EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser and County Judge Ricardo Samaniego sent a letter to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday, imploring him to allow local school districts the authority to implement face mask mandates if they so choose. In the letter, the pair said local districts should be able “to decide
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Skateboarding is an Olympic event this year for the first time in the history of the Games. For any other sport, that would be a cause for celebration. But skateboarding isn’t like any other sport. When Tokyo organizers first recommended that skateboarding be added to the lineup, thousands of people signed
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Mariana Toro Beirut, Líbano (CNN) — Me estremezco cada vez que veo imágenes de la explosión del puerto de Beirut. Así esta Beirut a un año de la explosión 0:57 En el período previo a su aniversario, mis colegas y yo hemos tenido que estudiar minuciosamente horas de video de la explosión y sus secuelas.
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson Nota del editor: Lakshman Achuthan y Anirvan Banerji son co-fundadores del instituto Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI). Las opiniones expresadas en este comentario les pertenecen únicamente a los autores. (CNN Business) — A pesar del continuo optimismo sobre la reapertura del país, el crecimiento económico de EE.UU. ya comienza a desacelerarse. Sí, las
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The country’s Covid-19 response coordinator says vaccine requirements are a growing trend.
Continue Reading By Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is expected to seek authorization to make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for all active duty troops as soon as this week, following President Joe Biden’s directive that the military examine how and when it could make that happen. Austin’s “inclination is towards making the COVID-19 vaccine
Continue Reading By Em Steck, Andrew Kaczynski and Drew Myers, CNN Long before a new report detailed sexual harassment allegations against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the state’s top Democrat touted himself as a strong supporter of women’s rights and advocated for a “zero tolerance” policy against sexual harassment. That stands at odds with the report released
Continue Reading New York’s Attorney General report concluded that Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women. For years prior to these allegations surfacing, Cuomo presented himself as a champion against sexual harassment.
Continue Reading By Veronica Stracqualursi and Mark Morales, CNN In March, when New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was facing intense public pressure from fellow Democrats to resign in the wake of numerous sexual harassment allegations, his lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul, would only issue a call to first let an investigation run its course. Now that the investigation
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Mayor Bill de Blasio announced New York City will require proof of vaccination to enter all restaurants, fitness centers and indoor entertainment venues. CNN’s Vanessa Yurkevich reports.
Continue Reading By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business The New York International Auto Show, which had been scheduled to open to the public in just two weeks, has been canceled due to concerns about the Covid-19 Delta variant and the steps being taken to prevent it. The show was first canceled in the spring of 2020 due to
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By Chris Liakos, Laura Smith-Spark and Isil Sariyuce, CNN Extreme heat and wildfires continued to plague parts of southern Europe on Wednesday, a day after the top temperature in Greece reached 47.1 degrees Celsius (117 degrees Fahrenheit) — just shy of the highest ever recorded in Europe. Greece is facing one of its worst heat
Continue Reading By Paul P. Murphy and Evan Perez, CNN The suspect in the violent attack outside the Pentagon on Tuesday that resulted in a death of a Pentagon police officer has been identified as 27-year-old Austin William Lanz of Georgia, according to a law enforcement official and Lanz’s former attorney Lisa Wells. Lanz died from injuries
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By FRESNO COUNTY, CA Click here for updates on this story FRESNO COUNTY, CA (KFSN) — A massive fire burning in a mobile home park in eastern Fresno County destroyed four homes and damaged a fifth. Flames broke out shortly after 4 am on Trimmer Springs Road and Island Park Drive – right off Pine
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By Ed Lavandera, Ashley Killough and Dakin Andone, CNN When Camila Fortuna went with her mother last week to a mobile veterinary clinic in Austin, Texas, she thought they were just getting shots for the family’s three chihuahuas, Cuca, Lilly and Tobi. But when they left, Camila, 13, had also gotten a shot: the first
Continue Reading By Ed Lavandera, Ashley Killough and Dakin Andone, CNN When Camila Fortuna went with her mother last week to a mobile veterinary clinic in Austin, Texas, she thought they were just getting shots for the family’s three chihuahuas, Cuca, Lilly and Tobi. But when they left, Camila, 13, had also gotten a shot: the first
Continue Reading By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Belarusian sprinter Kristina Timanovskaya was set to compete in the women’s 200 meters at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday, with hopes that her hard work would catapult her onto the awards podium. Instead, she has been thrust into the global spotlight for her moves off the track. According to Timanovskaya,
Continue Reading By FRESNO COUNTY, CA Click here for updates on this story FRESNO COUNTY, CA (KFSN) — Crews are cleaning up a massive tomato and grape spill after two semis collided in Fresno County. It happened after midnight on Fresno-Coalinga Road and El Dorado Avenue, south of Five Points. California Highway Patrol officers say the driver
Continue Reading By 6abc Digital Staff Click here for updates on this story WESTVILLE, NJ (WPVI) — Police in Westville, New Jersey say a father, his two daughters and niece were not wearing seatbelts before a fatal crash over the weekend. It happened on July 31, around 9 p.m., on the 1000 block of Gateway Boulevard in
Continue Reading By Ellie Kaufman, CNN Pentagon police officer George Gonzalez died Tuesday after sustaining injuries during a violent incident outside of the Pentagon building, according to a release from the Pentagon Force Protection Agency. Gonzalez joined the Pentagon Force Protection Agency as a police officer in July 2018 and was “promoted twice and attained the rank
Continue Reading By Beccah Hendrickson Click here for updates on this story SKIPPACK TOWNSHIP, PA (WPVI) — When Sara Weaver and her husband bought their dream farmhouse in Skippack Township, Montgomery County last fall, they knew it would be a fixer-upper. “I knew it was big. I didn’t realize how big it was,” said Weaver, who couldn’t
Continue Reading By Maegan Vazquez and Kristen Holmes, CNN As the status of Covid-19 in the US has changed quickly in the last few weeks with the rise of the highly contagious Delta variant, the messages coming from public health officials inside the Biden administration have sometimes been muddled or contradictory. Those changing messages have led to
Continue Reading By SIMON GUTIERREZ Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) — As more businesses and organizations around the country make moves to require vaccination, one southeast Portland bar is asking customers to show that they’re vaccinated. The owner of Misdemeanor Meadows, a bar located at 6920 Southeast 52nd Avenue, said he and
Continue Reading By Taylor Barnes, Sara Turnbull and Helen Regan, CNN Belarusian Olympic sprinter Kristina Timanovskaya, who refused to fly home fearing she would be arrested, has arrived in Poland, where she has been granted a visa on humanitarian grounds. Upon her arrival to Warsaw on Wednesday evening, Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz thanked “all Polish
Continue Reading By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Disney revealed pricing for its new, highly anticipated Star Wars hotel on Wednesday — and the cost to immerse yourself in a galaxy far, far away for a few days will not come cheap. The Disney World-based hotel Galactic Starcruiser is essentially a cruise ship set in space, with the
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Critics of Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller have filed a new ethics complaint alleging that the Democrat violated the city’s election laws by using a city employee for campaign purposes. The complaint filed by supporters of Sheriff Manuel Gonzales’ bid for mayor also alleges Keller’s reelection campaign illegally accepted seed money from
Continue Reading By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent House investigators have interviewed a former Justice Department official who drafted — but never sent — a resignation letter over what he said were former President Donald Trump’s “direct instructions” to use the department to support his false election fraud claims. Patrick Hovakimian, chief of staff to then-acting Attorney
Continue Reading British horticulturalist Adam Alexander collects, grows and saves endangered vegetable varieties, in an effort to preserve the genetic diversity of edible crops.
Continue Reading Words by Sasha Fairhead, video by Gisella Deputato, CNN Hidden amongst lush Welsh woods and fields of wildflowers, grows an assortment of rare vegetable varieties. They might look ordinary enough, but many have been saved from extinction. Each variety has its own story. The Syrian long pepper was grown from seeds taken out of the
Continue Reading By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business After pandemic-fueled delays last year, the Tokyo Olympics have gotten a lot of attention around this summer. Unfortunately for NBC, that attention has not translated to viewership. NBC’s TV audience for the summer Olympics is down a whopping 45% from the Rio games in 2016. Viewership in prime-time is even
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