By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story NORTH ST LOUIS COUNTY, Missouri (KMOV) — Local organizations are throwing their support behind the St. Louis County Health Director, who says he endured racist attacks. Dr, Faisal Khan says some people who attended Tuesday night’s St. Louis County Council meeting taunted him with racist
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By Gul Tuysuz and Arwa Damon, CNN In the small village of Kacarlar, on Turkey’s southern coast, farmers are facing apocalyptic scenes as wildfires continue to sweep the country. “The animals are on fire,” 56-year-old resident, Muzeyyan Kacar, told CNN. “Everything is going to burn. Our land, our animals and our house. What else do
Continue Reading By Nyasha Chingono, for CNN Pauline Chinyandura adjusts her face mask as she rushes to serve lunch to a group of men visiting her makeshift canteen in Domboshava, a rural area around 25 miles northeast of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare. The chatter around the canteen is all about the death of a popular health official from
Continue Reading By Tom Yun, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — For the first time, scientists have been able to directly observe light bending from behind a black hole. It’s something that Albert Einstein predicted would be possible under his theory of relativity. But this is the first time
Continue Reading By Rachel Aiello, CTVNews.ca producer Click here for updates on this story OTTAWA, Ontario (CTV Network) — Canada is headed towards a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections, but how severe of a resurgence it’ll be depends on how many people are fully vaccinated, warns new national modelling released Friday. The country is seeing an increase
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By Kristen Rogers, CNN Restricting your blood flow sounds like a dangerous thing to do, but it’s exactly what some Olympians, athletes, and surgery and physical therapy patients have done to strengthen their muscles and speed up recovery. The origins of this practice go back to 1966, when — while sitting on his heels during
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Messengers from the past are all around us. In our solar system, comets are the icy leftovers from when the sun and planets formed. They hold the mysteries of that primordial soup. The murky beginning of life on Earth is thought to be trapped within the deepest, oldest rocks, but scientists
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AUSTIN, Texas — Hundreds of people packed the steps of the Texas Capitol on Saturday at a protest rally to make the end of a four-day march in support of voting rights. Country music legend Willie Nelson, himself a Texan, led spectators in singing “vote them out.” The 27-mile “Selma to Montgomery-style” march, which began Wednesday,
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By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The US Senate passed legislation this week to grant Congress’ highest honor, the Congressional Gold Medal, to the first Black player to compete in the National Hockey League. The bipartisan measure to honor Willie O’Ree unanimously passed the chamber on Tuesday. It now must be approved by the US House of
Continue Reading By Eric Bradner, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ warning this week of a “Faucian distopia” offered the latest glimpse at how ambitious Republicans eyeing 2024 presidential bids are increasingly targeting public health officials as they attempt to grow their national brands in front of conservative audiences. “It is very important that we say unequivocally no
Continue Reading Thousands flee active wildfires in California
Continue Reading By Kate Sullivan and Ella Nilsen, CNN President Joe Biden said Friday the wildfires intensifying in the West demand “urgent action” as he met with seven Republican and Democratic governors to discuss how states are responding to the wildfires and how the federal government can best assist. “We can’t ignore how the overlapping and intertwined
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UPDATE, Aug. 3: A federal judge in El Paso on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting Texas Gov. Greg Abbott from carrying out plans to have state troopers stop vehicles suspected of carrying migrants. In siding with the federal government, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Cardone found Abbott’s order posed “irreparable harm” and went against
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By Brian Lowry and Frank Pallotta, CNN Like other changes to entertainment distribution through the years, the studio shift toward streaming — hastened by the unforeseen consequences of the pandemic — has Hollywood talent and their representatives demanding a different way to be paid. Scarlett Johansson’s lawsuit against Disney over the simultaneous streaming release of
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UPDATE, Aug. 6: Detectives on Friday announced the arrests of three men in connection with a murder that took place late last month outside a house party on Villa Plata Street in east El Paso. 20–year-old Brian Arrington was being held in the downtown jail on $1 million bond on a murder charge, while 21
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By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN As the world’s fittest and most capable athletes gave the performances of their lives this week in Tokyo, I worked my way through my second bowl of Cocoa Pebbles of the day to write this column. Here’s your TV OT: Rage against the philistines My two favorite shows of the moment
Continue Reading By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Tacos, coffee, cars, jet fuel. computer chips, Nike shoes and school supplies: What do they all have in common? They’re all (nearly) impossible to find — or getting there. Shortages are popping up across the supply chain as the pandemic messes with shipping, demand, supply and all the other levers
Continue Reading By Faith Karimi, CNN When Olympic gymnasts compete Sunday and Monday in the individual floor exercises in Tokyo, viewers will notice a key difference between the events. The women will leap and flip and tumble to recorded music. The men’s routines will be accompanied by silence. The reason for the disparity dates back almost a
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TOKYO (AP) — Elaine Thompson-Herah broke Florence Griffith Joyner’s 33-year-old Olympic record in the women’s 100 meters. She crossed the line in 10.61 seconds to defend her title and lead a Jamaican sweep of the medals. The old record of 10.62 belonged to Florence Griffith Joyner. She set that mark at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Continue Reading By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN A Queens man was arrested and charged on suspicion of dragging an 11-year-old girl into an alleyway, robbing her and cutting her neck with a sharp metal object, a district attorney in the New York City borough said Friday. Jonathan Perez, 34, allegedly approached the girl early Sunday as she was
Continue Reading By Natasha Chen, Kevin Conlon, Alta Spells and Erica Henry, CNN More than 100 students at Atlanta’s Drew Charter School are in quarantine after nine students and five staff members tested positive for Covid-19, the head of school said Friday. The school had informed parents in a letter Thursday that two staff members and a
Continue Reading Drew Charter School Head Peter McKnight joins CNN’s Boris Sanchez to discuss the measures his school is taking as more than 100 students are quarantining after students and faculty tested positive for Covid-19.
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, discutirá la aplicación de nuevas sanciones al régimen cubano cuando se reúna con líderes cubanoestadounidenses en la Casa Blanca este viernes, según un funcionario de la Casa Blanca. La reunión tiene lugar semanas después de que Cuba vio las protestas más grandes en
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — La gimnasta estadounidense Simone Biles, que previamente se retiró de dos competencias en los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 2020, decidió no competir en las finales de caballete y barras asimétricas. “Después de más consultas con el personal médico, Simone Biles ha decidido retirarse de las finales del evento para caballete
Continue Reading By Adrienne Vogt As the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games get into the second weekend of competition, medals will be awarded in swimming, fencing, judo and tennis, to name a few. Here are some of the events to watch. Remember, Tokyo is 13 hours ahead of US Eastern Standard Time. Swimming: Medals in swimming will be
Continue Reading By Alaa Elassar, CNN Park volunteers patrolling a beach in South Carolina on Wednesday stumbled upon an unexpected surprise: a two-headed baby sea turtle. A group of patrollers and volunteers at Edisto Beach State Park were making a routine inventory to check on sea turtle nests when they stumbled across the special hatchling, South Carolina
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN Tom Waddell knew what to expect from an Olympics opening ceremony. He’d experienced one before as a decathlete at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. He remembered the parade of athletes from around the world, proudly marching alongside their flags before an audience of thousands, cheering on their every move. His gay
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — La lección que nos dejó Simon Biles. Richard Carapaz escribe la historia olímpica de Ecuador. El calor y la humedad, los principales rivales en Tokio. Aquí un resumen de lo más destacado de los Juegos Olímpicos esta semana. Esta es una edición especial de nuestro newsletter 5 cosas sobre los Juegos Olímpicos. Juegos
Continue Reading By Michael Nedelman, CNN With surges in Covid-19 cases driven by the Delta variant, most Americans are now being advised to wear masks indoors — regardless of vaccination status — by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since CDC guidelines updated Tuesday, we have learned more about the science that motivated these changes,
Continue Reading By George Ramsay, CNN After years of dominance that equated to a glut of 20 medals across the past three Olympic Games, Great Britain’s rowers reached choppy waters in Tokyo. They leave these Games with two rowing medals — silver in the men’s quadruple sculls and bronze in the men’s eight — and, agonizingly, six
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