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(CNN Español) — La Asamblea Nacional opositora de Venezuela aprobó este viernes destinar US$ 30.309.040 para la compra de al menos 12 millones de dosis para vacunar a 6 millones de personas contra el covid-19 a través del sistema Covax. El monto total contempla US$ 18.199.040 para Covax y US$ 12.110.000 para la inversión en
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Perfectly Frank‘s customers are a loyal bunch. Last year, they carried the restaurant through the darkest days of the pandemic with donations. Now, they’re carrying each other — with donated meals. The restaurant, a nearly 16-year staple in Norfolk, Virginia, has begun a free meal initiative to feed the community with meal donations from customers.
Continue Reading After schools moved online a year ago because of the pandemic, one public school science teacher was determined to make his chemistry labs interactive and accessible. Jonte Lee, a teacher at Calvin Coolidge High School in Washington, DC, figured the way to do so was to connect to the students on social platforms. As a
Continue Reading Tom Cornish, a 96-year-old World War II veteran, continues to serve his country decades later by knitting and donating hundreds of hats to the Salvation Army. Cornish, who lives at the Champlin Shores senior living community in Minnesota, took to knitting hats during the coronavirus pandemic. Last year, the veteran donated 400 handmade hats to
Continue ReadingRepublican Julia Letlow will win the special election in Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District, CNN projects. Letlow will take the seat that her late husband Luke, who won last year’s election but died in December after being diagnosed with Covid-19, was never able to hold. She will make history as the first Republican woman to represent
Continue ReadingRepublican Julia Letlow will win the special election in Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District, CNN projects. Letlow will take the seat that her late husband Luke, who won last year’s election but died in December after being diagnosed with Covid-19, was never able to hold. She will make history as the first Republican woman to represent
Continue Reading A Kentucky mother has been arrested after her 2-year-old son ingested fentanyl, according to a news release from the Ludlow Police. The mother, Lauren Baker, faces charges of murder, importing fentanyl and trafficking in a controlled substance, the release says. According to an initial post-arrest complaint obtained by CNN, Baker admitted to Ludlow, Kentucky, police
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A trough of low pressure moves in this weekend, cooling temperatures and brining breezy winds to the area. After a very warm Friday, in the upper 80s, temperatures cooled a bit into the low 80s Saturday. Seasonal average for Palm Springs is 80°. Breezy conditions stick around through Monday, with gusts potentially reaching into the
Continue ReadingThere are more than 5,000 unaccompanied children in US Customs and Border Protection custody, according to documents obtained by CNN, up from 4,500 children days earlier. The growing number of unaccompanied children at the border is adding greater stress to the system and has overwhelmed resources, which had already been strained as a result of
Continue ReadingWisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson falsely claimed there was no violence on the Senate side of the US Capitol during the January 6 insurrection, the latest in his continued attempts to downplay the severity of the attack. Johnson described the events of January 6 to a group of conservative Wisconsin residents at a local political
Continue Reading (CNN) — El alcalde de Miami Beach, Dan Gelber, declaró el estado de emergencia y estableció un toque de queda el sábado, y dijo que las multitudes que han llegado a la ciudad recientemente son «más de las que podemos manejar». «Demasiados vienen, realmente, sin la intención de seguir las reglas y el resultado ha sido
Continue ReadingAs the number of unaccompanied children in Border Patrol custody ballooned this month, President Joe Biden‘s team raced to find more places to house them, leaving thousands of children stuck in jail-like facilities for longer than the 72 hours allowed under the law. But the process of scouring government sites for adequate shelters was taking
Continue Reading Duke University said it will end its stay-in-place order for undergraduate students Sunday, citing a decline in new Covid-19 cases among students. In letter sent to students Saturday, Duke said most parts of the order will be lifted at 9 a.m. Sunday. All in-person courses can resume and students living in university housing will be
Continue Reading That morning, Capt. Ripusudan Prasad phoned his wife, Anita, as he did every day from the oil tanker he commanded, the MT Duke. The ship was about eight hours from port in Lomé, Togo, from where Prasad planned to fly home to Kolkata, India. But, at 7:45 a.m., he got a call that would dramatically
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On Saturday the Desert Healthcare District & Foundation hosted an in-person sign-up event for vaccination appointments. Until this point, we haven’t seen too much in-person help other than people being asked to sign up for an appointment online. Dozens of people showed up to the event at Desert Mirage High School in Thermal, which was
Continue Reading Sixteen children considered critically missing were rescued during a four-week operation that concluded this week, according to the US Marshals Service office in Philadelphia. At least four of the recovered children were connected to child sex trafficking, the marshals service said on Thursday. Dubbed Operation Safeguard, the initiative began on February 15 when a US
Continue Reading Timothy Phan drove eight hours from Florida to attend a Saturday rally in Atlanta, aimed at grieving those killed at three Georgia spas and opposing hate against Asian Americans. Phan didn’t know the eight people slain, six of whom were women of Asian descent. But with reports of attacks against Asian Americans against the rise,
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As the world ground to a halt last March, many travelers expected to be globetrotting again in a few months time. Here we are just over a year later. But with the rapid development of effective vaccines and increased distribution of those life-saving doses in some countries, glimmers of hope are starting to emerge. The
Continue ReadingNewly-confirmed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge may have violated the Hatch Act, the law that limits the political activities of all federal civilian executive branch employees, with comments she made during a White House press briefing Thursday. Fudge joined White House press secretary Jen Psaki at Thursday’s briefing, where she was asked
Continue Reading After his team’s loss to Oral Roberts in the NCAA Basketball Tournament on Friday, Ohio State forward E.J. Liddell says he was the victim of threatening messages on social media. The 20-year-old, who finished with a team-high 23 points, missed a free throw in the final seconds of No. 2 seed Ohio State’s 72-75, opening
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