Frances McDormand’s third Oscar win puts her nearly in a league of her own. McDormand won the Best Actress award on Sunday night at the 93rd Academy Awards for her role in “Nomadland.” She previously won the Oscar for Best Actress for her roles in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” in 2018 and “Fargo” in
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Republican-controlled legislatures are charging forward with a raft of new state laws imposing limits on voting.
Continue ReadingFormer Rep. Doug Collins, a top ally of former President Donald Trump, announced Monday he will not run for office in 2022, taking out a potential top-tier candidate for a crucial Georgia race that could determine the future control of the Senate. For months, Collins weighed a bid against Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, but Trump
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy continues to thread a precarious needle as he tries to balance all the factions of the Republican Party by simultaneously keeping close to former President Donald Trump while also rewriting the narrative of his role on both January 6 and the weeks leading up to the insurrection at the US
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(CNN) — El general Austin Scott Miller, comandante de las fuerzas estadounidenses en Afganistán y de la Misión Apoyo Decidido de la OTAN, confirmó el domingo que Estados Unidos ha comenzado a retirar sus tropas del país asiático en áreas locales. «Todas nuestras fuerzas se están preparando para retirarse. Oficialmente, la fecha de notificación será
Continue Reading (CNN) —- La Suprema Corte aceptó el lunes hacerse cargo de un caso sobre Abu Zubaydah, señalado como socio de Osama bin Laden, que se encuentra actualmente en la prisión de Guantánamo y cuyos abogados intentan obtener información clasificada de antiguos contratistas de la CIA sobre su detención en el extranjero. El Tribunal de Apelación
Continue ReadingFormer Rep. Doug Collins, a top ally of former President Donald Trump, announced Monday he will not run for office in 2022, taking out a potential top-tier candidate for a crucial Georgia race that could determine the future control of the Senate. For months, Collins weighed a bid against Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, but Trump
Continue ReadingThe Pentagon is assembling a force of around 650 troops to send to Afghanistan in the coming days to protect US forces as they withdraw from the country, according to several defense officials. The deployment was approved by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin late last week as part of a package of military assets being sent
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Despite a devastating Covid-19 second wave killing thousands of people every day in India, the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament is playing on. The lucrative IPL, which runs until May 30, is a two month festival of cricket, attracting huge contracts for the world’s best players. International competition all but stops during the glitzy
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After surviving a fear-filled year of the Covid-19 pandemic, getting vaccinated is a cause for celebration. As Covid-19 vaccines become more readily available, companies want to reward Americans who’ve been vaccinated with special offers after getting their shots.
Continue ReadingA group of House Democrats have introduced a bill to permanently expand the child tax credit and want to see it as part of President Joe Biden’s recovery plan, a new marker that could complicate the passage of the bill. The push over the child tax credit is the latest in a high stakes negotiation
Continue ReadingAfter a five-day losing streak, bitcoin was up about 8% Monday morning to $53,600. Last week, the cryptocurrency tumbled below $50,000 for the first time in a month — a steep decline from its all-time high above $64,000 that it reached in mid-April. And although the past couple of weeks have been a roller coaster
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The United States Census Bureau will announce updated state population totals on Monday, numbers that will be used to reapportion seats in the House of Representatives and are expected to shift more political power from states in the Midwest and Northeast to states in the South and West.
Continue ReadingThe European Union said Monday it is suing AstraZeneca over an alleged breach of its vaccine supply contract, a dramatic escalation of a months-long dispute over delivery delays that hampered the rollout of shots across the continent. The 27 nations of the European Union had ordered 300 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine from the
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Sunday night proved to be the showcase in the NL West division that Major League Baseball fans have been waiting for. A new, boiling rivalry with the reigning World champs and their “Baby Brother” Padres.
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(CNN, NBC) – The Supreme Court announced Monday it will consider the scope of the Second Amendment next term in a case concerning a New York law that restricts an individual from carrying a concealed handgun in public. It has been more than a decade since the justices have ruled on a significant case concerning
Continue Reading (CNN) — En una temporada de premios que se sintió un poco errante en sí misma, el ganador del Oscar a la mejor película fue «Nomadland». Hispanoamericanos en la entrega de los Oscar 2021 3:51 La estrella Frances McDormand, también ganadora del Oscar a mejor actriz, usó uno de sus momentos en el centro de
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(KYMA, KECY/CNN) – A new beer tastes bad on purpose. ‘Fat Tire’ released what it calls ‘Torched Earth Ale’ which is meant to raise climate awareness. The brewery says it is made with low-quality ingredients that brewers might be forced to use in the future. The result, it tastes terrible. For example, instead of fresh
Continue ReadingDomino’s Pizza is bringing back the Noid, its popular mascot from the 1980s — with a techy twist. For those who don’t remember the hair band decade, the Noid was a bunny-suited “antihero” that appeared in Domino’s commercials using antics like ice-shooting machines to try to prevent delivery of hot pizza. The commercials urged people
Continue Reading (CNN) — El brazo legislativo de la Unión Europea ha emprendido acciones legales contra AstraZeneca por retrasos en la entrega de sus vacunas contra el covid-19 al bloque. En su demanda presentada el viernes, la Comisión Europea afirma que AstraZeneca, fabricante de medicamentos, violó los «términos del contrato o algunos términos del contrato no se
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