(CNN) — Los demócratas de la Cámara de Representantes han incluido un aumento del salario mínimo de US$ 15 en su último proyecto de ley de alivio por covid, aunque la oposición entre algunos demócratas del Senado significa que no está del todo claro que tendrán los votos para aprobarlo. Mejorar el salario de los
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If you enjoy field demonstrations, learning about the newest advancements in agriculture, and enjoying homegrown food, then this is the event for you!
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Boeing has spent years trying to assure customers, regulators and the public that its planes are safe. That job may have just gotten harder. What’s happening: Airlines in the United States, South Korea and Japan have grounded dozens of Boeing 777 aircraft after one of the jets suffered engine failure Saturday, sending debris crashing down
Continue Reading (CNN) — Prepárate para ver el primer video de Marte, cortesía del rover Perseverance de la NASA, y posiblemente el primer sonido. La agencia comparte el video capturado por las cámaras del rover, que mostrará la perspectiva de una nave espacial que aterriza en Marte por primera vez. La conferencia de prensa se transmitirá en
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Democrats have drafted a plan for the formation of a 9/11 style commission designed to investigate what led to the January 6 Capitol insurrection.
Continue Reading (CNN) — Estados Unidos registrará en cuestión de horas su incomprensible muerte número 500.000 por covid-19, paradójicamente, en un momento de inusual esperanza durante la pandemia. Sin embargo, el trágico hito ocurrirá con una Casa Blanca reacia a predecir cuándo se aliviará la crisis, mientras pone en la balanza riesgos políticos y epidemiológicos críticos. Una
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Mientras avanzan las vacunaciones, el mundo hoy registra más de 111 millones de casos y casi 2,5 millones de muertes por covid-19. Así comienza la semana del 22 de febrero de 2021 en los diez países latinoamericanos con el mayor número de fallecidos por coronavirus, según cifras de la Universidad Johns Hopkins. Brasil
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The Supreme Court cleared the way for a New York prosecutor to obtain former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, dealing a massive loss to Trump who has fiercely fought to shield his financial papers from prosecutors.
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The boom in bitcoin prices is giving a huge lift to a California bank that accepts cryptocurrency deposits and doles out bitcoin-backed loans. Shares of Silvergate Capital are up more than 120% so far this year -— and the stock has skyrocketed nearly 1,300% since going public in November 2019. Increasingly more financial services firms,
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Scott Gross joined the KYMA team as the CBS 13 sports director and weather forecaster. He is now the NBC 5, 6, and 10 p.m. anchor and also an executive producer Scott comes to the Desert Southwest all the way from Alaska where he covered the military and education beats for KTVA-TV & KTUU-TV. Scott
Continue ReadingThe family of two Iranian-Americans held in Iran is urging the Biden administration to make the release of hostages a key part of its Iran policy and to ensure that they are not left behind again. Babak Namazi, the son of Baquer and brother of Siamak Namazi, told reporters Monday that it “pains (him) greatly
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Father John Ubel has been collecting baseball cards for 50 years. Now, he is stepping up to the plate and auctioning off his most valuable cards to raise money for grade school scholarships in St. Paul, Minnesota. Ubel, a lifelong Minnesota Twins fan and the rector at St. Paul’s Cathedral, began collecting baseball cards in
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Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland fought back tears on Monday during his confirmation hearing when he explained to senators on his panel why this role is important to him. “I come from a family where my grandparents fled anti-Semitism and persecution. … I feel an obligation to the country to pay back for protecting us,”
Continue ReadingThe confirmation of Neera Tanden to lead the Office of Management and Budget is on the brink of collapse after two key Republicans announced Monday that they will vote against her nomination, citing her past social media behavior. Tanden’s nomination in the evenly split Senate was jeopardized late last week when Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin
Continue ReadingThe Supreme Court on Monday denied an appeal from Republicans challenging a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that allowed ballots received up to three days after Election Day to be counted to accommodate challenges by the coronavirus pandemic. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a forceful dissent. Read it here: cnn.com/2021/02/22/politics/thomas-dissent-in-pa-election/index.html
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The US economy is still at the mercy of the pandemic. But for policy makers to help the recovery along, we must first get the virus under control, said Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. “Success on the public health front is a key metric that we will be watching,” Yellen said during an interview with the
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden’s nominee for the nation’s top health position Xavier Becerra will stress his upbringing as a son of a Mexican immigrant, his father’s recent passing and his history expanding health care access during his time as a longtime congressman and California’s attorney general, in a pitch to senators at his confirmation hearing on
Continue Reading Ten people became stranded on floating sheets of ice in Lake Erie on Sunday, requiring rescue from the local Coast Guard. The group became stuck on two ice floes near a waterfront park in Cleveland, Ohio, the Coast Guard’s Great Lakes unit said. Six of the people stranded were rescued with the Coast Guard’s ice
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The United States will within hours record its unfathomable 500,000th death from Covid-19 paradoxically at a moment of rare hope in the pandemic. Yet the tragic landmark will occur with the White House loath to predict when the crisis may ease as it balances critical political and epidemiological risks. A warning from Dr. Anthony Fauci
Continue ReadingThe Biden administration announced several changes Monday to the Paycheck Protection Program in an effort to reach minority-owned and very small businesses that may have previously missed out on accessing loans to help weather the coronavirus pandemic. Starting Wednesday, small businesses with fewer than 20 employees will have a two-week exclusive window to apply for
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