By Alexis Benveniste, CNN Business As Covid-19 vaccine-related misinformation continues to spread on Facebook, one of the platform’s former executives is calling for the company to focus on transparency. President Joe Biden recently said platforms like Facebook are “killing people” with vaccine misinformation. And Brian Boland, the former vice president of partnership strategy at Facebook,
Continue Reading After President Biden said social media platforms like Facebook are “killing people” by spreading anti-vaccination falsehoods, CNN’s Brian Stelter says the online ecosystem that gives rise to misinformation is bigger than just Facebook.
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Un hombre de 24 años fue arrestado y acusado luego del intento de secuestro a un niño de 5 años en Queens que quedó captado en video, tuiteó el Departamento de Policía de la ciudad de Nueva York. El hombre, que no ha sido identificado públicamente, enfrenta cargos de
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN Drug addiction sabotaged Brayden Morton for five years. During that span, he attempted to get clean of fentanyl 16 times before he was successful. So, when he found the person who stole his beloved dog, Darla, and discovered she was addicted to fentanyl, he knew what to do: pay for her
Continue ReadingBy Andrew James Click here for updates on this story BUNCOMBE COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — Biologists with the North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission (NCWRC) are encouraging neighborhoods to become BearWise certified after a bear was illegally shot and killed in Buncombe County this past week. “We really want to encourage people to leave the
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By Alexis Benveniste OPEC+ agreed to increase oil production Sunday, as demand roars back and prices surge, ending a dispute between the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Oil prices soared about two weeks ago after major producers, including Saudi Arabia and the UAE, fell out over plans to increase production in the face of
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — El campeón del mundo de Fórmula 1, Lewis Hamilton, y Max Verstappen, quien lidera el campeonato de pilotos esta temporada, se vieron envueltos en una colisión a gran velocidad en la primera vuelta del Gran Premio de Gran Bretaña este domingo. Hamilton hizo varios intentos de adelantar a Verstappen en esa primera
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Masse, Shawnte Passmore Click here for updates on this story TOLLAND, Connecticut (WFSB) — Flash floods washed over roads while massive downpours caused water damage in the northeastern part of the state. Portions of Tolland and Windham Counties are dealing with dangerous road conditions. Earlier, the National Weather Service issued a Flash Flood
Continue ReadingBy Iyani Hughes, Barmel Lyons Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — It’s a celebration of life and legacy one year after the passing of civil rights icon and congressman John Lewis. “I wish John could see it I think he’s somewhere looking down on us right now,” said John Lewis’s brother
Continue ReadingBy Terry Bulger Click here for updates on this story COLUMBIA, Tennessee (WSMV) — Summer camps for young people are fun, it’s just that simple. But for certain groups, they take on a completely different perspective that helps them in so many valuable ways. Oliver Mooney isn’t afraid to talk about his burns. “It got
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Brown Click here for updates on this story JACKSON COUNTY, Missouri (KCTV) — A Kansas City man has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for fatally stabbing a mother of four in 2018. Xzavier C. McDowell, now 20 years old, had pleaded guilty in February 2020 to second-degree murder and armed criminal
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — El presidente de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro, fue dado de alta el domingo del Hospital Vila Nova Star en Sao Paulo, según un comunicado del gobierno. Bolsonaro se encontraba hospitalizado desde el miércoles para tratar un caso de suboclusión intestinal, se lee en el comunicado, luego de sufrir un ataque
Continue ReadingBy Denio Lourenco, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — As rescue workers race to save people from devastating floods in Germany and Belgium, climate experts are sounding the alarm over predictions that intense, slow-moving storms will increase significantly across Europe by the end of the century. According
Continue ReadingBy Tom Yun, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story CARLETON-SUR-MER, Quebec (CTV Network) — DNA analysis of a 1,600-year-old mummified sheep leg found in Iran has uncovered clues as to how the ancient people of the Middle East lived. The sheep leg was recently discovered in the Chehrabad salt mine in Iran,
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — La última vez que Aris Suharyanto vio a su esposa fue a través de la ventana del hospital. No pudo conocer a su bebé recién nacido. Cuando la esposa de Suharyanto, Rina Ismawati, embarazada, y dos de sus tres hijos enfermaron el mes pasado, él pensó inicialmente que se trataba de un
Continue ReadingBy Marjie Ducey Click here for updates on this story OMAHA, Nebraska (Omaha World-Herald) — It was the one tree the residents in a Dundee neighborhood thought would never fall. They were wrong. The huge oak, estimated by homeowner Charlie Agulla to be between 100 and 150 feet tall, silently toppled in last Saturday morning’s
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By Devan Cole and Daniella Diaz, CNN A Republican senator who’s helping to negotiate a bipartisan infrastructure proposal said Sunday that the group is no longer looking at toughening enforcement at the Internal Revenue Service as a way to pay for the massive bill. “Well, one reason it’s not part of the proposal is that
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nota del editor: El Dr. Mark Lieber es médico residente de medicina interna en el Centro Médico Johns Hopkins Bayview de Baltimore y fue el becario de Stanford-CNN Global Health and Media Fellow 2017-2018. Planea centrar su carrera médica en la atención primaria del VIH y LGBTQ. (CNN) — Hace poco fui a
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By Paul Vercammen, CNN Covid-19 shoved Jeff Sweat into a medical coma for three weeks last winter, face down on a ventilator, on death’s trap door. “I took care of him when he was literally near death,” said Dr. Nida Qadir, a pulmonologist and co-director of the Intensive Care Unit at UCLA Medical Center. “He
Continue ReadingBy Brent C. Wagner Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star) — The Nebraska volleyball program is on a recruiting hot streak. For the third time in just two days, a high school volleyball player has announced their plans to play for Nebraska. On Friday, it was Caroline Jurevicius, who
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