By Sandee LaMotte, CNN America is in celebratory mode. States are dropping Covid-19 restrictions, plane travel is breaking records, and many Americans are gearing up to celebrate summer as if the last year plus of pandemic madness never happened. “Many people are experiencing a relief. They’ve been vaccinated and are able to gather again with
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN America is in celebratory mode. States are dropping Covid-19 restrictions, plane travel is breaking records, and many Americans are gearing up to celebrate summer as if the last year plus of pandemic madness never happened. “Many people are experiencing a relief. They’ve been vaccinated and are able to gather again with
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN A new space telescope that could spot potentially hazardous asteroids and comets heading for Earth is one step closer to reality. The Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope, or NEO Surveyor, has been approved by NASA to move forward to the design phase. The 20-foot-long (6-meter-long) infrared telescope would bolster planetary defense
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN A new space telescope that could spot potentially hazardous asteroids and comets heading for Earth is one step closer to reality. The Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope, or NEO Surveyor, has been approved by NASA to move forward to the design phase. The 20-foot-long (6-meter-long) infrared telescope would bolster planetary defense
Continue ReadingBy Reuters staff A last-gasp addition to his team, Mark Cavendish rolled back the years as he claimed his 31st Tour de France stage victory on Tuesday — five years after his last success on the world’s greatest cycling race. The Briton, who finished outside the time limit in his previous participation in 2018, crashed
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe and Adrienne Broaddus, CNN More than 80 teens and adult staffers from a Central Illinois summer camp tested positive for Covid-19 in an outbreak that has impacted people across three states, officials said. The Crossing Camp in Schuyler County held in mid-June did not check vaccination status for campers or staffers, and
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan, CNN As countries around the Asia-Pacific region tighten restrictions once again to curb potential breakouts of the Delta coronavirus variant, Singapore has laid out a new vision for life to return to normal. The roadmap, proposed by three members of Singapore’s Covid-19 task force, would scrap lockdowns and mass contact tracing and
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Mariana Toro (CNN) — Si eres una de las más de 20 millones de personas que experimentan la ola de calor del noroeste, es posible que te preguntes cómo mantenerte fresco, especialmente si no tienes aire acondicionado o no quieres usarlo constantemente. Ciudades de EE.UU. y Canadá han informado de sus temperaturas más altas, algunas
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and Junko Ogura, CNN Japan’s Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence given to a 74-year-old serial killer, known as the “Black Widow,” for the murder of three men, including her husband, and the attempted murder of a fourth. Chisako Kakehi, reportedly received large insurance payouts after poisoning her victims with cyanide,
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN Español) — Varios miembros del Escuadrón Móvil Antidisturbios (Esmad) de la PolicÃa Nacional de Colombia fueron separados de sus cargos y funciones por «cometer un procedimiento irregular» durante los disturbios que se presentaron en Suba, al noroeste de Bogotá, en donde resultaron agredidos dos periodistas y un joven. Asà lo informó este
Continue ReadingForrest Brown and Brekke Fletcher, CNN US passport holders have more international travel options now than at any point during the Covid-19 pandemic. Total US cases are nearing the 33.6 million mark since the pandemic started, but the rate of new cases has been slowing down recently. The United States is one of the world
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Business China is in the middle of a huge power crunch as extreme weather, surging demand for energy and strict limits on coal usage deliver a triple blow to the nation’s electricity grid. It’s a problem that could last for months, straining the country’s economic recovery and weighing on global trade.
Continue ReadingBy Ben Westcott, CNN Editor’s note: CNN has launched the Meanwhile in China newsletter, a three-times-a-week update exploring what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. Sign up here. One hundred years ago this July, in a small brick house in Shanghai’s former French Concession, Mao Zedong and
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Trent, CNN The Lego Group is one step closer to reaching its goal of making all its products from sustainable material by 2030. The Danish toymaker unveiled a prototype brick made from recycled plastic. In a news release, Lego said the PET plastic from discarded bottles makes up the first brick to meet
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Trent, CNN The Lego Group is one step closer to reaching its goal of making all its products from sustainable material by 2030. The Danish toymaker unveiled a prototype brick made from recycled plastic. In a news release, Lego said the PET plastic from discarded bottles makes up the first brick to meet
Continue Reading In dispatch audio obtained by CNN from Broadcastify, a first responder describes the scene after a condo building collapsed in Surfside, Florida.
Continue ReadingBy Eliza Mackintosh, Bethlehem Feleke and Vasco Cotovio, CNN Rebel forces in the war-torn Ethiopian region of Tigray have rejected a ceasefire offer from the central government, raising fears of further violence a day after the fighters retook the regional capital Mekelle. The recapture of the city by Tigrayan fighters and the retreat of Ethiopian
Continue ReadingBy Eliza Mackintosh, Bethlehem Feleke and Vasco Cotovio, CNN Rebel forces in the war-torn Ethiopian region of Tigray have rejected a ceasefire offer from the central government, raising fears of further violence a day after the fighters retook the regional capital Mekelle. The recapture of the city by Tigrayan fighters and the retreat of Ethiopian
Continue Reading olivertapia Seúl, Corea del Sur (CNN) — Kim Jong Un despidió a varios altos funcionarios que no hicieron cumplir las rigurosas medidas de prevención por el covid-19 en Corea del Norte, un incumplimiento del deber que, según el joven dictador, tendrá «graves consecuencias» para la nación empobrecida y aislada, informaron medios estatales el miércoles. No
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN) — Dos años y medio antes de que su edificio terminara en un montón de escombros, Mara Chouela, residente de Champlain Towers South, lanzó la última de una serie de quejas airadas sobre el proyecto de construcción vecino. «Nos preocupa que la construcción junto a Surfside esté demasiado cerca», escribió Chouela, miembro
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