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By Jackie Wattles and Rachel Crane, CNN Business British billionaire Richard Branson plans to beat fellow billionaire and rival Jeff Bezos to space. Branson’s company, Virgin Galactic, made a surprise announcement Thursday that he will attempt to fly in Virgin’s rocket-powered plane on July 11 — nine days before Bezos’s planned July 20th launch. The
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN With the Fourth of July holiday weekend upon us, many people are attending small backyard barbecues, pool parties and bigger celebrations like large gatherings or firework displays. What safety precautions should people keep in mind, especially with the more contagious Delta variant on the rise? What are the risks to vaccinated
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The United States has won international backing for its plan to overhaul the global system for taxing companies, a huge step toward simplifying a complex web of rules long exploited by big corporations. Countries including India, China and Switzerland have agreed to a broad framework for reform set out by
Continue ReadingThe OECD’s tax reform overhaul includes a global minimum tax of at least 15% on multinational companies. CNN’s Christine Romans reports.
Continue ReadingBy Kari Cobham, CNN I tapped gently on the driver’s window while my toddler pressed his back to the passenger door inside the car. “I don’t want to go!” he wailed. We were just over a week into day care drop-off, and the excitement of new people and spaces had worn off. A disorienting world
Continue ReadingCNN’s Jeffrey Toobin says the result of the Supreme Court upholding two Arizona election laws means the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act is ‘close to being irrelevant’ and will require congressional action to save it.
Continue ReadingBy Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer The Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has hollowed out the historic Voting Rights Act, curtailed regulation of big political donors and limited challenges to partisan gerrymandering. The final two decisions of the court session on Thursday continued this trend of Roberts’ stewardship that
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN Josh Clark’s journey to becoming a lifelong runner began with a painful breakup in 1994. To help himself recover, the then-23-year-old public television producer started to run, an activity he hated. “There was probably a little bit of self-punishment to it,” said Clark, founder of Big Medium, a digital agency
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN The King will live on in streaming. Independent streaming company Cinedigm in partnership with Elvis Presley Enterprises has announced the forthcoming launch of The Elvis Presley Channel. According to a press release, The Elvis Presley Channel will be an ad-supported and linear streaming service “comprised of Elvis Presley archival content
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN More than 4 million people remain under heat warnings in parts of the Pacific Northwest as drought conditions could be exacerbated by record high temperatures through the holiday weekend. As of Friday, 93% of the West is experiencing some form of drought. Add the threat of dry thunderstorms for some areas
Continue ReadingThe “heat dome” weather phenomenon can trigger record breaking temperatures.
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olivertapia (CNN) — Con días de incansables esfuerzos a sus espaldas, los equipos de búsqueda y rescate enfrentan desafíos adicionales con una tormenta en el horizonte y la amenaza de que el resto del edificio de condominios en Surfside, Florida, también colapse. Los equipos de rescate han estado peinando hasta 5 metros de concreto desde
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Fourth of July weekend will bring drier conditions for the East, rain for the Central, and hot temperatures for the West. CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam has the weekend forecast.
Continue Reading Chile seemed to have done everything right in its fight against Covid-19 at the beginning — acquiring vaccines, implementing lockdowns and mobilizing its health system. More than 65 percent of people in Chile have been fully vaccinated, yet infections and hospitalizations keep rising. CNN’s Rafael Romo reports.
Continue Reading Shifting rubble caused search suspension. Also, rescuers heard a female voice in the rubble when the search began, and most of the condo board quit in 2019.
Continue Reading New York prosecutors charged the Trump Organization, the Trump Payroll Corporation and Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg in connection with an alleged tax scheme stretching back to 2005, in an extraordinary legal development against the former President’s namesake company. Weisselberg, the Trump organization and the Trump Payroll Corporation have all pleaded not guilty. Trump himself was not charged. CNN’s Alisyn Camerota discusses with Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen.
Continue ReadingBy Toyin Owoseje, CNN Amber Heard has announced that she is a new mother after welcoming her first child, a daughter named Oonagh Paige, earlier this year. The “Aquaman” star shared the news with her 3.9 million Instagram followers on Thursday night, saying she wanted to have a child “on my own terms.” “I’m so
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN Español) — Desde el 1 de julio, entró en vigor el certificado covid digital de la Unión Europea, que busca facilitar la circulación dentro del bloque. Con este, se demuestra que una persona fue vacunada contra el covid-19 (certificado de vacunación), o tiene un resultado negativo en la prueba (certificado de prueba), o
Continue ReadingBy Phil Mattingly, CNN As Democrats enter a critical stage in the negotiations over the shape of a sweeping, multi-trillion dollar social safety net expansion, President Joe Biden plans to lean on a key group to sell the proposal, according to an internal White House memo: his Cabinet secretaries. For the Biden administration, deputizing and
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN) — El jueves, los fiscales de Nueva York acusaron a la Organización Trump y a su director financiero, Allen Weisselberg, de ejecutar un supuesto plan fiscal de 15 años diseñado «para compensar a Weisselberg y a otros ejecutivos de la Organización Trump de una manera que estaba ‘fuera de los libros’». Es
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