By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Kiley Patterson of Paradise, California, had to evacuate during the devastating 2018 Camp Fire and is working out some of the resulting anxiety by volunteering at a local large-animal shelter that was set up to help neighbors facing yet another wildfire threat. “To say anxiety has been high is probably
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Florida está bajo advertencia de tormenta tropical y se declaró el estado de emergencia ante la llegada de la potencial tormenta tropical Debby, que podría desencadenar varios días de lluvias torrenciales e inundaciones en el estado y en el sureste de Estados Unidos a partir de este fin de semana.
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THIS AFTERNOON: Summer is still in full swing as temperatures reach near 90 with noticeable humidity. Clouds will drift through today but rain remains east. TONIGHT: Skies clear out overnight with calm conditions. Lows will be cooler in the upper 60s. EXTENDED: Temperatures remain more seasonal through the weekend topping out in the lower 90s.
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By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — TikTok has failed to stop children from joining the app and has unlawfully collected their personal data, the US Justice Department alleged in a lawsuit filed Friday. The lawsuit accuses TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, of violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by allowing
Continue ReadingMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a Memphis police officer and a motorist who was driving with a gunshot wound have been killed in a car crash. Police say officers were called to the location of a crash involving a Nissan and a Memphis Police Department squad car at about 3 a.m. Friday. Police said
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer The Justice Department sued TikTok on Friday, accusing the company of violating children’s online privacy law and running afoul of a settlement it had reached with another federal agency. The complaint, filed together with the Federal Trade Commission in a California federal court, comes as the U.S. and the prominent social media
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A charter bus caught fire early Friday as it was transporting a professional baseball team from Iowa to a game in a Chicago suburb. Members of the Sioux City Explorers made it off the bus safely, although several lost their gloves when the overhead bins melted. The fire started as the bus approached
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By Ruta Ulcinaite Click here for updates on this story ST. CLAIR SHORES, Michigan (WXYZ) — A 21-year-old St. Clair Shores man spends his free time cleaning up after his community and asks for nothing in return. All he would like to see is people clean up after themselves and spread a little positivity in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — LGBTQ+ athletes, officials and observers have warned that a deluge of hateful comments misidentifying a female boxer in the Paris Olympics as transgender or a man could pose dangers for the LGBTQ+ community and female athletes. Famous figures like former U.S. President Donald Trump and “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican army has acknowledged for the first time that some of its soldiers have been killed by drug cartel bomb-dropping drones. The defense secretary did not provide exact figures on the number of casualties suffered in the attacks, which apparently occurred in the western state of Michoacan. But Gen. Luis
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — On the other side of the Atlantic from Wall Street, a market more wholesome than cutthroat has sprung up at the Paris Olympics. The commodity at the center of it all? Pins. The city has seen an influx of collectors from all over the world, each eager to begin or
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By Ethan Cohen and Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris has won enough votes from Democratic delegates to win the party’s nomination for president, Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison announced Friday. Harris will become the first Black woman and first Asian American to lead a major-party ticket. The announcement came during a virtual
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WBZ By Mike Sullivan Click here for updates on this story NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A Haverhill man spent a decade barely able to speak following a partial laryngectomy to battle cancer. He can now speak thanks to the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. He became just the third person in the U.S. to receive a
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By Mike Sullivan Click here for updates on this story NEWBURYPORT, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A Haverhill man spent a decade barely able to speak following a partial laryngectomy to battle cancer. He can now speak thanks to the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. He became just the third person in the U.S. to receive a larynx
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By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN (CNN) — Patrick Morrissey had never rowed a day in his life when he decided to take part in a 41-day journey to traverse 2,800 miles across the Pacific Ocean in a boat powered only by human muscles. Living with Parkinson’s disease, he’s used to having moments that challenge him, but
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By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — When Pete Buttigieg launched his presidential bid in the spring of 2019, he acknowledged that — at least on paper — he didn’t strike the image of a winning candidate. “I recognize the audacity of doing this as a Midwestern millennial mayor,” he told the crowd in his hometown
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La boxeadora argelina Imane Khelif está en el centro de una agria polémica sobre su elegibilidad para participar en los Juegos Olímpicos después de que una rival abandonara un combate en sólo 46 segundos. Khelif, peso wélter ligero de 25 años, asestó un fuerte primer puñetazo en el combate del jueves
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Las integrantes del equipo egipcio de voleibol de playa femenino se han pronunciado en contra de la prohibición de que las atletas usen hijab después de competir en un partido olímpico de voleibol de playa con ropa modesta. Marwa Abdelhady y Doaa Elghobashy representaron a Egipto en los Juegos Olímpicos de París
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota voters will decide in November whether to eliminate property taxes. The change would be a first for a state and a major move. Officials estimate it would require more than $1 billion every year in replacement revenue from the state. Former Republican state Rep. Rick Becker is
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