By Ben Morse Amid the joy of the Indian men’s hockey team ending its 41-year Olympic medal drought its players took time to reflect on the impact Covid-19 has had on the country over the last year. The team — the most successful in the history of the Olympics with eight gold medals — claimed
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olivertapia (CNN) — El fundador de Microsoft, Bill Gates, lamenta sus reuniones con Jeffrey Epstein, el adinerado gerente financiero que fue acusado de tráfico sexual infantil, le dijo a CNN el miércoles. “Fue un gran error pasar tiempo con él, darle credibilidad al estar allí”, dijo Gates. Hablando con Anderson Cooper de CNN el miércoles,
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By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter In an unusual press conference Tuesday, President Joe Biden suggested that he was playing out the judicial clock by issuing a new, more tailored eviction moratorium, which he believes may ultimately fail in the courts. Already, a lawsuit challenging the new eviction moratorium from the Centers for
Continue Reading Expiration of the nation’s eviction moratorium has left millions of families staggering. CNN’s Nick Watt reports how one mother and her family are bracing for eviction.
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Lawyers for a group of landlords and real estate companies asked a federal judge in Washington late Wednesday to put on hold the Biden administration’s new eviction moratorium that prohibits landlords from evicting certain tenants who fail to pay rent amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The filing marks
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Opinion by Julián Castro for CNN Business Perspectives Earlier this week, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reinstated its eviction moratorium until October in places with a substantial number of Covid infections. While this was a necessary response to the nation’s dire housing affordability crisis — one that the pandemic has exacerbated —
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN New York City’s newly announced vaccine mandate for certain indoor activities raises questions for visitors about meeting the new requirements. The Key to NYC pass, announced Tuesday by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, will require vaccination for workers and customers for indoor dining, indoor fitness facilities and indoor entertainment
Continue Reading Every day this week, a different state, county, city, or school district announced a decision on masks requirements.
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KASHIMA, Japan — Megan Rapinoe and Carli Lloyd each scored a pair of goals and the United States won the bronze medal in women’s soccer at the Tokyo Olympics with a 4-3 victory over Australia on Thursday. It was arguably the best the Americans had looked during the course of a rocky tournament that opened
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Independent School District welcomed back more than 50,000 students this week. The district is starting the school year with brand new facilities and programs for high school students. The Pathways in Technology Early College High School or P-Tech, helps students get one step closer to getting a college degree
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By Ben Cousins, CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story OTTAWA, Ontario (CTV Network) — The first “of a number of flights” carrying Afghan refugees who helped Canadian military personnel while deployed in Afghanistan has arrived in Canada. In a statement on Wednesday evening, the federal government did not disclose how many refugees
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN An array of planets with similarities to some in our solar system have been found around a nearby star by astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. The star, known as L 98-59, is 35 light-years away from Earth. There may be as many as five planets
Continue Reading By Anthony Vasquez-Peddie, CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — A sharp rise in the development of near-sightedness among children may be linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study out of Hong Kong. The study, published online this week in the British Journal of Ophthamology, aimed
Continue Reading Rebecca Cairns, CNN Growing up in South Africa in the 1950s and ’60s, it was inevitable that Penny Siopis’ work would be political. The multimedia artist was born during apartheid, South Africa’s period of legislated segregation, and began her career in the 1980s when anti-apartheid activist (and later president) Nelson Mandela was imprisoned. The “momentous
Continue Reading Selina Wang, CNN | Chie Kobayashi, CNN Wearing tall platform sandals and a long kimono, Ikuko glides across the room as if she were balancing a glass of water on her head. She gazes at a wall of old photos in Tokyo’s Akasaka geisha house. In one image, she’s pictured mid-dance in a vibrant pink
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By Charles Riley, CNN Business The European Union has announced plans to end the sale of polluting vehicles by 2035, an ambitious goal that would put hybrid cars on the endangered species list and usher in a rapid and dramatic shift to fully electric models. The European Commission said Wednesday that it wants to require
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By Brian Rokus and Christina Carrega, CNN A former Louisville, Kentucky, police officer has pleaded guilty to hitting a kneeling person in the head who was surrendering during an arrest in May last year, according to a statement from the Department of Justice. Cory Evans, 33, appeared in court and pleaded guilty Wednesday in the
Continue Reading By Juliana Koch, Philip Wang and Rodrigo Pedroso, CNN A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has ruled that President Jair Bolsonaro should be investigated for his unproven claims that the country’s electronic voting system is vulnerable to fraud. Wednesday’s ruling resulted from Bolsonaro missing a deadline on Monday to present any proof of his claims. The
Continue Reading By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN It may seem like all the stars of the 32nd Olympiad have already competed, but there are several Americans who are fighting for the gold before the games come to a close on Sunday. Beach volleyball duo is going for gold Alix Klineman and April Ross of the United States have
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By TERRY WALLACE Associated Press Investigators say an overloaded van carrying 29 migrants has crashed on a remote South Texas highway, killing at least 10 people, including the driver, and injuring 20 others. The crash happened shortly after 4 p.m. Wednesday on U.S. 281 in Encino, about 50 miles north of McAllen. Sgt. Nathan Brandley
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN Business General Motors’ very expensive Chevy Bolt recall highlights one big risk of building electric vehicles. GM is preparing to spend $800 million to fix — or possibly replace — the batteries in nearly 70,000 Bolts due to a fire risk. That comes out to about $11,650 per vehicle, making it
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN) — Este fin de semana, después de que expiró la prohibición de desalojos de casi un año, Ronald Leonard estaba aterrorizado de ser expulsado de su casa de alquiler en Daytona Beach, Florida. Pero luego, el martes por la noche, escuchó que la moratoria de desalojo se había extendido nuevamente. “Soy el
Continue Reading By David Close, CNN Simone Biles has tweeted thanks to a Japanese gym for allowing her to privately train while she attempted to regain her gold medal form after withdrawing during the women’s artistic gymnastics team final at the Summer Olympics. While thanking those at the Juntendo University in a Wednesday tweet, Biles retweeted a
Continue Reading Simone Biles has publicly thanked the gym an hour outside of Tokyo where she was able to step away from the public eye and train privately to get ready for competing in the Olympics beam event. CNN’s Will Ripley gets an exclusive tour inside the facility which helped her to overcome the “twisties” condition which forced her to pull out of the other gymnastic events.
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By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — U.S. marathoner Aliphine Tuliamuk worked her way back after giving birth in January. She took her workouts slow and steady. It got her back to the starting line for the women’s marathon in Sapporo this weekend for the Tokyo Games. She helped push organizers to allow
Continue Reading By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Nintendo’s pandemic boom may be coming to an end. The Japanese company said Thursday that sales fell nearly 10% in the quarter ended June, a sign that fewer people stayed at home to play video games as some countries around the world began to reopen. Operating profit dropped more than
Continue Reading A trio of new video games feature cats, mouse robots and living spaghetti in their game play. Yes, really. Rick Damigella reports.
Continue Reading CNN Staff If you’re planning to travel to France, here’s what you’ll need to know and expect if you want to visit during the Covid-19 pandemic. The basics There are no current Covid-related restrictions on international travel to France, although the country has had some of the most stringent Covid-19 restrictions in the world, including
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — Las pruebas de coronavirus en Estados Unidos están por debajo de donde se encontraban en puntos anteriores de la pandemia. Sin embargo, los funcionarios de salud están trabajando para que esos números vuelvan a aumentar. En una discusión organizada el martes por el Centro de Estudios Estratégicos e Internacionales, el director del
Continue Reading CNN Staff If you’re planning to travel to the UK, here’s what you’ll need to know and expect if you want to visit during the Covid-19 pandemic. The basics The United Kingdom has seen one of the highest number of deaths from Covid-19 in the world, resulting in multiple lockdowns. Earlier in 2022, the Omicron
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