Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Por primera vez en dos meses, EE.UU. tiene un promedio de más de 100.000 casos nuevos de covid-19 cada día, poco después de que millones de estadounidenses viajaron para el feriado de Acción de Gracias. El promedio móvil de siete días de casos nuevos fue de 121.437 hasta el sábado,
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By CARLEY PETESCH Associated Press DIAMNIADIO, Senegal (AP) — South Africa’s president says travel restrictions imposed on South Africa and other African nations for telling the world about the omicron variant are hypocritical, harsh and not supported by science. President Cyril Ramaphosa, speaking Monday at the Dakar International Forum for Peace and Security, said the
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Right-hander Robert Suarez is guaranteed $11 million over two seasons in his contract with the San Diego Padres. Suarez gets a $1 million signing bonus payable by Jan. 15 as part of the deal announced just before the start of Major League Baseball’s lockout. He has a $5 million salary next
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MADRID (AP) — Spain’s prime minister is urging people to “remain prudent” about COVID-19 over the holidays as Christmas festivities at one Spanish hospital are suspected of infecting dozens of staff. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Monday that Spaniards can’t “let their guard down” because the coronavirus continues to spread. One regional hospital said 170
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Spain’s prime minister is urging people to “remain prudent” about COVID-19 over the holidays as Christmas festivities at one Spanish hospital are suspected of infecting dozens of staff. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Monday that Spaniards can’t “let their guard down” because the coronavirus continues to spread. One regional hospital said 170
Continue Reading SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) — Tyson Foods said Monday that it plans to spend roughly $50 million on year-end bonuses for over 80,000 hourly workers at its meatpacking plants that will give them between $300 and $700 apiece. Those bonuses are on top of wage increases that drove the average value of the wages and benefits
Continue Reading By RICK CALLAHAN and DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The prosecutor overseeing the case against the student accused in last week’s deadly Michigan school shooting and who took the rare step of charging his parents has left open the possibility that school officials could also face charges. Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald
Continue Reading By DON BABWIN and SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The big question as Jussie Smollett’s trial resumes is whether the actor will tell his side of the story. Two brothers spent hours telling a jury last week how the former “Empire” actor paid them to carry out a fake racist and anti-gay attack
Continue Reading By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The National Museum of Afghanistan is open once again and the Taliban, whose members once smashed their way through the facility, now appear to be among its most enthusiastic visitors. The museum, which hosts artifacts from the Paleolithic period to the 20th century, reopened just over
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By Sarah Fortinsky, CNN Former Democratic Rep. Max Rose announced he will run again for the US House seat he lost in 2020 after a single term to Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, who serves the New York district that includes Staten Island and some of Brooklyn. “I’m running for Congress in #NY11 because I can’t
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By Joe Sutton, Andy Rose and Haley Brink, CNN The Hawaiian Islands could experience “catastrophic flooding” from a storm system lasting until Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service in Honolulu. Nearly one foot of rain has already fallen in Kula on Maui over the last 24 hours, according to the National Weather Service (NWS)
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By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business Better.com CEO Vishal Garg announced the mortgage company is laying off about 9% of its workforce on a Zoom webinar Wednesday abruptly informing the more than 900 employees on the call they were being terminated just before the holidays. “If you’re on this call, you are part of the unlucky
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has defended a recent meeting of European populist leaders by saying that his government is seeking allies in its challenge of what he called a “centralized Europe.” Morawiecki also distanced himself Monday from comments by France’s Marine Le Pen, who said that Poland’s neighbor Ukraine belongs
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By Aaron Cooper, Matt Egan and Chris Isidore, CNN Business All private sector employers in New York City will now be required to implement a Covid-19 vaccine mandate by December 27, the city’s mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday. This new move, which de Blasio announced Monday on MSNBC, means everyone who works in the
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By Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is still insisting that President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill can pass his chamber by Christmas — even as doubts grow that such a timeline is achievable given the procedures of the Senate and the lingering differences among Democrats. In a letter
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Danish golfer Thorbjorn Olesen has appeared in a London court facing allegations he grabbed a woman’s breast, pushed a member of the cabin crew and urinated on a first-class passenger’s seat on a flight to Britain from a World Golf Championships event in Tennessee in 2019. Olesen denied charges of sexual assault,
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police in Des Moines say they’ve arrested a man suspected in a string of overnight arson fires involving half a dozen vehicles that also damaged at least two homes. Police say in a news release that the fires occurred starting around 11:30 p.m. Sunday into early Monday morning. The fires
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Something pleasant lies ahead. A new trailer for the “Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts” special, which will debut on HBO Max on Jan. 1, has released. (CNN and HBO are both part of WarnerMedia.) The new look features Emma Watson, who played Hermione Granger in the long-running franchise, and
Continue ReadingBy Ken Smith, Kasey Cunningham Click here for updates on this story GARNER, North Carolina (WRAL) — Three area schools will have added security officers on Monday after threats were made over the weekend. Garner police will be at Garner Magnet High School following rumors of a threat made against the school. At Lee County
Continue Reading By AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer Newly crowned Atlantic Coast Conference champion Pittsburgh headlines The Associated Press All-ACC teams and individual awards for the 2021 season. The 13th-ranked Panthers had seven selections in results released Monday after voting by 14 sports writers who cover the conference. That list of Panthers players included quarterback Kenny Pickett
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