Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Las condiciones de sequía se han expandido y empeorado en el oeste de Estados Unidos, especialmente en el noroeste del Pacífico, debido a la ola de calor récord de la semana pasada, según el último Monitor de sequía de Estados Unidos. “El calor sin precedentes en el noroeste, combinado con
Continue ReadingBy David Gergen, CNN Senior Political Analyst On Wednesday, America learned of the death of Donald Rumsfeld. Though he was one man, it’s hard not to think of him as two distinct political figures: one who helped to save a presidency and was widely seen as a brilliant newcomer, the other whose later misjudgments helped
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business After a half-century of waiting, Wally Funk — who trained for NASA’s Mercury program but was denied the opportunity to go to space — is finally getting her time amongst the stars. She’s been selected by the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, to accompany him, his brother, and an as-yet
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By Alison Kosik, CNN Hertz has officially emerged from bankruptcy after more than a year as a “much stronger company,” thanks to a red-hot rental car market as more Americans travel and the economy reopens. As part of its bankruptcy filing last year, Hertz promised to sell more than 180,000 vehicles from its fleet by
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By Jill Martin, CNN Earlier this month, Olivia Moultrie, a 15-year-old soccer player from California, was granted permission by a federal judge to sign with a National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) club after ruling that the league can’t enforce its age rule requiring players to be at least 18 to sign a professional contract with
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By Clare Foran, CNN The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to approve a $715 billion transportation and water infrastructure bill focused on improving and repairing roads, bridges, transit and rail, and ensuring clean drinking water. The vote was 221-201 with two Republicans voting with Democrats in favor. House Democrats say the bill — known
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By Brian Fung and Zachary Cohen, CNN For months, Russian military hackers have engaged in a campaign to compromise the passwords of people employed in sensitive jobs at hundreds of organizations worldwide including US and European government and military agencies, US and British national security officials said Thursday. The extensive effort also targeted political parties,
Continue Reading By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Meghan McCain, the conservative personality and co-host of ABC’s “The View” who clashed with her colleagues on and off set, announced Thursday that she is leaving the show. “I’m just going to rip the bandaid off,” McCain said at the top of the show. “I am here to tell all
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By Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Princes William and Harry put aside their differences to appear together Thursday to unveil a statue honoring their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, in the Sunken Garden of Kensington Palace. The statue — which was originally commissioned in 2017 on the 20th anniversary of her death — was
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By Caitlin Hu and Etant Dupain, CNN A bloody wave of shootings, arson and other criminal violence has engulfed parts of Port-au-Prince, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes and trapping others within dangerous areas of the Haitian capital, aid agencies say. Most recently, a series of killings on Tuesday night claimed the lives
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Hu and Etant Dupain, CNN A bloody wave of shootings, arson and other criminal violence has engulfed parts of Port-au-Prince, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes and trapping others within dangerous areas of the Haitian capital, aid agencies say. Most recently, a series of killings on Tuesday night claimed the lives
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE EMERSON Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS, Nevada (KVVU) — A Las Vegas high school student died after a football practice Monday night. Clark County School District confirmed the death of the Legacy High School student in a statement Wednesday. A parent at the school confirmed that the death happened
Continue Reading By Alison Kosik, CNN Hertz has officially emerged from bankruptcy after more than a year as a “much stronger company,” thanks to a red-hot rental car market as more Americans travel and the economy reopens. As part of its bankruptcy filing last year, Hertz promised to sell more than 180,000 vehicles from its fleet by
Continue ReadingBy Eric Grossarth/EastIdahoNews.com Click here for updates on this story IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (eastidahonews.com) — The brutal stabbing murder of a woman whose family described her as “loving, compassionate and radiant” left people asking why. Philip Michael Schwab, 35, will serve a 25-year-to-life prison sentence for the first-degree murder of his girlfriend, Kaylynn Blue. Investigators
Continue ReadingBy Joe Fisher Click here for updates on this story RALEIGH, North Carolina (WRAL) — A Raleigh man took himself straight to the hospital over the weekend after he was bitten by his pet. The thing is, the pet was a venomous green mamba snake, requiring antivenin to be flown in from a South Carolina
Continue ReadingBy Curt Devine and Kristen Holmes, CNN A family suing the Champlain Towers South condo association names the engineering firm that performed a 2018 structural analysis of the building as a defendant, arguing the firm should have more thoroughly examined the building’s stability. Maryland-based Morabito Consultants should have done so by “inspecting the sub-surface foundation,”
Continue ReadingOne Surfside condo resident heard noise well before; a new survivor’s recording shows the shock of the collapse; and CNN gets a birds eye view of rescuers
Continue Reading By Annie Grayer and Jeremy Herb, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday she was appointing Republican Rep. Liz Cheney to the new select committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Pelosi said the chairman of the committee will be Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat. Other members include Democratic Reps.
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By Alexis Benveniste, CNN Business Ampex Brands — a franchisee that owns more than 400 Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco Bell, Long John Silver’s and 7-Eleven locations — is buying Au Bon Pain. Panera, which purchased Au Bon Pain in 2017, will sell all 171 of Au Bon Pain’s locations and will allow Ampex to franchise
Continue ReadingBy Josh Morgan Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (WGCL) — The Atlanta Police officer who was shot after responding to a shots fired call at an apartment building on Peachtree Street NE, is alert and talking with police and family at Grady Memorial Hospital. According to police, two APD officers responded
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