Two years since Ronald Greene’s death — and two days since Louisiana authorities released a series of videos of their encounter with him — his mother says she’s still in shock. “Just trying to… bring it into reality, that this has happened to my son, grief stricken isn’t the word,” Mona Hardin told CNN on
Continue Reading A young Palestinian boy in thick eyeglasses stood dumbstruck as Israeli police dragged his grandmother, Rifqa, out of his family home. His eyes shifted between the uniformed men and the 92-year-old woman who squirmed in their clutches. Shouts rang out and, within minutes, the family was driven out of half of their home in East
Continue Reading Italy narrowly pipped a handful of rivals to win a colorful and kitsch Eurovision Song Contest in the Netherlands on Saturday, scoring victory on the continent’s biggest stage after an early test of the continent’s emergence from the pandemic. The show featured performances that ranged from the sublime to the eyebrow-raising, as is tradition for
Continue Reading A young Palestinian boy in thick eyeglasses stood dumbstruck as Israeli police dragged his grandmother, Rifqa, out of his family home. His eyes shifted between the uniformed men and the 92-year-old woman who squirmed in their clutches. Shouts rang out and, within minutes, the family was driven out of half of their home in East
Continue Reading“Saturday Night Live” ended one of its strangest years — a season in which the show had to do episodes with coronavirus protocols during a pandemic — by explaining to audiences what a wild year it really was. The NBC variety show opened the season finale with cast members, and special guest Chris Rock, going
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The 1960s space race was more than a measure of scientific progress. The anticipation of this next stage of humanity left an indelible impression on culture, too. President John F. Kennedy’s vision of man reaching the moon soon spawned a throng of TV shows and films — including cartoon sitcom “The Jetsons” and the “Star
Continue Reading Britain’s Queen Elizabeth visited the country’s new aircraft carrier on Saturday, giving the UK’s biggest warship a royal sendoff before it leads a flotilla of British, US and Dutch ships to Asian waters on its maiden operational voyage. The 95-year-old monarch stepped aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth in Portsmouth, seven years after she named the
Continue Reading A Brooklyn man has been charged with arson after allegedly attempting to set a synagogue and Jewish school, or yeshiva, on fire Wednesday, according to court documents. Ali Alaheri, 29, was allegedly caught on camera “piling numerous garbage bags against the door” of the yeshiva and synagogue located in Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighborhood, and then
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California Highway Patrol and CalFire officials responded to an off-road ATV crash that happened shortly after 9:30 Saturday night. It happened near Coachella Canal Road and Mecca Copia Trail in Mecca. A helicopter was called to the scene as officials said the crash was difficult to access. At least one person was taken to Desert
Continue Reading(CNN) — A medida que el proceso de vacunación contra el covid-19 continúa en Estados Unidos y las personas de 12 años o más reciben sus inyecciones, los fabricantes de vacunas se preparan para una posible próxima fase: dosis de refuerzo. Actualmente, tres vacunas contra el covid-19 están autorizadas para uso de emergencia en Estados
Continue Reading Total cases of Covid-19 have reached around the 33.1 million mark in the United States. But with the ongoing vaccination campaign and declining rates of infection, domestic US travel has picked up considerably and very few states still have travel restrictions. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still warns against nonessential travel for people
Continue Reading(CNN) — Europa ha pasado 14 meses absolutamente miserables, gracias en gran parte a *señala todo*. Pero no hay que temer: la tarea de animar a los 750 millones de habitantes del continente no podría haber recaído en un grupo más adecuado.¡Una bailarina alemana que toca la trompeta y va vestida como el dedo medio!
Continue Reading A man has been arrested for assault with a deadly weapon in connection to an altercation earlier this week that Los Angeles police are investigating as a possible anti-Semitic hate crime. In a news release Saturday, the Los Angeles Police Department described the man as “one of the primary suspects in the assault and beating
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Thousands of residents in Goma, a major city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, are spending the night outdoors following eruption of Mount Nyiragongo earlier Saturday, according to a spokesman for the Norwegian Refugee Council. “There has not been a massive panic movement, but people are really worried,” said Tom Peyre-Costa, the council’s spokesman
Continue Reading Amazon has temporarily shut down construction of a new fulfillment center in Connecticut after the discovery of seven apparent nooses at the site. Police in Windsor, Connecticut, say the nooses were found placed around the construction site starting on April 27. The police department said it is investigating the incidents as potential hate crimes along
Continue Reading Two men were killed and eight other people were injured in a shooting early Saturday in downtown Minneapolis, police said. Seven of the victims were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries and one man was in critical condition, according to the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). Jawan Contrail Carroll, 23, was arrested in Bloomington, Minnesota, on
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It was a beautiful day in the Coachella Valley! High temperatures were in the low 80s, much cooler than normal for this time of year. We’re under a trough of low pressure that’s keeping temperatures below average and bringing some breezy conditions to the area, though not as gusty as we have been. Temperatures warm
Continue ReadingVirgin Galactic’s rocket-powered plane, carrying two pilots, soared into the upper atmosphere on its third mission to reach space Saturday morning. The success cues up Virgin Galactic to begin launching paying customers within the next year as the company works to finish its testing campaign at its new headquarters in New Mexico. Spaceplane VSS Unity
Continue ReadingNota del editor: Ed Morales (@SpanglishKid) es periodista y conferencista en el Centro para el Estudio de Etnicidad y Raza de la Universidad de Columbia y en la Escuela de Periodismo Craig Newmark en CUNY. Es el autor del libro «Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture«. Las opiniones expresadas son suyas. Vea
Continue ReadingThe Biden administration on Saturday granted humanitarian protection for Haitians in the United States, allowing an estimated 100,000 people to apply to remain lawfully in the US, according to the Department of Homeland Security and an administration official. The decision will allow Haitians in the US the opportunity to apply for Temporary Protected Status —
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