Manchester United forward Edinson Cavani has been handed a three-match ban and fined £100,000 ($136,594) by the English Football Association in relation to a social media post. The Uruguayan thanked a follower on his Instagram story last month using the phrase “gracias negrito,” which translates to “thank you, little Black one.” The phrase is seen
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Stanley Johnson, the father of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has said that he intends to obtain French citizenship — his comments coming just hours before the UK’s final transition out of the European Union. Johnson, a former Member of the European Parliament, told French radio station RTL he “will always be European” in an
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Samuel Little, believed to be the most prolific serial killer in American history, has died at age 80, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Wednesday. Little had been serving three consecutive life-without-parole sentences from Los Angeles County for the deaths of three women that occurred in the late 1980s. However, he had confessed
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star) — The owner of the Gramercy Hill senior living facility in Lincoln has voluntarily defaulted on its loan and plans to allow the facility to be taken over by Fannie Mae. The default, which was made official last week with a filing with
Continue Reading A Wisconsin hospital worker is accused of intentionally removing 57 vials of Covid-19 vaccine from a refrigerator overnight last week, an action that forced the hospital to discard those vials and has spurred an investigation by police and the FBI, officials said Wednesday. The vials’ removal from refrigeration at Aurora Medical Center just north of
Continue ReadingAlden Global Capital, the largest shareholder of Tribune Publishing, said Thursday it offered to take full control of the newspaper chain in a deal that values the company at $520.6 million. Tribune Publishing owns the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News and the Baltimore Sun, among other local newspapers. The hedge fund made a
Continue ReadingAmericans can expect to start seeing $600 in their bank accounts immediately as the federal government’s second round of stimulus payments is being sent out, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service said. The direct deposits will continue into next week, while paper checks will be mailed out beginning Wednesday. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
Continue ReadingJust a week after Sen. Marco Rubio was criticized for getting the coronavirus vaccine ahead of some front-line workers, the Florida Republican is back in the hot seat for his comments accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and others of manipulating public perception surrounding Covid-19. “Dr. Fauci
Continue ReadingTarget is recalling some infant and toddler clothes because of snaps that could be a choking hazard. The snaps on the Cloud Island infant rompers and Cat & Jack Infant-Toddler One-Piece Rashguard Swimsuits can break or detach, which poses a risk of choking or lacerations, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced on Wednesday. Target
Continue Reading South Carolinians are fiercely proud of the state’s iconic indigo-blue flag, with its thin crescent and lush palmetto. So when a commission of historians was tasked with tweaking its design, residents of the state were quick to respond — mess with the flag, and you mess with us. Lambasted by the public, a newly proposed
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As the pandemic brought most live concerts to a halt in 2020, audiences increasingly saw top artists turn to streaming sites to share their music and their stories. In the past year, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Shawn Mendes, Ariana Grande, Bruce Springsteen and the Beastie Boys are among the artists who released visual films
Continue ReadingLondres (CNN) — Te costaría encontrar a alguien en Europa que no se sienta feliz de ver el final de 2020. El covid-19, el brexit y la carnicería política internacional de este año han golpeado al continente y exacerbado las tensiones que han asolado a la Unión Europea durante años. Pero esos problemas no desaparecerán
Continue ReadingNew York City tourism and real estate officials are hoping Thursday night’s New Year’s Eve celebration will mark a turning point for Times Square, the Manhattan neighborhood that has become a symbol of sorts for the economic ills of the Covid-19 economy. Commerce among the more than 1,500 businesses in the tourist destination and business
Continue Reading(CNN Español) — El Sistema Nacional de Emergencias, SNE 911, confirmó que Esdras Laínez murió la noche de este miércoles embestido por un carro en la calle Paseo de La Salud en Tegucigalpa, la capital de Honduras. Una oficial de prensa del SNE 911 dijo a CNN que el conductor y el vehículo implicados en
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV/KSMO) — Fire investigators from a national ATF team were able to gain entry Thursday morning to the Troost Avenue apartment building that burned up in a massive fire Monday night, as they work against the clock to figure out what caused the blaze that
Continue Reading People who meet their partners on dating apps often have stronger long-term relationship goals — contrary to the idea that technology encourages casual encounters rather than commitment, a new study has found. Analyzing 2018 family survey data, researchers from Switzerland’s University of Geneva (UNIGE) studied a sample of 3,235 adults who were in a relationship
Continue Reading Minneapolis police said they would release body camera footage Thursday of a fatal shooting that happened during a traffic stop — the department’s first police-involved shooting since George Floyd died while being pinned down by officers in May. The shooting Wednesday evening involved a man suspected in a felony who Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo
Continue Reading(CNN) — Sí, 2020 fue en gran parte un desastre. Nadie te culpa por querer que llegue el año nuevo. Pero celebrar de la manera incorrecta podría llevar a meses de sufrimiento debido al covid-19. «El problema es que tenemos mucha transmisión de covid-19 en Estados Unidos en este momento», dijo el Dr. Peter Hotez,
Continue ReadingThis is normally the time of the year that gas prices fall to their low point. Not this year. Gas prices are now close to their highest point since the pandemic prompted stay-at-home orders in March. The average price of a gallon of regular gas stood at $2.25 on Thursday, according to AAA, off only
Continue ReadingFlorida Congresswoman-elect María Elvira Salazar said Thursday that she has tested positive for Covid-19 and will be unable to attend the congressional swearing-in ceremony at the US Capitol on Sunday. Salazar, a Republican, said on Twitter she was admitted to a local hospital with heart arrhythmia, commonly known as an irregular heartbeat, on December 23,
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