By Julie Appleby, Kaiser Heath News Do you sometimes lose your train of thought or feel a bit more anxious than is typical for you? Those are two of the six questions in a quiz on a website co-sponsored by the makers of Aduhelm, a controversial new Alzheimer’s drug. But even when all responses to
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Juan Pablo Elverdin Tokio (CNN) — La pandemia de covid-19 ha cobrado gran importancia sobre los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio desde el aplazamiento del año pasado, dando forma a unos Juegos como nunca antes se habían visto. Cuando la ceremonia de apertura comience este viernes, pondrá fin a meses de especulaciones sobre si los Juegos
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By Katie Bo Williams and Natasha Bertrand, CNN The CIA inspector general is carrying out a review into the agency’s handling of officers sickened by the mysterious “Havana Syndrome,” CNN has learned, a revelation that comes as cases are mushrooming across the globe. Multiple sources familiar with the intelligence described a ballooning number of reports
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TOKYO (AP) — With a blaze of indigo and white fireworks lighting the night sky, the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony was held. It began with a single female athlete at the center of the stadium, kneeling. As she stood, the shadow behind her took the shape of a seedling, growing as she walked. A number
Continue Reading Mariana Toro Washington (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden participó el miércoles en el segundo foro de CNN de su presidencia, respondiendo preguntas del presentador Don Lemon y de los residentes locales en Cincinnati. Como lo hizo en su foro de febrero, Biden hizo una serie de afirmaciones falsas o engañosas. No hemos podido analizar
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By Sarah Molano and Ashley Strickland, CNN Lunar lovers, grab a cozy spot outside and set your sights to the southeast to gaze upon July’s full moon, dubbed the “buck” moon, as it rises Friday after sunset. The moon will reach peak illumination at 10:37 p.m. ET Friday, according to NASA. In all its glory,
Continue Reading By Elle Reeve, Samantha Guff and Deborah Brunswick, CNN Sunny worked as a nurse on a Covid-19 floor of a hospital at the height of the pandemic. The work was hard, but what made it surreal was doing it while living in small town Arkansas, where many people, even some in her own family, said
Continue Reading Sunny, a nurse in Arkansas, shares the hate and struggle she has experienced throughout the coronavirus pandemic. CNN’s Elle Reeve has more on the mindset of some around Covid-19 in Western Arkansas.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The City of El Paso, in partnership with Workforce Solutions Borderplex is hosting a large, in-person job fair Friday morning. More than 100 employers will be looking to hire. The event is from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the Western Technical College Campus. That’s located at 9624 Plaza Cir,
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By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business India’s first billion-dollar tech startup to go public got off to a flying start on Friday. Shares in Zomato gained as much as 80% on their first day of trading on Mumbai’s stock exchange. The listing comes a little over a week after the food delivery company launched its IPO
Continue Reading Olympic athletes have arrived in Japan for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and are sharing what they do in their down time on social media.
Continue Reading By Ben Morse, Jill Martin, Coy Wire, CNN Well over three quarters of the US athletes that are in Japan for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics have received Covid-19 vaccines, the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) revealed on Friday. Team USA announced earlier this month that a total of 613 athletes were set to
Continue Reading Consumer prices were up 5.4% in June, the biggest jump in annual inflation in nearly 13 years. CNN’s Vanessa Yurkevich visits President Biden’s home town of Scranton, PA, where residents and businesses are feeling the impact of inflation.
Continue Reading Pressed by CNN’s Don Lemon, President Biden maintained that, despite the severity of the threat to voting rights, he would not support nuking the legislative filibuster.
Continue Reading By Jack Guy and Lauren Gunn, CNN Business A dramatic surge in Covid-19 cases is forcing hundreds of thousands of workers to stay home in Britain, causing shortages of food and gasoline and heaping stress on supply chains that were already strained by Brexit. Some of the biggest UK supermarkets warned Thursday that they were
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and Jessie Yeung, CNN As record heat waves hit western North America and deadly floods swept Germany, the growing risks associated with climate change have grabbed headlines, and prompted widespread discussions in the West. Scientists have been warning for years that the climate crisis would amplify extreme weather, making it deadlier and
Continue Reading Dr. Michelle Fiscus, the top vaccine official for the state of Tennessee, says she was fired after sharing a decades-old state policy about minors between ages 14 and 17 being able to receive medical care without parental consent, in relation to the Covid-19 vaccine.
Continue Reading By Jacqueline Howard and Deidre McPhillips, CNN Most teens heading back to school in the coming weeks will be unvaccinated against Covid-19, federal data suggests. As many teens across the United States prepare for a return to school this fall, a new CNN analysis finds that less than a third of them are on track
Continue Reading CNN’s Harry Enten breaks down Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations by age
Continue Reading By Sandi Sidhu, Anna Coren, Helen Regan and Abdul Basir Bina, CNN Sohail Pardis was driving from his home in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul to nearby Khost province to pick up his sister for the upcoming Eid holiday celebrations to mark the end of Ramadan. It was supposed to be a happy occasion enjoyed with family.
Continue Reading Typhoon In-fa regains some strength as it moves through Japan’s southern islands. In-fa’s next target is Taiwan with long term impacts likely for China. CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam has the latest from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center and who will see flash flooding and landslides.
Continue Reading By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Twitter continues to trail Facebook and Instagram by a wide margin when it comes to the number of users. The social media firm doesn’t generate the type of cool buzz that YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat do among millennials and Gen Z influencers. Even so, Twitter is having an
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — Una familia en Georgia está de luto después de que un niño de 5 años, descrito como alguien que no tenía “nada más que amor puro”, murió pocos días después de que le diagnosticaran covid-19. Los casos de covid-19 en niños van en aumento en Estados Unidos Wyatt Gibson sufrió un derrame
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By Aya Elamroussi and Rebekah Riess, CNN Tennessee officials voted Thursday to remove the bust of a Ku Klux Klan and Confederate leader Nathan Bedford Forrest from the State Capitol and into the Tennessee State Museum. “After more than a year in the making, this process has finally come to a close,” said Tennessee Republican
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN) — El relevo de la antorcha olímpica ha sido degradado para los Juegos de Verano de Tokio 2020, con el covid-19 convirtiendo el viaje tradicionalmente público de la llama desde Olimpia, Grecia, en un asunto en gran parte privado. Si bien los Juegos Olímpicos pasados han visto la antorcha llevada bajo el
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — Tommy Dorfman se presentó a sí misma como una mujer trans y en las redes sociales anunció que se identifica con el pronombre ella. “Estoy especialmente agradecida con todas las personas trans que caminaron por este camino, rompieron barreras y arriesgaron sus vidas para vivir auténtica y radicalmente como ellos mismos antes
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and Zixu Wang, CNN At least 33 people have died and eight remain missing in central China, as authorities ramp up rescue and recovery efforts following devastating floods that submerged entire neighborhoods, trapped passengers in subway cars, caused landslides and overwhelmed dams and rivers. Torrential rains have battered Henan province since last
Continue Reading Several people in Zhengzhou, China have died after record-breaking rainfall flooded the city’s subway. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced as emergency services have been deployed to assist in the rescue operations.
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi and Rebekah Riess, CNN Tennessee officials voted Thursday to remove the bust of a Ku Klux Klan and Confederate leader Nathan Bedford Forrest from the State Capitol and into the Tennessee State Museum. “After more than a year in the making, this process has finally come to a close,” said Tennessee Republican
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, CNN After a Louisiana man who declined to be vaccinated died of Covid-19, his mother organized a vaccine drive at his memorial to help prevent the same outcome befalling other family and friends. Betty Antoine wanted to encourage people to get inoculated after her son, 46-year-old Baton Rouge resident Brandon Haynes, refused
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