Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Después de un fin de semana de celebraciones silenciosas, los estadounidenses enfrentan la incertidumbre del año nuevo mientras la nación lucha contra otra ola de covid-19. Y las preocupaciones van en aumento por el impacto que podría tener el virus durante las próximas semanas, a medida que los estudiantes regresan
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El nuevo año comenzó con una afluencia masiva de casos de covid-19, diferente a cualquier otro momento esta pandemia, según los médicos. Se trata de la variante ómicron, que es más contagiosa, puede producir enfermedades más severas para los no vacunados y debilitar el sistema de atención médica, según
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By SOPHIA PERRICONE Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — For many people, Jan. 1 means new beginnings and new resolutions, but for Kitten Kay Sera, it will forever be her historic wedding anniversary. “I’m actually marrying the color pink,” she said. On Saturday, Jan. 1 at noon, Sera will be
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks are moving higher on the first trading day of the year, a day after closing out 2021 with big gains for the third year in a row. The S&P 500 rose 0.6%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.5% and the Nasdaq rose 1.1%.
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks are moving higher on the first trading day of the year, a day after closing out 2021 with big gains for the third year in a row. The S&P 500 rose 0.6%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.5% and the Nasdaq rose 1.1%.
Continue ReadingBy LAUREN MARTINEZ Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — A young boy from Las Vegas, killed by a distracted driver in 2020, was honored on New Year’s Day for helping hundreds of people through organ donations. Alex Bush was one of 35 organ donor heroes featured on the 2022 Donate
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — A new survey shows that Israeli technology companies once again thrived during the coronavirus pandemic last year. The survey by Start-Up Nation Central says Israeli tech companies raised $26.6 billion in investment in 2021. It says that is an all-time high and more than doubles its previous record set in 2020. The
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general recently issued subpoenas to former President Donald Trump and his two eldest children in connection with an ongoing civil investigation into the family’s business practices. Attorney General Letitia James’ office said in a court filing Monday that it is seeking testimony
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general recently issued subpoenas to former President Donald Trump and his two eldest children in connection with an ongoing civil investigation into the family’s business practices. Attorney General Letitia James’ office said in a court filing Monday that it is seeking testimony
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Más de 20 personas fueron asesinadas en enfrentamientos de grupos armados en diferentes zonas rurales del departamento de Arauca, en Colombia, ubicado en la frontera con Venezuela, informó la gobernación. “Estamos avanzando con la cifra preliminar de 23 víctimas, pero la información aún no está (totalmente) clara. Es muy
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By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Baylor kept its firm hold on No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll with few changes at the top and no new teams entering the latest rankings. The reigning national champion Bears earned all 61 first-place votes for the third time in four weeks
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By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Baylor kept its firm hold on No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll with few changes at the top and no new teams entering the latest rankings. The reigning national champion Bears earned all 61 first-place votes for the third time in four weeks
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By Ali Zaslav, CNN Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Monday that the chamber will take a vote on whether to change the Senate’s legislative filibuster rules by Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 17. In a new letter to his colleagues, Schumer said the Senate will “debate and consider changes to Senate rules”
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By Matt Egan Goldman Sachs is joining a growing list of Wall Street firms advising employees to stay home due to soaring Covid cases. The bank sent a memo Sunday encouraging employees who can work remotely to do so until January 18, a Goldman Sachs spokesperson told CNN. Goldman Sachs cited “rising community infections” in
Continue Reading By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — All schools in Canada’s most populous province will be shut down and move to online learning because of a record number of coronavirus infections fueled by the ultra-contagious omicron variant. Ontario Premier Doug Ford also announced indoor dining and gyms will close. Ontario is seeing record new
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By Kara Scannell and Sonia Moghe, CNN The Trumps moved late Monday to quash subpoenas from the New York attorney general’s office to two of former President Donald Trump‘s children seeking their testimony as part of its civil investigation into whether the Trump Organization manipulated the values of its properties. Lawyers for the former President,
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By Devon M. Sayers, CNN The last living parent of one of the four children killed in the terrorist bombing of an African American church in 1963 has died at 93. Maxine McNair died on Sunday, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said. McNair was the mother of Denise McNair, one of the four little girls killed
Continue Reading By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Former U.S. President Donald Trump has endorsed Hungary’s right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, offering his “complete support” to the controversial leader. Orban, a champion of what he calls “illiberal democracy,” is facing a close parliamentary election this spring. In a statement on Monday, Trump praised
Continue Reading By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — All schools in Canada’s most populous province will be shut down and move to online learning because of a record number of coronavirus infections fueled by the ultra-contagious omicron variant. Ontario Premier Doug Ford also says restaurants and gyms will close. Ontario is seeing records new infections
Continue ReadingBetiana Martino (CNN Español) — En Argentina será prohibido exportar ciertos cortes de carne durante dos años. El Gobierno del país publicó este lunes una medida en el Boletín Oficial en la que anunció una limitación a la exportación de siete cortes de carne llamados “Preferidos” en su modalidad de frescos, enfriados o congelados. Entre
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