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By Leyla Santiago and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN Tina Certain took a pay cut when she quit being an accountant to become a member of the Alachua County School Board. She still needs the $40,000 or so annual salary — but that’s now at risk in a fight with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. “It makes you
Continue Reading School administrators are ordering students and staff to mask to stop the spread of Covid in Alachua County schools, even though Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is threatening their pay. CNN’s Leyla Santiago reports.
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona, CNN Republicans have found a new boogeyman in the battle for the House: the nation’s top public health agency. As Republicans head back to their districts for the August recess, they are hammering the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and seizing on the backlash to new mask and vaccine mandates
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, CNN Chet Hanks has posted a rant against coronavirus vaccines and told sufferers of the virus to “get over it,” a year after his parents, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, were hospitalized with severe cases of Covid-19. Hanks shared a video on Instagram in which he initially pretended to encourage followers to
Continue ReadingCNN, JASON POSS FOR ARKANSAS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM By Rob Picheta, CNN Chet Hanks has posted a rant against coronavirus vaccines and told sufferers of the virus to “get over it,” a year after his parents, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, were hospitalized with severe cases of Covid-19. Hanks shared a
Continue ReadingBy Dianne Gallagher, Wesley Bruer and Jade Gordon, CNN The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a state district judge’s temporary restraining order that had prevented the arrest of Texas House Democrats, who left the state last month in an attempt to stop the passage of restrictive voting bills. The ruling means that many of
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olivertapia Seúl (CNN) — Un alto funcionario de Corea del Norte denunció a Corea del Sur por sus ejercicios militares conjuntos con Estados Unidos, que deben comenzar esta semana, y advirtió que tales acciones podrían provocar “una grave crisis de seguridad”. “Se les debe hacer comprender claramente lo caro que tendrán que pagar por responder
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated acting US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar to permanently take on the role of representing the US government in cases before the Supreme Court. Filling in the top job on an acting basis since January, Prelogar has played a key role managing a wave of Biden
Continue ReadingBy Ben Westcott, CNN A Chinese court has sentenced Canadian businessman Michael Spavor to 11 years in prison for espionage, more than two years after he was first detained. Spavor, a Beijing-based businessman who regularly traveled to North Korea, was sentenced after being found guilty of spying and illegally providing state secrets to foreign countries,
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden celebrated the Senate’s passage of a historic, sweeping $1.2 trillion bipartisan package on Tuesday, a step toward fulfilling a key item in his legislative agenda that also amounts to the biggest bipartisan win of his presidency so far. “The death of this legislation was mildly premature,” Biden said
Continue ReadingBy Charles Riley, CNN Business American politicians from both major parties have spent years advocating for an overhaul of the nation’s infrastructure. Those efforts always ended in failure until Tuesday, when 19 Republican senators voted with Democrats to approve a $1.2 trillion package that includes money to improve roads and bridges across the country. The
Continue ReadingBy Nadine Schmidt and Lindsay Isaac, CNN A British embassy employee suspected of spying for Russia has been arrested in the German city of Potsdam, British and German authorities said on Wednesday. The British national, identified only as David S., is suspected of having passed documents onto a Russian intelligence service in exchange for cash
Continue Reading By Raja Razek, CNN A five-year-old child died in northern Virginia after being left in a car for what could have been several hours, officials said Tuesday. Officers responded to a report of an unconscious child in a neighborhood in Springfield, Virginia, at around 3:20 p.m. Tuesday, Fairfax County Police Department Lt. John Lieb said
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN It was far from a quiet Monday for infectious disease specialist Dr. Adriana Cadilla who had to meet with patients, many of them just out of the hospital after being treated for Covid-19 at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando. “Clinics were packed,” Cadilla said. Her hospital has seen a significant increase
Continue ReadingBy Erica Orden and Kara Scannell, CNN New York federal prosecutors came to suspect the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, lied in testimony during their investigation of former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen three years ago, according to four people familiar with prosecutors’ thinking. Despite their suspicions, federal prosecutors did not pursue perjury
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN Rock icon Stevie Nicks has canceled a string of upcoming US shows due to concern over the rising number of Covid-19 cases. The former Fleetwood Mac singer posted a short statement on Twitter on Monday announcing her decision. “These are challenging times with challenging decisions that have to be made. I
Continue ReadingKPIX By Jack Guy, CNN Rock icon Stevie Nicks has canceled a string of upcoming US shows due to concern over the rising number of Covid-19 cases. The former Fleetwood Mac singer posted a short statement on Twitter on Monday announcing her decision. “These are challenging times with challenging decisions that have to be made.
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Ritchie and Sana Noor Haq, CNN “Unbelievable,” was how Neeraj Chopra described his victory in the men’s javelin on Saturday as he became the first Indian athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field. Chopra’s throw of 87.58m secured the top spot on the podium, as India also won its
Continue ReadingBy Duarte Mendonca and John Sinnott, CNN Video by Stefania Dall’Armi and Noura Abou Zeinab, for CNN As he bid a tearful farewell to Barcelona on Sunday, football superstar Lionel Messi said a move to Paris Saint-Germain was “a possibility.” It’s been widely reported that Messi has been offered a two-year contract by PSG, though
Continue ReadingCNN By Duarte Mendonca and John Sinnott, CNN Video by Stefania Dall’Armi and Noura Abou Zeinab, for CNN As he bid a tearful farewell to Barcelona on Sunday, football superstar Lionel Messi said a move to Paris Saint-Germain was “a possibility.” It’s been widely reported that Messi has been offered a two-year contract by PSG,
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