By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The White House on Tuesday released a new executive order that senior administration officials say is meant to deter hostage taking and wrongful detentions around the world and strengthen efforts to bring unlawfully detained Americans home. The executive order will allow the administration to impose sanctions and visa bans on those
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By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed an executive order designed to impose sanctions on criminals, terrorists or government officials who hold Americans captive abroad. The order also aims to increase the flow of information to families of detained Americans. The order signed Tuesday comes as WNBA star Brittney
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By Theresa Waldrop, Amir Vera, Artemis Moshtaghian and Holly Yan, CNN The gunman who killed three people and injured two others at a mall in Greenwood, Indiana, Sunday evening was armed with two rifles, a Glock pistol and more than 100 rounds of ammunition, police said. The 20-year-old man, identified as Douglas Sapirman, used only
Continue Reading By Caroll Alvarado, Michelle Watson and Jacquelyne Germain, CNN The mother who posted a video showing a costumed character appearing to ignore two Black children during a parade at Sesame Place in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, says the theme park’s explanation of the incident as a “misunderstanding” is not enough. Jodi Brown and her attorney told
Continue Reading Jodi Brown says her daughter and niece were ignored by a costumed character during a visit to the Sesame Place theme park in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Brown shares with CNN’s Victor Blackwell why she believes the snub happened because the two girls are Black.
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Sergio Gomez (CNN Español) — Desde el momento de su presentación, el videojuego “Stray” ya tenía elementos atractivos y diferenciadores para llamar la atención de los jugadores: su propuesta y estética. Un videojuego de controlar a un gato callejero en una ciudad cibernética del futuro con atmósfera cyberpunk. Si a esto se le suma que
Continue Reading By Betsy Klein, CNN The White House is preparing a plan to take executive action on climate after Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin last week torpedoed his party’s efforts on sweeping legislation. President Joe Biden said last week that he would take “strong executive action” on climate, but did not provide details on what kinds of
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By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Global supply chains are still a snarled mess, disrupting deliveries of goods, adding to headaches for businesses and feeding the worldwide surge in inflation. The good news: There are some indications that the situation is beginning to get better. The bad news: Huge risks — from another spike in coronavirus
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By TERRY WALLACE and KEN MILLER Associated Press A North Texas wildfire continued to grow Tuesday amid sweltering temperatures and dry conditions after burning at least a dozen structures, officials said. The Chalk Mountain Fire about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of Fort Worth was the largest active Texas wildfire as of Tuesday afternoon after
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By Clare Duffy, CNN Business In an early victory for Twitter, a judge on Tuesday ruled that the company’s lawsuit against Elon Musk over their $44 billion acquisition agreement should go to a five-day trial in October. The decision came at the end of the first hearing in the case over whether to expedite the
Continue Reading CNN By Clare Duffy, CNN Business In an early victory for Twitter, a judge on Tuesday ruled that the company’s lawsuit against Elon Musk over their $44 billion acquisition agreement should go to a five-day trial in October. The decision came at the end of the first hearing in the case over whether to expedite
Continue Reading CNN By Clare Duffy, CNN Business In an early victory for Twitter, a judge on Tuesday ruled that the company’s lawsuit against Elon Musk over their $44 billion acquisition agreement should go to a five-day trial in October. The decision came at the end of the first hearing in the case over whether to expedite
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Story by Francesca Street, CNN. Animations by Emma Beinish and Alberto Mier, CNN American teenager Brad Miele spent the summer of 1984 exploring Europe by rail with his Sony Walkman in his ears. Days rummaging through Paris record stores and evenings sampling Berlin nightlife were soundtracked by Miele’s favorite albums. Miele’s mother also traveled around
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EL PASO, Texas — Getting a good amount of sun exposure is great for you health, but too much can be dangerous. “Because we’re higher up, we get more exposure to the (sun’s) radiation. And we’re in that climate where a lot of people are outdoors and so we definitely are at higher risk here
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Un hombre de Indiana está siendo aclamado como un héroe por las autoridades locales después de entrar en una casa envuelta en llamas la semana pasada y salvar las vidas de varios niños atrapados dentro de la estructura en llamas. Nicholas Bostic, de 25 años, conducía en Lafayette, Indiana, justo
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By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A study says that a nearly 80-year-old law intended to put distressed and tax-delinquent Chicago-area properties back to productive use has done little to improve or solve racial inequities in the city’s Black and Latino neighborhoods. A report released Tuesday by the Cook County treasurer’s office proposes scrapping or modifying
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican has centralized and overhauled its investment strategy after a botched deal lost tens of millions of euros. The new policy announced Tuesday by the Secretariat for the Economy prohibits investments in products such as pornography and weapons and prioritizes prudent investing in industries that promote
Continue Reading KUWAIT CITY (AP) — The Olympic Council of Asia has rescheduled the delayed Asian Games to start on Sept. 23 next year in Hangzhou. The 19th edition was originally due to be held from Sept. 10-25 this year. The Olympic Council of Asia says it took two months of consultations involving the Chinese Olympic Committee
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes (CNN Español) –– Un 19 de julio, pero de 1979, las calles de Managua fueron testigos de un hecho que marcaría el devenir de Nicaragua hasta la actualidad: las tropas de la Revolución sandinista entraron triunfantes a la capital del país dos días después de que el presidente Anastasio Somoza Debayle huyera con
Continue Reading By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Johnson & Johnson rode growing sales of the cancer treatment Darzalex and other key drugs to a better-than-expected second quarter, but foreign exchange rates again cut into the health care giant’s 2022 forecast. The company on Tuesday dropped its forecast to a range below analyst expectations after also trimming
Continue Reading By Anna Cooban, CNN Business Workers in the United Kingdom are struggling with the biggest drop in pay in more than two decades, as surging food and energy prices take a giant bite out of wages. Real pay — workers’ wages that take inflation into account — slumped by 2.8% between March and May compared
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Todo el mundo está pendiente de Netflix esta semana, es decir, de las ganancias de Netflix. Y será un momento decisivo para la empresa que ha convertido su nombre en sinónimo de streaming. El asunto es el siguiente: este martes por la tarde, tras el cierre de la bolsa, Netflix
Continue Reading By MELISSA LAMBARENA of NerdWallet When inflation has you on a tight budget, a credit card may seem like an easy option to stay afloat. Without a plan in place to pay it off, though, you could be at risk for credit card mistakes that lead to a mountain of debt. If you’re in a
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm has proposed earmarking 500 million euros for joint defense procurement in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the military aid EU nations have offered to Kyiv. The European Commission said in a statement that the first-ever such pooling of resources “will avoid competition among
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — A casi cinco meses del inicio de la guerra, Rusia encontró en los últimos días una fuerte resistencia en su intento de tomar nuevos territorios de Ucrania. En las últimas horas, las fuerzas rusas intentaron atacar el pueblo de Husarivka, a unos 30 kilómetros al noroeste de Sloviansk, pero los
Continue Reading By THALIA BEATY Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Dominique Davis was inside a Seattle-area church one day in March 2021 when a man with a handgun opened fire during a meeting of Community Passageways, a group he founded that works to curb gun violence. The gunman shot 19-year-old Omari Wallace several times before fleeing. Wallace,
Continue Reading By Hilary Whiteman, CNN As Europe sweltered in the summer heat, Australians took stock of a new report that revealed just how much the country’s environment has deteriorated in the last five years. “Our waters are struggling and so is the land,” said Labor’s new Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek, as she released the long-awaited State
Continue Reading By Eric Bradner and Shania Shelton, CNN Maryland Republicans chose state lawmaker Dan Cox, an election denier who has taken a series of hard-line conservative positions, as their nominee for what will be one of the most difficult governor’s offices for the party to hold in November’s midterms, CNN projected. Cox won the GOP race
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By Ben Morse, CNN Australia striker Sam Kerr will become the first female player to feature on the global front cover of the popular football game, FIFA. The Chelsea forward will feature alongside Paris St-Germain star Kylian Mbappé on the cover of FIFA 23 for the global edition. “Two phenomenal forces up front. One ultimate
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — El verano boreal de 2022 es una temporada de profundización y descontento generalizado, según una nueva encuesta de CNN realizada por SSRS. La encuesta encuentra que la perspectiva del público sobre el estado del país es la peor desde 2009, mientras que su opinión sobre la economía es la peor desde 2011.
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