By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a national health alert Friday to warn clinicians to be on the lookout for infections with the flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus. During July and August, as the US saw widespread heatwaves and above-average coastal sea surface temperatures, Connecticut, New York
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER and JOE REEDY Associated Press Writers A dispute between Disney and Charter Communications has left nearly 15 million Spectrum TV cable television subscribers without some of their favorite networks. Sports fans are feeling it most acutely: The ESPN networks are off the air for the start of the college football season and
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Un hombre de 98 años, exguardia de un campo de concentración nazi, fue acusado formalmente de cargos de complicidad en el asesinato de más de 3.300 personas durante el Holocausto, dijeron este viernes autoridades de Alemania. Los fiscales no revelaron la identidad del hombre, de acuerdo con las leyes de privacidad
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ Another University of Missouri fraternity member accused in the Danny Santulli hazing case took a plea deal on Friday. Samuel Morrison, 23, of Cameron, pleaded guilty to supplying alcohol to a minor. He was initially charged with felony hazing. Morrison was sentenced to two years of unsupervised probation with a one-year suspended
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA, CARA RUBINSKY and JILL LAWLESS LONDON (AP) — Mohamed Al Fayed, the flamboyant Egypt-born businessman whose son was killed in a car crash with Princess Diana, died this week, his family said Friday. He was 94. Al Fayed, the longtime owner of Harrods department store and the Fulham Football Club, was devastated
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Police in New Mexico’s capital city on Friday were investigating the partial destruction of a public monument to a 19th century frontiersman and U.S. soldier who had a leading role in the death of hundreds of Native Americans during Anglo-American settlement of the American West.
Continue ReadingMOSCOW (AP) — The head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said Friday that the country has deployed an advanced intercontinental ballistic missile that President Vladimir Putin once said will make Russia’s enemies “think twice.” Agency head Yuri Borisov said Sarmat missiles have been placed on combat duty, according to Russian news agencies. Further details were
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By Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Mohamed Al-Fayed, the outspoken Egyptian tycoon who transformed the fortunes of two London institutions, the Harrods department store and Fulham Football Club, and waged a war of words with Britain’s royals after his son was killed in a car crash alongside Diana, Princess of Wales, has died, according to
Continue ReadingHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Hartford’s USL team says the league refuses to reschedule its game Saturday despite an outbreak of COVID-19 that has sidelined 10 players. The Hartford Athletic soccer team posted on social media that those 10 players tested positive for the virus this week. That will leave the team with just 12 available
Continue ReadingCNN By Kristina Sgueglia and Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — Newly released police body camera footage shows an officer firing through the windshield of a pregnant woman’s car after she was accused of shoplifting at a grocery store in a Columbus, Ohio, suburb last week. The woman, 21-year-old Ta’kiya Young – whose death her family
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 840,000 Afghans and their families who applied for a resettlement program aimed at people who helped the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan are still there waiting. That’s according to a new report on the special immigrant visa process intended to help America’s allies in the
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Rudy Giuliani on Friday pleaded not guilty to Georgia charges that accuse him of trying, along with former President Donald Trump and others, to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state. In filing his not guilty plea with the court, the former New
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CNN By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Tami Manis is officially all business at the front and party in the back after her mullet, measuring 5 feet 8 inches (nearly 173 centimeters), was confirmed as the longest female one in the world. The 58-year-old last cut the back of her hair on February 9 1990,
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CNN, WUSA, KATU Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — It turns out that there is a heavy price for trying to steal votes, defaming defenseless election workers and invading the US Capitol to try to thwart a democratic transfer of presidential power. And accountability is moving ever closer to Donald Trump. America’s judicial system
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CNN By Jeremy Herb, Kristen Holmes, Zachary Cohen and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Some of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the sprawling election subversion case in Georgia are trying all sorts of ways to fund their mounting legal bills – yet the costs of the 2020 election fallout may quickly exceed their abilities to pay.
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president delivered his second-to-last state of the union address and perhaps what was most striking about his 1 1/2 hour speech was what he didn’t talk about: drugs, crime or drug cartels. Experts and inhabitants agree that wide swaths of Mexico are under the de-facto control of drug cartels, but
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One of three men accused of stealing guns from law enforcement and breaking into several vehicles in Ashland has been arrested. Jamarie Young Johnson, 19, of Columbia, was charged on Friday with first-degree burglary, four counts of stealing a gun, three counts of first-degree property damage and misdemeanor stealing. He is being
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CNN, KYW, KPTV, CHESTER COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, OREGON STATE POLICE, FLASHALERT.NET By Danny Freeman and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) — Officials say an inmate convicted of murder who escaped a Pennsylvania prison Thursday might be headed south toward Mexico. Danelo Cavalcante, 34, broke out of the Chester County Prison, about 30 miles west
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Facts Started as an al Qaeda splinter group. Also known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Islamic State (IS). ISIS aims to create an Islamic state called a caliphate across Iraq, Syria and beyond. The
Continue Reading By Chris Liakos, Nimi Princewill and Claudia Colliva, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of people were killed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo this week during demonstrations against the United Nations’ mission in the country. Protesters in the eastern city of Goma on Wednesday criticized the UN’s Stabilization Mission (MONUSCO), the East African Community and
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