By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent In a bright-red county in a state allergic to regulations, there is a ban on growing grass outside new businesses. Only 8% of a home’s landscaping can have a grass lawn in this booming corner of Utah, about a hundred miles northeast of Las Vegas. And if any
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By SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Paul Vallas, the former schools CEO endorsed by the Chicago police union, advanced to a two-candidate runoff for Chicago mayor on Tuesday. His rival in a bid to unseat Mayor Lori Lightfoot had not yet been decided. Lightfoot, the first Black woman and first openly gay person
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday acknowledged that the bureau believes the Covid-19 pandemic was likely the result of a lab accident in Wuhan, China. In his first public comments on the FBI’s investigation into the virus’ origins during an interview with Fox News, Wray said that “the FBI has for
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By Raja Razek and Steve Almasy, CNN A 9-year-old girl, who was fatally wounded when a gunman broke into her family’s Florida home after shooting a woman nearby hours earlier, told her mother, “He shot me!” as she ran for help, according to an arrest affidavit released Tuesday. Sheriff’s investigators have said the suspected shooter,
Continue Reading By KEVIN FREKING and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A special House committee dedicated to countering China began its work Tuesday with a prime-time hearing in which the panel’s chairman called on lawmakers to act with urgency and framed the competition between the U.S. and China as “an existential struggle over what life
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Una cuarta parte de los jóvenes negros transgénero y no binarios reportó un intento de suicidio en el año anterior, según un nuevo estudio, más del doble de la tasa de intentos de suicidio entre los jóvenes negros cisgénero LGBTQ. La nueva investigación de The Trevor Project, que encuestó a casi
Continue Reading By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Family members of victims killed in the Uvalde school shooting have confronted Texas’ police chief in an emotional end to a day of protests at the state Capitol over gun laws. On Tuesday, Velma Duran, whose sister Irma Garcia was one of two teachers killed at
Continue ReadingMarysabel E. Huston-Crespo (CNN Español) – Tras dos años de espera, los seguidores de la franquicia de Star Wars podrán disfrutar la tercera temporada de “The Mandalorian”, disponible en Disney+. Según la revista Variety, para entender la trama principal de esta continuación de la historia será necesario haber visto “The Book of Boba Fett”. Se
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By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer Gavin Lux will miss the season for the Los Angeles Dodgers because of torn ligaments in his right knee. The 25-year-old was in line to become their new starting shortstop before getting hurt in a spring training game. Lux says the toughest part is knowing the opportunity he had
Continue Reading By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho has joined a Texas lawsuit against the Biden administration’s waterway protections, claiming the rules are too vague and violate state sovereignty rights. The lawsuit was originally filed in southern Texas’ federal courts Jan. 18, and amended to include Idaho on Monday. The states contend that
Continue Reading By MICHAEL PHILLIS and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials sued a Louisiana chemical maker on Tuesday, alleging that it presents an unacceptable cancer risk to the nearby majority-Black community and demanding cuts in toxic emissions. Denka Performance Elastomer LLC makes synthetic rubber, emitting the carcinogen chloroprene and other chemicals in such
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — Una autoridad religiosa en Nicaragua —quien por razones de seguridad pidió el anonimato— dijo este martes a CNN que agentes de la Policía visitan numerosas parroquias para prohibirles las actividades en exteriores relacionadas con la Cuaresma y Semana Santa, como los viacrucis. La misma fuente agregó que, con el fin
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By Pete Muntean, CNN Air traffic controllers stopped a departing private jet from running into a JetBlue flight as it was coming in to land Monday night in Boston, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA says it is investigating the incident. This is the fifth close call involving a commercial airliner on a
Continue Reading By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service says a specialized team of wildlife managers has killed 19 wild cows in the Gila Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico as part of a contested project to rid the area of the unauthorized animals. The three-day operation used a helicopter and
Continue Reading By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi residents might get back the ability to enact public policy through statewide ballot initiatives, but people would be banned from using the process to change abortion laws. Republican lawmakers advanced a proposal Tuesday that would strip voters of their ability to launch abortion
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By Clare Foran, CNN Bipartisan lawmakers warned of the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party on Tuesday during the first hearing of the House select committee on China, a rare demonstration of unity across the aisle in a Congress increasingly divided along partisan lines. The panel’s chairman, Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, described
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Ha pasado casi un mes desde el devastador terremoto de magnitud 7,8 en Turquía y Siria que cobró la vida de miles de personas e hirió a muchas más. El fuerte impacto del sismo, y las réplicas que le siguieron, ha sembrado dudas en muchos viajeros que tenían previsto visitar el
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer Carolina got better by acquiring winger Jesse Puljujarvi from Edmonton in one of two Oilers moves ahead of the NHL trade deadline. They also got Mattias Ekholm from Nashville to bulk up the defense behind MVP favorite Connor McDavid. The Eastern Conference arms race continued with Toronto making three
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — American Airlines garantizará que los niños vayan sentados junto a un adulto acompañante, según una actualización del plan de servicio al cliente de la aerolínea. Es la respuesta más reciente de las aerolíneas a las solicitudes de mejores políticas de asientos familiares. La medida se produce junto con un anuncio del
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Nissan is recalling more than 700,000 Rogue and Rogue Sport compact SUVs because they can be shut off accidentally while driving. Some model year 2016 through 2020 Nissan Rogue and 2017 through 2022 Rogue Sports, have jackknife-style keys — the type in which the metal blade of the key flips
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