By Omar Jimenez, CNN “I’m not saying I’m God or I can prevent anything from happening, but I know in my heart I did what I can at 1 or 2 in the morning to help put this guy in a safer environment.” That’s how Jervon Hicks describes his mission as an outreach worker and
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BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — The grandmother of an 11-year-old boy from Tennessee who was injured on a roller coaster in Missouri says doctors are concerned they might not be able to save his legs. Shelandra Ford is with Aalondo Perry at a Missouri hospital. He was hurt in Branson on Sunday. Ford told WREG-TV in
Continue ReadingBy Keith Allen, CNN More than 150 Houston Methodist Hospital employees were officially out of a job Tuesday, 10 days after a judge dismissed a lawsuit against the hospital by employees who opposed a Covid-19 vaccine mandate as a condition of employment, a hospital spokesperson said. The 153 employees either resigned in the two-week suspension
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Los gobiernos de Argentina y México informaron este lunes que instruyeron a sus embajadores en Nicaragua a trasladarse a sus respectivas capitales. El objetivo es realizar consultas sobre las “preocupantes” acciones que ha realizado el gobierno del país centroamericano en los últimos días. Estas, según el comunicado conjunto, pusieron en
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The highway patrol inspects buses at districts across the state yearly.
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By Zachary Cohen and Oren Liebermann, CNN The Pentagon was watching as Iran attempted, and failed, to launch yet another satellite into orbit earlier this month, multiple defense officials tell CNN. But while that previous effort, which took place in mid-June, was unsuccessful, Iran appears to be preparing for another attempt in the near future,
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By Emiko Jozuka, Blake Essig and Dan Campisi, CNN Kyoko Ishikawa is not your average Olympics enthusiast. Sporting a bandana, fans, whistle and traditional Japanese costume, the IT company president is a superfan who has attended every Summer Games since Barcelona 1992. She even performs a Japanese cheer routine at each one and hopes to
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess and Steve Almasy, CNN A potential showdown is looming between eight students who want to come to the Indiana University campus in August but think the school’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate is unconstitutional. The mandate requires students, faculty and staff to be vaccinated or get an exemption for religious or medical reasons before
Continue ReadingBy Keith Allen, CNN The shooting that left three people dead in Arvada, Colorado, on Monday appears to have been a deliberate attack on a police officer, Police Chief Link Strate told reporters Tuesday afternoon. Gordon Beesley, a 19-year veteran of the Arvada Police Department, and a bystander identified Tuesday as John Hurley, 40, of
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La cantante superestrella Billie Eilish se disculpó luego de que saliera a la luz un video en el que aparentemente se le ve pronunciando una canción mientras se utiliza un insulto racial antiasiático. Eilish, ganadora de siete premios Grammy, publicó un comunicado en su Instagram Stories el lunes abordando la compilación
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By Devan Cole, CNN Louisiana’s Democratic governor on Tuesday vetoed a bill that would’ve prohibited transgender girls and women in the state from competing on girls’ and women’s public elementary, secondary and college sports teams, calling the Republican-backed measure discriminatory and saying it addressed a nonexistent issue in the state. “As I have said repeatedly
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By Manu Raju and Jeremy Herb, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to appoint a select committee to investigate the deadly January 6 attack on the US Capitol after Senate Republicans blocked the creation of an independent commission to probe the insurrection, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Pelosi announced Tuesday evening to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One person is recovering after a crash in Columbia this Tuesday afternoon. First responders were called to the intersection of Paris Road and east Brown Station Road around noon. Authorities say one vehicle t-boned into the other. Lanes were closed for a brief period of time while officers worked the crash.
Continue Reading By Oren Liebermann, CNN Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Tuesday announced he will recommend to President Joe Biden a change in the military justice system to take the prosecution of sexual assaults out of the hands of commanders. “We will work with Congress to amend the Uniform Code of Military Justice, removing the prosecution
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business) — Johnny Paycheck cantaba «Take this Job and Shove It» en 1977, el mensaje: no quiero tu empleo. Este podría ser el mantra de la fuerza laboral de la era poscovid. La «vuelta a la normalidad» en el mercado laboral estadounidense no será suficiente para todos. Especialmente en el
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By Devan Cole, CNN A Senate committee hearing on a bill to grant statehood to Washington, DC, grew tense for a time on Tuesday when one of the panel’s Republican lawmakers clashed with the city’s mayor on the key Democratic priority, which has gained momentum in recent years. Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin told
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — A lo largo de la pandemia, muchos de nosotros hemos soñado con cómo sería la vida una vez que el mundo empiece a recuperarse. Mientras nos enfrascamos en nuestros conjuntos de descanso y cambiamos el maquillaje por el cuidado de la piel, fantaseamos con lo ordinario: nuestro primer corte de pelo,
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — No son solo los turistas los que invaden Florida en verano. Los coloridos microorganismos conocidos como marea roja y cianobacterias (algas verdeazules) también aprovechan el cambio de temperatura para proliferar. Y esto causa grandes problemas. Ambos tipos de floración de algas están empezando a hacer acto de presencia a lo largo
Continue ReadingOpinion by Michael D’Antonio Watch out, Holy Bible! Step aside, Don Quixote! Former President Donald Trump says he’s writing “the book of all books.” Despites his attempts to build hype, obstacles loom. The first is that he’s likely to be the least reliable narrator since Patrick Bateman in “American Psycho.” And that was a work
Continue ReadingOpinion by Heather Brandon-Smith and Diana Ohlbaum These days, getting Democrats and Republicans — Congress and the President — to agree on anything meaningful seems like a pipe dream. But now there is a rapidly growing consensus throughout Washington on one important matter: the constitutional responsibility of Congress to decide when — and if —
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