UPDATE: SURFSIDE, Florida — A beachfront condo tower collapsed in the Miami-area town of Surfside early Thursday morning, killing at least three people, and trapping dozens of other residents in rubble and twisted metal. Scores of rescue units rushed to the partially collapsed building and teams of firefighters pulled 35 survivors so far from the
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David Williams, CNN A painting by rock icon David Bowie has sold for almost $88,000 at an online art auction after someone picked it up for a few bucks at a donation center at an Ontario landfill. The portrait, titled “DHead XLVI,” is part of a series of approximately 47 works that Bowie created between
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This CNN Hero, a pediatric surgeon, saw how the pandemic devastated communities of color in her hometown of Philadelphia. She responded by bringing them free testing and vaccinations through her group, the Black Doctors Covid-19 Consortium.
Continue Reading By Kathleen Toner, CNN Earlier this week, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney announced that 70% of the city’s adults had received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine — reaching President Biden’s goal for the nation ahead of schedule. Yet that doesn’t tell the whole story. Only one-quarter of those vaccinations have gone to Black
Continue Reading CNN Hero and Black Doctors Covid-19 Consortium founder Dr. Ala Stanford offers a history lesson to a student asking why she should trust the coronavirus vaccine in light of the medical industry’s past treatment of people of color.
Continue Reading Dr. Ala Stanford formed the Black Doctors Covid-19 Consortium to bring testing and vaccinations to communities of color hit hard by the pandemic in her hometown of Philadelphia. She also sat down with a group of students who raised concerns and asked what’s actually in the vaccine.
Continue Reading CNN Hero and Black Doctors Covid-19 Consortium founder Dr. Ala Stanford offers a history lesson to a student asking why she should trust the coronavirus vaccine in light of the medical industry’s past treatment of people of color.
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By Katelyn Polantz and Dan Berman, CNN Dominion Voting Systems on Thursday accused right-wing lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani of coming to Washington, DC, to push election fraud claims in late 2020 because they wanted to rub elbows with nationally powerful Republicans, including then-President Donald Trump. “That’s the place they could get in-person audiences,”
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso office of the FBI has a warning for young women it says may be targeted by scammers. The bureau says it’s seeing an increase in what it’s calling ‘sugar daddy scams’. It involves men reaching out to women, usually through social media, claiming they will pay them for
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Decenas de condominios en una torre residencial de Surfside, Florida, quedaron destruidos cuando parte del edificio se derrumbó a primera hora del jueves. Minuto a minuto: Se derrumba parcialmente un edificio cerca de Miami Al menos una persona murió, dijo el alcalde de Surfside Charles Burkett, y 99 personas se encontraban
Continue Reading Opinion by John Avlon New York City is often seen as the essence of big city liberalism. There’s no question that it’s a Democratic city — with a six-to-one Democratic registration advantage over Republicans, who are also outnumbered by independent voters. But that deep blue hue conceals a real diversity of opinion. And that’s what
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN Español) — Una jueza federal de Texas sentenció a tres años de prisión a Jorge Juan Torres López, exgobernador interino del estado mexicano de Coahuila, por lavado de dinero, informó este miércoles en un comunicado el Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos. Torres ocupó varios cargos gubernamentales entre 1994 y 2011
Continue Reading By Lauren del Valle, CNN Former President Donald Trump staffer Anthony Scaramucci took the stand Thursday in a federal case against a former Chicago Bank executive whom Scaramucci says he helped get an interview for a potential spot in the administration. Stephen Calk, the former chairman and CEO of The Federal Savings Bank, is on
Continue Reading The Chinese government is accused of detaining Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in extralegal detention centers, which it claims are reeducation centers designed to prevent separatism and religious extremism. Researchers say there’s also evidence of a growing number of Uyghurs being jailed in formal prisons with lengthy sentences. CNN’s Ivan Watson speaks to families whose loved ones have been sentenced to long-term imprisonment.
Continue Reading Hospitalizations are up 225% since early June in Springfield, Missouri, which experts are blaming on the Covid-19 Delta variant. CNN’s Martin Savidge reports.
Continue Reading By Angela Barajas and Martin Savidge, CNN In June Louie Michael and his wife, Patti, were admitted as Covid-19 patients at Springfield’s Mercy Hospital, one of two major hospitals in southwest Missouri. Pattie was hospitalized first. She has asthma and is immunocompromised. Michael followed the next day, arriving by ambulance. He chronicled his bout with
Continue Reading By Rebecca Wright, Ivan Watson and Ben Westcott, CNN Newlyweds Mehray Mezensof and Mirzat Taher were two days from leaving Xinjiang to start a new life in Australia when Chinese police knocked on their door in April 2017, seized Taher’s passport and threw him into detention. During the next four years, Taher was imprisoned in
Continue Reading Opinion by Lanhee J. Chen After many failed efforts, it may finally be infrastructure week in America. A bipartisan group of US Senators has agreed to a roughly $1.2 trillion package of infrastructure reforms that President Joe Biden said he will support. The package has a long way to go — including more detailed discussions
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN) — Britney Spears habló sobre su tutela ordenada por la corte durante una audiencia realizada el miércoles. Spears habló por teléfono, ya que la audiencia fue virtual y leyó sus notas por poco más de 20 minutos. A continuación la transcripción de sus comentarios, que han sido ligeramente editados para mayor
Continue Reading By Theresa Waldrop, CNN One man happened to be walking his dog. Another awoke to “an incredible bang” only to discover dust and debris outside his third-floor condominium. When part of the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Florida, collapsed early Thursday, it left a pile of rubble where the beachside residences once
Continue Reading By Deidre McPhillips, CNN A growing number of people — now more than one in 10 — have missed their second dose of Covid-19 vaccine in the United States, a cause for concern as the more transmissible Delta variant gains a foothold. As of June 16, about 88% of those who received one dose of
Continue Reading josemartinezgomez (CNN Business) — Windows se ve mucho mejor que antes. Microsoft anunció oficialmente este jueves su más reciente actualización del sistema operativo para PC, llamada Windows 11. Incluye mejoras visuales, integración de Microsoft Teams para personas que trabajan desde casa y una nueva tienda de Microsoft, entre otros cambios. Sin embargo, la transmisión en
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By Maria Medina Click here for updates on this story SAN JOSE (KPIX) — Four weeks after a Valley Transportation Authority employee killed nine of his colleagues in the deadliest mass shooting in Bay Area history, the agency released more personnel files on the gunman. The documents shed more light into Samuel Cassidy’s work behavior
Continue Reading By Tony Lopez Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO (KOVR) — A doggy daycare dilemma is forming: As pet owners find themselves out of luck with more people taking trips and more people adopting dogs during the pandemic – it’s turned into the not-so-perfect puppy storm. Business is barkin’ into big bucks at
Continue Reading By Kurtis Ming Click here for updates on this story ELK GROVE (KOVR) — Virginia Irons died three years ago, but the California DMV keeps sending her disabled parking placards. Her daughter-in-law Liz Irons sent us pictures of two placards the DMV sent after Virginia died in 2018. Liz says she has gone into the
Continue Reading By KCAL KCBS Staff Click here for updates on this story NEWPORT BEACH (KCAL, KCBS) — Public works crews in Newport Beach, Long Beach and other Orange County coastal communities were busy working Wednesday and Thursday, preparing for high surf and tides that have the potential to cause serious flooding. The National Weather Service has
Continue Reading By KCAL KCBS Staff Click here for updates on this story SOUTH EL MONTE (KCAL, KCBS) — The last of about 40 cows which escaped from a Pico Rivera slaughterhouse earlier this week was found Thursday morning in South El Monte, and a famous songwriter has paid for the cow’s life to be spared. The
Continue Reading By Tori Mason Click here for updates on this story CENTENNIAL, Colorado (KCNC) — The Cherry Creek School District is looking for a different approach to teaching history, but some families aren’t on board with proposed changes. At the end of the school year, the CCSD announced their commitment to making lessons more racially and
Continue Reading By Harmeet Kaur, CNN When Britney Spears asked a court this week to end her years-long conservatorship, she renewed attention on a little-understood section of US law. A convervatorship is a legal arrangement that gives a court-appointed individual, known as the conservator, the power to handle the financial and/or personal affairs of another adult who
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WASHINGTON, DC — The White House provided the first details late Thursday of Vice President Kamala Harris’ planned Friday visit to the Borderland as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to develop a strategy to address the “root causes” of an ongoing migrant surge at the U.S.-Mexico border. It will be the vice president’s first
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