By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is taking steps to address the economic risks from climate change. It issued a 40-page report Friday on government-wide plans to protect the financial, insurance and housing markets and the savings of American families. The report lays out steps that could potentially alter the
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — La actriz Lili Bernard presentó este jueves una demanda contra Bill Cosby, alegando que la drogó y violó en Atlantic City en agosto de 1990 o alrededor de esa fecha, según documentos judiciales. En su demanda, Bernard alega que conoció al comediante en el set de “The Cosby Show” y
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By Natasha Bertrand and Oren Liebermann, CNN The Biden administration is grappling with how to respond to China’s ramped-up aggression against Taiwan without accidentally starting a war, as bipartisan lawmakers pressure the President to get tougher on Beijing — and fast. Internally, assessments differ over how imminent the threat to Taiwan really is. The Pentagon’s
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By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — A teenager in Liberia who has become a national hero after finding $50,000 and returning it to its rightful owner said he will meet with the country’s president next week. Emmanuel Tuloe told The Associated Press that he has been invited to meet President George Weah
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By Amy Woodyatt, CNN The moment Adele fans have been waiting for has finally arrived — the singer has released her first music in six years, dropping the single “Easy On Me” on Friday. The song, the first from a hotly anticipated album due in November, begins to do exactly what the singer promised: to
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Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Previous offerings include a yacht in the form of a swan and another devised to resemble a shark, but Lazzarini Design Studio’s latest superyacht concept may be one of its most daring yet. The Rome-based design team has just unveiled renderings of a brand new 69-meter yacht design with a “gaping hole”
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By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN When President Joe Biden tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to address the reasons people migrate to the US southern border, her focus was on addressing problems in Central America. But seven months later, it’s migrants arriving from even farther away in South America who are overwhelming the administration, leaving the White
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By Ehsan Popalzai and Mostafa Salem, CNN A suicide attack at the largest Shia mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar killed 32 people and injured at least 68 more, the government-owned Bakhtar News Agency said Friday. It is the second week running that an attack has targeted Friday prayers at a Shia mosque.
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Los muertos tras un atentado suicida contra una mezquita chiita en Kandahar ascendieron al menos a 32, mientras que 68 son los heridos, según la agencia de noticias gubernamental Bakhtar. ISIS-K se atribuyó la responsabilidad del atentado. “Funcionarios del Emirato Islámico de Afganistán en Kandahar han dicho que 32 personas perdieron
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By Jason Hanna, CNN Just weeks ago, Dylan Harrison’s father tried to persuade him to leave law enforcement to be an electrician. Instead, Harrison redoubled his commitment to policing. On his first part-time shift with a new agency, Harrison was shot dead last weekend in Middle Georgia. He’d sought the second job to supplement his
Continue Reading By SAMYA KULLAB and TAMEEM AKHGAR Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Suicide bombers assaulted a Shiite mosque in southern Afghanistan that was packed with worshippers attending weekly Friday prayers, killing at least seven people and wounding more than a dozen, according to a hospital official and an eyewitness. The attack on the Imam Barga
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s daily tolls of coronavirus infections and deaths have surged to another record, a quickly mounting figure that has put a severe load on the country’s health care system. The government’s coronavirus task force on Friday reported 32,196 new confirmed coronavirus cases and 999 deaths in the
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — La comisión selecta de la Cámara de Representantes que investiga la insurrección del Capitolio está enviando un mensaje agresivo al que fuera gurú político de Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, y al propio expresidente. Pero al avanzar en la detención de Bannon, el arquitecto del populismo nacionalista de Trump, en desacato
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The first NASA mission to fly by a total of eight ancient asteroids is ready for launch. Weather conditions will be 90% favorable on the morning of October 16, when the Lucy mission is set to leave Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 5:34 a.m. ET. If it doesn’t launch at
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN The first NASA mission to fly by a total of eight ancient asteroids is ready for launch. Weather conditions will be 90% favorable on the morning of October 16, when the Lucy mission is set to leave Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 5:34 a.m. ET. If it doesn’t launch at
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Después de que los asesores de la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos de EE.UU. (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés) votaran unánimemente para recomendar la autorización de emergencia de una dosis de refuerzo de la vacuna contra el covid-19 de Moderna, otra herramienta en la lucha contra la pandemia podría
Continue Reading BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Police in Louisiana say five juveniles overpowered two guards at a detention center and escaped Thursday night. A spokesman for Baton Rouge police told news outlets that four of the juveniles took off in a vehicle and the fifth ran away. The inmate who ran was captured first. News outlets
Continue Reading THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — A bus transporting oil refinery workers has fallen into a sinkhole in the center of Greece’s second-largest city as a storm continued to batter the country. Authorities said all 15 people on the bus in Thessaloniki were unharmed. Hundreds of homes in Athens, Greece’s capital, were flooded. Major roads remained closed
Continue Readingolivertapia Londres (CNN Business) — William Shatner disparó un cohete retórico contra el príncipe William después de que el futuro rey criticara el turismo espacial. Shatner, quien llegó al espacio a principios de esta semana en uno de los cohetes del fundador de Amazon (AMZN), Jeff Bezos, dijo que la realeza británica tiene “una idea
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Protests have erupted in Italy as a new anti-coronavirus regulation took effect requiring all workers to show a health pass to enter their place of employment. Police were out in force, schools were closing early and embassies issued warnings amid concerns that anti-vaccination demonstrations could turn violent
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