(CNN) –- El presidente Joe Biden enfrenta una creciente tensión política, incluso dentro de su propio partido, por la estrategia de su administración en la frontera entre EE.UU. y México, mientras sus funcionarios se apresuran a abordar el tema del flujo de niños que cruzan la frontera solos.La política de la frontera está en el
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At least three people were killed and two were wounded after a shooting Tuesday at a massage parlor in an Atlanta suburb, authorities said. Deputies were called to Young’s Asian Massage in Acworth, Georgia, for reports of a shooting, Cherokee County Sheriff’s spokesperson Howard J. Baker said. Responding deputies found five people suffering from gunshot
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A 1-year-old boy is “fighting for his life” and struggling to breathe on his own after being shot in the head by Houston police, the baby’s mother and attorneys representing her said Tuesday. The shooting took place March 3 when Daisha Smalls was pumping gas and she saw police cars and heard sirens, she said
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri – UTEP men’s basketball’s Souley Boum and Bryson Williams have been named National Association of Basketball Coaches second-team All-District 11, as announced by the NABC on Tuesday. Boum led UTEP in scoring (18.8 ppg), while ranking third in Conference USA. Boum averaged the most points by a Miner since the 2010-11 season when Randy
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Yaphet Kotto, an actor known for bringing gravitas to his roles across television and film, has died, according to his agent, Ryan Goldhar. He was 81. Kotto died on March 14 at 10:30 p.m. local time in the Philippines, where he lived with his wife, Goldhar said. Information on the cause of death was not
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Tuesday marked the last school board meeting before thousands of Las Cruces students return to the classroom. (You can watch it in the video player above.) There are nearly 25,000 students in the district. A spokeswoman for Las Cruces Public Schools said schools are still working to determine who will
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Click here for updates on this story SAGINAW, Michigan (WNEM) — A Saginaw woman is warning others about the seriousness of COVID-19 after spending months in the hospital battling the virus. “Being home in my own environment is really nice,” said Rachel Lijewski said. Lijewski survived COVID-19. A year ago, the healthy then-28-year-old thought if
Continue Reading New York City has purchased a historic Brooklyn home, believed to have once harbored those fleeing slavery. City officials announced the purchase of 227 Duffield Street in Brooklyn on Monday, in a move that Mayor Bill de Blasio called “protecting an important part of New York City’s abolitionist history.” “In order to build a better
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The latest round of stimulus payments that started going out over the weekend are open to being seized by private debt collectors — a problem lawmakers are rushing to fix. Recipients with unpaid credit card or medical bills for which a company has obtained a judgment against the debtor could see the fresh infusion taken
Continue Reading Visiting the warehouse of a flooring company here Tuesday to begin selling his $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief law, President Joe Biden seemed ready to sign something else. “Anything else we can be doing?” he asked the business owners, who seemed grateful to chat up the visiting president. If the primary goal of Biden’s “Help is
Continue Reading (CNN) — Un grupo de ingenieros quiere construir un arca lunar subterránea y llenarla con millones de semillas, esporas, espermatozoides y óvulos de especies de la Tierra. Esta bóveda estaría escondida en una red de tubos en la Luna para proporcionar un respaldo genético al planeta en el caso de un escenario apocalíptico. Científicos de
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TIGARD, Oregon (KPTV) — A retirement community in Tigard is finally getting the COVID-19 vaccine for people living there. Tuesday was the first clinic at Summerfield Estates Retirement Community. This community is an independent living community and wasn’t included in the assisted living or skilled nursing rollout. One
Continue Reading A 1-year-old boy is “fighting for his life” and struggling to breathe on his own after being shot in the head by Houston police, the baby’s mother and attorneys representing her said Tuesday. The shooting took place March 3 when Daisha Smalls was pumping gas and she saw police cars and heard sirens, she said
Continue Reading Kamala Harris declared “the status of women is the status of democracy” on Tuesday, in her first speech before the United Nations as the first female vice president of the United States. “Eleanor Roosevelt, who shaped the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, once said, ‘Without equality, there can be no democracy.’ In other words, the
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The WallStreetBets community is moving beyond GameStop and AMC. But its latest investment target isn’t a stock, bitcoin or even NFTs. It’s gorillas. That’s not monkey business. Members of the Reddit group — who gained national attention for their role in pumping up the January trading frenzy of GameStop, AMC and other meme stocks —
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(Courtesy: NMSU Athletics) LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – It didn’t matter that they couldn’t practice in Las Cruces until Jan. 19. It didn’t matter that they couldn’t play their first home match until March 15. Nothing thrown at the Aggies mattered, as the New Mexico State volleyball team repeated as Western Athletic Conference regular-season champions with
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President Joe Biden will hold his first formal news conference since taking office on March 25, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday. Biden is behind his 15 most recent predecessors, who all held a solo news conference within 33 days of taking office, according to a CNN analysis of the past 100 years.
Continue Reading Three people died, including a child who passed away at a hospital, after a single-engine plane crashed into a car on a Florida road, officials said Tuesday. Two victims were on board the Beechcraft Bonanza plane, which went down Monday near the North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines, Fire Chief Marcelino Rodriguez told CNN. A
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– Nicaragua recibirá este martes 135.000 dosis de la vacuna Covishield contra el coronavirus, las cuales se fabricaron en la India y se adquirieron a través del mecanismo Covax de la Organización Mundial de la Salud. Así lo informó este lunes la vicepresidenta y portavoz del gobierno, Rosario Murillo, a medios oficiales. Según
Continue Reading A soon-to-be high school graduate started his job search in a unique way — he wrote a candid open letter and posted it on LinkedIn. Ryan Lowry has autism and wants future employers to understand that while he may learn in a different way, he is worth taking a chance on. “I realize that someone
Continue Reading In a sign that one small part of March Madness is inching back to normalcy, Chicago’s favorite basketball-loving nun will soon be in the stands. Loyola University Chicago chaplain Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt got the green light from the NCAA to cheer on her beloved Ramblers in person this Friday, but it will be from
Continue Reading (CNN) — Kamala Harris declaró el martes que «el estatus de las mujeres es el estatus de la democracia», durante su primer discurso ante las Naciones Unidas como la primera vicepresidenta mujer de Estados Unidos. «Eleanor Roosevelt, quien dio forma a la Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos, dijo una vez: ‘Sin igualdad no puede haber
Continue Reading In 1838, the Jesuits who ran Georgetown University sold 272 enslaved people to pay off the university’s debts. Many of them baptized Catholic, they were bought by planters to work in sugar plantations in Louisiana. The transaction was one of the largest sales of human beings in US history. Now, the Jesuit Conference of Canada
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LITITZ, Pennsylvania (WPMT) — Marking the one year anniversary of Pennsylvania’s pandemic shutdown: Many nursing home residents say periods of isolation — minimal to zero family visits at times — left them feeling lonely and depressed. “There were times I’d think, ‘We’re both so old. Suppose we’d get
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV News) — Actress Jane Fonda joined protesters at the site of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline replacement in northern Minnesota on Monday, advocating for the treaty territory of Anishinaabe First Nations and voicing environmental concerns about the surrounding river water. Shortly after receiving her COVID-19
Continue Reading Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the 87-year-old veteran Democrat, insisted on Tuesday that she is committed to serving out her full term in office even after California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he had a list of “multiple” potential replacements and would appoint a Black woman to replace her should she retire. “There’s nothing to it,” Feinstein told
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UPDATE: Transmountain Road reopened Wednesday morning at 6 a.m. For the latest traffic conditions go to kvia.com/traffic. ORIGINAL REPORT: EL PASO, Texas — The Texas Department of Transportation closed Transmountain Road Tuesday afternoon until further notice due to high wind and blowing dust along the roadway. The closure comes as much of the Borderland is
Continue Reading Vivi Zayas remembers how relieved she felt when a woman she’d never met helped her dad sign up for a coronavirus vaccine. That moment marked the end of one journey and the beginning of another. Zayas had tried desperately for three weeks to get a vaccine for her dad, with no luck. Finally, she felt
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EL PASO, Texas — It was a very windy and dusty Tuesday afternoon and evening across the Borderland. A Pacific storm pushed through the area that brought high winds with it, along with gusts of up to 60 mph behind this storm. The National Weather Service issued multiple warnings through the evening for the ABC-7
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UPDATE: All of University Medical Center’s latest 4,000 vaccination appointments were booked in just over five minutes of online registration going live at 6 p.m. Tuesday. A spokesman said the UMC website had an estimated 33,000 people who tried to log on to it when registration opened. ORIGINAL REPORT: EL PASO, Texas — University Medical
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