By Stephanie Elam, CNN Almost everything about a sequoia tree is giant: It can grow to more than 200 feet tall and live longer than 3,000 years. Yet the sequoia’s footprint is shrinking, as human-induced climate change threatens this ancient tree’s survival. Sequoias were once found across the Northern Hemisphere, but today, they only naturally
Continue Reading By Stephanie Elam, CNN Almost everything about a sequoia tree is giant: It can grow to more than 200 feet tall and live longer than 3,000 years. Yet the sequoia’s footprint is shrinking, as human-induced climate change threatens this ancient tree’s survival. Sequoias were once found across the Northern Hemisphere, but today, they only naturally
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Una estatua de Cristóbal Colón que fue removida el año pasado de su posición a lo largo de una de las principales avenidas de la Ciudad de México no será devuelta a su lugar anterior, dijeron funcionarios de la capital. Retiran estatua de Cristóbal Colón del centro de Los Ángeles 0:32 En
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NEW DELHI (AP) — The southern Indian state of Kerala is ramping up efforts to stop a potential outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus, even as the state continues to battle the highest number of coronavirus cases in the country. Kerala is on alert after a 12-year-old boy died of the rare virus on Sunday,
Continue Reading By LORI HINNANT and NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Survivors of Islamic State group’s 2015 attack on Paris and those who mourn the 130 people killed that night are bracing for a long-awaited trial that starts this week in Paris. A cell of nine Islamic State militants armed with automatic rifles and explosive
Continue Reading By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s military says it has launched airstrikes on what it said was a Hamas military site in the Gaza Strip. The strikes early Tuesday came after incendiary balloons were sent into Israeli territory. An army statement says that fighter jets struck a Hamas military compound
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN Some pilots focus on flying high, but Dario Costa’s success at flying low has landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. The 41-year-old Italian stunt pilot on Saturday successfully maneuvered a custom-modified Zivko Edge 540 race plane through the twin Çatalca tunnels along the Northern Marmara Highway in Turkey.
Continue Reading By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A 3-year-old boy who spent three nights lost in rugged Australian woodland is home playing with toys as his family and rescuers celebrate the happy ending to a desperately difficult search. Anthony “AJ” Elfalak, who has autism and is non-verbal, was taken to a hospital for
Continue Reading By MARIAM FAM, DEEPTI HAJELA and LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Muslim Americans who grew up under the shadow of 9/11 have faced hostility and surveillance, mistrust and suspicion. In the 20 years since the terrorist attacks, they’ve also dealt with questions about their Muslim faith and doubts over their Americanness.
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN Español) — Roland Carreño, periodista y dirigente del partido Voluntad Popular de Venezuela, fue trasladado este lunes a un hospital privado de Caracas por una crisis hipertensiva, informó su abogada Maria Alejandra Poleo Sanoja. Poleo dijo que desde horas de la mañana ella observó que su defendido no se encontraba bien y que
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks are mixed in Asia after shares closed mostly lower on Wall Street as traders returned from the Labor Day holiday. Shares were higher in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Shanghai but fell in Seoul and Sydney. On Tuesday, gains for some Big Tech companies nudged
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks are mixed in Asia after shares closed mostly lower on Wall Street as traders returned from the Labor Day holiday. Shares were higher in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Shanghai but fell in Seoul and Sydney. On Tuesday, gains for some Big Tech companies nudged
Continue Reading By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The main underground group coordinating resistance to Myanmar’s military rulers has called for a nationwide uprising. The group’s acting president called Tuesday for revolt “in every village, town and city in the entire country at the same time.” The National Unity Government views itself as a shadow
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By Ben Westcott, CNN Singapore has warned it may need to reimpose Covid-19 restrictions if a new outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant is not contained, putting at risk the city’s shift towards living with the virus. The number of new Covid-19 infections in Singapore doubled in the past week, according to the country’s
Continue Reading By Ben Westcott, CNN Singapore has warned it may need to reimpose Covid-19 restrictions if a new outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant is not contained, putting at risk the city’s shift towards living with the virus. The number of new Covid-19 infections in Singapore doubled in the past week, according to the country’s
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Dr. Anthony Fauci says there’s an important step adults can take to protect children who are too young to be vaccinated against Covid-19. “The way you protect children who, because of their age, cannot get vaccinated yet is to surround the children — be it friends, family, school teachers, personnel in
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Dr. Anthony Fauci says there’s an important step adults can take to protect children who are too young to be vaccinated against Covid-19. “The way you protect children who, because of their age, cannot get vaccinated yet is to surround the children — be it friends, family, school teachers, personnel in
Continue Reading By TERRY SPENCER, FREIDA FRISARO and CURT ANDERSON Associated Press LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Florida investigators say they may never know why a Marine veteran killed a Lakeland family of four. Authorities say Bryan Riley confessed to killing a 40-year-old man, his 33-year-old girlfriend, their 3-month-old son and the woman’s 62-year-old mother. Relatives said a
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — China’s import and export growth accelerated in August despite disruptions due to the spread of the coronavirus’s delta variant. Customs data reported Tuesday show exports rose 25.6% to $294.3 billion, up from July’s 18.9% growth. Imports rose 33.1% to $236 billion, up from the previous month’s
Continue Reading HONG KONG (AP) — Travelers arriving in Hong Kong from mainland China will no longer need to quarantine. The semi-autonomous city’s top official says she’s easing curbs imposed after outbreaks of the coronavirus on the mainland. Starting Wednesday, people who haven’t been to medium- or high-risk areas on the mainland or Macao can enter the
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