Month: June 2021
Una «barrera de burbujas» atrapa los residuos de plástico antes de que lleguen al mar
(CNN) — ¿Qué tienen en común las televisiones viejas, las señales de tráfico, los cascos de moto, las tablas de windsurf y los árboles de Navidad? Todos ellos fueron atrapados flotando en el canal Westerdok de Ámsterdam… por una cortina de burbujas. La «Bubble Barrier» o «barrera de burbujas» se desarrolló como una forma sencilla
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Why is a gun fired in Hong Kong every day at noon?
Every day at noon, a large antique gun is fired in Hong Kong. No, this has nothing to do with war, protests or conflict. The Jardine Noonday Gun is about history with a side of charitable goodness. It gets its name from its owner, the Jardine Matheson Company, which was founded in the early 1830s.
Continue Reading Kamala Harris rechaza críticas sobre no haber viajado a la frontera: «Tampoco he viajado a Europa»
(CNN) — La vicepresidenta de Estados Unidos Kamala Harris respondió a las críticas de que no ha visitado la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México en una entrevista emitida el martes, argumentando que sus viajes han sido limitados durante los primeros días de la administración de Joe Biden.En una entrevista que tuvo lugar en Guatemala
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Man arrested in connection with fatal shooting of 10-year-old boy in New York City
New York City police arrested a 29-year-old man Tuesday in connection with the fatal shooting of 10-year-old Justin Wallace in the Far Rockaway neighborhood of Queens, police said in a statement. Jovan Young, 29, is expected to be charged with homicide and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in Justin’s shooting, the NYPD
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Parts for Marilyn Monroe sculpture starting to arrive in Palm Springs
Marilyn has started making her highly anticipated return to Palm Springs! Parts of the Forever Marilyn sculpture are starting to arrive in downtown Palm Springs ahead of its construction. The sculpture left New Jersey on two trucks on June 1. Viewers sent in pictures of the sculpture’s head and leg out near the site where
Continue Reading NBA’s Enes Kanter says he is ‘shocked and disgusted’ after his brother was robbed in Atlanta
Enes Kanter, a center for the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers, called for “normal gun control measures” after he said his brother was robbed in Atlanta over the weekend. “I’m shocked and disgusted,” Kanter wrote in a tweet on Sunday. “My little brother (Ahmet) walking around Atlanta, gets a gun pulled on him, and robbed. When
Continue ReadingDemocrats fear Biden’s agenda may be squandered as they pressure key moderates to abandon Senate GOP
Senate Democrats, growing impatient as they watch their ambitious agenda imperiled in the evenly divided chamber, are prepared to go it alone on President Joe Biden’s sweeping infrastructure package — and pressure Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema into backing a Democratic-only approach. At a closed-door lunch on Tuesday, Sinema, an Arizona Democrat, informed her
Continue ReadingJack Ciattarelli wins GOP primary for New Jersey governor, CNN projects
Jack Ciattarelli will win the Republican nomination for New Jersey governor, CNN projected Tuesday, setting him up to take on Gov. Phil Murphy in the fall. Ciattarelli, a former state assemblyman and the establishment-backed candidate, edged out three other Republican candidates — engineer Hirsh Singh, pastor Phil Rizzo and former Franklin Mayor Brian Levine —
Continue ReadingTerry McAuliffe wins Democratic gubernatorial primary in Virginia, CNN projects
Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe will be the commonwealth’s Democratic gubernatorial nominee, CNN projected on Tuesday, besting four other primary challengers as he seeks to become the first person in decades to serve multiple terms as top executive of a commonwealth that bars governors from consecutive terms. McAuliffe’s win sets a general election between the
Continue Reading Estudio sugiere que las personas con diabetes y problemas de sueño tienen un mayor riesgo de muerte prematura
(CNN) — Las personas con diabetes que duermen mal tienen un mayor riesgo de morir prematuramente, según un estudio. Las personas con diabetes que tenían problemas para conciliar o mantener el sueño tenían un 87% más de probabilidades de morir por cualquier causa en los nueve años siguientes que las personas sin diabetes ni problemas
Continue Reading Día Mundial de los Océanos 2021: nuestros mares son increíbles, pero necesitan ayuda
(CNN) — La pandemia de coronavirus ha dominado los titulares el último año, pero no es el único problema apremiante que afecta a todo el planeta: el daño que estamos haciendo a nuestros océanos también amenaza nuestra existencia. En el Día Mundial de los Océanos, esto es lo que debes saber. Los océanos ayudan a
Continue Reading Las Vegas police identify 7-year-old boy found dead on hiking trail, mother is arrested in Colorado
The mother of a boy found dead last month on a trail near Las Vegas has been arrested in Colorado, Las Vegas police said Tuesday in a news release. The boy was identified by police on Monday as 7-year-old Liam Husted of San Jose, California. His mother, Samantha Moreno Rodriguez, 35, was taken into custody
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Coachella levanta la bandera del Orgullo por primera vez
Por primera vez vuela una bandera del orgullo LGBTQ+ en el ayuntamiento de la Ciudad de Coachella.
Continue Reading7 hopeful signs the US is moving past the worst of the pandemic
First, the good news: Covid-19 cases are down in the US. Hospitalizations are dropping. And new deaths have decreased drastically as more Americans get vaccinated. Now the bad news: Most Americans still haven’t been fully vaccinated — threatening both short-term consequences for themselves and long-term consequences for the country. “We’re definitely going in the right
Continue Reading An American teacher was jailed for child abuse in China in 2014. He still says he’s innocent — if only anyone would listen.
David McMahon hated the design of his classroom. Located on the ground floor of the Pudong campus of the Shanghai French School, its almost floor-to-ceiling windows made him feel like he was “teaching in aquarium,” in the words of one of McMahon’s colleagues. Passersby couldn’t help but look in, and their attention would inevitably distract
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Shadow Hills high school seeking new head coaches for boys and girls basketball programs
The Shadow Hills high school basketball staff will be new next season, both for the boys and girls programs. The Knights have decided not to retain boys head basketball coach Ryan Towner, as well as girls head coach Greg Ramirez. Desert Sands Unified School District confirmed this to KESQ on Tuesday saying, “earlier today, Shadow
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New CVWD rate increases could send your water bill soaring this summer
New rate increase could send water bills skyrocketing in just a few months. Higher rates were approved Tuesday by the Coachella Valley Water District for homeowners and commercial users. The CVWD board of directors Tuesday approved a 1-year rate increase to make up for an estimated $81 million dollar budget shortfall, according to a cost
Continue Reading Infecciones por VIH en EE.UU. han disminuido un 73% desde que alcanzaron su punto máximo a mediados de la década de 1980, según los CDC
(CNN) — Han pasado cuarenta años desde que se identificaron los primeros casos de VIH, el virus que causa el sida. Desde entonces, se estima que se han producido 2,2 millones de nuevas infecciones en Estados Unidos entre personas de 13 años o más. Usando datos del Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia del VIH para estimar
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Arrestan a tercer sospechoso de presunto secuestro en Cathedral City…
Tercer sospechoso en presunto secuestro de Cathedral City es arrestado. Un tercer hombre acusado de retener a un hombre contra su voluntad y golpearlo con una paleta de madera durante varios días en Cathedral City fue arrestado hoy, dijo la policía. El hombre, identificado como un joven de 30 años de Indio, fue ingresado en
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