By Jeremy Diamond, CNN President Joe Biden will meet Wednesday with the heads of several companies and institutions that are requiring their employees get vaccinated against Covid-19, aiming to encourage more companies to follow suit, a White House official said. Biden will meet virtually with the CEOs of United Airlines and Kaiser Permanente, as well
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By Shawn Deng and Amy Woodyatt, CNN China will create a “blacklist” of karaoke songs, banning those that contain “harmful content” from entertainment venues. According to interim rules outlined by the country’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, karaoke must not endanger national unity, sovereignty or territorial integrity, incite ethnic hatred or undermine ethnic unity, promote
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN A boat, Italy and a ring has made Sophia Bush a very happy woman. The “One Tree Hill” alum shared the news that she and her entrepreneur boyfriend Grant Hughes are engaged in a post on her verified Instagram account Tuesday. The actress, who is currently starring on “Good Sam,”
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By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Samsung is still betting on a future where smartphones fold in half. But first it must convince users that’s a future they want. At its annual Unpacked event on Wednesday, Samsung will focus on its foldable smartphones instead of its flagship Note devices — despite lackluster sales for foldable
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, CNN Wildfires tearing across the Mediterranean have killed dozens of people and reduced entire villages to ash. Some leaders have emphasized the role of arsonists in the devastation, while others have been accused of using climate change as a cover for their own poor disaster management. The result is a confusing message
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Three men won’t serve any additional jail time after reaching plea deals in an assault on a gay couple in downtown Austin, Texas. The 2019 attack on Spencer Deehring and Tristan Perry inspired a rally at the Capitol and the creation of a citizens’ foot patrol. Four men were charged in
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Top US health officials continue to say getting vaccinated is the best way to protect yourself and others from Covid-19 and the highly contagious Delta variant, but a recent study from the CDC highlights the importance of Covid-19 survivors needing to roll up their sleeves.
Continue Reading By Hannah Ritchie, Nadine Schmidt and Jack Guy, CNN A nurse is being investigated by police in Germany for allegedly replacing Covid-19 vaccines with saline solution. The nurse replaced the vaccines between March and April this year at Roffhausen immunization center in Friesland, northwest Germany, the Friesland district administrator, Sven Ambrosy, said on Facebook Tuesday.
Continue Reading By Betsy Klein, CNN The Biden administration is calling on the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies like Russia to do more to combat rising energy prices, an effort that comes as gas prices are at a seven-year high. Warning that higher gas prices “risk harming the ongoing global recovery,” national security
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An ABC-7 First Alert is in effect for increased rain and storm chances in the coming days. The weather pattern hasn’t changed much from Tuesday, expect showers and thunderstorms this afternoon with scattered storms through tonight. Keep in mind that we will see some sunshine this afternoon and this will destabilize the atmosphere and allow
Continue ReadingBy Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Higher prices have been the pandemic recovery‘s collateral damage. Even though Washington insists higher inflation may just be temporary, America’s prices keep rising — albeit at a slightly slower pace. The pace of consumer price inflation slowed some in July, but it still remained elevated, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Sol Amaya (CNN) — Dominion Voting Systems, una compañía de tecnología que fue acusada por el expresidente Donald Trump y sus aliados de generar desinformación, presentó demandas este martes contra dos canales de televisión de derecha. La empresa alega que esos canales ayudaron a difundir teorías de conspiración infundadas sobre su papel en las elecciones
Continue Reading Opinion by Alexi Robichaux for CNN Business Perspectives As the CEO of a company that provides leadership coaching, I struggled during the pandemic to find the balance between the positive impact our products and services could make in the world, and managing my — and my employees’ — exhaustion. It was clear that it was
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By KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka has filed 23,270 charges against 25 people in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks on churches and hotels that killed 269 people. The president’s office says the charges filed under the country’s anti-terror law include conspiring to murder, aiding and
Continue Reading By Leyla Santiago and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN Tina Certain took a pay cut when she quit being an accountant to become a member of the Alachua County School Board. She still needs the $40,000 or so annual salary — but that’s now at risk in a fight with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. “It makes you
Continue Reading School administrators are ordering students and staff to mask to stop the spread of Covid in Alachua County schools, even though Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is threatening their pay. CNN’s Leyla Santiago reports.
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By Brian Fung, CNN Business Hackers have stolen some $600 million in cryptocurrency from the decentralized finance platform Poly Network, in what it says is the largest theft in the industry’s history. A vulnerability in Poly Network allowed the thief to make off with the funds, the platform said Tuesday, begging the attacker to return
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona, CNN Republicans have found a new boogeyman in the battle for the House: the nation’s top public health agency. As Republicans head back to their districts for the August recess, they are hammering the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and seizing on the backlash to new mask and vaccine mandates
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, CNN Chet Hanks has posted a rant against coronavirus vaccines and told sufferers of the virus to “get over it,” a year after his parents, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, were hospitalized with severe cases of Covid-19. Hanks shared a video on Instagram in which he initially pretended to encourage followers to
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CANUTILLO, Texas — It’s been more than a week since students with the Canutillo Independent School District have been back in the classroom. The district is focusing on safety and communicating with parents through it’s newest hire, Dr. Maria Fuentes, public health emergency manager. Fuentes said her goal is to stay up to date on
Continue Reading By Nima Elbagir and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN The Sudanese government will hand Omar al-Bashir over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) along with other officials wanted over the Darfur conflict, according to a Cabinet of Ministers in a statement to CNN. Bashir, who ruled Sudan for three decades before being deposed in 2019, faces charges
Continue Reading By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated acting US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar to permanently take on the role of representing the US government in cases before the Supreme Court. Filling in the top job on an acting basis since January, Prelogar has played a key role managing a wave of Biden
Continue Reading KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has replaced his army chief of staff after a stunning blitz by the Taliban across the country that included seizing three more provincial capitals and a local army headquarters. The insurgents now control some two-thirds of the nation as the U.S. and NATO finalize their withdrawal after
Continue Reading CNN’s John King explains the significance of the Senate passing a bipartisan infrastructure bill, which will head to the House for a vote.
Continue Reading By Charles Riley, CNN Business American politicians from both major parties have spent years advocating for an overhaul of the nation’s infrastructure. Those efforts always ended in failure until Tuesday, when 19 Republican senators voted with Democrats to approve a $1.2 trillion package that includes money to improve roads and bridges across the country. The
Continue Reading Heart Aerospace CEO Anders Forslund discusses how the company plans to decarbonize air travel as United Airlines announced it will purchase 100 electric planes from the company.
Continue Reading By Nadine Schmidt and Lindsay Isaac, CNN A British embassy employee suspected of spying for Russia has been arrested in the German city of Potsdam, British and German authorities said on Wednesday. The British national, identified only as David S., is suspected of having passed documents onto a Russian intelligence service in exchange for cash
Continue ReadingBy Jessica Firger, CNN For his two-dose Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, Ted Rall crossed state lines back in February and March. Appointments in New York City were impossible to come by, but his friend told him about a federal facility in New Jersey with no residency requirements and so he drove there twice. The Covid-19 shot
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By Jessica Firger, CNN For his two-dose Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, Ted Rall crossed state lines back in February and March. Appointments in New York City were impossible to come by, but his friend told him about a federal facility in New Jersey with no residency requirements and so he drove there twice. The Covid-19 shot
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