Skip to Content

Year: 2021

Scholz’s party approves deal for new German coalition govt

By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press German Chancellor-designate Olaf Scholz’s center-left party has given its overwhelming approval to a deal to form a new government with environmentalist and pro-business parties. Saturday’s vote at a Social Democratic Party convention was the first of three such decisions needed for Scholz to take office next week. Scholz’s Social Democrats

Continue Reading

Exclusive: A 13-year-old girl’s murder over two decades ago haunted NYPD detectives. Here’s how they finally cracked open the cold case

By Brynn Gingras, CNN Video by Yon Pomrenze, Julian Cummings and Margaret Dawson, CNN Omar Soriano has waited 22 years for good news from police about his younger cousin Minerliz, ever since that winter day in 1999 when the 13-year-old never returned home from school. Her body was found in a Bronx, New York, dumpster

Continue Reading

Parents of Michigan school shooting suspect held on $500,000 bond each after manhunt

By Carolyn Sung, Shimon Prokupecz and Jason Hanna, CNN The parents of the teen accused in this week’s deadly Michigan high school shooting pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter charges Saturday morning, hours after police said they arrested them in a Detroit warehouse following an hours-long search. A judge in Michigan’s Oakland County set bond

Continue Reading

Brazil’s top court opens investigation into Bolsonaro for linking Covid-19 vaccines to AIDS

By Juliana Kochs, CNN Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered an investigation into President Jair Bolsonaro’s false claim that people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 may have a higher risk of contracting AIDS. Bolsonaro made the untruthful claims in a live video broadcast on multiple social media platforms in October. He was temporarily suspended from

Continue Reading

UTEP volleyball continues postseason success; Miners advance to third round of NIVC tournament

FORT COLLINS, Colorado – The UTEP Miners continue their incredible postseason run after winning their second round match of the National Invitational Volleyball Championship. Friday night in Fort Collins, Colorado the Miners defeated the host team, Colorado State in 4 sets, 3-1. UTEP advances to the third round of the tournament and will face the winner of

Continue Reading