The Democratic chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee has filed a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump that cites a little-known federal statute that was first passed after the Civil War. The complaint, filed Tuesday by Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, accuses Trump, his attorney Rudy Giuliani, the Proud Boys and the Oath
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Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV News) — It’s a story we’re all familiar with: dinosaurs ruled the Earth until an asteroid sailed out of deep space and smashed into the planet, wiping out roughly 75 per cent of all life at the time. Except, it might not have been an
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (CTV News) — Cheryl Diane Hutley has been fighting with the federal government for more than 20 years. Her father, her grandmother, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather all had full status and its accompanying benefits under the Indian Act of 1876. However, that’s never been the case for
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden was pressed on a range of issues Tuesday evening as he fielded questions from voters during a CNN town hall in Milwaukee. The President addressed everything from coronavirus vaccine equity to police funding in his first face-to-face engagement with voters since taking office. Multiple participants — including two who voted for former
Continue ReadingJeff Bezos has reclaimed his title of world’s richest person, ending Elon Musk’s roughly six-week reign atop the list. Musk lost about $4.5 billion Tuesday after Tesla shares fell 2.4%, which was enough to knock him to second place on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranking. Bezos’ net worth also fell as the broader stock market
Continue ReadingIt appears that Warren Buffett is souring on the financial sector’s prospects, and that the Oracle of Omaha also has a newfound interest in Big Oil, as well as telecom and media. He also bought stakes in Dow components Chevron and Verizon in the fourth quarter of last year. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway on Tuesday disclosed
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden at a Tuesday CNN town hall sought to reassure a second grader worried about getting Covid-19, telling her that young children are the “safest group of people in the whole world.” “Don’t be scared, honey. Don’t be scared. You’re going to be fine, and we’re going to make sure mommy’s fine, too,”
Continue ReadingSeveral members of President Joe Biden’s former coronavirus advisory board are urging his administration to more widely recommend and mandate the use of N95 masks, citing a “pressing and urgent need for action” driven by the threat of new coronavirus variants. In a memo to Biden’s top coronavirus advisers obtained by CNN, a dozen health
Continue Reading Protesters took to the streets in Barcelona and Girona, in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region, on Tuesday night following the dramatic arrest of rapper Pablo Hasel earlier in the day. Hasel and his supporters had barricaded themselves inside Lledia University, in the northeastern provincial capital of Lleida, near Barcelona, since Monday after his deadline to hand
Continue ReadingFully vaccinated people can now skip quarantine even if they’ve been exposed to Covid-19, according to new guidelines from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But at the same time, the agency also acknowledges there’s a lot researchers don’t know about how vaccines impact transmission. The new guidance only applies if it has
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A collage comprised of 5,000 images taken over the course of 13 years by digital artist Beeple will become the first of its kind to go under the hammer at a major auction house, Christie’s has announced. “Everydays — The First 5000 Days” will be the first purely digital Non-Fungible Token (NFT) artwork to go
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(CNN) — La Cuaresma es una temporada de oración y penitencia en la iglesia cristiana y un período de preparación para la temporada de Pascua. Se celebra del 17 de febrero al 3 de abril de 2021. El Miércoles de Ceniza marca el primer día de Cuaresma en las iglesias occidentales. MIRA: La Cuaresma, en datos
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — “Polvo eres y en polvo te convertirás”. “Conviértete y cree en el evangelio”. Esas frases, pronunciadas por sacerdotes mientras dibujan con ceniza la señal de la cruz en la frente de los feligreses, representan todo el Miércoles de Ceniza: el inicio de la Cuaresma (los 40 días en los que los católicos
Continue Reading The late Marsha P. Johnson is celebrated today as a veteran of the Stonewall Inn protests, a pioneering transgender activist and a pivotal figure in the gay liberation movement. Monuments to her life are planned in New York City and her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey. During her lifetime (1945-1992), though, she wasn’t always treated
Continue Reading (CNN) — La administración de Biden, junto con los demócratas del Capitolio, se está preparando para develar esta semana una legislación que busca brindar un camino hacia la ciudadanía a los 11 millones de inmigrantes indocumentados que viven en Estados Unidos. Durante décadas, los legisladores han intentado reformar el sistema de inmigración de Estados Unidos
Continue Reading Last May, Steve Bates’ phone rang. The UK was in the midst of its first national lockdown — there was a stay-at-home order, schools and most shops were closed, and experts were warning that a vaccine could still be years out. At the other end of the line was an old friend, Kate Bingham, a
Continue Reading Celebrated Nigerian entrepreneur Obinwanne Okeke has been jailed for 10 years by a US federal court for masterminding an $11 million cyber fraud on a British company. The court heard that “through subterfuge and impersonation, Obinwanne Okeke, engaged in a multi-year global business email and computer hacking scheme that caused a staggering $11 million in
Continue Reading A judge in the United States on Tuesday ruled that a civil claim for damages against Anne Sacoolas — the woman accused of killing 19-year-old Harry Dunn while she was driving on the wrong side of the road in England — can be heard in Virginia, according to court documents seen by CNN. Sacoolas claimed
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El Gobierno de Panamá ya tiene en su poder el segundo lote de vacunas contra el coronavirus de Pfizer BioNTech, luego que a la medianoche del miércoles llegara al aeropuerto internacional de Tocumen un total de 67.860 dosis. Los países de América Latina que más vacunas recibirán de la OMS por medio
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El Gobierno de Panamá ya tiene en su poder el segundo lote de vacunas contra el coronavirus de Pfizer BioNTech, luego que a la medianoche del miércoles llegara al aeropuerto internacional de Tocumen un total de 67.860 dosis. Los países de América Latina que más vacunas recibirán de la OMS por medio
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