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 Rachel Janfaza, CNN When Joe Biden campaigned for the presidency, he called himself a bridge to a new generation of leaders in the Democratic Party. While some frustrations remain, young leaders are saying the President Biden’s administration is making good progress on Candidate Biden’s pledge. Advocates say that the youth-focused proposals in Biden’s “Build
Continue Reading By Priscilla Alvarez and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden is facing increasing pressure from US allies and the travel industry to lift pandemic-era restrictions barring entry to the country, leading to tense conversations among administration officials over the health and political risks of opening up too soon. A tangled web of Covid-19 border restrictions
Continue Reading By Maegan Vazquez and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden conceded during a CNN town hall on Wednesday that certain businesses will remain “in a bind for a little while” with labor shortages, part of a major set of problems that’s unfurling as his six-month-old presidency reaches a critical juncture. Covid cases are rising, a
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Mariana Toro (CNN) — Un piloto adolescente tuvo que realizar un aterrizaje de emergencia en un puente de Nueva Jersey el lunes por la tarde después de que la aeronave experimentara un mal funcionamiento del motor. Landon Lucas, de 18 años, estaba volando una avioneta sobre la costa sur de Nueva Jersey cuando se dio
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — Tras una serie de protestas históricas por la situación económica y la escasez en Cuba, que tuvieron lugar la semana pasada en diferentes ciudades del país, el presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, ordenó este lunes examinar la política de su gobierno sobre las remesas enviadas desde su país a
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By Rob Picheta, CNN Chimpanzees‘ lethal attacks on gorillas in the wild have been observed for the first time, a team of researchers has said. Experts observing dozens of chimps at Loango National Park in Gabon had expected them to be relaxed around gorillas. But while the two species were usually playful, the researchers were
Continue Reading The US is seeing a spike in crime across the country with even some of the country’s smallest cities are seeing a spike in gun violence. CNN’s Ryan Young reports.
Continue Reading By Christina Carrega, Priya Krishnakumar, Omar Jimenez and Evan Perez, CNN Attorney General Merrick Garland plans to travel to Chicago on Thursday to highlight the Justice Department’s new anti-gun trafficking initiative focused on five cities, as the Biden administration faces political pressure to deal with spikes in crime. The department launched anti-gun trafficking strike forces
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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Business California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing filed a civil lawsuit Tuesday against one of America’s largest video game developers Activision Blizzard, alleging multiple female employees were subjected to gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and unequal pay. “DFEH alleges that women were subjected to constant sexual harassment, including groping, comments, and
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By Katia Hetter, CNN Coronavirus infections are on the rise again in the United States. While more than 99% of deaths are among those unvaccinated, anecdotal reports abound of breakthrough infections, or cases of fully vaccinated people who still test positive for Covid-19 — including several New York Yankee baseball players. How worried should vaccinated
Continue Reading By Joe Sutton and Jason Hanna, CNN A 14-year-old girl from Ohio drowned this week at a Cincinnati-area amusement park, officials said. The drowning happened Tuesday at the Aqua Adventure water park portion of Land of Illusion Adventure Park, some 40 miles north of downtown Cincinnati, the Butler County Sheriff’s Office said. The teen had
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN For the first time, astronomers have found a disk around a Jupiter-like planet outside of our solar system — the kind of disk where moons could actively be forming. The disk, known as a circumplanetary disk, was discovered around an exoplanet known as PDS 70c. It’s one of two massive planets
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By Jeanine Barone, CNN Packing four bathing suits for a one-week vacation might seem like overkill. Especially when the trip involves a 50-plus-mile hike through one of Spain’s rainiest regions. The trail snakes atop soaring, rugged cliffs that drop precipitously to the sea, and our trek would be along a portion of shoreline known as
Continue Reading By Jen Christensen, CNN Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, Bailey Lynn and her friends often talked about the toll the virus has taken. Still, the high school senior was surprised recently by the results of a survey she created to assess her classmates’ mental health during the pandemic: Only a quarter who said they thought they
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By Hannah Ryan, CNN Anna Faris has let slip that she and her partner Michael Barrett recently eloped. The reveal came on an episode of her podcast “Anna Faris is Unqualified” earlier this week after the “Mom” star interviewed “Top Chef” judge Gail Simmons. After speaking to Simmons, Faris was joined by matchmaker April Beyer
Continue Reading By Jen Christensen, CNN To date, more than 339 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered to give people protection from the coronavirus; several studies show that the three vaccines authorized for emergency use in the United States work and are safe; and the government continues to give them out in schools and at
Continue Reading CNN’s Jeff Zeleny reports from Ohio, where, like the rest of America, there remains a sharp divide over Covid-19 vaccines.
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By Dan Moriarty, Kevin Dotson and Chie Kobayashi, CNN Two US athletes have tested positive for coronavirus days before the start of the Tokyo Olympics. Kara Eaker, a member of the US gymnastics team, tested positive Sunday, her father confirmed to CNN affiliate KMBC by telephone on Monday morning. And Katie Lou Samuelson, a member
Continue Reading By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Maria Taylor, one of the top NBA analysts on ESPN, is parting ways with the sports network. The move is not all that surprising, as Taylor’s contract was coming to an end. But her exit is notable because it comes just weeks after comments from one of her colleagues sparked
Continue Reading Chloe Melas, CNN While Billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos have embarked on their own space race this month, there’s one spaceman that has found its home in the Caribbean Sea. Created by artist Brendan Murphy, the 22-foot, 3,000-pound sculpture named “The Boonji Spaceman,” stands on a dock in the middle of the ocean at
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN) — El portavoz del Departamento de Estado de EE.UU., Ned Price, dijo el miércoles que el Departamento del Tesoro está “explorando” sanciones contra los “funcionarios cubanos responsables de violencia, opresión y violaciones de derechos humanos contra esos manifestantes pacíficos”. Price dijo que “no estaba en condiciones de detallar ahora cómo serían las
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN) — Dos semanas después del asesinato del presidente de Haití, Jovenel Moïse, decenas de hombres arrestados por la policía local permanecen detenidos sin cargos formales y con acceso limitado a abogados. El limbo legal, que se hizo más incierto por un “estado de sitio” invocado después del asesinato del 7 de julio,
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden llegó a Ohio el miércoles consciente de que los días para un gobierno bipartidista real en Washington están menguando rápidamente. A lo largo de su foro de CNN, expresó una y otra vez su convicción de que los republicanos vendrán, a pesar de que algunos están envenenados
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN) — Los asesores de vacunas de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. (CDC) se reunirán este jueves para hacer recomendaciones sobre cómo abordar los nuevos problemas de seguridad relacionados con la vacuna Johnson & Johnson de covid-19 y para revisar los datos preliminares sobre si se
Continue Reading By Ben Westcott, Isaac Yee and Yong Xiong, CNN The Chinese government will not participate in a second phase of the World Health Organization’s investigation into the origins of Covid-19, a top health official announced Thursday, after the possibility of the virus leaking from a Wuhan lab was included on the proposal. Zeng Yixin, deputy
Continue Reading By Casey Barber, CNN There’s nothing like sinking your teeth into a perfectly ripe, juicy peach on a hot summer day. It’s one of summer’s simplest pleasures, and it’s hard to beat for pure enjoyment. But it’s not the only way to eat a peach. In addition to enjoying them raw and cooked in desserts,
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN) — Muchos padres estaban encantados de tener cientos de dólares repentinamente en sus cuentas bancarias la semana pasada, a medida que el Servicio de Impuestos Internos (IRS) distribuyó el primero de seis pagos mensuales de crédito tributario por hijos. Esta es la primera vez que el crédito tributario por hijos se paga
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, Swati Gupta and Esha Mitra, CNN More than two thirds of India’s population may have Covid-19 antibodies, according to a new serological survey released Tuesday, providing yet more evidence the virus may have spread far more widely than official figures suggest. About 67.6% of Indians surveyed above the age of 6 showed
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe, CNN As the search winds down and the survivors of the Surfside condo building collapse begin to pick up the pieces of their lives, a judge said Wednesday they and the families of the deceased will not be asked to donate their property. “These victims who have lost their homes, their personal
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