By Christina Maxouris, CNN The unprecedented heat wave that’s scorching parts of Northern America isn’t letting up just yet. More than 50 million people are under heat alerts Wednesday across the West and Northeast US, while high temperatures are also continuing to bake parts of western Canada. Lytton, British Columbia, hit 121 degrees Fahrenheit on
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Severe storms usher in cooler/drier air for the Northeast. CNN Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has the forecast and what to expect with the extreme heat out West.
Continue ReadingBy Amir Vera, CNN News of Bill Cosby’s release from prison shocked many across the United States, especially his accusers. Cosby was released after Pennsylvania’s highest court overturned his sexual assault conviction, saying his due process rights were violated in the first major case of the #MeToo era. The reaction from accusers and their attorneys
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Harry Enten, CNN The New York City Democratic mayoral primary is a total mess. The city’s Board of Elections, known for previous errors, managed to make its biggest one to date when it accidentally included about 135,000 test ballots in its initial calculation of the primary results under the city’s new ranked-choice voting
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN The counting error in New York’s mayoral primary is the last kind of screwup American democracy needed. Not right now. Not when the whole idea of people choosing their government is on the ropes in so many ways: A proposal for a new national voting standard has been blocked.
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By Matt Egan, CNN Business American drivers need OPEC and Russia to come to the rescue. Gasoline prices, averaging $3.12 a gallon in the United States according to AAA, are at seven-year highs just as millions of people hit the road for the July 4th holiday weekend. Some gas stations are even running out of
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By Matt Egan, CNN Business Some companies can’t wait to get to get their employees back to the office full-time. Synchrony Financial is not one of them. Synchrony, America’s largest store credit card company, is not allowing employees to return to the office five days a week even as the pandemic winds down. Almost everyone,
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By Kristin Wilson and Clare Foran, CNN Only two House Republicans — Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois — voted Wednesday to create a select committee to investigate the deadly January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Both GOP lawmakers, who are frequent critics of former President Donald Trump, were among the
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and a few thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s to around 70. TOMORROW: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers becoming more sparse by afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s. EXTENDED: Most of the measurable rainfall will come to an end south of I-70 by around midday with a few lingering
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv Haz clic aquà para ver las actualizaciones más recientes LEE: ¿Qué pasará con el edificio colapsado parcialmente en Miami? Esto opinan expertos Presentan otra demanda contra la asociación de apartamentos tras el colapso mortal en Miami Estos son los desafÃos que enfrentan los rescatistas en el edificio que colapsó en Miami Una carta
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The Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services is reporting 35 new COVID-19 cases. There are currently 240 active cases in the county. That is an increase of 30. This is the highest number of active cases since Feb. 12 when 244 cases were reported. The county now has a reported total number
Continue ReadingBy Kiet Do Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO, California (KPIX) — A San Francisco-based law firm has requested to unify all its civil lawsuits against Uber, in an effort to manage the growing caseload against the ridesharing company. “What we’ve asked the court in San Francisco to do is to move
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Aiello Click here for updates on this story OTTAWA (CTV Network) — Debuting a freshly-shaven face for the first time in many months, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau downplayed suggestions Wednesday that he’s gearing up to call a federal election despite a ramp-up in post-Parliament political posturing. The Senate adjourned for the summer leaving
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Ramirez, CNN As rescue and recovery teams dig through the rubble of the collapsed condo building in Surfside, Florida, scientists and engineers are starting to consider what could have possibly caused the deadly tragedy. Among a long list of hypotheses: climate change. Sea level rise, higher storm surges and more frequent high-tide flooding
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By Katie Lobosco, CNN The Internal Revenue Service still had more than 35 million tax returns to process at the end of this year’s filing season, a backlog four times bigger than at the end of the 2019 filing season. About 23 million of those returns were filed by individuals who may be waiting on
Continue ReadingBy Mallory Simon, CNN As Julia Jassey packed up her things before flying off to college in Chicago, she had the usual concerns — beginning her life as an adult, making friends and getting her work done. It never occurred to her to be nervous about being Jewish. She’s born and raised in New York,
Continue ReadingYoung Americans say they are seeing a new face of anti-Semitism among their progressive college classmates, who are bullying and shunning them purely for their Jewish faith. CNN’s Nick Watt reports.
Continue ReadingBy Laura Haefeli Click here for updates on this story SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — Students and parents are speaking out after CBS13 first played you an audio recording of a Spanish teacher in Sacramento using racist language in front of students. Seventh-grade Spanish teacher Katherine Sanders said the n-word twice, claiming it’s ok to use
Continue ReadingOpinion by Thomas Balcerski On Wednesday, C-SPAN released its 2021 Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, including for the first time former President Donald Trump. The survey organizers have assembled a broad ideological and demographic spectrum of 142 presidential historians and professional observers of the presidency invited to participate. I was one of them. The results
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By Jeremy Herb, Manu Raju, Ryan Nobles and Annie Grayer, CNN The House voted Wednesday to create a new select committee that will investigate the deadly January 6 attack on the US Capitol, in a vote falling mostly along party lines that signals the political fight to come over the panel’s examination of the January
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