urielblanco (CNN Business) — Los kits de pruebas rápidas de covid-19 para uso doméstico ya escaseaban en las tiendas. Ahora, una versión popular es cada vez más cara en Estados Unidos. Walmart y Kroger están subiendo los precios de los kits de prueba BinaxNOW, fabricados por Abbott Laboratories, después de que expirara un acuerdo con
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MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities say an eight-year-old girl has died from her injuries after strong winds blew a bouncy castle several meters into the air during a fair in eastern Spain. Spanish news agency EFE reported Wednesday that another eight children were injured, including some that needed hospital treatment. The town hall of Mislata
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Mariana Toro (CNN) — Esto es lo que le sucede a tu cuerpo en condiciones de calor extremo, lo que debes tener en cuenta y cómo mantenerte a salvo. ¿Qué le sucede a tu cuerpo? Normalmente, tu cuerpo está acostumbrado a un cierto rango de temperaturas, generalmente entre 36 y 37,2 grados Celsius. Cuando tu
Continue Reading By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago school leaders canceled classes in the nation’s third-largest school district for the second straight day after failing to reach an agreement with the teachers union over remote learning and other COVID-19 safety protocols. The Chicago Teachers Union sought to revert to remote instruction during the latest
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EL PASO, Texas– City leaders met Tuesday to get a COVID-19 response update. Officials said that new cases have increased by 80% daily over the last two weeks. With that, they said the demand for testing has grown. Tommy Gonzalez, city manager, said they planned for the spike and have been proactive in adding more
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business A closely watched barometer for the job market offered a happy surprise for the new year: The ADP Employment Report was doubly as strong as expected in December. Economists had predicted 400,000 private sector jobs were added last month, but the report came in at a whopping 807,000. It was
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By George Ramsay, CNN Danish footballer Christian Eriksen says his goal is to play at this year’s FIFA World Cup in Qatar after recovering from the cardiac arrest he experienced last year at Euro 2020. Eriksen collapsed during Denmark’s game against Finland in Copenhagen last June and received life-saving treatment on the pitch. Following the
Continue Reading By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Fifteen years after Romania and Bulgaria joined the European Union, many residents say the former communist nations certainly are better for it. But the two countries still have a way to go on generating the kind of economic growth that would keep their citizens from seeking
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LONDON (AP) — Germany’s antitrust watchdog has paved the way for extra scrutiny of Google by designating it a company of “paramount significance.” It’s the first such decision since regulators got more power to curb abusive practices by big digital companies. The regulator’s decision Wednesday comes after rules were introduced last year that allow it
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Germany’s antitrust watchdog has paved the way for extra scrutiny of Google by designating it a company of “paramount significance.” It’s the first such decision since regulators got more power to curb abusive practices by big digital companies. The regulator’s decision Wednesday comes after rules were introduced last year that allow it
Continue Reading SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has been discharged from a hospital in Sao Paulo, where he spent two days after an intestinal obstruction. On Tuesday, the medical team accompanying him had ruled out the need for surgery. Bolsonaro, 66, has undergone four surgeries stemming from the abdominal stabbing he suffered during a
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Francesca Street, CNN Photographer Jalil Najafov’s first thought when he saw the great white was: “Is that real?” It was August 2019 and Najafov, a shark enthusiast, conservationist and filmmaker, was exploring the coast of Mexico with some friends. The group spotted a great white shark swimming close to their boat. This was already exciting.
Continue Reading CNNEE (CNN) — Una maestra en Nueva York fue arrestada en la víspera de Año Nuevo por supuestamente administrar ilegalmente una inyección que los detectives creen que era una vacuna de covid-19, dice la policía. Laura Russo, una maestra de 54 años, presuntamente administró la vacuna en su casa en Sea Cliff, Long Island, a
Continue Reading By Joe Sutton and Amy Simonson, CNN Amtrak passengers traveling through Virginia were delayed for about 30 hours Monday night after trees downed during a winter storm blocked the train’s path. About 120 passengers were on the Crescent Train 20 when it was stopped north of Lynchburg, Amtrak spokesperson Christina Leeds told CNN. The train,
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By Anna Cooban, CNN Business Sony has announced plans to launch an electric car company later this year as it unveiled a new sports utility vehicle concept. The Japanese tech company will set up a new operating subsidiary called “Sony Mobility Inc.” in the coming months and is considering the commercial launch of an electric
Continue Reading CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Anna Cooban, CNN Business Sony has announced plans to launch an electric car company later this year as it unveiled a new sports utility vehicle concept. The Japanese tech company will set up a new operating subsidiary called “Sony Mobility Inc.” in the coming months and is considering the commercial launch
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By Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN Republicans on Capitol Hill are under pressure to reflect on the deadly events of January 6 but are also trying to avoid talking about former President Donald Trump’s culpability — underscoring how the attack remains an unwelcome distraction for a party eager to gain voters’ trust in this
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Staff writers for The New York Times and The New Yorker, an art expert based in Rome and an associate professor at Oxford University. Those are among the nine inaugural winners of the Silvers-Dudley Prizes for criticism and journalism. The awards are named for the late Robert Silvers, the longtime editor
Continue Reading By KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press Glennon Doyle hates giving advice. The author of the best-selling memoir “Untamed” says she just wants to help others find the freedom she found herself. In a recent interview with The Associated Press, she says the point is you can’t follow somebody else’s idea of what to be. Her own
Continue Reading By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Markets climbed a wall of worry to new heights in 2021. Buoyed by gains at the end of the year, Wall Street is now even more certain there will be an encore performance. What’s happening: The risks identified over the past 12 months — looming interest rate hikes, rising inflation,
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN A pro-Palestinian Instagram post from Hollywood star Emma Watson has sparked accusations of anti-Semitism from Israeli politicians, and a backlash against what many are calling the cynical weaponization of the term to attack supporters of the Palestinian cause. On Monday Watson, who shot to global superstardom after playing Hermione Granger in
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The cast and crew of Harry Potter reunite to celebrate the 20th-anniversary release of the first film for an HBO Max special. HLN’s Chloe Melas reports.
Continue Reading ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Officials in Croatia say that omicron variant of the coronavirus has fueled the highest number of daily new infections in the country since the start of the pandemic. Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said Wednesday that a total of 8,587 new cases were confirmed in the past 24 hours in a 50%
Continue Reading ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Officials in Croatia say that omicron variant of the coronavirus has fueled the highest number of daily new infections in the country since the start of the pandemic. Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said Wednesday that a total of 8,587 new cases were confirmed in the past 24 hours in a 50%
Continue Reading BEIRUT (AP) — A U.N. official says unknown perpetrators have attacked a group of U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, vandalizing their vehicles and stealing official items from them. Such scuffles with U.N. peacekeepers are not uncommon in southern Lebanon since the force was expanded following the 2006 war between Israel and the militant Hezbollah group.
Continue Reading By DALATOU MAMANE Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger officials say that police have seized more than 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of cocaine from the vehicle of the mayor of a small town in the country’s north. Niger’s Central Office for the Repression of Illicit Drug Trafficking issued a statement saying that nearly 200
Continue Reading By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An Israeli court has sentenced a man to a year in prison for his involvement in the beating of an Arab motorist during a spasm of communal violence last year. The man was convicted of incitement to violence and racism, as part of a plea
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As Covid-19 cases continue to rise in Ohio, the state’s governor has asked the National Guard to step in and help out overwhelmed hospitals.
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin Adelaida, Australia (CNN) — Los australianos respondieron con enfado y escepticismo a la noticia de que el número 1 del tenis masculino, Novak Djokovic, recibió una exención para competir en el Open de Australia de este año en Melbourne. Había incertidumbre sobre la participación de Djokovic después de que se dijera que
Continue Reading By Evan Perez and Katelyn Polantz, CNN A year after the January 6 insurrection, the Justice Department continues to press forward on the biggest investigation in FBI history, with 700 people already arrested and hundreds more offenders still at large and several more years of prosecutions ahead. But the expansive investigation has yet to shed
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