(Editor’s note: LIVE coverage begins at 6AM Sunday on ABC-7. You can watch it by clicking here.) Think space is boring? Sir Richard Branson, one of the most flamboyant entrepreneurs of our time is changing up the spaceflight experience. Stephen Colbert on mission commentary, Khalid providing the music. Branson wants to make space cool again and is
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By Joshua Berlinger, Lauren Lau and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN They came with white flowers to honor a man accused of attempted murder. His victim was a seemingly random police officer — and for some in Hong Kong, that not only justified the violence, it was cause for commemoration. Over the past week, a steady trail
Continue Reading A Hong Kong police officer is in critical condition after being stabbed in the back in what Hong Kong Security Chief Chris Tang called a “lone wolf” attack. The attacker died in hospital after stabbing himself in the chest following the attack. CNN’s Ivan Watson reports.
Continue Reading By Artemis Moshtaghian and Sahar Akbarzai, CNN An inmate who went missing from a jail barge in the Bronx early Saturday has been captured, police said. David Mordukhaev, 30, was reported missing from his assigned housing area when officers checked, Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Peter Thorne told CNN in a statement. Police say that
Continue Reading By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist Over 30 million people are under heat alerts across Western states as temperatures are forecast to soar well into the triple digits this weekend. Nearly the entire state of California will be impacted by this heat wave, in addition to major metro areas in the Southwest. Numerous daily temperature records
Continue Reading The western US will bake in record-breaking heat this weekend. All-time records are in jeopardy, Meteorologist Allison Chinchar has the latest forecast.
Continue Reading By Artemis Moshtaghian and Alaa Elassar, CNN A portion of a crane collapsed Saturday on top of a building in downtown Toronto, Canada, causing damage to its rooftop. The counterweight, part of the crane meant to prevent it from tipping, was located on top of the 8 The Esplanade residential building after it fell approximately
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Interstate 10 westbound in the Las Cruces area was shut down Saturday evening for several hours due to a semi-truck fire that forced traffic to be diverted. ABC-7 viewer Frank Villa captured the flames and smoke visible along the highway. (You can watch it in the video player at the
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UPDATE, July 14: Police on Wednesday released new details about a boy who was shot and wounded with a BB gun over the weekend in northeast El Paso. Investigators said a 16-year-old shot his 12-year-old brother in what was apparently an accident. As a result, no charges have been filed, police indicated. The BB gun shooting
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Alexandra Ferguson Nota del editor: Peter Bergen es analista de seguridad nacional de CNN, vicepresidente de New America y profesor en la Universidad Estatal de Arizona. Es autor del libro de próxima aparición “The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden”. Las opiniones expresadas aquí le pertenecen. Ver más opiniones aquí. (CNN) — El jueves,
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, CNN A woman was scrolling through a list of adoptable dogs at her local humane society when she came across a photo that made her heart skip a beat. There he was — her former pup and best friend, Kovu, who Aisha Nieves had devastatingly lost two years prior when she lived
Continue Reading While looking at adoptable dogs on the Lehigh County Humane Society website, Aisha Nieves found the dog she lost two years ago. CNN affiliate WFMZ has the story.
Continue Reading CNNEE 🔄 Haz clic aquí para ver las actualizaciones más recientes ¿Qué pasará en Haití tras el asesinato del presidente Jovenel Moïse? Transición de poder, tensiones internas e impacto regional Asesinan al presidente de Haití: esto es lo que sabemos hasta el momento del ataque a Jovenel Moïse y la situación en el país Lo
Continue Reading By Theresa Waldrop, CNN Zaila Avant-garde, the teenager who this week became the first African American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, has earned yet another honor: an offer of a full scholarship to Louisiana State University. “Your academic performance reflected scholarship first! You modeled intellectual excellence,” LSU President William F. Tate IV tweeted
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El Paso, Texas- The heat and the sunshine returned to the Borderland this weekend. It’s been a nice break from the rain and thunderstorms, but all good things must come to an end. The threat of severe thunderstorms will be our main weather story for Sunday. Nearly every area in the Borderland is under a
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris, CNN Binx, a cat who lived on the ninth floor of the Champlain Towers South, was reunited with his family on Friday after volunteers found him near the site of the collapse, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said in a news conference. “After 16 long and extremely difficult days, I’m happy
Continue Reading 14 more victims have been recovered from Champlain Towers South site, mayor says
Continue Reading Binx, a cat who lived on the ninth floor of the Champlain Towers South, was reunited with his family after volunteers found him near the site of the collapse, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said in a news conference.
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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN The US has surpassed 20,000 new Covid-19 cases for the fourth day in a row as the highly contagious Delta variant persists in its track in being the most common form of the coronavirus in the country. The last time the country had back-to-back days of cases topping 20,000 was in
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AUSTIN, Texas — Former El Paso Congressman Beto O’Rourke was among hundreds of Texans who lined up at the state Capitol on Saturday for their first opportunity during the special legislative session to testify before lawmakers against a bill which would enact sweeping voting restrictions across the state. Nearly 300 members of the public were
Continue Reading By Matt Egan, CNN Business As the bitcoin craze took off in 2017, a Long Island iced tea company sent its share price spiking as much as 380% merely by announcing a “pivot” to blockchain technology. Long Island Iced Tea Corp. even changed its name to Long Blockchain Corp. At the time, the episode underscored
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By Rachel Janfaza Former President Barack Obama released his summer reading list on Friday, continuing a tradition from his time in the White House. “While we were still in the White House, I began sharing my summer favorites — and now, it’s become a little tradition that I look forward to sharing with you all.
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna, CNN It’s summertime — and the 44th President once again has a few tunes for your consideration. Former President Barack Obama kicked out a characteristically wide-ranging list of what he’s been listening to this summer — a collection including J. Cole, SZA, The Rolling Stones, Drake and Bob Dylan. “With so many
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By Max Foster, CNN Queen Elizabeth II sent a message of support to England national football team manager Gareth Southgate on Saturday, the evening before England’s showdown with Italy at Wembley Stadium in London. “55 years ago I was fortunate to present the World Cup to Bobby Moore and saw what it meant to the
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EL PASO, Texas — A motorist was injured Saturday afternoon when their car flipped over along a street in a central El Paso residential neighborhood. The rollover crash happened near Trowbridge Drive and Pennsylvania Place. What caused it to occur was not immediately known. First-responders said the person inside the car was taken to a
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna and Ralph Ellis, CNN Bronze statues of two Confederate generals were removed on Saturday from public property in Charlottesville, Virginia, almost four years after they were a flashpoint for a violent “Unite the Right” rally that left one person dead. Machinery first lifted the statue of Robert E. Lee in Market Street
Continue Reading Two bronze statues of Confederate generals were removed from public property in Charlottesville, Virginia, almost four years after the statues were the flashpoint for the violent “Unite the Right” rally that left one person dead and many others injured.
Continue Reading SPACEPORT AMERICA, New Mexico — Virgin Galactic will become the first rocket company to launch the boss when Richard Branson straps into one of his sleek, shiny space planes this weekend. The self-described tie-loathing adventurer and troublemaker will join five company employees for Sunday morning’s test flight from the southern New Mexico desert near Truth
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Hace unos años, los viajes de larga distancia en tren parecían estar en vías de extinción, pero muchas cosas han cambiado desde entonces.Este clásico estilo de viaje está resurgiendo a medida que los viajeros buscan formas más ecológicas de ver el mundo. Actualmente se están preparando varios trenes y rutas nuevos,
Continue Reading World No. 1 tennis player Ashleigh Barty talks to Amanda Davies about her Olympic “dream” ahead of Tokyo 2020.
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