By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Counties in the San Francisco Bay Area will start easing their requirements for people to wear masks inside many public spaces. A group of eight counties in the region said Thursday that the rules will be dropped when overall vaccination rates are above 80% and
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By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Counties in the San Francisco Bay Area will start easing their requirements for people to wear masks inside many public spaces. A group of eight counties in the region said Thursday that the rules will be dropped when overall vaccination rates are above 80% and
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN Brittany Walters made a promise to her mother the day she passed away from cancer: Brittany and her father would go to homecoming, where the high school senior was nominated for queen. Her mom, A.J. Walters, an administrator at Mississippi’s Forrest County Agricultural High School, never missed anything when she was
Continue ReadingBy SABRINA SILVA Click here for updates on this story ROSWELL, Georgia (WGCL) — Rain has been coming down hard across metro-Atlanta over the last couple of days, and its impact is being seen on the Chattahoochee River. The wet weather has caused the E. Coli levels in the water to register five times higher
Continue Reading By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A senior U.S. official says the number of U.S.-bound Haitian migrants temporarily stuck in northern Colombia has risen to about 20,000. That echoes reports this week from a local human rights organization. The official, who briefed reporters on condition he not be named, said
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By The Associated Press The Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills are meeting at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday night in a rematch of last year’s AFC championship game. The Chiefs are coming off a win in Philadelphia where their offense got humming and their much-maligned defense showed a bit of improvement. The Bills are riding
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Images captured by the Perseverance rover have allowed scientists to peer back in time at what Mars was like billions of years ago. Jezero Crater, the rover’s exploration site on Mars, was a quiet lake 3.7 billion years ago. A small river fed into the lake, sometimes leading to flash flooding
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Images captured by the Perseverance rover have allowed scientists to peer back in time at what Mars was like billions of years ago. Jezero Crater, the rover’s exploration site on Mars, was a quiet lake 3.7 billion years ago. A small river fed into the lake, sometimes leading to flash flooding
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Hall of Fame football player and coach Mike Ditka. Personal Birth date: October 18, 1939 Birth place: Carnegie, Pennsylvania Birth name: Michael Keller Dyczko Jr. Father: Michael Ditka Sr., steel mill worker and railroad union organizer Mother: Charlotte (Keller) Ditka Marriages: Diana (Trantham) Ditka (July
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Aunque los hispanos representan un nivel desproporcionado de infecciones por VIH en Estados Unidos, tienen menos probabilidades que otros grupos de que conozcan o reciban una referencia para medicamentos que pueden ayudar a prevenir la infección, según una investigación publicada este jueves por los Centros para el Control y Prevención
Continue Reading By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Noomi Rapace flew into Iceland to film “Lamb” on a Sunday and on Monday morning, she was literally delivering baby lambs on camera. It was an appropriately intense and bizarre start for what is certainly an intense and bizarre film in which a childless couple, María (Rapace) and Ingvar
Continue Reading By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s attorney general says a civil rights complaint has been filed against a woman accused of telling a Black child who accidentally broke her son’s toy that she would “kneel on his neck” and calling him a racial slur. Attorney General John Formella said in
Continue ReadingBy MARIYA MURROW, IYANI HUGHES Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — Attorneys for the family of a student tragically killed by an elevator at an Atlanta apartment complex are pleading for the return of GoFundMe money they claim was collected by Champion Prep Academy for funeral expenses, but was never handed
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Tras décadas de investigación y millones de muertes por malaria, la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) recomendó el uso generalizado de la primera vacuna pediátrica contra la malaria en el mundo. Esta es la única vacuna contra la malaria del mundo para niños de África subsahariana y otras
Continue Reading By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A ruling by a local Israeli court in favor of a Jewish man who prayed quietly at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site has angered Muslim authorities, who say it violates the fragile arrangement governing the compound. The Al-Aqsa mosque compound is the third holiest site in Islam
Continue ReadingBy ROB POLANSKY, DENNIS VALERA Click here for updates on this story WATERBURY, Connecticut (WFSB) — A 14-year-old boy was shot in the back overnight while inside a home in Waterbury. Police Chief Fernando Spagnolo said it was part of a string of three shootings detectives believe are connected. Spagnolo released more details about the
Continue Reading By AMY TAXIN Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — More than five days after an offshore pipeline ruptured off the Southern California coast, there’s still no confirmation of exactly how much oil has spilled into the ocean. The company operating the affected oil platforms has said publicly that no more than 126,000 gallons leaked.
Continue ReadingBy KPTV Staff Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — The Portland Police Bureau and Crime Stoppers of Oregon are asking for the public’s help in solving a deadly shooting that occurred eight years ago. On Oct. 7, 2013, at about 2 p.m., officers responded to a shooting in the 9500
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Las eliminatorias sudamericanas rumbo al Mundial de Qatar 2022 inician una triple jornada que puede ser clave para varias selecciones que aspiran a un lugar en la cita máxima del fútbol. Este jueves se jugará la fecha 11, con la visita del cómodo líder Brasil a Venezuela, que marcha último,
Continue Reading TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Health officials are frustrated that many school boards remain reluctant to adopt mask mandates, even though most COVID-19 outbreaks in Kansas schools are occurring in districts without such requirements. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Wednesday that Kansas has 68 active school clusters, down from 79 a week ago.
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