By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Attorneys are still trying to reach the parents of 368 migrant children who had been separated at the US-Mexico border under the Trump administration, down from 391 last month, according to a federal court filing Wednesday. The filing from the Justice Department and the American Civil Liberties Union is part of
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By Madeline Holcombe and Holly Yan, CNN [Breaking news update, published at 6:52 p.m. ET] Rescue and search crews found the bodies of a 10-year-old child and a 4-year-old child, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said at a Wednesday afternoon news conference. That brings the death toll from the Surfside building collapse to 18
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By WDJT Staff Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — Equipment worth $3,000 was taken from a community garden on the city’s north side and police are now looking for the suspect. “We Got This” on the corner of 9th and Ring is dependent on community donations. Work in the garden has
Continue Reading By WDJT Staff Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — A local family is back where it belongs after a serious scare. We’re talking about a family of ducks who were released into the Milwaukee River. The humane society released a female mallard and her ducklings just a few days after mom
Continue Reading By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN The board of trustees at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill voted Wednesday to grant tenure to award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones after facing backlash from Black students and faculty who said the board’s initial failure to do so reflected a history of systemic racism at the school. The board’s 9-4
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By Virginia Langmaid, CNN The Delta variant of Covid-19 is more contagious than other lineages, and is spreading rapidly in under-vaccinated populations. While vaccination is a matter of choice for adults, many children — particularly those under the age of 12 — cannot get vaccinated at all. That leaves a lot of uncertainty, especially for
Continue Reading By Virginia Langmaid, CNN The Delta variant of Covid-19 is more contagious than other lineages, and is spreading rapidly in under-vaccinated populations. While vaccination is a matter of choice for adults, many children — particularly those under the age of 12 — cannot get vaccinated at all. That leaves a lot of uncertainty, especially for
Continue Reading By Gregory Krieg and Ethan Cohen, CNN A day after the New York City Board of Elections botched a dry run of its new ranked-choice vote-counting process, the beleaguered office released an updated results that found Brooklyn Borough Eric Adams narrowly in the lead. Former Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia and civil rights attorney Maya Wiley
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Analysis by Lauren Dezenski, CNN Even though President Donald Trump famously boasted he would be “more presidential than any president that’s ever held office” with the exception of Abraham Lincoln, historians now say he’s among America’s worst presidents. Ever since 2000, when a new president has been elected, C-SPAN surveys presidential historians and asks them
Continue Reading CNN presidential historian Tim Naftali analyzes a C-SPAN poll that ranks former President Donald Trump as the worst living President.
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By David Close, CNN Starting Thursday, college athletes will have the opportunity to make money from their name, image and likeness (NIL) after the NCAA Board of Governors approved an interim policy that gives student-athletes in all three divisions the ability to profit from sponsorship opportunities for the first time. “This is an important day
Continue Reading By David Close, CNN Starting Thursday, college athletes will have the opportunity to make money from their name, image and likeness (NIL) after the NCAA Board of Governors approved an interim policy that gives student-athletes in all three divisions the ability to profit from sponsorship opportunities for the first time. “This is an important day
Continue Reading CNN en Español (CNN Español) — CNN en Español celebra la reapertura de Estados Unidos y el 245º aniversario de la independencia, el 4 de julio, con el especial «Fourth in America» que incluye actuaciones musicales y espectáculos de fuegos artificiales en todo el país desde las 7 P.M. hasta las 2 A.M., hora de
Continue Reading By Maggie Fox, CNN The Delta variant of the coronavirus is worrying officials around the world. Four major Australian cities went into a four-day “circuit-breaker” lockdown this week to try and stop it from spreading. Australia’s Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, announced looser vaccination policies to try to get more people immunized before the variant could
Continue Reading US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy says he is concerned that the Detla variant of Covid-19 is behind the rise in cases of coronavirus in the US and warned that the unvaccinated are at risk because it spreads faster than any known variant.
Continue Reading By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a bill repealing a Trump-era rule that rolled back regulations on methane emissions — a particularly potent greenhouse gas believed to contribute significantly to the climate crisis — from the oil and gas industries. The President described the bill as an “important first step” to
Continue Reading By Zachary Cohen and Geneva Sands, CNN Department of Homeland Security officials are warning that the same sort of rhetoric and false narratives that fueled the January 6 attack on the US Capitol could lead to more violence this summer by right-wing extremists. A growing belief among some Donald Trump supporters that the former President
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NEW YORK (AP) – Revised vote counts in New York City’s mayoral primary show Democrat Eric Adams has maintained a thin lead. Elections officials made their second attempt Wednesday to report early tallies in the race based on ranked choice tabulation. Their first effort Tuesday turned into a debacle when they accidentally included 135,000 test
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN Business) — La Fundación Bill y Melinda Gates anunció este miércoles que destinará más de US$ 2.000 millones a iniciativas de igualdad de género, entre ellas el empoderamiento económico y la salud de la mujer. «El mundo lleva décadas luchando por la igualdad de género, pero los avances han sido lentos», dijo
Continue Reading By David Wahlberg Click here for updates on this story VERONA, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — When Ben Shortreed and friends lit fireworks in his yard before the Fourth of July last year, a shell exploded in his left hand, causing damage so severe a surgeon had to amputate the hand that night. A neighbor
Continue Reading By George Ramsay, CNN A turf war is brewing at Wimbledon as organizers have defended the conditions of the grass following injuries to Serena Williams and Adrian Mannarino in back-to-back matches. World No. 60 Nick Kyrgios, meanwhile, complained that the courts are “too slow.” Mannarino was forced to retire against Roger Federer after slipping in
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Click here for ABC-7’s Traffic Track Map EL PASO, Texas — Heavy rain falling across El Paso on Wednesday afternoon triggered a Flash Flood Warning from the National Weather Service as conditions for a second time this week resulted in flooding along Interstate 10 near Asarco, backing up afternoon commute traffic to the downtown area.
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Casi todo el personal de la Escuela de Salud Pública Johns Hopkins Bloomberg está vacunado contra el covid-19. Sin embargo, todos siguen usando mascarillas para trabajar. Estos investigadores, que se encuentran entre los más versados en el manejo del coronavirus, no quieren correr riesgos. Y aconsejan al resto del país y
Continue Reading INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — The NCAA has cleared the way for athletes to profit off their fame and celebrity. The move comes just as legislation is set to become law in a dozen states that would allow for that kind of compensation. The NCAA wants to have federal laws or its own rules regarding the issue
Continue Reading Opinion by Nicole Hemmer During the insurrection in January, a rioter hoisted a Confederate flag over his shoulder, letting it furl out behind him as he marched through the Capitol. It was an outrageous sight: not even during the Civil War had insurrectionists breached the halls of Congress with the battle flag. Yet there it
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby, CNN While states feared the coronavirus pandemic would wreak havoc on their budgets and force them to slash services, it turns out that many are doing far better than they predicted. So instead of cutting spending in the wake of the pandemic, many states are cutting taxes. Nine states have passed legislation
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By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Yay, synergy! Building on the buzz created from its “Simpsons”-“Star Wars” team-up, Disney+ announced on Wednesday its next short will bring the beloved Loki into the animated world of “The Simpsons.” The Marvel-themed short will premiere on Disney+ on July 7. “The Good, the Bart and the Loki” will find the
Continue Reading By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Yay, synergy! Building on the buzz created from its “Simpsons”-“Star Wars” team-up, Disney+ announced on Wednesday its next short will bring the beloved Loki into the animated world of “The Simpsons.” The Marvel-themed short will premiere on Disney+ on July 7. “The Good, the Bart and the Loki” will find the
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Phylicia Rashad has long been one of Bill Cosby’s staunchest supporters and on Wednesday she shared her reaction to his sentence being overturned. “FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted- a miscarriage of justice is corrected!” Rashad tweeted, along with a photo of Cosby. Cosby was released from a Pennsylvania
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris, CNN The unprecedented heat wave that’s scorching parts of Northern America isn’t letting up just yet. More than 50 million people are under heat alerts Wednesday across the West and Northeast US, while high temperatures are also continuing to bake parts of western Canada. Lytton, British Columbia, hit 121 degrees Fahrenheit on
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