(CNN) — Más de 20 millones de residentes estadounidenses viven en áreas bajo alerta Más de 20 millones de estadounidenses bajo alerta por tornados el jueves, dijeron los meteorólogos del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. Las alertas están vigentes para partes de Maryland, Pensilvania, Carolina del Norte, Carolina del Sur, Virginia, Washington y Virginia Occidental. “Se espera
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New Zealand ended its Rugby World Cup campaign on a conciliatory high by beating Wales 40-17 in the third-place playoff match at the International Stadium in Yokohama. The All Blacks picked themselves up after the mauling they received at the hands of England in last week’s semifinal and scored six tries to Wales’ two in
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While the Washington Nationals were busy making franchise history Wednesday night in Houston, a 19-year-old fan was busy sliding into viral fame 1,400 miles away. Jason Turner, a George Mason student from Fairfax, Virginia, braved the rain to attend a World Series watch party at Nationals Park in Washington’s Navy Yard neighborhood when his team
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Happy Friday. A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. The US jobs report for October arrives Friday — but this time, analysis of payrolls growth will be a bit trickier. The strike at General Motors, which started mid-September and
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Conan, the heroic dog who helped chase down ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, wasn’t the only canine forever changed by the US operation outside Idlib, Syria, last weekend. A puppy was orphaned in the firefight. But thanks to a Syrian photojournalist and a sympathetic veterinarian clinic, that puppy has a new lease on life, and
Continue Reading In the runup to the 2020 election, the graduates of Russia’s infamous “troll factory” are honing their fake-news skills. This time, they are doing it openly, using Africa as a proving ground — and with the help of Alexander Malkevich, a Russian propagandist exiled from the US. On Wednesday, Facebook announced it had removed three
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Thursday’s House vote to formally back the Democrats’ impeachment plan lays out a process that will likely lead to the impeachment of President Donald Trump. The vote also offers all of us a chance to examine how we got here and assess the strategy employed by the leader of the Democrats, Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It
Continue Reading In the course of Mark Zuckerberg’s back and forth with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez last week, the New York congresswoman asked him: “So you won’t take down lies or you will take down lies? I think that’s just a pretty simple yes or no?” Zuckerberg refused the bait contained in the word “lies” and responded, “people should
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Remember when Michael Jordan stepped on court in pair of red and black sneakers, broke the NBA’s rules and kicked off the multibillion-dollar celebrity-endorsed footwear industry? Jordan was already a phenomenon when he skipped senior year at the University of North Carolina to be drafted by the Chicago Bulls in 1984. He turned pro with
Continue Reading ISIS confirmed the death of former leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and named his replacement in an audio message on Thursday. In the recording, published on the terrorist group’s media wing al-Furqan, ISIS announced its new leader as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi. Baghdadi died during an American commando raid on his compound in northern Syria over
Continue Reading Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi has agreed to resign after weeks of anti-government protests that led to hundreds of casualties, Iraq’s president announced Thursday. In a televised speech to the nation on Iraq’s Al-Iraqiya TV, President Barham Salih said Abdul Mahdi had agreed to step down on the condition that a successor is agreed
Continue Reading Joe Biden‘s fundraising slowed so much that allies launched a super PAC. He’s slipped in the polls enough to drop from Democratic 2020 front-runner into what’s now a three-way top tier. And he’s faced relentless personal attacks from President Donald Trump. But the former vice president has one asset other Democrats don’t: Polls, both nationwide
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso High School’s iconic R.R. Jones Stadium is getting national recognition. The stadium has made it to the finals of a contest hosted by USA Today. It’s facing off against Mitchell Stadium, located on the border of Bluefield, Virginia and West Virginia. Voting runs through Nov. 4. Click here to
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Once upon a time, air travel was glamorous. In the 1950s, air travel’s so-called golden age, flying was an occasion. Passengers dressed up, flight attendants served meals on china, standard seats were roomier, and everything about the experience felt dignified. Today flying is associated with overbooking, cramped quarters, badly behaved passengers and inevitable delays. But
Continue Reading The October jobs report drops today, and everyone will be waiting to see if that big strike at General Motors put a dent in the economy. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to
Continue Reading Every year on November 1, many Roman Catholics and other Christians around the world observe All Saints Day, which honors all saints of the church that have attained heaven. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, All Saints Day is observed on the first Sunday after Pentecost. Here’s a look at the history and traditions of this
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After six weeks and 44 games, the Rugby World Cup boils down to 80 minutes between England and South Africa. A new champion will be crowned in Yokohama on Saturday after England robbed the All Blacks of the chance to win a third consecutive title, the best performance seen in the World Cup so far.
Continue Reading Families are spreading bulks of marigold petals, lighting up candles for their loved ones and some are even wearing colorful skull makeup. It’s Día de los Muertos. The Mexican holiday, also known as Day of the Dead, extends over the first two days of November and has nothing to do with Halloween. It’s an ode
Continue Reading The alleged murder of a 10-year-old girl by a 13-year-old boy in China has raised questions over the country’s criminal responsibility laws after it was announced the suspect cannot be charged. The case, in the northeastern city of Dalian, has provoked intense debate over when and how young offenders should be punished. Under China’s Criminal
Continue Reading (CNN) — Cinco personas fueron asesinadas este jueves en el departamento colombiano del Cauca, en el suroccidente del país, así lo confirmó en su cuenta de Twitter el ministro de la Defensa colombiano, Guillermo Botero. “Rechazamos el vil asesinato de 5 personas en Corinto, Cauca”, aseguró el ministro, quien además agregó que miembros del Ejército
Continue Reading The body of a 21-year-old British backpacker who went missing after a beach party on a Cambodian island has been found, according to police and the charity assisting her family. Amelia Bambridge was last seen on Police Beach on Koh Rong island in the early hours of October 24. On Thursday, the Lucie Blackman Trust
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The union that represents aircraft maintenance engineers in Australia has urged Qantas to ground its fleet of Boeing 737 aircraft to ensure any structural cracks in the planes are repaired. The US Federal Aviation Administration ordered inspections of Boeing 737 NG, or Next Generation, aircraft in September after the company told the agency that structural
Continue Reading Several rival companies may be hard at work trying to get Elon Musk’s Hyperloop concept off the ground, but hurtling across country — maybe even across continents — at 600 miles per hour in a low-pressure steel tube still feels far from reality. But 13-year-old New York student Caroline Crouchley may have invented a more
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Measles can erase the immune system’s memory, leaving us vulnerable to diseases we were previously protected against, new research has found. Two separate studies, published Thursday in the journals Science and Science Immunology, found that the highly contagious and potentially fatal measles virus can cause “immune amnesia,” removing antibodies that had protected patients from other
Continue Reading The UK’s election campaign hasn’t officially started yet. But that didn’t stop US President Donald Trump from weighing in on what’s expected to be one of the most unpredictable election campaigns in living memory. Trump told London-based talk radio station LBC that Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the UK’s main opposition Labour Party, would be
Continue Reading Five small planes have crashed across the US this week. The crashes occurred in four states: New Jersey, Georgia, Kentucky and Florida. At least seven people have been killed in the incidents. Here is what we know about them: Tuesday A Cessna 414 airplane crashed into a suburban home in New Jersey on Tuesday, killing
Continue Reading McDonald’s has pulled an ad which used the words “Sundae Bloody Sundae” to promote a Halloween dessert, apologizing for “any offense or distress” it may have caused. Bloody Sunday is the name for the day in 1972 on which British soldiers shot unarmed protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland, during the Troubles — resulting in 14
Continue Reading A senior Chinese official has highlighted plans to “improve” the system by which Hong Kong’s leader is appointed or removed, after almost five months of anti-government unrest in the Asian financial hub. Responding to a reporter’s question Friday, Shen Chunyao said the decision had been made during a plenary meeting of the Communist Party’s top
Continue Reading As California utility Pacific Gas and Electric continues to face criticism for multiple planned power shutoffs that left thousands of customers in the dark last month, the company is asking the public not to take their frustration out on PG&E employees. Some PG&E employees have received death threats in response to the shutoffs, PG&E CEO
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