By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — When the police killings of Black people, including George Floyd set off racial unrest across the country in 2020, Marie Vergamini decided she wanted to do her part to help address systemic racism. So, Vergamini, a doctoral student and adjunct instructor at Virginia Commonwealth University, joined a committee
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TODAY: Another isolated rain chance is expected to the west in the late morning and early afternoon hours. Most of our area will stay dry as temperatures warm into the mid-80s. TOMORROW: A weakening line of storms tracks in early Monday and may manage to produce strong winds in the morning. As this system falls
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By Parija Kavilanz, CNN New York (CNN) — Americans should prepare for a sizzling hot summer, and not just because of rising temperatures. Consumers are bravely opening their palate to bolder, spicier, more fiery flavors and the marketplace for foods and drinks is happily obliging them. Walk into a Walmart, Target, a corner 7-Eleven, pretty
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The nation’s third-largest city is preparing for its first school board elections and the slate of potential candidates includes progressive activists, an afterschool squash program leader and a Grammy-winning rapper. The down ballot November race comes after decades of activism and months of legislative squabbles over control
Continue ReadingBy EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s Mount Ibu has erupted again and spewed thick, gray ash and dark clouds 7,000 meters (16,000 feet) into the air, officials say. The volcano that is located on an island in the eastern North Maluku province erupted for more than six minutes on Sunday, according
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — La brutal invasión rusa de Ucrania brindó a los servicios de inteligencia estadounidenses una rara oportunidad para reclutar a miembros del Kremlin furiosos con el manejo de la guerra. “El descontento crea para nosotros una oportunidad única en una generación”, dijo el año pasado el director de la CIA, Bill Burns,
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Rising home values have led to higher real estate taxes around the U.S. Now many states are looking to provide relief to frustrated residents. New laws enacted in Alabama, Colorado and Wyoming will limit the growth in tax-assessed values for homeowners. A Kansas special session on tax cuts is
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Un creciente incendio de pasto que comenzó este sábado por la tarde en el condado de San Joaquín, California, ha consumido más de 4451 hecta´reas, lo que obligó a los residentes en su camino a evacuar el área, dicen las autoridades. El incendio Corral comenzó en la ciudad de Tracy alrededor
Continue ReadingBy DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Saudi Arabia and allied oil producing countries have extended their deep output cuts aimed at supporting slack prices. Oil prices have slumped even in the face of turmoil in the Middle East and the start of the summer travel season. The OPEC+ alliance, made up
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — Russia’s brutal ongoing invasion of Ukraine has provided US intelligence services with a rare opening to recruit Kremlin insiders furious with the handling of the war. “Disaffection creates a once-in-a-generation opportunity for us,” said CIA Director Bill Burns last year during a speech in the United Kingdom. “We’re
Continue ReadingBy DAN MERICA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic National Committee was watching earlier this year as campaigns nationwide were experimenting with artificial intelligence. So the organization approached a handful of influential party campaign committees with a request: Sign onto guidelines that would commit them to use the technology in a “responsible” way. The
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — An apartment building collapse in the Turkish city of Istanbul has killed one person and injured eight, authorities say. Firefighters shifted rubble by hand from the flattened five-story building in Kucukcekmece on the city’s European side on Sunday. The cause was not immediately clear but there was no sign of an explosion
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By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — When Emma-Jane Nutbrown went on a family vacation to Jamaica last year, she did so with one condition: that everyone donated to an LGBTQ charity once they got there. Nutbrown felt uncomfortable with her parents’ choice of destination. Same-sex sexual activity between men is against the law in Jamaica
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By Brad Lendon, Ivan Watson and Simone McCarthy, CNN Singapore (CNN) — China’s support to Russia will extend the war in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday, as he called on countries across the Asia-Pacific to join an upcoming peace summit he accused Russia of trying to thwart. Zelensky made the comments in Singapore during
Continue ReadingBy JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s governing populists have declared victory at tense municipal elections in dozens of cities and towns throughout the Balkan country, including a rerun vote in the capital, Belgrade, as opposition are claiming major irregularities. The victory claim is likely to be confirmed by the state electoral
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registered Sunday as a possible candidate for the presidential election, seeking to regain the country’s top political position after a helicopter crash killed the nation’s president. The populist former leader’s registration puts pressure on Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
Continue ReadingBy Jillian Sykes and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Firefighters got the upper hand on a grass fire that began Saturday afternoon in San Joaquin County, California, but dangerous heat threatens to worsen the situation in the coming days. The Corral Fire began in the City of Tracy around 2:30 p.m. and had consumed 14,000 acres
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — El secretario de Defensa de Estados Unidos, Lloyd Austin, se reunió con el presidente de Ucrania, Zelensky, al margen del Diálogo Shangri-La en Singapur este domingo. Austin reiteró “el apoyo inquebrantable de Estados Unidos a Ucrania frente a la agresión rusa”, según una lectura del Secretario de Prensa del Pentágono, mayor
Continue ReadingBy JACK DURA Associated Press Voters in at least three South Dakota counties will decide whether ballots in future elections will be counted by hand. It’s a rare step even as others in the U.S. have considered a move to counting by hand in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s false claims of fraud
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