By John Branch, CNN A gigantic python is captured, an eagle mom decides to adopt, and illegal motorcycles are crushed. These are the must-watch videos of the week. A record-breaking python is caught Biologists caught an 18-foot long, 215-pound python, the biggest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida. Swim coach saves swimmer who fainted underwater American swimmer
Continue ReadingBy Carma Hassan, Jacqueline Howard and Jen Christensen, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration has ordered Juul Labs Inc. products to be removed from the US market as the agency issued marketing denial orders for its vaping devices and pods. “As a result, the company must stop selling and distributing these products. In addition,
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Clearly, this isn’t your father’s RadioShack. The zombie retailer’s Twitter account contains a stream of explicit comments, vulgarities and a bunch of drug references. Many companies have edgy social media presences, but not like this. So what’s going on? RadioShack is trying to sell you cryptocurrency — with an attitude.
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TODAY: Decaying showers and storms will move overhead this morning, and linger into the afternoon. The added cloud cover and rainfall will keep temperatures cooler this afternoon. Temperatures likely top out in the upper 80s Friday afternoon. TONIGHT: Late this afternoon, and into the evening, rain will dry up, and skies will clear for a
Continue ReadingBy Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Americans are cutting back at the gas pump — and not just the amount of fuel they put in their tanks. Consumers are also changing the way they fill their grocery bags with rest-stop food and other essentials. The trigger: soaring inflation. The average price of gas is hovering around
Continue ReadingRachel Fadem, CNN | Ken Olshansky, CNN and Emmet Lyons, CNN The past two years have been a whirlwind for Japanese Breakfast’s lead vocalist Michelle Zauner. She’s headlined music festivals, performed on Saturday Night Live, landed two Grammy nominations and her 2021 memoir, “Crying in H Mart,” is a New York Times bestseller and is
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Fox, CNN Thursday night, both Sens. Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer had reason to celebrate. After decades of inaction on gun legislation, the two men were able to achieve something that neither had imagined possible just weeks before: a compromise on gun safety legislation brokered by four members they’d each given their blessing
Continue ReadingBy Leah Asmelash, CNN Arthur Ashe may have been most known for his tennis success, but it was his activism that set him apart off the court. When not winning major tennis championships and breaking barriers in one of the most lily-white sports at the time, Ashe was a vocal advocate for civil rights, even
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Harlan, CNN Through the entirety of a five-course dinner, three NBA stars said little about basketball. There was barely a mention of an NBA title the Golden State Warriors had won the night before; no talk of which jersey they’d wear next season; hardly a word about a likely induction into the sport’s
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN Covid patients aren’t directly overwhelming hospitals right now, but ripple effects of the pandemic are keeping beds full and patients away from the care they need. Most nursing homes are limiting new patients because of staffing shortages, driving the average hospital stay up to be longer than it was pre-pandemic. In
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, Kristin Wilson and Annie Grayer, CNN President Joe Biden will sign a bipartisan bill to address gun violence into law Saturday before departing for Europe, the White House announced Friday. The bill amounts to the first major federal gun safety legislation in decades and marks a significant bipartisan breakthrough on one of
Continue ReadingBy Claire Colbert and Michelle Watson, CNN A black bear in Sevierville, Tennessee, died after it got into an unlocked car in search of food, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency said Thursday in a news release. Sevierville is about 30 miles from Knoxville in East Tennessee, just north of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Thinking of traveling to Europe next summer? If so, get ready to pay a fee before you enter. The European Union has announced the launch of its long-awaited visa waiver plan. Under the new system, EU residents are exempt and have the freedom to spend as much time as they want
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN A tiny spacecraft with big implications for lunar exploration has launched. The miniscule satellite, called a CubeSat, is about the size of a microwave oven and weighs just 55 pounds (25 kilograms), but it will be the first to test out a unique, elliptical lunar orbit. The CubeSat will act as
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Business Two people died this week when a Nio electric car crashed to the ground from the third floor of a parking lot in Shanghai. One member of Nio’s staff and an employee from a partner company were killed in the accident, the Chinese electric carmaker said in a statement Thursday.
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN It’s finally here: the end of fee-free travel to the European Union. The EU has announced the launch of its long-awaited visa waiver scheme, ETIAS, to debut in May 2023. While ETIAS is not the same as a visa — it is quicker, done online, and requires no biometric information — there
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Chen and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Los Angeles police are searching for a suspect who was caught on surveillance video assaulting an Asian man earlier this week, authorities said. Video footage released by police shows the suspect using his elbow to strike the victim in the face while the two were outside a storefront
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Missouri senators have two different views on the proposed bipartisan gun bill in the senate.
Continue ReadingBy Raja Razek and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN A North Texas school district has updated its dress code for the upcoming school year to ban hooded clothing as well as dresses and skirts for many of its grade levels, reasoning that the change will help students in their future careers. The bans quickly elicited a backlash
Continue ReadingBy Heather Chen, CNN Shocking images have emerged from New Zealand showing millions of once-velvety brown sea sponges bleached bone white, the worst mass bleaching event of its type ever recorded, marine scientists say. The alarming discovery comes amid a continued rise in ocean temperatures, a trend that scientists say is overwhelmingly due to planet-warming
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