By Taylor Romine, CNN The legislature for Nassau County, New York, approved a bill Monday that says anyone who harasses or injures a first responder — which includes police officers — can be fined up to $50,000 while giving first responders the ability to sue the person directly. After a heated, five-hour public testimony period,
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By Keith Allen, CNN The man suspected of fatally shooting a 17-year-old who was a passenger in a vehicle on the way home from a Houston Astros baseball game last month has surrendered to authorities, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said Monday. Gerald Wayne Williams, 34, is charged with felony murder in the July 6
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By Jessie Yeung, CNN The death toll from floods that ravaged central China last month now stands at 302, local authorities said Monday — more than triple the last estimate. Heavy rainfall hit the province of Henan on July 20, causing flooding in numerous towns and cities. Zhengzhou, the provincial capital of 12 million people,
Continue Reading The suspect wanted for killing a teen in a road rage shooting after an Astros game last month turned himself in Monday.
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By Deanna Hackney, CNN Five Miami Beach police officers are facing criminal charges, accused of using excessive force during the arrests of two men at a local hotel last week. Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced charges against Sgt. Jose Perez, and officers Kevin Perez, Robert Sabater, Steven Serrano and David Rivas at a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia/Boone County Public Health & Human Services director asked the Columbia City Council on Monday to consider having masks again in city facilities. “I really believe everybody should be wearing their mask indoors, regardless of vaccination status, because we need to protect our kids, we need to protect people that are
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Continue Reading Olympic gold medal swimmer Katie Ledecky sits down with CNN’s Coy Wire to discuss the two gold and two silver medals she won for Team USA at the 2020 Tokyo Games.
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By Kristen Rogers, CNN A species of tiny chameleons presumed to be extinct due to deforestation has been found, but it is clinging to survival. Up to only 5.5 centimeters (2.2 inches) long, the critically endangered Chapman’s pygmy chameleon (Rhampholeon chapmanorum) is native to the low-elevation rainforest of the Malawi Hills in southern Malawi, a
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN Park volunteers patrolling a beach in South Carolina on Wednesday stumbled upon an unexpected surprise: a two-headed baby sea turtle. A group of patrollers and volunteers at Edisto Beach State Park were making a routine inventory to check on sea turtle nests when they stumbled across the special hatchling, South Carolina
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN) — A continuación, algunos antecedentes e información sobre las distintas misiones de exploración a Marte. Estados Unidos, la Unión Soviética y China son los tres únicos países que han aterrizado una nave espacial en el planeta. Datos Estados Unidos ha logrado aterrizar en Marte en nueve ocasiones: Viking 1 y Viking 2
Continue ReadingMariana Toro Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) — Automóviles y casas sumergidos en el agua, pasajeros chapoteando en las inundaciones hasta las rodillas para llegar a los buses y propietarios que calculan el costo de sus propiedades destruidas. Bienvenidos a Lagos en temporada de lluvias. Los residentes de Nigeria, la nación más poblada de África, están acostumbrados
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By Caitlin Hu, Matt Rivers and Natalie Gallón, CNN South Florida (CNN) — When Haiti’s president was brutally assassinated in his bedroom last month, just one witness was there to see it. She happened to know him better than anyone else. Martine Moise, the first lady of Haiti, was found bleeding on the floor next
Continue Reading By Caitlin Hu, Matt Rivers and Natalie Gallón, CNN South Florida (CNN) — When Haiti’s president was brutally assassinated in his bedroom last month, just one witness was there to see it. She happened to know him better than anyone else. Martine Moise, the first lady of Haiti, was found bleeding on the floor next
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By Paul LeBlanc and Rob Frehse, CNN New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was questioned by investigators in the state attorney general’s office for 11 hours last month as part of an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him, The New York Times reported Monday. The meeting — which took place in Cuomo’s Manhattan office on
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Canadá impuso una multa de casi US$ 20.000 a dos viajeros procedentes de Estados Unidos que llegaron a Toronto por no cumplir los requisitos de entrada, según la Agencia de Salud Pública del país. Los viajeros proporcionaron información falsa en relación con la prueba de vacunación y las pruebas previas a
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By Michelle Toh and Sophie Jeong, CNN Business YouTube has temporarily barred Sky News Australia from uploading new content over misinformation related to the coronavirus pandemic. According to the Google-owned platform, the broadcaster was issued a “strike” last Thursday, which prevents it from posting videos or live-streams for a week. Three strikes over a period
Continue Reading YouTube blocked Sky News Australia from posting videos for one week. A YouTube spokesperson says they don’t allow content that denies the existence of Covid-19. Sky News Austrailia says they did not post content like that.
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By Tina Burnside, CNN A major bridge connecting Memphis, Tennessee, to Arkansas reopened to traffic in both directions on Monday afternoon, nearly three months after a crack forced its closure, the Arkansas Department of Transportation announced in a tweet. The Hernando DeSoto Bridge, which carries Interstate 40 over the Mississippi River, was shut down for
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By Alaa Elassar and Andy Rose, CNN An orca that became stranded on a rocky beach in Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, Thursday morning was freed with the help of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and sailors who happened to be nearby. The stranded killer whale was first discovered on the rocks by
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