Despite announcing a thorough intelligence review of Russian misconduct, President Joe Biden’s administration faces mounting pressure to respond to one of the worst data breaches ever to hit the US government. The computer intrusion campaign that has been linked to Russia has hit multiple federal agencies and the private sector, raising concerns about the security
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The Senate will in the coming weeks begin an impeachment trial to decide whether to convict former President Donald Trump for inciting an insurrection at the Capitol, but Democrats will have time before it gets underway to confirm more Cabinet nominees to help the Biden administration get up and running. The House will send the
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LOS ANGELES, California — Larry King, the suspenders-sporting everyman whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes helped define American conversation for a half-century, died Saturday. He was 87. King died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Ora Media, the studio and network he co-founded, tweeted. No cause of death was given, but
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Brianna Davis was listening to a documentary of famous people reading the Declaration of Independence with her class when news broke of the riots at the US Capitol. “We were listening to the words that built America” as she began getting alerts and seeing images of chaos in Washington DC, she told CNN. The history
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(CNN) — ¿¿Viste el tuit de Joe Biden?? Sí, el presidente de Estados Unidos estaba levantado y tuiteando a las 7:45 de la mañana del viernes. ¡Y hombre, qué tuit! Era un videoclip de 30 segundos del discurso de Biden en la toma de posesión el miércoles, en el que el presidente número 46 dijo
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Last year brought many lows and few highs, but a marijuana dispensary in Michigan is hoping to change that. To help stem the coronavius pandemic, Greenhouse of Walled Lake is offering free pre-rolled joints to anyone who gets the Covid-19 vaccine. “We’re all stressed out, but the vaccine is hopefully what’s going to finally end
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– El presidente de Uruguay Luis Lacalle Pou anunció este viernes que el país cerró un acuerdo con Pfizer y Sinovac para la compra de vacunas contra el covid-19. «Al mismo tiempo estamos negociando la compra de más vacunas con otros proveedores», escribió el mandatario en su cuenta de Twitter. El mandatario no
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– El presidente de Chile, Sebastián Piñera, anunció este viernes que el país comenzará la vacunación masiva contra el covid-19 a partir de finales de este mes. Piñera explicó en cadena nacional que el jueves 28 de enero llegarán al país «casi dos millones de dosis de vacunas Sinovac y el domingo 31
Continue Reading Actor Gregory Sierra, best known for his roles in “Sanford and Son” and “Barney Miller,” died on January 4 from cancer, his widow Helene Tabor confirmed to CNN Friday. He was 83. “He was quite wonderful, and my heart is broken into 400 million pieces,” Tabor said. The cancer persisted “for quite a while and
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported its biggest one-day increase in Covid-19 vaccinations Friday as more states said they are struggling with vaccine supply. The CDC said Friday that nearly 1.6 million more doses of the vaccines have been administered, bringing the total of doses given to more than 19 million. And
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Stress levels may be high these days, but did you know that what we choose to eat can help to reduce stress, ultimately allowing us to take charge of our mental health? “Instead of thinking of food as ‘stress eating’ or ‘guilty pleasures,’ we can think of using food to shape the lens in how
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A New York zoo has welcomed a baby red kangaroo with a rare condition that left park employees shocked. Cosmo, the newest joey at Animal Adventure Park, was born with leucism, an incredibly rare condition that causes the partial loss of pigmentation in an animal’s skin and fur. Unlike albinism, leucism does not cause a
Continue Reading States may be scrambling for vaccines now, but the United States could see additional Covid-19 vaccines by the end of March, if not sooner. Millions of vaccine doses could be added to the pipeline in the coming months, perhaps easing the squeeze that Americans have felt as vaccines slowly start rolling out. Janssen, the vaccine
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EL PASO, Texas – It was a win the UTEP Miners desperately needed in order to get their season back on track. Friday night at the Don Haskins Center, UTEP defeated the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs by a final score of 82-74. The victory over the Bulldogs snapped UTEP’s three game losing streak. The Miners were
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President Joe Biden spent his first week in office trying to convince the nation to see themselves not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans united in defeating the pandemic. Then on Friday night, the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump got a formal date on the calendar, complicating every bipartisan goal on the
Continue Reading A Georgia man was arrested and charged with scamming almost $1 million from a grocery store and using it to buy clothes, guns and cars, police said. Tre Brown, 19, was arrested January 14 after he allegedly created false returns at the Kroger store where he worked in Duluth, Georgia, according to a news release
Continue Reading (CNN) –– Un inmigrante salvadoreño pasó más de tres años refugiado en un santuario dentro de los terrenos de una iglesia en Carolina del Norte. Este viernes, finalmente empezó su regreso a casa. José Chicas, de 55 años, dice que las nuevas políticas del gobierno de Biden le dan ahora la oportunidad de dejar el
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The Mega Millions jackpot — drawn Friday night — is no longer in the millions. The jackpot is estimated to be worth a staggering $1 billion. That’s just $500 million shy of the highest Mega Millions jackpot ever — $1.537 billion, all won by one ticket holder in South Carolina. The winning numbers were 4,
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– República Dominicana se mantuvo como destino de turismo médico durante la pandemia de covid-19, con un número creciente de personas que han visitado el país para someterse a cirugías plásticas. Según reportan médicos consultados por CNN, en el segundo semestre de 2020 se triplicó la cantidad de esos procedimientos quirúrgicos. En lugar
Continue Reading His predecessor tweeted insults and made menacing threats against America’s allies but US President Joe Biden proved just as formidable for Canada with a stroke of pen. In his first few hours in office Wednesday, Biden made Canada the first foreign casualty of his campaign promises and revoked the construction permit for the Keystone XL
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A school district in Georgia is mourning the loss of two educators who died within hours of each other from Covid-19. Dana Johnson and Cynthia Lindsey, employees in Cobb County Schools in metro Atlanta, both lost their battle against Covid-19 on Thursday, according to Connie Jackson, president of the Cobb County Association of Educators. GoFundMe
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RUSTON, Louisiana – It was a hard fought win for the UTEP women’s basketball team Friday night in Ruston, Louisiana. The Miners defeated the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters by a final score of 61-58. It was UTEP’s first road win of the season. The Lady Techsters pulled within three points in the final minutes of
Continue Reading (CNN) —El segundo juicio político del expresidente Donald Trump en el Senado está programado para comenzar el 9 de febrero después de que los líderes del Senado llegaran a un acuerdo para retrasarlo, dando al equipo legal de Trump más tiempo para prepararse y a los demócratas del Senado la oportunidad de considerar la legislación
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After bringing federal charges against more than 125 people accused of being part of the violent mob that stormed the US Capitol, now comes the hard part. Law enforcement officials say they are moving from the so-called low-hanging fruit arrests and charges to more complicated cases, focusing on the extremist groups that participated in the
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Remember that time a violent mob smashed its way into the Capitol, killed a police officer and occupied the Senate chambers, hunting for terrified members of Congress who were forced to hide? Remember how some in the mob constructed a gallows with a hangman’s noose outside the Capitol, then rampaged through the halls searching for
Continue Reading (CNN) — El primer día completo del presidente Joe Biden en el cargo el jueves se centró en implementar su estrategia nacional para controlar la pandemia del covid-19 y firmar varios decretos y acciones ejecutivas, incluidas las que ordenan aumentar los suministros de vacunación y exigir a los viajeros internacionales que presenten pruebas de una
Continue Reading They say a dog is a man’s best friend — and that was definitely the case for one patient of a hospital in northeastern Turkey, whose loyal pet waited by the entrance for six days until he was discharged. When Cemal Senturk was transferred by ambulance to Medical Park Hospital in Trabzon on January 14,
Continue ReadingNational Guardsman Sgt. Jacob Kohut spends his days fulfilling two duties: serving to protect the Capitol building and holding band class online as a commitment to his students’ education. “This is what a hero looks like,” wrote Canterbury Woods Elementary School, a school where Kohut teaches in Fairfax County, Virginia, in a post to social
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The path in the Senate to convict Donald Trump is extremely slim, with a growing number of Republicans expressing confidence that the party will acquit the former President on a charge that he incited the deadly insurrection aimed at stopping President Joe Biden’s electoral win. After Democratic leaders announced they would kick off the process
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The second Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is scheduled to begin on February 9 after Senate leaders reached a deal to push it back, giving Trump’s legal team more time to prepare and Senate Democrats a chance to consider Covid-19 legislation and to confirm President Joe Biden’s Cabinet. House Democrats will formally
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