By David Williams, CNN The tiny goldfish you can pick up at pet store for a few cents might not look like an environmental threat, but they can grow into a huge problem if set free in lakes or ponds — mainly because they can grow to be surprisingly huge. Burnsville, Minnesota, which is south
Continue ReadingBy KCTV KSMO Staff Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KCTV, KSMO) — A local boy just celebrated his eighth birthday, and his family says the State of Missouri is denying him the only present he wanted. The boy, who News 4 will call “Trevor” to keep his identity anonymous, is transgender
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Opinion by Senator Sherrod Brown and Peter Edelman for CNN Business Perspectives If you have kids, check your bank account on Thursday. There’s a pretty good chance you’ll see $250 or $300 in your account with the letters “CTC” in the line item. That’s because for the first time ever, we are recognizing raising kids
Continue Reading During the Covid-19 pandemic, childcare costs nearly doubled, leaving some families to take drastic measures to afford daycare. CNN’s Pamela Brown reports.
Continue ReadingBy WALA Staff Click here for updates on this story DESTIN, Florida (WALA) — According to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, a Destin woman was taken into custody following a string of 911 calls in reference to a reckless driver on Highway 98 heading across Okaloosa Island toward Destin yesterday. Witnesses reported the white Ford
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — La Tribu Penelakut de Columbia Británica anunció este lunes que han hallado más de 160 tumbas “indocumentadas y sin marcar” en las islas del golfo sur de la provincia, que albergó alguna vez a la Escuela Residencial Kuper Island conocida como la Alcatraz de Canadá. El reciente descubrimiento sombrío le
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By Ryan Nobles and Clare Foran, CNN Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and a group of other Senate Democrats introduced draft legislation on Wednesday that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level by striking it from the federal controlled substances list. It’s significant for a Senate majority leader to back such a measure and the
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Major League Baseball’s annual All-Star Game, where representatives from the National League and American League compete in the contest also known as the “Midsummer Classic.” Facts July 19, 2022 – The 92nd MLB All-Star Game takes place at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. The American League defeats the
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By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Here’s one example of how pretty much everything is getting more expensive: A toy that used to cost $25 is now priced at $28,000. Premium Joy, based in Walnut, California, makes a variety of foam toys, including play mats, jigsaw puzzles and building blocks for kindergarten and elementary-grade kids. It
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By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent We’ve all heard it said over and over again: We’re now in the phase of the pandemic when it’s a race between vaccinations and the variants. It has been neck and neck for a while, and honestly, I was ready to cheer a vaccine victory. We nearly
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By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Most major social media platforms have tried a version of Snapchat’s Stories, but Twitter is the first to admit its experiment with disappearing content failed. The company announced Wednesday that it will kill off Fleets, its disappearing posts product, on August 3 — less than a year after introducing it
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By Tami Luhby, CNN More than 2 million Americans have signed up for 2021 coverage during a special enrollment period on the Obamacare federal and state exchanges, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Wednesday. The report includes plan selections from February 15, when President Joe Biden reopened enrollment to the uninsured, through June.
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CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Pope Francis, the current pope and first non-European pontiff of the modern era. Personal Birth date: December 17, 1936 Birth place: Buenos Aires, Argentina Birth name: Jorge Mario Bergoglio Father: Mario Bergoglio Mother: Regina (Sivori) Bergoglio Religion: Roman Catholic Other Facts The first Jesuit
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WEDNESDAY: We’ll pick up a few clouds here and there, but it’ll filter the sunshine at worst. Temperatures look to top out in the low 90’s with a decent southwesterly breeze throughout the day. That will help bump up the humidity, pushing the heat index near the century mark. TONIGHT: Adding on a few more clouds overnight,
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Así fue la persecución tras el magnicidio en Haití. Britney Spears regresa a la corte. ¿Por qué es tan difícil comprar una casa en EE.UU.? Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad. 1 Hay más de 100 detenidos o desaparecidos en Cuba, según activistas Los activistas antigubernamentales
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Woodrow Click here for updates on this story BERKELEY, California (KGO) — A Berkeley High School teacher is no longer with the school district after officials concluded in a written decision there was sufficient evidence to substantiate claims he was inappropriate with current and former students. A former student has now filed a
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CNN’s John Avlon examines the long history of anti-vaccine rhetoric as coronavirus vaccines continue to be administered across America.
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By Holmes Lybrand and Tara Subramaniam, CNN The way some Republican lawmakers tell it, the federal government is coming door-to-door to create a registry of the unvaccinated and force people to receive one of the Covid-19 vaccines. On July 6, President Joe Biden announced five areas his administration would focus on to get Americans vaccinated,
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, Kaitlan Collins and Jeff Zeleny, CNN White House officials are devising ways to fight the spread of dangerous falsehoods about Covid-19 vaccines, administration officials told CNN, as Republicans and their media allies ramp up their vocal skepticism about vaccines. President Joe Biden himself could soon take on some of the corrosive messages
Continue Reading CNN’s John Berman and Brianna Keilar show some of the anti-vaccine propaganda viewers of right-wing media are being exposed to.
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