VA-enrolled Veterans aged 75 and older can request an appointment for the COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday, Jan. 23 at the VA Loma Linda. Eligible Veterans will get a ticket for their vaccination time Saturday from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Call 909-825-7084 ext. 5085 to schedule an appointment. According to VA Loma Linda, there are
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Houston police officer Taylor Roccaforte was shocked when then-presidential candidate Joe Biden came to see him in the hospital after he was shot in the line of duty. Roccaforte was even more surprised that the future president wanted to keep the 2019 visit a secret. Roccaforte, 30, told CNN that Biden came to see him
Continue ReadingThe Senate voted on Friday to confirm President Joe Biden’s defense secretary pick retired Gen. Lloyd Austin, who will be the first African American to run the department. Austin, who retired in 2016 and had to be granted a waiver from a law requiring a defense secretary to wait seven years after active-duty service before
Continue Reading Derick Almena, the leaseholder of an Oakland, California, warehouse-turned-art collective that went up in flames in 2016, pleaded guilty Friday to 36 charges of involuntary manslaughter — one for each person killed in the blaze. In court Friday, Almena simply responded “guilty” to each of the three dozen counts as they were read out by
Continue ReadingAmazon is once again asking the National Labor Relations Board to direct thousands of the company’s warehouse workers at an Alabama facility to cast votes in-person on whether to form a union, rather than by mail, despite the ongoing pandemic. The e-commerce giant filed a motion Thursday to delay the union election, which is set
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Canadian officials said Friday they are working with the Biden administration to close what they describe as a travel “loophole” and to get more symmetry with Covid-19 safety protocols between the two countries. “A loophole, frankly, does exist because the Americans previously had not placed any restriction on international flights coming into the US,” said
Continue Reading The New York Police Department says that evidence from three murders at a senior housing complex in Brooklyn point to one suspect: a well-known man who ran errands for the building’s residents. Kevin Gavin, 66, was arraigned Friday and charged with three counts of second-degree murder, according to a criminal complaint. Gavin confessed to all
Continue Reading(CNN) — Conor McGregor está de regreso, otra vez. El ‘Notorious’ de UFC regresa este sábado al octágono después de un tercer retiro donde enfrentará a Dustin Poirier en el UFC 257. Será una revancha de 2014 donde McGregor tardó menos de dos minutos en noquear al estadounidense. Después de haber pasado más de un
Continue Reading(CNN) — El premio mayor de Mega Millions, que se sorteará el viernes por la noche, tiene un valor estimado de US$ 1.000 millones. Esa cifra se encuentra solo US$ 500 millones por debajo del premio mayor más alto de Mega Millions: US$ 1.537 millones, que ganó el único dueño de un boleto en Carolina
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LINDENHURST, New York (WCBS) — An initiative on Long Island is gaining attention. Customers are paying it forward, and it all begins with a post-it note. Alice Bopp and her family moved to Lindenhurst from Rio de Janeiro. “I’m from Brazil, I love coffee,” Bopp told CBS2’s Jennifer
Continue Reading Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover Jr. are preparing for two upcoming spacewalks that will help to upgrade and maintain the International Space Station. The NASA astronauts will conduct spacewalks on Wednesday, January 27, and Monday, February 1. It will be the first spacewalk experience for Glover, who is a few months into his first
Continue ReadingAbout 6 in 10 Americans don’t know when or where to get a coronavirus vaccine, according to a survey released Friday from the Kaiser Family Foundation. This comes after reports that President Joe Biden’s administration must start from scratch with federal plans for distribution, having been left little to no framework from former President Donald
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DURHAM, North Carolina (WTVD) — After more than 1,300 days, a Triangle pastor is leaving a Durham church and will be able to go home to his family. Jose Chicas is an undocumented immigrant. Since mid-July 2017 Chicas has not left Saint Johns Missionary Baptist Church in Durham.
Continue Reading(CNN) — Florida emitió este jueves nuevas directrices de salud en un intento de reducir el «turismo de vacunas» contra el covid-19 y ahora exige que se administren únicamente a los residentes permanentes o temporales. El director general de Sanidad del estado, el Dr. Scott Rivkees, firmó un aviso de salud pública en el que
Continue Reading(CNN) — La decoración de la Oficina Oval cambió rápidamente después de la toma de posesión del presidente Joe Biden el miércoles. En los muros con figuras como Andrew Jackson ahora hay retratos de los Padres Fundadores y bustos de los líderes de los derechos civiles Rosa Parks y Martin Luther King Jr. Entre las
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President Joe Biden signed two more executive orders on Friday — one focused on expanding food assistance and delivering stimulus checks to very low-income Americans, and the other on raising the minimum wage to $15 for the federal workforce — as he continues his swift efforts to overturn his predecessor’s policies. The measures build on
Continue Reading(CNN) — El miércoles al mediodía, Joe Biden se convirtió en el 46° presidente de Estados Unidos. No lo arrestaron antes. Tampoco a ninguno de los otros políticos demócratas de alto perfil que asistieron a la toma de posesión. Trump no declaró la ley marcial. Voló a Florida tranquilamente. Y así murió una de las
Continue Reading(CNN) — Los amantes de «Bridgerton» puede respirar aliviados: habrá una segunda temporada de la serie apasionada de Netflix. El drama de época basado en las novelas de Julia Quinn, creado por Chris Van Dusen y producido por Shonda Rhimes, ha generado un gran revuelo desde que debutó el mes pasado. Se trata de la
Continue ReadingThe White House is keenly aware of the Republican objections that have arisen to President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus proposal, but they are urging Democratic allies to be patient for the moment, according to two administration officials. Biden has spent the last several days on the phone with lawmakers in both parties, and his
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A convicted felon accused of fatally shooting a Banning man during a confrontation at the victim’s home was charged today with murder and other offenses. Jason Anthony Rhine, 43, of Riverside was arrested Wednesday following a Banning Police Department investigation into the Jan. 12 attack. Along with murder, Rhine is charged with burglary, being a
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