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By David Williams and Joe Sutton, CNN Wildlife experts are setting out traps and searching a Grand Prairie, Texas, neighborhood for a large, venomous West African banded cobra that’s been missing since Tuesday evening. “We don’t know if the snake is long gone, or if the snake is still in the house, but we have
Continue ReadingBy David Close and John Sinnott, CNN Lionel Messi is leaving Barcelona, the Spanish club said Thursday. “Despite club and player reaching an agreement and their clear intention to sign a new contract today, this cannot happen because of financial and structural obstacles,” Barcelona said in a statement on its website. The 34-year-old, who last
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business President Joe Biden celebrated ambitious electric vehicles goals by automakers at the White House on Thursday. But he did so without the world’s largest maker of EVs: Tesla. Joining Biden were executives from General Motors and Ford, as well as Stellantis, the company formed by the merger earlier this year
Continue Reading By Leah Asmelash, CNN The use of the term “Latinx” has been a divisive issue for some time — and a new poll shows that it’s the least popular signifier among Hispanic and Latino people. Gallup found that only 4% of Hispanic and Latino Americans prefer the term Latinx, a gender neutral signifier that has
Continue ReadingBy Ryan Nobles, Zachary Cohen and Whitney Wild, CNN The newly formed House select committee is taking the lead on investigating January 6 going forward, consolidating the investigation, as other committees looking into the matter begin handing over their work, according to a multiple sources familiar with the matter. That includes interviews with key figures
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN President Joe Biden unveiled another component of his administration’s plan to fight the climate crisis on Thursday, announcing a new target that half of vehicles sold in the country by 2030 will be battery electric, fuel-cell electric or plug-in hybrid. Biden signed the executive order at the White House alongside representatives
Continue ReadingBy Christina Carrega and Devan Cole, CNN The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is launching an investigation into policing practices in the city of Phoenix, Arizona, with a focus on how the city treats residents experiencing homelessness, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday. “We have reviewed court files, media reports, citizen complaints and we also
Continue ReadingBy Dina Kupfer Click here for updates on this story TAHOE, California (KOVR) — The effort to Keep Tahoe Blue is going to great depths, literally. A team of divers has completed about 20 miles of trash collecting beneath the water. Beneath the pristine blue waters of Lake Tahoe lies years of waste—items like aluminum
Continue Reading By Paul Vercammen, Eric Levenson, Cheri Mossburg and Amir Vera, CNN The sensational murder trial of millionaire Robert Durst was abruptly adjourned on Thursday, as Judge Mark Windham sent jurors home for a “long weekend.” Court is set to resume Monday at 11 a.m. PT, with continued cross-examination of memory expert, Dr. Elizabeth Loftus. Durst
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Robinhood shares fell more than 27% Thursday following the previous day’s stratospheric rise. The selloff was sparked by a regulatory filing from the company saying that shareholders, including venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, will sell up to nearly 98 million shares over time. It’s been a roller coaster week for
Continue Reading By Nicole Chavez, CNN The fallout from a police officer who followed a car thinking the man behind the wheel was Native American is testing the fragility of race relations in a South Dakota city. The police officer in Rapid City resigned after he allegedly reported that “a young Native American male (was) driving a
Continue ReadingBy Dianne Gallagher and Rachel Janfaza, CNN Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday called for a second special session of the state legislature to begin this weekend, after Democratic lawmakers fled the state to block a restrictive voting bill. In the Republican governor’s proclamation, which includes “election integrity” on the agenda, he says the special
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, CNN After Joe Biden came into office, Suleiman Omar Hassan and his roommate, both living in Uganda at the time, scrolled through the news on their cellphones every day looking for the answer to a life-altering question: Will Biden raise the refugee cap? Hassan’s hopes to resettle in the United States were
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, CNN Stefanie Watts admits she’s worried about sending her granddaughter and her son back to school on Monday. “I’m scared,” Watts told CNN at a vaccination event in DeKalb County, Georgia. “I’m not gonna tell no lie. I am scared.” But that’s why Watts is getting the teens vaccinated, hoping it will
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN From “Full Metal Jacket” in the ’80s to “Mean Girls” in the ’00s, Asian and Pacific Islander women have historically been exoticized and hypersexualized in Hollywood — and the problem lingers today. Female Asian and Pacific Islander characters are more likely than female characters of any other race to be objectified
Continue ReadingBy JOSH MORGAN Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, GA (WGCL) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, Sheriff Patrick Labat, and acting United States Attorney Kurt Erskine spoke at a news conference Thursday, vowing collaboration with Atlanta Police to help solve the murder of Katie Janness at Piedmont Park Wills said her
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Get a look at some of the upcoming performances featured at Jazzville Palm Springs happening every Thursday night. More info: https://www.jazzvillepalmsprings.com/ About Jazzville Jazzville is a live jazz scene presented by Barry Martin/DJ Baz and Take Five Entertainment at the beautiful Cascade Lounge inside Agua Caliente Casino at 401 E Amado Rd in downtown Palm Springs, CA. Enjoy state-of-the-art sound and lighting with pristine acoustics and
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business The pandemic was difficult for casual dining brands like Applebee’s, which saw sales plummet when it closed its dining rooms last year. But now, Applebee’s is doing better than it has in years. One reason? Attention from the song “Fancy Like” by Walker Hayes. “This song lyrically is all about
Continue ReadingBy Aleks Klosok and John Sinnott, CNN English Premier League champion Manchester City completed the signing of England international Jack Grealish on a six-year contract on Thursday. The 25-year-old Grealish joins City from Aston Villa having made 213 appearances and scoring 32 goals for the Birmingham club over the course of eight seasons. “I am
Continue ReadingBy Naomi Thomas and Jason Hanna, CNN Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine showed 93% efficacy against symptomatic disease through six months, and the company expects to complete its application for full approval from the US Food and Drug Administration this month, the company said Thursday. The efficacy data came from a final analysis of the vaccine’s Phase
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