Gas prices skyrocket as the global energy crisis worsens
By Matt Egan, CNN Business The cost of energy was dirt cheap in the spring of 2020 as roads and airports sat nearly empty during the height of the…
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UNC Chapel Hill to cancel classes Tuesday for a ‘Wellness Day’ after suicide investigations
UNC Chapel Hill to cancel classes Tuesday for a ‘Wellness Day’ after suicide…
Continue Reading UNC Chapel Hill to cancel classes Tuesday for a ‘Wellness Day’ after suicide investigations
By Claire Colbert, CNN The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill announced Sunday, World Mental Health Day, it is canceling classes Tuesday to…
Continue Reading Prosecutors granted second hearing after evaluators find Colorado supermarket mass shooting suspect incompetent to stand trial
By Kay Jones, CNN The suspect in a Colorado supermarket shooting that claimed 10 lives has been declared incompetent to stand trial by evaluators,…
Continue Reading Lava from La Palma volcano sparks cement factory fire, pushing 2,500 people into lockdown
By Al Goodman, CNN Lava flowing from the Cumbre Vieja volcano on Spain’s La Palma island sparked a fire at a cement factory Monday, leading to…
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ISIS finance chief captured by Iraqi forces, Iraq PM says
By Aqeel Najim and Mostafa Salem, CNN Iraqi forces captured Sami Jasim, the deputy of former ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraq’s Prime…
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Southwest cancels hundreds more flights; passengers stranded
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines has canceled hundreds more flights following a weekend of major service…
Continue Reading Jennifer Sewell, missing Fort Hood soldier, found safe
By Claire Colbert, CNN Missing Fort Hood soldier Pfc. Jennifer Sewell has been found safe, officials said in a press release. Sewell’s family…
Continue Reading Scientists looked at more than 100,000 studies and found the world has a giant climate-crisis blind spot
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Scientists using artificial intelligence to sift through around 100,000 climate studies were trying to put a number on how…
Continue Reading Humans were using tobacco at least 12,000 years ago
By Katie Hunt, CNN The tobacco plant has shaped the fortunes of humanity. Today, the substance is used and abused by a billion people around the…
Continue Reading Taliban’s religious police instructed to be more moderate, but vulnerable Afghans say brutal justice is still being meted out
By Brent Swails and Clarissa Ward, CNN The blood-stained bodies of the four accused kidnappers were hung off construction cranes with heavy chains,…
Continue Reading Pakistani airline suspends Afghanistan flights due to Taliban ‘heavy-handedness’
CNN By Sophia Saifi, CNN Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) announced Thursday that it was suspending flights to Afghanistan due to what it…
Continue Reading Advocates fear Texas and Mississippi abortion laws will worsen the Black maternal health crisis
Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks out on the Texas abortion bill and how a “majority of Justices gave opted to bury their heads in the…
Continue Reading Advocates fear Texas and Mississippi abortion laws will worsen the Black maternal health crisis
By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Briana McLennan was 19 years old and at least eight weeks pregnant when she had to make a tough decision: get an abortion…
Continue Reading Investigators find unidentified human remains while searching for Lauren Cho, who’s been missing since June
By Claire Colbert, CNN Authorities in Southern California found “unidentified human remains” Saturday during their search for Lauren Cho,…
Continue Reading Texas woman died after an unsafe abortion years ago. Her daughter fears same thing may happen again
By Nicole Chavez, CNN Outside the only abortion clinic in the border city of McAllen, Texas, a debate has played out for years. Some people pray and…
Continue Reading More than 30 countries have joined pledge to slash climate-warming methane emissions by 30%
By Ella Nilsen and Angela Dewan, CNN Canada, Nigeria, Japan and Pakistan are among 31 parties to join a global pledge, led by the US and EU, to slash…
Continue Reading From ‘net zero’ to ‘mitigation,’ here’s how to sound smart on climate
Conservationists in the UK are warning that important sand dune habitats are being severely impacted by changing weather patterns and more intense…
Continue Reading Huntington Beach reopens shore after oil spill shut it down last week
By Claire Colbert, CNN Huntington Beach has reopened its shoreline after water testing results came back with non-detectable amounts of…
Continue Reading Nearly 19,000 children crossed the dangerous Darien Gap on foot this year
By Caitlin Hu, CNN A record number of children crossed on foot the treacherous stretch of jungle between Colombia and Panama known as the Darien Gap…
Continue Reading Alexander Schallenberg sworn in as Austria chancellor after Sebastian Kurz quits amid corruption inquiry
By Stephanie Halasz, CNN Alexander Schallenberg was named Austria’s new chancellor on Monday after his predecessor, Sebastian Kurz, resigned…
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Merck asks US FDA to authorize promising anti-COVID pill
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Drugmaker Merck has asked U.S. regulators to authorize its promising antiviral pill against…
Continue Reading These states are ditching Columbus Day to observe Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead
By AJ Willingham, Scottie Andrew and Dakin Andone, CNN Columbus Day has been a political lightning rod for states, cities and municipalities around…
Continue Reading London police taking ‘no further action’ over Prince Andrew review
By Amy Cassidy, Tara John and Max Foster, CNN London’s police force has decided to take “no further action” against Prince Andrew,…
Continue Reading 5 things to know for October 11: Virginia election, Afghanistan, coronavirus, Capitol riot, infrastructure
By AJ Willingham, CNN It’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day (or Columbus Day, depending on where you are), so we’ll have a short edition…
Continue Reading 5 things to know for October 11: Virginia election, Afghanistan, coronavirus, Capitol riot, infrastructure
The multi-day severe weather outbreak continues as the threat for tornadoes shifts towards the Midwest. CNN meteorologist Tyler Mauldin has the…
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On CNN’s State of the Union with Dana Bash, Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe defends his record on schools and…
Continue Reading 5 things to know for October 11: Virginia election, Afghanistan, coronavirus, Capitol riot, infrastructure
Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe says his state’s voters are frustrated with Democrats in Washington for not passing…
Continue Reading Malaysia and Singapore ease international travel restrictions in pivot to living with Covid
The national rate of Covid-19 infections is declining, with the former FDA Chief predicting the Delta wave could be over by…
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