By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business There’s been a sharp rise in cyberattacks in recent weeks, often disrupting services and products that are essential to everyday lives. In May, the ransomware attack that forced a six-day shutdown of Colonial Pipeline — a key East Coast line that delivers gas to millions of people — brought the
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By Rebekah Riess, CNN Othal Wallace, the man wanted for shooting Daytona Beach police officer Jason Raynor in the head Wednesday evening, was taken into custody at a property just outside of Atlanta around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, police said. The property is in a wooded area and is affiliated with an organization called the ‘Not
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso public health officials announced Saturday that they would begin scaling back on the reporting of Covid-19 deaths and infections in the community. Instead of daily updates, as has been done throughout the pandemic, officials said they would transition to a once-weekly accounting of fatalities and cases. A spokesperson for
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El Paso, Texas- After a string of triple-digit heat in the Borderland, today might be the last day of 100s for quiet awhile. It’s a pick and choose forecast this weekend. Saturday will remain mostly dry and temps will hit the lower 100s with plenty of sunshine. No need to ditch your outdoor plans today.
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By Kevin Liptak, Kaitlan Collins, Phil Mattingly and Lauren Fox, CNN At first glance, the bipartisan infrastructure deal that emerged this week seemed like a ripe opportunity for President Joe Biden to take a dig at his predecessor, whose attempts at focusing on roads and bridges often went awry. “Welcome to infrastructure week!” read the
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SURFSIDE, Florida — The oceanfront condominium building that collapsed near Miami had “major structural damage” to a concrete structural slab below its pool deck that needed to be extensively repaired, according to a 2018 engineering report on the building. The report was among a series of documents released by the city of Surfside as rescuers
Continue Reading Analysis by Lisa Respers France, CNN Three words for you: summer box office. It’s that time of the year, and Hollywood is betting that folks are anxious to get back into theaters. For me, the word “anxious” is about right because I am still trying to chart out my post-vaccinated-hot-girl summer responsibly. But some films
Continue Reading The New York Police Department arrested an alleged gang member in a June 17 shooting in the Bronx that put two children in the line of gunfire, Chief of Detectives James Essig said at a news conference Friday. Michael Lopez, 27, has ties to the “Make it Happen Boyz” gang and a long history of
Continue Reading Analysis by Jeremy Diamond, CNN After four hours in this city on the US-Mexico border, Vice President Kamala Harris was all smiles as she walked across the tarmac to Air Force Two. “Let’s take a picture!” she excitedly told the press gathered under the plane’s wing in the nearly 100-degree heat on Friday. As for
Continue Reading When Attorney General Merrick Garland appeared before cameras Friday to announce a lawsuit challenging Georgia’s new voting restrictions, it was the timing and the Justice Department’s strategy that intrigued voting rights experts. That’s because the lawsuit — triggering the latest dispute about the scope of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act — came as
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Carl Nassib’s coming out was casual, matter-of-fact and, evidenced by the ebullient smile he wore throughout the video in which he disclosed his sexuality, a release he’d long waited for. The laid-back nature of his announcement belies how exceedingly rare it was for Nassib to come out at all. The Las Vegas Raiders defensive end
Continue Reading The US intelligence community on Friday released a hotly anticipated report on what it knows about a series of mysterious sightings of unidentified flying objects by Navy pilots and others. The report, which examined 144 reports of what the government terms “unexplained aerial phenomena” between 2004 and 2021, is among the first acknowledgments by the
Continue Reading Gerardo Lemos (CNN en Español) – – La Policía Nacional de Nicaragua informó este viernes en un comunicado -sin detallar el lugar ni las circunstancias- que detuvo al exdiputado del Partido liberal independiente (PLI) Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Barrios. Según el comunicado policial, Chamorro es investigado por supuestos “actos que menoscaban la independencia, la soberanía y
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez and Cheri Mossburg, CNN It was only last year when Hannah Lindell-Smith woke up in the middle of the night with the taste of smoke in her mouth. The orange sky over Washington and Oregon was filled with embers as wildfires raged, leading to some of the region’s most prolonged and dangerous
Continue Reading By Hannah Gard and Haley Brink, CNN From the Pacific Northwest to the Northeast, the heat is on this weekend, and by next week soaring temperatures could travel as far north as the Arctic Circle. A historic heatwave has prompted excessive heat warnings for Washington and Oregon, as well as most of Idaho and parts
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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN America is in a far better place now than it was six months ago in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic, with overall cases and deaths down, according to the latest data. It shows that vaccines are effective, experts say, although they have some protection limitations when faced with more aggressive
Continue Reading Analysis by Salma Abdelaziz, CNN Aima, 19, is one of Britain’s most prominent Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists, but at a protest in London she is nervous. She has her hood up and, while a pandemic-mandated mask covers most of her face, she keeps her head down for fear of being recognized. Her eyes constantly
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus, CNN How is it nearly July already? With more than half of 2021 already in the rear view mirror, there’s good news as more and more destinations either open their borders or loosen their regulations. In the United States and Caribbean Good news, Americans who want to travel domestically — more and
Continue Reading By John Blake, CNN One evening, Robin DiAngelo became a nice racist. DiAngelo, author of “White Fragility,” remembers the precise moment it happened. A friend invited her to join a few friends of hers for dinner. When DiAngelo arrived at the restaurant, she was excited to see that the couple waiting for them at the
Continue Reading CNN’s Tom Foreman reports on the possible reasons for the collapse of the 40-year-old building in Florida and the lawsuit filed against the owners.
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi and Hollie Silverman, CNN Two days after the catastrophic partial collapse of a residential building in South Florida, officials remained focused on the search for the dozens of people believed to be under the mountain of rubble as an expert suggested it may be months before the cause of the disaster is
Continue Reading By Sahar Akbarzai, CNN There could be a new princess in Disney’s royal court. Nearly two decades after Sarah Culberson discovered that her father was the chief of a village in Sierra Leone, the West Virginia native’s life story could finally come to the big screen. Culberson, who is biracial, was put up for adoption
Continue Reading By Tomas Etzler, CNN Five people have been killed after a rare tornado along with tennis ball-sized hailstones hit several villages in South Moravia, in the southeast of the Czech Republic, officials said. A local hospital in the town of Hodonin treated 83 injured people. Forty-five were admitted to hospital, six of whom were in
Continue Reading Opinion by Allison Hope, CNN Gender reveal parties. Boys don’t cry. That color is for girls. That bathroom is for boys. That sport is only for “real” girls. That’s not the right clothing section, toy, partner, door, major, job or life for you. We are taught before we are even born that there are strict
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN A passenger was injured Friday after jumping out of a United Express flight that was taxiing from a gate area at the Los Angeles International Airport, an LAX police spokesman told CNN. At about 7:10 p.m. local time, the man opened the door of the aircraft, activated the emergency slide, and
Continue Reading By Keith Allen, CNN The man hailed as a hero for preventing further bloodshed after a gunman fatally shot a police officer in Arvada, Colorado, on Monday was himself fatally shot by police, Arvada police said in a statement Friday afternoon. Police say Johnny Hurley, 40, confronted the gunman, identified as Ronald Troyke, after Troyke
Continue Reading Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN In President Joe Biden‘s America, there are shades of gray between red and blue. While Biden is preaching that bipartisanship is possible in Washington on infrastructure and is making an effort to work with Republicans, his Justice Department is alleging “racially motivated” overreach by the GOP in US states
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN Español) — La Secretaría de Seguridad Pública (SSP) del estado mexicano de Zacatecas confirmó este viernes a CNN que al menos 18 personas perdieron la vida tras un enfrentamiento en el municipio de Valparaíso, unos 150 kilómetros al occidente de la capital estatal, Zacatecas. El incidente se registró en la carretera
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv (CNN) — El colapso de una torre de condominios en el sur de Florida la madrugada del jueves dejó al menos cuatro personas muertas y 159 desaparecidas. Ahora, mientras continúa la búsqueda de sobrevivientes, surge una pregunta crítica: ¿qué causó la caída del edificio? Los funcionarios prometen una investigación urgente, ya que los
Continue Reading By Hannah Rabinowitz and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Video shot on January 6 captures a US Capitol rioter with a lengthy criminal history heckling police with a bullhorn and spraying an unknown substance toward them. Sean McHugh of Auburn, California, is accused of obstruction and assaulting officers with a dangerous weapon, among other charges. The video
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