Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, an outspoken advocate of gun rights, has for years told a dramatic story about why she began openly carrying a gun. She says it was because a man was beaten to death in 2013 outside Shooters Grill, her restaurant in the municipality of Rifle, Colorado. Boebert, a Republican, told the story
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Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover Jr. spent their Saturday conducting a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station. The spacewalk, which assists with continued upgrades to the orbiting laboratory, began Saturday morning and lasted for six-and-a-half hours. Glover and Hopkins arrived on the space station in November as part of the NASA-SpaceX Crew-1 mission.
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It’s that time of year again. This weekend, you’ll sacrifice an hour of sleep in exchange for a few months of extra daylight. Benjamin Franklin first thought up the idea of daylight saving in 1784. It wasn’t instituted until World War I, when it went into effect to save energy used for lights. The Standard
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Eli Lilly and Company’s experimental intravenous drug donanemab could slow the cognitive decline of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, according to early clinical trial results, published in The New England Journal of Medicine on Saturday. The study included 257 patients with early symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease; 131 received donanemab, while 126 received a placebo. The researchers found
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Americans will start seeing the next round of stimulus payments hit their bank accounts as early as this weekend, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday. The payments are worth up to $1,400 per person and were included in the $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill signed by President Joe Biden earlier in the day.
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El Paso, Texas- Your typical Borderland spring weather pattern is here to stay for the next several days. The windy weather will also blow in some possible blowing dust in certain areas across the region, and temperatures will also take a plunge thanks to a cold front. Westerly winds will gust around 40 MPH this
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Scientists are celebrating the first discovery of a dinosaur preserved while sitting on a nest of eggs with fossilized embryos, including at least three that were visible. The oviraptorosaur fossil was uncovered from rocks that are 70 million years old in Ganzhou City, China, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) said in a news
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It’s been hellish, and it will likely go down as the toughest stretch in many Americans’ lives. One year ago Saturday, the country went into its first stage of lockdown, though some adhered to guidelines better than others. Three hundred and sixty-five days later, Covid-19 has snuffed out more than 530,000 lives in the world’s
Continue Reading Tucked into the massive $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill signed by President Joe Biden on Thursday is about $200 million for public libraries. It’s one of the reasons Republicans have criticized the bill, which they argue is too big and includes funding for things that have nothing to do with fighting Covid or the resulting
Continue Reading Growing up as a child of a White woman and a Black man in a small town in Maine, Victoria Anderson was constantly reminded she was different. A close relative nicknamed her “jungle bunny,” she said. Another relative once turned her framed photo so her face wasn’t visible. And she wasn’t allowed to play with
Continue Reading Tamika Palmer has been in the same battle for justice in Breonna Taylor’s death for the last year. Palmer said her daughter was killed senselessly by police and in her eyes no one is being held accountable for it. Facing this reality makes her angry. But Palmer said she will never give up her fight
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(CNN Español) — El presidente de Colombia, Iván Duque, informó este viernes que el miércoles pasado se reunió en Bogotá con miembros del partido Comunes, entre ellos el jefe de la agrupación Rodrigo Londoño, conocido como «Timochenko», para dialogar sobre la implementación del acuerdo de paz y la seguridad para los desmovilizados de las FARC,
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It’s customary for pro golfers to buy a drink for all their fellow players after hitting a hole-in-one. Well, the field at the Players Championship probably had an excellent Friday evening after two players achieved the unlikely feat within hours of each other. In the second round of the PGA Tour event, Denny McCarthy was
Continue Reading (CNN Español) – Los premios Grammy se llevan a cabo este domingo 14 de marzo. Beyoncé lidera las nominaciones con nueve menciones y figura en dos de las categorías más importantes de la noche: grabación del año y canción del año. Taylor Swift con su «folklore», Dua Lipa con «Future Nostalgia» y el rapero estadounidense
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Teachers and school staff want to return to the classroom with their students, education experts said. But after a year of the pandemic, managing Covid-19 still poses obstacles to in-person learning. “That’s how they were trained to teach, and work with them, and they miss them. They want to be back in person,” Becky Pringle,
Continue Reading Covid-19 numbers may be on the decline in the United States after a year of collective grief. But with tens of thousands of deaths expected over the next few months, experts are warning Americans not to drop their guard just yet. “I think we are going to get fooled,” Dr. Paul Offit, director of the
Continue Reading What was nice about the Before Times was that, for most people, social interactions and outings could be carefree. We miss them, and that’s a big reason why we long for the pandemic to end. But when life stabilizes in the new, new normal, how will we really feel about resuming activities we used to
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada – The NMSU Aggies are once again headed to the WAC Tournament Championship game. Friday night in the semifinals of the tournament, the Aggies defeated Utah Valley by a final score of 78-62. It was another dominate performance by NMSU. The Aggies led from start to finish going into the half up
Continue Reading The Norman, Oklahoma, Public Schools District is condemning an announcer who “made racist and hateful comments targeted at our Norman High student athletes” on a livestream of a state basketball tournament, a statement from the district superintendent said. On Thursday, the Norman High School girls’ basketball team was set to play Midwest City in the
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FRISCO, Texas – The UTEP women’s basketball team (17-8) fell to No. 1-seed Middle Tennessee (16-7) by a score of 74-58 in the semifinals of the 2021 Conference USA Basketball Championships on Friday at Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas. Destiny Thurman scored a career-high 16 points (7-12 FG) to lead the Miners offensively, while
Continue Reading It only took one blood donation to save Marcos Perez’s life. He’s now paid that donation forward more than 960 times. According to the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center, his blood has helped over 3,000 people. “Mr. Perez’s story is very moving and emotional because you know why he does it — it saved
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The Associated Press has demanded the release of a journalist detained and charged “for simply doing his job” while covering violent anti-coup demonstrations for the American news outlet in Myanmar. Thein Zaw, 32, was taken into custody on February 27 in the country’s largest city, Yangon, while covering a protest against the military junta, which
Continue Reading Embattled New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is standing increasingly alone as he clings to power, turning himself into the victim Friday in the face of overwhelming Democratic calls for him to step aside instead of engaging in the kind of self-reflection this moment demands. He’s defying calls from his state’s congressional delegation — including both
Continue Reading Breonna Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer,has filed internal affairs complaints against six officers with the Professional Standards Unit of the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) this week, according to the complaints provided to CNN by Palmer’s attorney Sam Aguiar. Palmer alleges the behavior of four officers was “unacceptable, intolerable and contributing factors to Breonna’s death and
Continue Reading A former New York capitol beat reporter penned a first-person piece for New York Magazine, where she described what it was like covering Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2014, alleging multiple instances of sexual harassment. Jessica Bakeman, now a reporter at WLRN in Miami, wrote that she was 25 years old when she was covering
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UPDATE, March 15: El Paso police on Monday said a speeding motorcyclist who died after crashing into the rear of a tractor-trailer rig was responsible the shutdown of I-10 west near Executive for hours on Friday night and into Saturday morning. Police identified the victim as 25–year old Jesus Jomar Moreno of west El Paso
Continue Reading (CNN Business) — Cuando Subhakar Khadka emigró a California hace siete años, tenía la mirada puesta en una vida simple con metas simples: ganarse la vida para que su familia en Nepal pueda unirse a él en Estados Unidos. Pero para hacer realidad su sueño, se convirtió en conductor de Uber y tuvo que lidiar
Continue Reading Federal prosecutors have filed charges against a man who allegedly participated in the brutal assault of DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who spoke out after the attack about how he had pleaded with the pro-Trump mob to spare his life on the day of the riot at the US Capitol. Prosecutors said Thomas Sibick
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Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV News) — Researchers believe they may have solved the mystery behind a 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator – otherwise described as being the world’s oldest “computer.” The Antikythera mechanism has long been a scientific mystery since it was discovered on an ancient shipwreck in 1901. While scientists
Continue Reading (CNN Español) – Las vacunas contra el coronavirus siguen generando dudas en nuestra audiencia. En este episodio, el doctor Elmer Huerta responde preguntas específicas sobre vacunas, la elegibilidad para recibirlas, además formas de contagio y otras dudas. Puedes escuchar este episodio en Apple Podcasts, Spotify o tu plataforma de podcast favorita, o leer la transcripción
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