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Month: September 2022

Biden announces new travel rules to fight ‘unnecessary hidden fees’

By Kate Sullivan and Nikki Carvajal, CNN President Joe Biden announced new rules Monday requiring airlines and travel sites to be more transparent about additional fees customers could be charged, fighting what he called “unnecessary hidden fees” that were “weighing down family budgets.” Under the proposed rule, airlines and travel sites “would have to disclose

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NFLPA to initiate review into handling of Tua Tagovailoa’s injury as Miami Dolphins take AFC East lead with gritty win over Buffalo Bills

By Ben Morse and Jacob Lev, CNN The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) has told the NFL it wants to initiate a review into the handling of Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s apparent head injury suffered on Sunday, the players association confirmed to CNN on Sunday. In the second quarter of the Dolphins’ 21-19

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A 12-year-old Texas girl allegedly shot her father then herself in an apparent ‘murder plot’ with another girl, authorities say

By Tina Burnside, CNN A 12-year-old Texas girl is accused of shooting her father and then herself as a part of a “murder plot” she made with another child that involved killing their families, according to the Parker County Sheriff’s Office. The shooting happened around 11:30 p.m. last Tuesday night at a home in Weatherford,

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ANÁLISIS | Las advertencias de EE.UU. contra las amenazas nucleares de Putin son un hecho preocupante para el mundo

olivertapia (CNN) — Que Estados Unidos se vea obligado a advertir a Rusia públicamente, y en términos más estridentes en privado, que no use armas nucleares es una señal de cuán peligrosa se ha vuelto la batalla por Ucrania, y cuánto más riesgosa podría volverse. La guerra se encuentra en una nueva fase crítica. Las

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Australia mulls tougher cybersecurity laws after data breach

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government says it’s considering tougher cybersecurity rules for telecommunications companies and blamed the nation’s second-largest wireless carrier, Optus, for an unprecedented breach of personal data from 9.8 million customers. Optus says it became aware of the cyberattack last Wednesday. It has since offered its

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Protests erupt in Russia’s Dagestan region as minorities say they are being targeted by Putin’s mobilization orders

By Josh Pennington and Jessie Yeung, CNN Heated protests have broken out in some ethnic minority regions in Russia against Vladimir Putin’s mobilization orders, with activist groups and Ukrainian officials saying these minorities are being disproportionately targeted for conscription in the war. Several videos posted to social media, which CNN geo-located to the predominantly Muslim

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Brett Favre continued to pressure for volleyball facility funding even after being told it was possibly illegal, according to new filing

By Hannah Sorisohn, CNN A series of text conversations between Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre and former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant appear to show Favre repeatedly pressing the then-governor about funding the construction of a volleyball facility at the University of Southern Mississippi, even after Favre was told misuse of state funds was

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Second middle school student dies after rowing boat capsized in an Orlando lake due to possible lightning strike

By Melissa Alonso, CNN A second middle school student has died after a lightning strike may have caused the boat of a student rowing club to capsize earlier this month, rowing officials said Saturday. “It is with broken hearts that we share the passing of a second rower involved in last Thursday’s weather-related tragedy,” North

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Hurricane Ian strengthens to Category 2 storm and could be ‘something that we haven’t seen in our lifetime,’ Tampa forecaster says

By Amir Vera, Holly Yan, Jennifer Gray and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Hurricane Ian keeps getting stronger as it barrels toward Florida, prompting urgent evacuations and threatening dangerous storm surges in places not used to getting hit directly by a hurricane. Ian is now a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale, according to a

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