President Joe Biden looked to send a simple message to Iran by authorizing air strikes in Syria on Thursday: “You can’t act with impunity, be careful.”
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The House of Representatives is on track to approve President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic aid package, a major step toward enacting the first legislative priority of the new administration as the devastating fallout from the spread of Covid-19 has left Americans in dire need of further relief.
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Lady Gaga has spoken out about the violent attack this week in which her dog walker was shot and two of her French bulldogs stolen.
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(CNN) –– El paquete de estímulo por 1,9 billones de dólares de la Cámara de Representantes para enfrentar el coronavirus incluye una amplia gama de propuestas que buscan ayudar los estadounidenses que aún tienen dificultades por las consecuencias económicas de la pandemia. El proyecto del paquete de estímulo proporciona otra ronda de pagos directos. Además,
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden embraced a familiar role on his trip to Houston Friday, offering both comfort and federal support after a severe winter storm-battered Texas and left millions without power, heat or water.
Continue ReadingThe Conservative Political Action Conference began Friday with a series of false claims about the 2020 election and other subjects. The CPAC schedule made clear in advance that the conference — taking place in Orlando instead of its usual home just outside Washington, DC — would feature election-related lying. Over three days, the CPAC agenda
Continue Reading Nueva York (CNN Business) — Hasbro eliminará el título «mister» (señor) de la marca «Mr. Potato Head» (el popular juguete conocido en español como Señor Cara de Papa), para renombrar la papa de plástico que cambia de forma como «Potato Head», de género neutro. Es un cambio notable de uno de los fabricantes de juguetes
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Richard Carranza, chancellor of New York City’s public schools system, will step down in March, he announced at a news conference Friday. Carranza will be succeeded by Meisha Ross Porter, a former teacher and school principal in the Bronx. Porter will be the first African American woman to serve as education chancellor in the city’s history.
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Arizona Western College (AWC) announced Friday that high school students may enroll in a class at no cost either this spring or summer semester.
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should be doing more to guide and encourage improved air circulation in buildings — especially in schools — to help prevent the spread of coronavirus, ventilation experts say. They say the CDC has not paid anywhere near enough attention to the role ventilation can play in helping
Continue Reading More than a dozen of former President Donald Trump’s closest Republican allies in the House have skipped Friday’s votes and enlisted their colleagues to vote on their behalf, signing letters saying they can’t attend “due to the ongoing public health emergency.”
Continue Reading Canada expects to receive more than 6.5 million Covid-19 vaccines by the end of March, with tens of millions more vaccines arriving between April and June, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday. Canada has secured access to nearly 400 million doses of vaccines, but manufacturers have been slow to ship the authorized medicine. Just
Continue ReadingThe Conservative Political Action Conference began Friday with a series of false claims about the 2020 election. The CPAC schedule made clear in advance that the conference — taking place in Orlando instead of its usual home just outside Washington, DC — would feature election-related lying. Over three days, the CPAC agenda includes seven separate
Continue Reading (CNN Business) — Victoria’s Secret sigue reduciendo su número de tiendas. Su empresa matriz, L Brands, anunció que planea cerrar permanentemente entre 30 y 50 locales en Estados Unidos y Canadá este año. La reducción llega tras el cierre de 241 tiendas en 2020, que dejó a Victoria’s Secret con 848 locales en los dos
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Los asesores de vacunas de la Administración de Medicinas y Alimentos de EE.UU. (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés) votaron el viernes para recomendar que la agencia otorgue una autorización de uso de emergencia a la vacuna contra el coronavirus de Johnson & Johnson. El Comité Asesor de Vacunas y Productos Biológicos
Continue ReadingCurrent and former top executives at SolarWinds are blaming a company intern for a critical lapse in password security that apparently went undiagnosed for years. The password in question, “solarwinds123,” was discovered in 2019 on the public internet by an independent security researcher who warned the company that the leak had exposed a SolarWinds file
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Electric truck company Nikola is throwing its founder and former executive chairman Trevor Milton under the proverbial hydrogen-powered bus. In a filing late Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Nikola acknowledged seven “inaccurate” statements that Milton, who left the company in September, allegedly made between July 2016 and July 2020 about the company’s progress
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Despite promising to punish senior Saudi leaders while on the campaign trail, President Joe Biden declined to apply sanctions to the one the US intelligence community determined is responsible for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Continue Reading A woman driving home from her son’s baseball game was killed instantly when a tire flew off another vehicle and hit her car’s windshield in New Caney, Texas, on Thursday. CNN affiliate KTRK reported the 52-year-old woman was driving home from her son’s baseball game when the left front tire and wheel flew off a
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The US military on Thursday struck a site in Syria used by two Iranian-backed militia groups in response to rocket attacks on American forces in the region in the past two weeks, generating concern among lawmakers who said Biden had not asked for the necessary congressional authorization.
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