By Tammy Watford Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Students at Koontz Intermediate are taking information they have learned in their social studies class and creating skits for their classmates. The sixth graders chose an historical event, researched the information and then wrote a short play to detail what
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By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first youth poet laureate, recounted her fears ahead of President Joe Biden’s inauguration in an op-ed published exactly one year later in The New York Times on Thursday. Gorman, now 23, wrote that she was “terrified” and almost declined to be the inaugural poet. She cited the
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By Nicole Chavez, CNN A rush of emotion ran through Chong Bretillon’s body as she biked into Times Square, where massive billboards displayed the portraits of Michelle Alyssa Go and many Asian American victims of bias attacks. “I was overwhelmed with both grief and sorrow,” said Bretillon, a 41-year-old Korean American and college instructor. “It
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El Reloj del Juicio Final, también conocido como “Doomsday Clock” ha estado haciendo tic toc durante 76 años. Pero no es un reloj cualquiera. Intenta medir lo cerca que está la humanidad de destruir el mundo. En 2022, el reloj se fijó en 100 segundos para la medianoche; la misma hora
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By The Associated Press New 5G wireless service is up and running in the United States, with little of the feared disruption to air travel. Some flights were canceled in the early going, but problems seemed to ease as federal regulators approved more planes to operate around 5G signals. On Thursday, the FAA said it
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN) — Hay una indicación sobre el uso mascarillas que no ha cambiado durante la pandemia de covid-19: definitivamente deberías usar una. Pero, ¿qué sucede cuando no estás seguro si tu mascarilla es auténtica? Desde que comenzó la pandemia la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de Estados Unidos (CBP, por sus siglas en inglés)
Continue Reading By DAVID PORTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal regulators have given a key approval to a $10 billion project to build a new train tunnel under the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey. The Federal Transit Administration announced Thursday it had upgraded the project’s rating. That makes it eligible to pursue
Continue Reading By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — CSX railroad’s fourth-quarter profit jumped 23% even though volume slipped amid the ongoing supply chain challenges. The Jacksonville, Florida-based railroad said Thursday it earned $934 million, or 42 cents per share. That’s up from $760 million, or 33 cents per share, a year earlier. CSX
Continue Reading By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal appeals court has found that two California counties violated the Constitution’s right to bear arms when they shut down gun and ammunition stores in 2020 as nonessential businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. Officials in Los Angeles and Ventura counties had separately won lower court
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — Una erupción volcánica masiva tuvo lugar el 15 de enero a unos 32 kilómetros de las islas de Tonga. La erupción dejó gran parte del país cubierto de ceniza volcánica y provocó un tsunami que ocasionó inundaciones. Debido a la ubicación remota del país, la verdadera escala de la destrucción recién
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN Español) — Los presidentes de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, y de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, sostuvieron una conversación telefónica en la cual hablaron de varios temas, según informó en Twitter este jueves el cuestionado mandatario venezolano. “Intercambiamos sobre temas referentes a la cooperación existente en diversas áreas estratégicas al más alto nivel, relación que
Continue Reading Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Un tráiler del Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show de este año es una joya cinematográfica que presenta a Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige y Kendrick Lamar en un video al estilo de los años 90. El director de “Straight Outta Compton”, F. Gary Gray, creó
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A federal judge sentenced a Columbia man for attempting to meet a law enforcement officer who was posing online as a 14-year-old girl, for illegal sexual activity.
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — La CIA evaluó en un hallazgo provisional que es poco probable que la serie de incidentes misteriosos que enferman a los funcionarios estadounidenses en todo el mundo, conocidos coloquialmente como el síndrome de La Habana, representen “una campaña mundial sostenida” por parte de Rusia o cualquier otro actor extranjero con la
Continue Reading By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Netflix delivered its latest quarter of disappointing subscriber growth during the final three months of last year, a trend that management foresees continuing into the new year as tougher competition is undercutting the video streaming leader. The company added 8.3 million worldwide subscribers during
Continue Reading Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Alcoa, Casper rise; Regions Financial, Clorox fall.
Continue Reading By Zinnia Maldonado Click here for updates on this story TEWKSBURY, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A call to action from the Tewksbury Police Department that’s a little bit different. Officers said they’re looking for the best homemade hockey rink in town to set up a game. The department said they received dozens of submissions and despite
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Cole County health leaders said Thursday that an overwhelming majority of patients they’re seeing in their overloaded hospitals with coronavirus are unvaccinated.
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson Washington (CNN) — Cuando el presidente Joe Biden dijo de pasada en un discurso sobre el derecho al voto la semana pasada que había sido “arrestado” en el contexto del movimiento por los derechos civiles, incluso sugiriendo que había sucedido más de una vez, fue una clásica afirmación falsa de Biden: una anécdota
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By Manu Raju, Chief Congressional Correspondent Rep. Ruben Gallego says his phone has been ringing a lot recently — with many Democrats making a pitch to him: Run against Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema in 2024. Among those making the case, he claimed, are Sinema’s own Senate Democratic colleagues. “It wasn’t Bernie, I’ll tell you that,”
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