By Maggie Fox, CNN As soon as South Africa announced the spread of a new and troubling variant last week, scientists went to work. By the time the World Health Organization had named the new lineage Omicron, multiple teams of researchers had already duplicated the work of the laboratories in Durban and elsewhere, and mapped
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EL PASO, Texas — A prominent local doctor says short staffing at El Paso hospitals is contributing to overcrowding and delays as the city is in the midst of another Covid-19 spike. El Paso has the highest covid hospitalization rate in the state at 17.13 percent, according to the state health department website. Right now,
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN Español) — Este martes un juez federal de Washington sentenció a 36 meses de prisión a Emma Coronel y le impuso una multa de US$ 300 dólares, ya que ha entregado casi US$ 1,5 millones al gobierno de Estados Unidos como fondos procedentes del narcotráfico. El juez Rudolph Contreras considera que ella
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EL PASO, Texas — On Tuesday, the Texas Dept. of Transportation showcased their winter-ready vehicles that are used prior to winter storms in the Borderland region. Presentations of their dump trucks equipped with snow plows, as well as their brine application tanker trucks show the organization is ready for winter tis year. Lauren Macias-Cervantes, a
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By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire. Emma Coronel Aispuro also helped her husband plan a dramatic escape through a tunnel dug underneath a prison in Mexico
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By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and RYAN KRYSKA Associated Press OXFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at his Michigan high school on Tuesday, killing three students, including a 16-year-old boy who died in a deputy’s patrol car on the way to a hospital. Eight other people were wounded, some critically. Oakland
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By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer BEAVER CREEK, Colo. (AP) — American ski racer River Radamus has plenty of history with Beaver Creek, Colorado, and the Birds of Prey course. He grew up going to races as part of field trips for school. He watched Ted Ligety win on the demanding course and would chase
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CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business If you’re the kind of shopper who holds out for the bigger and better year-end deals after Christmas, you could be out of luck this season. Come January, those ridiculously-deep clearance sales might be much harder to find. Blame the messed up global supply chain. January is
Continue Reading By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business If you’re the kind of shopper who holds out for the bigger and better year-end deals after Christmas, you could be out of luck this season. Come January, those ridiculously-deep clearance sales might be much harder to find. Blame the messed up global supply chain. January is the golden month
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Echa un vistazo aquí sobre los orígenes, los tratamientos y la respuesta global al VIH y el sida en los últimos años. Cada 1 de diciembre se conmemora el Día Mundial de la Lucha contra el Sida. Hace poco más de 40 años se registraron los primeros casos de sida
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By Al Goodman, CNN New lava tubes from the Cumbre Vieja volcano on Spain’s La Palma island have sent molten lava flowing downhill at speeds of up to 1 meter (3 feet) per second since Monday, according to the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute. Further down the mountain, on the west side of the island just
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — El 5 de junio de 1981, apareció un curioso informe en el resumen semanal de salud pública del Centro de Control de Enfermedades (CDC): a cinco jóvenes homosexuales de Los Ángeles se les diagnosticó una inusual infección pulmonar conocida como neumonía por Pneumocystis carinii (PCP), y dos de ellos murieron. Era la
Continue Reading ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — Michigan’s Aidan Hutchinson was named defensive player of the year and Michigan State’s Mel Tucker was named coach of the year in the Big Ten. The two were among honorees announced by the league. Hutchinson leads the conference and is third nationally with 13 sacks. Tucker has led the Spartans to
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Federal prosecutors unsealed charges against a Rhode Island man on Monday who allegedly attempted to hop over security chains behind the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, with two hatchets just hours after the US Capitol riot on January 6. Timothy Desjardins, 35, was caught on video using a broken wooden table
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Joseph Ataman, CNN Black, American-born, a woman, and arguably best known for her exotic dancing: Josephine Baker hardly fits the profile of France’s historical heroes. But today, the performer from Saint Louis, Missouri, was granted one of France’s highest honors: A tomb in the Pantheon in Paris, the country’s monument to its heroes. There have
Continue Reading CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business So much for a year-end Santa Claus rally? The broader market has pulled back in the past week as worries about the Omicron variant of Covid-19 have rattled investors’ confidence. These latest coronavirus concerns have traders wondering if this is finally the end of the long
Continue Reading By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business So much for a year-end Santa Claus rally? The broader market has pulled back in the past week as worries about the Omicron variant of Covid-19 have rattled investors’ confidence. These latest coronavirus concerns have traders wondering if this is finally the end of the long running bull
Continue Reading LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Former England midfielder Ray Kennedy has died at the age of 70. Kennedy won English league titles with Liverpool and Arsenal. His death was announced by both clubs. Kennedy was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1984. He won the league and FA Cup double with Arsenal in 1971. He joined Liverpool
Continue Reading CNN By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado suggested to a crowd in September that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, whom she called “black-hearted” and “evil,” was a terrorist. In those same remarks, she said that she felt safe around Omar because the Democrat wasn’t wearing a backpack while they were
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials have reversed their previous position against giving coronavirus booster shots and are studying a plan to administer third doses to people over 60. The announcement Tuesday comes as Mexico nears 450,000 deaths from COVID-19. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said plans are still being drawn up, but said, “It
Continue Reading By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Home prices rose 19.5% in September compared to a year ago, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index. But even that huge increase was a slight slowdown from August, when prices rose by 19.8%. September marked the first time year-over-year gains have decreased since May, according to
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The longtime president of Belarus says his country would be ready to host Russian nuclear weapons if NATO moves U.S. atomic bombs from Germany to Eastern Europe. In an interview on Tuesday, President Alexander Lukashenko also said for the first time that he recognizes the Crimean Peninsula
Continue Reading Nicola Ruotolo and Amy Woodyatt, CNN The heirs of former Gucci fashion house chairman Aldo Gucci have hit out at Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci” movie. The fashion biopic centers on the story of Patrizia Reggiani, an Italian socialite played by Lady Gaga, who after marrying into fashion royalty was sentenced to 29 years in
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson Stamping Ground, Kentucky (CNN) — La muerte de Matthew Davidson no fue única. Fue tan solo una más de las 100.000 muertes relacionadas con sobredosis en Estados Unidos desde mayo de 2020 hasta abril de 2021, un récord de fallecimientos al tiempo que la nación estaba bajo el control de la pandemia. Su
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The US State Department has removed the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by the acronym the FARC, from its terrorism blacklist, and listed two dissident groups led by former FARC militants. In a written statement Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the State Department was revoking the FARC’s foreign
Continue Reading CNN Opinion by Joseph Stiglitz and Lori Wallach for CNN Business Perspectives If international organizations are subject to karma, last week’s abrupt postponement of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference, the body’s first major decision-making gathering in four years, was fated to be. News of the emergence of Omicron, the latest coronavirus variant, not
Continue Reading Opinion by Joseph Stiglitz and Lori Wallach for CNN Business Perspectives If international organizations are subject to karma, last week’s abrupt postponement of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference, the body’s first major decision-making gathering in four years, was fated to be. News of the emergence of Omicron, the latest coronavirus variant, not only
Continue Reading By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s interior minister has applied freshly adopted regulations and declared area along the nation’s border with Belarus off-limits to everyone except residents and people who live, work or study in designated no-access zones, until March. Earlier Tuesday the lower house of parliament, or Sejm, voted to
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GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — A 55-year-old Texas woman has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for her role in the death of a Kansas couple who were vendors at a county fair. Kimberley Stacy Younger, of Aransas Pass, Texas, was sentenced Monday for capital murder and other charges. She was one of
Continue Reading GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — A 55-year-old Texas woman has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for her role in the death of a Kansas couple who were vendors at a county fair. Kimberley Stacy Younger, of Aransas Pass, Texas, was sentenced Monday for capital murder and other charges. She was one of
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