By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Gerber and Beech-Nut failed to properly test and remove baby foods with dangerous levels of inorganic arsenic from the market, while Sprout Foods Inc., Walmart’s Parent’s Choice and Campbell’s Plum Organics baby food were lax in testing and controlling for heavy metals such as lead, mercury and cadmium, according to a
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San Diego Unified School board votes to require vaccinations for eligible students and staff
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi and Alexandra Meeks, CNN The board of California’s second-largest school district unanimously approved a mandate Tuesday that all eligible students and staff must be vaccinated against Covid-19 by late December. The measure impacts students ages 16 and older and employees of the San Diego Unified School District and says they must be
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, CNN Mandates that require employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19 have spurred workers to get vaccinated in recent weeks — yet some holdouts have been suspended or lost their jobs, and workplaces are scrambling to cover potential shortages. The tradeoff — a disrupted workplace in the short term in exchange for widespread
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By Amanda Jackson, CNN Hawaii residents and tourists will no longer be able to swim or get in close contact with Hawaiian spinner dolphins, according to a new rule by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The rule has been years in the making, as biologists have long noticed that the playful mammals have been
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By Melanie Zanona and Lauren Fox, CNN House Republican leaders are launching an all-out campaign to sink a bipartisan infrastructure bill, as Democratic leaders struggle to unite their caucus around the legislation ahead of a high-stakes floor vote on Thursday. While the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package contains popular items widely supported by both parties —
Continue Reading By Kay Jones, CNN Police in Fort Worth, Texas, arrested a man on Monday for allegedly killing and dismembering three people and then putting their bodies in a dumpster and setting it on fire. Police said Jason Alan Thornburg, 41, admitted to killing a man and two women in a hotel room over the course
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By CHARLENE PELE Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate said youth delegates at a gathering in Italy’s financial capital are struggling to get their voices through in an event that she and others complain has been heavily orchestrated. Nakate is among 400 activists invited to Italy’s financial capital for a three-day
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By CHARLENE PELE Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate said youth delegates at a gathering in Italy’s financial capital are struggling to get their voices through in an event that she and others complain has been heavily orchestrated. Nakate is among 400 activists invited to Italy’s financial capital for a three-day
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed In briefs filed Wednesday in the Justice Department’s challenge to Texas’ abortion ban, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton touted the trips Texas women are making out of state to obtain abortions as a point in his favor in defending the law. Paxton was addressing an argument that the Biden administration had made
Continue Reading By Chandelis Duster and Nick Valencia, CNN Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is defending her proposal to use the state’s allotment of coronavirus relief funds to build new prisons in the state after receiving criticism from Democrats. Ivey, a Republican, on Monday convened a special session of the Alabama legislature to discuss how to fix what
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Days before the start of a tumultuous term, and after the Supreme Court justices divided bitterly over a Texas law that bars most abortions after six weeks, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned an audience of law students about the frustration of having to write dissents. “There is going
Continue Reading By Nikki Carvajal, CNN The White House believes vaccine requirements for large private companies are still weeks away from being implemented, weeks after President Joe Biden announced the new mandates were coming. During a press briefing on Wednesday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the administration hopes to have “more detail” on the regulations
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN) — Britney Spears obtuvo una victoria legal el miércoles en su lucha por recuperar el control de su vida. La jueza de Los Ángeles suspendió a Jamie Spears, el padre de la cantante, como tutor de su patrimonio y designó un reemplazo temporal para supervisar sus finanzas hasta el 31 de
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Engage in battle with LEGO minifigures in galaxy far, far away in a game exclusively on Apple Arcade. Rick Damigella reports.
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN) — La tutela que controlaba partes de la vida y el patrimonio de Britney Spears llegó a su fin. Esto ocurrió después de una serie de eventos que se desencadenaron tras una audiencia en donde la cantante calificó a su tutela como “abusiva”. Durante la audiencia realizada en junio, Spears ofreció su testimonio
Continue Reading By Katie Lobosco and Tami Luhby, CNN The US Department of Agriculture is sending $1.5 billion to schools struggling to serve students healthy lunches as supply chain disruptions lead to continued food shortages, delivery delays and higher costs. School districts across the country are facing extraordinary challenges in feeding students, many of whom are returning
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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Students at one of New Mexico’s largest public universities will be disenrolled if they don’t comply with a vaccine mandate or opt to get tested regularly. The move is part of the University of New Mexico’s policy for having all students inoculated, whether they’re taking
Continue Reading By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Dollar Tree for decades has sold most of its products for a dollar. Now it’s adding products for higher prices at thousands of stores. The company said Tuesday that it will begin selling items at $1.25 and $1.50 at some locations for the first time. It will also add $3
Continue Reading By Daniella Diaz and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Senate Parliamentarian on Wednesday rejected Democrats’ second attempt to try to include a pathway to legalization for immigrants in a bill that could be passed with just Democratic support, a source tells CNN. Democrats argued this time to the parliamentarian that they include a provision to change
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN) — La serie dramática surcoreana “Squid Game”, conocida como “El juego del calamar” en Latinoamérica, ha cautivado al público de todo el mundo, convirtiéndose en el programa número uno de Netflix. “Hay un programa en Netflix en este momento que es el número uno en el mundo, en todas partes del mundo”,
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By Derek Van Dam, CNN Meteorologist Tropical Storm Victor formed Wednesday afternoon in the eastern Atlantic, the second to last name on this year’s list — a feat that’s reserved for only the most active hurricane seasons. The National Hurricane Center initiated advisories Wednesday morning on the latest tropical depression to form, maintaining the momentum
Continue Reading By Maggie Fox, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an urgent recommendation Wednesday for pregnant women and those who have recently given birth to get vaccinated against coronavirus. Women trying or planning to become pregnant and those who are breastfeeding should also be vaccinated — but only 31% of pregnant people
Continue Reading By Maggie Fox, CNN Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday it has asked the US Food and Drug Administration to authorize booster shots for its coronavirus vaccine, but has left it up to the FDA and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to decide just who should get their boosters and when. “We’re describing
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By Kristen Holmes Americans across the country could start seeing slowdowns in mail delivery across the country as early as Friday when the United States Postal Service implements its new service standards. The new changes, which include longer first-class mail delivery times and cuts to post office hours, are part of embattled Postmaster General Louis
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La junta directiva del segundo distrito escolar más grande de California aprobó por unanimidad este martes un mandato para que todos los estudiantes y el personal que reúnan los requisitos necesarios se vacunen contra el covid-19 antes de finales de diciembre. La medida aplica para los estudiantes mayores de 16 años
Continue Reading By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Leaders of the House Oversight and Reform Committee are questioning the FBI’s handling of a July ransomware attack on a Florida-based IT firm that compromised up to 1,500 businesses. Reps. Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat, and James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, have requested a briefing from FBI Director Christopher Wray
Continue Reading marpichel (CNN) — Cuando se trata de socializar, Inglaterra tiene sus pubs. Italia tiene sus piazzas. E Islandia tiene sus piscinas al aire libre. En una tarde de nieve en febrero, la piscina al aire libre en el West End de la capital, Reykjavik, estaba llena. Las risas y charlas llenaban el aire. Este es lugar
Continue Reading dzaratsian Nota del editor: El artículo es de The School of Life, en asociación con CNN, hace parte de una serie sobre la vida más filosófica durante la pandemia de coronavirus. (CNN) — Lo que la mayoría de nosotros anhelamos por encima de todo es la ‘seguridad’, la sensación de que, por fin, estamos a
Continue Reading Mariana Toro Londres (CNN) — No existe tal cosa como un nivel “seguro” de consumo de alcohol, y un mayor consumo de este está asociado con una peor salud cerebral, según un nuevo estudio. En un estudio observacional, que aún no ha sido revisado por pares, investigadores de la Universidad de Oxford estudiaron la relación
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