By Melanie Zanona, CNN A key adviser to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy was involved in a behind-the-scenes effort last month to help rehabilitate the reputation of freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, CNN has learned, discreetly facilitating her visit to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum before she issued a public apology for her recent anti-Semitic
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By Hanna Ziady, CNN Business The European Commission has fined Volkswagen Group and BMW $1 billion for colluding with Daimler to hold back the development of technology that could have reduced harmful emissions from their vehicles. In a statement on Thursday, the Commission said the three German carmakers, along with Volkswagen subsidiaries Audi and Porsche,
Continue Reading The European Commission has fined Volkswagen Group and BMW $1 billion for colluding with Daimler to hold back the development of technology that could have reduced harmful emissions from their vehicles. CNN’s Clare Sebastian reports.
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Stellantis, the giant automaker formed by the merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and France’s PSA, plans to invest €30 billion, or $35.5 billion, by the end of 2025 to expand its portfolio of electrified vehicles. The company is planning for 70% of its sales in Europe and 40% of sales
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — El condado de Los Ángeles, el más poblado de Estados Unidos, está experimentando un “crecimiento exponencial” de los casos de covid-19 a medida que delta se convierte en la cepa dominante, según los funcionarios de salud locales. El salto refleja los repuntes en otras partes del país durante la semana pasada,
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By Maggie Fox, CNN Drugmaker Pfizer said Thursday it is seeing waning immunity from its coronavirus vaccine and says it is picking up its efforts to develop a booster dose that will protect people from variants. Pfizer said it would soon publish data about a third dose of vaccine and submit it to the US
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By Rob Picheta, CNN Giant pandas are no longer endangered, Chinese officials have said, after decades of work to save the creatures helped drive their population in the wild up to 1,800. The species will be re-classified as vulnerable, Cui Shuhong, director of the Department of Natural Ecological Protection of the Ministry of Ecology and
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By Neelam Bohra and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN Jacob Danner has searched a Florida beach for washed-up items almost every sunrise for the past year. But three weeks ago, Danner, an art curator, found his first megalodon tooth — 3 inches long, and in good condition. Danner was ecstatic. Then, on the heels of Tropical Storm
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Después de azotar el sureste de Estados Unidos, la tormenta tropical Elsa se dirige hacia el norte y se prevé que afectará a todas las ciudades importantes a lo largo de la costa este. El centro de la tormenta estará sobre Dover, Delaware, el viernes temprano y habrá llegado a Boston por
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By Katie Lobosco, CNN The Department of Education has canceled a total of $1.5 billion in student loan debt for nearly 92,000 students, who were victims of for-profit college fraud, since President Joe Biden took office. The current administration has been taking steps to address the backlog of more than 100,000 forgiveness claims left over
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Las autoridades arrestaron y acusaron a Bryan Anthony Rhoden por el triple homicidio del 3 de julio en el Pinetree Country Club, en el que fue muerto a tiros el golfista profesional Gene Siller, dijo el jueves el jefe de policía del condado de Cobb, Tim Cox, en una conferencia de prensa
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Madonna se pronunció en contra de la tutela de Britney Spears de casi 13 años. La reina del pop publicó una foto de ella misma con una camiseta que decía “Britney Spears” en sus historias de Instagram con la leyenda: “Devuélvanle la vida a esta mujer. ¡La esclavitud fue abolida hace tanto
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By Aleks Klosok, CNN Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios has confirmed his withdrawal from the Tokyo Olympics, saying a ban on spectators attending the Games was a factor behind his decision. Games organisers announced on Thursday that Tokyo venues for the pandemic-delayed event will not host spectators due to the city’s coronavirus state of emergency.
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By Nectar Gan and Yong Xiong, CNN Business WeChat has deleted more than a dozen LGBT accounts run by university students, sparking fears that safe spaces for China’s sexual and gender minorities are going to shrink even further. On social media Tuesday, LGBT rights supporters protested the abrupt closure of these accounts by the Tencent-owned
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By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Woz is throwing his weight behind the “right to repair” movement. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, known in the tech world by his nickname, spoke out on the issue during a recent appearance on Cameo, a website that lets fans pay celebrities for video messages. In a post to Louis Rossmann,
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By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business NBC was presented with a new challenge producing the 2021 Olympic Games on Thursday after organizers said that spectators will be prohibited from the Tokyo venues, a move that eliminates a key component of live sports broadcasts and could give the competitions an eerie feel. The setback, which was announced
Continue Reading Fans were banned from the pandemic-postponed Tokyo Olympics which will open in two weeks, following a state of emergency on Thursday, Olympic Minister Tamayo Marukawa told the Japanese news agency Kyodo.
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Una revisión presupuestaria independiente advirtió a la asociación de condominios Champlain Towers South que sus reservas financieras presentaban una crítica falta de fondos ante las reparaciones estructurales que se necesitaban con urgencia poco más de un año antes de que el edificio colapsara, según muestra un documento obtenido por CNN. La asociación
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By Bethan Edwards, for CNN A pair of battered looking track and field spikes — handmade by Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman — featuring a “prototype logo” could fetch $1.2 million at auction, according to Sotheby’s. “This rare pair of track spikes made in the 1960s and modified in the early 70s represents an important chapter
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US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy says he is concerned that the Detla variant of Covid-19 is behind the rise in cases of coronavirus in the US and warned that the unvaccinated are at risk because it spreads faster than any known variant.
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