By Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN The Staten Island ferry, known for getting residents and commuters to and from Lower Manhattan to Staten Island in 25 minutes, is slowing the frequency of rides, due to an uptick in Covid-19 cases among its staff members, the New York City Department of Transportation announced. New York City’s positivity rate
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By AJ Willingham, CNN Chris Evans isn’t too sure about these daggum newfangled iPhones. During an interview with Collider, Evans groused about the bulky buttonless-ness of his new iPhone 12 Pro, saying he still prefers his dearly departed iPhone 6s. “I feel like my new phone is too heavy,” says the man famous for playing
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN The head of one of the world’s most prestigious art exhibitions has resigned after this year’s show became embroiled in a scandal over antisemitic imagery. Sabine Schormann, managing director of Documenta, which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany, stepped down on Saturday. A statement from the exhibition’s supervisory board expressed
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By Brian Fung, CNN Business Two Democratic senators are planning to reopen a high-stakes battle over internet access in the coming weeks, with a bill aiming to restore net neutrality regulations for broadband providers that a Republican-led Federal Communications Commission gutted in 2017. The draft bill from Sens. Ed Markey and Ron Wyden would explicitly
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By Brenda Goodman, CNN Injected vaccines against the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 have been hugely successful, saving nearly 20 million lives globally in their first year of use and slashing the pandemic’s death toll by an estimated 63%, according to a recent study. Yet good as these shots are, they have not stopped the virus
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Students are heading to another school year amid the Covid-19 pandemic, but this time, there seem to be fewer discussions and fretting about masks and other mitigation measures — despite a rise of infections sweeping the country. Most of the largest public school districts in the United States are not requiring
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By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business As prices surge and the UK economy struggles more than most of its peers, Starbucks is reportedly looking for an exit. The company is engaged with advisers to determine whether it could — or should — sell its business in the United Kingdom, according to UK newspaper The Times. Asked
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CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Clemson’s top men’s basketball scorer PJ Hall needs right knee surgery and the team says there’s no timetable for when he might return. An MRI on Friday revealed the 6-foot-10 Hall’s kneecap had slid out of place. Hall already was rehabbing from foot surgery during the offseason. He said said in
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By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business KFC is trying out a new type of chicken nugget in an effort to attract younger consumers. Starting Monday, the chicken chain is offering Kentucky Fried Chicken Nuggets in restaurants in Charlotte, North Carolina, for a limited time. The nuggets are made with white meat and KFC’s signature 11 herbs
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former senior investigator for the U.S. House committee probing the Jan. 6 insurrection says he has enough signatures to run as an independent for Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat. John F. Wood on Monday said he has the 10,000 registered voter signatures needed to appear on the ballot for retiring
Continue Reading By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw will start for the National League on Tuesday night in the first All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium since 1980, and Tampa Bay’s Shane McClanahan will be on the mound for the American League. Los Angeles Angels two-way star Shohei
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Vasco Cotovio and Alex Hardie, CNN One of the United Kingdom’s largest airports suspended flights on Monday after high temperatures damaged a runway. Temperatures soared up to 37 degrees Celsius (about 99 degrees Fahrenheit) in some parts of the country. London Luton Airport announced the situation via Twitter and updated its status when the airport
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By Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN There are tens of thousands of Afghans who have applied for Special Immigrant Visas (SIV) whose applications are still being processed nearly a year after the botched US withdrawal from Afghanistan, a senior administration official said Monday, adding that the process will now be entirely overseen
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By Mark Morales The 19-year-old accused of killing 10 people and injuring three others when he opened fire with a high-powered rifle at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket pleaded not guilty to hate crime and firearms charges in federal court on Monday. Wearing an orange jumpsuit and shackled at his hands and feet, Payton Gendron
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley is calling out ESPN and its ESPY awards show for not inviting national player of the year Aliyah Boston to the ceremonies this week. Boston is the 6-foot-5 rising senior who helped the Gamecocks to their second national title in April. Boston won several
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By Ellie Kaufman and Barbara Starr, CNN The Blue Angels, the US Navy’s elite flight demonstration squadron, has selected the first female fighter jet demonstration pilot for their upcoming season. Lt. Amanda Lee was selected to be a F/A-18E/F demonstration pilot along with Lt. Cmdr. Thomas Zimmerman, a release from the Blue Angels states. While
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Ya sea que no tengas electricidad, te enfrentas a un calor extremo, o intentas ahorrar dinero, hay formas de sentirse cómodo sin refrigeración artificial. El calor puede ser propicio para las actividades divertidas del verano, pero el cuerpo no debe estar demasiado caliente durante mucho tiempo, ya que el exceso de
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN Chris Evans isn’t too sure about these daggum newfangled iPhones. During an interview with Collider, Evans groused about the bulky buttonless-ness of his new iPhone 12 Pro, saying he still prefers his dearly departed iPhone 6s. “I feel like my new phone is too heavy,” says the man famous for playing
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Watson, CNN Some emergency responders in Beech Grove, Indiana, couldn’t go to the scene of a shooting at a park Sunday because they were responding to a shooting at a mall, the city’s mayor said. “Our Beech Grove EMS … believe it or not, was not available for this incident,” Mayor Dennis Buckley
Continue ReadingMarysabel E. Huston-Crespo (CNN Español) – Uno de los misterios del nuevo coronavirus sigue siendo lo aleatorio de los sÃntomas prolongados de la enfermedad. CientÃficos en todo el mundo buscan saber cuáles son los factores que hacen que una persona sea más propensa a experimentar el covid persistente. En este episodio, el Dr. Elmer Huerta
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