People working with Joe Biden’s presidential campaign repeatedly warned Facebook about violent campaign-related rhetoric on its platform during the heat of the 2020 election, but a series of email exchanges reveals how Facebook sometimes brushed them off. CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan reports.
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN The Marvel/Disney+ strategy of slowly building stories is becoming a bit of a bore with the third episode of “Loki,” a protracted escape scenario that gave fans lots of time to luxuriate in the title character — and his new variant — while doing precious little to advance the overarching
Continue ReadingBy Keith Allen and Paul LeBlanc, CNN The top Democratic Party official in Texas on Wednesday blasted Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent decisions to veto a portion of the state budget that funds the Texas Legislature and to convene a special legislative session next month, calling the moves “beyond shameful” as the party squares off
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By Nicole Chavez, Cheri Mossburg and Krecyte Villareal, CNN A school board in Southern California has decided to fire a basketball coach in the wake of widespread criticism after tortillas were thrown at an opposing team following a championship game last weekend. The Coronado Unified School Board voted 5-0 on Tuesday night to release JD
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Shadow Mountain Golf Club in Palm Desert is asking for the community’s help and support during a difficult time. The local golf club has been struggling financially because of the pandemic and is facing the possibility of closing, according to former general manager Jennifer Dammeyer. Shadow Mountain first opened in 1958. It was the first
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Fox, CNN Scientists investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic might be working with the wrong samples, because some early samples of the virus submitted by a Chinese researcher were deleted from a shared database, an expert in the evolution of viruses says. Jesse Bloom, a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Continue Readingjosemartinezgomez (CNN Business) — En las últimas dos décadas, un puñado de grandes empresas de tecnología se han introducido en casi todos los rincones de nuestras vidas, desde las comunicaciones y el comercio minorista hasta los servicios financieros, la atención médica y los automóviles. Los mayores críticos de las empresas las acusan de sacar a
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A fourth air-conditioned community building has been transformed into a public cooling center in Indio in order to help residents beat the heat, it was announced today. The new Indio Public Library site, located at 200 Civic Center Mall, will open from noon to 8 p.m. on Monday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN A Missouri judge blocked Medicaid expansion in the state on Wednesday, saying the ballot initiative that voters approved last year was unconstitutional. The court action stems from Republican Gov. Mike Parson’s decision last month not to expand Medicaid to roughly 275,000 low-income adults on July 1 because lawmakers did not appropriate
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden anunció este miércoles una «gran ofensiva» contra los vendedores de armas que violan las leyes existentes y dijo que su Gobierno implementará una política de «tolerancia cero» para asegurar que los comerciantes no puedan «vender muerte y caos» en las calles. «Estamos anunciando una gran ofensiva para
Continue Readingolivertapia Nueva York (CNN Business) — Abigail Disney tiene mucho que criticar sobre los multimillonarios estadounidenses, especialmente cuando heredan un montón de dinero y evitan pagar impuestos sobre la renta. Ella lo sabe: heredó un montón de dinero de su familia. Es la nieta de Roy Disney, hermano de Walt Disney. Hace dos años, Abigail
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard and Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN There’s a likely association between the mRNA Covid-19 vaccines and rare cases of heart inflammation in adolescents and young adults, but the benefits of vaccination still clearly outweigh the risks, vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention heard during a virtual meeting on Wednesday.
Continue ReadingBy Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Buckingham Palace has admitted the royal household is not diverse enough, as it releases its annual financial report. The Sovereign Grant report disclosed for the first time that the proportion of ethnic minority employees within the royal household is 8.5% — with a target of 10% by the
Continue ReadingOpinion by Lincoln Mitchell As soon as the election returns started coming in Tuesday night in New York City, it was clear things had not gone well for mayoral candidate Andrew Yang. In the first round of rank choice voting tabulations, he finished a distant fourth — after having spent much of the winter and
Continue ReadingOpinion by Ronald Zambrano Last month, Samuel Cassidy, a “disgruntled” employee, gunned down nine people at a San Jose Valley Transit Authority rail yard and then killed himself. His ex-wife told the Associated Press that Cassidy had talked about killing people at work and was viewed as unstable by his coworkers. An ex-girlfriend alleged in
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle A former Chicago bank executive is on trial in Manhattan for allegedly taking bribes from onetime Donald Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort, hoping to trade loans for a high-ranking position in the presidential administration. Stephen Calk, the former chairman and CEO of The Federal Savings Bank first indicted in 2019, is
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN Español) — En una audiencia pública en la corte de Los Ángeles, Britney Spears ofreció su testimonio de forma virtual —por teléfono— sobre la prolongada batalla por la tutela de su patrimonio, que quedó bajo control de su padre bajo orden de la corte en 2008. La estrella de pop de
Continue ReadingBy Devin Fehely Click here for updates on this story SAN JOSE (KPIX) — State lawmakers are scrambling to hammer out a deal to extend California’s eviction moratorium before the June 30th deadline. “In a matter of days, we could see evictions start up again for potentially hundreds of thousands of Californians who are behind
Continue Reading CNN’s Dam Simon reports from the streets of San Francisco where poverty, homelessness and rampant drug use complicate efforts to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic.
Continue Reading By Dan Simon, CNN Mark Dietrich and his neighbors didn’t know what to do with the luggage and purses they found dumped in the street. “At first, I thought it was a joke,” Dietrich said. But then, he checked the video captured by his home security camera. A car door opens, the footage shows. With
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