By Jen Christensen, CNN Before vaccines, the San Francisco Department of Public Health needed three whiteboards to capture all the names of senior facilities that had Covid-19 outbreaks. “We had been dealing with outbreaks the whole time. Everywhere, at a ton of facilities, big, small, rich, poor, it didn’t matter,” said Dr. Louise Aronson,a professor
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By Jen Christensen, CNN Before vaccines, the San Francisco Department of Public Health needed three whiteboards to capture all the names of senior facilities that had Covid-19 outbreaks. “We had been dealing with outbreaks the whole time. Everywhere, at a ton of facilities, big, small, rich, poor, it didn’t matter,” said Dr. Louise Aronson,a professor
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By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer WARREN, Mich. (AP) — General Motors says it’s building a huge new electric vehicle battery lab in Michigan. There scientists will work on chemistry to cut costs 60% over current vehicles and allow people to travel 500 to 600 miles per charge. Structural steel already is in place for
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By Samantha Murphy Kelly and Clare Duffy, CNN Business The Facebook whistleblower who released tens of thousands of pages of internal research and documents indicating the company was aware of various problems caused by its apps, including Instagram’s potential “toxic” effect on teen girls, called on Congress to take action against the social media platform
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — A court says that the 96-year-old former secretary for the Stutthof concentration camp’s SS commander has been released from detention. The German woman was picked up by police on Thursday, a few hours after leaving her home in Hamburg in a taxi on the morning her trial on more than 11,000 counts
Continue Reading Sen. Elizabeth Warren tells Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell that his track record gives her grave concern and she will oppose his potential renomination.
Continue Reading By Matt Egan, CNN Business Senator Elizabeth Warren on Monday urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch an insider trading investigation into transactions by high-level officials at the Federal Reserve. The Massachusetts Democrat called for the agency to conduct a “sweeping review of all securities trades” by Fed officials to determine if they violated
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EL PASO, Texas — This week, many Borderland students are currently out of the classroom and on a short break as the fall intersession is underway, but this time isn’t going to waste as some students are now getting some much needed extra help. About a quarter of all Ysleta Independent School District students have
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By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Jon Rahm has quickly realized things have changed for him in Spain. His U.S. Open win and rise to No. 1 golfer in the world have turned him into a star transcending sports and on the same level as the likes of Rafael Nadal, Pau Gasol
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By DANICA KIRKA and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to authorize the emergency use of an antibody treatment to prevent COVID-19. The company said Tuesday that the treatment would be the first long-acting antibody combination to receive an emergency use authorization for
Continue Reading By DANICA KIRKA and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to authorize the emergency use of an antibody treatment to prevent COVID-19. The company said Tuesday that the treatment would be the first long-acting antibody combination to receive an emergency use authorization for
Continue Reading ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The president of North Macedonia is making the country’s first state visit to Greece. President Stevo Pendarovski met in Athens with Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday. Pendarovski is seeking support for North Macedonia’s stalled effort to join the European Union. The former Yugoslav republic of
Continue Reading CNN By Samantha Murphy Kelly and Clare Duffy, CNN Business The Facebook whistleblower who released tens of thousands of pages of internal research and documents indicating the company was aware of various problems caused by its apps, including Instagram’s potential “toxic” effect on teen girls, called on Congress to take action against the social media
Continue Reading By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent I have bad news for you: We’re stuck with this novel coronavirus in our environment perhaps indefinitely. And there might be another, more deadly and contagious pathogen right behind it that’s poised to dart around the world and stir yet another pandemic. But here’s the good news:
Continue Reading By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent I have bad news for you: We’re stuck with this novel coronavirus in our environment perhaps indefinitely. And there might be another, more deadly and contagious pathogen right behind it that’s poised to dart around the world and stir yet another pandemic. But here’s the good news:
Continue Reading By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer PARIS (AP) — France and the United States are edging closer toward rapprochement after the Biden administration’s exclusion of Washington’s oldest ally from a new Indo-Pacific security initiative ignited French anger. President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Tuesday in Paris to explore ways to
Continue Reading MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The son and namesake of the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos has announced he would seek the presidency in next year’s elections in what activists say is an attempt to whitewash a dark period in the country’s history marked by human rights atrocities. Former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. announced his
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By Katie Lobosco, CNN Education Secretary Miguel Cardona is set to announce big changes this week to a federal student loan forgiveness program that aims to provide government and nonprofit workers significant relief but has caused widespread confusion, leaving many people with thousands of dollars of debt. Borrowers have long complained about how difficult it
Continue Reading By SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet Tips for getting rich are everywhere. Friends brag about their latest money moves at parties, while social media influencers tout ways to gain wealth. You might have a little fear of missing out if you don’t have your own exciting financial news to share. But growing your net worth doesn’t
Continue Reading By SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet Tips for getting rich are everywhere. Friends brag about their latest money moves at parties, while social media influencers tout ways to gain wealth. You might have a little fear of missing out if you don’t have your own exciting financial news to share. But growing your net worth doesn’t
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Un tramo de la costa del sur de California se ha transformado por una fuga en una ducto que derramó más de 100.000 galones (casi 380.000 litros) de petróleo en el Océano Pacífico. Las playas de Huntington Beach, normalmente bulliciosas y que reciben a los turistas con un cartel que
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Johnson & Johnson dijo este martes que ha pedido a la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos de EE.UU. (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés) que autorice las inyecciones de refuerzo de su vacuna contra el covid-19. Sin embargo, ha dejado en manos de la FDA y de los Centros para
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta and Katie Hunt, CNN The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to scientists Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi, whose groundbreaking work over the past 60 years predicted climate change and decoded complex physical systems. Manabe, 90, and Hasselmann, 89, were jointly honored for “the physical modelling of Earth’s climate,
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has removed Anguilla, Dominica and Seychelles from its tax haven blacklist. EU finance ministers took the move Tuesday amid an uproar over the Pandora Papers revelations about the financial activities of the global elite. Anguilla, Dominica and Seychelles were placed on the list because they didn’t meet the EU’s
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has removed Anguilla, Dominica and Seychelles from its tax haven blacklist. EU finance ministers took the move Tuesday amid an uproar over the Pandora Papers revelations about the financial activities of the global elite. Anguilla, Dominica and Seychelles were placed on the list because they didn’t meet the EU’s
Continue Reading By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRDO CASTLE, Slovenia (AP) — European Union leaders met for the first time Tuesday since the messy Western troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and France’s loss of a multi-billion dollar submarine deal with Australia. The EU argues that those events have exposed Europe’s need for more autonomy on defense. The dinner
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — El billete ganador del premio mayor de Powerball se vendió en California, según la lotería. El boleto se vendió en una tienda de comestibles en Morro Bay, anunció la Lotería de California en su sitio web. El premio mayor tiene un valor de US$ 699,8 millones con un valor en efectivo de
Continue Reading Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said 56 Chinese warplanes made incursions into its air defense identification zone on Monday, the highest number since the island began publicly reporting such activities last year. CNN’s Will Ripley has more.
Continue Reading Portions of the South are expected to get as much rainfall over the next couple days as they normally would see over the whole of October. CNN meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has the forecast.
Continue Reading Members of the Catholic clergy sexually abused more than 200,000 minors in France over the last seven decades, a survey carried out as part of an independent probe into abuse within the church estimates. CNN’s Cyril Vanier reports.
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