When Ireland came out of a strict six-week lockdown in December it had one of the lowest levels of Covid-19 cases in Europe. Since then, the situation has dramatically unraveled. The country recorded the highest infection rate in the world last week, according to Our World in Data, an online scientific publication based at the
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Nearly a year of ever-changing public safety guidelines with long days cooped up at home are wearing on many people. People have been social distancing, wearing masks and skipping gatherings with friends and family in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The pandemic, however, didn’t stop many from traveling for the holidays despite
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A reward is being offered for information that helps authorities find and prosecute whomever wrote “Trump” on a manatee’s back. The manatee was discovered Sunday in Florida’s Homosassa River with the President’s name in capital letters on its back, according to a news release from the Center for Biological Diversity. It’s not clear what was
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(CNN) — Los líderes militares más importantes de Estados Unidos condenaron la violenta invasión del Capitolio la semana pasada y recordaron a los miembros del ejército su obligación de apoyar y defender la Constitución y rechazar el extremismo. Así lo hicieron en una declaración que subraya los desafíos sin precedentes que enfrenta el país después
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan is expanding a coronavirus state of emergency to seven more prefectures, affecting more than half the population as infections spread across the country. Prime Minister Yoshide Suga also said Japan will suspend fast-track business entry permits, fully banning foreign visitors while the state of emergency is in place. Suga’s announcement comes
Continue Reading (CNN) — Estados Unidos informó el martes su mayor número diario de muertes por covid-19, con más de 4,320 muertes atribuidas al virus. Fue la segunda vez, tanto este mes como desde el inicio de la pandemia, que EE.UU. informó más de 4.000 muertes por covid-19 en un solo día. Durante la semana pasada, EE.UU.
Continue Reading (CNN) — Científicos han identificado una «mutación escapista» que puede disminuir la eficacia de las vacunas contra el covid-19. La mutación, llamada E484K, se ha encontrado en una variante del coronavirus que se detectó por primera vez en Sudáfrica hace dos meses. Esa variante ahora se ha extendido a otros 12 países. Japón reporta que
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The House of Representatives voted Tuesday night to approve a resolution calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office through the 25th Amendment in the wake of the violent siege of the US Capitol last week. The vote amounts to a symbolic rebuke after Vice President Mike Pence made clear earlier in the
Continue Reading (CNN) — La Cámara de Representantes votó el martes por la noche a favor de aprobar una resolución en la que se pide que el presidente Donald Trump sea destituido de su cargo mediante la 25a Enmienda a raíz del violento asedio del Capitolio de Estados Unidos la semana pasada. La votación equivale a una
Continue Reading (CNN) — YouTube suspenderá el canal del presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump, durante al menos una semana, y posiblemente más tiempo, después de que el canal recibiera una advertencia bajo las políticas de la plataforma, dijo la compañía el martes por la noche. Un video reciente en el canal de Trump había incitado a la
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The US reported its highest daily number of Covid-19 deaths on Tuesday with more than 4,320 fatalities attributed to the virus. It marked the second time — both this month and since the pandemic’s start — that the US reported more than 4,000 Covid-19 deaths in a single day. Over the past week, the US
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The US set a record Tuesday for the most Covid-19 deaths reported in one day since the start of the pandemic, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. As of Tuesday evening, 4,197 deaths were reported, according to JHU. This is not the complete total for Tuesday, though, because final numbers come in overnight. The
Continue Reading The man who was photographed hanging off the Senate balcony and then sitting in the Vice President’s chair during the riots at the US Capitol has been identified and is in custody, according to officials. In a sworn affidavit, an FBI agent says a relative of Josiah Colt confirmed that Colt is the person seen
Continue Reading Lisa Montgomery, 52, was executed by lethal injection at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, and pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m. Wednesday. Montgomery was the first woman to be executed by the federal government since 1953 and was the only woman on death row. The Supreme Court denied a last-ditch effort late Tuesday
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Federal investigators are chasing thousands of leads in twin efforts to prosecute people involved in last week’s attack on the US Capitol and to try to prevent feared follow-up attacks in Washington and around the country. But while the FBI has opened more than 160 case files in the six days since pro-Donald Trump rioters
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los viajeros aéreos a EE.UU. tendrán que mostrar una prueba de coronavirus negativa antes de poder abordar un vuelo, dijeron el martes los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. (CDC por sus siglas en inglés). La nueva orden entra en vigor el 26 de enero. Los CDC expresaron
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TERRE HAUTE, Indiana (AP) — The U.S. government has carried out its first execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades. Authorities executed a Kansas woman who strangled an expectant mother in Missouri and cut the baby from her womb. Lisa Montgomery was pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m. Wednesday after receiving a lethal injection
Continue Reading (CNN) –– La tercera película de Deadpool es una realidad, y será parte del Universo Cinematográfico de Marvel. En una entrevista con Collider, el presidente de Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, reveló que Ryan Reynolds ––la estrella de las películas de superhéroes con clasificación R–– está trabajando actualmente en un guión. LEE: Brie Larson revela algunos
Continue Reading A Florida firefighter was arrested for unlawful entry of a restricted building and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, according to court documents, after a photo surfaced of him wearing a Trump 2020 hat and pointing at a placard for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi inside the US Capitol. Andrew Williams, a firefighter-paramedic with the
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A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. The news media (once again) finds itself covering a moment unlike any other in history. President Trump is set to become the first president in US history to have been impeached twice — this time
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Security footage released Friday shows protesters entering the Oregon Capitol last month after a Republican state legislator allegedly opened a side door and walked out. Oregon State Police have opened an investigation into state Rep. Mike Nearman’s actions, according to spokesman Timothy Fox. “I don’t condone violence nor participate in it,” Nearman said in a
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Justice Department to carry out the first execution of a female death-row inmate in almost seven decades. The rulings, handed down just after midnight on Wednesday, allow the federal Bureau of Prisons to proceed with the execution of Lisa Montgomery. The
Continue Reading THE VIRUS OUTBREAK: — California reports record one-day total of 695 coronavirus deaths — Boris Johnson under fire as UK again faces onslaught of COVID-19 — Israelis protest Netanyahu amid third virus lockdown — Nightly curfew for pandemic takes effect across Quebec
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Multiple House Republicans announced Tuesday evening they would support the impeachment of President Donald Trump for his role inciting last week’s riot as congressional Republicans made their clearest break with Trump to date after he showed no remorse for the US Capitol mob. While the vast majority of House Republicans are expected to oppose the
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A New York man who allegedly gave a video interview while in the US Capitol was released on bond after being charged with crimes related to Wednesday’s riot. Aaron Mostofsky, the 34-year-old son of a state Supreme Court judge, appeared remotely for the Brooklyn federal court proceeding. US prosecutors in Washington, DC, have charged him
Continue Reading The British government will fine companies which hide connections to China’s Xinjiang region where Uyghurs and other minorities are allegedly subject to forced labor, under a raft of new measures. UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Tuesday announced the new measures, which the Foreign Office says are designed to ensure that all British organizations “are
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House has voted to urge Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to the Constitution and hold a Cabinet vote to remove President Donald Trump from office — a symbolic action after Pence had already said he would not do so. The House sent the message to Pence
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has indicated that he believes that impeaching President Donald Trump will make it easier to get rid of the President and Trumpism from the Republican Party, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. Another person with direct knowledge told CNN there’s a reason McConnell has been silent on
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– El canciller de la República Dominicana, Roberto Álvarez, informó este martes que los haitianos que residan en territorio dominicano serán inscritos en el registro civil de Haití, según acordaron los presidentes de ambos países. Álvarez ofreció la información tras una reunión de temas prioritarios entre el presidente de República Dominicana, Luis Abinader,
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — En diciembre de 2020, para millones de familias en todo el mundo no hubo motivos para celebrar: la pandemia se había cobrado, en menos de un año, más de 1,8 millones de vidas. Sin embargo, la Navidad llegó con una imagen de esperanza para América Latina, la de las primeras personas que
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