By Paradise Afshar and Forrest Brown, CNN Think of it as laissez les bons temps rouler — but with precautions. New Orleans will reinstate its indoor mask mandate starting Wednesday morning to address rising Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations in the city. This is something visitors as well as residents will want to keep in mind
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By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans is bringing back an indoor mask mandate to fight the spread of COVID-19 while preparing for an influx of visitors for the Mardi Gras season. The city health director, Dr. Jennifer Avegno, announced the plan Tuesday. The mandate takes effect Wednesday at 6 a.m.
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By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer American freestyle skier David Wise heads to the Winter Olympics eyeing a three-peat on the halfpipe. Wise won gold in Sochi in 2014 and in Pyeongchang in 2018. The 31-year-old is returning to form after breaking his femur in 2019. The Nevada native heads to China with momentum after
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Nota del editor: Ángela Reyes es redactora y editora en CNN en Español. Es licenciada en Comunicación Social por la Universidad Católica del Uruguay, donde se desempeña como profesora asistente de Periodismo Audiovisual. Trabajó en la agencia de noticias AFP y en varios medios locales. Las opiniones expresadas en esta columna son exclusivamente
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By Steve Contorno, CNN Painting himself and his state as the antidote to closed schools, government mandates and Big Tech overreach, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday delivered an election-year State of the State speech that emphasized the deepening divide between Republican and Democratic leadership during the pandemic. DeSantis opened his remarks by declaring Florida
Continue Reading GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida hired New York Giants offensive line coach Rob Sale to a similar position Tuesday. The move leaves new Gators coach Billy Napier with just two staff spots remaining to fill. Sale also will serve as Florida’s offensive coordinator, although Napier is planning to call plays in his first year in
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has approved Missouri’s request for a federal disaster declaration after deadly tornadoes and strong winds hit the state last month. The designation allows seven southern Missouri counties to access federal assistance for repairing damaged buildings and other infrastructure, the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced in a news release Tuesday.
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Para el artista canadiense ghanés de 42 años Ekow Nimako, Lego es algo más que un juguete para niños. Una deidad embustera con forma de araña, una florista que sostiene una abeja gigante y un reino ghanés en el año 3020 son esculturas que ha construido utilizando solo Legos negros. “Estoy
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By MARIA CHENG and CARLA K. JOHNSON Associated Press Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19′s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically. The reason: The variant has proved so wildly contagious that it may already
Continue Reading By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press As smoke poured through the halls a New York City high-rise on Sunday, killing 17 people, tenants were faced with a life or death decision: Should they stay put or try to escape? Several survivors later told reporters that when they saw their hallways fill with smoke, they returned to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou football coach Gary Pinkel looked back on his Hall of Fame career on Tuesday in front of friends, family and local reporters. Pinkel is a part of the 2022 College Football Hall of Fame Class. It was officially announced on Monday, but he said he found out about the news
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Every superhero has an origin story. And this is mine,” the teenage title character explains at the outset of “Naomi,” the CW’s latest DC Comics-inspired series. But that origin story moves in slow motion, feeling like a conventional high-school drama with just a pinch of superheroics provided to pull the
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By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Justice Stephen Breyer participated in oral arguments remotely on Tuesday after a “false positive” Covid-19 test, the Supreme Court announced. A court spokeswoman said that the senior liberal justice took a rapid test Tuesday morning prior to oral arguments and received a positive result. A second rapid
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BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — An arrest report says Seattle Seahawks backup quarterback Geno Smith’s arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence came after the Washington State Patrol pulled him over for going 96 mph in a 60 mph zone and driving erratically across several lanes of traffic. Smith was arrested following the Seahawks’ return
Continue Reading By CLAUDIA LAUER and THALIA BEATY Associated Press UPPER DARBY, Pa. (AP) — Authorities and witnesses say a pilot crash landed a medical helicopter without loss of life in a residential area of suburban Philadelphia, somehow avoiding a web of power lines and buildings as the aircraft fluttered, hit the street and slid into bushes
Continue Reading By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn has won 11 national championships since 1995 and made 13 straight trips to the women’s Final Four. The injury-riddled Huskies are just 7-3 this season and have seen some of their more impressive winning streaks come to an end. They even briefly dropped out
Continue Reading By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Officials say the U.S. Navy will comply with Hawaii’s order to remove fuel from a massive underground storage tank facility blamed for contaminating the Navy’s drinking water system. Rear Adm. Blake Converse tells members of Congress the Navy is making preparations to defuel
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Before the Missouri House Committee on Elementary and Secondary Education recessed at 10 a.m., committee staff shared that the House record for most public testimony submitted in person or in writing was broken.
Continue Reading By DASHA LITVINOVA and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow and Washington both have taken uncompromising stands ahead of more talks amid a Russian troop buildup near Ukraine. The U.S. has rebuffed a demand to halt NATO expansion and the Kremlin says it will see if it’s worthwhile to even keep negotiating. At
Continue Reading VIENNA (AP) — Double world champion Vincent Kriechmayr is in danger of missing the two men’s World Cup downhills in Wengen on Friday and Saturday following a coronavirus infection. The Austrian ski team says Kriechmayr was absent from the first training Tuesday because because he was still quarantining. Kriechmayr will not be eligible to race
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