(CNN Español) — El gobierno de Nicaragua otorgó el beneficio de convivencia familiar a 800 detenidos que cumplían su condena en varias cárceles del país, según informó este 25 de marzo el portal oficial el 19 Digital. A día siguiente, el Comité pro liberación de presos políticos y familiares, informó de la excarcelación de únicamente
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden and other Democrats could tackle both voting rights and infrastructure legislation at the same time, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock insisted Sunday, while White House shifts its focus to the country’s infrastructure as his home state of Georgia has enacted a strict new voting law. “We can walk and chew gum at the
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden and other Democrats could tackle both voting rights and infrastructure legislation at the same time, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock insisted Sunday, while White House shifts its focus to the country’s infrastructure as his home state of Georgia has enacted a strict new voting law. “We can walk and chew gum at the
Continue ReadingSecretary of State Antony Blinken suggested the Biden administration would not take punitive action against China for its handling of the Covid-19 outbreak and instead stressed the importance of planning for and mitigating a future pandemic. The top US diplomat spoke to CNN’s Dana Bash in a wide-ranging inteview on “State of the Union” while
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“Tina” is that rare documentary that leaves you craving an encore, as if two hours weren’t quite enough to do Tina Turner’s life and career justice. Weaving in a new interview with the 81-year-old icon, the footage then and now underlines the impression of Turner as a force of nature, rocking and rolling with and
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“Saturday Night Live” didn’t open up with politics to kick off the latest episode of the NBC variety show, but Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris still had her moment. Rudolph, the host of this week’s “SNL” who has played the vice president multiple times, welcomed guests to a Passover meal. She did so with her husband
Continue Reading For years, the media industry has been forced to compete with tech platforms for advertising revenue and consumers’ time. Now, in addition to those same pressures, publishers will see increased competition for attention as the economy opens back up. Last March, media owners reacted to the economic fallout of the pandemic with furloughs, layoffs and
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Before there was Marcus Rashford, there was another notable Manchester United humanitarian, Lou Macari. The Scot enjoyed a long and successful career in which he played over 400 times for the Red Devils and scored almost 100 goals. He won the coveted FA Cup a year before representing his country at the 1978 World Cup
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Third graders in Katie Booser’s classroom expect to sing a song before every test they take, using the teacher’s very own lyrical creation that aims to instill confidence and motivation. Booser, a 34-year-old teacher at Franklin Elementary School in Santa Barbara, California, wants to give students the tools for a successful life, which she believes
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President Joe Biden’s second big legislative push will be harder than his first for multiple reasons, most conspicuously this one: It will include tax increases. To be sure, Biden seeks increases of the most popular kind. He intends to target corporations and rich people without, aides maintain, touching Americans earning under $400,000 a year. But
Continue Reading After a year of being cooped up at home during the Covid-19 pandemic, many Americans are taking a cue from 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction nominee The Go-Go’s. “Vacation, all I ever wanted. Vacation, had to get away.” People are hitting the roads and airports for Spring Break trips this coming week
Continue Reading Bomb squad technicians have safely disposed of a Civil War-era ordnance found in Frederick County, Maryland. The technicians identified the unexploded ordnance as a live cannonball round used during the Civil War and determined its fusing mechanism was still intact, the state’s Office of the State Fire Marshal (OSFM) said in a statement on Tuesday.
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El líder opositor venezolano Juan Guaidó informó este sábado que dio positivo por covid-19. Mediante un mensaje en Twitter, Guaidó dijo que «tras cuatro días de cuarentena producto de algunos malestares y pese a haber tomado precauciones, he dado positivo para covid-19». MIRA: Fiscalía de Venezuela abre investigación contra Juan Guaidó y sus
Continue Reading There are a whole lot of holes-in-one going on at the WGC Matchplay. Sergio Garcia hit a hole-in-one to win a sudden death playoff against Lee Westwood on Friday to reach the tournament’s knockout rounds and now Tommy Fleetwood has repeated the feat. Like Garcia, Fleetwood’s hole-in-one on Saturday came at the Austin Country Club’s
Continue Reading Georgia’s controversial sweeping elections bill has been signed into law. And historians and critics are likening the measures to the start of a new Jim Crow era, saying it’s a direct attack on the right to vote for Black Georgians in future elections. According to Adrienne Jones, a political science professor at Morehouse College in
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As more children get to head back to in-person school after a year of virtual learning, they bring with them the lessons learned from a year of living under the threat of a once-in-a-century virus. Our kids have learned a lot during the pandemic. Many have gotten closer to their siblings and others fought more
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In card games, you play the hand you’re dealt. Maayan Segal wants that hand to be more diverse. At 16 years old, she’s released the second iteration of her gender-equal playing card deck, Queeng — this time, it embraces both diversity and gender equality. In the first version of Queeng, which was released three years
Continue Reading An inmate in the Oklahoma County Detention Center held a correctional officer hostage, took his radio and keys and released other inmates before being shot and killed by police on Saturday, the facility’s administrator said in a news conference. Oklahoma County Detention Center Administrator Greg Williams said the hostage situation took place during a med
Continue Reading Tam Nguyen, one of several hundred demonstrators at a Stop Asian Hate rally in Koreatown, shook with rage as he held a racist letter. Nguyen said the note was sent to several Vietnamese-owed nail salons in California this week, but not his, and is a stark example of the hatred directed toward the Asian community.
Continue Reading Screenwriter and director Ruchi Narain struggled for decades to find steady work in the Indian film industry. Even with two major, critically acclaimed films under her belt — “Kal: Yesterday and Tomorrow,” a thriller she wrote and directed, and “Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi,” a political drama that won Bollywood’s equivalent of an Academy Award — the
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