A year ago, the Covid-19 pandemic prompted a swift, sweeping lockdown on the United States. It left more than half a million Americans dead and created the sharpest economic contraction on record. Between March and April last year, more than 22 million jobs vanished in the United States. The majority came from the leisure and
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It wasn’t enough to ensure Barcelona progressed to the Champions League quarterfinals but Lionel Messi’s strike against Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday will live long in the memory. Needing to score at least four goals to overcome a disastrous 4-1 first-leg result, Barcelona’s task was made almost impossible after Kylian Mbappe converted a penalty for PSG
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President Joe Biden is expected to deliver his first prime-time address from the White House on Thursday night to commemorate the anniversary of the Covid-19 shutdown. The address is scheduled to air live at 8 p.m. ET. Biden says he plans to talk about the next steps to address the pandemic. “Tomorrow night, I’m going
Continue Reading New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his administration are facing renewed scrutiny for their handling of nursing homes in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic after reports last week that his top aides allegedly altered data to hide a higher death toll among the state’s nursing home residents. As the coronavirus infiltrated nursing homes
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Coupang, South Korea’s biggest e-commerce company, has pulled off the largest US initial public offering so far this year. The SoftBank-backed firm priced its shares Thursday at $35 apiece. That means its IPO will raise nearly $4.6 billion and value the company at around $60 billion, making it one of the world’s most valuable startups.
Continue Reading Former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and their respective former first ladies are part of a newly released ad campaign urging Americans to get the coronavirus vaccine when it is their turn, a push that is aimed squarely at combating vaccine skepticism. There are two ads in the campaign: a
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We’re approaching the peak of tornado season, and the next few days will bring an increased threat of storms (oh, and flooding) to the middle of the US. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today”
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(CNN) — La Cámara de Representantes de EE.UU. votó y aprobó el plan de ayuda de covid-19 de US$ 1,9 billones del presidente Biden. Se enviará a la Casa Blanca para que se promulgue como ley. Sigue aquí las actualizaciones. La legislación recibió aprobación final en la cámara después de que el Senado hizo una
Continue Reading Democrats’ slim majorities in both the House and Senate are testing President Joe Biden’s ability to get his priorities through Congress, as lawmakers turn their attention to legislative work beyond relief from the Covid-19 pandemic. Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package, was voted out of the House Wednesday and onto Biden’s desk, after a difficult passage
Continue Reading Washington (CNN) — El gobierno de Joe Biden anunció el miércoles que reiniciará un programa que permite que ciertos menores centroamericanos en riesgo vivan en Estados Unidos. El programa había permitido que los menores de 21 años cuyos padres vivían legalmente en los EE.UU. buscaran ingresar al país desde sus lugares de origen si no
Continue Reading Warren Buffett has just joined the world’s most exclusive club of the mega rich. The legendary American investor was worth $100 billion on Thursday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire’s Index. That puts him in the company of just five other men above that threshold. And he’s now the sixth richest person in the world, ranking
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President Joe Biden can report in his first prime-time address Thursday that a vaccination drive now reaching 2 million people daily has brought America far closer to exiting the pandemic than when he took office 50 days ago. With new infections and deaths way down from their peaks of a horrific winter, Biden can afford
Continue Reading (CNN) — Un hombre murió el miércoles en Texas mientras estaba bajo la custodia de la Patrulla Fronteriza de Estados Unidos. El hombre falleció después de mostrar «signos de angustia médica», dijo la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de EE.UU. (CBP, por sus siglas en inglés) en un comunicado. Exclusivo CNN: Niños migrantes no
Continue Reading The House is set to vote Thursday on legislation that would expand background checks on all commercial gun sales, marking the first congressional move on significant gun control since Democrats won the White House and the majority in both chambers of Congress. The Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021, H.R. 8, would expand background checks
Continue Reading The Biden administration has pledged a laser-like focus on the judiciary in the coming months, vowing to not only prioritize nominations but also cast a wide net in its search for potential appointees. It is a welcome development for progressives seeking to optimize the thin Democratic majority in the Senate and quickly regain ground lost
Continue Reading LinkedIn — one of the few Western social media networks available in China — has suspended new sign-ups in the country, but said the decision has nothing to do with a recent cyberattack on parent company Microsoft. Microsoft revealed last week that a group called Hafnium exploited its Exchange email service and was able to
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El presidente de Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benítez, designó este miércoles a Vicente Mario Battaglia como nuevo presidente del Instituto de Previsión Social (IPS). Bataglia reemplaza a Andrés Gubetich quien dejó la presidencia de la institución tras una serie de cuestionamientos a su gestión. La Fiscalía abrió una investigación al Instituto sobre denuncias
Continue Reading (CNN) — Kenichi Kurosawa se aferró precariamente a un árbol mientras el agua subía a su alrededor, inundando por completo los caminos de abajo. Durante casi seis minutos el 11 de marzo de 2011, un terremoto de magnitud 9,1, el peor que jamás haya golpeado a Japón, se produjo a 370 kilómetros al noreste de
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A police officer in Rochester, New York, is on administrative leave and an investigation has been launched after he shot and killed a man who charged at officers while holding at least one knife that he grabbed from inside a homeless shelter, police said. According to police, the man was threatening to harm himself, local
Continue Reading Two lawsuits have been filed against the local power company, blaming the utility for the extent of the damage caused last year by Oregon’s Beachie Creek fire. The fire, which ignited in August and burned through the end of October 2020, destroyed nearly 200,000 acres. More than 1,300 structures, including 470 homes, and at least
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An increasing number of states and communities say they are planning to resume or expand in-person learning a year into the coronavirus pandemic, as new infections decline and vaccinations rise. North Carolina’s governor on Wednesday announced an agreement on a bill with lawmakers — still to be passed — that would remove capacity limits from
Continue Reading A man who was charged with murder in 2018 was released prematurely from Rikers Island prison, officials said. Christopher Buggs, 26, was arrested three years ago in connection to a second-degree murder charge. During a routine virtual hearing on February 16, his attorney made an application for Buggs to be released on bail, which the
Continue Reading A police officer in Rochester, New York is on administrative leave and an investigation has been launched after he shot and killed a man who charged at officers while holding at least one knife that he grabbed from inside a homeless shelter, police said. According to police, the man was threatening to harm himself, local
Continue Reading Kroger announced it will close three Los Angeles grocery stores in May amid concerns about the city’s new hazard pay mandate, which requires large grocery and pharmacy stores to pay their employees an additional $5 per hour over a four-month span due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This is at least the third time this year
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FRISCO, Texas – You hate to see officiating affect the outcome of a game, but it clearly was a factor in UTEP’s loss to Florida Atlantic. The Miners saw their season come to an end at the hands of the FAU Owls by a final score of 76-70. UTEP had high hopes entering the first
Continue Reading The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office in Alabama and Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran over allegations of sex discrimination from 12 current and former female corrections officers. The complaint alleges the women — and other female employees — were subject to a sexually hostile work environment, which
Continue Reading Beth Moore, a popular evangelical Christian and Bible teacher, says she is no longer a Southern Baptist and is parting ways with the denomination’s publishing arm. Moore disclosed her departure during a recent interview with Religion News Service. “I am still a Baptist, but I can no longer identify with Southern Baptists,” she told the
Continue Reading A Texas county judge has temporarily blocked the state’s efforts to remove Planned Parenthood from Medicaid, hours after the group’s affiliates alleged that the state failed to provide adequate notice in a regulatory battle affecting thousands of low-income Texans during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. A slew of Texas Planned Parenthood affiliates asserted in a lawsuit
Continue Reading Five Oklahoma City police officers were charged with first-degree manslaughter in relation to the shooting death of a 15-year-old in November, according to court records filed Wednesday in Oklahoma County. In an email sent to CNN, Dan Stewart of the Oklahoma City Police Department said that the department was informed on Tuesday that the officers
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