By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Government statistics aren’t always inclusive and little data is currently collected on the LGBTQ+ community. But that might change as soon as next month. The Census Bureau wants to begin including questions about sexual orientation and gender identity in one of its surveys, according to a Federal Register notice filed
Continue ReadingBy WGCL Staff Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — A two-week multi-jurisdictional operation named “Operation Not Forgotten 2021” lead to the recover of 20 children in metro Atlanta area. 16 of those children were suspected victims of sex trafficking. Numerous federal, state and local agencies, including the Georgia Attorney General’s Office,
Continue ReadingBy WALA Staff Click here for updates on this story MONTGOMERY, Alabama (WALA) — Governor Kay Ivey on Thursday will host a ceremonial bill signing for legislation passed during the 2021 Regular Session. The following bills will be ceremonially signed by the governor: • House Bill 322 – This bill, sponsored by Rep. Danny Crawford,
Continue ReadingDonald Trump’s lawyer and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani had his law license suspended in the state of New York. CNN’s Elie Honig explains why.
Continue ReadingWith a growing number of Covid-19 vaccinations administered in the US, many Americans have reemerged into public spaces after over a year of isolation. CNN Opinion contributors share their experiences venturing out in this new “normal.” I sang again, and all is as it should be By David M. Perry It’s a warm Minnesota night
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Victoria’s Secret’s brand image was in tatters, and its owner finally had an escape route. In February 2020, L Brands, the publicly-traded parent of Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works, struck a $525 million deal with private equity firm Sycamore Partners to give up its majority stake in Victoria’s
Continue ReadingBy WALA Staff Click here for updates on this story Spanish Fort, Alabama (WALA) — The Spanish Fort Police department released video of the “Tighty Whitey Bandit ”. According to the Spanish Fort Police the video shows a man with underwear on his head pulling vehicle door handles attempting to enter the vehicles. The video
Continue ReadingOpinion by Frida Ghitis From the moment Joe Biden announced he would run for the White House, he made it clear the driving motivation behind his presidency would be strengthening America’s commitment to democratic norms, under assault from forces foreign and domestic. As President, Biden has repeatedly asserted that fortifying democracy is a top priority
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen, CNN New polls released Thursday show just how far Republicans were willing to go to support then-President Donald Trump’s unprecedented efforts to subvert the 2020 election. The research was conducted by the Democracy Fund, a nonpartisan foundation that studies voter attitudes toward democratic institutions and works to strengthen democracy in the US.
Continue ReadingBy Chauncey Alcorn, CNN Business The grand opening for rapper and activist Michael “Killer Mike” Render’s Greenwood banking platform has been postponed a second time, the company confirmed on Wednesday. In March, Greenwood co-founder Ryan Glover told CNN Business that the Black and Latinx-owned digital banking company’s planned early 2021 launch date was pushed back
Continue ReadingOpinion by Kara Alaimo On Wednesday, Britney Spears told a judge she’s “traumatized” and “angry” because she can’t make key decisions about her life and asked for a court-established conservatorship to be abolished. Under the conservatorship, her father, Jamie Spears, has exerted control over her personal life since 2013 (other than during a 2019 break
Continue ReadingBy Paula Newton and Nicole Chavez, CNN At least 751 unmarked graves have been found on the grounds of the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Canada, the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan says. The discovery was made in the days after Indigenous leaders began radar searching the school grounds on June 1, Cowessess Chief
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden said Thursday he has agreed to a deal on infrastructure with a bipartisan group of senators after White House officials and the senators had a massive breakthrough the night before in their infrastructure negotiations. Both Republican and Democratic senators said Wednesday evening there was an
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By Megan Marples, CNN Dinosaurs may have given birth and lived year-round in the Artic, a new study revealed. Researchers found fossil evidence of at least seven species of dinosaurs reproducing at the Prince Creek Formation in northern Alaska. While the scientists didn’t find nests or eggshells, they did find dinosaur embryos and just-hatched babies,
Continue ReadingBy Pedram Javaheri and Hannah Gard, CNN An extraordinary heat wave is taking shape this weekend, potentially unlike any other the Northwest US has experienced. As temperatures surge into the triple digits, Seattle could feel more like Las Vegas, while Portland could experience Phoenix-level warmth in an area where having air conditioning isn’t always the
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Brandon Tensley, CNN A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Race Deconstructed newsletter. To get it in your inbox every week, sign up for free here. Recently, I posted a story on Instagram about Sarah Schulman’s superlative new book, “Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993,”
Continue ReadingAnalysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Ask any national Republican who their best candidate is to beat freshman Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly (D) in 2022 and the name that you’ll likely hear the most is Doug Ducey. Which makes sense! Ducey is the governor of the state — elected in 2014 and reelected easily in
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Business and Kevin Liptak, CNN The Biden administration extended the federal ban on evictions that was set to expire at the end of June by a month. This is intended to be the final extension of the eviction moratorium, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which issued
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — Los esfuerzos para salvar a la población de demonios de Tasmania en peligro de extinción de Australia llevaron a la aniquilación de miles de aves marinas en una isla en el mar de Tasmania, según ambientalistas locales. Varios marsupiales fueron trasladados a María Island frente a la costa este de Tasmania
Continue Reading By Megan Marples, CNN Dinosaurs may have given birth and lived year-round in the Artic, a new study revealed. Researchers found fossil evidence of at least seven species of dinosaurs reproducing at the Prince Creek Formation in northern Alaska. While the scientists didn’t find nests or eggshells, they did find dinosaur embryos and just-hatched babies,
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