A giant iceberg broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica on Friday, not far from a British scientific outpost. The 490 square miles (1270 square kilometers) chunk of ice is bigger than New York City and broke free in a process called calving, according to a statement from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The
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EL PASO, Texas — A nice weekend in store for the Borderland, but strong wind gusts will kick up Sunday afternoon. Temperatures are expected to stay in the lower 70s on Saturday with partly cloudy skies. A cold front arrives Sunday bringing strong winds by the afternoon and evening. Winds could gust up to 35
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Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV News) — A new medical papyrus dating back 3,500 years has provided enough new details for Egyptologists to reconstruct the 70-day ancient Egyptian mummifying process. The art of embalming was viewed as sacred and only a select few were trained in completing the process, and
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EL PASO, Texas — An elderly woman was struck by a car and injured Saturday morning near a downtown El Paso intersection. It happened in the area of Mesa and Paisano, near a Walgreens pharmacy and a McDonald’s restaurant. Police said the 72-year-old woman who was hit was taken to a hospital with a broken
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Omaha, Nebraska (WOWT) — A deputy from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office arrested two men Friday morning. Michael Aponte from New York and Rawy Correa Perez from Wisconsin was arrested for possession of a controlled substance and failure to affix a tax stamp. A Toyota 4Runner was stopped
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Davenport, Iowa (WQAD) — The Harper family recently had to hear some of the worst news a parent could hear, and afterwards, people in their community sprang up to support them. Justin Harper, assistant basketball coach at Davenport North, and his wife, Elizabeth, took their 2-year-old son, Wesley,
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso has suddenly lost one of its most respected jurists. U.S. District Judge Philip Martinez, who presided over several major cases, died suddenly Friday night, friends and associates said. He was 63. Martinez grew up in El Paso and received an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at El
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The House of Representatives voted early Saturday morning to approve President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic aid package, a major step toward enacting the first legislative priority of the new administration as the devastating fallout from the spread of Covid-19 has left Americans in dire need of further relief. The final vote tally was 219-212.
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Peppa Pig is looking to hog some of the Florida sunshine enjoyed by Mickey Mouse and Harry Potter. The animated British piglet popular with preschoolers is getting her own tourist attraction — complete with muddy puddles — that developers say will be “perfect for a first theme park experience.” Children everywhere should be squealing to
Continue Reading Former NBA star Jeremy Lin will not be naming the person who called him “coronavirus” while he was playing basketball. Lin, who plays for the Santa Cruz Warriors, the G League, or minor league, affiliate of the Golden State Warriors, tweeted Saturday that he will not be “naming or shaming anyone” after sharing the racism
Continue Reading There is no mystery in how Jamal Khashoggi died, it was cold-blooded and brutal. A Turkish intelligence audio recording captured the moments inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul that Saudi government agents drugged, suffocated and dismembered the 59-year-old Washington Post columnist. In the 879 days since, the only geopolitical question of consequence is what role
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A former Republican operative who now leads one of the nation’s most powerful business groups is praising President Joe Biden’s efforts to defeat the coronavirus pandemic. “It is fantastic to have a partner in the White House,” Jay Timmons, president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, told CNN Business. “We felt like we
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso health officials on Saturday reported 7 more deaths due to Covid-19, along with 479 additional cases. The latest deaths included a woman in her 40s, two men in their 60s, a man in his 70s, a man and a woman in their 80s, and a woman in her 90s.
Continue Reading Nearly a dozen Trump supporters charged in connection with the US Capitol insurrection have said that Antifa and other left-wing groups weren’t involved in the attack, debunking a false-flag conspiracy theory that is gaining popularity in the pro-Trump orbit. The baseless claim that left-wing infiltrators were responsible for the violent attack has been promoted by
Continue Reading Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman approved an operation that led to journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s brutal assassination in 2018, according to a declassified US intelligence report the Biden administration released on Friday. While the four-page report supports a conclusion already reached in 2018 by the CIA — that the man known as MBS was
Continue Reading House progressives are furious with the Senate parliamentarian’s decision to remove the $15 minimum wage provision from the Senate’s version of the Covid relief bill, a proposal that is foundational to the left wing’s beliefs and one they have fiercely campaigned on, but it is unclear how they will channel that frustration into next steps.
Continue Reading A Colorado man was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison on Friday for plotting to blow up the 119-year-old Temple Emanuel Synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado. Richard Holzer — who self-identifies as a neo-Nazi and White supremacist, according to the Justice Department — pleaded guilty last October to federal hate crime and explosive charges
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV News) — A new study says that blood tests may be the key for doctors to get an idea of what to expect when treating COVID-19 patients. Often, when a COVID-19 patient is admitted to the hospital, there’s no clear indicator of how severe their
Continue Reading President Joe Biden called on the US Senate to take “quick action” in passing his $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill, speaking just hours after House Democrats approved his first legislative priority. “We have no time to waste. If we act now, decisively, quickly and boldly, we can finally get ahead of this virus. We can
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(CNN) — La listeria vuelve a estar en las noticias pues los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés) han advertido a las personas que no consuman cierto tipo de quesos que podrían estar vinculados al brote de listeriosis, la enfermedad que produce la bacteria
Continue Reading The Biden administration is planning to open another facility in south Texas to expand processing capacity for children and families arriving at the US-Mexico border, a Department of Homeland Security official confirmed to CNN. It’s the latest move by the administration to address the growing number of migrant families and unaccompanied children at the US
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When one troop of Girl Scouts in Iowa was given the goal of selling more than 1,000 boxes of cookies, the girls put on their signature sashes and got to work, flexing their entrepreneurial skills. As of Feb. 26, the girls in Troop 64224 of Council Bluffs, Iowa, have sold over 5,000 boxes of cookies,
Continue Reading Police in New Haven, Connecticut, say they have secured an arrest warrant charging MIT graduate student Qinxuan Pan with murder in the fatal shooting of Yale University student Kevin Jiang earlier this month. Pan remains at large, and the New Haven Police Department is expected to provide additional information related to the case on Monday,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story O’ahu, Hawaii (KITV) — UPDATE 02/26/2021 1:36 p.m. Newly released police records show House Representative Sharon Har refused to take a breath or blood test before she was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence Monday evening. In the report, the first officer on scene saw Har’s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story St. Louis (KMOV) — A 32-year-old man died after being shot multiple times in north St. Louis City Thursday. Officials with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said 32-year-old Antoine Johnson was shot in the area of North Broadway and Grape Avenue in the Baden neighborhood just before
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Saginaw, Michigan (WNEM) — Investigators are hoping advances in a specific technology can provide a key clue to a man’s murder from 1988. Nobody knows who this is. Nobody knows his name, his age or where he is from. All anyone knows is, he’s dead. He has been
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés) advierten a las personas con mayor riesgo de contraer listeriosis grave que no coman quesillo y requesón, después de que algunos de estos productos se manipularan en una instalación vinculada a un brote de la
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Portland, Oregon (KPTV) — Fox 12’s Most Wanted shot through a Southeast Portland home early Friday morning. One of the bullets hit the bed where a 12-year-old boy was sleeping. Luckily no one was hurt. Portland Police say the shooting happened on Southeast 66th Avenue just after 3
Continue Reading More than a dozen of former President Donald Trump’s closest Republican allies in the House skipped Friday’s votes and enlisted their colleagues to vote on their behalf, signing letters saying they can’t attend “due to the ongoing public health emergency.” But those members are actually in Orlando and listed as speakers at the Conservative Political
Continue Reading The Utah Jazz are investigating a team executive for alleged racially insensitive comments made in 2015. On Wednesday, former Jazz player Elijah Millsap wrote on Twitter that Dennis Lindsey, the team’s executive vice president of basketball operations, directed bigoted remarks at him during an exit interview. Millsap wrote in part, “Almost 6yrs ago. On April
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