The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised unvaccinated people not to travel this Labor Day weekend. However, many people continue to travel and to attend gatherings despite the surge in cases.
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By Travis Caldwell, CNN With the more contagious Delta variant of Covid-19 sweeping across the country this summer, health care workers and officials are finding themselves returning to a crisis experienced last year when hospitals struggled to handle an influx of patients. In the Southeast, Georgia is now seeing its highest number of hospitalizations since
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By Travis Caldwell, CNN With the more contagious Delta variant of Covid-19 sweeping across the country this summer, health care workers and officials are finding themselves returning to a crisis experienced last year when hospitals struggled to handle an influx of patients. In the Southeast, Georgia is now seeing its highest number of hospitalizations since
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By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A 3-year-old boy wearing a sweat shirt and diapers has been found sitting in a creek and cupping water in his hands to drink three days after he was lost in rugged Australian woodlands. Hundreds of people had been searching for Anthony “AJ” Elfalak, who has
Continue Reading By BOUBACAR DIALLO and KRISTA LARSON Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea’s new military leaders are seeking to tighten their grip on power and are ordering the deposed president’s soldiers to join them. Col. Mamady Doumbouya also barred government officials from leaving the West African nation, ordering them to hand over their passports and
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By Ben Westcott, CNN Business Tensions between China and Australia have taken a $4 billion toll on the important trading partnership, but Canberra says its economy has proven “remarkably resilient” as other countries moved to fill in the gaps. Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on Monday claimed the Chinese government has failed to seriously impact the
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INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — Police in Missouri say four people have been wounded in a shooting at a festival. Independence police responded to the shooting at the SantaCaliGon Festival Sunday night. The department used Facebook to urge parents to pick up their children in the carnival area after gunfire erupted. Television station KCTV reports all
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By NOAH TRISTER AP Baseball Writer The Toronto Blue Jays have won four in a row entering their big series this week in New York against the Yankees. No matter how that turns out, the future looks bright for Canada’s lone major league team. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is 22 and very much living up to
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By David McKenzie, CNN Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been released from prison on medical parole due to ill health, the government’s correctional services department said Sunday. Zuma, 79, has been serving a 15-month prison sentence since July for contempt of court after defying a summons to appear at an inquiry into corruption
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By Rhea Mogul and Swati Gupta, CNN Marking the return of a months-long movement that has posed a unique challenge to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, farmers gathered in the predominantly agricultural state of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday to protest controversial agricultural laws they say could ruin their livelihood. District official Amit Singh told
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — El embajador de Alemania en China, Jan Hecker, murió repentinamente a los 54 años, después de solo unas pocas semanas en el cargo, según un comunicado publicado en el sitio web de la embajada de Alemania en China el lunes. Hecker había trabajado como asesor de política exterior de la canciller alemana
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Albert Pujols is sure to get a big ovation at Busch Stadium when the Los Angeles Dodgers slugger returns to face the Cardinals. The 41-year-old Pujols called St. Louis home for his first 11 major league seasons from 2001-2011 and helped the Cards win two World Series championships. Pujols insists he’ll
Continue Reading By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer Michigan State’s Kenneth Walker III turned in the best rushing performance in a Football Bowl Subdivision season opener in seven years when he went for a career-high 264 yards against Northwestern. Walker’s total in the Spartans’ 38-21 win Friday was the highest in an opener since South Florida’s
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — No hay descanso para una Casa Blanca bajo presión este Día del Trabajo mientras el presidente Joe Biden aborda los desafíos de salud, económicos y legislativos que se profundizaron bajo su mandato y están comenzando a erosionar su posición política. Un empeoramiento de la pandemia de covid-19, con la preocupación adicional
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — A former member of popular K-pop band EXO says he’s cutting ties with a Swiss luxury watch brand, after its CEO referred to Taiwan as a country in an interview. China claims Taiwan as its territory, and objects to any reference to the self-governing island as a country. Chinese singer and actor
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BEIJING (AP) — A former member of popular K-pop band EXO says he’s cutting ties with a Swiss luxury watch brand, after its CEO referred to Taiwan as a country in an interview. China claims Taiwan as its territory, and objects to any reference to the self-governing island as a country. Chinese singer and actor
Continue Readingolivertapia Nueva York (CNN Business) — El feriado del Día del Trabajo, o Labor Day, marca el final del verano y el comienzo del otoño en Estados Unidos, pero sobre todo, celebra a los trabajadores y al movimiento sindical estadounidenses. Si tienes el día libre, es posible que sientas curiosidad por saber qué está abierto
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Un oficial del ejército de Guinea emitió un comunicado el domingo en el que anunciaba que la Constitución del país africano se había disuelto en un aparente golpe de Estado. “Ya no confiaremos la política a un hombre. La confiaremos al pueblo. Venimos solo para eso; es el deber de un soldado
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Garbiñe Muguruza does not like how her topsy-turvy fourth-round match at the U.S. Open against Barbora Krejcikova ended. And that is not just because Muguruza lost. It had a lot to do with what Krejcikova did toward the end of her 6-3, 7-6 (4) victory
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets are higher, after weak U.S. hiring in August fueled expectations the Federal Reserve might postpone withdrawal of economic stimulus that has boosted stock prices. London and Frankfurt opened higher, while Shanghai, Tokyo and Hong Kong advanced. Wall Street futures were higher. The Labor
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