When Matt Goodman turned 21, he wished his father could have been there to celebrate with him. Little did he know that his dad, who had passed away six years earlier from esophageal cancer, had already made plans to attend — not in person, but in spirit. John Goodman left his son a $10 bill
Continue ReadingCongress is once again up against a shutdown deadline amid an eleventh-hour effort to secure a much-needed $900 billion pandemic relief deal with government funding set to expire at midnight. A late-night Saturday breakthrough to resolve a key dispute holding up a rescue package signaled major progress toward a deal, but congressional leaders are still
Continue Reading Sunday’s Google Doodle is paying tribute to Sudan, believed to be the last northern white rhino born in the wild. The illustration looks back on this day in 2009 — when Sudan and three other white rhinos arrived at their new home at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, a wildlife sanctuary in Kenya. Before the rhinos
Continue Reading The teams at the top are familiar — even in a college football season when the coronavirus pandemic caused several stops, starts, outright cancellations and plenty of ripped up schedules. The College Football Playoff committee revealed the four-team playoff field on Sunday, with Alabama ranked No. 1, followed by Clemson, Ohio State and Notre Dame.
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Every time Dr. Paul Bradley goes into an exam room, he wonders: Will today be the day he gets Covid-19? “I work every day in a petri dish,” said Bradley, an internist in Savannah, Georgia, who’s treated more than a hundred coronavirus patients. “I am at great risk.” Since his work places him in harm’s
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Manchester United continued its imperious run of form in the Premier League with a 6-2 demolition of Leeds United. Since the insipid defeat to Arsenal at the start of November — following which many fans had called for manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to be sacked — United is unbeaten in the league, winning six of
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The chief scientific adviser for Operation Warp Speed explained Sunday that an unpredicted “two-day lag period” is the reason why many states have not received the number of vaccines promised. “We all made the error or mistake of assuming that vaccine that’s actually produced and being released is already available for shipment, when, in fact,
Continue ReadingA deal on a long-awaited rescue package to deliver much-needed aid to struggling Americans suddenly was within reach after a major breakthrough Saturday night over a key sticking point: the role of the Federal Reserve to intervene in the US economy. After days of tense negotiations over a provision pushed by Sen. Pat Toomey to
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(CNN) — El depredador pronto podría convertirse en presa si los científicos de Florida pueden confirmar que las pitones birmanas, una especie extremadamente invasiva en los Everglades, son seguras para que las comamos. La Comisión de Conservación de Pesca y Vida Silvestre de Florida (FWC, por sus siglas en inglés) colabora con el Departamento de
Continue Reading A man is accused of killing a Native American woman on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribes’ Reservation, the US Attorney’s Office in Nevada said Friday. Michael Joshua Burciaga, 33, is charged with second-degree murder within Indian Country, the US Attorney’s Office said. Pyramid Lake tribal police went to a house in Nixon shortly after midnight
Continue Reading (CNN) — Un acuerdo sobre un paquete de rescate largamente esperado para entregar ayuda necesaria a estadounidenses con dificultades de repente estuvo cerca de lograrse después de un gran avance el sábado por la noche acerca de un punto clave: el papel de la Reserva Federal para intervenir en la economía estadounidense. Después de días
Continue ReadingHis opponent calls Rev. Raphael Warnock an unpatriotic radical who celebrated the “hatred” of a fiery Black pastor who, in a notorious sermon, once declared that God damned America. But there’s another, little-known pastor who inspired Warnock, the Democratic nominee for Georgia’s upcoming Senate runoff election. Critics never seem to mention him, but this pastor
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Dogged by increased scrutiny over the Chicago Police Department’s mistaken raid on the home of a social worker in 2019, Mayor Lori Lightfoot released body camera footage from the officers involved in the encounter and announced that she has reached out to the woman to set up a face-to-face meeting. The 20 videos from officers
Continue Reading (CNN) — La nueva variante del covid-19, originaria del sureste de Inglaterra, ha sido identificada en Dinamarca, Países Bajos y hasta en Australia, dijo el domingo la directora técnica de covid-19 de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), Maria Van Kerkhove. «Entendemos que esta variante se ha identificado también en Dinamarca, en Países Bajos
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Paraguay celebra la inscripción del tereré en la lista del Patrimonio Inmaterial de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (Unesco). El 17 de diciembre la organización incluyó en la lista las “Prácticas y saberes tradicionales del tereré en la cultura del pohã ñana, bebida
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William Goldman, the famed screenwriter of classics like “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “All The President’s Men,” once said that “nobody knows anything” in Hollywood. If there was one quote that summed up the entertainment industry in 2020, that would be it. “This has been the craziest, most unpredictable and momentous year in
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In the six weeks since President-elect Joe Biden won the White House, President Donald Trump has proved again and again that he has little concern for anyone other than himself, scheming and spreading falsehoods as he seeks to overturn the election while seeming unmoved by the grim climb in coronavirus cases that has led to
Continue Reading Governments are borrowing vast sums of money to cushion the blow to their economies from the pandemic. That’s given social bonds — which fund projects that address social issues such as unemployment or access to healthcare — a chance to shine. What’s happening: Social bonds have raised more than $163 billion this year, more than
Continue Reading An Austin, Minnesota, man is facing murder charges following a domestic violence incident that left his stepson dead and his wife severely wounded, a complaint says. On the morning of Tuesday, December 15, Austin Police Department officers responded to a report that a male suspect was stabbing someone. The officers went to the home and
Continue Reading The predator might soon become the prey if Florida scientists can confirm that Burmese pythons — an extremely invasive species in the Everglades — are safe for us to eat. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is collaborating with the Florida Department of Health to investigate the mercury levels in pythons to determine if
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