By Jennifer Gray, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Once a tropical storm strengthens into a hurricane, it earns a category designation on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale: 1 through 5. Knowing about each category can help predict what damage an incoming storm may inflict – and how best to prepare. The categories are defined by wind
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By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration unveiled Tuesday the names of the first 10 drugs subject to price negotiations in Medicare, including several popular blood thinners and diabetes medications. They are: Eliquis, Jardiance, Xarelto, Januvia, Farxiga, Entresto, Enbrel, Imbruvica and Stelara, as well as Fiasp and certain other insulins made by Novo
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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — Travelers have been warned that the chaos brought about by a UK air traffic control failure earlier this week will continue for days. During an interview on Tuesday, Mark Harper, the Transport Secretary for the UK acknowledged that the “technical issue,” which lasted for several hours, had impacted thousands
Continue ReadingBy YUCHENG TANG Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Three Thai human rights activists have been acquitted of criminally defaming a poultry company with social media posts that supported other activists who had accused it of abusive labor practices. They were charged under a law that could have led to a 42-year prison sentence if convicted.
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter (CNN) — Justice Amy Coney Barrett said Monday night that she has developed a thick skin to criticism during her tenure as a judge and stressed that she welcomes public scrutiny of the Supreme Court. “I think that justices and all judges are public figures and public
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A Munich court has sentenced a German woman who was a member of the Islamic State group to 14 years in prison for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave in Iraq to die of thirst in the sun. Tuesday’s decision replaced an earlier prison sentence
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By Jordan Valinsky and Gregory Wallace, CNN New York (CNN) — All flights from Tampa International Airport have been canceled Tuesday as Hurricane Idalia barrels toward the Florida’s Gulf Coast. So far, that’s the only major airport significantly affected by the storm, which strengthened into a hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph overnight.
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — A trial date of March 4, 2024, has been set for former President Donald Trump for his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. This means Trump may possibly be sitting in federal court instead of campaigning ahead of the Super Tuesday primaries set for March
Continue ReadingCNN, WTVD, WRAL By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — A trial date of March 4, 2024, has been set for former President Donald Trump for his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. This means Trump may possibly be sitting in federal court instead of campaigning ahead of the Super Tuesday primaries
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden recibirá este martes al presidente de Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves Robles, en un momento crítico para una región que se enfrenta a un número récord de migrantes que se dirigen a Estados Unidos. El movimiento sin precedentes de personas en el hemisferio occidental ha ejercido una
Continue Reading By Katie Bo Lillis, Evan Perez, Priscilla Alvarez and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The FBI is investigating more than a dozen migrants from Uzbekistan and other countries allowed into the US after they sought asylum at the southern border with Mexico earlier this year, a scramble set off when US intelligence officials found that
Continue ReadingBy KATE ASHFORD of NerdWallet Nearly a quarter of millennials are caregivers for an adult, according to a 2020 AARP survey. And a 2020 survey from insurance marketplace GoHealth found that 1 in 3 millennials are supporting their parents financially, and more than a quarter help manage their parents’ health care. This means that in
Continue ReadingNICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Police in Cyprus say they have arrested 21 people and used tear gas and a water cannon after a group of Greek Cypriots wearing hoods and brandishing sticks tried to attack Syrian migrants. The violence occurred in a small village that has been a hotbed of tensions between locals and migrants.
Continue ReadingBy JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office is reporting that criminal gangs have forced hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia into participating in unlawful online scam operations, including false romantic ploys, bogus investment pitches, and illegal gambling schemes. The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Cuando los líderes de los países BRICS se reunieron para tomar fotografías grupales al final de su cumbre en Johannesburgo la semana pasada, se pudo vislumbrar los contornos del nuevo orden mundial que Beijing está tratando de moldear. Al frente y al centro estaba Xi Jinping, el poderoso líder de
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La ministra alemana de Asuntos Exteriores, Annalena Baerbock, criticó al suspendido presidente de la Federación Española de Fútbol, Luis Rubiales, al considerar que habría sido “impensable” que la excanciller alemana Angela Merkel hubiera besado a un futbolista alemán tras la victoria de su país en el Mundial, según reportó la
Continue ReadingA German-Russian dual citizen has been arrested in Germany on allegations of violating the country’s foreign trade act multiple times by exporting electronic components to a company in Russia involved in the production of military materiel and accessories. Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that the suspect was arrested in March. The federal prosecutor’s office
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Anthony Albanese says he expects public support for creating a so-called Indigenous Voice to Parliament will grow after he focuses the nation’s minds on the issue by setting a date for Australia’s first referendum in a generation. Albanese will announce on Wednesday a date
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN, TOM MURPHY and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden touted the potential cost savings of Medicare’s first-ever price negotiations for widely used prescription drugs on Tuesday as he struggles to convince Americans that he’s improved their lives as he runs for reelection. The drugs include the blood thinner
Continue ReadingBy Kara Nelson, CNN (CNN) — Storms beginning with the letter “I” are the most common tropical system names to become retired in the Atlantic Ocean, and Idalia, headed toward the Florida coast, has the potential to be next on the list. The United Nations World Meteorological Organization maintains a list of names for each
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