By Omar Jimenez and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN The Chicago Teachers Union is planning to convene an emergency meeting to vote on whether its teachers should move to virtual teaching amid a surge in Covid-19 cases, according to a union official, setting up a potential “electronic lockout” by the school district. Chicago Public Schools, the third-largest
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the Super Bowl, the championship game of the National Football League. February 12, 2023 – Super Bowl LVII takes place at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35. This is the first Super Bowl to feature two Black starting quarterbacks.
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Apple, Inc, creator of the Mac computer and the iPhone. Facts The corporate headquarters are in Cupertino, California. As of September 2022, the company reported that it employs approximately 164,000 people full-time. Timeline April 1, 1976 – Apple Computers, Inc. is founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
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By Sonia Moghe, CNN A 2009 settlement agreement between sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Roberts Giuffre — the woman who accused him of sexual abuse and of trafficking her to Prince Andrew and other men — was unsealed Monday. It shows that Epstein paid Giuffre $500,000 to drop the case without any admission of
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By Ally Barnard and Jennifer Hauser, CNN A large fire tore through South Africa’s parliament in Cape Town on Sunday, causing the roof of one building to collapse and gutting the chamber of the National Assembly. Images from the scene showed flames shooting out of the top of one building, sending plumes of thick black
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By Devon M. Sayers, CNN The last living parent of one of the four children killed in the terrorist bombing of an African American church in 1963 has died at 93. Maxine McNair died on Sunday, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said. McNair was the mother of Denise McNair, one of the four little girls killed
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Total lunar eclipses, a multitude of meteor showers and supermoons will light up the sky in 2022. The new year is sure to be a sky-gazer’s delight with plenty of celestial events on the calendar. There is always a good chance that the International Space Station is flying overhead. And if
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By Hannah Ryan and Niamh Kennedy, CNN Aoife Beary, one of the survivors of the 2015 Berkeley balcony collapse that killed six people, has died aged 27. She was left with life-altering injuries after the fourth-floor balcony of an apartment building in Berkeley, California collapsed and plunged 40 feet to the ground while she and
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By Sana Noor Haq and Emiko Jozuka, CNN Kane Tanaka, the world’s oldest living person, turned 119 years old on Sunday, according to a Twitter post published by her great-granddaughter, Junko Tanaka. “Great achievement. (Kane Tanaka) reached 119 years of age,” Junko tweeted, with a photograph of her great-grandmother, whom she saw in December. “I
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By Matthew Chance and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN Tensions between Ukraine and Russia are at their highest in years, with a Russian troop build-up near the two nations’ borders spurring fears that Moscow could launch an invasion. Ukraine has warned that Russia is trying to destabilize the country ahead of any planned military invasion. Western powers
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN Well, it looks like none of us are waking up as multimillionaires. No one won the weekend’s Powerball drawing, so tonight’s drawing has shot up to a massive $522 million. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN Well, it looks like none of us are waking up as multimillionaires. No one won the weekend’s Powerball drawing, so tonight’s drawing has shot up to a massive $522 million. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN Well, it looks like none of us are waking up as multimillionaires. No one won the weekend’s Powerball drawing, so tonight’s drawing has shot up to a massive $522 million. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5
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By Dakin Andone, CNN Over the weekend, at least five metro Atlanta school districts announced they would shift to remote learning for the first week of the new year as students return to school after a holiday break that saw the Omicron variant spread even further out of control. The announcements came days after six
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, CNN Over the weekend, at least five metro Atlanta school districts announced they would shift to remote learning for the first week of the new year as students return to school after a holiday break that saw the Omicron variant spread even further out of control. The announcements came days after six
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, CNN Over the weekend, at least five metro Atlanta school districts announced they would shift to remote learning for the first week of the new year as students return to school after a holiday break that saw the Omicron variant spread even further out of control. The announcements came days after six
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Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, CNN A man who was abducted as a child in China more than 30 years ago has been reunited with his parents — thanks to social media, online sleuths and a crude map drawn from memory. Li Jingwei was only 4 years old when he was kidnapped by a man he knew
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Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung and Adam Renton, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.
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