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By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For years, advocates of urban gardening have said that growing fresh food empowers residents of poorer neighborhoods, as well as improving their health. Those efforts gained momentum during the pandemic as worries about food insecurity grew. Areas with little access to healthy, fresh food tend to
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Egypt’s intelligence chief has visited Israel to discuss a cease-fire deal between Israel and the Hamas militant group following an 11-day war last May. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office says that Egyptian official Abbas Kamel invited the Israeli leader to visit Egypt in the coming weeks. Egypt has played a key
Continue ReadingCNN By Jill Martin, Kay Jones and Eric Levenson, CNN The NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders announced Monday that the franchise will require fans to provide proof of Covid-19 vaccination to attend home games this season at their gleaming new Allegiant Stadium. The vaccine mandate will go into effect September 13, the date of the team’s
Continue ReadingBy Jill Martin, Kay Jones and Eric Levenson, CNN The NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders announced Monday that the franchise will require fans to provide proof of Covid-19 vaccination to attend home games this season at their gleaming new Allegiant Stadium. The vaccine mandate will go into effect September 13, the date of the team’s first
Continue ReadingBy Trason Bragg, Catherine Catoura Click here for updates on this story MERIWETHER COUNTY, Georgia (WGCL) — Tropical depression Fred brought dangerous and wet condition to Meriwether county early Tuesday morning. “I heard a big boom, and it shook, I’m talking about shook and it woke me up,” said Meriwether home owner Anniece Slaton. The
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN We have a new royal couple. As per their standard practice of bringing in different actors as the characters age, “The Crown” has cast Dominic West as Prince Charles and Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana in Season 5. The pair play the estranged couple through the early 1990s and take
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For students like Anthony Martinez, this is the first time he will be stepping into a classroom, at a completely new school since March 2020. Martinez is a 7th grader at Jefferson Middle School in Indio. He started middle school for the first time, meeting his friends and teachers through a computer screen. While it
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By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer The names, Social Security numbers and information from driver’s licenses or other identification of just over 40 million people who applied for T-Mobile credit were exposed in a recent data breach, the company said Wednesday. The same data for about 7.8 million current T-Mobile customers who pay monthly for
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — T-Mobile says about 7.8 million of its current postpaid customer accounts’ information and just over 40 million records of former or prospective customers who had previously applied for credit with the company were involved in a recent data breach. T-Mobile said Wednesday that customers’ first and last names, date of birth,
Continue ReadingBy Genevieve Beauchemin and Anthony Vasquez-Peddie Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Charlotte Greenall, a retired Canadian soldier, and the young Afghan interpreter she hired, Maryam Sahar, both served in Kandahar. Now, they’re pleading with Ottawa to help save Sahar’s family and those of others who assisted in the war
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By Eric Levenson, CNN John Gotti. Whitey Bulger. R. Kelly? The disgraced R&B singer’s federal trial begins Wednesday in New York as he is accused of racketeering, a charge famously applied to mob leaders like Gotti and Bulger. Robert Sylvester Kelly, 54, faces a bevy of accusations: one count of racketeering with 14 underlying acts,
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Mae Jones Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — An analysis of COVID-19 data from Ontario last year has found that after adjusting for testing rates, younger age groups and young men in particular had much higher rates of COVID-19 infection than previously thought. Much of the focus during
Continue ReadingBy Andrew James Click here for updates on this story BLACK MOUNTAIN, North Carolina (WLOS) — As this heavy rain moved east Tuesday, a family in Black Mountain had to be rescued from their home as floodwaters moved closer. A man, his wife and son were all rescued around 7 p.m. from their mobile home
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Mackenzie Click here for updates on this story CANDLER, North Carolina (WLOS) — Rescue crews were searching Tuesday afternoon for someone who got out of a submerged vehicle on Smokey Park Highway in Candler. While the search was underway, the man walked up to onlookers. Asheville Fire Department crews reported flooding and numerous
Continue Reading BANGKOK (AP) — More than 1,000 people have been killed by security forces in Myanmar since the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi about six months ago, a human rights group said Wednesday. The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, which monitors protest-related arrests and deaths in Myanmar, said it
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By DANIELLA MATAR Associated Press MILAN (AP) — It took Inter Milan 11 years to climb back to the top of Serie A. Now it faces what could be a rapid descent. Antonio Conte led Inter to its first league title since 2010 but left the club shortly after. The Nerazzurri also had to sell
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Los casos de covid-19 entre los niños han aumentado constantemente desde principios de julio, según un informe de la Academia Americana de Pediatría (AAP). Y un experto dice que este aumento es solo el comienzo de lo que está por venir. “Esto está ocurriendo antes de que empiece el colegio.
Continue Reading By KATHY GANNON Associated Press The Taliban’s top political leader has made a triumphal return to Afghanistan. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar battled the U.S. and its allies for decades but then signed a landmark peace agreement with the Trump administration. Baradar is now expected to play a key role in negotiations between the Taliban and
Continue Reading By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Home construction fell a sharp 7% in July as homebuilders struggled to cope with a variety of headwinds. The July decline put home construction at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.53 million units, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. Applications for building permits, which can forecast
Continue Reading By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Home construction fell a sharp 7% in July as home builders struggled to cope with a variety of headwinds. The decline in July put home construction at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.53 million units, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. Applications for building permits, which
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