Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — A controversial asphalt plant proposal for East Flat Rock got a vote of disapproval from the Henderson County Planning Board on Thursday. The board voted 5-2 to recommend the Henderson County Board of Commissioners deny the request to conditionally rezone the land from
Continue Reading(CNN) — Dos empleados que dijeron estar en las instalaciones terrestres de FedEx cuando escucharon disparos compartieron detalles del incidente con la cadena WISH, afiliada de CNN. Esto es lo que sabemos del tiroteo en Indianapolis 2:37 Jeremiah Miller le dijo a WISH que estaba tomando un descanso entre turnos cuando escuchó dos, luego tres
Continue Reading(CNN) — Se suponía que sería el punto brillante de América Latina en la lucha contra el covid-19. Chile, un país de 19 millones de habitantes, se había adelantado en cuanto a las vacunas al lograr acuerdos con compañías farmacéuticas a solo unos meses de la pandemia. A principios de este año, el país había
Continue ReadingMobile apps and games platform AppLovin raised $2 billion in an initial public offering Thursday that valued the company at $28.6 billion. The Palo Alto, California-based firm makes software to help developers market and monetize their apps, and it also has its own portfolio of more than 200 mobile games. AppLovin’s developer software has more
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — It’s been a challenge for some Canadians to find vaccination appointments through the myriad of different portals and the various eligibility criteria across the country. But a team of web-savvy Canadians is making it a little easier for others to find open vaccination
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — Following the news that pregnant women are increasingly ending up in ICUs with severe COVID-19, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) is calling on the government to prioritize this group for vaccines immediately. “According to SOGC members, there is currently
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Authorities released body-worn camera footage that shows an officer making a split-second decision to fire a single shot that killed 13-year-old Adam Toledo after the boy is seen holding a handgun at the end of a foot chase, according to police. Police say what was in Toledo’s hand is a gun that was later recovered
Continue Reading(CNN) — Brasil registra uno de los mayores números de casos diarios de covid-19 del mundo, y puede que el país se enfrente a tiempos aún peores a causa de una combinación de caos político e inacción, según afirmó este miércoles un equipo de expertos en salud pública. Polémica por dichos de Bolsonaro sobre muertes
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Spurred on by renewed optimism about the post-pandemic recovery and a strong fear of missing out, investors keep pushing stocks higher. What’s happening: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 34,000 for the first time on Thursday as Wall Street celebrated a strong start to corporate earnings season. But US stocks aren’t the only ones
Continue Reading(CNN) — Al menos ocho personas murieron en un tiroteo masivo en una oficina de FedEx en Indianápolis el jueves por la noche, dijo la portavoz del Departamento de Policía Metropolitana de Indianápolis, Genae Cook. Las autoridades estaban al tanto de varias otras víctimas heridas en los hospitales, una de las cuales se encontraba en
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Kyra Sedgwick once had a nosy moment as a house guest. The actress appeared on Wednesday’s episode of “The Drew Barrymore Show” and told Barrymore a story about attending a party filled with movie stars at Tom Cruise’s house about 30 years ago. Sedgwick says this was around the time she had starred in the
Continue ReadingThey were the first businesses to close and will be some of the last to reopen, yet owners of independent theaters and live music venues have been waiting nearly four months for a $16 billion federal emergency grant program to launch. The funding for what’s known as the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program was approved
Continue ReadingFor the second time this week, Dogecoin has hit a milestone. And this time around, it may be thanks to the world’s richest man. The virtual currency, which features the face of a Shiba Inu dog as its logo, soared more than 100% to hit an all-time high of $0.298 Friday morning, according to cryptocurrency
Continue Reading(CNN) — El Departamento de Defensa de Estados Unidos confirmó que varias fotos y videos filtrados de «fenómenos aéreos no identificados» tomados en 2019 son imágenes legítimas de objetos inexplicables. Los ovnis, en el radar del Pentágono 1:58 Personal de la Armada tomó fotos y videos de objetos en forma de triángulo parpadeando y moviéndose
Continue ReadingChina just posted its strongest quarterly growth on record as the world’s second largest economy continued its robust recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. GDP growth of 18.3% year-on-year in the first quarter was the strongest since China began keeping records in 1992, and was driven by a surge in retail sales, industrial production and investment
Continue ReadingAbuja, Nigeria (CNN) — Fue casi un milagro que los científicos hubieran desarrollado varias vacunas eficaces contra el covid-19 en menos de un año. Sin embargo, los anuncios de la semana pasada de los reguladores de medicamentos de la Unión Europea y británicos que encontraron un posible vínculo entre la vacuna contra el covid-19 de
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It was 2003, and Leora Krygier was rummaging around a thrift store near her home in Los Angeles. Krygier wasn’t looking for anything in particular, but a box of old vintage postcards caught her attention. “I’ve always been interested in vintage and postcards. Nobody sends postcards anymore, really. There’s sort of a beautiful little vintage
Continue Reading The hauntingly beautiful Crab Nebula, located 6,500 light-years away in the Taurus constellation, is releasing an incredible amount of energy. The nebula is six light-years wide, and it’s a growing cloud of debris formed from a supernova explosion. (A light-year is six trillion miles). The light from this supernova first reached Earth in July 1054
Continue Reading(CNN) — El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, planea utilizar su reunión del viernes con el primer ministro de Japón, Yoshihide Suga, para enviar una señal a China de que los países están unidos en su oposición a la reciente agresión contra Taiwán mientras Estados Unidos busca cambiar el enfoque de su política exterior
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A Hong Kong court has sentenced several of the city’s leading pro-democracy campaigners to between 8 and 18 months in prison over their roles in unauthorized assemblies at the height of the 2019 protests. Among those sentenced was Jimmy Lai, 72, who founded the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper. Lai received 14 months in prison for
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