By Rebekah Riess and Kelly McCleary, CNN Louisiana is launching a sheltering program for those “currently living in unsafe or unsanitary” conditions due to damage from Hurricane Ida, which slammed into the Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm more than five weeks ago, officials said Monday. The Hurricane Ida Sheltering Program will provide temporary
Continue ReadingEdel Gonzalez (CNN Español) — El 1 de octubre, el laboratorio estadounidense Merck y Ridgeback Biotherapeutics anunciaron que su píldora antiviral experimental molnupiravir redujo en la mitad la probabilidad de hospitalización y muerte por covid-19. De confirmarse los resultados, el molnupiravir sería la primera píldora antiviral contra el SARS CoV2. El Dr. Elmer Huerta analiza
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis S. Collins, says he’s stepping down by the end of the year. Collins has led the research center for 12 years and has become a familiar face in the news media during the coronavirus pandemic. The 71-year-old physician-geneticist tells The Washington Post
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By Amir Vera, CNN The pristine beaches and beautiful wildlife in Southern California are now suffering after a weekend oil spill that responders and environmental officials say will take months, if not years, to clean up. More than 100,000 gallons of oil has spewed into the Pacific Ocean, coating local wildlife habitats, shutting down a
Continue Reading By MARK THIESSEN and BECKY BOHRER Associated Press TANACROSS, Alaska (AP) — Alaska is experiencing one of the nation’s sharpest upticks in COVID-19 infections, and it’s worsened by a limited health care system that largely relies on hospitals in its biggest city. Many of the state’s hospitals are overwhelmed with patients, including in Anchorage. And
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By MARK THIESSEN and BECKY BOHRER Associated Press TANACROSS, Alaska (AP) — Alaska is experiencing one of the nation’s sharpest upticks in COVID-19 infections, and it’s worsened by a limited health care system that largely relies on hospitals in its biggest city. Many of the state’s hospitals are overwhelmed with patients, including in Anchorage. And
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Puede que Donald Trump esté esperando para anunciar su (al parecer inevitable) candidatura para su viejo puesto en 2024, pero ya está lanzando disparos de advertencia hacia un posible rival a la nominación. Cuando le preguntaron por la posibilidad de enfrentarse al gobernador republicano de Florida Ron DeSantis en 2024, Trump
Continue Reading By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press DULAC, La. (AP) — Destruction caused by Hurricane Ida has people in south Louisiana debating whether they want to relocate — and where thy might go. The storm hit on Aug. 29. That was 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina blasted the Mississippi and Louisiana coasts and led
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By Taylor Romine, CNN The family of Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose cells have been used for groundbreaking scientific research for decades, filed a lawsuit Monday against Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. for unjust enrichment from the nonconsensual use and profiting from her tissue sample and cell line. Lacks, a Black woman diagnosed with cervical cancer,
Continue Reading By BRIAN MELLEY, MATTHEW BROWN and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Records show the U.S. Coast Guard received a report of a possible Southern California oil spill more than 12 hours before a pipeline company reported it and the Coast Guard launched a cleanup effort. State reports reviewed Monday by The
Continue Reading By BRIAN MELLEY, MATTHEW BROWN and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Records show the U.S. Coast Guard received a report of a possible Southern California oil spill more than 12 hours before a pipeline company reported it and the Coast Guard launched a cleanup effort. State reports reviewed Monday by The
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By Andy Rose and Dakin Andone, CNN An Oregon man has been arrested and indicted on charges stemming from the fatal shooting of a man that prosecutors say occurred after the victim spoke to the suspect’s girlfriend. A grand jury this week indicted Ian Mackenzie Cranston, a 27-year-old White man, on six charges in connection
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose and Dakin Andone, CNN An Oregon man has been arrested and indicted on charges stemming from the fatal shooting of a man that prosecutors say occurred after the victim spoke to the suspect’s girlfriend. A grand jury this week indicted Ian Mackenzie Cranston, a 27-year-old White man, on six charges in connection
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — A midsize Chinese real estate developer has failed to make a $205.7 million bond payment, adding to financial strain in the industry as a bigger rival tries to avoid defaulting on billions of dollars of debt. Fantasia Holdings Group announced it missed the payment deadline in a statement issued through the Hong
Continue Reading By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Facebook data scientist has stunned lawmakers and the public with revelations of the company’s awareness of apparent harm to some teens from Instagram and her accusations of dishonesty in its fight against hate and misinformation. Now she is coming before Congress. Frances Haugen has
Continue Reading By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Facebook data scientist has stunned lawmakers and the public with revelations of the company’s awareness of apparent harm to some teens from Instagram and her accusations of dishonesty in its fight against hate and misinformation. Now she is coming before Congress. Frances Haugen has
Continue Reading By JONATHAN LEMIRE and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — President Joe Biden is shifting strategy to sell his ambitious social spending plan by getting out of Washington and courting moderate Democrats who are key to hopes for any deal. With his legislative agenda in jeopardy in Congress, Biden on Tuesday will visit
Continue Reading By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — At least tens of thousands of people are believed to have been victims of child sex abuse within France’s Catholic Church over the past seven decades, according to a major report due to be published Tuesday. The 2,500-page document prepared by an independent commission comes as the
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By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Justin Herbert threw for three touchdowns, Austin Ekeler rushed for 117 yards and scored twice and the Los Angeles Chargers knocked the Las Vegas Raiders from the unbeaten ranks with a 28-14 victory. Los Angeles, 3-1 for the first time since 2014, is part of
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By Madeline Holcombe and Lauren del Valle, CNN A new lawsuit alleges faculty at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts perpetrated sexual abuse on minor students over the course of two decades, in the 1970s and 1980s. Former students who brought the lawsuit allege that during that time a culture of sexual
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