Johnson & Johnson asks FDA to authorize Covid-19 vaccine booster shots
By Maggie Fox, CNN Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday it has asked the US Food and Drug Administration to authorize booster shots for its coronavirus…
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NASA’s DART mission will deliberately crash into an asteroid’s moon in the name of planetary defense
In honor of World Space Week, the world’s most famous doll has crossed into the final frontier of…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN A spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid is preparing to launch. The DART mission, or NASA’s Double…
Continue Reading A strong gasoline odor. Plumes of oil. And now California’s coastal residents brace for damage
By Maeve Reston, CNN Photographs by Kyle Grillot for CNN The oil spill off the coast of Orange County is a slow-moving disaster that is still hard…
Continue Reading Powerball’s $699.8 million jackpot won with one ticket in California
By Jason Hanna, CNN The chase for Powerball’s latest monster jackpot has ended in California. Monday night’s $699.8 million jackpot, the…
Continue Reading Nobel Prize in physics awarded to scientists whose work warned the world of climate change
By Rob Picheta and Katie Hunt, CNN The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to scientists Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi,…
Continue Reading 5 things to know for October 5: Congress, Pandora Papers, coronavirus, church abuse, China
CNN’s Pamela Brown talks to Washington Post reporter Greg Miller about their deep-dive into the Pandora Papers, a trove of financial records that…
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By AJ Willingham, CNN California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency yesterday in response to the oil spill currently coating parts of…
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Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said 56 Chinese warplanes made incursions into its air defense identification zone on Monday, the highest number since the…
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Portions of the South are expected to get as much rainfall over the next couple days as they normally would see over the whole of October. CNN…
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Members of the Catholic clergy sexually abused more than 200,000 minors in France over the last seven decades, a survey carried out as part of an…
Continue Reading Marc Pilcher, ‘Bridgerton’ Emmy winner, dies age 53 of Covid-19
Amy Woodyatt, CNN Marc Pilcher, the award-winning hair stylist and makeup designer who won an Emmy for his work on the hit Netflix show…
Continue Reading More than 200,000 children sexually abused by French Catholic clergy, landmark report finds
Members of the Catholic clergy sexually abused more than 200,000 minors in France over the last seven decades, a survey carried out as part of an…
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More than 200,000 children sexually abused by French Catholic clergy, damning report finds
By Saskya Vandoorne, Simon Bouvier and Sam Bradpiece, CNN Members of the Catholic clergy in France sexually abused an estimated 216,000 minors over…
Continue Reading Amplify Energy faces possible class-action lawsuit after Southern California oil spill
By Alexandra Meeks, CNN A Southern California DJ, who said he will lose substantial business because of an oil spill off the coast of Orange County,…
Continue Reading Amplify Energy faces possible class-action lawsuit after Southern California oil spill
Huntington Beach oil spill has 4 oiled birds collected so far, one had to be…
Continue Reading Taiwan won’t be forced to bow to China, President Tsai says during National Day celebrations
CNN By Eric Cheung, CNN Taiwan will not bow to pressure and nobody can force it to accept the path China has laid out for the self-governing…
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Winning ticket sold in California for $700M Powerball jackpot
UPDATE #2: One winning ticket was sold in California for what ended up being a nearly $700 million Powerball jackpot due to strong sales up to the…
Continue Reading Louisiana offering travel trailers and other housing to those left without a home after Hurricane Ida
By Rebekah Riess and Kelly McCleary, CNN Louisiana is launching a sheltering program for those “currently living in unsafe or unsanitary”…
Continue Reading The California oil spill is endangering wildlife. Here’s how authorities are trying to clean it up
By Amir Vera, CNN The pristine beaches and beautiful wildlife in Southern California are now suffering after a weekend oil spill that responders and…
Continue Reading Estate of Henrietta Lacks sues biotechnical company for nonconsensual use of her cells
By Taylor Romine, CNN The family of Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose cells have been used for groundbreaking scientific research for decades, filed a…
Continue Reading Dr. Francis Collins to step down as head of NIH
By Maggie Fox, CNN Dr. Francis Collins, the folksy, guitar-playing director of the National Institutes of Health, announced Tuesday that he plans to…
Continue Reading Taliban accused of killing 13 ethnic Hazaras in Afghanistan
By Sarah Dean, CNN Taliban forces unlawfully killed 13 ethnic Hazaras — including nine surrendering former government soldiers and a…
Continue Reading Outgoing State Department official says US border policy is illegal and inhumane
By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent A top State Department legal adviser leaving his post told his colleagues in a memo over the weekend that…
Continue Reading Oregon man charged in fatal shooting of man who spoke to his girlfriend
An Oregon man has been arrested and indicted on charges stemming from the fatal shooting of a man that prosecutors say occurred after the victim…
Continue Reading New Zealand to abandon zero-Covid strategy as Delta variant proves hard to shake
By Ben Westcott, CNN New Zealand will begin to move away from a zero-Covid strategy toward living with the virus, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said…
Continue Reading Refugee admissions hit record low, despite Biden’s reversal
By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Refugee admissions to the United States fell to a record low during the 2021 budget year despite…
Continue Reading Lawsuit alleges past culture of sexual abuse at University of North Carolina School of the Arts
By Madeline Holcombe and Lauren del Valle, CNN A new lawsuit alleges faculty at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts perpetrated…
Continue Reading Hundreds of billions were spent by the US in Afghanistan. Here are 10 of the starkest examples of ‘waste, fraud and abuse’
CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Half a billion dollars of aircraft that flew for about a year. A huge $85 million hotel that never opened, and sits in…
Continue Reading Texas pardons board votes unanimously to recommend posthumous pardon for George Floyd
By Josh Campbell and Amir Vera, CNN The Texas State Board of Pardons and Paroles voted unanimously Monday to recommend a full posthumous pardon of…
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