EXPLAINER: What’s happening with Afghanistan evacuations?
By BEN FOX and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 82,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan since the Taliban…
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SCOTUS blocked the latest eviction moratorium. Here are the steps the Biden administration is taking to help at-risk renters.
By Betsy Klein, CNN The Biden administration is taking new steps to prevent evictions as the Covid-19 pandemic continues, the White House and…
Continue Reading Experts on WHO team say search for COVID origins has stalled
By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The international scientists dispatched to China by the World Health Organization to look for the…
Continue Reading Delta CEO: Unvaccinated employees face more stringent requirements
Delta Air Lines is putting a new deadline on unvaccinated employees that will require them to take weekly Covid tests and, depending on their…
Continue Reading OnlyFans reverses explicit content ban after outcry
By TALI ARBEL and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers OnlyFans says it has suspended a plan to ban sexually explicit content following an outcry…
Continue Reading Dr. Fauci corrects prediction on when US may have control over Covid-19
Dr. Anthony Fauci corrects his earlier prediction on NPR, telling CNN’s Anderson Cooper that if a majority of Americans get vaccinated, the US could…
Continue Reading All students and staff at Afghanistan’s only girls’ boarding school flee to Rwanda
Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, talks to Christiane Amanpour about the risks to women’s rights and girls’ education in Afghanistan…
Continue Reading All students and staff at Afghanistan’s only girls’ boarding school flee to Rwanda
By Nimi Princewill, Bethlehem Feleke and Stephanie Busari, CNN Afghanistan’s only girls’ boarding school has evacuated dozens of students…
Continue Reading Johnson & Johnson booster shot prompts large increase in immune response, company says
By Maggie Fox, CNN Booster doses of Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot coronavirus vaccine generated a big spike in antibodies, the frontline…
Continue Reading Female Afghan robotics team members arrive in Mexico
The Taliban announce they no longer want Afghans leaving the country. CNN’s Sam Kiley reports from inside Kabul…
Continue Reading HEALTH MINUTE: CRITICAL PROGRESS MADE IN RACE TO VACCINATE
Two days after the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine was granted full FDA approval, top US health officials say “critical progress” is being made in the race…
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U.S. Supreme Court orders ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy reinstated
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday said the Biden administration likely violated federal law in trying to end a Trump-era program…
Continue Reading Mexico welcomes arrival of its 1st group of Afghan refugees
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has accepted its first group of refugees from Afghanistan. The five women and one man arrived Tuesday in Mexico City,…
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Migrants stone Mexico immigration officers, 1 in hospital
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s immigration service says a group of migrants threw rocks at its officers, injuring one severely. The National…
Continue Reading House passes bill bolstering landmark voting law
By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats have passed legislation that would strengthen a landmark civil rights-era…
Continue Reading WATCH: Biden says U.S. has evacuated over 70,000 from Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, DC — President Biden spoke from the White House Tuesday afternoon about the situation in Afghanistan following his decision to…
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U.S. House passes $3.5T budget plan
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a budget framework that will pave the way for Democrats to spend up to…
Continue Reading 1st US troops start leaving Afghanistan as withdrawal deadline looms
Nick Kay, a former UK ambassador to Afghanistan, says the Taliban’s hardening rhetoric is concerning and stressed the “urgent need” to facilitate…
Continue Reading Biden to stick with Aug. 31 deadline for Afghanistan
WASHNGTON, DC — President Biden has decided to stick with his self-imposed Aug. 31 deadline for a military withdrawal from Afghanistan, U.S.…
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WATCH: White House Covid-19 task force briefing
WASHINGTON, DC — The United States is facing a Covid-19 surge this summer as the more contagious delta variant spreads. More than 629,000 Americans…
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Drummer Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones backbone, dies at 80
By JILL LAWLESS and GREGORY KATZ Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has died at the age of 80. Publicist Bernard…
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Taliban cuts off airport access for fleeing Afghans
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban said Tuesday that it would not allow Afghans to leave the country and rejected talk of extending the deadline for…
Continue Reading US veteran reunited with Italian siblings he almost shot in World War II
By Livia Borghese and Jack Guy, CNN A US veteran has traveled to Italy to be reunited with three siblings who he almost shot dead during World War…
Continue Reading CIA director met with Taliban leader in Kabul on Monday amid evacuation efforts
By John Harwood, Phil Mattingly and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN CIA Director William J. Burns met face-to-face with the top Taliban leader in Kabul…
Continue Reading Zambia’s Hakainde Hichilema sworn in as President in rare victory for an African opposition leader
By Stephanie Busari and David McKenzie Zambia’s newly-elected president, Hakainde Hichilema, has been sworn into office after pulling off a…
Continue Reading Biden holds to Kabul Aug. 31 deadline despite criticism
By JONATHAN LEMIRE, ROBERT BURNS AND RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press U.S. President Joe Biden says he will stick with his Aug. 31 deadline for finishing…
Continue Reading Germany’s deadly floods were up to 9 times more likely because of climate change, study estimates
A historic 20-year megadrought, fueled by the climate crisis, is reducing the supply of water for some Arizona…
Continue Reading Kenya’s coffin makers say Covid means they’re busier than ever. Some still won’t get vaccinated
A fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has hit Kenya so hard that hospitals across the country are turning away new patients. But many Kenyans are…
Continue Reading Kenya’s coffin makers say Covid means they’re busier than ever. Some still won’t get vaccinated
By Scott McLean and Idris Mukhtar, CNN Inside a hospital in a leafy campus in the shadow of Mount Kenya, workers dressed head-to-toe in pale green…
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The record holder for tallest living man in the US dies at 38
By Amanda Jackson and Jennifer Henderson, CNN Igor Vovkovinskiy, crowned the tallest living man in the US by Guinness World Records in 2010, died…
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