By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Going out to eat might feel a little different these days. Maybe you’re waiting longer for a table, even though the restaurant doesn’t appear full. Or maybe your service is slower, and your server seems anxious. That’s because restaurants across the United States are understaffed, and jobs that were already
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A teacher shortage is forcing educators to think outside the box before kids return to the classroom. CNN’s Adrienne Broaddus reports.
Continue Reading By Adrienne Broaddus, CNN As another school year approaches, administrators nationwide are facing teacher shortages. Southwest of Chicago, Steven Wrobleski is worried. School starts August 11 and he still has openings at LaSalle Peru Township High School. “We currently have a chemistry physics teaching position that we have zero applicants for right now. I am
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By A.J. Etherington Click here for updates on this story BILLINGS, Montana (Billings Gazette) — It was fast approaching 9 p.m. on Nov. 30, 2020 when Billings Police responded to gunshots at Fourth Street West and Broadwater Avenue. There they discovered Manuel “Manny” LaMere Martinez had been shot dead and was lying in the road,
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By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Singer-songwriter Pink has offered to pay fines handed out to the Norwegian women’s beach handball team after they refused to wear bikini bottoms while competing. Last week, the European Handball Federation (EHF) fined the team a total of €1,500 (around $1,765), asserting that the women competed in “improper clothing” by wearing
Continue Reading By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Civilian casualties in Afghanistan reached record levels in the first half of 2021, the United Nations warned Monday, noting that deaths and injuries spiked markedly from May when the United States and its allies began withdrawing troops from the country. Some 5,183 casualties were recorded in the first six months of
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By Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN The relationship between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was never very warm. Now it’s in the downright gutter. After a whiplash week of power plays between the two party leaders over the January 6 select committee, tensions are at an all-time high between the
Continue Reading House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is pulling his five Republican members selected to join the House committee that’s investigating the January 6 insurrection, following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to reject two of McCarthy’s picks, a source with direct knowledge confirmed to CNN. CNN’s Melanie Zanona explains Pelosi’s decision.
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ANTHONY, Texas — Borderland students will be back in the classroom Monday. Two Borderland school districts, Clint and Anthony, are kicking off the school year. The key difference this year is that all students will be back in the classroom for the first time since the start of the pandemic, 16 months ago. “We’re so
Continue Reading By CNN Business Staff Chinese officials are turning their crackdown on private business to yet another industry: education. A slew of big Chinese education and private tutoring companies are reeling from new rules barring them from turning a profit or raising funding on stock markets, with some warning that the regulations will hurt their business.
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN As communities across the country prepare for a return to school, many are still deciding how much time and how many resources to devote to routine Covid-19 testing of students and staff — and what that might look like. “Lots of places have operationalized screening testing differently,” Dr. Westyn Branch-Elliman, an
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By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Dieter Brummer, the Australian actor best known for his role as heartthrob Shane Parrish on TV soap “Home and Away,” has died at the age of 45. New South Wales Police confirmed to CNN affiliate 9News that Brummer’s body was found in the Sydney suburb of Glenhaven on Saturday afternoon after
Continue Reading By John Duffy, CNN Teens and tweens may not come out and tell you, but there is a lot they want you to know about their lives. Yes, sometimes adolescents have surly attitudes. However, they still need your help as allies, guides and consultants. Here are some of their thoughts I’ve gleaned from my teen
Continue Reading By Alta Spells, Deanna Hackney and Susannah Cullinane, CNN An Atlanta university says it is clearing student account balances for spring 2020 through summer 2021 to help students continue their education through the Covid-19 pandemic. Clark Atlanta University, which is located just west of the city’s downtown, said in a news release Friday that it
Continue Reading By Samantha Beech, CNN The US will continue airstrikes in support of Afghan forces fighting the Taliban, a top US general said Sunday. Violence has surged across the country in recent months after the Taliban launched a sweeping assault just days after the US-led foreign forces began their final withdrawal. Speaking to reporters Sunday in
Continue Reading By Jenn Selva, Deanna Hackney and Hollie Silverman, CNN A sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed and a second deputy was wounded during a standoff at a California home Sunday afternoon, authorities said. “While reporting to a standoff here in Wasco, one of our brave Kern County Sheriff’s Deputies was killed-in-action and one other was
Continue Reading By Tara John, CNN As the pace of Covid-19 vaccinations in Europe shows signs of a slowdown, leaders are racing to find answers to a key dilemma of the rollout’s next phase: how to convince reluctant citizens to roll up their sleeves. From cash payments to phone data, free football stadium tours to free grilled
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olivertapia (CNN) — Siete personas murieron y varias más resultaron gravemente heridas cuando una tormenta de arena o polvo provocó una serie de choques que involucraron a 20 vehículos en Utah el domingo por la noche, dijeron las autoridades. Los accidentes ocurrieron en la I-15 cerca de Kanosh, dijo el Departamento de Servicio Público de
Continue Reading By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Cryptocurrencies rallied Monday, just a week after they were hit by a major sell-off. As of 4:45 a.m. ET on Monday, bitcoin, ethereum and dogecoin had soared 10%, 7.3% and 11%, respectively, over the past 24 hours, according to data from CoinDesk. Bitcoin climbed to a six-week high of nearly
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN) — La presidencia de Joe Biden ahora tiene seis meses. Serías disculpado si no te hubieras dado cuenta de cuánto tiempo ha estado Biden en el cargo porque Biden no genera ni cerca del mismo interés en las noticias (ver búsquedas en Google) que generó su predecesor, el expresidente Donald Trump. La
Continue Reading By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer The three appointees of former President Donald Trump have together sealed the Supreme Court’s conservatism for a generation, but they have revealed strikingly different methods. They diverge in their regard for practical consequences, their desire to lay down markers for future disputes and their show
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — Annemiek van Vleuten, ciclista de Países Bajos, levantó los brazos, con una cara de éxtasis y alegría. Eso es lo que se hace cuando se cree que se ha ganado el oro olímpico… excepto que ella no lo había ganado. Minuto a minuto: Así avanzan los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 2020 Ese
Continue Reading By Joe Sutton and Hollie Silverman, CNN Thousands of customers are still without power after three tornadoes tore through Michigan over the weekend, leaving damage, debris and power outages across the Detroit area. As of Monday morning, nearly 87,000 customers in remain without power in the state, according to Poweroutage.us. At the peak of the
Continue Reading By Helen Regan, CNN Two men have been charged with animal cruelty for allegedly striking a police horse during anti-lockdown protests in Sydney, Australia on Saturday, police said, as daily Covid-19 cases in New South Wales state continue to rise. Thousands of people breached coronavirus measures and marched through the center of Australia’s biggest city
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN The Olympics has long been an occasion for celebrating national pride. And for an increasingly confident China, the Tokyo Games is seen as the latest opportunity to showcase its national strength, as it looks to challenge the United States for top spot on the medal table. So far,
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — Audaces operaciones de espionaje del Mossad en todo el mundo. La emprendedora “nación de las startups” que alberga montones de ideas multimillonarias. Estos son dos motores de la imagen de Israel en el extranjero que sus líderes políticos y empresariales se complacen en promover desde hace tiempo. Esa imagen parece haber sufrido
Continue Reading By Steven Jiang and Steve George, CNN The breakdown in US-China relations is due to some people in the United States treating China as an “imaginary enemy,” Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng was quoted as saying during a meeting with US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman on Monday, according to a statement provided
Continue Reading Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) blasted House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) decision to pull all Republicans from the select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — Francia venció al equipo de baloncesto masculino de EE.UU. 83-76 en los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio el domingo, poniendo fin a la racha de 25 victorias olímpicas del equipo estadounidense que se remontaba a 2004. Estados Unidos tenía una ventaja de ocho puntos con cuatro minutos restantes en el juego, pero el
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