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There’s a special election being held on Tuesday in Cathedral City. Voters will decide the future of short-term rentals in the city. Back in September, city council voted unanimously to phase out the majority of short term rentals by 2023. In response, a short-term rental advocacy group gathered enough signatures to trigger a referendum to
Continue ReadingFinancial markets have been rocked by volatility in recent days as investors try to game out how to play the next phase of the pandemic. What’s happening: After plunging 4.9% last week, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite rallied 3% on Monday, logging its best day since November. The S&P 500, which dropped 2.5% last week, rose
Continue ReadingOne of China’s most powerful financial officials is sounding the alarm over a bubble in global markets. Guo Shuqing, the Communist Party boss at the People’s Bank of China, told reporters in Beijing on Tuesday that confidence in Chinese markets could be hit by volatility around the world. “We are really afraid the bubble for
Continue ReadingA third woman has accused Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of unwanted advances in 2019, The New York Times reported Monday, adding to an escalating crisis facing the governor in the wake of two sexual harassment allegations. The woman, Anna Ruch, told the Times that Cuomo approached her during a crowded wedding reception in
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(CNN Español) — El Gobierno de Nicaragua informó a través de un comunicado divulgado este lunes por el Ministerio de Salud en medios oficiales que este martes iniciará en el país la jornada de «vacunación voluntaria contra el covid-19», pero no brindó detalles de los locales, horarios o mecanismos de vacunación. «La vacunación voluntaria dará
Continue ReadingShut out of the stimulus package that passed the House last week, hospitals and nursing homes are hoping they can convince the Senate to give them an additional infusion of funding in its version of the $1.9 trillion relief bill. Congress last year created and poured $178 billion into the Provider Relief Fund to help
Continue Reading (CNN) –– El gobierno de Joe de Biden podría reunir a las familias migrantes separadas en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México durante el mandato del expresidente Donald Trump, afirmó este lunes el secretario de Seguridad Nacional, Alejandro Mayorkas. Mayorkas lidera el grupo de trabajo de reunificación de familias establecido por el presidente Joe
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Once described as a vulnerable target of the scheme, a former Sarah Lawrence College student has been charged in a sex trafficking conspiracy and money laundering case, according to a grand jury indictment. Isabella Pollok has been charged with one count each of racketeering conspiracy, extortion conspiracy, sex trafficking conspiracy and money laundering, according to
Continue ReadingAmericans have received some good news lately about the coronavirus. But that doesn’t mean we’re in the clear yet, experts warn. A third Covid-19 vaccine –– Johnson & Johnson’s single shot — has been authorized for emergency use and is now on its way to states across the country. And for several weeks, Covid-19 cases
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Selfies in front of Botticelli’s Venus. Closeups of David’s manhood. Bottlenecks climbing to the top of the famous Duomo. Back in the halcyon prepandemic times, Florence was struggling with overtourism. And the Uffizi Gallery — one of the most popular museums in the world — was at the center of it all. At its busiest,
Continue Reading (CNN Español) – Una de cada 10 personas que viven con alguien con covid-19 se contagiará, indica un nuevo estudio publicado en la revista JAMA. En este episodio, el doctor Elmer Huerta habla del estudio sobre el contagio en el hogar y analiza los resultados. Puedes escuchar este episodio en Spotify o tu plataforma de
Continue Reading Nueva York (CNN Business) — La senadora demócrata Elizabeth Warren enfrenta una batalla cuesta arriba para persuadir a Washington de que respalde su propuesta de un impuesto a los ultramillonarios, comenzando por convencer a la secretaria del Tesoro de su propio partido. Janet Yellen, a quien Warren elogió el año pasado como una «elección sobresaliente»
Continue ReadingFBI Director Chris Wray will finally have to answer questions about the January 6 insurrection when he appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, his first public testimony since the deadly riot occurred nearly two months ago. The hearing will also mark Wray’s first public appearance since the White House announced in January that he
Continue Reading California leaders have reached an agreement to encourage schools to resume in-person classes by the end of March. The agreement combines proposals from Gov. Gavin Newsom and from California’s legislature to provide $6.6 billion to help return schools to in-person learning. “We incentivize opening up our schools by providing real resources to do it,” Newsom
Continue Reading Taylor Swift is over the jokes. The singer tweeted Monday to express her displeasure with a joke included in the Netflix series “Ginny & Georgia.” “Hey Ginny & Georgia, 2010 called and it wants its lazy, deeply sexist joke back,” Swift tweeted along with a close caption of the joke “What do you care? You
Continue ReadingAnd then there were three. There are now three Covid-19 vaccines authorized for emergency use by the US Food and Drug Administration, manufactured by Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson. All three will be distributed across the United States. Many people are wondering which Covid-19 vaccine they should get: Is one better for certain groups
Continue Reading Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi was hit with more charges Monday, as protesters returned to the streets in a show of defiance following the deadliest day since the military seized power in a coup in early February. Suu Kyi appeared in a court hearing via video conference where she was charged with
Continue Reading (CNN) — El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, reafirmó la importancia de la relación entre su país y México durante una reunión virtual virtual con su homólogo mexicano, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, el martes en la Casa Blanca. “Estados Unidos y México son más fuertes cuando nos mantenemos unidos. Hay una historia larga y
Continue Reading (CNN) –– El príncipe Felipe de Reino Unido, esposo de la reina Isabel II, fue trasladado a otro hospital de Londres este lunes para recibir tratamiento por una infección y evaluar una condición cardíaca preexistente, anunció el Palacio de Buckingham. Al duque de Edimburgo, de 99 años, lo ingresaron al Hospital King Edward VII el
Continue Reading (CNN) — El expresidente de Estados Unidos Donald Trump y la exprimera dama Melania Trump recibieron la vacuna contra el covid-19 en la Casa Blanca en enero, dijo el lunes un asesor de Trump a CNN. No estaba claro de inmediato cuál vacuna o cuántas dosis había recibido cada uno. Fauci: Me pondría cualquier vacuna
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