The family of a young girl killed in her home by Myanmar’s security forces say they have gone into hiding and dare not return for fear of being targeted by the military. Khin Myo Chit was shot dead in her father’s arms after security forces kicked down the door to their home in the city
Continue Reading Up to 20,000 cubic meters (706,000 cubic feet) of sand in the Suez Canal need to be removed to free the gigantic container ship that has been stuck there since Tuesday, according to the canal authorities. The Ever Given, a container ship almost as long as the Empire State Building is tall, ran aground in
Continue ReadingThe US government in coordination with Eli Lilly said it will no longer distribute the Covid-19 monoclonal antibody therapy bamlanivimab for use on its own. The halt is due to the “sustained increase” in coronavirus variants in the United States. The government stopped distributing the treatment on Tuesday. Last week, the US Food and Drug
Continue Reading Up to 20,000 cubic meters of sand in the Suez Canal need to be removed to free the gigantic container ship that has been stuck there since Tuesday, according to the canal authorities. The Ever Given, a container ship almost as long as the Empire State Building is tall, ran aground in the Egyptian canal
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WASHINGTON (AP) – El presidente Joe Biden inició su primera conferencia formal el jueves destacando la mejoría del panorama en la lucha contra el coronavirus, al duplicar su objetivo original con la promesa de que se habrán suministrado 200 millones de dosis contra el COVID-19 al cumplir sus primeros 100 días en funciones. El gobierno
Continue Reading Just days after playing in the NCAA tournament, Oscar Frayer, a forward on the men’s basketball team at Grand Canyon University, died Tuesday in a vehicle accident near Lodi, California, the school’s athletics department said Thursday. Frayer, 23, his older sister Andrea Moore, and a friend died in the crash, the Antelopes’ athletics department said.
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Southwest Airlines anunció hoy comenzará el servicio durante todo el año desde Palm Springs a Las Vegas a partir del 9 de mayo. Southwest ofrecerá inicialmente a los pasajeros vuelos sin escalas desde el Aeropuerto Internacional de Palm Springs al Aeropuerto Internacional McCarran de Las Vegas los jueves, viernes, domingos y lunes. La ruta se
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– Fedecámaras, organización que agrupa la empresa privada en Venezuela, planteó este jueves en rueda de prensa un plan de vacunación para el sector. Según la agrupación, la meta inicial sería de 6 millones de dosis para 3 millones de personas y se implementaría con el apoyo de unas 100 clínicas privadas en
Continue Reading (CNN) — Jay Leno, expresentador de «Tonight Show», se disculpó por hacer chistes sobre los asiáticos, de acuerdo a un grupo de defensa de los estadounidenses de origen asiático. La organización Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA) montó una campaña de un año de duración sobre el historial de comentarios racistas del expresentador, según
Continue ReadingThe Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday deadlocked in a party-line vote on the nomination of Vanita Gupta to be associate attorney general, but her confirmation is still on track with the expected support of moderate Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. The committee voted 11-11 along party lines in a tie vote Thursday, which
Continue ReadingA US Drug Enforcement Administration agent suspended for being at the US Capitol during the January 6 insurrection said Tuesday that he has since been fired from the agency and is now “the subject of a criminal investigation,” even though he claims he “never even stepped foot on the stairs of the Capitol building.” Mark
Continue Reading The 21-year-old suspect in Monday’s massacre at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket allegedly used a Ruger AR-556 pistol — what one expert called “a semiautomatic made for combat” that is easy to carry and has “the firepower of a long gun.” Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa purchased the weapon six days before the shootings in which 10
Continue Reading Small town America had big dreams in the shape of the Keystone XL Pipeline. After a decade of stop-and-go progress, the project spearheaded by Canadian energy giant TC Energy seemed tangible for residents of central South Dakota. Along I-90, small towns lie dormant waiting for warmer weather and a return of tourism to kick into
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As Alabama residents continue sheltering in place from disastrous storms, residents who spoke to CNN described scenes of terror, devastation and shock. “I was like this is probably it. I’m probably dead,” Cesar Villaseñor, 22, told CNN after he and his boss were caught in a potential tornado in Pelham. Fourteen tornadoes were reported in
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Watching President Joe Biden’s first press conference today, all I could think was that his performance showed there’s little chance he is running for reelection — despite the fact that he said his “expectation” was to do so. He equivocated on this matter when CNN’s Kaitlan Collins followed up later. Over the course of an
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Colombia manifestó su preocupación por los “graves efectos humanitarios” que los enfrentamientos armados en la región limítrofe del departamento de Arauca pueden tener en la sociedad civil del estado venezolano de Apure. En una serie de tuits publicados este miércoles, la Cancillería de Colombia hizo un
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The fight is on in the high desert against the relocation of a convicted sexual predator. Outrage has sparked in Twentynine Palms over 71-year-old Lawtis Rhoden, a convicted violent serial child rapist who is set to move into the neighborhood. Officials in San Bernardino County said the man has no ties to Twentynine Palms, didn’t
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H&M, Nike and other big Western apparel brands are facing a boycott in China because of the stand they’ve taken against the alleged use of forced labor to produce cotton in the country’s western region of Xinjiang. H&M and Nike said months ago that they were concerned about allegations that forced labor has been used
Continue ReadingPoverty has soared during the coronavirus pandemic, but it would have been even worse without successive federal relief packages last year. The $600 stimulus checks and $300 weekly boost to unemployment benefits contained in Congress’ December assistance package stemmed the rise in poverty in the second half of last year, according to researchers at the
Continue ReadingAn Arizona businessman who secured more than $1 million in Covid-19 relief funding and then purchased a Porsche and a new home is now facing federal fraud charges. James Polzin, 47, is accused of filing fraudulent applications for government loans by claiming “nonexistent employees and revenues for businesses he supposedly owned and operated.” CNN revealed
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