EL PASO, Texas — Residents in Smeltertown, a small west El Paso neighborhood just north of Paisano and Executive, are picking up the pieces after heavy rainfall formed a rushing river through their properties Monday night. Juliana Vasquez, a resident of Smeltertown for 77 years, had never seen rain flowing that heavily before. “Oh my
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EL PASO, Texas — Multiple areas of El Paso have experienced flash floods in recent days, which is something many El Pasoans say they thought wouldn’t happen since they’re paying El Paso Water fees each month to build storm water infrastructure. Martin Noriega, the chief operations officer of El Paso Water, told ABC-7 that the
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By Jessie Yeung, CNN It was approaching midnight on June 30, 2020, when news broke that Beijing had promulgated a national security law in Hong Kong, effective immediately. Since China’s rubber-stamp parliament revealed its plans for such legislation the month before, Hong Kongers had been nervously awaiting the details of a law that would reshape
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EL PASO, Texas – A 59-year-old Anthony truck driver has been convicted of taking young boys along on long-haul trips across the country for sex, federal prosecutors announced late Tuesday. A jury found Travis Wayne Vavra guilty on charges of transporting a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and of possession of
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By Gregory Krieg, Ethan Cohen and Adam Levy, CNN The campaign to become New York City’s next mayor has come in for another twist. On Tuesday, the City Board of Elections released new numbers that suggested Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams’ lead in the Democratic primary had narrowed in the first set of tabulated ranked-choice
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By Helen Regan, CNN As countries around the Asia-Pacific region tighten restrictions once again to curb potential breakouts of the Delta coronavirus variant, Singapore has laid out a new vision for life to return to normal. The roadmap, proposed by three members of Singapore’s Covid-19 task force, would scrap lockdowns and mass contact tracing and
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La escena hotelera de Shanghái, ya de por sí muy atractiva, no hace más que aumentar. El J Hotel Shanghai Tower, que abrió sus puertas el 19 de junio, no es un hotel más de gama alta. Es el hotel más alto del mundo. El J Hotel ocupa los últimos pisos
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NEW YORK (AP) – The Democratic primary for mayor of New York City was thrown into a state of confusion Tuesday when election officials abruptly retracted their latest report on the vote count after realizing it had been corrupted by test data never cleared from a computer system. New York City’s Board of Elections withdrew
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Two House committees have launched an investigation into the approval and pricing of the Alzheimer’s disease drug aducanumab, made by the company Biogen and sold under the brand name Aduhelm. The US Food and Drug Administration approved the drug earlier this month under its “accelerated approval” program, although an FDA advisory
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN)– «Harry Potter and the Cursed Child» llegará a Broadway en noviembre. La historia se sitúa 19 años después de que Harry, Ron y Hermione salvaron el mundo de los magos y una nueva generación de niños asiste al Colegio Hogwarts de Magia y Hechicería. «Harry Potter and the Cursed Child» es producida
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UPDATE, June 30: CARLSBAD, New Mexico — One person was found dead in a truck driven into floodwaters that covered a closed road in Carlsbad after heavy rain drenched southern New Mexico, state police said. The person driving the truck went through a road block late Tuesday night and the vehicle was swept away by floodwaters,
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN Español) — Tras presenciar el eclipse solar de anillo se fuego y varias caminatas espaciales, julio arranca con el día del afelio —día en el que la Tierra está más lejos del Sol— seguido por la luna llena de ciervo y el segundo lanzamiento de prueba de la nave Starliner, de
Continue Reading CNN’s Chris Cuomo and former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen discuss former President Trump’s potential future legal issues.
Continue Reading By Eric Bradner, CNN Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas blamed President Joe Biden for porous borders, waning support for police officers and “a crime wave of unprecedented proportions” Tuesday night in Iowa. Cotton joined the ranks of prospective 2024 Republican presidential candidates to make early visits Tuesday when he appeared at a state GOP event
Continue Reading CNN’s Wolf Blitzer talks with Magaly “Maggie” Ramsey, whose mother is missing in the condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida.
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris, CNN Magaly “Maggie” Ramsey said she didn’t get to hold her father or say her final goodbyes before he died from Covid-19 in August. Now, she fears she may have also lost the chance to say goodbye to her mother, who is one of the dozens missing in the wake of the
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SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said Tuesday she will use a donation from a Republican donor to fund a deployment of up to 50 South Dakota National Guard troops to the U.S. border with Mexico. Noem joined a growing list of Republican governors promising to send law enforcement officers to Texas as the GOP
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A New Mexico State assistant basketball coach has been found in violation of NCAA ethical conduct rules. Corey Barker has been an assistant at NMSU since 2019. The allegations against Barker did not occur during Barker’s time at NMSU, but when he was an assistant coach at Texas Christian University
Continue Reading By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN An 88-year old survivor of the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, credits her neighbors for helping her escape as the building fell to the ground. Esther Gorfinkel told CNN affiliate WPLG that she had been living in Champlain Towers for over 40 years when her fifth floor apartment began to
Continue Reading CNNEE (CNN Español) — Luis Bermúdez de 26 años y su madre, Ana Ortiz, están entre las víctimas del derrumbe del edificio de condominios Champlain Towers South en Surfside, Florida. Minuto a minuto: derrumbe de edificio en Miami; víctimas, operaciones de rescate y lo que sabemos de la tragedia Bermúdez era un joven con distrofia
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By Abel Alvarado, CNN Cuban writer Delia Fiallo passed away early on Tuesday, a source close to the writer told CNN. The Televisa network reported the death earlier in the day, saying it had spoken with Fiallo’s daughter. The legendary writer was 96. The cause of her death was not immediately available. Considered the “mother
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus and Shawn Deng, CNN Shanghai‘s already-hot hotel scene just keeps getting hotter. The J Hotel Shanghai Tower, which opened on June 19, isn’t just another high-end property. It claims to be the highest hotel in the world. The J Hotel occupies the top floors of the Shanghai Tower — which at 632
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe and Cheri Mossburg, CNN A California couple has been fined for digging up and burying dozens of protected Joshua trees to make room for a home they were building, officials said. Jeffrey Walter and Jonetta Nordberg-Walter, residents of San Bernardino County, have been ordered to pay $18,000 as part of a diversion
Continue Reading By Theresa Waldrop For a sixth day, search and rescue crews made their way meticulously through piles of rubble after the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, hoping to find more survivors. As of Tuesday evening, at least 12 people are dead and 149 people are unaccounted, officials said. “We’re moving debris piece by piece and
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, CNN It was approaching midnight on June 30, 2020, when news broke that Beijing had promulgated a national security law in Hong Kong, effective immediately. Since China’s rubber-stamp parliament revealed its plans for such legislation the month before, Hong Kongers had been nervously awaiting the details of a law that would reshape
Continue Reading By Devan Cole, CNN Public school students in Rhode Island are one step closer to having access to free feminine hygiene products after the state’s Senate approved a pair of bills on Tuesday that would provide cost-free pads and tampons to students in grades five through 12. The state’s Democratic-controlled Senate unanimously passed the House
Continue Reading By Holly Yan and Madeline Holcombe, CNN The more transmissible Delta variant has spread to almost every state in the US, fueling health experts’ concerns about Covid-19 spikes. The variant is expected to become the dominant coronavirus strain in the US, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. And with half
Continue Reading By Holly Yan and Madeline Holcombe, CNN The more transmissible Delta variant has spread to almost every state in the US, fueling health experts’ concerns about Covid-19 spikes. The variant is expected to become the dominant coronavirus strain in the US, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. And with half
Continue Reading Experts say the Delta variant, a strain of Covid-19 believed to be more transmissible and dangerous than others, will be “hyper-regionalized.”
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DOÑA ANA COUNTY, New Mexico — One man’s inconvenience is another man’s blessing. “We love the rain!” said Greg Daviet, the farm manager of Dixie Ranch in Dona Ana County. “Growing the world’s food supply requires a lot of water.” For every quarter inch of rain that falls, Daviet told ABC-7 he will save $1,000
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