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After the Australian softball team, the Ugandan Olympic team is the next international team to arrive in Japan for pre-Game camp in their host town of Izumisano City in Osaka. CNN’s Selina Wang speaks to Uganda’s first female boxer about training amid social distancing and her hopes for her first games.
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CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Considered the nation’s most important civil rights legislation since Reconstruction (1865-1877), it prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin. Following that law, US President Lyndon B. Johnson signed landmark civil rights bills
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Personal Birth date: July 3, 1971 Birth place: Townsville, Queensland, Australia Father: John Shipton Mother: Christine (Hawkins) Assange Children: with Stella Moris: Max and Gabriel Other Facts When he was a year old, his mother married Brett Assange, who adopted him.
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s some background information about active United States aircraft carriers. Ten of the active air carriers are in the Nimitz class and are the largest warships in the world. There is one active air carrier in the new Gerald R. Ford class; the USS Gerald R. Ford CVN-78, commissioned on July 22,
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Andrea Yates, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the drowning of her five children. Personal Birth date: July 2, 1964 Birth place: Houston, Texas Birth name: Andrea Pia Kennedy Father: Andrew Kennedy Mother: Jutta Karin (Koehler) Kennedy Marriage: Russell “Rusty” Yates
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A job fair will take place at the Agua Caliente Resort Casino Spa in Rancho Mirage Monday, June 21, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. It will be to fill 100 vacancies across different departments at the three casinos owned by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. The various departments include housekeeping, security, and
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of the Duchess of Cambridge, the former Catherine (Kate) Middleton. Personal Birth date: January 9, 1982 Birth place: Reading, Berkshire, England Birth name: Catherine Elizabeth Middleton Father: Michael Middleton, former airline pilot, now mail-order business owner Mother: Carole (Goldsmith) Middleton, former flight attendant Marriage: Prince
Continue ReadingBy Anneken Tappe, CNN Business The US economy has come a long way since last year’s devastating downturn. But a return to “normal” may not be possible. The Back-to-Normal Index created by CNN Business and Moody’s Analytics stands at 93% as of June 18, a new pandemic-era high. The index is comprised of 37 national and
Continue Reading Buffalo Bills wide receiver Cole Beasley, in a challenge to the National Football League’s new Covid-19 training camp and preseason protocols, tweeted that he’d rather retire than get a vaccine.
Continue ReadingBy CNN Staff It should have been a spring day most Iranians could look forward to. The trees that lined Tehran’s boulevards glistened in the sun as a gentle breeze wafted through the city. But on May 8, 2018, the capital’s residents braced themselves for a terrible reversal of fortunes. President Donald Trump was about
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN Just when you thought you were ready for a soft return to public life, this happens: An unruly plane passenger commandeers an intercom. A grocery store clerk was killed after asking a customer to pull up his mask. Countless shootings result in lives lost, others permanently changed. And that’s just in
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California Highway Patrol officials say one person died in a deadly rollover crash in Banning. It happened near the intersection of Morongo Road and Garcia Road around 3:20 a.m. There’s no word yet if there was anyone else in the vehicle or how it happened. News Channel 3 has reached out to investigators for more
Continue ReadingBy Shannon Carpenter, CNN When people ask me why I am a stay-at-home dad, I’ve usually been pretty busy. One time I was wiping dried formula off my shirt. Another time I was chasing a potty-training toddler into the wrong bathroom, and I remember another time when I was helping at the school carnival. Thirteen
Continue Reading By Sheena McKenzie, CNN Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, said she hopes “any family” will see themselves represented in the pages of her children’s book, “The Bench,” in her first interview since speaking to Oprah Winfrey in March. The Duchess said that “growing up, I remember so much how it felt to not see yourself represented,”
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi and Jason Hanna, CNN A tropical storm warning has been issued for large swaths of the North Carolina coast as Tropical Depression Claudette continues to dump heavy rain across much of the southeastern US Sunday morning. Claudette was was located about 85 miles west-southwest of Atlanta as of 5 a.m. Sunday, according
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown and Daisy Carrington, CNN Call it romance. Call it sensuality. Heck, call it old-fashioned lust if you wish. But whatever you call it, the summer solstice for 2021 is arriving — and it has a history of stirring our hearts and our libidos. The longest day of the year in the Northern
Continue Reading By Sahar Akbarzai and Hollie Silverman, CNN A Michigan police officer shot and killed a 19-year-old woman Saturday after police said she shot at the officer near a Juneteenth parade, officials said. The officer wasn’t injured. The woman, who was not identified by police, allegedly fired at a Flint Police Department officer who was working
Continue ReadingBy Becky Thompson, CNN It has been six years since Olympian Aram Mahmoud has seen his family. Mahmoud left Syria to pursue his dream of competing in badminton on the biggest stage in the world — a dream that is set to come true in Tokyo this summer. Years after making the difficult choice to
Continue ReadingBy Yong Xiong, Nectar Gan and Laura He, CNN China has administered more than 1 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses, an astonishing milestone that comes as the country rolls out an unrivaled inoculation drive. A total of 1,010,489,000 doses have been given as of Saturday, China’s National Health Commission (NHC) said in a statement. Those doses
Continue ReadingBy Jackson Dill, CNN Dangerous heat will continue on Sunday in the West but relief is finally in sight. Unfortunately, that reprieve will be brief as temperatures will rise again by next weekend. “The prolonged heat wave across the southwestern US will continue for another couple days, but a cooling trend is near,” says the
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