By KCTV KSMO Staff Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KCTV, KSMO) — A local boy just celebrated his eighth birthday, and his family says the State of Missouri is denying him the only present he wanted. The boy, who News 4 will call “Trevor” to keep his identity anonymous, is transgender
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Opinion by Senator Sherrod Brown and Peter Edelman for CNN Business Perspectives If you have kids, check your bank account on Thursday. There’s a pretty good chance you’ll see $250 or $300 in your account with the letters “CTC” in the line item. That’s because for the first time ever, we are recognizing raising kids
Continue Reading During the Covid-19 pandemic, childcare costs nearly doubled, leaving some families to take drastic measures to afford daycare. CNN’s Pamela Brown reports.
Continue Reading By WALA Staff Click here for updates on this story DESTIN, Florida (WALA) — According to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, a Destin woman was taken into custody following a string of 911 calls in reference to a reckless driver on Highway 98 heading across Okaloosa Island toward Destin yesterday. Witnesses reported the white Ford
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Sol Amaya (CNN Español) — La Tribu Penelakut de Columbia Británica anunció este lunes que han hallado más de 160 tumbas “indocumentadas y sin marcar” en las islas del golfo sur de la provincia, que albergó alguna vez a la Escuela Residencial Kuper Island conocida como la Alcatraz de Canadá. El reciente descubrimiento sombrío le
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WASHINGTON, DC — Democratic state lawmakers from Texas said Wednesday that they are on Capitol Hill to drum up support for federal voting rights legislation amid a boycott of a special session to pass a bill with restrictive elections measures back at home. State legislators also said they don’t plan to travel back to the
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By Ryan Nobles and Clare Foran, CNN Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and a group of other Senate Democrats introduced draft legislation on Wednesday that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level by striking it from the federal controlled substances list. It’s significant for a Senate majority leader to back such a measure and the
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By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Here’s one example of how pretty much everything is getting more expensive: A toy that used to cost $25 is now priced at $28,000. Premium Joy, based in Walnut, California, makes a variety of foam toys, including play mats, jigsaw puzzles and building blocks for kindergarten and elementary-grade kids. It
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By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent We’ve all heard it said over and over again: We’re now in the phase of the pandemic when it’s a race between vaccinations and the variants. It has been neck and neck for a while, and honestly, I was ready to cheer a vaccine victory. We nearly
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WASHINGTON, DC — Republican U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz of Texas joined a group of several of other GOP senators on Wednesday in blasting the Biden Administration’s handling of public health at the U.S.-Mexico border. Their news conference came amid word that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will issue an
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VADO, New Mexico — This past weekend’s hail storm caused quite a bit of damage for both homeowners in the southern New Mexico community of Vado as well as farmers in the La Mesa area, and they’ve found themselves struggling in the aftermath. Vado resident Shannon Entringer told ABC-7 the hail broke windows in her
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Most major social media platforms have tried a version of Snapchat’s Stories, but Twitter is the first to admit its experiment with disappearing content failed. The company announced Wednesday that it will kill off Fleets, its disappearing posts product, on August 3 — less than a year after introducing it
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby, CNN More than 2 million Americans have signed up for 2021 coverage during a special enrollment period on the Obamacare federal and state exchanges, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Wednesday. The report includes plan selections from February 15, when President Joe Biden reopened enrollment to the uninsured, through June.
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes Así fue la persecución tras el magnicidio en Haití. Britney Spears regresa a la corte. ¿Por qué es tan difícil comprar una casa en EE.UU.? Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad. 1 Hay más de 100 detenidos o desaparecidos en Cuba, según activistas Los activistas antigubernamentales
Continue Reading By Melanie Woodrow Click here for updates on this story BERKELEY, California (KGO) — A Berkeley High School teacher is no longer with the school district after officials concluded in a written decision there was sufficient evidence to substantiate claims he was inappropriate with current and former students. A former student has now filed a
Continue Reading CNN’s John Avlon examines the long history of anti-vaccine rhetoric as coronavirus vaccines continue to be administered across America.
Continue Reading By Holmes Lybrand and Tara Subramaniam, CNN The way some Republican lawmakers tell it, the federal government is coming door-to-door to create a registry of the unvaccinated and force people to receive one of the Covid-19 vaccines. On July 6, President Joe Biden announced five areas his administration would focus on to get Americans vaccinated,
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, Kaitlan Collins and Jeff Zeleny, CNN White House officials are devising ways to fight the spread of dangerous falsehoods about Covid-19 vaccines, administration officials told CNN, as Republicans and their media allies ramp up their vocal skepticism about vaccines. President Joe Biden himself could soon take on some of the corrosive messages
Continue Reading CNN’s John Berman and Brianna Keilar show some of the anti-vaccine propaganda viewers of right-wing media are being exposed to.
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Offering a weird mix of over-the-top violence and dark humor, “Gunpowder Milkshake” weds the spaghetti western with the colorful visuals of anime, enhancing that with an inordinately good cast for such a silly movie. The net result provides considerable fun, which might explain reports that its French distributor is already
Continue Reading CNNEE Washington (CNN) — El gobierno de Biden está examinando la posibilidad de establecer una línea directa de emergencia con el gobierno chino similar al llamado “teléfono rojo” establecido entre EE. UU. y la Unión Soviética durante la Guerra Fría, que permitió la comunicación directa con el Kremlin como una forma de evitar una guerra
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FORT HOOD, Texas — A woman accused of helping Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen’s suspected killer dismember and dispose of Guillen’s body last year has been indicted by a grand jury. Cecily Ann Aguilar was indicted Tuesday on 11 federal charges including accessory after the fact, destruction of records in a federal case, conspiracy to tamper
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — Si pensabas que vivir la pandemia era una pesadilla estando despierto, imagínate lo que ha sido en sueños. Muchos de nosotros experimentamos pesadillas vívidas y aterradoras durante lo peor de la pandemia. Dependiendo de nuestro nivel de trauma —la pérdida de un ser querido o el hecho de ser un trabajador de
Continue Reading By Anna Coren, Sandi Sidhu, Tim Lister and Abdul Basir Bina, CNN Over clear but unsteady video, the words ring out: “Surrender, commandos, surrender.” Several men emerge from a building; they are clearly unarmed. Gunfire erupts. At least a dozen men are seen shot to death amid cries of “Allahu Akhbar” — God is Great.
Continue Reading CNN By Anna Coren, Sandi Sidhu, Tim Lister and Abdul Basir Bina, CNN Over clear but unsteady video, the words ring out: “Surrender, commandos, surrender.” Several men emerge from a building; they are clearly unarmed. Gunfire erupts. At least a dozen men are seen shot to death amid cries of “Allahu Akhbar” — God is
Continue Reading CNN’s Anna Coren goes inside Bagram Airfield to capture scenes of abandonment as Afghan forces pick up the pieces following the withdrawal of US and NATO troops after nearly two decades of war.
Continue Reading CNN international correspondent Anna Coren, on assignment in Kabul, talks with Brian Stelter about bearing witness to “the end of a chapter for America.” Coren also touches on the ways in which “journalists have been targeted” in Afghanistan, and the fears “that there’s going to be a serious uptick once American forces fully withdraw.”
Continue Reading CNN By Anna Coren, Sandi Sidhu, Tim Lister and Abdul Basir Bina, CNN Over clear but unsteady video, the words ring out: “Surrender, commandos, surrender.” Several men emerge from a building; they are clearly unarmed. Gunfire erupts. At least a dozen men are seen shot to death amid cries of “Allahu Akhbar” — God is
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WASHINGTON, DC — For the first time in U.S. Senate history, Democrats on Wednesday moved toward ending the federal prohibition on cannabis, removing it from the federal list of controlled substances. It’s a move sponsors hope will also end the disproportionate harm that has been done to communities of color. To date, some 18 states have legalized the recreational use of marijuana and
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El tiempo severo, incluyendo posibles tornados, granizo de gran tamaño y vientos dañinos, pondrá bajo amenaza a más de 90 millones de personas en el medio oeste y el noreste del país este miércoles, según las previsiones. “Aunque será posible que caiga granizo de gran tamaño [con las tormentas eléctricas], los
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