Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A group consisting of Minnesota parents, coaches and athletes say they plan to file a new lawsuit this week over Gov. Tim Walz’s restrictions requiring student-athletes to wear masks during practices and games. The group, Let Them Play MN, previously sued the governor and other
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President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday slammed police for their different treatment of Wednesday’s pro-Donald Trump mob and Black Lives Matter protesters earlier this year. Biden said he’d received a text message Wednesday from his 21-year-old granddaughter Finnegan Biden pointing out how much more aggressive police had been with Black Lives Matter protesters. “No one can
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A north Minneapolis entrepreneur is getting rave reviews for his efforts to keep people safe from COVID-19 and Minnesota’s brutal winter. K.B. Brown is mixing the need to wear a mask with fashion by sewing the mask directly into the hoodie. The design is showing
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Counties where large colleges and universities opened for in-person classes in the fall suffered a significant rise in the incidence of Covid-19, according to a new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Within three weeks of colleges or universities opening to in-person instruction, counties that were home to these institutions “experienced
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DALLAS (KTVT) — A retired Fort Worth police officer is hoping to encourage conversations about mental health using a medium that many people relate to – music. Tegan Broadwater is a former undercover police officer who has always had a passion for music. After leaving police work, he
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BOULDER, CO (KCNC) — Many New Year’s resolutions include shedding off pounds gained after months of staying home. Gyms are operating at limited capacity, despite the continued spread of COVID-19. According to a new study from the University of Colorado Boulder, one exercising person can emit as many
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President Donald Trump’s top national security officials received calls in the hours following a mob attack on the US Capitol urging them not to resign, according to people familiar with the matter, an effort meant to safeguard American security as aides describe Trump devolving into volatile instability. The fear of resignations came as senior officials
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The morning after rioters violently stormed the US Capitol, “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough passionately reprimanded Capitol police and said Trump should be “sent to jail today.” Scarborough, a former Florida congressman, expressed his rage about how quickly and easily law enforcement lost control of the siege. “Trump supporters come in and you open the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CAMBRIDGE, MA (WBZ) — A Harvard University professor is making the case that we are likely not alone in the universe. Astronomer Avi Loeb’s new book “Extraterrestrial” examines the 2017 flyby of a space object that he believes was truly out of this world. “At first people thought,
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(CNN) — La Policía de Washington publicó imágenes de cámaras de vigilancia de docenas de personas con las que quieren hablar como parte de la investigación de los disturbios en el Capitolio de Estados Unidos el miércoles. Las fotos fueron publicadas en el sitio web del Departamento de Policía Metropolitana el jueves. La Policía identifica
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — La ciudad de Bogotá, en Colombia, entrará a partir de este jueves en una alerta roja debido a la alta ocupación en unidades de cuidados intensivos en hospitales, informó en conferencia de prensa la alcaldesa, Claudia López. López dijo que la decisión se tomó luego de que «Bogotá ha llegado ya durante
Continue Reading Digital security experts are raising the alarm over Wednesday’s breach of the US Capitol, which not only threatened lawmakers’ physical safety but also created potential national security and intelligence risks, they say. As rioters stormed the Capitol building, they broke into congressional offices, ransacked papers and in at least one case, stole a laptop, according
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — A Kendall County woman says someone hacked into her bank account and used the Zelle payment app to steal $2,000. Then her bank told her there’s nothing they can do, and she can’t even get ahold of Zelle. CBS 2 Morning Insider Tim McNicholas discovered
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Asheville’s Streets Division is ready for the snow! Asheville Public Works prepped all snow removal equipment this week and staff are ready to begin salting and plowing streets once accumulation begins. All Streets Division trucks are equipped to double as plows and salt spreaders
Continue Reading House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday called for the resignation of the US Capitol Police chief and said the House Sergeant at Arms has told her he is submitting his resignation amid criticism over an apparent lack of preparedness to deal with Wednesday’s violent mob on Capitol Hill. Pelosi made her comments during her weekly
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Hawaii, USA (KITV) — Catholic Charities Hawaii and the State of Hawaii announced on Wednesday the launch of a new rent relief program that will begin accepting applications next week. The Rent Assistance and Mediation Program (RAMP) will provide assistance for Hawai‘i renters who have experienced a reduction
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — ABC-7 is revamping its weekly check-in segment with a doctor on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. Every week, anchor Mauricio Casillas will speak to Dr. Edward Michelson. Dr. Michelson is the chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine for Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Here’s the Q&A for
Continue Reading Stocks rallied to new all-time highs on Thursday, as Wall Street continues to be unfazed by the prior day’s violent clashes on Capitol Hill. The S&P 500, the broadest measure of the US equities market, finished up 1.5% while the Nasdaq Composite closed 2.6% higher. The Dow closed 0.7%, or 212 points, higher. All three
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (FOX5 Vegas) — The New Year seems to motivate a lot of us to get fit or lose weight. But the reality is, more often than not, we fall off the wagon and by February, we’re over it. One Las Vegas Valley man actually kept true
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – The Mesilla Valley Regional Dispatch Authority has a planned power outage scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 10. The outage will be from 8 a.m. to about 10 a.m. It is required to connect newly installed solar panels to the power grid. During the outage, 911 telephone lines will be transferred to
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — En una reprimenda a los seguidores del presidente Donald Trump que irrumpieron en el Capitolio este miércoles, el expresidente George W. Bush comparó ese acto de terrorismo interno con lo que sucede en las «Repúblicas bananeras». «Laura y yo estamos viendo las escenas de caos que se desarrollan en la sede del
Continue Reading Facebook and Instagram will ban President Donald Trump’s account from posting for at least the remainder of his term in office and perhaps “indefinitely,” Mark Zuckerberg said in a blog post on Thursday. “We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great,” the
Continue Reading Consumers using a phone that still runs on the Verizon 3G network have a bit more time to continue using the network. The company’s 3G network is still up and running — after Verizon previously said the old network would shut down at the end of 2020 — as it continues to shift customers to
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The US military flew two B-52 bombers to the Middle East Thursday from their base in the United States — the fourth such deployment and show of force by the US Air Force aimed at sending a message to Iran in the past two months. This latest mission was to “demonstrate the U.S. military’s continuing
Continue Reading Nota del editor: Roberto Izurieta es director de Proyectos latinoamericanos en la Universidad George Washington. Ha trabajado en campañas políticas en varios países de América Latina y España, y fue asesor de los presidentes Alejandro Toledo, de Perú, Vicente Fox, de México, y Álvaro Colom, de Guatemala. Izurieta también es colaborador de CNN en Español.
Continue Reading (CNN) — Mientras Estados Unidos reportó su día más alto de muertes por covid-19, los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. advirtieron que el número total de víctimas podría exceder los 430.000 para fin de mes. Estados Unidos informó el miércoles de 3.865 muertes por coronavirus, lo que incrementa la
Continue Reading Bitcoin first topped $19,000 in December 2017 before crashing spectacularly to around $3,200 a year later. But long-term buy and hold bitcoin bulls, or HODLers as they’re known in crypto circles, are having the last laugh. That’s because the price of one bitcoin topped more than $40,000 Thursday — double the value from a little
Continue Reading President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo as commerce secretary, two people familiar with the matter say, in a round of Cabinet positions that could be announced on Friday. Raimondo is the first woman governor of Rhode Island, and has served in the role since her election in 2014. She
Continue Reading President-elect Joe Biden is expected to tap Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as labor secretary, two sources familiar with the decision tell CNN. Walsh is a veteran union operative, eventually rising to lead Boston’s Building and Construction Trades Council, a group that represents ironworker and electrician unions, among others. He outlasted California Labor Secretary Julie Su,
Continue Reading A State Department political appointee was fired by the White House Thursday after tweeting on Wednesday evening that President Donald Trump is unfit for office and was to blame for the mob attack on the US Capitol, according to two sources familiar with the firing. “President Trump fomented an insurrectionist mob that attacked the Capitol
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