President Joe Biden was pressed on a range of issues Tuesday evening as he fielded questions from voters during a CNN town hall in Milwaukee. The President addressed everything from coronavirus vaccine equity to police funding in his first face-to-face engagement with voters since taking office. Multiple participants — including two who voted for former
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Jeff Bezos has reclaimed his title of world’s richest person, ending Elon Musk’s roughly six-week reign atop the list. Musk lost about $4.5 billion Tuesday after Tesla shares fell 2.4%, which was enough to knock him to second place on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranking. Bezos’ net worth also fell as the broader stock market
Continue Reading It appears that Warren Buffett is souring on the financial sector’s prospects, and that the Oracle of Omaha also has a newfound interest in Big Oil, as well as telecom and media. He also bought stakes in Dow components Chevron and Verizon in the fourth quarter of last year. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway on Tuesday disclosed
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden at a Tuesday CNN town hall sought to reassure a second grader worried about getting Covid-19, telling her that young children are the “safest group of people in the whole world.” “Don’t be scared, honey. Don’t be scared. You’re going to be fine, and we’re going to make sure mommy’s fine, too,”
Continue ReadingSeveral members of President Joe Biden’s former coronavirus advisory board are urging his administration to more widely recommend and mandate the use of N95 masks, citing a “pressing and urgent need for action” driven by the threat of new coronavirus variants. In a memo to Biden’s top coronavirus advisers obtained by CNN, a dozen health
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(CNN) — Rusia se está convirtiendo en un importante proveedor de vacunas contra el covid-19 para América Latina, una medida que podría tener consecuencias duraderas en la configuración del mundo pospandémico y afectar aún más el prestigio de Estados Unidos en la región. Si bien Moscú enfrenta protestas en su país y la condena por
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Yuma Border Patrol agents arrested a group of undocumented immigrants transporting $266,000 of methamphetamine.
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Fully vaccinated people can now skip quarantine even if they’ve been exposed to Covid-19, according to new guidelines from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But at the same time, the agency also acknowledges there’s a lot researchers don’t know about how vaccines impact transmission. The new guidance only applies if it has
Continue Reading (CNN) — La Cuaresma es una temporada de oración y penitencia en la iglesia cristiana y un período de preparación para la temporada de Pascua. Se celebra del 17 de febrero al 3 de abril de 2021. El Miércoles de Ceniza marca el primer día de Cuaresma en las iglesias occidentales. MIRA: La Cuaresma, en datos
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — “Polvo eres y en polvo te convertirás”. “Conviértete y cree en el evangelio”. Esas frases, pronunciadas por sacerdotes mientras dibujan con ceniza la señal de la cruz en la frente de los feligreses, representan todo el Miércoles de Ceniza: el inicio de la Cuaresma (los 40 días en los que los católicos
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The weather has led to at least 26 deaths, including three people who died in carbon monoxide-related incidents and one driver who hit a snowplow.
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The late Marsha P. Johnson is celebrated today as a veteran of the Stonewall Inn protests, a pioneering transgender activist and a pivotal figure in the gay liberation movement. Monuments to her life are planned in New York City and her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey. During her lifetime (1945-1992), though, she wasn’t always treated
Continue Reading (CNN) — La administración de Biden, junto con los demócratas del Capitolio, se está preparando para develar esta semana una legislación que busca brindar un camino hacia la ciudadanía a los 11 millones de inmigrantes indocumentados que viven en Estados Unidos. Durante décadas, los legisladores han intentado reformar el sistema de inmigración de Estados Unidos
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The Arizona Senate on Tuesday rejected an effort to purge about 200,000 people from a list of voters who automatically get mail ballots.
Continue ReadingThe Supreme Court has increasingly exempted religious believers from government regulations, and it is clear by their statements that individual justices on the right think religion is under siege in America. Earlier this month, the justices spared churches from California’s Covid-19 restrictions on large indoor gatherings. In late November, the justices ruled for New York
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“I said open a majority of schools in K through eighth grade because they’re the easiest to open, the most needed to be open in terms of the impact on children and families having to stay home,” Biden said.
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A judge in the United States on Tuesday ruled that a civil claim for damages against Anne Sacoolas — the woman accused of killing 19-year-old Harry Dunn while she was driving on the wrong side of the road in England — can be heard in Virginia, according to court documents seen by CNN. Sacoolas claimed
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If you’re among the fortunate folks who have survived Covid-19, you might have your Neanderthal ancestors to thank. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.) 1. Winter
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El Gobierno de Panamá ya tiene en su poder el segundo lote de vacunas contra el coronavirus de Pfizer BioNTech, luego que a la medianoche del miércoles llegara al aeropuerto internacional de Tocumen un total de 67.860 dosis. Los países de América Latina que más vacunas recibirán de la OMS por medio
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El presidente de El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, anunció que este miércoles llegará a El Salvador el primer cargamento de vacunas contra el coronavirus elaboradas por AstraZeneca y la Universidad de Oxford. “Un avión de Iberia trae el primer lote de vacunas contra covid-19 de AstraZeneca desde la India”, aseguró el mandatario en
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