CNN By Monica Garrett, Haley Brink and Holly Yan, CNN After the West Coast got walloped by record-setting rainfall and dangerous mudslides — with more heavy rain in store Monday — 70 million Americans in the eastern US are now also at risk for severe weather. The threat zone Monday stretched from the southern Appalachians
Continue ReadingBy Monica Garrett, Haley Brink and Holly Yan, CNN After the West Coast got walloped by record-setting rainfall and dangerous mudslides — with more heavy rain in store Monday — 70 million Americans in the eastern US are now also at risk for severe weather. The threat zone Monday stretched from the southern Appalachians to
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olivertapia (CNN Español) — Hace poco más de un año, el 4 de agosto de 2020, en medio de una profunda crisis política, económica y social, una de las explosiones no nucleares más grandes de la historia destruyó una parte de Beirut. Ahora que la violencia volvió a desatarse hace unos días, el Líbano se
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By JAMEY KEATEN and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. weather agency says greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record high last year and increased at a faster rate than the annual average for the last decade. In its annual report on heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, the agency also said that
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By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Former Facebook data scientist turned whistleblower Frances Haugen is answering questions from lawmakers in the United Kingdom who are working on legislation to rein in the power of social media companies. Haugen said Monday that Facebook is making online hate and extremism worse and outlined how
Continue Reading By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Former Facebook data scientist turned whistleblower Frances Haugen is answering questions from lawmakers in the United Kingdom who are working on legislation to rein in the power of social media companies. Haugen said Monday that Facebook is making online hate and extremism worse and outlined how
Continue Reading By STEVE PEOPLES, SARAH RANKIN and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press ASHLAND, Va. (AP) — Republican Glenn Youngkin is highlighting cases of alleged sex crimes in schools to help repair the GOP’s standing in the Virginia suburbs, where educated moms and dads have turned against Donald Trump’s Republican Party. Youngkin’s suburban strategy in the Virginia governor’s
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El aumento del precio del petróleo alcanzó otro hito este lunes, cuando el crudo superó los US$ 85 por barril por primera vez en siete años. El petróleo estadounidense aumentó otro 1,2% para alcanzar los US$ 85,07 por barril. Es la primera operación intradía por encima de los US$ 85
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SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Afghanistan has won the toss and elected to bat in its opening Super 12 game against in-form Scotland at the T20 World Cup in Sharjah. Scotland is on a high after upsetting Bangladesh in the qualifiers before beating Papua New Guinea and co-host Oman to advance. Experienced Mohammad Nabi
Continue Reading BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia has extended tight coronavirus restrictions to more parts of the country as the latest surge of infections intensifies. The number of counties affected by the measures doubled in just one week, from five to 10. They are mostly located in northern Slovakia, on or near the borders with Poland and
Continue Reading By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Nine EU countries, including heavyweight Germany, have joined forces to say they will not support an overhaul of the electricity market ahead of an emergency meeting of the bloc’s energy ministers Tuesday in Luxembourg. The energy crisis impacting consumers’ bills and businesses has been widely acknowledged by
Continue Reading By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Nine EU countries, including heavyweight Germany, have joined forces to say they will not support an overhaul of the electricity market ahead of an emergency meeting of the bloc’s energy ministers Tuesday in Luxembourg. The energy crisis impacting consumers’ bills and businesses has been widely acknowledged by
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — Los resultados provisionales de un ensayo de fase 2/3 mostraron que la vacuna contra el covid-19 de Moderna fue bien tolerada y generó una sólida respuesta inmune en niños de 6 a 11 años, dijo la compañía este lunes. El ensayo incluyó a más de 4.700 participantes de entre 6 y
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KTRK By Andy Rose and Ralph Ellis, CNN Sheriff’s deputies in Houston made a horrifying discovery in an apartment Sunday: three children who they say were abandoned with the decaying body of another child inside. “I had never heard of a scenario like this. It really caught me by surprise,” Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN) — Un día como hoy hace 50 años, representantes de todo el mundo se reunieron en la sede de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York para una votación que cambió la historia. Al final del día, la República de China (ROC), un gobierno que huyó a Taiwán tras perder la guerra civil
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Interim results of a Phase 2/3 trial showed Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine was well-tolerated and generated a robust immune response in children ages 6 to 11, the company said Monday. The trial included more than 4,700 participants between the ages of 6 and 11, and looked at two 50-microgram doses of Moderna’s
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — A medida que la fascinación por el “El juego del calamar” de Netflix se apodera del mundo, los médicos tienen un consejo para los padres: no dejen que sus hijos lo miren. “El juego del calamar”, que debutó en Netflix en septiembre, es un drama de ficción surcoreano que sigue la
Continue ReadingBy Roger Susanin, Rob Polansky Click here for updates on this story WINDSOR LOCKS, Connecticut (WFSB) — Students at Windsor Locks High School might as well leave their cell phones at home because they are now banned from the classroom. Channel 3 was told that the principal said cell phones became a major distraction to
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BOSTON (AP) — A former Georgetown University tennis coach is expected to plead guilty Monday in Boston federal court in the ongoing college admissions bribery case. Gordon Ernst was accused of accepting more than $2 million to help the children of wealthy parents get into the school in Washington. The 54-year-old had been slated to
Continue Reading The Associated Press Stocks are drifting mostly lower in early trading on Wall Street as investors look ahead to another big week of earnings reports, this time from major technology companies including Facebook and Apple. The S&P 500 was down 0.1% early Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq were down similar amounts.
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