The Biden administration has moved swiftly to distance itself from Trump-era immigration policies, but at the US-Mexico border, a pandemic-related order put in place by former President Donald Trump remains in effect, allowing officials to continue to turn away thousands of migrants. The reliance on the order that permits officials to swiftly expel migrants underscores
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The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday directed air carriers to inspect all Pratt & Whitney engines similar to the one that dramatically failed on a United Airlines flight on Saturday. The directive effectively grounds the Boeing 777-200 planes that use this specific PW4000 series engine, but the only US operator with this type of engine
Continue Reading President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns, will face questions from lawmakers Wednesday during a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, his final hurdle on the path to being confirmed as the first lifelong diplomat to serve as director of the nation’s preeminent spy agency. An official familiar with Burns’
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Lo que sabemos del accidente de Tiger Woods. ¿Cómo será el próximo año de la pandemia en EE.UU.? Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad. 1 Los agitadores del Capitolio «vinieron preparados para la guerra» El exjefe de la Policía del Capitolio de EE.UU. Steven Sund dijo en una
Continue Reading Neera Tanden’s imperiled nomination to be President Joe Biden’s budget director faces a major test Wednesday to see if she has enough support to win Senate confirmation amid bipartisan opposition. Two Senate committees are expected to vote on whether to advance her nomination to the floor as Tanden faces resistance from Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin,
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Panamá recibió un tercer lote de vacunas de la farmacéutica Pfizer/BioNTech la madrugada del miércoles en el aeropuerto internacional de Tocumen, donde se descargó un total de 77.200 dosis para combatir el coronavirus, que en el país ya causó la muerte a 5.772 personas. Panamá quiere 3 millones de dosis de la
Continue Reading President Joe Biden wants his administration to identify and fix potential cracks in supply chains that could cause shortages of critical items like chips inside cars, minerals in flat-screen televisions, batteries in electric vehicles and ingredients in life-saving medicines. The President will direct his team in an executive order on Wednesday to conduct a review
Continue Reading Kartik Pinglé and Jasmine Wright haven’t graduated from high school yet. But they’ve already discovered four new exoplanets and co-authored a peer-reviewed paper. Their paper about the newly discovered planets, which are about 200 light-years away from Earth, was published in The Astronomical Journal in January. “I remember when I came home, and I told
Continue Reading (CNN) — La administración de Biden está revirtiendo la controvertida prueba de civismo de naturalización o ciudadanía de la era Trump, volviendo a una versión anterior del examen, según una alerta de política publicada el lunes. El Servicio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de Estados Unidos (USCIS, por sus siglas en inglés), que administra la prueba,
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El príncipe Felipe, esposo de la reina Isabel II, está siendo tratado por una infección y no se espera que salga del hospital durante varios días, según una actualización del Palacio de Buckingham el martes. «El duque de Edimburgo permanece en el Hospital King Edward VII, donde recibe atención médica por una
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A 30-year-old Northern California man undergoing a mental health episode died days after police officers kneeled on the back of his neck for nearly five minutes to subdue him, lawyers for his family said. Angelo Quinto had been “suffering from anxiety, depression, and paranoia for the previous few months,” his family’s attorneys said in a
Continue Reading (CNN Business) — Tesla, la acción más popular del mercado durante más de un año, se ha hundido en el territorio del mercado bajista. Las acciones de Tesla cayeron un 6% el martes después de cerrar con una baja de 8,5% el lunes, lo que eliminó sus ganancias del año. La acción cerró en un
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Each week, Sheri McGregor gets hundreds of emails from parents shut out of their children’s lives. Every story is different, she said. What the parents have in common is a profound sense of isolation. “They say, ‘I thought I was the only one,’” said McGregor, founder of a website for estranged parents who lives in
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — La ministra de Salud de Guatemala, Amelia Flores, denunció el 15 de febrero ante la Fiscalía contra la Corrupción del Ministerio Público la entrega de un lote de 30.000 pruebas supuestamente falsas para detectar covid-19. Según una fuente allegada al despacho de Flores, por medio de la Unidad de Transparencia y Anticorrupción
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El presidente de Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, reapareció este martes en cadena nacional de televisión tras más de 40 días de ausencia y aseguró que su gobierno está gestionando la adquisición de la vacuna contra el covid-19, aunque no dio una fecha para la llegada de las dosis y tampoco brindó detalles del
Continue Reading The world held its breath awaiting news of Tiger Woods’ condition after the golf legend suffered serious injuries Tuesday in a rollover crash near Los Angeles. Woods, 45, was awake and responsive after a lengthy surgery at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, according to a statement early Wednesday on his Twitter account. Here’s what we know
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EL PASO, Texas — There is still a lot we don’t know about what Tuesday’s serious car crash means for golf legend Tiger Woods going forward. But naturally most are wondering when and if he’ll be able to return to the golf course. ABC-7 caught up with Fred Albers a former KVIA sports director who
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A new, more contagious variant of coronavirus first detected in the UK is likely to fuel a surge of cases in the spring, several experts predicted Tuesday. The variant, called B.1.1.7, was suspected of causing renewed spread in Britain. It’s been seen across much of the US — with the US Centers for Disease Control
Continue Reading Washington (CNN) — Un amplio vestíbulo y bar con solo un puñado de personas. Huéspedes confundidos preguntando adónde fueron todos. Pasillos elegantes, pero vacíos. Estas son las escenas que CNN observó dentro del Trump International Hotel en Washington este mes, mientras el alguna vez ajetreado destino se enfrenta a una nueva realidad sin su homónimo
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EL PASO, Texas – The Ysleta Indians are moving on. Tuesday in Seminole, TX, Ysleta defeated the Randall Raiders in the Class 5A area round by a final score of 59-56. Randall was ranked 25th in the state in Class 5A entering the game. Ysleta’s victory sets up a matchup between two El Paso schools
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El presidente de la Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela electa en 2015, Juan Guaidó, y un grupo de parlamentarios opositores del período 2015-2021 no podrán ejercer funciones públicas por 15 años por decisión de la Contraloría General de la República. El organismo, controlado por el cuestionado presidente Nicolás Maduro, asegura que los parlamentarios
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EL PASO, Texas — City of El Paso leaders say they have readied their transportation system for migrants to avoid the problems that happened during the 2019 influx of asylum seekers. Migrants that are currently a part of the Migrant Protection Protocol and have active asylum cases will be eligible to start crossing the border
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Guatemala informó este martes mediante un comunicado que el Instituto Nacional de Migración de México cubrirá con los gastos de repatriación de las 16 víctimas guatemaltecas de la masacre ocurrida el 22 de enero en Camargo, Tamaulipas. Las autoridades guatemaltecas indicaron que los cuerpos serán recibidos
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EL PASO, Texas – Middle blocker Kenidy Howard dealt an ace with the Miners up 16-14 in the third set, inching the team towards victory. Howard celebrated accordingly, stroking her hair and pursing her lips with a facial expression that screamed, “I just did that.” UTEP volleyball (4-3, 3-1 C-USA) went on to win the third
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico state health officials on Tuesday reported 314 new confirmed Covid-19 cases with nine additional deaths. Two of those latest deaths occurred in southern New Mexico. They included a woman in her 90s from Doña Ana County and a man in his 70s from Otero County. The latest numbers
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The United States can expect to see a total of 240 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine by the end of March, drug companies told a House subcommittee Tuesday. Pfizer and Moderna — the two companies with Covid-19 vaccines authorized for emergency use in the United States — have pledged to make a combined total of
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The Justice Department is facing a tougher climb as it argues Capitol riot defendants should stay in jail — with federal judges pressing prosecutors to explain possible inconsistencies in their arguments in some of the most high-profile cases related to the insurrection this week. The apparent calculus prosecutors are using to determine whether they ask
Continue Reading Hong Kong (CNN Business) — Facebook restaurará las páginas de noticias en Australia después de que el gobierno acordó cambios en un código de medios planificado que, según la compañía, le permitiría mantener un mayor control sobre lo que aparece en su plataforma. El anuncio culmina meses de amarga disputa entre la empresa de tecnología
Continue Reading (CNN) — La investigación sobre la falla del motor de un Boeing 777 podría demorar más de un año, dijeron las autoridades, pero ya se está aclarando el panorama sobre lo que sucedió con el vuelo de United Airlines el sábado. Según los investigadores, el motor de Pratt & Whitney falló minutos después de que
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