where she “founded and led the State
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EL PASO, Texas — It’s official. UTEP Men’s basketball is looking for their 21st coach in program history. With Rodney Terry departing for an assistant role on Chris Beard’s staff at the University of Texas, the Miners have a vacancy to lead the program for the first time in three years. The UTEP basketball job
Continue Reading (CNN) — Un ensayo pediátrico de la vacuna Oxford-AstraZeneca se detuvo a la espera de una revisión por parte del regulador de medicamentos del Reino Unido de casos raros de coágulos de sangre en adultos, dijo a CNN un portavoz de la Universidad de Oxford el martes. «Si bien no hay problemas de seguridad en
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