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
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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By Amir Vera, CNN News of Bill Cosby’s release from prison shocked many across the United States, especially his accusers. Cosby was released after Pennsylvania’s highest court overturned his sexual assault conviction, saying his due process rights were violated in the first major case of the #MeToo era. The reaction from accusers and their attorneys
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Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN The New York City Democratic mayoral primary is a total mess. The city’s Board of Elections, known for previous errors, managed to make its biggest one to date when it accidentally included about 135,000 test ballots in its initial calculation of the primary results under the city’s new ranked-choice voting
Continue Reading Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN The counting error in New York’s mayoral primary is the last kind of screwup American democracy needed. Not right now. Not when the whole idea of people choosing their government is on the ropes in so many ways: A proposal for a new national voting standard has been blocked.
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By Matt Egan, CNN Business American drivers need OPEC and Russia to come to the rescue. Gasoline prices, averaging $3.12 a gallon in the United States according to AAA, are at seven-year highs just as millions of people hit the road for the July 4th holiday weekend. Some gas stations are even running out of
Continue Reading Gas prices are surging this holiday weekend due to a labor shortage with truck drivers. CNN’s Alison Kosik reports.
Continue Reading By Matt Egan, CNN Business Some companies can’t wait to get to get their employees back to the office full-time. Synchrony Financial is not one of them. Synchrony, America’s largest store credit card company, is not allowing employees to return to the office five days a week even as the pandemic winds down. Almost everyone,
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By Kristin Wilson and Clare Foran, CNN Only two House Republicans — Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois — voted Wednesday to create a select committee to investigate the deadly January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Both GOP lawmakers, who are frequent critics of former President Donald Trump, were among the
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv Haz clic aquí para ver las actualizaciones más recientes LEE: ¿Qué pasará con el edificio colapsado parcialmente en Miami? Esto opinan expertos Presentan otra demanda contra la asociación de apartamentos tras el colapso mortal en Miami Estos son los desafíos que enfrentan los rescatistas en el edificio que colapsó en Miami Una carta
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By Kiet Do Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO, California (KPIX) — A San Francisco-based law firm has requested to unify all its civil lawsuits against Uber, in an effort to manage the growing caseload against the ridesharing company. “What we’ve asked the court in San Francisco to do is to move
Continue Reading By Rachel Aiello Click here for updates on this story OTTAWA (CTV Network) — Debuting a freshly-shaven face for the first time in many months, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau downplayed suggestions Wednesday that he’s gearing up to call a federal election despite a ramp-up in post-Parliament political posturing. The Senate adjourned for the summer leaving
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN As rescue and recovery teams dig through the rubble of the collapsed condo building in Surfside, Florida, scientists and engineers are starting to consider what could have possibly caused the deadly tragedy. Among a long list of hypotheses: climate change. Sea level rise, higher storm surges and more frequent high-tide flooding
Continue Reading By Katie Lobosco, CNN The Internal Revenue Service still had more than 35 million tax returns to process at the end of this year’s filing season, a backlog four times bigger than at the end of the 2019 filing season. About 23 million of those returns were filed by individuals who may be waiting on
Continue Reading Young Americans say they are seeing a new face of anti-Semitism among their progressive college classmates, who are bullying and shunning them purely for their Jewish faith. CNN’s Nick Watt reports.
Continue Reading By Mallory Simon, CNN As Julia Jassey packed up her things before flying off to college in Chicago, she had the usual concerns — beginning her life as an adult, making friends and getting her work done. It never occurred to her to be nervous about being Jewish. She’s born and raised in New York,
Continue Reading By Laura Haefeli Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — Students and parents are speaking out after CBS13 first played you an audio recording of a Spanish teacher in Sacramento using racist language in front of students. Seventh-grade Spanish teacher Katherine Sanders said the n-word twice, claiming it’s ok to use
Continue Reading Opinion by Thomas Balcerski On Wednesday, C-SPAN released its 2021 Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, including for the first time former President Donald Trump. The survey organizers have assembled a broad ideological and demographic spectrum of 142 presidential historians and professional observers of the presidency invited to participate. I was one of them. The results
Continue Reading By Jeremy Herb, Manu Raju, Ryan Nobles and Annie Grayer, CNN The House voted Wednesday to create a new select committee that will investigate the deadly January 6 attack on the US Capitol, in a vote falling mostly along party lines that signals the political fight to come over the panel’s examination of the January
Continue Reading By J.D. Miles Click here for updates on this story ALLEN, Texas (KTVT) — Same-sex couples are turning more and more to surrogates and embryos as a method of having children other than adoption. Bear and Ellle entered the world just one minute apart three months ago. Their arrival is not only an example of
Continue Reading By Reg Chapman Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (WCCO) — A Minneapolis city leader says she is traumatized after protesters held her against her will. City Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins says activists held her captive in her car for 90 minutes, while forcing her to agree to their demands. Activist
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried 88 satellites into orbit in one fell swoop on Wednesday, marking the company’s second dedicated rideshare mission. The rocket took off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 3:31 pm ET and flew southward along the east coast as it hurtled toward space.
Continue Reading Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of defense under Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Gerald Ford, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 88 years old. CNN’s Barbara Starr reports.
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN When part of Champlain Towers South fell in Surfside, Florida, last week, members of a world-class search and rescue operation quickly arrived on the scene, working diligently to rescue victims from rubble that had once been condos. The team is used to crises like this one. Though they’re based in Miami-Dade
Continue Reading By Jermont Terry Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO, Illinois (WBBM) — A carjacking spree from the West Loop to Humboldt Park on Tuesday left victims horrified and Chicago Police mystified – were the same gunmen behind them all? As CBS 2’s Jermont Terry reported Tuesday night, it seems we can’t get a
Continue Reading By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Face masks have been an important part of keeping people safe during the pandemic – but what if they could do even more? MIT and Harvard University engineers say they’ve designed a new kind of mask that can actually detect COVID
Continue Reading Rodrigo Aguiar (CNN) — Este es un vistazo a la vida del futbolista Lionel Messi, quien juega para el FC Barcelona y para la selección nacional de Argentina. Datos generales de Lionel Messi Fecha de nacimiento: 24 de junio de 1987 Lugar de nacimiento: Rosario, Argentina Nombre completo: Lionel Andrés Messi Padre: Jorge Messi, trabajador
Continue Reading By Natalie Duddridge Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, New York (WCBS) — A mail carrier is recovering after suffering several broken bones in his face. Police said he was assaulted by at least two men on dirt bikes and they remain at large, CBS2’s Natalie Duddridge reported Wednesday. One business owner
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried 88 satellites into orbit in one fell swoop on Wednesday, marking the company’s second dedicated rideshare mission. The rocket took off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 3:31 pm ET and flew southward along the east coast as it hurtled toward space.
Continue Reading By Hannah Gard and Monica Garrett, CNN The Fourth of July holiday weekend is quickly approaching, and weather conditions across the US will contrast starkly from coast to coast for the celebration. Dry and hot conditions will prevail in the West this weekend, although not as hot as the deadly heat they’ve been facing. Meanwhile,
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