Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — After four months of training, the inaugural class of the City EMT pilot program graduated. The first class started with 15 students and 13 completed the intensive training program, preparing youth of color for careers in the paramedic or fire service. “We just want
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Some states are making great strides in vaccinating their residents against Covid-19, but the ones that are not may soon be contending with a more transmissible variant, experts say. About 45.1% of the US population is fully vaccinated against Covid-19, CDC data showed, and in 16 states and Washington, DC, that proportion is up to
Continue Reading The murder trial of a woman who killed her abusive husband got underway in the French city of Burgundy on Monday.​ In her bestselling book Tout Le Monde Savait (Everyone Knew) published in May, Valerie Bacot, 40, admitted to shooting Daniel Polette dead in self-defense in 2016. She faces a life sentence for murder.​ “It’s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — Firefighters rescued a woman stuck in her car underneath a fallen tree Sunday morning. It happened in the morning during the wind and rain off Hollowell Parkway near Eugenia Place. “I was laying in my bed,” said Sherard Simmons who lives in front of where
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Lordstown Motors, the embattled electric truck startup, is facing more scrutiny after several of its top executives sold off millions in dollars of stock prior to its dismal first-quarter earnings report. Regulatory filings show five Lordstown executives, including its former chief financial officer and its current president, sold more than $8 million in stock in
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What do Jay-Z, A-Rod, Ciara, Serena Williams, Shaq, hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, former house speaker Paul Ryan, and Richard Branson all have in common? One word, well, acronym: SPACs.
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Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi on Monday ruled out a meeting with President Joe Biden and in response to CNN called on the United States to return to the nuclear deal, in his first international news conference since he won Iran’s election over the weekend. Raisi said he would not meet with Biden, even if both
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CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen speaks with Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, International Affairs Expert to Iran’s Speaker of Parliament, about what President-Elect Ebrahim Raisi’s foreign policy will be like.
Continue Reading CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen speaks with Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, International Affairs Expert to Iran’s Speaker of Parliament, about what President-Elect Ebrahim Raisi’s foreign policy will be like.
Continue Reading Iranian President-Elect Ebrahim Raisi said in his first news conference that the United States violated the 2015 nuclear agreement, known as the JCPOA, and called on President Joe Biden to return to the agreement. Answering a question by CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen in Tehran, Raisi called on Biden to lift all sanctions before adding that Iran’s ballistic missile program “is not up for negotiation.”
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ORANGE COUNTY, California (KABC) — An Orange County man is marking his first Father’s Day since his wife was killed by a suspected drunk driver, leaving him to raise his newborn daughter on his own. The nonprofit MOMS Orange County hosted an event for James Alvarez, whose wife
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Vivendi has agreed to sell 10% of Universal Music to a so-called blank check company backed by hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman for about $4 billion. The deal was confirmed by Vivendi and Pershing Square Tontine Holdings, Ackman’s special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), in statements on Sunday. SPACs typically raise money from investors before going
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A unanimous Supreme Court said on Monday that student athletes could receive education-related payments, in a case that could reshape college sports by allowing more money from a billion-dollar industry to go to the players. College sports raise billions of dollars from ticket sales, television contracts and merchandise, and supporters of the students say the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A nude homeless man was taken into custody after being captured on home surveillance video breaking into a Bel Air home, and allegedly killing the family’s pet birds. The suspect, identified as 34-year-old Paul Kiyan, was arrested around 2:40 p.m. Thursday in the 1000
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It’s been 15 long months since millions of workers left their offices and set up makeshift desks at home. But as Covid-19 cases decline and more Americans get vaccinated, companies are beginning to establish protocols about how, and whether, office life will resume. For Wall Street banks, the growing consensus is that everyone ought to
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China’s solar industry monopoly took a hit earlier this month when a new Ohio-based solar panel factory was announced. First Solar, the only US-headquartered major manufacturer of solar panels, is investing $680 million investment into the factory, and its technology is not dependent on the Chinese at all, according to CEO Mark Widmar. First Move’s
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First Solar is building a factory in Ohio, creating the biggest plant for making solar panels outside of China. CEO Mark Widmar talks to CNN’s Julia Chatterley about their semiconductor technology.
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George Clooney, Kerry Washington, Don Cheadle and more stars hope to make Hollywood more inclusive by exposing students to entertainment industry jobs during high school. The industry veterans are backing a magnet program in partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) where curriculum will center around film and television production. The academy will
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Lawmakers will resume a slate of tense negotiations this week over voting rights, infrastructure and police reform as President Joe Biden’s agenda enters an important week on Capitol Hill. Looming large over the deliberations is the July 4 recess in the Senate, which begins at the end of the week and could encourage real momentum
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Traffic deaths soared in 2020 despite Americans driving less due to the pandemic, and Black Americans bore a disproportionate share of the increase in fatalities. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated earlier this month that 38,680 people died in motor vehicle crashes in 2020, the largest projected number of deaths since 2007, despite a
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