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Month: June 2021

The pandemic is making a vicious cycle even worse for low-income students

By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Inequality has worsened across the board during the pandemic. That has proven particularly true for low-income students. Already disadvantaged to start, many remote students in lower-income households had to worry about stable internet connections, available devices to log into school sessions, and getting personalized attention and help with homework or

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A 9-year-old girl was killed and 2 boys wounded in back-to-back shootings in North Carolina. Police are now hunting for the shooters

By Tina Burnside, CNN A search for shooters is underway in North Carolina after a 9-year-old girl was killed and two boys wounded Monday evening in two drive-by shootings that unfolded minutes and blocks apart, the Statesville Police Department said. “If you saw the murder of this innocent child and injuries to the other innocent

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Rebels in Tigray reject calls for ceasefire after Ethiopian government forces withdraw from regional capital

By Eliza Mackintosh, Bethlehem Feleke and Vasco Cotovio, CNN Rebel forces in the war-torn Ethiopian region of Tigray have rejected a ceasefire offer from the central government, raising fears of further violence a day after the fighters retook the regional capital Mekelle. The recapture of the city by Tigrayan fighters and the retreat of Ethiopian

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Joven que murió junto a su madre en colapso de edificio de Miami anhelaba ser reconocido por los diseños de sus camisetas

CNNEE (CNN Español) — Luis Bermúdez de 26 años y su madre, Ana Ortiz, están entre las víctimas del derrumbe del edificio de condominios Champlain Towers South en Surfside, Florida. Minuto a minuto: derrumbe de edificio en Miami; víctimas, operaciones de rescate y lo que sabemos de la tragedia Bermúdez era un joven con distrofia

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The Ethiopian government declared an immediate ceasefire after Tigrayan troops retook the regional capital Mekelle. Pictured here Ethiopian army units patrolling the streets of Mekelle in March.

Ethiopia’s government announce ceasefire as Tigrayan troops retake region’s capital

By Bethlehem Feleke, Richard Roth, Kristina Sgueglia, Vasco Cotovio, Nima Elbagir and CNN Staff In a stunning about-turn in the devastating eight-month civil war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, the Ethiopian government declared an immediate and unilateral ceasefire after Tigrayan troops retook the regional capital Mekelle on Monday evening. Tigrayan forces on Tuesday had not

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The Florida official who set up a vaccine site for affluent ZIP codes and created a VIP list cleared of criminal wrongdoing, sheriff’s office says

By Paul P. Murphy, CNN A Manatee County Sheriff’s Office investigation has found that its county commissioner’s actions did not rise to the “level of a crime” when she created a VIP list for Covid-19 vaccines, and limited a drive to two affluent ZIP codes in her district earlier in 2021. The sheriff’s office opened

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