By Denise Royal, Carlos Suarez and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Florida’s Board of Governors voted Friday to approve the use of results from the Classic Learning Test, or CLT, in college admissions. The approval makes Florida the first state university system to accept the SAT and ACT alternative, the New York Times reported.
Continue Reading By Jessica Xing, CNN (CNN) — Veterans’ constitutional rights continue to be violated in two of New Jersey’s state-run veterans nursing homes after a lack of basic hygiene and infection control in the facilities allowed Covid-19 to spread “virtually unchecked” in the pandemic’s early days, according to a Justice Department report released Thursday. The Justice
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Record-breaking rainfall paralyzed much of Hong Kong on Friday, with flash flooding submerging metro stations and trapping drivers on roads, as authorities suspended schools and urged the public to seek safe shelter. Photos and videos showed residents wading through murky brown floodwaters as heavy rain continued to
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CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When the Perseverance rover landed on Mars in February 2021, it wasn’t alone. In addition to the Ingenuity helicopter, the rover carried a suite of science instruments designed to search for ancient signs of life. And tucked in its chassis, Percy also had MOXIE — the Mars Oxygen
Continue Reading By Virginia Langmaid, CNN (CNN) — Multiple structural issues led to the partial collapse of an apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, in May, that killed three people, according to report released Thursday. Commissioned by the city and completed by Iowa engineering firms White Birch Group and SOCOTEC Engineering, the report identified improper support for an
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Senior NASA officials say that the agency’s Space Launch System — the massive rocket designed to propel its ambitious Artemis program to establish a base on the moon — is “unaffordable,” according to a report Thursday from the US Government Accountability Office. The report, which breaks down SLS program expenditures,
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon and Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea claims to have launched a new “Korean-style” tactical nuclear attack submarine that it says heralds “the beginning of a new chapter” for its navy. But analysts say those claims should be taken with a large pinch of salt, with South Korean
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The first experiment to produce oxygen on another planet has come to an end on Mars after exceeding NASA’s initial goals and demonstrating capabilities that could help future astronauts explore the red planet. The microwave-size device called MOXIE, or Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, is on the Perseverance
Continue Reading By Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — A federal grand jury has indicted 21 people in connection to dogfighting and drug trafficking, Indiana authorities announced Thursday. The charging allegations include armed fentanyl trafficking, cocaine trafficking, methamphetamine trafficking, money laundering and participation in an animal-fighting venture, said US Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana Zachary Myers
Continue Reading By Holly Yan, Holmes Lybrand, Rashard Rose and Adrienne Winston, CNN (CNN) — Authorities have released new details about how a fugitive managed to escape police custody and dart out of a hospital in Washington, DC – with a handcuff on one wrist. Police are searching for Christopher Haynes, 30, who is suspected of killing
Continue Reading By Claudia Colliva, Chris Liakos and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Paris (CNN) — France’s highest court on Thursday upheld the government’s ban on students in public schools from wearing the abaya, a long, robe-like garment often worn by Muslim women, in a decision that rights groups warn will lead to more discrimination. “As things stand, the
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s some background information about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Facts The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was created in 1978. It exists to oversee and authorize activities carried out under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA). About the Court Before the Patriot Act (2001), foreign intelligence had to
Continue Reading By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — California lawmakers have cleared a bill that would explicitly ban caste discrimination in the state, sending it to the governor’s desk for signature. State senators passed a bill on Tuesday that specifies caste as a subset of ancestry in the state’s civil rights statutes, which would give residents legal
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso and Caroll Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Miami-Dade police investigators are searching for a cruise passenger who was last seen aboard a Carnival Cruise Line ship on Labor Day, authorities in Florida and the passenger’s sister said “Kevin McGrath, 26 years old, was last seen in the area of Port of Miami,” a
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look into the life of musician and songwriter Bruce Springsteen. Personal Birth date: September 23, 1949 Birth place: Freehold, New Jersey Birth name: Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen Father: Douglas Springsteen, bus driver Mother: Adele (Zerilli) Springsteen, legal secretary Marriages: Patti Scialfa (June 8, 1991-present); Julianne Phillips (May 13,
Continue Reading By Krupskaia Alís and Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — Mexico seems set to elect its first female president in next year’s election after the country’s leading parties both unveiled women candidates. Ruling party Morena said Wednesday that Claudia Sheinbaum will be its nominee for the 2024 general election. She is set to take on Senator
Continue Reading By Chris Liakos and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — More than 800 people have been rescued over the past two days from severe floods in Greece, local officials said, after extreme rainfall turned streets into deadly rivers, tore down buildings and bridges and left whole villages submerged. The rainstorms also hit neighboring Bulgaria and Turkey,
Continue Reading By Jennifer Henderson, CNN (CNN) — An adult grizzly bear with “a history of conflict” was euthanized Saturday after breaking into a home through a kitchen window while with a cub and taking a container of dog food, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks said in a news release. With permission from the US Fish &
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — During this summer of dangerous, record-shattering heat almost no one on Earth escaped climate change-fueled temperatures, a new analysis has found. Researchers from climate research group Climate Central mapped the influence of climate change on temperatures in more than 200 countries and territories. They found that between June and
Continue Reading By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — The inaugural Africa Climate Summit drew to a close on Wednesday, with the host, Kenya’s president William Ruto, saying that a total of $23 billion had been pledged to green projects by governments, investors, development banks and philanthropists. The summit, which focussed on driving green growth and climate finance
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