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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Pfizer y BioNTech dijeron este jueves que están solicitando la autorización de uso de emergencia de la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos de EE.UU. para su vacuna contra el covid-19 para niños de 5 a 11 años. Si la autorizan, esta sería la primera vacuna contra el covid-19 para niños
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business US business leaders are still upbeat about the economic recovery. But they’re not as confident as they were just a few months ago, and they blame the Delta variant and a super tight labor market for the drop in sentiment. The Conference Board, a leading business research think
Continue ReadingBy Dan Merica, CNN The off-year elections in Virginia this November will serve as possibly the most revealing test of whether strict coronavirus policies, like vaccine mandates and mask requirements, are good politics in a contested election. No issue has defined Virginia’s statewide races more than how the Commonwealth’s government should fight the coronavirus, with
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By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA says it will create a top-level working group on China as part of a broad U.S. government effort focused on countering Beijing’s influence. Known as a mission center, the group will have weekly director-level meetings intended to drive the agency’s strategy toward China. President Joe
Continue ReadingBy Sophia Saifi and Azaz Syed, CNN At least 15 people, including eight children, were killed and 200 injured after a 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit southwestern Pakistan in the early hours of Thursday, local authorities said. The toll was revised down by Pakistan’s Provincial Disaster Management Authority from 20 dead and more than 300 injured. The
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By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida needs a pick-me-up, and there are few better cures for a broken-hearted Gators football team than having Vanderbilt next on the schedule. The 20th-ranked Gators will host the skidding Commodores for homecoming Saturday. It’s a chance for Florida to move past a gut-wrenching loss
Continue Reading By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu is marking his 90th birthday. A portrait of him recently defaced by racist graffiti has been restored by the artist who added a celebratory message. It reads “Happy Birthday Tata Desmond Tutu! Father of the Rainbow Nation.”
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Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street Thursday amid signs a standoff in Congress over the federal debt ceiling is closer to a resolution. Investors hope Congress may temporarily extend the federal government’s debt ceiling and buy lawmakers time to reach a permanent resolution. The S&P 500 rose 1.1% in early trading and the Nasdaq
Continue Reading Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street Thursday amid signs a standoff in Congress over the federal debt ceiling is closer to a resolution. Investors hope Congress may temporarily extend the federal government’s debt ceiling and buy lawmakers time to reach a permanent resolution. The S&P 500 rose 1.1% in early trading and the Nasdaq
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FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a man suspected of robbing a Southern California bank was arrested when he returned to try and rob the same branch the following day. Police in the city of Fountain Valley say the man fled with a large amount of cash Monday afternoon after giving Chase bank teller
Continue Reading By SABINA NIKSIC Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia (AP) — Croatia has announced it will investigate reports and video footage alleging systematic violent pushbacks by its police against migrants and asylum-seekers attempting to cross into the country from neighboring Bosnia. Thursday’s announcement followed publication a day earlier of video footage by a team of investigative journalists
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — A report by the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Democratic majority details Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election that he lost. His pursuit of fraud claims brought the Justice Department to the brink of chaos and prompted top officials there and at the White House to threaten to resign. The
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, CNN The coronavirus pandemic and inadequate training contributed to the amphibious assault vehicle accident off the southern California coast last July that killed eight Marines and one Sailor, the military found following the conclusion of investigations by the Navy and the Marine Corps. The deaths occurred when an assault amphibious vehicle, or
Continue Reading By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer A major Hollywood strike could be on the horizon for some 60,000 behind-the-scenes workers in the entertainment industry. Over the weekend, members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IASTE) overwhelmingly voted in favor of authorizing a nationwide strike for the first time in its history. The IATSE
Continue Reading By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer A major Hollywood strike could be on the horizon for some 60,000 behind-the-scenes workers in the entertainment industry. Over the weekend, members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IASTE) overwhelmingly voted in favor of authorizing a nationwide strike for the first time in its history. The IATSE
Continue Reading By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer A major Hollywood strike could be on the horizon for some 60,000 behind-the-scenes workers in the entertainment industry. Over the weekend, members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IASTE) overwhelmingly voted in favor of authorizing a nationwide strike for the first time in its history. The IATSE
Continue Reading SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Son Heung-min’s late goal has given South Korea a 2-1 win over Syria and kept his team unbeaten in its Asian qualifying group for the 2022 World Cup. Son shot home from close range with one minute remaining. That put South Korea on top of Group A after three games.
Continue ReadingBy James Felton Click here for updates on this story MIDLAND COUNTY, Michigan (WNEM) — John Limon tells us everyday is amazing. It’s a far cry from where he used to be. “You know I was ignorant, arrogant. I didn’t want to progress in life. I thought my life was ruined because I had been
Continue Reading Mariana Toro Washington (CNN) — Estados Unidos y China acordaron tentativamente que el presidente Joe Biden y el presidente Xi Jinping celebrarán una reunión virtual antes de fin de año, como parte de un esfuerzo por garantizar la estabilidad en una de las relaciones más importantes y tensas del mundo, dijo un alto funcionario de
Continue Reading BY KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany has vaccinated millions more people against the coronavirus than previously thought. That means almost 80% of adults in Germany are fully vaccinated and about 84% have received at least one shot, according to the country’s disease control center. The figures are about 3.5 million higher than
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