At least a dozen buzzing drones monitor them around the clock. Wherever they go, they’re escorted by police. And when they eat or sleep, they’re watched by millions online. For more than a week, China has been gripped by a new internet sensation: a herd of 15 marauding elephants, who are large, lost and wrecking
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A New York bill that would allow people to use a gender-neutral “X” as a gender marker on driver’s licenses and birth certificates passed the New York State Assembly on Thursday and now goes to the governor for final approval. The Gender Recognition Act, which previously passed the state Senate, would also allow New Yorkers
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Chinese researchers said Thursday they had found a batch of new coronaviruses in bats including one that may be the second-closest yet, genetically, to the Covid-19 virus. According to the researchers, their discoveries in a single, small region of Yunnan province, southwestern China show just how many coronaviruses there are in bats and how many
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Prosecutors in the Trump administration Justice Department subpoenaed Apple for data from the accounts of House Intelligence Committee Democrats — including Chairman Adam Schiff — along with their staff and family members as part of a leak investigation, an Intelligence Committee official and a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN. Rep. Eric Swalwell
Continue Reading Four officers in Glendale, California, have been placed on administrative leave after video surfaced Tuesday showing them struggling with a theft suspect, at one point kicking the male suspect in the head. The officers, some in plainclothes, responded to a theft inside the Glendale Galleria mall around 7:10 p.m. Saturday, according to a Glendale Police
Continue Reading A group of Louisiana State Police supervisors is currently reviewing all body camera and dashcam videos involving one police unit to investigate any patterns of misconduct, and it is particularly looking to see whether there has been a history of abuse in the unit’s interactions with Black people, two sources familiar with the process confirmed
Continue Reading Tricia Hill tears up when she talks about the emotional toll the water shut-off in southern Oregon has had on her family. Amid historic, climate change-driven drought, the federal government in May shut down the water supply from the Upper Klamath Basin on the California-Oregon border to protect native fish species on the verge of
Continue Reading Rep. Ilhan Omar said Thursday that she was “in no way equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries” after a group of Jewish House Democrats accused her of equating the US and Israel with the Taliban and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group designated as a terrorist organization by the US. “On Monday, I asked Secretary of
Continue Reading Six men from California who allegedly organized themselves as a “DC Brigade,” including one man who spoke at a right-wing rally in Washington, DC, the day before the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, face new conspiracy charges from the Justice Department, according to court documents made public on Thursday. The case adds to
Continue Reading No shipments of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine have gone out from the federal government in several weeks, CNN has learned, because the one-shot vaccine is in short supply. The government has not sent any doses of the J&J vaccine to states since the first week of May, an official told CNN. That figure is
Continue Reading A fire at an electrical substation in Puerto Rico has knocked out power to hundreds of thousands throughout the island, utility company LUMA Energy said Thursday. “The fire caused major blackouts across the entire island. The situation is under assessment and work is being done to restore the system,” LUMA Energy tweeted, stating that restoration
Continue Reading A grandmother and her 1-year-old grandson were shot and killed Thursday at a Publix grocery store in Royal Palm Beach, Florida, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. The shooter is also dead. The motive in the shooting is also not known, and the sheriff’s office said there is no known relationship between the
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EL PASO, Texas – After piecing together his first recruiting class with junior college and international players, Joe Golding has finally reeled in a big fish fans have waited for. Golding and the Miners added Georgetown transfer Jamari Sibley Thursday, bringing their potential starting power forward into the fold for the 2021-22 season. https://twitter.com/UTEPMBB/status/1403050232326201352?s=20 A
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In their final debate before New Yorkers begin early voting on Saturday, five of the leading candidates in the Democratic mayoral primary on Thursday night delivered closing messages to voters and last-ditch attacks on each other. After two previous gatherings that included eight contenders, the smaller stage made for more tense exchanges between rivals who
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(CNN) — El virus comúnmente llamado virus respiratorio sincitial (VSR) se está propagando por el sur de Estados Unidos causando una inusual ola de enfermedades al final de la primavera, dijeron los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés). Los CDC emitieron una advertencia en
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El secretario general de la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA), Luis Almagro, considera que en Nicaragua el Gobierno de Daniel Ortega no ejerce el poder de acuerdo al Estado de derecho, lo que es considerado una dictadura. Así se lo dijo en entrevista a Fernando del Rincón en Conclusiones de CNN. Almagro
Continue Reading A fire at an electrical substation in Puerto Rico has knocked out power throughout the island, utility company LUMA Energy said Thursday. “The fire caused major blackouts across the entire island. The situation is under assessment and work is being done to restore the system,” LUMA Energy tweeted, stating that restoration efforts will continue overnight.
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UPDATE, June 14: In the video player above you can watch the first video to show the recently born Mexican gray wolf pups at the El Paso Zoo. ORIGINAL REPORT, June 10: EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Zoo’s Mexican gray wolf pack has now grown larger. Zoo officials on Thursday announced the recent
Continue Reading A former Minnesota state trooper has pleaded guilty to texting himself “nude or partially nude” photos of a woman after he detained her and used her phone. Albert Kuehne responded to the scene of a one-car accident and detained a driver on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, according to the complaint summons filed last June.
Continue Reading Texas will begin building its own border wall and next week will start arresting migrants who trespass on private property, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday. “Change is needed to fix the border crisis,” Abbott said. The order was one of several new initiatives announced by Abbott during the Border Security Summit, including appropriating $1
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Taiwanese officials are fretting about whether a severe outbreak of Covid-19 could jeopardize the island’s critical role in the global semiconductor supply chain. But there’s another threat to the industry that experts worry may have even more drastic consequences: the climate crisis. Taiwan — which accounts for more than half of the world’s output of
Continue Reading A Louisville, Kentucky, police officer faces a federal charge after allegedly hitting a kneeling person in the head during an arrest in May 2020, court documents show. The arrest happened in the midst of a wave of protests against the killings of Breonna Taylor in Louisville and George Floyd in Minneapolis — both of whom
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UPDATE, June 15: El Paso police announced Tuesday that they had filed drunk driving-related charges against a motorist involved in a three-car crash last week that left one person in critical condition. 36-year-old Dalila Torres is facing a count of intoxication assault after she crashed her pick-up truck into a minivan which led to a
Continue Reading (CNN Business) — Hackers irrumpieron en los sistemas de Electronic Arts (EA), uno de los desarrolladores de videojuegos más grandes del mundo, y robaron el código fuente utilizado en los videojuegos de la empresa, confirmó un portavoz a CNN Business este jueves. Las publicaciones en un foro en línea revisadas por CNN Business y examinadas
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EL PASO, Texas — The time between El Paso and Austin just got a lot shorter. American Airlines on Thursday announced new direct flights from the Sun City to Texas’ capital city starting in September. There will be one direct flight per day in September, up to two in October and three in November. Southwest
Continue Reading FBI Director Chris Wray said Thursday that he is “not aware of any investigation” against former President Donald Trump in connection with the January 6 insurrection. “I’m not aware of any investigation that specifically goes to that, but we have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of investigations related to January 6, involving lots and lots
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SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — For a second day in a row on Thursday, border-crossing migrants were found struggling in the heat of a desert area in Sunland Park, but this time with deadly consequences. Officials told ABC-7 that a 20-year-old man was found unconscious and died after attempts at CPR were unable to revive
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Fully vaccinated people who travel by public transportation no longer need to wear masks in places like outdoor waiting areas or open-air seating, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday. The CDC said it plans to update its face masks order to reflect the change and to better align with its
Continue Reading Alejandra Gomez worked tirelessly to get Democrats, including Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, elected in 2018. But now she feels betrayed. The 39-year-old co-executive director of the community organizing group LUCHA went door to door in the sweltering Arizona heat in 2018, turning out the Democratic voters that helped get Sinema elected to the Senate. The work
Continue Reading Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration debated what kind of detailed information the agency would need to consider authorizing the use of coronavirus vaccines in children younger than 12 on Thursday. While a few advisers said it’s too soon to rush the use of vaccines in children because kids are at such
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