By Annette Weston Click here for updates on this story MOREHEAD CITY, North Carolina (WLOS) — The Town of Morehead City is working with two aquatic restoration groups to protect Sugarloaf Island from continued shoreline erosion. One of the methods being considered would use offshore wave attenuation devices – hollow concrete structures meant to flatten
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By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business When you think about a shrinking economy, what comes to mind? Factories shutting down. A wave of job losses and few open positions. Huge financial losses that batter most industries. That’s not what America is seeing right now, even though the country’s gross domestic product has declined for two consecutive
Continue Reading Opinion by Lakshman Achuthan and Anirvan Banerji for CNN Business Perspectives A couple of months ago, when the consensus outlook for the economy was fairly sanguine, we warned that the economy was “close to entering a recession,” but that there was still time to make hay in the jobs market. But now that a recession
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By Colin McCullough, Sonnet Swire and Dan Berman, CNN Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser is asking for aid from the DC National Guard to help with migrants being sent by bus from Texas, according to a letter obtained by CNN affiliate WUSA. The mayor’s office says the city is now at a “tipping point.” Texas
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Después de días de inundaciones mortales que arrasaron con partes del este de Kentucky, el número de muertos aumentó a al menos 25. Los socorristas trabajaron el sábado para dar cuenta de los residentes desaparecidos, dijo el gobernador del estado. El gobernador Andy Beshear dijo que la cantidad de muertes “probablemente aumente”
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Mackenzie Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Five weeks after a fiery accident left him with second- and third-degree burns on 50% of his body, a Western North Carolina boy is making great strides in his recovery. Barrett McKim has been in the ICU at the burn
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza Hong Kong (CNN) — Un bailarín que se presentaba en un concierto en Hong Kong de la banda Mirror, agrupación de música popular cantonesa o cantopop, está en cuidados intensivos luego de que un panel gigante de video que cayó del techo lo golpeara. Cinco personas resultaron heridas cuando la pantalla, que
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — El presidente de Argentina, Alberto Fernández, reestructuró este jueves su gabinete de ministros en respuesta a demandas de los integrantes de su coalición que le pedían “acción”. Sergio Massa, hasta ahora presidente de la Cámara de Diputados, asumirá al frente de un nuevo “superministerio” que es resultado de la combinación
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak and Alex Rogers, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to depart Friday for a tour of Asia, though whether she stops in Taiwan remains uncertain, a person familiar with the plans said. Pelosi’s trip includes stops in Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore — all US allies in the region. But a
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell had such a reputation for stopping Democratic legislation and keeping his conference together that he earned the nickname “the grim reaper.” But now he’s helped push through a string of major bipartisan victories that Democrats in particular are touting, splintering his own conference
Continue ReadingBy Dianne Gallagher and Jacquelyne Germain, CNN The mass exodus of an entire police department after the hiring of a Black town manager in North Carolina has opened a conversation about public safety and race relations in a small town of just over 1,500 residents. Last week, the entire police department in Kenly, North Carolina,
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN You should know by now that a Beyoncé album release is a whole event. “Renaissance” is that, of course, and the Grammy winner’s eagerly awaited seventh album doesn’t disappoint, if social media is to be believed. The album officially dropped Friday morning. So much to digest, so much to dissect
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping held a lengthy and candid discussion about Taiwan on Thursday as tensions mount between Washington and Beijing, despite Biden’s onetime hope of stabilizing the world’s most important country-to-country relationship. The two leaders did agree to begin arrangements for a face-to-face summit, their
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Heavy rains brought another round of flooding to the St. Louis region that was already recovering from record rains earlier this week, prompting firefighters to help dozens of people escape the floodwaters. No injuries were reported from Thursday’s flooding, but the St. Louis Fire Department said on Twitter that it responded
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By Tim Lister, Julia Kesaieva and Josh Pennington, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday the attack on a prison in separatist-held eastern Ukraine, which resulted in the deaths of at least 40 prisoners, was “a deliberate war crime by the Russians.” Russia, meanwhile, blamed Ukraine for the attack. The Olenivka prison near Donetsk has
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — In a legal showdown between soccer spouses that mixed celebrity, social media and amateur sleuthing, a judge has ruled whodunnit. Judge Karen Steyn on Friday cleared Coleen Rooney of libeling Rebekah Vardy by claiming that Vardy had leaked her private social media posts to the tabloid press.
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — El gobierno español lanzó una campaña de verano animando a las mujeres de todas las formas y tamaños a ir a la playa. “El verano también es nuestro. Disfrútalo como, donde y con quien tú quieras”, tuiteó este miércoles el Ministerio de Igualdad. “Hoy brindamos por un verano para todas, sin estereotipos
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Sergio Massa es el nuevo “superministro” de asuntos económicos de Argentina, un anuncio que llegó esta semana tras una fuerte reestructuración ministerial del presidente Alberto Fernández. Con estos cambios, Fernández hizo una reestructuración de una mesa triangular de poder de la coalición de gobierno, el Frente Amplio, donde están
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) Investigators have ruled the cause of an overnight house fire in Fulton as accidental. The Fulton Fire Department responded to the home in the 1500 block of Forest Avenue around 12:25 a.m. Firefighters said arriving crews found smoke and flames coming from the story and a-half home. Crews were able to contain
Continue Reading By Dan Merica, CNN Efforts by Democratic campaigns, committees and outside groups to tilt the playing field in their favor by supporting extremist Republican primary candidates are sparking backlash as other Democrats warn the tactic risks putting conspiracy theorists and election deniers in office. The latest flashpoint in the debate came this week when the
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