The University of Maryland has reached a $3.5 million settlement with the family of Jordan McNair, the offensive lineman who died after suffering heatstroke during a team workout in 2018. The details of the settlement became known Friday as part of the meeting agenda for the Maryland Board of Public Works, which is expected to
Continue ReadingCES, the closely-watched annual consumer electronics show, often sets the tone for the tech trends of the year — but little did I realize how true that would be last year. On the flight home from Las Vegas in January 2020, I wrote a piece for CNN Business about how the technology of the future
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(CNN) — No habrá discusiones sobre el tamaño de la multitud que participe en la toma de posesión de Biden porque no habrá una multitud. En una medida extraordinaria que revela la situación extrema en la que el presidente Donald Trump deja la nación, todo la Explanada Nacional salpicado de monumentos en Washington estará cerrado
Continue ReadingAs the country focused on the aftermath of riots in the US Capitol and the unprecedented second impeachment of President Donald Trump, the liberal justices of the Supreme Court spent Trump’s last full week in office battling his administration’s long-term objective to execute 13 federal death row inmates in six months. Late Friday night, over
Continue ReadingThere’s a distance of just over two miles between the Lincoln Memorial and the US Capitol. It was in 1963, on the Lincoln Memorial’s steps, that The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. told the 250,000 people gathered there: “I have a dream that one day […] the rough places will be made plain and the
Continue ReadingWith coronavirus vaccines now rolling out across the United States, businesses and schools are considering how, and what it will take, to safely resume in-person operations. Some of the country’s biggest tech firms and health care organizations have joined together to help facilitate that return to “normal.” The group, called the Vaccine Credential Initiative, wants
Continue ReadingThe National Rifle Association of America, the nation’s foremost gun lobby, has filed for bankruptcy, according to court documents filed Friday in the Northern District of Texas. The group said it plans to leave New York State, where it was founded in 1871, and reincorporate as a Texas nonprofit in a move it is calling
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Palm Springs and Thermal broke record high temperatures on Friday, January 15th. With a ridge of high pressure remaining in place, temperatures will continue to track near record breaking again for Saturday. The ridge of high pressure will slowly retrograde pushing northwest Sunday, allowing for some cooling Sunday afternoon. Temperatures all weekend will remain in
Continue ReadingPresident-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will introduce key members of their White House science team on Saturday afternoon at an event in Wilmington, Delaware, according to the transition team. Eric Lander is Biden’s nominee for director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and will serve as a presidential science adviser.
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Update 5:45 a.m.: The Sheriff’s Department has found the suspect he has been taken into custody. Riverside County Sheriff’s deputies are looking for a man they believe to be armed with a gun hiding in date fields. This is near the area of Dillon Road and Vista Del Norte in Coachella. That’s off of Interstate
Continue Reading (CNN) –– El presidente electo Joe Biden detalló este viernes un plan para administrar vacunas de covid-19 a la población de EE.UU. La estrategia incluye extender la elegibilidad para vacunar a más personas, así como crear más sitios de vacunación. También, tomar medidas para aumentar el suministro y distribución de las vacunas. Su plan prevé
Continue Reading For happy couples, Valentine’s Day is an excuse for romance, often celebrated with extravagant dinners and thoughtful gifts. But on February 14, unhappy couples remember all the reasons they can’t stand each other. That’s why a Tennessee law firm is giving away free divorce representation to one lucky (unlucky?) client who just can’t wait to
Continue ReadingJustice Horn was in broad daylight, but he could not see as he rose from the ground and blindly stumbled through darkness and pain. The pain was the fire the community activist felt in his face and eyes in June 2020, as he had just been pepper-sprayed by a Kansas City police officer while peacefully
Continue ReadingThe 2020-2021 Premier League season is a proving a bumper campaign for penalties. We’re not even at the half-way point yet but already there have been 69 spot-kicks awarded. Compare that to the 2019-2020 season when 92 penalties in total were given. Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford has credited former manager Jose Mourinho for making
Continue Reading An 11-year-old boy was removed from his home and his parents are in jail after police say an Orlando waitress noticed something was wrong and used a note to ask him if he needed help. Flavaine Carvalho was not scheduled to work a shift at the Mrs. Potato restaurant on New Year’s Day but someone
Continue Reading Fighting institutions of power is as American as it gets. Throughout the history of this country, many have taken action in the form of demonstration to fight real and/or perceived injustice. However, until 2020, no demonstrator ever had to take to the streets with Covid-19 threatening them. Covid-19 has changed everything — and despite stay-at-home
Continue Reading A South Carolina preacher and local resident are turning what once was a Ku Klux Klan meeting place into a community center dedicated to educating and fighting against racial injustice. Deep in Laurens stands the historic Echo Theater, perched in between diners and cafes bustling with customers and ’50s music that can be heard from
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– Aquí te dejamos un vistazo a la vida del presidente electo de EE.UU. Joe Biden. Datos personales de Joe Biden Fecha de nacimiento: 20 de noviembre de 1942. Lugar de nacimiento: Scranton, Pensilvania. Nombre de nacimiento: Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. Padre: Joseph Robinette Biden Sr., vendedor de autos. Madre: Catherine Eugenia (Finnegan)
Continue Reading (CNN) –– Uno visita a los operadores telefónicos de la Casa Blanca, se dirige a los soldados en las bases de todo el país, pasa a saludar a los guardias nacionales posicionados para la toma de posesión y habla por teléfono con su sucesora. El otro está escondido, silenciado en las redes sociales, resistiéndose a
Continue Reading (CNN) –– Las variantes nuevas y más contagiosas del covid-19 probablemente acelerarán la propagación del virus. Eso significa que Estados Unidos debe redoblar sus esfuerzos para proteger a las personas. Así lo advirtieron este viernes los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés). Una variante de covid-19
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