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Nota del editor: David Bittan Obadia es abogado, escritor, analista de temas políticos e internacionales, columnista en el diario El Universal de Venezuela y colaborador en otros medios de comunicación. Como conferencista ha participado en el Congreso Judío Mundial, participó en el American Jewish Committee y es expresidente de la comunidad

At least nine cases of Covid-19 have been reported at a Georgia high school that came under scrutiny this week after a student shared a photo of a crowded hallway, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “At this time, we know there were six students and three staff members who were in

(CNN) — Un terremoto de magnitud 5,1 impactó a unos 3,2 kilómetros de la ciudad de Sparta, Carolina del Norte, a lo largo de la frontera del estado con Virginia, según el informe preliminar del Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos. Se trató del terremoto más fuerte que ha sacudido el estado

Click here for updates on this story GREENSBORO, NC (WGHP ) — If you’ve been receiving less mail or late packages, you’re not alone. The U.S. Postal Service is experiencing delays all over the country. “I’ve had a couple packages that have not shown up yet. It’s been over two

Click here for updates on this story CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PA (WPMT ) — Police say a man was arrested after he assaulted a woman when she refused to give him a ride to the store in Middlesex Township. On Wednesday, officers were dispatched to a home on the 1700 block

You don’t bring a knife to a gun fight. New York Attorney General Letitia James seems to have taken that gun-lovers’ maxim to heart, as she launches a stunningly bold suit to dissolve America’s top gun lobby group: the National Rifle Association (NRA). The NRA is one of the most feared

Jill Biden, a community college professor, says that if her husband, former Vice President Joe Biden, is elected president and she becomes first lady, she plans to continue her work as a teacher. “I would love to. If we get to the White House, I’m going to continue to teach,” she

With stimulus talks stalled, President Donald Trump announced he would go around Congress to deliver aid to Americans affected by the pandemic. But a close read of the actual text of executive actions he signed Saturday suggests that even if they are deemed constitutional, they will not quickly deliver the aid

A salmonella outbreak caused by onions is expanding and has infected 640 people from 43 states. At least 85 of them have been hospitalized, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. “If you don’t know where your onions are from, don’t eat, serve, or sell them or any food prepared

Click here for updates on this story VANCOUVER, WA (KPTV ) — A women caught on video abandoning her dog in a Vancouver park on Thursday has been identified and cited for animal cruelty, according to Clark County Animal Protection and Control on Saturday. In the video posted by I

(CNN) — Estados Unidos superó los 5 millones de casos de coronavirus la mañana del domingo y, como los expertos han destacado anteriormente, la verdadera cantidad de infecciones podría ser muchas veces mayor. El número significa que el país tiene aproximadamente una cuarta parte de los casos mundiales del virus y

Click here for updates on this story PROPHETSTOWN, IL (WQAD ) — This is Velvet, she’s one of Tracy Livesay’s 67 alpacas’. “Their social life has been affected a little bit.” Tracy says these ladies are struggling with self-isolation, out on their Propetstown property “All our events have been

Portland Police said a peaceful demonstration turned into a riot on Saturday night after a group of people broke into a Portland Police Association office and tried to start a fire. Police said the protests, which have taken place nightly in the Oregon city for more than two months, were peaceful

White House aides reached out to South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem last year about the process of adding additional presidents to Mount Rushmore, the New York Times reported. According to a person familiar who spoke with the Times, Noem then greeted Trump when he arrived in the state for his

For a full-contact sport like football — in which it’s virtually impossible to avoid being close to others, even under the strictest guidelines — it is all but certain more players will test positive for the coronavirus, experts say. The NFL is trying to figure out how to handle its pandemic-afflicted

A pair of spectacles thought to belong to Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi are set to be auctioned for more than $19,000 — after being left “hanging out” of a letterbox on a busy industrial estate. Around four weeks ago on a Monday morning, auctioneer Andy Stowe headed into work and

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday called President Donald Trump’s executive actions on coronavirus relief “absurdly unconstitutional.” “Well, the fact is, is that whether they’re legal or not takes time to figure out. I associate my remarks with what the Senator (Ben) Sasse who says, they’re ‘unconstitutional slop.’ Right now we

The White House’s top economic adviser on Sunday defended a series of executive actions President Donald Trump signed a day earlier to provide economic relief amid the coronavirus pandemic, attempting to explain how states will be able to work with the federal government to provide assistance to Americans impacted by the

The plunge in oil demand caused by the pandemic won’t fix the climate crisis. But it could force the oil industry to accelerate a shift away from fossil fuels as executives try to carve out a future in clean energy. What’s happening: UBS analysts estimate that earnings in the sector were

US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar has arrived in Taiwan, according to an HHS spokesperson, marking the most senior US visit to the country in decades. Secretary Azar touched down at Songshan International Airport in the capital Taipei at 4:48 p.m. local time on Sunday, the HHS spokesperson said.

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake hit about 2 miles from the town of Sparta, North Carolina, along the state’s border with Virginia, according to the preliminary report from the US Geological Survey. The quake, whose epicenter is in Allegheny County, was felt as far away as South Carolina and Georgia, according to social

In May, millions of Americans watched as Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, two veteran NASA astronauts, strapped into a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and took a 17,000 mile per hour ride to the International Space Station. It was the first time NASA astronauts launched from US soil since 2011 — and

The good news is that President Donald Trump is aiming to help Americans hurt by the coronavirus pandemic, signing executive actions to extend expanded unemployment benefits and a moratorium on evictions. The bad news is that he’s seizing new powers for the presidency to do it. The first thing reporters and

In the dense eucalyptus forests of Australia, deadheads forage leaves and wriggle their bodies around. No, these aren’t Grateful Dead fanatics stranded since the psychedelic shows of the 1970s. Native to Australia, Uraba lugens is a strange caterpillar that stacks its molted heads atop each other. With every molt, the stack

These five words may be the most un-Trumpian thing Donald Trump has ever said: “It is what it is.” He said it in an interview with Jonathan Swan, of Axios, who asked how Trump could argue that the Covid-19 pandemic was “under control” since “1,000 Americans are dying a day.” Trump

One person was killed and an off-duty police officer was injured in a shooting at a motorcycle club in Alabama, authorities said. In addition to the officer, four others were injured, said Sgt. Rodarius Mauldin, spokesman for the Birmingham Police Department. He did not give details on their conditions but said

The George Floyd police brutality protests are different — bigger, fiercer, more sustained — than demonstrations prior. America rises up regularly. It’s in the DNA of a country founded on dissent. Millions have forged their anger into action, from the tax revolts of the nation’s earliest days, to the labor, housing

The main opposition candidate in Belarus’ Sunday presidential election went into hiding the night before challenging longtime leader Alexander Lukashenko, who is seeking his sixth term. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya’s campaign said she fled her apartment due to safety reasons after police detained several of its senior staffers, in what critics called an

One year after he was swept up in the United States’ largest single-state immigration crackdown, a 42-year-old undocumented worker from Guatemala is grateful. For the first time in his 18 years in the US, he’s been able to spend time with his five children in Carthage — a small town in