By Jason Hanna and Haley Brink, CNN A tropical storm watch was issued for the Florida Keys as Tropical Storm Elsa battered parts of the Dominican Republic and Haiti with heavy rain and high winds as its center passed to the south on Saturday. Elsa should move near or even over far southwestern Haiti later
Continue Reading A tropical storm watch is now in effect for parts of the Florida Keys in advance of Tropical Storm Elsa. CNN Meteorologist Gene Norman is tracking the latest.
Continue Reading By Hannah Gard, CNN Skiers and snowboarders pray for snow so they can shred the slopes. Climatologists and hydrologists have an entirely different and more critical reason to cross their fingers for the “white gold.” The West’s historic drought has many impacts, including water shortages, more severe wildfire seasons and unprecedented heat waves, to name
Continue Reading Historic Northwest heat wave linked to dozens of deaths and hundreds of emergency room visits.
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By Maggie Fox, CNN Unvaccinated people do more than merely risk their own health. They’re also a risk to everyone if they become infected with coronavirus, infectious disease specialists say. That’s because the only source of new coronavirus variants is the body of an infected person. “Unvaccinated people are potential variant factories,” Dr. William Schaffner,
Continue Reading “The pandemic is absolutely not over.” That from the US Surgeon General after new numbers show the concerning Delta variant is continuing to spread across the country, now detected in almost every US state.
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Happy Fourth of July weekend! We reached a high of 93 today at the airport, but at least we aren’t in the triple digits. Tomorrow, we will see similar temperatures around the area with isolated showers and storms being possible throughout the afternoon and early evening. The latest futuretrack model is showing these showers could
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Marysabel E. Huston-Crespo (CNN Español) — Comenzamos nuestros estrenos musicales de la semana con Enrique Iglesias, quien presentó este viernes «Me pasé» junto a Farruko. Además, Tainy llega a nuestra lista por «Deja vu», un sencillo que lanza con Yandel. Y no podemos dejar atrás a J Balvin, quien presentó «In Da Getto» junto a
Continue Reading A standoff overnight between Massachusetts State Police and “several heavily armed men” in the woods ended with 11 arrests, authorities said. CNN’s Evan McMorris-Santoro reports the ordeal, which started during a police traffic stop, led to the shutdown of part of Interstate 95 on a busy holiday weekend, according to police.
Continue Reading An Atlanta woman woke up to a surprise when an exotic cat native to Africa — that was not hers — jumped onto her bed. CNN affiliate WGCL reports.
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN Homesickness is a tricky thing. First you’re paying $12 for a box of Rice Krispies and before you know it you’ve decorated your entire apartment in red, white and blue. Growing up in the United States, I never really thought about what it meant to be American. That’s a gift of
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris, CNN As Chicago leaders work to address violence across the city, police said Saturday that at least 16 people have been shot — including six fatally — across the city since Friday. A 39-year-old man was shot in the head while traveling in the back seat of a vehicle on Chicago’s west
Continue Reading A tropical storm watch is now in effect for parts of the Florida Keys in advance of Tropical Storm Elsa. CNN Meteorologist Gene Norman is tracking the latest.
Continue Reading Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El Centro de Operaciones de Emergencias (COE) en República Dominicana informó de la muerte de al menos dos personas a causa de los vientos generados por la tormenta tropical Elsa, que provocaron que dos paredes colapsaran, entre otros daños. El director del COE, Juan Manuel Méndez, indicó que se trata
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by Brian Fung, CNN Business US cyber officials are tracking a major new ransomware attack by the same group that hit meat supplier JBS Foods this spring. This time, the REvil malware hit a wide range of IT management companies and compromised hundreds of their corporate clients. The cybercriminal gang, which is believed to operate
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CNN’s Pete Muntean reports that the Fourth of July weekend is expected to be one of the busiest days for US airports since the start of the pandemic.
Continue Reading CNN’s Pete Muntean reports that the Fourth of July weekend is expected to be one of the busiest days for US airports since the start of the pandemic.
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN Business American vacationers are finding just about everything significantly more expensive this summer. Hotel rooms? Up about 44% at the end of June compared to a year earlier, according to data from hotel research firm STR. Air fares? They were 24% higher in May than in the same month last year,
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By John Sinnott, CNN England reached the semifinals of the European championships for the first time in 25 years after an impressive 4-0 win against Ukraine in Rome on Saturday. This was the only third time England had won a knockout match in the Euros, but goals at the start of each half helped calm
Continue Reading By Rachel Trent, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning against swimming with diarrhea this summer, and the visual it’s using to give that warning is making quite a splash. The agency tweeted a warning that “one person with diarrhea can contaminate the entire pool,” along with a cartoon gif of
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By Jason Hoffman, Rachel Janfaza and Homero De la Fuente, CNN President Joe Biden said he was “really proud of the way” US track and field star Sha’Carri Richardson responded following a positive drug test and subsequent suspension that will prevent her from running in her signature event for Team USA in the Olympics later
Continue Reading US track star Sha’Carri Richardson could miss the Tokyo Olympic Games after testing positive for marijuana. Richardson spoke out about the positive test in an interview with NBC’s “Today Show”.
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UPDATE, July 4: The victim killed in the crash has been identified by sheriff’s deputies as 58-year-old Ernest Saenz.Authorities said they also made an arrest in connection with this deadly crash, but they didn’t identify that person or indicate the charges. ORIGINAL REPORT, July 3: EL PASO, Texas — One person was killed and several
Continue Reading By Rachel Trent, CNN An Atlanta woman woke up to a surprise when a cat — that was not hers — jumped onto her bed Wednesday morning. She was even more shocked to discover the cat was a serval — an exotic cat native to Africa. Kristine Frank, who lives in the Brookhaven neighborhood, told
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi and Dakin Andone, CNN With so many areas in the United States witnessing low vaccination rates, the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus will make it that much harder for the country to reach herd immunity, a top expert says. “We don’t exactly know what the herd immunity percentage would
Continue Reading By Rachel Trent, CNN A California rowing team is celebrating after it claims its journey from San Francisco to Honolulu set a new record for the fastest Mid-Pacific crossing. Lat 35 Racing says it took the four-man team 30 days, 7 hours and 30 minutes to complete the journey. The team’s feat tops the previous
Continue Reading President Joe Biden grew irritated when questioned about the state of Afghanistan, where a formal withdrawal is nearly complete, and a major US air base was officially handed over even as US generals warn of a looming civil war.
Continue Reading By Kylie Atwood and Barbara Starr, CNN US officials are actively updating emergency evacuation plans for the US embassy in Kabul, as concerns grow about the potential for escalating violence in the country while US troops near a complete withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to a US official and another source familiar with the planning. The
Continue Reading By Kelly Murray, CNN Talk about luck. Stephen C. Toto of Framingham, Massachusetts, made a last-minute decision to buy a lottery ticket, and for the second time in his life, collected a $1 million prize, according to the Massachusetts State Lottery. He bought the winning ticket at an A-1 Gulf gas station in Framingham for
Continue Reading Jobless residents of Maryland and Texas have filed lawsuits in state courts seeking to force their governors to reinstate pandemic unemployment benefits. They join an effort begun by out-of-work Indiana residents, who have yet to see their payments restart despite a court ruling last week ordering the state to continue the benefits. A judge in
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