February 2021

Tokyo 2020 Olympics president to resign following sexist remarks

February 10, 2021 10:52 PM CNN

Tokyo 2020 Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori will step down after sexist remarks he made about women were leaked to Japanese media last week, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported Thursday, citing sources. Mori said at an Olympics board of trustees meeting last week that “board meetings with lots of women take longer” because “women are competitive

Ante el colapso de los hospitales, muchos pacientes con covid-19 en Venezuela eligen enfrentar la pandemia en casa

February 10, 2021 10:32 PM CNN Newsource

Caracas (CNN) — Una joven sentada junto a una cama de hospital acaricia suavemente el cabello de una figura marchita. A primera vista, parece que podría ser un niño, pero las canas finalmente delatan a un hombre. Tumbado, boca abajo, está su padre de 69 años. Su cuerpo delgado, frágil y tembloroso casi desaparece debajo

February 10 coronavirus news

February 10, 2021 10:02 PM CNN Newsource

Car accident sends one person to hospital

February 10, 2021 9:42 PM Crystal Jimenez

YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) – Traffic is blocked off on 10E South Frontage Road, Wednesday night after a two vehicle collision that landed one person in the hospital. Police say they received a call sometime Wednesday evening regarding two cars that hit each other. Traffic is currently blocked off between South Mesa Ave and South

More than 80% of Alabama’s Black population lived in a county where life expectancy didn’t meet vaccine eligibility, CNN analysis shows

February 10, 2021 9:34 PM CNN Newsource

At least 83% of Alabama’s Black population lived in counties where life expectancy among Black people did not meet age requirements for vaccine eligibility, according to a CNN analysis. Before Monday, only frontline essential workers, long-term care residents and staff, and people 75 and older were eligible to receive the Covid-19 vaccine in Alabama. Yet,

How will GOP senators ignore this?

February 10, 2021 8:47 PM CNN

What must Republican senators be thinking after Wednesday’s presentations from the House impeachment managers? How will they justify acquitting the man who sent a mob for them to stop the counting of electoral votes? Marching orders. First they watched video of President Donald Trump whipping his supporters into a fury. Gut-wrenching evidence. Then they sat

Key moments from the second day of Trump’s impeachment trial

February 10, 2021 8:42 PM CNN Newsource

The second day of former President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial brought sobering new security footage and police radio audio of the US Capitol insurrection as Democrats sought to connect the violence to Trump’s repeated election fraud claims and his January 6 speech. “He told them to ‘fight like hell,’ and they brought us hell

Dodger Stadium, four other Los Angeles vaccination sites to temporarily close due to shortage of supply, mayor says

February 10, 2021 8:36 PM CNN Newsource

Five of Los Angeles’ coronavirus vaccination sites, including one of the nation’s largest at Dodger Stadium, will be forced to temporarily close Friday and Saturday due to a lack of vaccine doses, the mayor said. “We don’t have enough vaccines,” Mayor Eric Garcetti said at a news conference on Wednesday. “We’re vaccinating people faster than

Más de 11 millones de personas podrían perder subsidio de desempleo por la pandemia si el Congreso no actúa pronto

February 10, 2021 8:30 PM CNN Newsource

(CNN) –– Se estima que 11,4 millones de personas perderían sus subsidios de desempleo entre mediados de marzo y la mitad de abril si el Congreso no aprueba su próximo paquete de ayuda por la pandemia de coronavirus en las próximas semanas. Así lo detalló un nuevo estudio. Los estadounidenses que perdieron su trabajo comenzarán

Así se ve Jared Leto como el Joker en ‘Justice League’

February 10, 2021 8:23 PM CNN Newsource

(CNN) — Jared Leto es el Joker en «Zack Snyder’s Justice League» y es aterrador. Vanity Fair divulgó el primer vistazo a la versión de Leto del villano de los cómics, y Leto en bata de hospital puede darte pesadillas. View this post on Instagram A post shared by JARED LETO (@jaredleto) Y, en caso

México tiene la mayor letalidad por covid-19 entre las 20 naciones más afectadas, según la Universidad Johns Hopkins

February 10, 2021 8:20 PM CNN Newsource

(CNN) — A casi un año de que se reportó en México el primer caso del nuevo coronavirus, el país registra la mayor tasa de letalidad entre las 20 naciones más afectadas por la pandemia de covid-19, según un análisis y datos publicados por la Universidad Johns Hopkins. Para llegar a este análisis, la universidad,

‘You’re upside down, Tom’: Congressman appears upside-down on video during hearing

February 10, 2021 8:02 PM CNN Newsource

Rep. Tom Emmer made a topsy-turvy video entrance during a hearing on Wednesday — in fact, he was literally upside-down. Emmer, a Minnesota Republican, appeared inverted when joining a House Financial Services Committee hearing via video. “Today’s gig economy sprung up from the last recession, it offers a job to anyone who wants one,” a

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been banned from Instagram

February 10, 2021 7:53 PM CNN

Instagram on Wednesday took down the account of controversial anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “We removed this account for repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines,” a spokesperson for Facebook, which owns Instagram, said in a statement. Kennedy, the son of late former US Attorney General, US Senator and presidential candidate Robert

January 6 was the crime of the century

February 10, 2021 7:39 PM CNN

The phrase “crime of the century” has been used to describe the most enduring, sensationalist scandals that rocked our nation — the kidnapping of the Charles Lindbergh baby, the Son of Sam murders, the OJ Simpson case and the JonBenet Ramsey murder. These were the crimes and tragedies that captivated America because they were so

DOJ and House managers zero in on far-right Proud Boys’ role in Capitol attack

February 10, 2021 7:22 PM CNN

In the federal investigation into the Proud Boys and their role in the Capitol insurrection, the Justice Department is pursuing several members of the organization and arguing in court in recent days that the group poses an active threat to the public. But prosecutors haven’t publicly connected all the dots yet between the group’s members,

Fully vaccinated people can skip Covid quarantines, CDC says

February 10, 2021 7:19 PM CNN Newsource, Christian Galeno

People who have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus — right now that means with two doses of either the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna vaccine — can skip quarantine if they are exposed to someone infected with the virus, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. That doesn’t mean they should stop taking precautions,

Cómo una programadora informática hábil ayudó a recoger la evidencia contra Trump

February 10, 2021 7:14 PM CNN Newsource

(CNN) — Muchos de los videos utilizados como evidencia por los fiscales de juicio político esta semana se publicaron originalmente en Parler, una plataforma de redes sociales que era popular entre los partidarios de Trump en el momento de la insurrección. Parler salió de servicio después de que Amazon Web Services retirara el soporte de

House Democrats lay out core of case against Donald Trump

February 10, 2021 7:13 PM NBC News

The Senate floor belonged to House Impeachment managers Wednesday as they laid out a detailed case of what the former president said on January 6th, and in the months leading up to the deadly Capitol Hill siege.