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Vaccinating young people is an integral part of protecting the broader community from Covid-19, say experts, and although serious disease among children is rare, they need protection, too. While older people are most susceptible to the coronavirus, children (especially older children) can get it and pass it on to others. They also play a part
Continue ReadingFrom Wall Street to Washington, everyone is waiting for the latest US jobs report. What’s happening: The US Labor Department releases data for May on Friday. Economists polled by Refinitiv predict another 650,000 jobs were added to the economy. That would be up sharply from the 266,000 jobs added in April, a shock disappointment that
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If you’re planning a trip to Australia, here’s what you’ll need to know and expect if you want to visit during the global coronavirus pandemic. The basics As one of the countries to have performed better in the pandemic, Australia’s borders are still closed. After murmurs that visitors may be allowed to trickle in by
Continue Reading Prosecutors in the state of Washington have charged 15 current and former members of the Alpha Tau Omega (ATO) fraternity at Washington State University (WSU) in connection with the death of a WSU student in 2019, according to authorities. Sam Martinez, 19, a pledge at the fraternity, died in November 2019 from alcohol poisoning at
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(CNN) — El Pentágono y las agencias de inteligencia estadounidenses están siguiendo de cerca dos barcos de Irán que, según Teherán, tienen destino en Venezuela. En el Pentágono y otras agencias, funcionarios dijeron que en este momento el movimiento de los barcos no es una preocupación, pero están siendo monitoreados y la comunidad de inteligencia
Continue ReadingA major gas pipeline. Dozens of government agencies. A Florida city’s water supply. And now, one of the world’s top meat producers. The last few months have seen a sharp rise in cyberattacks, often disrupting products and services that are key to our everyday lives. Many of those attacks have used ransomware, a set of
Continue Reading Nota del editor: Carlos Alberto Montaner es escritor, periodista y colaborador de CNN. Sus columnas se publican en decenas de diarios de España, Estados Unidos y América Latina. Montaner es, además, vicepresidente de la Internacional Liberal. Las opiniones aquí expresadas son exclusivamente suyas. (CNN Español) — No ganamos para sustos. Probablemente las elecciones de Perú
Continue Reading After the 2019 elections, Naftali Bennett’s right-wing party failed to cross the electoral threshold and had no seats in Israel’s parliament. Two years later, he’s on the verge of becoming the country’s next prime minister. A former chief of staff to then-opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, Bennett could now unseat his former boss, bringing an end
Continue ReadingBritain’s Queen Elizabeth will welcome US President Joe Biden to Windsor Castle on June 13 for their first one-on-one meeting, Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday. The monarch’s meeting with Biden and first lady Jill Biden will come during the President’s visit to the United Kingdom for the upcoming G7 summit, his first trip abroad since
Continue ReadingYou stare at your bedroom ceiling, willing yourself to go to sleep. Thoughts race through your head, holding your mind hostage. Or you ruminate on the awkward conversation you had with your boss on the way home from work. Overthinking can happen at any time of day or night and can leave people frozen in
Continue Reading (CNN) — En una entrevista con CNN el jueves, el Dr. Anthony Fauci dijo que un correo electrónico que recibió el año pasado de un ejecutivo de EcoHealth Alliance con sede en EE.UU. se ha malinterpretado y ofreció un indicio de arrepentimiento por un correo electrónico de febrero de 2020 que minimiza la necesidad de
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden has expanded a Trump-era ban on American investment in dozens of Chinese firms that Washington believes are linked to China’s military. Biden signed an executive order Thursday that prohibits Americans from owning or trading any securities tied to 59 companies, citing the threat of Chinese surveillance technology. The original order, signed by
Continue Reading (CNN) — Estados Unidos está presionando para que el 70% de los adultos reciban al menos una dosis de la vacuna de covid-19 para el 4 de julio, pero un experto dijo que es importante alcanzar esa cifra también a nivel estatal, y aquellos estados que están muy por debajo de esa cifra pueden ser
Continue Reading The head of the Catholic Church in Germany has offered to resign as the Archbishop of Munich, saying he shared “responsibility for the catastrophe of sexual abuse” by church officials. “In essence, it is important to me to share the responsibility for the catastrophe of the sexual abuse by Church officials over the past decades,”
Continue ReadingRepublican Rep. Mo Brooks pushed back Thursday on Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell’s account of having to hire a private investigator to locate Brooks for a lawsuit seeking to hold him accountable for the January 6 Capitol insurrection. The Alabama Republican argued that he had not changed his behavior and had been publicly accessible. Brooks said
Continue Reading (CNN) — Dos sismos de magnitud 5,9 se registraron en el Océano Pacífico, aproximadamente a 140 y 160 kilómetros al oeste de la ciudad costera de Gold Beach, Oregon, después de la 1 am (hora del Pacífico) del viernes, informó el Servicio Geológico de los Estados Unidos (USGS). Al menos cuatro sismos que varían en
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Detained journalist Roman Protasevich has again appeared on Belarusian state media, to the concern of government critics who fear the young dissident is being forced to address the nation under duress. The 26-year-old told Belarusian state TV channel ONT on Thursday that he has “pleaded guilty” to organizing large-scale “unsanctioned protests” following the country’s disputed
Continue ReadingSupreme Court justices have known for months whether the Affordable Care Act will be struck down. They’ve decided whether a Catholic social service agency may refuse to screen same-sex couples as foster parents. And they’ve resolved whether a school wrongly disciplined a cheerleader who posted a profane Snapchat rant when she failed to make varsity.
Continue ReadingUnited Airlines announced a deal to buy 15 supersonic jets, planning to carry passengers on the ultra-fast planes by 2029. If the airline can follow through with its plan, these would be the first commercial supersonic flights since the grounding of the Concorde jet in 2003. The economics of that fuel-guzzling supersonic jet and restrictions
Continue ReadingChina’s yuan is stronger than it has been since the start of the US-China trade war. That has left Beijing in a pickle. If the currency appreciates too quickly, the country’s financial markets could be rattled by a rapid influx of capital, and the economy’s fragile recovery could be thrown off track. But government intervention
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