Lady Gaga has spoken out about the violent attack this week in which her dog walker was shot and two of her French bulldogs stolen. “My beloved dogs Koji and Gustav were taken in Hollywood two nights ago,” Gaga wrote in an Instagram post on Friday. “My heart is sick and I am praying my
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As the number of violent attacks against Asian Americans escalates, former NBA star Jeremy Lin said he has experienced racism while playing basketball. “Being a 9 year NBA veteran doesn’t protect me from being called ‘coronavirus’ on the court,” the former New York Knicks star wrote on Facebook. Lin, who currently plays for the Santa
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A 27-year-old Korean American man says he was physically assaulted in the heart of Los Angeles’ Koreatown this month in an incident that police say they’re investigating as a hate crime. The man, Denny Kim, told CNN he was waiting for a friend on February 16 when he was approached by two men who started
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Nota del editor: Jorge Dávila Miguel es licenciado en Periodismo desde 1973 y ha mantenido una carrera continuada en su profesión hasta la fecha. Tiene posgrados en Ciencias de la Información Social y Medios de Comunicación Sociales, así como estudios superiores posuniversitarios en Relaciones Internacionales, Economía Política e Historia Latinoamericana. Actualmente, Dávila Miguel es columnista
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Saturday will be the nicest day of the weekend with high clouds and warm temps. A cold front arrives Sunday that will kick the winds up by the afternoon and evening – with gusts around 35 mph. Behind the front, temps will lower to below average for Monday. Highs Monday in the upper 50’s with
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President Joe Biden embraced a familiar role on his trip to Houston Friday, offering both comfort and federal support after a severe winter storm-battered Texas and left millions without power, heat or water. It’s a role past presidents have stepped into amid disasters and tragedies but also one that comes quite naturally to Biden, whose
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted new recommendations Friday on the importance of good ventilation in preventing coronavirus spread in schools and daycares. Its top recommendation: Open a window. It’s the first time the agency has separately emphasized the role ventilation plays in helping or preventing the spread of the virus, which
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Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted Friday to recommend the agency grant emergency use authorization to Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine. The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) voted unanimously to recommend EUA of the vaccine in people 18 and older. Acting FDA Commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock and
Continue Reading A federal judge decided Friday that the alleged ringleader of the most serious paramilitary conspiracy stemming from the Capitol attack must stay in jail before trial. The ruling came during a federal court hearing where alleged Capitol rioter Jessica Watkins disavowed the right-wing Oath Keepers militia and said she was “humbled” and “humiliated” by the
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Óscar Córdoba lleva más de 10 años alejado de las canchas. Sin embargo, nunca ha dejado de identificarse como un jugador de fútbol porque asegura que es una profesión que se ejerce toda la vida. En una entrevista con Marcelo Longobardi, Córdoba habló acerca de cómo se mentalizó para el retiro, su
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Click here for updates on this story FORT SMITH, AR (KFSM) — Fort Smith veteran Marvin Thomas received a Quilt of Valor Friday (Feb. 26) for his service in World War II. “I’m surprised, that’s for sure,” Thomas said. “I love it, and I’ll have many years, I hope to appreciate it.” The River Valley
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, GA (WGCL) — Nearly two million pets are stolen every year. The pandemic has pushed that number even higher as more people are interested in getting a pet while they work from home. The demand has led to a devastating trend called dog flipping– when pets are
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President Joe Biden looked to send a simple message to Iran by authorizing air strikes in Syria on Thursday: “You can’t act with impunity, be careful.” His comments to reporters on Friday came a day after the US military struck a site in Syria used by two Iranian-backed militia groups in response to rocket attacks
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Ogemaw County, MI (WNEM) — A tragic chain of events played out at a home in Ogemaw County on Thursday. It’s something Ogemaw County Sheriff Brian Gilbert said he will always remember. “It’s a gut-wrenching feeling because you’re dealing with children,” Gilbert said. Gilbert was on the scene
Continue Reading (CNN) –– El paquete de estímulo por 1,9 billones de dólares de la Cámara de Representantes para enfrentar el coronavirus incluye una amplia gama de propuestas que buscan ayudar los estadounidenses que aún tienen dificultades por las consecuencias económicas de la pandemia. El proyecto del paquete de estímulo proporciona otra ronda de pagos directos. Además,
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EL PASO, Texas — A troubled Cincinnati Entertainment District bar that was recently the scene of a murder is temporarily closed after having its liquor license revoked for 60-days by state officials. The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission confirmed the two-month license suspension for the Chino Chido bar to ABC-7 on Friday. The suspension stems from
Continue Reading The Conservative Political Action Conference began Friday with a series of false claims about the 2020 election and other subjects. The CPAC schedule made clear in advance that the conference — taking place in Orlando instead of its usual home just outside Washington, DC — would feature election-related lying. Over three days, the CPAC agenda
Continue Reading Nueva York (CNN Business) — Hasbro eliminará el título «mister» (señor) de la marca «Mr. Potato Head» (el popular juguete conocido en español como Señor Cara de Papa), para renombrar la papa de plástico que cambia de forma como «Potato Head», de género neutro. Es un cambio notable de uno de los fabricantes de juguetes
Continue Reading Richard Carranza, chancellor of New York City’s public schools system, will step down in March, he announced at a news conference Friday. Carranza will be succeeded by Meisha Ross Porter, a former teacher and school principal in the Bronx. Porter will be the first African American woman to serve as education chancellor in the city’s history.
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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – UTEP women’s basketball (15-7, 12-5 C-USA) fell behind early in the first half was never able overcome a large deficit as the Miners fell to Charlotte (9-7, 8-3 C-USA), 62-53, on Friday at Halton Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina. The 49ers led from start to finish and capitalized on a 9-0 start to
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should be doing more to guide and encourage improved air circulation in buildings — especially in schools — to help prevent the spread of coronavirus, ventilation experts say. They say the CDC has not paid anywhere near enough attention to the role ventilation can play in helping
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Canada expects to receive more than 6.5 million Covid-19 vaccines by the end of March, with tens of millions more vaccines arriving between April and June, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday. Canada has secured access to nearly 400 million doses of vaccines, but manufacturers have been slow to ship the authorized medicine. Just
Continue Reading The Conservative Political Action Conference began Friday with a series of false claims about the 2020 election. The CPAC schedule made clear in advance that the conference — taking place in Orlando instead of its usual home just outside Washington, DC — would feature election-related lying. Over three days, the CPAC agenda includes seven separate
Continue Reading (CNN Business) — Victoria’s Secret sigue reduciendo su número de tiendas. Su empresa matriz, L Brands, anunció que planea cerrar permanentemente entre 30 y 50 locales en Estados Unidos y Canadá este año. La reducción llega tras el cierre de 241 tiendas en 2020, que dejó a Victoria’s Secret con 848 locales en los dos
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Los asesores de vacunas de la Administración de Medicinas y Alimentos de EE.UU. (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés) votaron el viernes para recomendar que la agencia otorgue una autorización de uso de emergencia a la vacuna contra el coronavirus de Johnson & Johnson. El Comité Asesor de Vacunas y Productos Biológicos
Continue Reading The US intelligence report on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi says that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman approved the operation to capture or kill the Saudi journalist. “We assess that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi,” the report’s
Continue Reading Current and former top executives at SolarWinds are blaming a company intern for a critical lapse in password security that apparently went undiagnosed for years. The password in question, “solarwinds123,” was discovered in 2019 on the public internet by an independent security researcher who warned the company that the leak had exposed a SolarWinds file
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Electric truck company Nikola is throwing its founder and former executive chairman Trevor Milton under the proverbial hydrogen-powered bus. In a filing late Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Nikola acknowledged seven “inaccurate” statements that Milton, who left the company in September, allegedly made between July 2016 and July 2020 about the company’s progress
Continue Reading A woman driving home from her son’s baseball game was killed instantly when a tire flew off another vehicle and hit her car’s windshield in New Caney, Texas, on Thursday. CNN affiliate KTRK reported the 52-year-old woman was driving home from her son’s baseball game when the left front tire and wheel flew off a
Continue Reading The US military on Thursday struck a site in Syria used by two Iranian-backed militia groups in response to rocket attacks on American forces in the region in the past two weeks, generating concern among lawmakers who said Biden had not asked for the necessary congressional authorization. “Up to a handful” of militants were killed
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