By Jessie Yeung and Junko Ogura, CNN A wild monkey is terrorizing a small city in southwestern Japan, breaking into homes to bite and claw residents amid an ongoing hunt for the animal, officials said. Some 20 people in the Ogori area of Yamaguchi have been attacked by the monkey since July 8, with most
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By Devan Cole, CNN Americans’ approval of the Supreme Court has fallen again, according to a new poll released Wednesday, with just 38% of the country saying it approves of the nation’s highest court after it overturned Roe v. Wade — a dramatic shift in public opinion from one year ago. The Marquette Law School
Continue Reading CNN By Devan Cole, CNN Americans’ approval of the Supreme Court has fallen again, according to a new poll released Wednesday, with just 38% of the country saying it approves of the nation’s highest court after it overturned Roe v. Wade — a dramatic shift in public opinion from one year ago. The Marquette Law
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden described climate change as a “clear and present danger” Wednesday as he previewed a slate of executive actions meant to combat a crisis whose effects are bearing down on a wide swath of the country. Speaking under a beating sun at a defunct coal power plant in Massachusetts,
Continue Reading By Sarah Molano, CNN With labor unionization efforts underway at Amazon and Starbucks, people quitting in record numbers and continued delays in returning to the office, workers appear to be putting their foot down when it comes to less-than-ideal work situations. Bosses and employees alike should care about the quality of the work environment, research
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Maryland’s Inclusive Athletic Attire Act took effect on July 1. The law allows for the inclusivity of attire in sports uniforms for athletes. CNN speaks to an activist who says why this is a good direction, but just the beginning.
Continue Reading By Amy Li, CNN “We had to make this really tough decision between our love for our faith or our love for sports.” Simran Jeet Singh — Executive Director for the Aspen Institute’s Religion & Society Program, who studies religion, racism and justice — recalls his own experience of fighting for inclusion as a turbaned
Continue Reading By Liam Reilly and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Two Boston police unions have sued city officials, accusing them of interfering with police procedures by barring the use of “non-lethal tools,” including pepper spray. The complaint filed Monday in Suffolk Superior Court seeks an injunction on a city law passed last year restricting the use of gas
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Stacker takes a look at McDonald’s menu items from abroad.
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Despite the global pandemic and other recent challenges, happiness abounds around the world. Stacker compiled a list of the world’s happiest countries
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Stacker collected information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Interactive Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke to find the states with the highest prevalence of stroke deaths.
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN Russia’s highest ranked female tennis player came out as gay in an interview, while addressing rising homophobic attitudes in the country. Daria Kasatkina, currently ranked No. 12 in the world, told a Russian blogger that she is in a relationship with a woman, figure skater Natalia Zabiiako. Kasatkina posted photos of
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Silvia Marchetti, CNN Made up of over 1,000 kilometers of mostly oceanfront trails circling the island of Sardinia, the ‘Cammino 100 Torri’ — or 100 Towers Path — might not be Italy’s most famous hike, but it’s certainly of its most spectacular. This epic round-trip journey, filled with blood-red sunsets, ancient architecture and stunning beaches,
Continue Reading By Rhea Mogul, Iqbal Athas and Rukshana Rizwie, CNN Sri Lankan lawmakers on Wednesday elected former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as President of the crisis-hit South Asian country, in a move likely to anger protesters who have been demanding his removal from office for weeks. Wickremesinghe — a six-time former prime minister and key ally
Continue Reading By Alex Rogers, Annie Grayer, Kristin Wilson and Nectar Gan, CNN China warned Tuesday it would take “resolute and forceful measures” if US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan, in what would be the highest-level delegation from the United States to the self-governing island in 25 years. Pelosi, who is second in line
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe and Jarrod Wardwell, CNN US Border Patrol agents arrested a man allegedly attempting to smuggle approximately 250 pounds of fentanyl in his truck’s spare tire and gas tank near the Mexican-California border Monday, the agency said. Agents who searched the man’s vehicle found several bundles of pills that tested positive for fentanyl,
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Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — El premio mayor de Mega Millions se ha disparado a US$ 630 millones después de que nadie acertara los seis números ganadores del martes. Los números ganadores fueron el 2, 31, 32, 37, 70 más el Mega Ball dorado 25, según el sitio web de la lotería. El premio mayor de US$
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges was charged with felony domestic and child abuse stemming from an alleged assault on his partner that happened in front of their children, Los Angeles prosecutors said Tuesday. Bridges, 24, faces one felony count of injuring a child’s parent and two felony counts
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly slipped Thursday as optimism over earnings was tempered by persistent concerns about inflation and the Chinese economy, despite an overnight rally on Wall Street. Eyes are on the Bank of Japan, set to wrap up a two-day policy meeting, although analysts expect no
Continue Reading By Stephanie Elam and Kacey Cherry, CNN Gems and jewelry worth millions of dollars were stolen from an armored truck parked at a rest stop near Los Angeles, officials said, setting off a multi-agency investigation. The heist unfolded between 2 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. July 11 at a Flying J rest stop and gas station
Continue Reading $10 million worth of jewelry stolen from Brink’s tractor-trailer, FBI investigating
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, CNN A US Navy warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, the third time in a week the vessel has entered waters claimed by China, heightening tensions between Washington and Beijing. Washington said the latest voyage by the guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold demonstrated its “commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,”
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olivertapia Nueva York (CNN Business) — Netflix informó el martes que perdió 970.000 suscriptores en el segundo trimestre de 2022, una cifra muy inferior a sus propios pronósticos, que habían proyectado que el gigante del streaming perdería dos millones de suscriptores. Netflix pierde 970.000 suscriptores en segundo trimestre 1:24 La compañía también dijo que agregaría
Continue Reading CNN By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN More than a dozen Democratic members of Congress were among those arrested by Capitol Police on Tuesday afternoon as part of an abortion rights protest in front of the Supreme Court. Wearing specially made green bandanas with “Won’t Back Down,” they marched from the Capitol to the Court, which has
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A 19-year-old man entered a guilty plea Tuesday in connection with the murders of his mother and three siblings in 2020 at their home in Grantsville, Utah, his attorney says. Colin Jeffery Haynie, who goes by Jeffery, “did accept responsibility today and entered guilty pleas to all of
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nneka Ogwumike scored a season-high 35 points and the Los Angeles Sparks pulled away in the second halfand handed the Indiana Fever their 10th straight loss, 86-79. Ogwumike, whose career high is 38 points, made 12 of 20 shots with two 3-pointers for Los Angeles (11-14). She missed a jumper and
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Four people have died in a gas explosion at a six-story residential building in the Chinese port city of Tianjin. State broadcaster CCTV said Wednesday that 13 other people had injuries that were not life-threatening. The cause of the explosion remains under investigation, but it points to the deterioration of infrastructure following
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna and Christina Maxouris, CNN A dangerous heat wave that has wilted the south-central US spread across the country Wednesday, with about 110 million people under heat alerts in more than two dozen states from California to New England — and many areas recording high temperatures in the 90s or triple digits. That
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, CNN Towns and farmlands inundated by floods, homes and roads buried by landslides, crops withering under scorching heat, hazmat-suited Covid workers collapsing from heatstroke. Since summer began, scenes of devastation and misery have been playing out across China as the world’s most populous nation grapples with an unrelenting torrent of extreme weather
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