First things first: Joe Biden isn’t going to take away your hamburgers. There’s a bizarre rumor going around in right-wing circles — and being spread by Fox News and Republican members of Congress — that President Biden is scheming to come into your kitchen and pry the cold, dead beef out of your hands. Rep.
Continue ReadingTesla’s $1.5 billion bitcoin bet from early this year had already increased in value by more than $1 billion by the end of last month. The company disclosed in February that it used some of its available cash to invest $1.5 billion in bitcoin. Tesla on Monday reported a record quarterly profit, disclosing it had
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Vivid images and testimony from the trial against Derek Chauvin are now seared into the memory of Brandon Mitchell, one of the jurors who convicted the former police officer of murdering George Floyd. Inside the Minneapolis courtroom, “it was just dark. It felt like every day was a funeral and watching someone die every day,”
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Federal agents executed a search warrant Wednesday at the Manhattan apartment of Rudy Giuliani, advancing a criminal investigation by federal prosecutors that has been underway for months, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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President Joe Biden has a lot on his plate right now. But he’ll soon need to make an important decision about the future of the Federal Reserve — a choice that will help shape his administration’s economic policy in the coming years. Current Fed chair Jerome Powell’s four-year term as the head of the central
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Samsung is bringing some of the strengths of its flagship Galaxy smartphones over to its notebook line. The company announced on Wednesday four mobile-first PCs that combine the power of a laptop with the responsiveness of its smartphones: the Galaxy Book, Galaxy Book Pro, Galaxy Book Pro 360 and Galaxy Book Odyssey, all of which
Continue ReadingThe New York Post temporarily deleted, and then edited and republished, a debunked article that falsely claimed that copies of Vice President Kamala Harris’ book were being included in “welcome kits” given to migrant children at a shelter in Long Beach, California. The reporter who wrote the article, Laura Italiano, tweeted late Tuesday afternoon that
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New body cam footage released in Chicago on Wednesday shows the fatal police shooting of 22-year-old Anthony Alvarez as he runs from an officer. Alvarez was armed with a gun at the time, according to police. Newly released surveillance camera footage showed Alvarez dropping what appeared to be a gun onto the grass nearby as
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(CNN) — Aquí hay un vistazo a los volcanes, esas montañas que se abren hacia abajo a un depósito de roca fundida. Datos: Más del 80% de la superficie terrestre, tanto por encima como por debajo del nivel del mar, es de origen volcánico. La lava es roca fundida de un volcán que llega a
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Andrew Brown Jr.’s moving vehicle made contact with law enforcement officers twice during the encounter in which deputies shot him dead in North Carolina last week, a district attorney said Wednesday. Pasquotank County District Attorney Andrew Womble said this during a court hearing that will determine whether body camera footage of April 21’s shooting in
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El canciller de México, Marcelo Ebrard, dijo este miércoles que México comenzará a envasar a nivel nacional la vacuna Sputnik V y que una empresa estatal mexicana ya está trabajando con el Fondo de Inversiones de Rusia, que comercializa la vacuna.
Continue Reading (CNN Español) – Las personas completamente vacunadas pueden dejar de usar mascarilla en pequeñas reuniones al aire libre, según la nueva recomendación de los Centros para la Prevención y Control de Enfermedades de Estados Unidos. ¿Qué pueden y qué no pueden hacer las personas vacunadas? El Dr. Elmer Huerta lo explica en este episodio. Puedes
Continue Reading (CNN Español)– Floyd Mayweather Jr. anunció su próximo combate de exhibición. Será el 6 de junio en el Hard Rock Stadium de Miami ante el youtuber Logan Paul. La pelea se había anunciado para el pasado mes de febrero, pero fue aplazada. Mayweather en octubre del año pasado aseguró a CNN que no volvería a
Continue Reading UK media outlets from across the political spectrum are engaged in an unusually direct confrontation with Prime Minister Boris Johnson over incendiary comments he allegedly made about the coronavirus pandemic. The right-leaning tabloid The Daily Mail was first to report that the prime minister said last October that he would rather see “bodies pile high
Continue Reading Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is standing behind and promoting his company’s top podcast host, Joe Rogan, even after Rogan spread anti-vaccine misinformation on-air. Rogan said in a recent episode of his podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” that healthy young people should not get the Covid vaccine, a statement that stands in contrast to all credible
Continue ReadingThe Justice Department has repealed a policy put in place during the Trump administration that restricted so-called sanctuary cities from receiving federal grants for criminal justice efforts. The policy cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to cities that did not fully cooperate with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. In 2017, then-Attorney
Continue Reading (CNN) — India está experimentando el peor brote de coronavirus del mundo. El país ha registrado más de 17,6 millones de casos desde que comenzó la pandemia el año pasado. Pero los expertos temen que el número real podría ser hasta 30 veces mayor. Las familias en duelo luchan por mantenerse a salvo ante un
Continue Reading (CNN) — En su regreso gradual a la normalidad, Estados Unidos dio otro paso adelante esta semana. Los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) publicaron el martes una nueva guía sobre las actividades que los estadounidenses completamente vacunados pueden disfrutar de manera segura sin una máscara. La agencia dijo que las
Continue Reading São Paulo, Brasil (CNN) — El Senado de Brasil comenzó el martes una investigación sobre la respuesta del gobierno federal al covid-19, que podría obstaculizar la candidatura a la reelección del presidente Jair Bolsonaro si conduce a un proceso de juicio político o cargos penales. Bolsonaro ha minimizado durante mucho tiempo la ferocidad de la
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El temor a la variante de covid-19 detectada en la India ha provocado que España imponga una cuarentena de diez días a los pasajeros que procedan de ese país. La medida, que entrará en vigor a la medianoche del sábado 1 de mayo, tendrá una vigencia de 14 días. Según figura en
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