Across the country, local officials are hiring people to track down anyone who may have been exposed to Covid-19. CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to Dr. Syra Madad, an epidemiologist and special pathogens expert, about the importance and process of contact tracing. You can listen on your favorite podcast app, or read
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Click here for updates on this story Raleigh, NC (WGHP) — North Carolina’s health department has won its case against Ace Speedway as judge granted a temporary restraining forcing the race track to close. The ruling came Thursday afternoon after attorneys representing Ace Speedway and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services presented
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Tulsa police have released body camera footage from two officers who arrested a black teenager and handcuffed a second for jaywalking last week. The videos were released in response to social media messages from the community about the arrest, police said. The videos appear to have been blurred and redacted by police to conceal the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Luzerne County, PA (WNEP) — A part of Interstate 80 west is closed in Luzerne County after a crash. Two tractor-trailers collided around 6 a.m. on Thursday near the Columbia/Luzerne County line in Sugarloaf Township. Police believe one crossed the median and hit the other going the opposite
Continue Reading Teachers, parents and, yes, even children are anxiously waiting for schools to reopen in the fall, but the biggest questions on everyone’s mind are when and how that can happen safely. With so much still unknown about how coronavirus affects children and how it spreads, CNN asked health and education experts about the pros and
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On Sunday, Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol, UK, pulled down a statue of 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston and rolled it through the streets before dumping it, unceremoniously, into the River Avon. Some applauded the move, while others decried what they called “mob rule.” With a colonial history spanning centuries — and a mania
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Ocean City, MD (WBAL) — A couple of fishermen had the trip of a lifetime — not because of what they caught, but rather, what they saw. You can hear the excitement in the fishermen’s voices as a great white shark brushed up against their charter boat, Fish
Continue Reading Italian police have found a Banksy artwork that was stolen from outside the Bataclan theater in Paris last year. Two sources with the Carabinieri paramilitary police force of the central Italian region of Abruzzo told CNN on Wednesday that one of their units found the painting in the province of Teramo. The sources were not
Continue Reading A&E has canceled the police reality series “Live PD” as the debate over the role of police in the US intensifies. It’s the second police series to get yanked from schedules this week — first came “Cops,” the famous ride-along program that took viewers on wild police chases for over 30 years. Per the show’s
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“How can I do better as white man,” actor Matthew McConaughey recently asked Emmanuel Acho as part of the former NFL star’s YouTube series “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man.” “You have to acknowledge there is a problem,” former Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Acho advised McConaughey. “So you can take more ownership for the problem. “Individually
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“The ABCs of Covid-19: A CNN/Sesame Street Town Hall for Kids and Parents” will air at 10 a.m. ET on Saturday June 13. The 60-minute special will tackle issues such as summer safety, play dates, schooling and how kids and families around the world are creatively coping during these challenging times. The special show will
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Oklahoma City, Okla (KFOR) — An Oklahoma man is encountering new problems with the Oklahoma Security Employment Commission. “This is just heaping coals upon a fire right now,” said John Cochran. Cochran has been unemployed since COVID-19 spread. He says he’s always made payments directly out of his
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story McClain County, Okla (KFOR) — Lieutenant Steven McMahan confirmed to News 4 Wednesday that there is a bed bug issue within the McClain County detention center. “We have bed bugs,” McMahan said. The pest problem has plagued the detention center for quite some time. McMahan said he has
Continue Reading “Watchmen” received a prestigious Peabody Award earlier this week, but the HBO series has been on some people’s minds for other reasons, including the science-fiction concept’s parallels to recent events. The elaborate sequel to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ groundbreaking comic-book graphic novel and alternate history waded deeply into America’s racial history, and specifically, the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Nashville, TN (WSMV) — Nashville will be seeing more stories about our neighbors to the north and east hearing the familiar sounds of cicadas as millions of the insects arrive soon in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. Experts say 2024 it will be our turn but we’re
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As protests against racism and police brutality sweep across the United States, companies built on utopian ideals of inclusion and sharing are being challenged to confront their own shortcomings. To that end, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky acknowledged his company must do better on diversity. In an interview with CNN’s Poppy Harlow, Chesky said he wants
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Imagine taking a walk in your neighborhood, carefully staying 6 feet apart from others to ensure social distancing. You see an elderly man collapse on the sidewalk, having a heart attack. Everything you’ve heard of late tells you to avoid close contact with strangers, especially the elderly, during the pandemic. Is it safe to perform
Continue Reading Lady Antebellum is making a big change. The group announced on Thursday that it will drop the word “Antebellum” from the name it has used since its formation in 2006 and go by Lady A, a nickname it says fans have long used. The change, the group said in a statement, comes after realizing the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Maricopa, AZ (KPHO/KTVK) — Authorities are investigating after a plane crash left one person dead near the Ak-Chin Regional Airport near Maricopa Tuesday night. According to Ian Gregor with the Federal Aviation Administration, a small, single-engine plane crashed under unknown circumstances about two miles northeast of Ak-Chin Regional
Continue Reading The world feels different right now and content is being viewed through a different lens. With conversation in our culture focused on systematic racism and the treatment of black people after the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police, some are reevaluating Hollywood’s on-screen depictions of racism. And we have to
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Phoenix (KPHO/KTVK) — She’s a little girl with a big heart! Eleven-year-old Hadley Gray decided to forgo birthday gifts so that she could help foster children in need. And her kindness and selflessness earned her a very special birthday surprise. Two years ago, Hadley asked people to make
Continue Reading Lisa Vanderpump says she can now “freely speak from the heart” after cast members from her show, “Vanderpump Rules,” were fired following allegations of racism. The restauranteur and Bravo reality star posted a statement Wednesday on her verified Instagram account. “Over the past two weeks, many things have been brought to my attention, of which
Continue Reading The Maldives is reopening to all visitors next month with no restrictions. A spokesperson for the tourism board has confirmed the Indian Ocean destination will welcome back tourists of all nationalities in July. While a previous draft proposal indicated travelers would need to present a medical certificate confirming proof of a negative Covid-19 test, the
Continue Reading Two restaurant owners have been sentenced to 723 years in prison in Thailand, after defrauding the public with a seafood promotion. Apichart Bowornbancharak and Prapassorn Bawornban sold vouchers to customers that entitled them to use their seafood buffet at an extremely low price. But they later reneged on the promotions, leading to complaints from hundreds
Continue Reading One of the four former Minneapolis police officers awaiting trial in the death of George Floyd has been released on $750,000 bond. Thomas Lane, 37, was released Wednesday afternoon from the Hennepin County jail, the facility’s website reads. Lane was one of four officers involved in arresting Floyd on Memorial Day on suspicion of using
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Milwaukee, WI (WDJT) — A 38-year-old Milwaukee man has been charged with aiming a laser beam at aircraft, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. According to a criminal complaint, from May 31 to June 7, there were several incidents of people pointing green laser beams at aircraft operated
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story O’ahu, HI (KITV) — A man is dead after being swept into the ocean on O’ahu’s leeward side this weekend. Ocean Safety says that Sunday afternoon, the 34-year-old man was in waters off Nanakuli near Mermaid Caves. A source close to the family says Alan ‘Bird’ Kaulana was
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Hawaii (KITV) — Installation will begin as a pilot program next week. Hawaii Governor David Ige announced Wednesday the state will use facial recognition to fight the spread of COVID-19. Department of Transportation Spokesperson Tim Sakahara said it will only be used in airports, and the renderings will
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Atlanta, GA (WGCL) — A woman died late Wednesday night after police say she tried to climb into a clothing donation box behind a Midtown Atlanta business. The incident happened around 11:20 p.m. behind the Henry Tavern on 10th Street. Police said the owner of the building found
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Whiteside County, IL (WQAD) — The Whiteside County Jail released a statement regard an inmate that died during a medical emergency in their custody in the afternoon on Wednesday, June 10th. Officials say that deputies responded to the cell of a 50-year-old male inmate at about 4:35 p.m.,
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