By Holmes Lybrand and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Violent crime in the United States shot up last year as the pandemic raged. Major cities across the country saw a more than 30% jump in homicides as well as increases in aggravated assaults, according to a January report from the National Commission on Covid-19 and Criminal Justice.
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By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story BEAVERTON, Oregon (KPTV) — A woman was helped to safety late last month by two men after a suspect sexually assaulted her at a MAX train platform, according to Beaverton police. During the early morning hours of Friday, June 25, police say the victim, a
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By Kate Sullivan, CNN The Biden administration is sending millions of Covid-19 vaccines to countries in Latin America this week as part of President Joe Biden’s commitment to play a leading role in ending the pandemic across the globe. One million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine will ship to Bolivia on Thursday, one
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By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — According to court documents, a former Mobile County Public Schools employee was arrested on a Grand Jury Indictment this morning on two counts of ethic violations. According to MCPSS, Jennifer Gulley was a former cafeteria manager who, while she was still
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — La tormenta tropical Elsa, que tocó tierra en la mañana de este miércoles en Florida, ha seguido avanzando hacia el interior y se ha debilitado a una tormenta tropical de 80,4 km/h, según un aviso de las 2 p.m. ET del Centro Nacional de Huracanes. El sistema seguirá hacia Georgia
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By Amanda Becker Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — As more vaccine clinics close in our area, community leaders are taking a new approach to get vaccine numbers up. Wednesday employees and volunteers of the Community Mobilization Project were bussed to Sixth and Keefe to start knocking on doors. It’s
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Lynne Spears is asking the Los Angeles County Superior court to allow her daughter Britney Spears to choose her own conservatorship attorney. In a court filing obtained by CNN Wednesday and dated July 1, Lynne Spears states via her attorneys that her daughter is in a much different place than when
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By Marshall Cohen and Devan Cole, CNN The Justice Department has charged a Pennsylvania man who allegedly attacked an Associated Press photographer and used a stun gun while assaulting police officers during the Capitol insurrection on January 6. Alan Byerly, who is one of many Capitol riot defendants arrested recently in connection with attacks on
Continue Reading New video shows brawling with officers, and officer’s badge allegedly stolen, as questions about security failures linger, six months after Capitol riot.
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By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Fort Lauderdale, Florida plans to strike a deal with Elon Musk‘s The Boring Company to build a tunnel between its downtown and the beach. The Boring Company would offer rides in Teslas to hundreds of people a day for $5-8 per person, the city’s leaders have said before. A similar
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By Annie Grayer and Daniella Diaz, CNN Republican Rep. Jim Hagedorn announced a reoccurrence of his kidney cancer on Wednesday. The Minnesota lawmaker was first diagnosed with stage IV kidney cancer on February 15, 2019, and had been receiving care at Rochester’s Mayo Clinic. “Over the weekend, recent tests conducted at the Mayo Clinic revealed
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By Joel Brown Click here for updates on this story RALEIGH, North Carolina (WTVD) — There were many Black professionals and academics watching Tuesday morning’s interview with Nikole Hannah-Jones as if they were sitting in a Black church. That is to say, there were some loud “amens” spoken in agreement to what Hannah-Jones said about
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Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise was killed during an attack on his private residence early on July 7, according to the country’s acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph. CNN’s Melissa Bell reports.
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Personal Birth date: June 19, 1945 Birth place: Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar) Birth name: Aung San Suu Kyi Father: Aung San, commander of the Burma Independence Army. Helped negotiate Burma’s independence from Britain.
Continue ReadingCNNEE (CNN) — El expresidente Donald Trump presentó el miércoles demandas colectivas contra Facebook y su CEO Mark Zuckerberg Twitter y su CEO Jack Dorsey luego de ser removido de sus plataformas. Trump también presentó una demanda colectiva contra YouTube, que nombra a Sundar Pichai, director ejecutivo de la empresa matriz de YouTube, Google, en
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — El 20 veces ganador de Grand Slam, Roger Federer, perdió ante Hubert Hurkacz 6-3, 7-6, (7-4), 6-0 en los cuartos de final de individuales masculinos en Wimbledon. Esta fue la primera derrota consecutiva de Federer en Wimbledon desde 2002, el año antes de su primer campeonato allí. Federer, de
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By Web Staff Click here for updates on this story RALEIGH, North Carolina (WTVD) — Raleigh became the latest Triangle city to pass an ordinance forbidding discrimination based on hairstyle or hair texture. The city council passed the ordinance unanimously in its regular meeting Tuesday. Back on Feb. 16, Councilmember Stormie D. Forte had asked
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By Neelam Bohra and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN The Oakland and Denver zoos will be among the first to start vaccinating tigers, bears and other mammals susceptible to coronavirus infections with a new animal Covid-19 vaccine from animal health company Zoetis. The vaccine requires two doses and was first administered to gorillas in the San Diego
Continue Reading Health experts are worried about growing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among young adults as the Delta variant continues to spread across the U.S.
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