By Kari Barrows Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — A man from Western North Carolina will spend several months in prison after fraudulently collecting nearly $1 million in disability benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). On July 18, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. sentenced
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By Devan Cole and Barbara Starr, CNN Boeing’s delivery of two new Air Force One planes has been delayed again, the Air Force announced Tuesday, with the completion of the first of the new presidential planes not expected for at least another four years. “The new objective delivery date to the Presidential Airlift Group for
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By Brian Fung, CNN Amazon said Tuesday it has sued the administrators of more than 11,000 Facebook groups allegedly responsible for facilitating the purchase and sale of fake reviews on Amazon’s marketplace in seven countries. The group operators are accused of recruiting people to write fake or misleading product reviews in exchange for money or
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By Brian Fung, CNN Business The Biden administration is pushing to fill hundreds of thousands of cybersecurity jobs in the United States as part of a bid to close a talent shortage US officials describe as both a national security challenge and an economic opportunity. On Tuesday, the administration announced a multi-agency plan to create
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By Jacqueline Howard and Katherine Dillinger, CNN Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Tuesday that she has endorsed the recommendation of the agency’s vaccine advisers to use the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine as a two-dose primary series in adults. It’s the fourth coronavirus vaccine available in the United
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By Zachary Cohen, Sara Murray and Jason Morris, CNN The Atlanta-area prosecutors scrutinizing former President Donald Trump‘s attempts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia said Tuesday that all 16 of the “fake electors” who participated in a plan to subvert the Electoral College are now targets of an ongoing criminal investigation. Court documents filed
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By Mark Morales A 31-year-old man who was working for the production crew of the NBC show “Law & Order: Organized Crime” was shot and killed as he saved parking spots early Tuesday morning, New York City police said. The victim was later identified as 31-year-old Johnny Pizarro of Queens, according to an NYPD press
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By Marnie Hunter and Forrest Brown, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its “high” risk category for travel on Monday with five places and discontinued its Covid-19 program for cruise ships. The agency said on its website that it would continue to publish guidance for cruise ships, but its voluntary program
Continue Reading By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business It has been an absolutely brutal year for investors in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin has lost more than half its value in 2022. Now hovering around $23,000, the price of a single bitcoin has plunged more than 65% below last year’s all-time high of nearly $70,000. The
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By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN More than a dozen Democratic members of Congress were among those arrested by Capitol Police on Tuesday afternoon as part of an abortion rights protest in front of the Supreme Court. Wearing specially made green bandanas with “Won’t Back Down,” they marched from the Capitol to the Court, which has been
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By Tami Luhby, CNN Even when the temperature soars into the 90s, Linda Morris won’t turn on her air conditioning until she feels she’s about to faint. Instead, the retired postal worker tries to escape the heat in the unfinished basement of her Hickory Hills, Illinois, home. She brought down a chair so she can
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby, CNN Even when the temperature soars into the 90s, Linda Morris won’t turn on her air conditioning until she feels she’s about to faint. Instead, the retired postal worker tries to escape the heat in the unfinished basement of her Hickory Hills, Illinois, home. She brought down a chair so she can
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By Kara Scannell, CNN Business The US attorney’s office in Manhattan has opened a civil investigation into workplace safety at Amazon warehouses and possible “fraudulent” conduct to hide worker injuries from federal regulators, a spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office said. Investigators with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Monday morning went to warehouses around
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By Deidre McPhillips, CNN In light of last month’s Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and revoked the constitutional right to abortion, much of the Biden administration’s response has been focused on protecting access to medication abortion. Mifepristone — a pill used to medically induce abortion in combination with another drug, misoprostol —
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Henderson, CNN A fire broke out at the Hoover Dam on Tuesday at about 10 a.m. local time when a transformer caught fire, sending plumes of black smoke into the air, according to the Bureau of Reclamation. The fire was extinguished about 30 minutes later by the Reclamation/Hoover fire brigade, the bureau’s Regional
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN The monkeypox virus has spread quickly in clusters across the United States — at certain music festivals, pool parties and bathhouses — and now public health officials in areas with a lot of infections want more vaccines made available to help control transmission, which appears to happen when people touch intimately,
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By Naomi Thomas, CNN New York City’s monkeypox case numbers don’t show the full picture of how bad the outbreak is, and demand for vaccines in the city is outstripping supply, city Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan said Tuesday. When asked on CNN whether he thought the current numbers reflect the full picture, Vasan replied,
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By Rosa Flores, Rosalina Nieves and Dakin Andone, CNN The Texas commission that regulates the state’s licensed law enforcement officers says it lacks the authority to act on the findings of the Texas House investigative committee’s report on the Uvalde school massacre, which outlined a series of failures by multiple agencies. “The findings of the
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN US officials are on alert for multifaceted election interference threats from adversaries like Iran, China and Russia — including hacking, disinformation and influence operations — as the midterm elections approach, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday. “We have to be concerned about hybrid threats,” Wray said at a cybersecurity conference at
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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Heat-related sickness is top of mind today for many people around the world not used to coping with extreme heat. When the body’s temperature rises faster than it can cool itself, damage to the brain and other vital organs can occur — even death. Here are the key signs of heatstroke
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