Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Casi todo el crecimiento de la población de Estados Unidos se produjo en sus ciudades, según los nuevos datos del censo de 2020 publicados este jueves. Más de la mitad de todos los condados vieron disminuir su población desde 2010. “El crecimiento de la población en esta década se produjo
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By KEN MILLER Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals says a U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting state jurisdiction for crimes committed on tribal reservations by or against tribal citizens does not apply retroactively. The ruling could affect hundreds of state convictions that have been overturned and Oklahoma inmates who
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HOUSTON (AP) — Texas has declared the genital mutilation of a child for purposes of gender confirmation, a surgery almost never performed on minors, should be considered child abuse. The Houston Chronicle reports the state Department of Family and Protective Services made the determination Wednesday per Gov. Greg Abbott’s request. Abbott said the agency’s ruling
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Dr. Britt Maxwell joins CNN’s New Day after an anti-mask crowd harassed him for speaking in support of masks in schools at a Tennessee school board meeting.
Continue Reading By Maegan Vazquez and Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday hit out at anti-masking protesters for politicizing the Covid-19 pandemic, saying he was particularly disturbed by scenes at a school board meeting in Tennessee earlier this week. During remarks on his plan to lower prescription drug costs, Biden said there are people in
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A Virginia school board whose heated meeting in June gained national attention has voted to expand the rights of its transgender and gender-expansive students. The Loudoun County School Board voted Wednesday on a policy that allows transgender student athletes to play on teams based on their gender identity; allows transgender students
Continue Reading After losing her husband in a tragic accident, Michele Neff Hernandez founded Soaring Spirits to bring together other widows. Over the last 13 years, the organization has reached more than four million widowed people.
Continue Reading By Meg Dunn, CNN In 2005, Michele Neff Hernandez and her husband, Phillip, were enjoying the active life they built as a couple. “We hiked. We biked. We ran. We just had such a good time together,” Neff Hernandez said. But everything changed on a late August evening when Phillip went for a bike ride
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Continue Reading By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico has retained its title as the nation’s most heavily Hispanic state, with 47.7% of respondents to the 2020 census identifying ancestry linked to Latin America and other Spanish-speaking areas. The Census Bureau on Thursday released new demographic details culled from the census. California
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By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico has retained its title as the nation’s most heavily Hispanic state, with 47.7% of respondents to the 2020 census identifying ancestry linked to Latin America and other Spanish-speaking areas. The Census Bureau on Thursday released new demographic details culled from the census. California
Continue Reading TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel says it has downed an unarmed Hezbollah drone that crossed the border from Lebanon. The army said in a statement on Thursday that it downed the drone when it crossed the border into Israeli airspace a day earlier. The incident was the latest uptick in activity along Israel’s northern
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By Gregory Lemos As the Delta variant drives a surge of Covid-19 cases in Florida, a rapid-response unit will be deployed to administer monoclonal antibody treatments to residents infected with the virus, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday. “This is the most effective treatment that we’ve yet encountered for people who are infected with Covid-19,” DeSantis
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — Las fuertes discusiones se extendieron hasta un estacionamiento el martes por la noche después de que el consejo escolar de un condado suburbano de Tennessee aprobara un requisito temporal de mascarillas en las escuelas primarias debido a la pandemia de covid-19. En un momento en que los debates sobre las mascarillas en
Continue Reading By Leah Asmelash, CNN Since rising to fame with her inauguration poem, Amanda Gorman has stayed busy — appearing on the cover of magazines and preparing to drop her debut poetry collection. Now, the former National Youth Poet Laureate is giving back, with a new creative writing award for public high school students boasting a
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By LARRY FLEISHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Pete Alonso hit a game-ending homer with one out in the seventh inning and the New York Mets quickly bounced back from blowing the lead, beating the Washington Nationals 5-4 for a doubleheader sweep. The Mets won the opener 4-1 as Brandon Nimmo homered and drove
Continue Reading By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge has once again rejected one of 11 sexual assault counts in an indictment of Harvey Weinstein. Judge Lisa Lench first dismissed the count of sexual battery by restraint two weeks ago, saying it was too old and outside the statute of
Continue Reading WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — The Winnipeg Jets have agreed to terms with forward Andrew Copp on a one-year contract. The deal is worth $3.6 million for Copp, who had 15 goals and 24 assists in 55 games for the Jets last season, adding two assists in eight playoff games. The 27-year-old Ann Arbor, Michigan native
Continue Reading By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press The COVID-19 surge that is sending hospitalizations to all-time highs in parts of the South is also clobbering states like Hawaii and Oregon that were once seen as pandemic success stories. After months in which they kept cases and hospitalizations at manageable rates, they are watching
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — En la mayoría de los casos un “breakthrough” se refiere a un avance o descubrimiento repentino, de gran relevancia o impacto. Pero con el covid-19, se ha utilizado para describir una infección que “irrumpió” la protección inmunitaria de la vacuna, y esto se suele malinterpretar como una señal de que la
Continue Reading By AMANDA LEE MYERS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kit Harington has turned in his bulky black fur coat and brooding “Game of Thrones” character, Jon Snow, for a lighter role in the new season of “Modern Love.” In it, the 34-year-old plays a tech worker and a hopeful romantic dazzled by a woman
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By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN Rock band Phish announced mid-tour a more stringent policy Thursday requiring ticketholders for their summer and fall tour dates provide proof of Covid-19 vaccination or a negative test, beginning with their shows at The Gorge in Washington later this month. The foursome, known for their marathon jam sessions and longtime devoted
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UPDATE: AUSTIN, Texas — Texas law enforcement was deputized Thursday to track down Texas House Democrats still missing from the chamber and bring them to the state Capitol in Austin, a process that Speaker Dade Phelan’s office said “will begin in earnest immediately.” The news came as the Texas Supreme Court cleared the way for their
Continue Reading NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Seton Hall University has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by former basketball player Myles Powell over a knee injury that Powell claims was misdiagnosed. In its brief, the school argues that it is shielded from Powell’s negligence claims under state law governing schools and other institutions. It also
Continue Reading NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Seton Hall University has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by former basketball player Myles Powell over a knee injury that Powell claims was misdiagnosed. In its brief, the school argues that it is shielded from Powell’s negligence claims under state law governing schools and other institutions. It also
Continue Reading By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer Oklahoma running back Kennedy Brooks maximized his time while sitting out last season due to COVID-19 concerns. Brooks rushed for 2,067 yards and 18 touchdowns his first two years with the Sooners. Now that he’s vaccinated, he’s ready to jump back into action. Brooks adds his smooth running style
Continue Reading By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Ready to go out on the town before summer ends? In parts of the U.S., you might have to carry around your COVID-19 vaccine card or a digital copy to get into restaurants, bars, nightclubs and music festivals. After resisting the divisive concept of vaccine
Continue Reading By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Ready to go out on the town before summer ends? In parts of the U.S., you might have to carry around your COVID-19 vaccine card or a digital copy to get into restaurants, bars, nightclubs and music festivals. After resisting the divisive concept of vaccine
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian opposition activist and her husband have been handed prison sentences on drug charges they have rejected as a sham. A court in Pskov in northwestern Russia on Thursday convicted Lia Milushkina and her husband Artyom Milushkin on charges of selling illegal drugs and sentenced them to 10 1/2 and 11
Continue Reading By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — When a World Health Organization-led team traveled to China earlier this year to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, a top official said he was worried about biosafety standards at a laboratory close to the market where the first human cases were detected, according to
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