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(CNN) — El primer ministro del Reino Unido, Boris Johnson, anunció un confinamiento nacional para Inglaterra el lunes por la noche, luego de una advertencia de los principales asesores médicos de que el Servicio Nacional de Salud del país estaba en peligro de verse abrumado por casos de coronavirus en 21 días. “Está claro que
Continue Reading (CNN Business) — Los precios del bitcoin se cuadruplicaron con creces en 2020 y alcanzaron un nuevo récord por encima de los US$ 30.000 este año, pero muchos inversores creen que todavía hay espacio para que la criptomoneda compita. Anthony Scaramucci se ha convertido en el último que negocia a modo especulador en el mercado
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A true confession to start the new year: I am now a giddy, guilty, vaccinated-American. I therefore would like to comment on the current profound disappointment many in the United States — from President-elect Joe Biden to prominent physicians, to talking heads parading across our screens — have voiced about the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out: The
Continue ReadingJohnny Thornton stood on his sprawling catfish farm, once a symbol of empowerment in this majority Black county, and explained how the local election board once tried to strip him of his right to vote. In 2015, after a failed attempt to shutter almost every polling location in a county three times the area of
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India is embarking on one of the world’s most ambitious mass immunization programs ever undertaken, after regulators approved the country’s first two Covid-19 vaccines for restricted emergency use. Indian drug regulators on Sunday gave the go ahead for two coronavirus vaccines, one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, and the other conceived locally by Bharat
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A sword taken from a historical monument in Westfield, Massachusetts has been returned by the man who took it as part of a college prank about 40 years ago, according to a city official. Cindy Gaylord, the head of Westfield’s historical commission, received a phone call three weeks before Christmas from a man saying he
Continue Reading (CNN) — Irán anunció este lunes que reanudó el nivel de enriquecimiento de uranio al 20% de pureza, mucho más allá de los límites establecidos en el acuerdo nuclear de 2015. Se trata de una medida que probablemente aumente aún más las tensiones con Estados Unidos. Irán también incautó este lunes un buque cisterna para
Continue Reading Iran announced Monday that it had resumed enriching uranium to 20% purity, far beyond the limits laid out in the 2015 nuclear deal, in a move likely to further escalate tensions with the United States. Iran also seized a South Korean-flagged chemical tanker on Monday, according to semi-official Iranian news agencies, for “creating environmental and
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Maria Elena Vargas acababa de cumplir 35 años el 17 de diciembre. Una semana después, el COVID-19 le arrebató la vida.
Continue ReadingRep. Jamie Raskin and his wife, Sarah, published an emotional tribute to their late son, Tommy, who died by suicide at 25 years old last week, describing him as “a radiant light in this broken world.” “Tommy Raskin had a perfect heart, a perfect soul, a riotously outrageous and relentless sense of humor, and a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Missouri (KMOV) — A former St. Louis County officer is facing charges, accused of inappropriately using a police database to look up sensitive information about 17 other officers. Amy Loftus, 38, is charged with five counts of misuse of information by a public official. Between
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A suspect was taken into custody after crashing into the Planned Parenthood building in the Coachella Monday afternoon. The crash happened at around 1:15 p.m. at 49111 Grapfruit Boulevard, just off Ave 49. The crash caused damage to the building’s front window and part of a wall. According to Cal Fire, no one was injured
Continue ReadingPresident-elect Joe Biden said electing Democrats Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock in Tuesday’s runoff elections would end the gridlock in Washington and allow a Democrat-controlled Senate to provide $2,000 stimulus checks to Americans. “If you send Jon and the Reverend to Washington, those $2,000 checks will go out the door, restoring hope and decency
Continue ReadingActing Defense Secretary Christopher Miller on Monday approved a request from the mayor of Washington to deploy DC National Guard forces to the city to support local authorities during pro-Trump demonstrations scheduled in the city this week, a defense official told CNN. Mayor Muriel Bowser made the request Thursday in a letter addressed to Maj.
Continue Reading A man in British Columbia, Canada, is starting the new year with hundreds of dollars in fines after police officials said he touched his taxi driver’s face and refused to wear a face mask inside the car. On New Year’s Day, around 1 a.m., the taxi driver in Victoria called 911 to report that a
Continue Reading (CNN) — La actriz Tanya Roberts, quien según informaron CNN y otros medios de comunicación que había muerto —citando a su publicista de toda la vida, Mike Pingel— todavía está viva, dijo Pingel a CNN el lunes. Pingel dijo que el domingo por la noche la pareja de Roberts, Lance O’Brien, le notificó que Roberts
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Two degrees warmer than yesterday, Palm Springs recorded a high temperature of 72° this afternoon. Average for the date is 68°. Rain and snow are in the forecast for Northern California but this storm’s track stays too far north for much impact in the Southland. We will see passing clouds as this system moves inland.
Continue Reading Saudi Arabia and Qatar have agreed to reopen their airspace and maritime borders starting Monday, after a years long freeze on relations, Kuwaiti officials have announced. Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Ahmad Nasser Mohammed al Sabah said Monday on state television that “based on the recommendation of his highness Sheikh Nawaf al Ahmad al Sabah, the Emir
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New Cases (Since Thursday, Dec. 31) As it stands with the glitch, Riverside County reported 17,683 new cases since Thursday, bringing the total to 198,236. The county did not publish data over the holiday and weekend. On Thursday, the county also reported a glitch in gathering cases, this has since been resolved. The Coachella Valley
Continue ReadingRepublican Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia will oppose the certification of the Electoral College results on Wednesday, she said in a statement released Monday evening. “On January 6th, I will vote to give President Trump and the American people the fair hearing they deserve and support the objection to the Electoral College certification process,” Loeffler
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