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Month: December 2020

Heated Oval Office meeting included talk of special counsel, martial law as Trump advisers clash

President Donald Trump convened a heated meeting in the Oval Office on Friday, including lawyer Sidney Powell and her client, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, two people familiar with the matter said, describing a session that began as an impromptu gathering but devolved and eventually broke out into screaming matches at certain points as

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Who gets Covid-19 vaccine next? Older adults and ‘frontline essential workers,’ CDC advisers recommend

Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted 13-1 on Sunday to recommend that both older adults, ages 75 and older, and “frontline essential workers” including first responders be next in line to receive Covid-19 vaccines. That would put those people in “Phase 1b” of allocating the vaccine nationwide. That committee

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España anunció aumento de controles sanitarios a viajeros procedentes de Reino Unido

(CNN Español) — El gobierno español anunció este domingo que reforzará el control de pruebas de coronavirus a los viajeros procedentes de Reino Unido, y adelantó que este lunes en la reunión urgente del mecanismo de crisis IPCR (Integrated Political Crisis Response), convocada por la presidencia alemana, expondrá la necesidad de adoptar medidas coordinadas sobre

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What we know about Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine and how it differs from Pfizer’s

Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine is similar to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine that was the first Covid-19 vaccine authorized and shipped out to the first Americans last week. But there are a few key differences. Most importantly, Moderna’s vaccine can be stored in normal freezers and does not require a super-cold transportation network, making it more accessible for

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Sesame Workshop debuts its first ever Rohingya Muppets for refugee children

Rohingya children raised amid political turmoil have few opportunities to see themselves represented in the media. Sesame Workshop is helping to change that. The nonprofit organization, best known for producing “Sesame Street,” unveiled its first Rohingya Muppets on Thursday: 6-year-old twins Noor and Aziz. The siblings will be featured in Rohingya-language educational media along with

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