DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Authorities in Dubai said a fiery explosion erupted on a container ship anchored at one of the world’s largest ports, sending tremors across the commercial hub of the United Arab Emirates. The blaze sent up giant orange flames on a vessel late Wednesday at the crucial Jebel Ali Port, which
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By Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace, CNN Federal officials say they will look into a group of 30 “disruptive” high schoolers who American Airlines removed from a Bahamas-bound flight on Monday. American Airlines said the teens were kicked off flight 893 from Charlotte to Nassau after they were told to wear federally mandated masks, caused
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A mother says her son and his friends are being blamed for a mask dispute on an airplane and were forced off the plane.
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By ANDREW MASSE Click here for updates on this story CANTON, Connecticut (WFSB) — If you plan on going for a walk or a bike ride before the severe weather moves in, there’s one trail you should avoid. Canton Police say that a mother bear and her two cubs were seen this afternoon in the
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By Holmes Lybrand and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Violent crime in the United States shot up last year as the pandemic raged. Major cities across the country saw a more than 30% jump in homicides as well as increases in aggravated assaults, according to a January report from the National Commission on Covid-19 and Criminal Justice.
Continue Reading By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story BEAVERTON, Oregon (KPTV) — A woman was helped to safety late last month by two men after a suspect sexually assaulted her at a MAX train platform, according to Beaverton police. During the early morning hours of Friday, June 25, police say the victim, a
Continue Reading By Kate Sullivan, CNN The Biden administration is sending millions of Covid-19 vaccines to countries in Latin America this week as part of President Joe Biden’s commitment to play a leading role in ending the pandemic across the globe. One million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine will ship to Bolivia on Thursday, one
Continue Reading By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — According to court documents, a former Mobile County Public Schools employee was arrested on a Grand Jury Indictment this morning on two counts of ethic violations. According to MCPSS, Jennifer Gulley was a former cafeteria manager who, while she was still
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — La tormenta tropical Elsa, que tocó tierra en la mañana de este miércoles en Florida, ha seguido avanzando hacia el interior y se ha debilitado a una tormenta tropical de 80,4 km/h, según un aviso de las 2 p.m. ET del Centro Nacional de Huracanes. El sistema seguirá hacia Georgia
Continue Reading By Amanda Becker Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — As more vaccine clinics close in our area, community leaders are taking a new approach to get vaccine numbers up. Wednesday employees and volunteers of the Community Mobilization Project were bussed to Sixth and Keefe to start knocking on doors. It’s
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Lynne Spears is asking the Los Angeles County Superior court to allow her daughter Britney Spears to choose her own conservatorship attorney. In a court filing obtained by CNN Wednesday and dated July 1, Lynne Spears states via her attorneys that her daughter is in a much different place than when
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen and Devan Cole, CNN The Justice Department has charged a Pennsylvania man who allegedly attacked an Associated Press photographer and used a stun gun while assaulting police officers during the Capitol insurrection on January 6. Alan Byerly, who is one of many Capitol riot defendants arrested recently in connection with attacks on
Continue Reading New video shows brawling with officers, and officer’s badge allegedly stolen, as questions about security failures linger, six months after Capitol riot.
Continue Reading By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Fort Lauderdale, Florida plans to strike a deal with Elon Musk‘s The Boring Company to build a tunnel between its downtown and the beach. The Boring Company would offer rides in Teslas to hundreds of people a day for $5-8 per person, the city’s leaders have said before. A similar
Continue Reading By Annie Grayer and Daniella Diaz, CNN Republican Rep. Jim Hagedorn announced a reoccurrence of his kidney cancer on Wednesday. The Minnesota lawmaker was first diagnosed with stage IV kidney cancer on February 15, 2019, and had been receiving care at Rochester’s Mayo Clinic. “Over the weekend, recent tests conducted at the Mayo Clinic revealed
Continue Reading By Joel Brown Click here for updates on this story RALEIGH, North Carolina (WTVD) — There were many Black professionals and academics watching Tuesday morning’s interview with Nikole Hannah-Jones as if they were sitting in a Black church. That is to say, there were some loud “amens” spoken in agreement to what Hannah-Jones said about
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Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise was killed during an attack on his private residence early on July 7, according to the country’s acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph. CNN’s Melissa Bell reports.
Continue Reading CNNEE (CNN) — El expresidente Donald Trump presentó el miércoles demandas colectivas contra Facebook y su CEO Mark Zuckerberg Twitter y su CEO Jack Dorsey luego de ser removido de sus plataformas. Trump también presentó una demanda colectiva contra YouTube, que nombra a Sundar Pichai, director ejecutivo de la empresa matriz de YouTube, Google, en
Continue Reading Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — El 20 veces ganador de Grand Slam, Roger Federer, perdió ante Hubert Hurkacz 6-3, 7-6, (7-4), 6-0 en los cuartos de final de individuales masculinos en Wimbledon. Esta fue la primera derrota consecutiva de Federer en Wimbledon desde 2002, el año antes de su primer campeonato allí. Federer, de
Continue Reading By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story RALEIGH, North Carolina (WTVD) — Raleigh became the latest Triangle city to pass an ordinance forbidding discrimination based on hairstyle or hair texture. The city council passed the ordinance unanimously in its regular meeting Tuesday. Back on Feb. 16, Councilmember Stormie D. Forte had asked
Continue Reading By Neelam Bohra and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN The Oakland and Denver zoos will be among the first to start vaccinating tigers, bears and other mammals susceptible to coronavirus infections with a new animal Covid-19 vaccine from animal health company Zoetis. The vaccine requires two doses and was first administered to gorillas in the San Diego
Continue Reading Health experts are worried about growing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among young adults as the Delta variant continues to spread across the U.S.
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Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, CNN As some states move toward banning critical race theory from public schools, the president of the second-largest teachers’ union in the country has vowed to defend teachers against any backlash. “Mark my words: Our union will defend any member who gets in trouble for teaching honest history,” Randi Weingarten, president of
Continue Reading By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story DURHAM, North Carolina (WRAL) — A man that was deported in 2018 after seeking sanctuary inside a Durham church has died in a car accident in Mexico. Pastors at CityWell Church confirmed on Tuesday that Samuel Oliver-Bruno died earlier this week in a hospital in
Continue Reading By Heath Allen Click here for updates on this story MOUNT WILSON, California (KABC) — Video shows the dramatic moment a bear attacked a man while he was celebrating the Fourth of July on Mount Wilson with a group of friends. Photographer Ryan Duke says he was near the top of Mount Wilson with his
Continue Reading By Dan Merica, CNN President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will hold separate events Thursday to focus attention on Democratic efforts to combat voter suppression and protect voting rights nationwide, Democratic officials tell CNN. Harris will announce the expansion of the Democratic National Committee’s “I Will Vote” campaign with an event in the
Continue Reading By Chandelis Duster and Catherine Valentine, CNN Then-President Donald Trump allegedly praised Adolf Hitler during a discussion with his White House chief of staff John Kelly in 2018 while on a trip to Paris to commemorate the armistice after World War I, according to excerpts of an upcoming book, obtained by CNN, from Wall Street
Continue Reading CNN’s David Chalian discusses an excerpt from a new book which alleges that former President Donald Trump once told his then Chief of Staff John Kelly that Adolf Hitler “did a lot of good things.”
Continue Reading By Omar Jimenez and Carma Hassan, CNN Darnella Frazier, the teen who recorded George Floyd’s murder, said Tuesday that her uncle died in a car crash involving Minneapolis Police. Frazier identified her uncle as Leneal Lamont Frazier in a Facebook post, saying she is “so hurt” and “nothing feels real.” “Minneapolis police has cost my
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