By Kari Barrows Click here for updates on this story GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK, North Carolina (WLOS) — Scientists are celebrating a new and exciting discovery in the Great Smoky Mountains: a new species of salamander! Great Smoky Mountains National Park recently announced the newest addition to its already booming salamander population: the Cherokee
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By KCTV Staff Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — One person died early Monday morning after he was struck by a Dodge Charger that was doing donuts in a parking lot. The Kansas City Police Department stated just that just after midnight, two vehicles, including an orange Dodge Charger,
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MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow has found a former journalist guilty of treason and sentenced him to 22 years in a maximum security prison, concluding a trial that has been widely seen as politically motivated. The sentence handed to Ivan Safronov Monday is among the harshest moves against Russian independent journalists and Kremlin
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– Científicos del Acuario de Florida lograron un gran avance en la carrera para salvar un coral del Caribe: por primera vez, biólogos marinos reprodujeron con éxito el coral elkhorn, una especie muy importante, utilizando tecnología de acuarios. Es un logro histórico que, esperan, podría ayudar a revitalizar los ecosistemas del Caribe, y
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By Lisa Rozner, Astrid Martinez Click here for updates on this story New York (WCBS) — A federal investigation is underway after thousands on the Lower East Side have been told not to drink or cook with their tap water for days. It’s because high levels of arsenic were found at NYCHA’s Jacob Riis Houses,
Continue Reading SUMMERVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Flood watches were in effect in the U.S. southeast early Monday as forecasters warn of the possibility of torrential downpours on Labor Day across already saturated ground. Among the hardest-hit areas in this weekend’s storms was northwest Georgia, where 12 inches (30 centimeters) of rain fell in some spots, forecasters said.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Labor Day game between the New York Mets and Pittsburgh Pirates has been postponed due to rain. The teams will play a split doubleheader Wednesday. The first game will be played at 12:35 p.m., and the second game is set for 6:35 p.m. The unexpected day off gives the NL East-leading
Continue Reading BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s political crisis has deepened after a junior party completed its withdrawal from the four-party coalition. That leaves Prime Minister Eduard Heger without a parliamentary majority. Three ministers from the liberal Freedom and Solidarity party submitted their resignations on Monday. They followed the example of the party leader and former Economy
Continue Reading By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Elsa Avila slid to her phone, terrified as she held the bleeding side of her abdomen and tried to stay calm for her students. In a text to her family that she meant to send to fellow Uvalde teachers, she wrote: “I’m shot.” For the first
Continue Reading By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — It’s been two months since a pair of Jesuit priests were killed in a remote mountain community in northern Mexico and the suspected killer remains on the loose. Townspeople are frightened, but the religious order says it’s not leaving. The suspect is the alleged leader of
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By Holly Yan and Zoe Sottile, CNN Just months after the devastating mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, students are set to return to class on Tuesday. But survivors will never return to the building where 19 of their classmates and two teachers were massacred in May. Robb Elementary School will be demolished, Uvalde’s mayor, Don
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Electrical grid problems have cut power to parts of Oman. The state-run Oman News Agency announced the power cuts on Monday, describing the “partial blackout.” It said, the “Oman Electricity Transmission Company is currently handling this blackout and the electricity will be restored gradually,” without elaborating on the cause.
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Al menos 46 personas murieron y 50 resultaron heridas después del terremoto que sacudió la provincia de Sichuan, en el suroeste de China, el lunes, según la cadena de televisión china CCTV citando a las autoridades locales. El terremoto de magnitud 6,6 con una profundidad de 10 kilómetros se registró al suroeste
Continue Reading By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — OPEC and allied oil-producing countries, including Russia, made a small trim in their supplies to the global economy Monday, underlining their unhappiness as recession fears help drive down crude prices — along with the cost of gasoline, to drivers’ delight. The decision for October rolls
Continue Reading By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer States around the country are making it easier for new moms to keep Medicaid in the year after childbirth, a time when depression and other health problems can develop. But tight government budgets and the program’s low reimbursement may ultimately limit this push or make it hard for women
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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Over the past year, the nascent labor movements at mighty corporations like Starbucks and Amazon have grabbed national attention. But less well-known is a looming high-stakes clash between one of America’s oldest unions and the world’s biggest package courier. Contract negotiations are set to begin in the spring between UPS
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By Tina Burnside, Jamiel Lynch and Amir Vera, CNN Memphis police found an unidentified body Monday about 20 minutes from where teacher Eliza “Liza” Fletcher was violently abducted three days ago, according to a tweet from the police department. “The identity of this person and the cause of death is unconfirmed at this time. The
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain has defended its use of chartered flights rather than more ecological trains after an executive for France’s high-speed rail network called out the club for flying its players on a short-haul to Nantes this past weekend. The director of the French rail company’s TGV-Intercity service noted that the network’s high-speed
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — La madre Teresa de Calcuta es una santa. Santa por dos milagros que, según la Iglesia católica, concedió, pero además, dicen, por un estilo de vida abnegado en el que se dedicó a trabajar por los más pobres entre los pobres, tras un llamado de Dios que le indicó
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By Anna Cooban, CNN Business Europe’s energy crisis is deepening as Russia further limits exports of natural gas, forcing governments to spend billions to protect businesses and consumers from soaring bills as the region slides towards recession. European benchmark natural gas prices spiked 28% on Monday morning to hit €274 ($272) per megawatt hour —
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