Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Un destacado experto que ayudó a crear la vacuna contra el covid-19 de Oxford-AstraZeneca dijo este martes que no es factible dar a todos los habitantes del mundo vacunas de refuerzo varias veces al año. “No podemos vacunar al planeta cada cuatro o seis meses. No es sostenible ni asequible”, dijo
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Californians won’t be able to water their lawns for 48 hours after rainstorms or let their sprinkles run onto the sidewalk under new mandatory water restrictions. The rules adopted Tuesday by the State Water Resources Control Board are designed to spur conservation. Those who don’t comply
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Californians won’t be able to water their lawns for 48 hours after rainstorms or let their sprinkles run onto the sidewalk under new mandatory water restrictions. The rules adopted Tuesday by the State Water Resources Control Board are designed to spur conservation. Those who don’t comply
Continue ReadingCNN, CNNBUSINESS By Matt Egan, CNN Business American Express and BlackRock are the latest major companies to urge employees to start 2022 by working remotely as Covid-19 cases skyrocket. “We have seen an exponential increase in the spread of the Omicron variant across the world,” AmEx CEO Stephen Squeri said in a memo to employees
Continue ReadingBy KYW Staff Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (KYW) — A 38-year-old Lyft driver shot two men during a carjacking in West Philadelphia, police say. The Lyft driver was reportedly on the 1100 block of North 40th Street just after 2:30 p.m. Monday when he was rear-ended by a vehicle twice. When
Continue ReadingBy DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — About 1,000 sexual abuse victims of a University of Michigan sports doctor would get a window to sue the school for damages under pending bills in the state Legislature, as lawmakers revive efforts to ensure the athletes and others face no barriers in court. Similar legislation
Continue ReadingBy DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — About 1,000 sexual abuse victims of a University of Michigan sports doctor would get a window to sue the school for damages under pending bills in the state Legislature, as lawmakers revive efforts to ensure the athletes and others face no barriers in court. Similar legislation
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A new federal court order says a Mississippi city must allow construction of a mosque. A judge filed the order Monday, two months after the American Civil Liberties Union filed a discrimination lawsuit against the city on behalf of two Muslim men. The lawsuit said
Continue ReadingBy KCAL KCBS Staff Click here for updates on this story TORRANCE, California (KCAL) — Police say the theft of more than 300 election ballots in Torrance last August was a case of identity theft and fraud, rather than attempt to impact the recall election. Eduardo Mena, 34, was indicted this past month by a
Continue ReadingBy Gerry May Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — For the first time, medical marijuana patients can light up in Louisiana. People lined up before Shreveport’s licensed dispensary, Hope Pharmacy, opened Monday morning. And people kept flowing in, keeping staff busy. “I’m grateful. I honestly never thought I would see
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Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, dijo en un mensaje a la nación que las próximas semanas serán “complejas”, a medida que los casos de ómicron continúan aumentando. Sin embargo, instó a los estadounidenses a continuar con las medidas de mitigación contra el covid-19 y a vacunarse. Minuto a minuto: todas
Continue ReadingBy Troy Washington Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — An 11-year-old is using his rap skills to speak out about the violence overtaking over Shreveport. Ray Da Yungin is using his growing platform to reach the masses. The rapper is using music to show other young people the impact of
Continue ReadingBy KTVT Staff Click here for updates on this story PROGRESO, Texas (KTVT) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and agriculture specialists at the Progreso International Bridge made “an unusual discovery” this past week when they found four undeclared spider monkeys concealed inside a duffle bag. “While conducting their inspections, our officers will often
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The most powerful space telescope ever built is keeping its cool in space. The James Webb Space Telescope, which launched on Christmas Day, successfully completed the deployment of its 70-foot (21-meter) sunshield on Tuesday. This critical milestone is one of several that must occur for the NASA observatory to function properly
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — Demonstrators denouncing the doubling of prices for liquefied gas have clashed with police in Kazakhstan’s largest city and held protests in about a dozen other cities in the country. Local news reports said police dispersed a demonstration of about a thousand people on Tuesday night in Almaty and that some demonstrators were
Continue ReadingBy JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer Kirby Smart and Georgia get a chance to snap their losing streaks against Alabama in the biggest game of the season. The third-ranked Bulldogs have lost the last seven meetings, including all four since Smart left Nick Saban’s staff in Tuscaloosa for Athens. Beating ’Bama for some five-star recruits
Continue ReadingCNN, SPECTRUM NEWS ALBANY, STATE OF NY, GETTY IMAGES, CBS NEWS, TIMES UNION, CBS News/Times Union By Kristina Sgueglia, Melanie Schuman, Eric Bradner and Sonia Moghe, CNN A New York district attorney will not prosecute former Gov. Andrew Cuomo on a misdemeanor sex crime charge of forcible touching, despite finding Cuomo’s accuser “cooperative” and “credible.”
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) — Este lunes, seis apicultores instalaron 25 cajas con panales de abejas frente al Palacio de La Moneda, en el centro de Santiago, Chile, a modo de protesta por la grave sequía que afecta al país austral y también por la falta de financiamiento y políticas públicas que protejan a estos insectos.
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Designer Giorgio Armani is cancelling his men’s fashion shows in Milan this month and his Prive haute couture show in Paris because of soaring coronavirus cases in Europe. The decision to nix the Giorgio Armani and Emporio Armani makes Armani the first major designer to pull out of the Milan men’s previews
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