By Steve Almasy and Sonia Moghe, CNN Seven men and five women have been selected and sworn in as jurors in the R. Kelly federal trial in New York, a spokesperson for the US Department of Justice said Wednesday. Opening statements and testimony begin August 18. Jurors will remain anonymous and partially sequestered. Kelly faces
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By Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed, CNN The US House should be able to access some of Donald Trump’s tax records through a subpoena to his accounting firm Mazars USA, a federal judge in Washington, DC, ruled on Wednesday. The ruling is a resounding loss for Trump, given that the accounting records appear to cover
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By Nicola Ruotolo and Amy Woodyatt, CNN Any budding lifeguards might want to work on their doggy paddle this holiday season, after a group of 14 people struggling in high wind and waves at sea were rescued with the help of Italy’s lifeguard dogs. The animals helped to rescue bathers who got into difficulty around
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business If you walked into a grocery store last year, you may have made some unfortunate discoveries: No reduced-fat Jif peanut butter on shelves. Less Progresso soup. Fewer varieties of Smucker’s Uncrustables sandwiches available. All are examples of food that consumer goods manufacturers stopped making in 2020. So unless there was
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Higher prices have been the pandemic recovery‘s collateral damage. Even though Washington insists higher inflation may just be temporary, America’s prices keep rising — albeit at a slightly slower pace. The pace of consumer price inflation slowed some in July, but it still remained elevated, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writers Southwest Airlines says it no longer expects to be profitable in its third quarter. Its gloomier forecast comes as a surge in COVID-19 infections fueled by the highly contagious delta variant darkens the outlook for travel. The airline said in a regulatory filing that it was
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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writers Southwest Airlines says it no longer expects to be profitable in its third quarter. Its gloomier forecast comes as a surge in COVID-19 infections fueled by the highly contagious delta variant darkens the outlook for travel. The airline said in a regulatory filing that it was
Continue Reading By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The highly contagious delta variant is fueling a surge in coronavirus cases as students return to classrooms. School districts with hundreds of thousands of kids are increasingly defying Republican leaders who banned school mask mandates in several U.S. states. The showdowns have drawn in the
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By Gregory Wallace and Chris Isidore, CNN Business United Airlines will join the growing list of companies that are requiring employees get vaccinated against Covid-19, the first major US airline to implement such a mandate. A United executive said it was not considering a similar rule for passengers, and that any such requirement would be
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By Alex Rogers and Lauren Fox, CNN Democratic leaders in Congress blasted Republicans on Wednesday for threatening to not help raise the debt ceiling later this year. “I can’t believe the Republicans will let the nation default,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer at a news conference. The federal government will likely run out of
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nota del editor: Julian Zelizer, analista político de CNN, es profesor de historia y asuntos públicos en la Universidad de Princeton y autor del libro “Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party”. Síguelo en Twitter @julianzelizer. Las opiniones expresadas en este
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By Matt Egan, CNN Business Americans living in high-risk Covid states are starting to shy away from restaurants, malls and airports as the Delta variant rapidly spreads. And real-time economic indicators suggest the Delta variant is slowing the recovery in some of the hardest hit sectors, even though the impact is not yet being felt
Continue ReadingBy JOSH MORGAN Click here for updates on this story COBB COUNTY, Ga. (WGCL) — Nine days after classes started in Cobb County, 5th graders at East Side Elementary will now learn from home for the next nine days. According to a Cobb County School District spokesperson, 5th graders will learn virtually from Aug. 12-20
Continue ReadingBy ROB POLANSKY Click here for updates on this story NEW HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) — A historic building that injured three firefighters when it went up in flames was torn down on Wednesday. The building would be completely on the ground by the afternoon, according to regional public information officer Jon Barbagallo. Drone 3 captured
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By Shawn Nottingham, CNN Fifth graders at one suburban Atlanta elementary school were sent home Wednesday for virtual learning due to high numbers of positive Covid-19 cases, according to a school district email sent to parents and obtained by CNN. “This morning, based on our district protocols and at the guidance of the Department of
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By Fredreka Schouten, CNN The Democratic National Committee and the Arizona Democratic Party are gearing up to sue Arizona officials to stop a controversial new law that allows a third party designated by the Republican-controlled legislature to scour the state’s voter registration database in search of ineligible voters. Party officials say the provision violates both
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By Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday hit back against inflation concerns and took a victory lap for his recent Senate wins, citing a series of economic reports released in recent days that he says show his plans for the American economy are working. The President also outlined a number of new steps
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Lionel Messi dijo que su salida del Barcelona fue “muy difícil”, pero en el momento en que llegó a París fue “muy feliz”. Messi sería la cereza del pastel en el mercado del PSG 1:36 En su presentación con el Paris Saint-Germain, este miércoles en una conferencia de prensa, Messi dijo que
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By Brian Fung, CNN Business Accenture, the global consulting firm, has been hit by the LockBit ransomware gang, according to the cybercriminal group’s website. Accenture’s encrypted files will be published by the group on the dark web on Wednesday unless the company pays the ransom, LockBit claimed, according to screenshots of the website reviewed by
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