By LORI HINNANT Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The beliefs of the U.S. far-right extremist movement QAnon are finding a foothold abroad – especially the tenet that government workers are part of a cabal of child traffickers. A young French mother who lost custody of her daughter blamed the child protective services that gave her
Continue Reading DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — After 40 drawings without a big Powerball winner, a single ticket sold in California matched all six numbers and was the lucky winner of the nearly $700 million jackpot prize. The winning numbers drawn Monday night were 12, 22, 54, 66 and 69. The Powerball was 15. The Powerball jackpot
Continue Readingolivertapia Washington (CNN) — Casey DeSantis, la esposa del gobernador de Florida, Ron DeSantis, fue diagnosticada con cáncer de mama, anunció el gobernador el lunes. “Como madre de tres niños pequeños, Casey es la pieza central de nuestra familia y ha tenido un impacto en la vida de innumerables floridanos a través de sus iniciativas
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — After 40 drawings without a big Powerball winner, a single ticket sold in California matched all six numbers and was the lucky winner of the nearly $700 million jackpot prize. The winning numbers drawn Monday night were 12, 22, 54, 66 and 69. The Powerball was 15. The Powerball jackpot
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN Business) — La exempleada de Facebook cuyas filtraciones provocaron uno de los escrutinios más intensos en la historia de la compañía reveló su identidad el domingo por la noche. Frances Haugen, ex gerente de productos de Facebook que también ha trabajado en varias otras grandes empresas de tecnología, apareció en público en el
Continue Reading By SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A prominent rights group says the Taliban unlawfully killed 13 ethnic Hazaras, most of them Afghan soldiers who had surrendered to the insurgents. A report Tuesday by Amnesty International says the killings took place in late August in central Afghanistan, about two weeks after the Taliban
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By Rebekah Riess and Kelly McCleary, CNN Louisiana is launching a sheltering program for those “currently living in unsafe or unsanitary” conditions due to damage from Hurricane Ida, which slammed into the Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm more than five weeks ago, officials said Monday. The Hurricane Ida Sheltering Program will provide temporary
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis S. Collins, says he’s stepping down by the end of the year. Collins has led the research center for 12 years and has become a familiar face in the news media during the coronavirus pandemic. The 71-year-old physician-geneticist tells The Washington Post
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By Laura He and Charles Riley, CNN Business Stocks in the United States and Europe steadied on Tuesday after Asian markets were rattled overnight by fears of a potential US default, trouble in China’s massive property market and rising oil prices. US stock futures advanced and European markets opened with small gains. Nasdaq futures were
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By Amir Vera, CNN The pristine beaches and beautiful wildlife in Southern California are now suffering after a weekend oil spill that responders and environmental officials say will take months, if not years, to clean up. More than 100,000 gallons of oil has spewed into the Pacific Ocean, coating local wildlife habitats, shutting down a
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By Madeline Holcombe, Eric Levenson, Amir Vera and Cheri Mossburg, CNN An anchor hooking an oil pipeline may have caused the Southern California spill that spewed more than 100,000 gallons of oil into the Pacific Ocean, the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration said in a notice to operation owner Amplify Energy. “The pipeline
Continue Reading By MARK THIESSEN and BECKY BOHRER Associated Press TANACROSS, Alaska (AP) — Alaska is experiencing one of the nation’s sharpest upticks in COVID-19 infections, and it’s worsened by a limited health care system that largely relies on hospitals in its biggest city. Many of the state’s hospitals are overwhelmed with patients, including in Anchorage. And
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By MARK THIESSEN and BECKY BOHRER Associated Press TANACROSS, Alaska (AP) — Alaska is experiencing one of the nation’s sharpest upticks in COVID-19 infections, and it’s worsened by a limited health care system that largely relies on hospitals in its biggest city. Many of the state’s hospitals are overwhelmed with patients, including in Anchorage. And
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Puede que Donald Trump esté esperando para anunciar su (al parecer inevitable) candidatura para su viejo puesto en 2024, pero ya está lanzando disparos de advertencia hacia un posible rival a la nominación. Cuando le preguntaron por la posibilidad de enfrentarse al gobernador republicano de Florida Ron DeSantis en 2024, Trump
Continue Reading By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press DULAC, La. (AP) — Destruction caused by Hurricane Ida has people in south Louisiana debating whether they want to relocate — and where thy might go. The storm hit on Aug. 29. That was 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina blasted the Mississippi and Louisiana coasts and led
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By Taylor Romine, CNN The family of Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose cells have been used for groundbreaking scientific research for decades, filed a lawsuit Monday against Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. for unjust enrichment from the nonconsensual use and profiting from her tissue sample and cell line. Lacks, a Black woman diagnosed with cervical cancer,
Continue Reading By BRIAN MELLEY, MATTHEW BROWN and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Records show the U.S. Coast Guard received a report of a possible Southern California oil spill more than 12 hours before a pipeline company reported it and the Coast Guard launched a cleanup effort. State reports reviewed Monday by The
Continue Reading By BRIAN MELLEY, MATTHEW BROWN and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Records show the U.S. Coast Guard received a report of a possible Southern California oil spill more than 12 hours before a pipeline company reported it and the Coast Guard launched a cleanup effort. State reports reviewed Monday by The
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By Sarah Dean, CNN Taliban forces unlawfully killed 13 ethnic Hazaras — including nine surrendering former government soldiers and a 17-year-old girl — in Afghanistan’s Daykundi province on August 30, according to a new investigation by Amnesty International. Since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and subsequent Taliban takeover there has been concern that long-persecuted ethnic
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes (CNN Español) — Una familia de Virginia está tratando de procesar cómo su hija de 10 años pasó de estar perfectamente sana a morir por covid-19 en cinco días. Mientras procesan su pérdida abrupta y profunda, su mensaje a quienes no creen en el covid-19 es simple y directo: tengan compasión por los
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