By Chandelis Duster, CNN Debt relief payments to farmers of color from the US Department of Agriculture were blocked nationwide Wednesday by a federal judge in Florida, the second halt on the payments as push back mounts against the assistance that some White farmers say is racially discriminatory. Florida District Judge Marcia Morales Howard issued
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Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large The violent insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6 was a dark day in American history. The attempted rewriting of what actually happened that day — when more than 100 police officers were injured and five people died — by former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies
Continue Reading By Jeremy Herb, Clare Foran and Ryan Nobles, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday she will create a select committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the Capitol after Republicans blocked the formation of an independent commission. The select committee will corral the various House Democratic investigations into the events surrounding the deadly
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By Kerry Flynn, CNN Business BuzzFeed, the 15-year-old digital media company known for its lists, quizzes and its Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism, announced Thursday that it plans to go public at an estimated valuation of $1.5 billion. It’s a big deal in the media world, but still somewhat anticlimactic compared to the hype around BuzzFeed just
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By Brandy Campbell Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, Louisiana (KTBS) — Trinity Bluff is a new neighborhood in the building phase in Shreveport, and it will be it’s own microgrid within the SWEPCO grid. It’s located on Old Mooringsport Highway near the North Highlands area. KTBS met with SWEPCO to discuss this
Continue Reading By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The risk to tech stocks from increased regulation isn’t new. But it’s clearly increasing. What’s happening: A House of Representatives committee just moved forward sweeping bills meant to rein in big tech companies like Google and Facebook. Meanwhile, authorities in the European Union and the United Kingdom have announced new
Continue Reading Opinion by Jack Turban and Jules Gill-Peterson Not long ago, Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene — who opposes passing the Equality Act, which would guarantee federal civil rights protections for LGBTQ Americans — hung a sign outside her office. Her sign read, “trust the science.” If only she — and like-minded others — would. One
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By Rob Picheta, Amy Cassidy, Anna Chernova and Zahra Ullah, CNN A UK government minister said Thursday that Britain was prepared to sail naval vessels through disputed waters near Crimea again, a day after a confrontation between a British warship and Russian forces in the Black Sea. Environment Secretary George Eustice disputed claims from Moscow
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By Jen Rose Smith, CNN Back when Travis M. Spencer’s daughter was in fourth grade, there were times when she struggled to fall asleep. On those nights, Spencer used to take a few minutes for mindfulness. First, Spencer invited her to list a few things she was grateful for. That usually included friends or a
Continue Reading By Kristy Kepley-Steward Click here for updates on this story HENDERSON COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — A Hendersonville man has been taken into custody and charged after authorities receive a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The Henderson County Sheriff’s Office says Sebastian Omar Huerta-Molinero, 21, has been arrested and
Continue Reading By Kristy Kepley-Steward Click here for updates on this story NEWBERRY COUNTY, South Carolina (WLOS) — The parents of a 4-month-old South Carolina baby have been arrested and charged after authorities say toxicology reports showed the infant had “measurable levels of cocaine” in the body. The Newberry County Sheriff’s Office says on Sunday, May 2,
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Jack Guy and Nicola Ruotolo, CNN A lost Rembrandt has been discovered after it fell off the wall of a country home in the province of Rome, Italy. Rembrandt painted the work in 1632-33, but it was “considered lost and never shown until now,” according to a press release from the Italian Heritage Foundation, which
Continue Reading By Kerjan Bianca Click here for updates on this story AVONDALE, Colorado (KRDO) — Jeff Tuttoilmondo has been battling multiple sclerosis. Bound to a wheelchair, Tuttoilmondo only has mobility in his right hand. But that hasn’t stopped him from creating inspiring pieces of artwork. His true passion is building, painting, and sculpting items all over
Continue Reading By Dan Beedie Click here for updates on this story PUEBLO WEST, Colorado (KRDO) — A 2021 graduating student at Swallows Charter Academy says her alma mater discriminated against her sexuality when they omitted her photo submission from the yearbook, but the school says the picture was against its dress code policy. Laney Sorensen is
Continue Reading By Danielle Jackson Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Dozens of dogs are currently under the care of a rescue group after they were taken from a Jackson Tennessee property in connection to an animal cruelty case. Many of the dogs showing signs of chronic neglect, starvation, and dehydration. Authorities
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Balut is a dish that Kim Saira grew up eating with her grandmother and her cousins. So when she first saw the Filipino street food snack featured a few years ago among a slate of purportedly unappetizing dishes on “Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts” — a recurring segment on
Continue Reading By KCAL/KCBS Staff Click here for updates on this story LAGUNA HILLS, California (KCAL) — The Tran triplets were born just four minutes apart, and now the Orange County sisters are celebrating another milestone. Gina, Nina and Victoria will deliver a trio of babies over the next four months — two boys and a girl.
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El Ministerio de Salud de la India designó este martes otra variante de covid-19, la delta plus, como una «variante de preocupación». La «delta plus» es una versión de la variante delta del virus de covid-19 identificada por primera vez en India. Esta nueva variante se ha detectado en tres
Continue Reading By Kate Sullivan and Jason Hoffman, CNN The Biden administration on Thursday announced it was blocking the import of certain materials that are used in solar panels from a company in Xinjiang, China, over allegations of forced labor. The administration also moved to restrict exports of five Chinese companies over alleged human rights abuses against
Continue Reading Analysis by Brian Lowry, CNN Almost 30 years after becoming the “new guy” in late-night TV, Conan O’Brien is closing that chapter of his life. And while the key players associated with his long, strange odyssey made out better than fine, that doesn’t mean the red-haired host wound up where he wanted to, or that
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt really are all good y’all. The pair were married from 2000 to 2005 and there is continued fascination with their relationship. Aniston recently appeared with her “Friends” co-stars and actual friends Courtney Cox and Lisa Kudrow on SiriusXM’s “The Howard Stern Show” and the talk
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Netflix has a new dating series called “Sexy Beasts,” and it’s all about personality. The streaming service has already ordered two seasons of the show, in which single people from around the world completely transform their looks with animal makeup and prosthetics, then head out on a blind date. Each episode
Continue Reading Video shows a boy being rescued from the rubble after a building collapsed in Surfside, Florida.
Continue Reading By Katie Lobosco, CNN The federal government has failed to collect more than $1 billion in fines and other money owed by colleges, most of which is owed by for-profit institutions, according to a report released Thursday by a non-profit advocacy group. There are nearly 1,300 colleges that owe money to the Department of Education
Continue Reading By Kylie Atwood, Natasha Bertrand, Phil Mattingly, Jennifer Hansler and Jeremy Herb, CNN The Biden administration intends to relocate thousands of Afghan nationals who have worked alongside US diplomats and troops in order to protect their safety while they wait for their visa applications to be approved, senior administration officials say. Some of these Afghans
Continue Reading By Michelle Krupa and Jason Hanna, CNN Out walking his dog after midnight, Nicholas Balboa felt the ground shake. Plumes of dust and debris soon billowed all around as a massive section of a condo complex in Surfside, Florida, crashed to the ground Thursday. No one could have survived, Balboa recalled thinking. As people gathered
Continue Reading John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who’d had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. CNN’s Al Goodman reports.
Continue Reading By Cameron Taylor Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A Nashville man is sharing his story of having a massive stroke and fully recovering. It happened while Frank Grant was working out on Monday at the Green Hills YMCA. He was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center and was released
Continue Reading By Hanna Ziady, CNN Business The United Kingdom will fail to meet its “historic climate promises” if the government doesn’t urgently put policies in place to reach its goal of decarbonizing the economy, according to its official climate watchdog. The Climate Change Committee, which advises the government on emissions targets, warned Thursday in its annual
Continue Reading By Bethlehem Feleke and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN International condemnation is growing over an airstrike that killed dozens of people in Ethiopia’s war-torn northern Tigray region earlier this week, as Africa’s second-most populous nation tallied ballots to decide its next leader. At least 30 people died on Tuesday when a government airstrike hit a busy marketplace
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