By Shawn Nottingham and Delano Massey, CNN Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones won’t take a position at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill without tenure, according to a letter from her legal team obtained by NC Policy Watch and confirmed by CNN. Hannah-Jones had agreed to a five-year contract with the University, but according to
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung and Clare Duffy, CNN Business Over the last two decades, a handful of large tech companies have pushed into nearly every corner of our lives — from communications and retail to financial services, healthcare and automobiles. The companies’ biggest critics accuse them of scooping up rivals, launching copycat products and, in some
Continue ReadingBy KPTV Staff Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — A man was taken to a hospital Wednesday morning after falling through a roof and into a home in southeast Portland. Just before 4 a.m., officers responded to a disturbance near Southeast 157th and Southeast Clinton. Police said a man in
Continue ReadingCNN’s Becky Anderson speaks with UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) executive director David Beasley about the developing food crisis in southern Madagascar which he says has pushed 1.14 million people “right to the very edge of starvation.” Successive droughts made worse by climate change are plaguing the African island, according to the WFP.
Continue ReadingCNN’s Becky Anderson speaks with UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) executive director David Beasley about the developing food crisis in southern Madagascar which he says has pushed 1.14 million people “right to the very edge of starvation.” Successive droughts made worse by climate change are plaguing the African island, according to the WFP.
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN As human civilization began to flourish on Earth about 5,000 years ago, 1,715 star systems within 326 light-years of Earth could have seen our planet over that time. And over the next 5,000 years, 319 more star systems will be able to see Earth. If there are exoplanets orbiting these nearby
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN As human civilization began to flourish on Earth about 5,000 years ago, 1,715 star systems within 326 light-years of Earth could have seen our planet over that time. And over the next 5,000 years, 319 more star systems will be able to see Earth. If there are exoplanets orbiting these nearby
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El pequeño Derek Pinargote García es un bebé risueño, juguetón y con ganas inquebrantables de vivir, dicen sus padres a CNN. «Es un bebé que enamora con su sonrisa. Hasta a los desconocidos les sonríe, le gusta que le conversen y que le canten también», relata Xavier Alcívar, padrastro
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN As more people get vaccinated and coronavirus infection rates drop in many parts of the world, people are traveling again in larger numbers. The European Union has announced that it is lifting restrictions for visitors from more than a dozen countries, including the United States. Cruises from the United States will
Continue ReadingKate Eshelby, CNN It’s mid-morning when three velvet-helmeted swimmers suddenly bob up from deep underneath the turquoise sea. Dazzles of light dance as kayakers swoosh oars through glacier-clear water, propelling over a kelp forest towards Nor Nour, a tiny, deserted island. It’s then the divers appear: Atlantic Grey seals just meters away, rare in many
Continue ReadingSummer traveler’s navigate Europe’s rules for travel as the pandemic continues. CNN’s Anna Stewart reports.
Continue ReadingBy Ethan Cohen and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN India Walton, a self-professed socialist and political newcomer, will defeat four-term incumbent Byron Brown in the Democratic primary for mayor of Buffalo, New York, CNN projected Wednesday. Walton, who’s likely to become Buffalo’s first female mayor, is a nurse and community organizer. She’s been endorsed by organizations like
Continue Reading By Harmeet Kaur, CNN For nearly eight decades, former Army Private Osceola “Ozzie” Fletcher’s experience in the Battle of Normandy went unrecognized. Shortly after D-Day in 1944, Fletcher was in the back of a vehicle delivering supplies to Allied troops who were off the coast of France when he and his fellow servicemembers were hit
Continue ReadingBy Stephen Borowy Click here for updates on this story Michigan (WNEM) — A Michigan law firm filed claims for more than 400 residents against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) after the Edenville Dam failure last year. The aggregate amount of the claims for the group of claimants is more than $334 million. The
Continue Reading By Nima Elbagir, Bethlehem Feleke and Larry Madowo, CNN An airstrike in Ethiopia’s war-torn northern region of Tigray killed as many as 30 people when it hit a market on Tuesday, eyewitnesses have told CNN. Two injured survivors of the attack in the small town of Togoga detailed the incident to a CNN stringer on
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Baumer Click here for updates on this story UNION, Missouri (KMOV) — A Union, Missouri man is accused of kidnapping a couple at gunpoint. The Union Fire Protection District was called to a suspicious fire at a shed in the 300 block of Echo Valley Road Saturday. When Franklin County Sheriff’s deputies arrived
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden’s closely watched summit last week with his Russian counterpart affirmed his belief that nothing can replicate a face-to-face with a tough adversary. Now, he and his aides are looking ahead to a higher-stakes encounter: a meeting with China’s Xi Jinping. White House officials say the
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The US Supreme Court said Wednesday that California cannot allow unions to enter the private property of agricultural businesses to address workers unless the businesses are compensated for the visit, in a case that could have broad property rights implications. This story is breaking and will be
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The US Supreme Court said Wednesday that the US president can remove the head of a federal agency charged with overseeing mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The court invalidated the leadership structure of the agency, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and sent a shareholder lawsuit
Continue ReadingBy Lexie Cutmore Click here for updates on this story ELMIRA, New York (WENY) — Every now and then, the CDC publishes reports of people developing extremely rare conditions after getting the COVID-19 vaccine. After getting vaccinated, one local man was diagnosed with a disease so uncommon, experts say there’s a one in a million
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