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This past year most of us haven’t strayed far from the street where we live, what with Covid-19 lockdowns, stay-at-home orders and travel bans. But whether you’re daydreaming about international travel, or just excited to branch out of your neighborhood into the city center, Time Out has some inspiration fodder ready. The global media brand
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Nota del editor: Jorge Dávila Miguel es licenciado en Periodismo desde 1973 y ha mantenido una carrera continuada en su profesión hasta la fecha. Tiene posgrados en Ciencias de la Información Social y Medios de Comunicación Sociales, así como estudios superiores posuniversitarios en Relaciones Internacionales, Economía Política e Historia Latinoamericana. Actualmente, Dávila Miguel es columnista
Continue ReadingThey may not be terminating pandemic unemployment benefits like their GOP peers, but Democratic governors are also prodding Americans to go back to work amid a surging number of job openings. And so is President Joe Biden. More than a dozen Democrat-led states have reinstituted work search requirements, many of them in the past few
Continue ReadingWill it be a royal house or full house or maybe four of a kind? Maria Konnikova is used to thinking about risk tolerance. The author-turned-professional-poker-player learned how to assess what economic risks are worth taking as research for her recent bestseller, “The Biggest Bluff.” Assessing health risks — especially when you’re risking not only
Continue ReadingIt has been delayed by a year, but that seems to have only ramped up the excitement levels for the 2020 European football championships. Still called Euro 2020 despite now being held in 2021, the all-European tournament was postponed from last summer because of the coronavirus pandemic. It all kicks off on Friday, June 11
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At least nine people were killed when a five-story building undergoing demolition collapsed onto a bus in South Korea on Wednesday, according to the country’s Ministry of the Interior and Safety. The bus, which was stationary at the time on a busy road, was buried under the rubble in Gwangju, some 270 kilometers (168 miles)
Continue ReadingLaw enforcement’s use of neck restraints such as chokeholds and strangleholds should be prohibited, the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) said Wednesday. “The deaths of George Floyd, Eric Garner, and other instances where neck restraints were used by law enforcement have called into question whether these restraints are controllable, safe, and non-lethal,” the organization, which
Continue Reading Northern California residents, from those living by the Bay to those living on lake houseboats, are coming under threat as a severe drought continues to intensify. Nearly two million people in the San Francisco Bay Area have been placed under a water shortage emergency Wednesday as the state grapples with worsening drought conditions. Mandatory water
Continue Reading An Afghani ISIS affiliate, known as IS-K, has claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attack on international demining charity, the Halo Trust, that left 10 people dead and 16 others wounded, the SITE Intelligence Group reported Wednesday. The attack began at 9.50 p.m. local time, when a group of armed men entered a HALO camp in the
Continue Reading Two massive wildfires in eastern Arizona continued to spread Wednesday, leading Gov. Doug Ducey to issue two emergency declarations to further fund response efforts. The area around the Telegraph Fire and Mescal Fire, both burning nearly 100 miles east of Phoenix, was so dry that officials had said firefighters trying to tame the blaze have
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Significant cyberattacks against critical targets in Europe have doubled in the past year, according to new EU figures obtained by CNN, as the pandemic pushed lives indoors and online. The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, ENISA, told CNN there were 304 significant, malicious attacks against “critical sectors” in 2020, more than double the 146 recorded
Continue ReadingAs we moved online in the pandemic, crime moved with us. In the European Union last year, new figures obtained by CNN show significant cyberattacks doubled. CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh reports.
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Argentina ha recibido 18.931.945 vacunas contra el covid-19 hasta este miércoles. Cada vez que un lote arriba al país, el gobierno lo anuncia y luego comunica la distribución hacia las provincias para que esas dosis puedan ser aplicadas. Sin embargo, hay 900.345 vacunas cuya distribución no fue informada por las autoridades. “Esto
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– El presidente de Argentina, Alberto Fernández, abrió una polémica este miércoles con una frase desafortunada que en las redes sociales rápidamente fue calificada como de tintes racistas y que él atribuyó erróneamente a un autor que no era. Horas después de su comentario, el presidente Fernández dijo que no quiso ofender a
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — La candidata a la presidencia de Perú, Keiko Fujimori, anunció este miércoles que su partido Fuerza Popular ha presentado acciones de nulidad en 802 mesas a nivel nacional al Jurado Nacional de Elecciones por supuestas irregularidades de parte del partido de su contrincante, Pedro Castillo. “Estas 802 actas representan aproximadamente 200 mil
Continue ReadingAbout two dozen states have decided to scale back their daily tracking of Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths as President Joe Biden’s administration and other federal officials continue trying to get more Americans — and the rest of the world — vaccinated. The scaleback comes as eight states — all in the Northeast — have
Continue Reading (CNN) — La Luna bloqueará parcialmente al Sol este jueves para crear un eclipse solar conocido como «anillo de fuego». Algunas personas que se encuentran en el hemisferio norte podrán ver este 10 de junio el primero de los dos eclipses solares del año. Un eclipse solar ocurre cuando la Luna cruza entre el Sol
Continue ReadingBitcoin’s value shot up after El Salvador became the world’s first country to accept it as legal tender. As of 3:30 a.m. ET on Thursday, the virtual currency was trading at $36,849 per coin, jumping about 7.9% over the last 24 hours, according to CoinDesk. Salvadorian lawmakers made history on Wednesday by approving a proposal
Continue Reading After 65 years, a grisly double murder case of two teenagers in Great Falls, Montana, was solved with DNA evidence, according to investigators. “It was such a big case,” Cascade County Sheriff’s Office lead investigator Sgt. Jon Kadner told CNN Wednesday night. Investigators have determined that the killer was Kenneth Gould, a Great Falls native
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation just unveiled a newly created position to tackle its decades-old diversity problem: chief diversity officer. Scott McMillion is a 23-year veteran of the FBI who is stepping into the role at a time when racial tensions have boiled over nationwide, with the FBI taking the lead in a growing number
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