By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Last year was Europe’s hottest on record, according to a report published Wednesday by the American Meteorological Society, which also found 2020 to be among the three hottest years globally. The UK Met Office, which contributed to the report, said record had been broken “by a considerable amount.” Average temperatures in
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TURIN, Italy (AP) — Serie A club Juventus has moved a step closer to receiving a cash injection of up to 400 million euros ($475 million) by issuing new shares in the club. The Juventus board approved a proposal for the new share issue, having already signed a pre-underwriting agreement with several major financial institutions
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Un gigantesco estudio mundial concluye que el número de personas mayores de 30 años con presión arterial alta se ha duplicado en los últimos 30 años, y más de la mitad de ellas no reciben tratamiento para ello. Y eso a pesar de que existen muchos tratamientos baratos y fáciles, desde
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TUSCUMBIA, Ala. (AP) — Workers have used dynamite to demolish six smokestacks at a decommissioned power plant in Alabama. The implosion took place Wednesday at the old Colbert Fossil Plant, which was operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority for more than six decades beginning in 1955. TVA says the work is part of its move
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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN A dozen people have been hospitalized with salmonella and two dozen sickened as of August 24 in multistate outbreaks of two different strains of salmonella, the US Centers for Disease and Prevention announced Wednesday. People who became sick reported eating salami, prosciutto and other deli meats that can be found in
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By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer Former NFL star Deion Sanders is eager to put Jackson State on the football map and help raise the profile of historically Black colleges and universities around the nation. He’s off to a solid first step on the field with a 4-3 mark last season. His team opens with
Continue Reading By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer Former NFL star Deion Sanders is eager to put Jackson State on the football map and help raise the profile of historically Black colleges and universities around the nation. He’s off to a solid first step on the field with a 4-3 mark last season. His team opens with
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By Jessica Schneider, Ellie Kaufman and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The Pentagon is mandating that US military service members get fully vaccinated against Covid-19 immediately, after the Food and Drug Administration fully approved the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine this week. The Pentagon is mandating all US military service members receive the vaccine that has been fully authorized
Continue Reading DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Death Valley National Park rangers are reminding visitors to limit stressful activities during summer heat after another hiker died along the same trail within days. Authorities say 52-year-old Blake Chaplin of Leawood, Kansas, was found dead Aug. 21 along the Golden Canyon Trail. The temperature on Aug. 21
Continue Reading Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — La Agencia Nacional de Minería de Colombia (ANM) informó este martes por la noche que recuperaron los cuerpos de 12 trabajadores luego de que se presentara una explosión en una mina de carbón en el municipio de Tópaga, departamento de Boyacá (centro del país). Hay uno más que se reporta herido. Según la
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By Jack Guy, CNN Virgin Hyperloop has released a new concept video showing its plans for a transportation system it says will allow passengers to travel in a pod in a near-vacuum tube, reaching speeds of up to 670 mph. The company claims the system will “set the standard for 21st century travel” and allow
Continue Reading FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Veteran tight end Kyle Rudolph is finally getting on the field with the New York Giants. The Giants announced Rudolph has passed his physical and was taken off the physically unable to perform/active list. He’ll practice on a limited basis this week. Rudolph had offseason foot surgery and had been unable
Continue Reading CNNEE (CNN) — Delta Air Lines está poniendo una nueva fecha límite para los empleados no vacunados que requerirá que tomen pruebas semanales de covid-19 y paguen un recargo de US$ 200 por mes, dependiendo de su seguro. El director ejecutivo de Delta, Ed Bastian, hizo el anuncio en un memorando de toda la empresa
Continue Reading By Zachary Cohen, Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer and Whitney Wild, CNN Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to invoke executive privilege in an effort to block the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot from obtaining a massive tranche of documents it’s demanding from several US government agencies, despite his successor having
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has welcomed a group of 124 Afghan media workers and their families who fled their country after the Taliban takeover. The group arrived aboard a flight in the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday. The Afghans had worked for various media outlets, and had requested humanitarian visas because of the Taliban’s hostility
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Add the late PBS painter Bob Ross to the list of youthful memories with a darker side, at least in terms of the messy battle that followed his death. “Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed” won’t ruin anyone’s childhood, but it does reflect the difficulty of remembering such personalities
Continue Reading By TERRY SPENCER and DAVID FISCHER MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A gunman walked into a Miami Beach restaurant and fatally shot a tourist who was protecting his 1-year-old son. Tamarius Blair Davis told investigators he shot 21-year-old Dustin Wakefield on Tuesday night because “was high on mushrooms, which made him feel empowered. He told
Continue Reading LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah believes she can break Florence Griffith Joyner’s 33-year-old record in the 100 meters if she runs in the perfect conditions. Don’t expect it to happen in Lausanne at the Athletissima with the forecast predicting 68 degrees Fahrenheit. That is cooler than ideal temperatures for breaking the record
Continue Reading CNNEE (CNN Español) — Autoridades paraguayas detuvieron este martes a Kassem Mohamad Hijazi, ciudadano brasileño de origen libanés residente en el país. El operativo se desarrolló en Ciudad del Este, que forma parte de la llamada Triple Frontera, compuesta por Paraguay, Argentina y Brasil. Según una conferencia de prensa dada por la Fiscalía y la
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Moderna anunció este miércoles que concluyó su solicitud a la Administración de Medicamentos y Alimentos de EE.UU. (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés) para la aprobación total de su vacuna contra el covid-19 para personas de 18 años o más. Moderna dijo que solicitó una revisión prioritaria a la agencia. La
Continue Reading By Carma Hassan and Kay Jones, CNN A volleyball coach says administrators at Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, forced him to leave his job because he refused to denounce being gay. Inoke Tonga said in a Facebook post that administrators asked him if he posted about being gay on social media and
Continue Reading By DANIEL NIEMANN Associated Press DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — A former mayor of a central Afghanistan city is in Germany after having fled her homeland along with thousands of others who feared the Taliban’s takeover put their lives at risk. As a young female mayor appointed in 2018, Zarifa Ghafari was a shining example of
Continue Reading By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two conservative hoaxers face a record $5.1 million fine for allegedly making illegal robocalls to wireless phones without the owners’ consent in the 2020 election. The Federal Communications Commission says the proposed fine for Jacob Wohl, Jack Burkman and Burkman’s lobbying firm would be the largest
Continue Reading By Priya Krishnakumar, CNN Black women in the United States are more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than any other demographic — and the Covid-19 pandemic may be exacerbating one of the starkest disparities in American health care. Health care practitioners and advocacy groups have raised the alarm that the pandemic, which has
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The bones of a teenage hunter-gatherer who died more than 7,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi tell the story of a previously unknown group of humans. This distinct human lineage has never been found anywhere else in the world, according to new research. The study published Wednesday in
Continue Reading By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press A federal report finds that in the run up to the 2020 presidential election U.S. states and territories had spent less than a third of the $805 million Congress had provided to shore up security for state and local election systems. A state-by-state snapshot released last month by the U.S.
Continue Reading By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press A federal report finds that in the run up to the 2020 presidential election U.S. states and territories had spent less than a third of the $805 million Congress had provided to shore up security for state and local election systems. A state-by-state snapshot released last month by the U.S.
Continue Reading By BEN FOX and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 82,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan since the Taliban seized the capital Kabul on Aug. 14. It’s one of the largest U.S. airlifts in history. While the pace has picked up in recent days, it’s still a chaotic scramble as people
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By BEN FOX and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 82,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan since the Taliban seized the capital Kabul on Aug. 14. It’s one of the largest U.S. airlifts in history. While the pace has picked up in recent days, it’s still a chaotic scramble as people
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By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Disney World will require vaccinations for many of its employees at the Florida-based resort after the company made a deal with two of its employees’ unions. The resort, which is located in Orlando, Florida, reached an agreement with the Service Trades Council Union and the Actors Equity Association on Monday.
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