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By Zeena Saifi and Becky Anderson, CNN They’re impossible to miss. On a drive around Qatar, at every turn, it seems, a new football stadium rises out of the desert — each design offering a futuristic take on its traditional culture. One of them, located in an area that was long known for pearl diving
Continue ReadingQatar’s stadiums for the 2022 World Cup speak to its future ambitions on the world stage. Yet each, also, captures and embodies the problems and criticisms that swirl around this World Cup — notably the allegations of the human cost of massive building project.
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An independent budget review warned the Champlain Towers South condo association that its financial reserves were critically underfunded in the face of urgently needed structural repairs a little over a year before the building collapsed, a document obtained by CNN shows. CNN’s Leyla Santiago reports.
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe and Ray Sanchez, CNN The death toll in the Champlain Towers South collapse now stands at 79, after another victim was recovered Friday, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said in an evening news conference. Of those, 53 victims have been identified, she said. Currently, 61 people are potentially unaccounted for, the
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN When Lionel Messi steps out onto the pitch for Saturday’s Copa America final, it could be his last chance to win a trophy with Argentina. Standing in his way, as he attempts to end his country’s 28-year trophy drought, will be a familiar face in former Barcelona teammate Neymar. Brazil is
Continue ReadingWhite House press secretary Jen Psaki sends condolences from the White House to the people of Haiti after the Haitian President, Jovenel Moïse, was assassinated.
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Hu and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN The assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise has stunned the country and shocked regional leaders. The Caribbean nation of roughly 11 million people, many of them living amid poverty and rising violence, now faces an even more uncertain future. Haiti’s acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph has assumed leadership
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Ángela Reyes (CNN) — Cuando el equipo de fútbol de Inglaterra cante el himno nacional antes de que comience la final de la Eurocopa 2020 contra Italia el domingo, el príncipe William se unirá al resto de la multitud en Wembley, tal como ha hecho en otros partidos clave. William ha asistido en su calidad
Continue Reading 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion Zaila Avant-garde joins CNN New Day to share her experience and talk about her future.
Continue Reading By Leah Asmelash, CNN On Thursday, Zaila Avant-garde became the first Black American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. But 85 years ago, there was another little Black girl from Ohio who came close. In 1936, MacNolia Cox was a 13-year-old eighth-grader at the Colonial School in Akron, Ohio. She was the first Black
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos Barreda Surfside, Florida (CNN) — Con su gorra de béisbol y su espesa barba blanca, Allyn Kilsheimer podría ser confundido con un jubilado si no fuera por el equipo de trabajadores de construcción que lo seguían y el largo poste de metal que llevaba mientras inspeccionaba la planta baja del edificio Champlain Towers
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Hu, Lionel Vital, Stefano Pozzebon and Helen Regan, CNN The violent fallout from the assassination of Haitiian President Jovenel Moise was evident on Friday near his private residence in the capital of Port-au-Prince. Burned-out cars, spent bullet casings, bloodstains and bullet-pocked walls were what remained of a shootout between the police and some
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, CNN A historic neighborhood threatened by plans for a sports arena, a bodega that became a hub for Dominicans in Rhode Island and a park where Mexican American students gathered to call for equitable access to education. Those locations are among the seven Latino heritage sites that preservation scholars say are in
Continue ReadingA new data analysis identifies clusters of unvaccinated people, most of them in the southern United States, that are vulnerable to surges in Covid-19 cases and could become breeding grounds for even more deadly Covid-19 variants. CNN’s senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen reports.
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi and Dakin Andone, CNN The most populous county in the US is seeing “exponential growth” of Covid-19 cases as the Delta variant takes over as the dominant coronavirus strain, health officials in Los Angeles County said. “We do continue to see an uptick in cases and hospitalizations,” Los Angeles County Public Health
Continue ReadingBy Jessica DuLong, CNN Jessamyn Stanley’s new book, “Yoke,” begins with a spiritual awakening prompted by a typo. A late-night email alerted Stanley to a misspelling printed in her first book, “Every Body Yoga” She’d mistakenly defined the Sanskrit word for yoga as meaning to “yolk” instead of “yoke.” Instead of summoning images of joining
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Departamento de Policía de Indio La policía de Indio pidió hoy la ayuda del público para identificar a la persona que golpeó fatalmente a un hombre de 57 años cuando cruzaba una calle el mes pasado. Los investigadores no saben quién atropelló a Domingo Córdova de Indio el 28 de junio, pero desde entonces han
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — La de Ignacio Montoya Carlotto es una de las historias más resonantes y emotivas de las de los 130 nietos que han recuperado su identidad en Argentina gracias a la labor de la asociación Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo. Ignacio (tal como eligió llamarse y no Guido, el nombre que
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A new health clinic opening in Thermal will help expand access to affordable healthcare for local Tribal communities. Congressman Raul Ruiz M.D., joined joined Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians Vice Chairperson Joseph Mirelez, Riverside-San Bernardino County Indian Health, Inc. Board President Sherri Salgado, RSBCIHI CEO Bill Thomsen, RSBCIHI representatives, and members of the Torres Martinez
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole and Oren Liebermann, CNN The captain of the US Navy football team will be allowed to try to play in the National Football League after the US military reversed course on Tuesday and approved his request to delay his service. “Today, I have approved a plan by the Department of the Navy
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