At just 14 years old, Dianne Durham stood before thousands of spectators on the biggest stage in American gymnastics. She’d just hurt her foot in an earlier, near-perfect balance beam routine — but she wasn’t thinking about the pain, she told a CBS reporter. She’d been “having too much fun to let it bother” her,
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(CNN) — Los demócratas de la Cámara de Representantes que ejercen como fiscales en el caso contra Donald Trump señalan de manera privada y en público que probablemente evitarán un enfrentamiento dramático con el expresidente y es poco probable que emitan una citación para obligarlo a prestar testimonio. Los demócratas creen que hay evidencia de
Continue Reading (CNN) — En una llamada con los senadores republicanos, el líder republicano del Senado, Mitch McConnell, dijo en su conferencia que no tiene prisa con respecto al juicio político, según varios senadores republicanos. Su punto: la Cámara actuó rápidamente en el juicio político, pero el Senado necesita tiempo para prepararse para un juicio completo. Propone
Continue Reading (CNN) –– El expresidente Donald Trump no testificará durante su segundo juicio político, le dijo a CNN Jason Miller, exasesor de Trump, después de que los fiscales de la Cámara designados para el proceso solicitaran este jueves que el exmandatario diera su testimonio en el juicio político. «El presidente no testificará en un proceso inconstitucional»,
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden responded to a new, sluggish jobs report by continuing to press for his $1.9 trillion Covid relief package to be passed with urgency — even as a leading economist who served in the Obama administration is sounding the alarm on how the White House’s plan could have negative economic consequences. “We saw
Continue Reading Firefighters in Newark, New Jersey, on Thursday rescued a 77-year-old woman who said she had been trapped inside her van for at least four days during this week’s winter storm. The woman was identified by CNN affiliate News 12 New Jersey as Janet Ward, who is currently living in the vehicle. She told the station
Continue Reading Three suspended correctional officers are facing criminal charges for their alleged role in an assault of inmates at a New Jersey women’s prison. The charges, announced Thursday by State Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal, involve the pepper-spraying and punching of one inmate 28 times and the punching of another inmate who was in handcuffs. Grewal
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden’s urgent goal of tackling the Covid-19 pandemic depends heavily on persuading Americans to get the vaccine as quickly as possible and educating the public about the virus — and his top aides have been eyeing this weekend’s Super Bowl as an opportunity to score some points. The President and first lady Jill
Continue ReadingEvery NFL team will make its stadium available as a mass vaccination site, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell wrote in a letter to President Joe Biden dated Thursday. The offer comes as the Biden administration has promised the opening of mass vaccination sites as part of its push to ramp up the pace of Covid inoculations.
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Christopher Plummer, the elegantly voiced, Oscar-winning actor perhaps most fondly remembered for “The Sound of Music,” died Friday at his home in Connecticut, his manager said in a statement. He was 91. “Chris was an extraordinary man who deeply loved and respected his profession with great old fashion manners, self deprecating humor and the music
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The first jobs report of the Joe Biden presidency was less than OK — but Wall Street cheered anyway. Stocks rose Friday, extending all-time highs for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq. The Dow gained more than 90 points, or 0.3% on Friday, while the S&P added 0.4% and the Nasdaq rose 0.6%. The government said
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A man gained access to a C-40 aircraft on Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Thursday that’s part of a fleet frequently utilized by senior government leaders, the base said in a statement Friday. The US Air Force Inspector General has been directed to investigate the breach and the Air Force will also launch a
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New statistics suggest family time is spent working YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) – Though COVID-19 is restricting, it may not be limiting work time from home. Recently gathered research collected during the pandemic reflects that home-working employees in the United Kingdom, Austria, Canada and U.S. have seen an increase in hours compared to before. Per
Continue Reading (CNN) — Arqueólogos que trabajan en un lugar de entierros en Egipto han descubierto momias antiguas con lenguas de oro. El equipo dirigido por Kathleen Martínez de la Universidad de Santo Domingo, en República Dominicana, estaba trabajando en el templo de Taposiris Magna, en el oeste de Alejandría, cuando descubrió 16 pozos funerarios que datan
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It’s Super Bowl weekend — a moment that many people, at the start of the season, did not think we’d ever see. After all, when the season kicked off with the opening of training camp in late July, we were in the middle of Covid-19 spikes around the country, and football is the very definition
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The path has been cleared for Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to become the first woman and the first African to lead the World Trade Organization after South Korea’s candidate pulled out of the race for the job. Yoo Myung-hee, the South Korean trade minister, announced her decision to withdraw in a televised briefing on Friday. Okonjo-Iweala,
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PASADENA, Calif. (KYMA/KECY) – Employees at a Southern California restaurant are still trying to make sense of what happened there Wednesday night. A customer pulled a gun when he was asked to put on a mask and then decided to rob the place. Robert Gonzalez a cook at Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles was the one
Continue Reading Four leading baby food manufacturers knowingly sold baby food that contained high levels of toxic heavy metals, according to internal company documents included in a congressional investigation released Thursday. “Dangerous levels of toxic metals like arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury exist in baby foods at levels that exceed what experts and governing bodies say are
Continue Reading The 45-year-old patient had been sick with coronavirus for months. Doctors had given him the antiviral drug remdesivir to fight the virus, anticoagulation drugs to prevent blood clots, immune modulators to try to control his out-of-control immune response and steroids to fight inflammation. He’d been home on and off but never seemed able fully recover.
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