New York City has purchased a historic Brooklyn home, believed to have once harbored those fleeing slavery. City officials announced the purchase of 227 Duffield Street in Brooklyn on Monday, in a move that Mayor Bill de Blasio called “protecting an important part of New York City’s abolitionist history.” “In order to build a better
Continue ReadingThe latest round of stimulus payments that started going out over the weekend are open to being seized by private debt collectors — a problem lawmakers are rushing to fix. Recipients with unpaid credit card or medical bills for which a company has obtained a judgment against the debtor could see the fresh infusion taken
Continue ReadingVisiting the warehouse of a flooring company here Tuesday to begin selling his $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief law, President Joe Biden seemed ready to sign something else. “Anything else we can be doing?” he asked the business owners, who seemed grateful to chat up the visiting president. If the primary goal of Biden’s “Help is
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(CNN) — Un grupo de ingenieros quiere construir un arca lunar subterránea y llenarla con millones de semillas, esporas, espermatozoides y óvulos de especies de la Tierra. Esta bóveda estaría escondida en una red de tubos en la Luna para proporcionar un respaldo genético al planeta en el caso de un escenario apocalíptico. Científicos de
Continue Reading A 1-year-old boy is “fighting for his life” and struggling to breathe on his own after being shot in the head by Houston police, the baby’s mother and attorneys representing her said Tuesday. The shooting took place March 3 when Daisha Smalls was pumping gas and she saw police cars and heard sirens, she said
Continue ReadingKamala Harris declared “the status of women is the status of democracy” on Tuesday, in her first speech before the United Nations as the first female vice president of the United States. “Eleanor Roosevelt, who shaped the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, once said, ‘Without equality, there can be no democracy.’ In other words, the
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The WallStreetBets community is moving beyond GameStop and AMC. But its latest investment target isn’t a stock, bitcoin or even NFTs. It’s gorillas. That’s not monkey business. Members of the Reddit group — who gained national attention for their role in pumping up the January trading frenzy of GameStop, AMC and other meme stocks —
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden will hold his first formal news conference since taking office on March 25, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday. Biden is behind his 15 most recent predecessors, who all held a solo news conference within 33 days of taking office, according to a CNN analysis of the past 100 years.
Continue Reading Three people died, including a child who passed away at a hospital, after a single-engine plane crashed into a car on a Florida road, officials said Tuesday. Two victims were on board the Beechcraft Bonanza plane, which went down Monday near the North Perry Airport in Pembroke Pines, Fire Chief Marcelino Rodriguez told CNN. A
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– Nicaragua recibirá este martes 135.000 dosis de la vacuna Covishield contra el coronavirus, las cuales se fabricaron en la India y se adquirieron a través del mecanismo Covax de la Organización Mundial de la Salud. Así lo informó este lunes la vicepresidenta y portavoz del gobierno, Rosario Murillo, a medios oficiales. Según
Continue Reading A soon-to-be high school graduate started his job search in a unique way — he wrote a candid open letter and posted it on LinkedIn. Ryan Lowry has autism and wants future employers to understand that while he may learn in a different way, he is worth taking a chance on. “I realize that someone
Continue Reading In a sign that one small part of March Madness is inching back to normalcy, Chicago’s favorite basketball-loving nun will soon be in the stands. Loyola University Chicago chaplain Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt got the green light from the NCAA to cheer on her beloved Ramblers in person this Friday, but it will be from
Continue Reading (CNN) — Kamala Harris declaró el martes que «el estatus de las mujeres es el estatus de la democracia», durante su primer discurso ante las Naciones Unidas como la primera vicepresidenta mujer de Estados Unidos. «Eleanor Roosevelt, quien dio forma a la Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos, dijo una vez: ‘Sin igualdad no puede haber
Continue Reading In 1838, the Jesuits who ran Georgetown University sold 272 enslaved people to pay off the university’s debts. Many of them baptized Catholic, they were bought by planters to work in sugar plantations in Louisiana. The transaction was one of the largest sales of human beings in US history. Now, the Jesuit Conference of Canada
Continue ReadingSen. Dianne Feinstein, the 87-year-old veteran Democrat, insisted on Tuesday that she is committed to serving out her full term in office even after California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he had a list of “multiple” potential replacements and would appoint a Black woman to replace her should she retire. “There’s nothing to it,” Feinstein told
Continue Reading Vivi Zayas remembers how relieved she felt when a woman she’d never met helped her dad sign up for a coronavirus vaccine. That moment marked the end of one journey and the beginning of another. Zayas had tried desperately for three weeks to get a vaccine for her dad, with no luck. Finally, she felt
Continue ReadingUnhappy anniversary, jobless Americans. This week marks a year since the coronavirus pandemic began upending the US economy, costing millions of people their jobs and forcing them onto unemployment benefits. Those who are still out of work could soon start getting notices from their state unemployment agencies advising them that they are approaching their benefit
Continue Reading For many people of color, hearing Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, speak about racism within the royal family was, though shocking, not exactly surprising. And one of those people was former first lady Michelle Obama. In an interview with Jenna Bush Hager on NBC’s “Today” show, Obama spoke about her thoughts on Meghan’s experiences with
Continue Reading After months of sporting the “casual look” — in some cases surrendering fully to our inner shaggy and shabby — consumers are itching to trim, wax and glue their way back to their glorious pre-pandemic selves. Service providers for body waxes, eyelash extensions and one-hour shampoo and blowout combos say their business has revved up
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Applying to college is stressful in normal times, but this year, students felt the extra stress of having to deal with pandemic-related restrictions that made many of the usual steps, like working with high school counselors, visiting campuses, and in-person interviews, nearly impossible, college admissions officers say. Many students today “aren’t getting access to …
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