By Lisa Respers France, CNN Bella Hadid is getting real about her mental health. In a lengthy Instagram post Tuesday, the model shared some tearful selfies and quoted singer and “Red Table Talk” cohost Willow Smith. “‘That feeling of thinking that you’re good enough or being insecure about your art- is natural- but at the
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NEW YORK (AP) — Two Washington Post reporters are working on a biography of George Floyd, from his family history in the tobacco fields of North Carolina to his murder last year in Minneapolis by a white police officer. Viking announced that “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial
Continue ReadingBy Anthony Vasquez-Peddie Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — The enormous potential cost of protecting and restoring a U.S. coastal town due to rising sea levels could serve as an example of the consequences of climate change, according to a new study. In the study, published Monday in the peer-reviewed
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By Arlette Saenz and Betsy Klein, CNN Approximately 900,000 children ages 5 through 11 are expected to have received a first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine by the end of Wednesday, a White House official said. An announcement is expected to come later today. About 700,000 appointments have been made at pharmacies for upcoming
Continue Reading By Arlette Saenz and Betsy Klein, CNN Approximately 900,000 children ages 5 through 11 are expected to have received a first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine by the end of Wednesday, a White House official said. An announcement is expected to come later today. About 700,000 appointments have been made at pharmacies for upcoming
Continue ReadingBy Tom Yun Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — A Canadian teen who attended the deadly Astroworld Festival in Houston is sharing his experience at the concert after he was nearly trampled. Evan Pond, a 16-year-old from Simcoe, Ont., said from the very start of the festival, he had an
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By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Rivian, the electric vehicle maker backed by Amazon and Ford, made its Wall Street debut on Wednesday, surrounded by mania that befits a market that appears to be defying gravity. What’s happening: The company priced its stock above the expected range at $78 apiece, allowing it to raise an estimated
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By Arlette Saenz, Kate Sullivan and Jennifer Hansler, CNN The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a new deal it brokered with Johnson & Johnson and the global vaccination program called Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access, or COVAX, to provide J&J’s Covid-19 vaccine to people in conflict zones and other humanitarian settings where government vaccine campaigns cannot
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By Arlette Saenz, Kate Sullivan and Jennifer Hansler, CNN The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a new deal it brokered with Johnson & Johnson and the global vaccination program called Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access, or COVAX, to provide J&J’s Covid-19 vaccine to people in conflict zones and other humanitarian settings where government vaccine campaigns cannot
Continue Reading By KATIE WORKMAN Associated Press For lovers of Advent calendars, there are lots of new offerings to count down to Christmas. Show up with one for Thanksgiving dinner and your recipient will be getting daily treats all month long. There are Advent calendars that contain candy, wine, liquor, coffee, tea and more. New examples include
Continue Reading By DEREK GATOPOULOS and THEODORA TONGAS Associated Press OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — Microsoft has launched a digital immersive tour at the ancient birthplace of the Olympic Games in southern Greece. It provides visitors a virtual re-creation of temples and competition areas in ancient Olympia as they walk through one of the world’s major archaeological sites.
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By DEREK GATOPOULOS and THEODORA TONGAS Associated Press OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — Microsoft has launched a digital immersive tour at the ancient birthplace of the Olympic Games in southern Greece. It provides visitors a virtual re-creation of temples and competition areas in ancient Olympia as they walk through one of the world’s major archaeological sites.
Continue Reading By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — An Albanian Appeals Court has sentenced the country’s former chief prosecutor to two years in prison for hiding money from illegally-owned properties. The ex-prosecutor general, Adriatik Llalla, 52, was sentenced for hiding property and giving false information on the asset declarations Albanian officials must submit every
Continue Reading By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An activist group says South Korea has rejected refugee status for four ethnic Chinese people who have been “stateless” since they fled North Korea years ago. Unlike ethnic Chinese, North Korean defectors get citizenship and economic assistance in South Korea. The four Chinese North Koreans
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By Walé Azeez, CNN Business The biggest players in the automotive industry are refusing to back a commitment to sell only zero-emissions cars and vans by 2040, dealing a blow to hopes for major progress on the climate crisis at COP26. The UN climate summit in Glasgow, chaired by the United Kingdom, wanted governments, manufacturers,
Continue Reading By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A top Taliban official has urged former Afghan military pilots to remain in the country, saying they are protected by a national amnesty and would not face arrest. Wednesday’s comments came a day after dozens of U.S.-trained pilots and other Afghans were flown out of Tajikistan in
Continue Reading COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has stepped down after seven years in office. Lofven will continue as as caretaker prime minister until a new government is formed, but his resignation on Wednesday paves the way for his replacement as leader of the Social Democratic Party to become Sweden’s first female head
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — An Italian judge has issued an international arrest warrant for the Israeli grandfather of a 6-year-old boy who survived a cable car crash in Italy, after the man spirited the child to Israel in violation of an Italian juvenile court order. Eitan Biran was the sole survivor
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Drivers in Jefferson City were asked to avoid part of Jefferson Street on Wednesday morning due to a crash. The Jefferson City Police Department posted on Twitter around 7 a.m. that traffic is back to normal in the 700 block of Jefferson Street. ABC 17 News has reached out to police
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — About 900,000 kids aged 5-11 will have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in their first week of eligibility, the White House said Wednesday. Final clearance for the shots was granted by federal regulators on Nov. 2, with the first doses to kids beginning in
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