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The Copa America, South America’s premier football competition, due to kick off June 13 in the Brazilian capital of Brasilia, is triggering a wave of strong reactions for a sporting event. The tournament was originally to be joint-hosted by Argentina and Colombia, but the organizers decided to pull it first from Colombia, due to the
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Police are looking for two gunmen in a shooting in Chicago early Saturday that sent 10 people to the hospital, where one woman died. People were standing on a sidewalk in the city’s South Side when two men approached and opened fire, police said. The woman who was killed, 29, was shot in the abdomen
Continue ReadingDozens of cases of whiskey sit on the ground floor of the James E. Pepper Distillery in Lexington, Kentucky, ready to be shipped — but, because President Joe Biden hasn’t moved to end trade disputes started under former President Donald Trump, none of it will be going to thirsty customers overseas. Owner Amir Peay had
Continue ReadingEditor’s note: This story was originally published for CNN on April 13, 2017. A century after the end of the Civil War, more than a dozen states still had laws on the books banning interracial marriage. Enter Mildred and Richard Loving, a Virginia couple whose June 12, 1967 Supreme Court ruling dealt a major blow
Continue Reading Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari acknowledged Saturday the increased violence by armed groups in the northeast of the country and vowed to “soon bring some of these culprits to justice.” “In the last two years we have witnessed and overcome a good number of tests and challenges” that are “especially related to our collective security,” Buhari
Continue ReadingThe maker of the iconic aluminum travel trailer is jumping into the off-road van business with the Interstate 24X.
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The US is reopening far and wide just in time for the summer, a sign that millions are ready to get their life back. But the loosening of restrictions come as new Covid-19 vaccination rates decrease from spring highs, leaving some areas vulnerable to potential pandemic hotspots and risking the progress the nation has made.
Continue ReadingPrices are rising rapidly in every corner of the economy as it emerges from the pandemic. But some areas are bucking that trend. Medical care inflation was lower than 1% in the 12 months ending in May, the smallest increase since March 1941, when Franklin D. Roosevelt was president. In the month of May 2021
Continue Reading Dallas police are investigating a shooting that injured five people Friday, including a 4-year-old girl. Around 4:45 p.m., police responded to reports of shooting among two groups of people “involved in a disturbance regarding an unknown matter,” police said in a website post. The child was taken to Children’s Medical Center and is in stable condition, police
Continue Reading A Cape Cod lobster diver is safe Friday, following a fluke encounter with a humpback whale that nearly made him the leviathan’s lunch. Michael Packard was diving off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, Friday, when the capital cetacean caught him unawares. “I got down to about 45 feet of water, and all of a sudden
Continue ReadingThe nation’s infrastructure is sorely in need of repair. It recently earned a C- score from the American Society of Civil Engineers, which said an additional $2.6 trillion in funding is required over the next decade. President Joe Biden is pitching his plan as an investment to benefit communities of color, rural Americans and others
Continue Reading At least 13 people were injured early Saturday morning in a shooting in downtown Austin, Texas, officials said. Two of the people injured are in critical condition, Austin Interim Chief of Police Joseph Chacon said at a news briefing Saturday. Six people were taken to a hospital by the Austin Police Department, and the Austin-Travis
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are not currently expected to hold a joint press conference following their high-stakes summit in Geneva, Switzerland, next week, two US officials familiar with the matter said. The final plans are still being formulated, and could change. But officials putting together the day’s events said that as
Continue ReadingThe US is reopening far and wide just in time for the summer, a sign that millions are ready to get their life back. But the loosening of restrictions come as new Covid-19 vaccination rates decrease from spring highs, leaving some areas vulnerable to potential pandemic hotspots and risking the progress the nation has made.
Continue Reading Soon after the coronavirus began spreading in the United States, it became clear that the pandemic would hit parts of Indian Country hard. But as they emerge from the worst of the crisis, several tribal nations have seen one positive trend unfold: An increase in population. The Navajo Nation saw its numbers of enrolled citizens
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(CNN) — Los Premios Pulitzer reconocen algunos de los trabajos periodísticos más importantes del año. En esta edición, una persona que no es periodista profesional, pero cuyas acciones tuvieron tanta repercusión como si lo hubiera sido, se encuentra entre los galardonados. Darnella Frazier, que filmó la muerte de George Floyd, recibió una mención especial, según
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El Ministerio Público de Nicaragua informó este viernes que la justicia determinó que Violeta Granera y José Pallais, dirigentes de la opositora Coalición Nacional, permanecerán detenidos durante 90 días mientras se amplía la investigación que se les sigue. La Fiscalía dijo en un comunicado que a ambos se les investiga por «contar
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — La audiencia para determinar si se revoca la orden de comparecencia con restricciones por prisión preventiva que se dictó contra la candidata presidencial Keiko Fujimori se llevará a cabo el 21 de junio a las 4 de la tarde, hora de Miami, según dio a conocer la Corte Superior Nacional de Justicia
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden’s attempts to talk up democracy in Europe this week are facing headwinds from back home, where revelations about the Justice Department’s attempts to obtain Democrats’ data have raised new concerns about the state of American politics. Throughout his time here, Biden is making the case to American allies that democracy must prevail
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For most of us, the pandemic has meant enforced solitude. But for others, it’s been the chance to go searching for that solitude. And where better to do so than in the Arctic Circle? In fact, Valentina Miozzo went one step further. She moved to the far north of Norway — within the Arctic Circle
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