Winter storms ravaged swathes of the United States this week, creating dangerous road conditions from Texas to New York. Bad weather has led to at least 37 deaths — including several fatalities resulting from car crashes — across the country as one winter weather system followed another over the past six days. As states continue
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Palm Springs reached 73° on Friday, that hit the average high temperature for the day. Saturday, temperatures will be a little warmer with some increasing winds. A trough of low pressure will pass overhead, increasing westerly winds. Winds are expected to be strongest for mountain communities, near the pass, and for areas in the high
Continue ReadingNaomi Osaka powered her way to a second Australian Open title with a comprehensive straight sets victory over grand slam final debutante Jennifer Brady. The match had all the makings of an epic final during a tight first set, but Osaka’s class and experience ultimately proved too much as she raced to a 6-4 6-3
Continue Reading Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny will remain behind bars after a Russian court partially rejected his appeal over a two-and-a-half year prison sentence handed down earlier this month. The court did shorten the activist’s sentence by a month and a half, after taking into account time he spent under house arrest from December 2014 to February
Continue ReadingIt’s not supposed to look this easy. A little more than one month since President Joe Biden entered office, his cornerstone legislative priority — a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package — is on the path to passage by the deadline his administration set, largely mirroring the key elements he originally proposed. While Biden’s hope for
Continue Reading(CNN Español) — La Procuraduría Pública Especializada en Delitos de Corrupción solicitó este viernes la detención preliminar judicial por siete días de varios de los funcionarios público beneficiados de la vacuna experimental al margen de los ensayos clínicos que lleva a cabo la Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia y el laboratorio chino Sinopharm. Entre estos funcionarios
Continue ReadingIt’s National Love Your Pet Day on Saturday, and a couple animal buddies in particular are earning their snuggles. Rabbits Finn and Budgie are more than just lovable companions — they provide their owners with emotional support. “So many people think of cats and dogs when they think about emotional support from an animal in
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Robbinroger Beever was 15 years old and walking home along a beach in Liberia, West Africa. The year was 1967. Beever’s family lived near Monrovia, where his diplomat father worked at the US Embassy. It was high tide and the sea had washed up seaweed and planks of wood and strewn them across the beach.
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The United States is seeing a large decline in new Covid-19 cases — but there’s a major caveat. According to a CNN analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University, the US is seeing a 29% decline in new Covid-19 cases compared to this time last week, the steepest one-week decline the country has seen during
Continue Reading A Hilton Garden Inn near Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas went up in flames Friday night. According to a tweet from the Killeen Police Department, crews were battling a large structure fire at the hotel and urged nearby residents to avoid the area. There was no information on whether the hotel was occupied and whether
Continue Reading A Chicago woman who lost her wedding band nearly 50 years ago was reunited with the ring just in time for Valentine’s Day. Karen Autenrieth and her husband Robert, surrounded by their children and grandchildren on Valentine’s Day, opened the package holding the long lost ring. In a video taken by their daughter Michele, Robert
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Vehículo baleado en Thousand Palms, agentes investigan. El Departamento del Sheriff del condado de Riverside está investigando un posible tiroteo después de que un vehículo fue alcanzado por balas mientras conducía por Ramon Road y Desert Moon. El Departamento del Sheriff del condado de Riverside confirmó que hay una investigación por tiroteo que permanece activa.
Continue Reading China has revealed that four of its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers were killed during a bloody hand-to-hand battle with Indian troops on the two countries’ disputed border high in the Himalayas in June 2020. The two sides fought with fists, stones, and nailed-studded bamboo poles, in what was the deadliest border clash between the
Continue Reading Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” has found a home on many surfaces. The instantly recognizable work of art has been plastered on posters, coffee mugs and even a bike path. It seemed like the painting had made it everywhere. That is, until 600 drones mapped it onto the night sky in northern China’s Tianjin Municipality,
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President Joe Biden pronounced to world leaders Friday that “America is back,” promising that he would position the country to take a prominent role in the global fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, hours before touring a vaccine manufacturing plant in Michigan, where he told Americans, “We’re going to beat this.” Addressing back-to-back diplomatic meetings and
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El gobernador explicó que esto es un esfuerzo para acelerar la reapertura de las escuelas en el estado.
Continue Reading(CNN Español) — Las autoridades mexicanas arrestaron a tres personas luego de hallar en dos incidentes separados a 235 migrantes centroamericanos, incluidos menores de edad, hacinados en camiones, informó este viernes el Instituto Nacional de Migración de México (INM). Mediante un comunicado, el INM dijo que las personas fueron encontradas por la Guardia Nacional en
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A local group is trying to make the stressful process of getting a vaccine appointment a little easier. Rhea Hoffman is calling it her new full-time job. She’s one of the Coachella Valley volunteers behind the latest community-based vaccination resource: www.vaxie.info. “People come in frustrated; they’ve looked for weeks; they’ve spent hours,” Hoffman said. “We
Continue Reading Weeks before the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, a burly and bearded neo-Nazi told a CNN reporter on camera that “Jews are terrorists.” At the rally — which turned deadly — he participated with gusto, carrying a banner that, according to court documents, said, “Gas the kikes, race war now!” during
Continue ReadingNota del editor: Roberto Izurieta es director de Proyectos Latinoamericanos en la Universidad George Washington. Ha trabajado en campañas políticas en varios países de América Latina y España y fue asesor de los presidentes Alejandro Toledo, de Perú; Vicente Fox de México; y Álvaro Colom de Guatemala. Izurieta también es colaborador de CNN en Español.
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