(CNN) — Luis Tapia finalmente obtendría una licencia de conducir. Marilú Saldaña visitaría a su mamá en México antes de que sea demasiado tarde. Karina Ruiz De Diaz se registraría para votar, algo que ha ayudado a hacer a miles de personas, pero que nunca tuvo la oportunidad de hacerlo ella misma. Se encuentran entre
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Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other top government figures have been detained, a spokesman for the governing National League for Democracy told CNN on Monday. “State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and some other senior figures are being detained in Nay Pyi Taw,” spokesman Myo Nyunt said. The move comes after days
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Stock futures dropped Sunday after a week that saw volatile markets due to the recent GameStop situation. Dow futures were down 252 points, or 0.8%. S&P 500 futures were down 1%, while Nasdaq futures were down 1.2%. US stocks finished a turbulent week sharply lower on Friday. The Dow and the S&P 500 recorded their
Continue Reading A skier died after being buried by an avalanche Saturday in the backcountry of Summit County, Utah. Kurt Damschroder, 57, of Park City, Utah, was killed after he was caught in the avalanche, Summit County Sheriff Justin Martinez said in a tweet Sunday. Damschroder was one of two skiers who triggered the avalanche in an
Continue Reading Police in Waterbury, Connecticut, arrested and charged a local man for the murder of a 16-year-old girl whose 2004 death had long been unsolved. Willie F. Robinson, 52, of Matteson Street in Waterbury, was arrested Friday and charged with the murder of Jessica Keyworth, Waterbury Police said in a statement. He is being held on
Continue ReadingGOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Sunday announced a new “movement” to push back on the Republican Party’s embrace of former President Donald Trump and retire the “poisonous conspiracies and lies” that defined his administration. In a six-minute campaign-style video posted to the new “Country First” website, which is funded by Kinzinger’s Future First Leadership Political
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Eligible Yuma County residents will get another shot at getting a coronavirus vaccine Monday.
Continue ReadingAs President Joe Biden was ticking through a litany of grievances with his Russian counterpart on Tuesday, it wasn’t only his tone that made for a departure from his predecessor. Even his location marked a major difference: Instead of speaking with foreign leaders this week from his third-floor private residence, as President Donald Trump often
Continue Reading Joshua Embry took over as public health director in Grayson County, Kentucky just weeks before US officials announced the first case of coronavirus in the country. In the past 12 months, Embry and his staff have worked tirelessly to protect their community and promote measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Yet their service has
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Two Republican senators said Sunday they’ll remain fair jurors and listen to the evidence presented during former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial set to begin February 9. Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, a moderate Republican, told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” that he believed Trump’s comments leading up to the Capitol attack
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“Saturday Night Live” returned for its first show of 2021, and had one question on its mind: “What still works?” That’s how the NBC variety show opened its program on Saturday night, with cast member Kate McKinnon hosting a show that asked what still works in America. The first category was “government.” McKinnon brought out
Continue ReadingJohn Kerry, special presidential envoy for climate, said Sunday that the current goals under the Paris climate agreement are not enough to achieve the mission to limit the Earth’s temperature. “The goals thus far have been inadequate … The goal of achieving a 1.5˚(C) limitation on the rise of Earth’s temperature is absolutely the appropriate
Continue Reading A team of World Health Organization investigators in China researching the origins of the coronavirus tell CNN they now have months of Chinese influenza data which might contain vital clues as to the early spread of the virus. On Sunday, the team visited the wet market thought to be central to the disease’s spread: The
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To kick off the partnership, Grubhub will be delivering cookies for free with a minimum purchase of $15 through February 14.
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The wife of opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been released after her detention Sunday in Moscow, as protesters across the country rallied in her husband’s name. More than 4,100 people have been detained so far across Russia over the unsanctioned protests, including 1,080 in Moscow and 796 in St. Petersburg, according to OVD-Info, an independent
Continue ReadingConspiracy theorist Alex Jones helped jumpstart the organization efforts that eventually materialized into the “Stop the Steal” rally on January 6, according to the grassroots organizer who filed the permits. Cindy Chafian, who said she submitted the permits to the National Park Service, told CNN that Jones had reached out to her “to make sure
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Republican Sen. Rob Portman on Sunday said his party’s leaders “ought to stand up” against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and that there should be “a strong response” to her controversial actions and recently resurfaced incendiary comments amid calls for her expulsion from Congress. “I think Republican leaders ought to stand up and say it is
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Danielle Seal likens going for a walk during the pandemic to an extreme sport. “When I go [and walk] the dog I have to ask people to stay two meters away,” she told CNN. “And that’s what really upsets me. If you try and squeeze past me, you are putting my life in danger. Going
Continue Reading (CNN) — Las mentiras del expresidente Donald Trump y su insistencia en que las elecciones de noviembre fueron amañadas en su contra pueden haber resultado demasiado extremas para los abogados que debían defenderlo en su próximo juicio político en el Senado en poco más de una semana. Pero su partido se ha mantenido en gran
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Ten Republican senators on Sunday announced plans to unveil a roughly $600 billion Covid-19 relief package, a counter proposal to President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion plan meant to force relief talks with the White House back to the middle. The lawmakers, including Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah
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