EL PASO, Texas — If you’re an El Pasoan concerned about a proposed El Paso Electric rate increase, you can breathe a temporary sigh of relief. El Paso City Council members on Tuesday afternoon voted unanimously to suspend the date when any proposed rate increase can take effect. That suspension will run until October. Had
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By Madeline Holcombe and Theresa Waldrop, CNN The Delta coronavirus variant, which is highly transmissible and possibly more dangerous than current predominant variants, now makes up more than 20% of all samples sequenced in the United States after the percentage doubled in a recent two-week period, Dr. Anthony Fauci said. The country seems to be
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The United States government has seized dozens of US website domains connected to Iran. CNN’s Natasha Bertrand reports.
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SAN DIEGO, California — Thousands of asylum-seekers whose claims were dismissed or denied under a Trump administration policy that forced them to wait in Mexico for their court hearings will be allowed to return for another chance at humanitarian protection, the U.S. Homeland Security Department said Tuesday. Registration begins Wednesday for asylum-seekers who were subject
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby, CNN Parents can now check their eligibility for the expanded child tax credit and manage their payments, which begin next month, using two online tools the Internal Revenue Service debuted on Tuesday. An eligibility assistant allows families to determine whether they qualify for the advance credit by answering a series of questions.
Continue Reading Democrat Helen Butler and Republican Baoky Vu, who have stood up to former President Trump’s lies about the 2020 election, are both being removed from their roles on election boards in Georgia after Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law that allows the GOP to appoint members to local election boards.
Continue Reading By Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Senate Democrats, stymied in their push to mandate a major revamp of election laws, are beginning to map out their next steps to draw attention to the issue and to put the focus on a critical battleground state: Georgia. The Democratic-led Senate Rules Committee plans to move ahead
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By Ben Church, CNN Football has a magical way of bringing people together and perhaps no country knows that more than England. After beating Czech Republic 1-0 on Tuesday, Gareth Southgate’s side finished top of Group D, setting up a potentially enticing tie against one of Germany, France, Portugal or Hungary in the round of
Continue Reading By Katie Lobosco, CNN California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, facing a Republican-led recall, is pushing the state legislature to approve his plan to use $5.2 billion in federal pandemic relief money to pay 100% of unpaid rent owed by low-income residents. Lawmakers are also considering several other pandemic aid measures proposed by the governor as
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By Hannah Gard and Monica Garrett, CNN It’s what the Southwest has been hoping for: rain. But the chance of showers and thunderstorms over the next few days will not provide the parched region the relief it’s looking for, and it could actually make the wildfire situation worse. Fire weather watches are in place for
Continue Reading By Daniel Dale, CNN The Senate is scheduled to hold a Tuesday vote on whether to move forward with a sweeping Democratic elections and ethics bill, known as the For the People Act, that was passed by the House of Representatives in March. The bill — which would make major changes to rules on voting,
Continue Reading By Whitney Wild, CNN The US Secret Service says 881 employees tested positive for Covid-19 between March 1, 2020 and March 9, 2021. The admission, made by the agency in a Tuesday statement, follows a report by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics Washington that analyzed internal records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request
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By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Microsoft has officially entered the most elite of clubs: corporations with a market value exceeding $2 trillion. The tech giant is only the second publicly traded American company, behind Apple, to reach such a valuation. Oil company Saudi Aramco, which went public in 2019, has also previously passed that mark,
Continue Reading By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business Many companies are becoming more flexible with when and where their employees can work, but it’s the direct managers and supervisors who really set the tone on remote work for their teams — and not everyone is crazy about it. While some managers are fine with their direct reports working
Continue Reading Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Can anybody fly a plane? Everything is opening at the same time and people are desperate to travel. As concerts resume, theme parks open, families reunite, lovers tie the knot and stir-crazy Americans dream of vacation, airlines that had to hurriedly recommission fleets are struggling to keep up: American Airlines
Continue Reading By Leah Asmelash, CNN A New Jersey school board has voted to overturn a decision that took all holiday names off the district calendar, following conflict over an earlier decision to refer to Columbus Day as “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.” The Randolph Board of Education had voted on June 10 to eliminate all the names of
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Something is off about Sacramento’s water. It smells and tastes a little “earthy,” residents are saying — an effect of compounding climatechange crises: extreme heat, little to no precipitation and a historic drought that has gripped the region for the better part of a decade. Up and down the state of
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EL PASO, Texas — A big milestone for Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, specifically the dental school. The university on Tuesday unveiled its brand new dental clinic, which will provide care from faculty and student providers and specialize in high-tech, same-day dentistry. The clinic is expected to expand oral care in the community for
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By Randall Newsome Click here for updates on this story INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — It’s been nearly a decade since Quincy Owens and Luke Crawley became friends and business partners. Owens says the pair was drawn to work together by their love for both art and education. A few years later, they decided to open a
Continue Reading By Camila Fernandez Click here for updates on this story CLOVERDALE, Indiana (WISH) — Denise Sanchez was celebrating Father’s Day with her family and five kids at Lieber State Recreation Area on Saturday when a tree fell on their campsite and hit her 8-year-old son, Robert. “The force, like, the thump, was so loud that
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Dos nuevos planetas gaseosos han sido encontrados orbitando una estrella similar al sol a 352 años luz de la Tierra y científicos ciudadanos ayudaron a descubrirlos mientras estaban colaborando con los astrónomos. Los dos exoplanetas, que son planetas que orbitan estrellas fuera de nuestro sistema solar, se llaman planeta b
Continue Reading By Nic Robertson, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Richard Roth, CNN Fifty of Afghanistan’s 370 districts have fallen to Taliban militants since May, according to the UN’s special envoy on Afghanistan Deborah Lyons, as the United States continues its military withdrawal from the country. “The Taliban recent advances are even more significant and are as a result
Continue Reading By Ruth Ben-Ghiat “It’s a fragile time for our democracy,” said US Rep. Eric Swalwell, disclosing earlier this month that the Department of Justice had secretly seized his communications records in 2017, when he was on a congressional committee investigating then-president Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. Rep. Adam Schiff, also on the committee, received the
Continue Reading By Matt Petrillo Click here for updates on this story WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (KYW) — Take a look at these surveillance photos. Police say the suspects abducted and attacked a waitress over a dine-and-dash incident at a popular South Jersey diner. Police say that waitress from the Nifty Fifty’s restaurant in Washington Township is
Continue Reading By Evan Perez and Sharif Paget, CNN The United States government has seized dozens of US website domains connected to Iran, linked to what the US says are disinformation efforts, a US national security official told CNN. Some users are not able to access sites like Presstv.com, which is an Iranian state run English language
Continue Reading By WCBS Staff Click here for updates on this story LONG BRANCH, New Jersey (WCBS) — Four people were arrested in Monmouth County after a beach party got out of control over the weekend. CBS2’s Meg Baker has details on how the mass gathering was coordinated on social media. Videos from Long Branch Saturday show
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Gerald R. Ford, the 38th president of the United States. Personal Birth date: July 14, 1913 Death date: December 26, 2006 Birth place: Omaha, Nebraska (grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan) Birth name: Leslie Lynch King Jr. Father: Leslie Lynch King Sr. Mother: Dorothy Ayer
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Con su atmósfera espesa y tóxica y temperaturas tan altas como para fundir plomo, Venus parece un planeta muerto. Sin embargo, una nueva investigación sugiere que el planeta podría seguir siendo activo desde el punto de vista geológico. Y el tipo de actividad que se desarrolla en Venus podría proporcionar a
Continue Reading By Lisa Rozner Click here for updates on this story ROOSEVELT, New Jersey (WCBS) — One of the most famous paintings depicting The Great Depression is in danger of fading into history, itself. The rare piece of arts sits inside a school in Monmouth County and is worth millions of dollars, CBS2’s Lisa Rozner reported
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, CNN A man suspected of brazenly shoplifting items at a Walgreens in San Francisco last week was arrested while carrying out another such theft on Saturday morning, according to police, and is accused of a spree of similar crimes. The videotaped shoplifting was a stark example of what chain drug stores and
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