DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Death Valley National Park rangers are reminding visitors to limit stressful activities during summer heat after another hiker died along the same trail within days. Authorities say 52-year-old Blake Chaplin of Leawood, Kansas, was found dead Aug. 21 along the Golden Canyon Trail. The temperature on Aug. 21
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — La Agencia Nacional de MinerÃa de Colombia (ANM) informó este martes por la noche que recuperaron los cuerpos de 12 trabajadores luego de que se presentara una explosión en una mina de carbón en el municipio de Tópaga, departamento de Boyacá (centro del paÃs). Hay uno más que se reporta herido. Según la
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Veteran tight end Kyle Rudolph is finally getting on the field with the New York Giants. The Giants announced Rudolph has passed his physical and was taken off the physically unable to perform/active list. He’ll practice on a limited basis this week. Rudolph had offseason foot surgery and had been unable
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By Andrew Wegley Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Nebraska (Lincoln Journal Star) — A Lincoln man who was wanted on two counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child was taken to a local hospital Monday after he barricaded himself in an apartment bathroom and lit a fire as investigators tried to
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By Kaitlan Collins, Kate Sullivan and Zachary Cohen, CNN It has now been 90 days since President Joe Biden ordered the intelligence community to investigate the origins of Covid-19, but the public may have to wait a few more days to view an unclassified version of that report. In May, Biden told US intelligence agencies
Continue Reading By Kaitlan Collins, Kate Sullivan and Zachary Cohen, CNN It has now been 90 days since President Joe Biden ordered the intelligence community to investigate the origins of Covid-19, but the public may have to wait a few more days to view an unclassified version of that report. In May, Biden told US intelligence agencies
Continue ReadingBy Andrea Eger Click here for updates on this story TULSA, Oklahoma (Tulsa World) — One of the youngest critical COVID-19 patients treated at The Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis was released Monday, just a few days after her mother’s plea to vaccination holdouts went viral. After a 12-day hospital stay, 3-year-old Aurora Cannon returned
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has welcomed a group of 124 Afghan media workers and their families who fled their country after the Taliban takeover. The group arrived aboard a flight in the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday. The Afghans had worked for various media outlets, and had requested humanitarian visas because of the Taliban’s hostility
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Wichita City Council raised the minimum hourly wage to $15 for full-time city employees as part of the city new $670 million budget. The vote on Tuesday comes as the city plans to begin filling several positions that were kept vacant to save money. Officials had predicted the city would
Continue Reading LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah believes she can break Florence Griffith Joyner’s 33-year-old record in the 100 meters if she runs in the perfect conditions. Don’t expect it to happen in Lausanne at the Athletissima with the forecast predicting 68 degrees Fahrenheit. That is cooler than ideal temperatures for breaking the record
Continue ReadingCNNEE (CNN Español) — Autoridades paraguayas detuvieron este martes a Kassem Mohamad Hijazi, ciudadano brasileño de origen libanés residente en el paÃs. El operativo se desarrolló en Ciudad del Este, que forma parte de la llamada Triple Frontera, compuesta por Paraguay, Argentina y Brasil. Según una conferencia de prensa dada por la FiscalÃa y la
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Moderna anunció este miércoles que concluyó su solicitud a la Administración de Medicamentos y Alimentos de EE.UU. (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés) para la aprobación total de su vacuna contra el covid-19 para personas de 18 años o más. Moderna dijo que solicitó una revisión prioritaria a la agencia. La
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By Carma Hassan and Kay Jones, CNN A volleyball coach says administrators at Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, forced him to leave his job because he refused to denounce being gay. Inoke Tonga said in a Facebook post that administrators asked him if he posted about being gay on social media and
Continue ReadingBy JULIE PARR, KTBS TV Click here for updates on this story TEXARKANA, Ark (KTBS) — A Texarkana, Ark., mother knows all to well the importance of blood and bone marrow donations. Her son was born with a critical illness. He’s had two life-saving donations, first when he was born and mostly recently as last
Continue Reading By DANIEL NIEMANN Associated Press DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — A former mayor of a central Afghanistan city is in Germany after having fled her homeland along with thousands of others who feared the Taliban’s takeover put their lives at risk. As a young female mayor appointed in 2018, Zarifa Ghafari was a shining example of
Continue Reading By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two conservative hoaxers face a record $5.1 million fine for allegedly making illegal robocalls to wireless phones without the owners’ consent in the 2020 election. The Federal Communications Commission says the proposed fine for Jacob Wohl, Jack Burkman and Burkman’s lobbying firm would be the largest
Continue ReadingBy JOSH MORGAN Click here for updates on this story ATHENS, Ga. (WGCL) — If you plan on attending a college football game at Georgia’s Sanford Stadium this fall, you won’t have to worry about any extra COVID precautions before heading to the game. As COVID-19 cases continue to surge across the country, there was
Continue ReadingBy JENNA RAE, NEWS 4 REPORTER Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, MO (KMOV) — Seven years after the Ferguson protests, the man considered a pivotal figure in stabilizing the situation is now being tapped for a new task in St. Louis City. “We’re going to take ownership back of our downtown
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police in Kansas City say a woman involved in a fatal crash told investigators she had been fleeing gunfire when she ran a red light and crashed into another car. The crash happened earlier this month on the morning of Aug. 3 at an eastern Kansas City intersection. Police say
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By Priya Krishnakumar, CNN Black women in the United States are more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than any other demographic — and the Covid-19 pandemic may be exacerbating one of the starkest disparities in American health care. Health care practitioners and advocacy groups have raised the alarm that the pandemic, which has
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