By Alexandra Meeks and Jon Passantino, CNN Vanessa Bryant and other families have settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the company that owned and operated the helicopter that crashed last year in Southern California, killing her husband, NBA legend Kobe Bryant, their daughter and seven others. Attorneys for Bryant filed a joint notice of settlement
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By Devan Cole, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday voiced support for two professional athletes who announced recently that they’re part of the LGBTQ community, saying he’s “proud” of their decisions to publicly share their identities. “To Carl Nassib and Kumi Yokoyama — two prominent, inspiring athletes who came out this week: I’m so proud
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Luke McGee, CNN Britain was a very different place in 2006. Tony Blair was Prime Minister, the financial crisis that would go on to devastate the global economy had yet to arrive, and a member of parliament named Boris Johnson was eyeing up a run for mayor of London as the Conservative party’s
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN If the expansive voting rights bill suffocated in the Senate on Tuesday was the most critical defense of American democracy in decades, it seems odd that a President who put that very goal at the core of his administration didn’t do more to pass it. The bill was seen by
Continue ReadingSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer spoke on the Senate floor moments after Republicans voted in unison to not open debate on the Democrats’ signature voting rights and election bill, saying saying GOP opposition was “indefensible.”
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN The number of births in the United States fell by 4% last year, much of it likely due to the pandemic, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s “the largest annual decline in the number of births since 1973,” CDC researchers wrote in
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Despite the controversies surrounding the Tokyo Olympic Games, there are hardcore Olympic super fans who can’t wait for the Games to begin. CNN’s Blake Essig speaks to two of them.
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By Christina Carrega and Evan Perez, CNN Attorney General Merrick Garland said Tuesday he doesn’t want to conduct a broad investigation of potential politicized actions during the previous administration, instead leaving any such review to the Justice Department’s internal watchdog. Some Democrats have called for Garland to take on a comprehensive review of the past
Continue Reading By Christina Carrega, CNN The Biden administration “strongly supports” ending the racial disparity of sentencing federal offenders who are convicted for crack versus powdered cocaine, according to head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, who testified Tuesday in support of a measure to do just that. The Eliminating a Quantifiably Unjust Application of
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN Español) — Un sismo de magnitud 5,8 sacudió Perú, al sur de la capital, Lima, la noche de este martes, de acuerdo con un reporte preliminar del Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS, por sus siglas en inglés). El epicentro del sismo se ubicó inicialmente a 40 kilómetros al oeste suroeste de la
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By Brad Lendon, CNN United States Marine Corps fighter jets aboard a British aircraft carrier flew combat missions over the Middle East this week — the first time US warplanes have gone into combat from a foreign warship since World War II, the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday. The missions against ISIS
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes (CNN) — La variante del coronavirus delta, que se detectó por primera vez en la India, va camino a convertirse en la dominante en Estados Unidos, donde expertos en enfermedades infecciosas dicen que podría causar un «resurgimiento» del covid-19 este año más adelante. Y es posible que ya represente una de cada cinco
Continue ReadingBy Lauren M. Johnson, CNN A bill in Connecticut makes calls from prison free for the inmates and their families, becoming the first state to do so. The bill, sponsored by state Rep. Josh Elliott and Sen. Martin M. Looney, will make all voice communication, including video and electronic mail services, free to those incarcerated
Continue ReadingBy Keith Allen, CNN A grand jury in Texas declined Tuesday to indict the eight former detention officers involved in the in-custody death of Marvin Scott III, according to a news release from Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis. Scott died in March after being placed on a restraint bed, pepper-sprayed, and having a spit
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By Ethan Cohen, CNN The New York City Democratic mayoral primary winner will be determined using ranked-choice voting tabulation, CNN projects. Voters in the Big Apple had the option to rank up to five of the 13 candidates in the race. Since no candidate will win a majority of the vote outright, the New York
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Governor Mike Parson says as long as hospitalizations are manageable and testing continues across the state, he feels comfortable with where Missouri stands in the fight against COVID-19. Both Parson and Dr. Harbaksh Sangha, the Chief Medical Officer for Lake Regional Health System, shared concerns surrounding the virus Tuesday. However, Sangha says
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN)– El aumento de la delincuencia violenta en todo el país se ha convertido en un motivo de preocupación creciente dentro de la Casa Blanca, donde el presidente Joe Biden y sus ayudantes han escuchado con alarma cómo las autoridades locales advierten que se avecina un brutal verano de homicidios. Biden tiene previsto
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A scuba diver in Cheboygan, Michigan, found a 95-year-old message in a bottle at the bottom of the Cheboygan river. After posting about it on Facebook, she was able to contact the daughter of the man who wrote the message. CNN affiliate WWTV has more.
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A scuba diver in Cheboygan, Michigan, found a 95-year-old message in a bottle at the bottom of the Cheboygan river. After posting about it on Facebook, she was able to contact the daughter of the man who wrote the message. CNN affiliate WWTV has more.
Continue ReadingChicago community leaders and politicians are working together to try to slow the pace of gun violence. CNN’s Omar Jimenez reports.
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