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Continue ReadingThere are just days to go until President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in, Donald Trump is no longer President and Democrats take control of the US Senate, but rank-and-file members on Capitol Hill are still waiting for signals from leadership about what the first month of Biden’s presidency will look like. It seems the uncertainty
Continue ReadingPresident-elect Joe Biden nominated Gary Gensler to serve as the commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Rohit Chopra to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to a Monday statement. Gensler and Chopra are both allies of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Currently a member of the Federal Trade Commission, Chopra will — if
Continue ReadingGreek Olympic gold medalist Sofia Bekatorou’s very public detailing of her alleged sexual assault in 1998 by a high-ranking Hellenic Sailing Federation (HSF) official has sparked an outcry in the Mediterranean country over the way her revelations were initially dealt with. Bekatorou did not name the person she is accusing. On Saturday, Aristides Adamopoulos —
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Caught between colliding pressures of a pandemic, political unrest and outcries for social justice, this Martin Luther King Day of Service is unlike any other. But despite the limitations of the season, this federal holiday doesn’t have to be any less impactful. Now more than ever, MLK Day of Service is enabling everyday people to
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Más de 95 millones de casos alrededor del mundo, más de dos millones de muertes y personas alrededor del globo luchando contra la enfermedad desde las UCI: en su segundo año, la pandemia de coronavirus no ha dado muestras de ralentizarse. Con casi 400.000 y casi 210.000 fallecidos, respectivamente, Estados Unidos y
Continue ReadingA version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. Were there hour-by-hour countdowns to the end of the Bush presidency? The end of the Obama years? No, definitely not to this extent. Trump’s time in office is ending in ignoble fashion. There are countdowns
Continue ReadingParler’s website suddenly reappeared online Sunday afternoon with a message from its CEO, John Matze: “Hello world, is this thing on?” The message, dated January 16, implies that the social network popular with members of the far right has found a new online hosting platform, after Parler was booted from Amazon Web Services on January
Continue ReadingJamie Lynn Spears called Tesla “a secret cat-killer” and told CEO Elon Musk that he owes her a couple new feline friends. The actress, singer and sister of Britney Spears said in a since-deleted Instagram video that her cats were run over by a Tesla they never heard coming. Teslas, like other electric cars, run quieter
Continue ReadingAn Army reservist who federal investigators say has secret-level security clearance and a long record of posting his extremist views online was among the latest wave of rioters charged by federal prosecutors in connection with the January 6 Capitol insurrection. Others charged this weekend include a woman who has been seen in photos brandishing the
Continue ReadingJust a little more than halfway into January, the US has added a staggering 3.9 million new Covid-19 cases and more than 51,000 virus-related deaths. The country’s total Covid-19 death toll is now rapidly approaching 400,000 — that’s more than the number of Americans who died in World War I, Vietnam War and the Korean
Continue Reading Esta semana supone el fin del gobierno de Trump y el cambio de mando con una toma de posesión atÃpica, no solo por la pandemia. La caravana de migrantes choca con las autoridades de Guatemala. Avanza el caso Nisman en Argentina. Navalny regresó a Rusia. Además, hoy es el ‘Blue Monday’. Esto es lo que
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A giant blimp depicting Donald Trump as a diaper-clad baby, which followed the outgoing US President on his visits to London and symbolized international opposition to his administration, has secured its place in history after being acquired by a British museum. The 20-foot-tall “Trump Baby” blimp was created ahead of the President’s first visit to
Continue Reading Hong Kong (CNN) — Programas públicos de vacunación masiva que utilizan una vacuna china contra el coronavirus están en marcha en Indonesia y TurquÃa, donde se espera que decenas de millones de personas reciban dosis de la vacuna CoronaVac, fabricada por la empresa Sinovac, con sede en Beijing. El miércoles, el presidente de Indonesia, Joko
Continue Reading Mars is about to be a very busy place when three separate missions arrive at the red planet in February. One of those missions includes NASA’s Perseverance rover. When it lands, we’ll be able to hear the sounds of Mars for the first time, thanks to microphones riding on the rover. A new interactive experience
Continue ReadingAs if we needed any more reason to ruminate over pandemic life’s daily plights, today (January 18) is Blue Monday — the third Monday of January, which is rumored to be the most depressing day of the year. But is it? Research hasn’t proved that there is any one day more depressing than all the
Continue Reading As Indonesia continues to count the number of dead from last week’s earthquake on Sulawesi island, search and rescue teams are being stretched to breaking point, as they grapple with a series of disasters unfolding across the country. Flooding in South Kalimantan has killed more than a dozen people and displaced tens of thousands. Rescue
Continue Reading As Los Angeles County battles against the unrelenting coronavirus, an air pollution control agency says it has temporarily suspended limits on cremations in order to assist crematoriums in the county with a “backlog” caused by the pandemic. The South Coast Air Quality Management District said in a news release Sunday that permits for crematoriums usually
Continue Reading (CNN Español) – El doctor Huerta responde esta semana a las preguntas de la audiencia sobre las secuelas del coronavirus, entre ellas la pérdida de olfato y la tos. También, quién es el especialista médico que debe darle seguimiento a la enfermedad, más preguntas sobre la vacuna y las formas de contagios. Puedes escuchar este
Continue Reading Sao Paulo, Brasil (CNN) — En medio de un devastador resurgimiento del coronavirus en partes de Brasil, funcionarios federales de salud del paÃs sudamericano finalmente votaron para autorizar dos vacunas para uso de emergencia. El domingo, la agencia reguladora brasileña Anvisa aprobó tanto la vacuna Oxford/AstraZeneca como la vacuna Coronavac. Minutos después, Monica Calazans, una
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