Hollywood’s biggest night was also its smallest night ever. The 93rd Academy Awards tried to cover for a lost year in film with a boatload of intrigue: A change in venue that allowed for a maskless audience, a movie-style production led by director Steven Soderbergh, and a change in format with a surprise ending. None
Continue Reading Apple is the only American company to reach a $2 trillion market value. But it could soon have a lot more company in that elite club. Microsoft is worth just under $2 trillion. Amazon has a market capitalization of $1.7 trillion, and Google owner Alphabet is worth about $1.5 trillion. Tech stocks have come roaring
Continue ReadingJoe Biden says he has a strict rule about his phone: No matter what’s happening, he always answers a call from one of his grandchildren. Biden said on the campaign trail that he kept up with them every day of the pandemic with calls and texts, and now the ritual has carried over to his
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More and more migrants are making distress calls from the remote desert areas surrounding Imperial County.
Continue Reading Apple is the only American company to reach a $2 trillion market value. But it could soon have a lot more company in that elite club. Microsoft is worth just under $2 trillion. Amazon has a market capitalization of $1.7 trillion, and Google owner Alphabet is worth about $1.5 trillion. Tech stocks have come roaring
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(CNN) — Los Oscar han terminado y, a excepción quizás de los ganadores, la sensación que prevalece es más de alivio que de euforia. Si podemos quedarnos con un mensaje de la ceremonia y del evento previo, es la esperanza de que vendrán días mejores, tras una ceremonia presencial que indica la posibilidad de volver
Continue ReadingAs Americans have been shaken by recent mass shootings and national leaders have renewed calls for firearms reform, the Supreme Court on Monday announced it would take up a New York case that could give gun owners more freedom. The court said it would decide when states may prevent people from carrying a concealed weapon
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Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday announced a Justice Department investigation into the practices of the Louisville Police Department.
Continue Reading (CNN) — Cuando el fotógrafo David McMillan visitó por primera vez la ciudad de Pripyat, en 1994, esperaba que sus movimientos fueran restringidos. Apenas ocho años antes, un reactor en la cercana planta de energía nuclear de Chernobyl había explotado, forzando una evacuación en toda la región y enviando una lluvia radiactiva a toda Europa.
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Several US Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical Monday of a California law that requires charitable organizations that solicit donations to disclose a list of their contributors to the state attorney general.
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The family of a Black man who was fatally shot by police in North Carolina last week is set to view police body camera footage of the shooting on Monday. Andrew Brown Jr., 42, was fatally shot by Pasquotank County sheriff’s deputies in Elizabeth City on Wednesday when they attempted to serve him with an
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Authorities in New York City are asking for help to identify a man who attacked a 61-year-old Asian man last week. The victim was approached from behind on an East Harlem corner Friday, struck in the back and, after he fell to the ground, kicked in the head multiple times, New York police said. The
Continue Reading Authorities in New York City are asking for help to identify a man who attacked a 61-year-old Asian man last week. The victim was approached from behind on an East Harlem corner Friday, struck in the back and, after he fell to the ground, kicked in the head multiple times, New York police said. The
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A North Carolina city declared a state of emergency Monday morning amid concerns that video showing the police killing of Andrew Brown Jr. could cause civil unrest when it’s released to the public. Brown, a 42-year-old Black man, was fatally shot by Pasquotank County sheriff’s deputies in Elizabeth City on Wednesday when they attempted to
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Habiba Iliyasu, 15, was asleep in her school dormitory in northwestern Nigeria when a group of armed men burst in and ordered her and her schoolmates out of bed. The schoolgirls — 279 in total — were rounded up by the men, who arrived at the school on motorbikes. “They fired guns. Some of them
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The European Union is seeking to resume “transatlantic travel as soon as it is safe to do so,” and is urging member nations to take a unified approach to opening borders to US citizens. EU officials have been “following very closely the progress of vaccination in the United States” and the speedy rollout there is
Continue ReadingThe US will begin sharing millions of doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine with other countries soon, an official told CNN on Monday. The US has tens of millions of AstraZeneca’s vaccine stockpiled but none have been used because it has not yet been granted emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration. Because President Joe
Continue Reading Washington (CNN) — Entre sus propiedades mortales, el covid-19 parece perfectamente diseñado para destruir las casas de arena construidas por líderes populistas. En enero, Narendra Modi, se burló de los expertos y científicos que advirtieron que su país enfrentaba un «tsunami» de contagios. Ahora, el primer ministro de la India está siendo duramente criticado por
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An Alaska state lawmaker who had called flight attendants “mask bullies” and clashed with airline employees on video over mask rules is now banned from Alaska Airlines for her “continued refusal to comply” with the mask policy, the airline said in a statement
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Emergent BioSolutions’ stock lost more than half of its value since the disclosure that it ruined as many as 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine at its Baltimore plant. But the company’s CEO dumped more than $11 million worth of stock ahead of the stock’s massive decline.
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