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By Kevin Liptak and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden said Thursday he would be open to altering the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation, but said attempting to do so now would hamper his ability to pass his economic agenda. CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Biden at a CNN town hall: “When it comes to
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Documentos filtrados obtenidos por Greenpeace muestran cómo los principales países productores de combustibles fósiles y carne están presionando contra la acción climática que se pretende incluir en un informe clave de la ONU. Brasil y Argentina están entre los países que estarían haciendo presión, dice Greenpeace. Los documentos, entregados a
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By Rebekah Riess and Gregory Lemos, CNN The Florida Department of Education on Thursday sent a letter to the Centner Academy, a Miami private school with a controversial policy for students who get vaccine shots. Centner Academy has asked parents to keep their children home for 30 days if their child has received a Covid-19
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Fox, CNN US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky endorsed recommendations for booster doses for Moderna’s and Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccines Thursday, allowing millions more Americans to begin getting booster shots. Walensky also endorsed the mix-and-match approach to boosters, saying eligible people could choose whichever vaccine they wished
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By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alabama native whom a judge alleged was “leading the charge” during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was denied release Thursday in an Alaska courtroom while his case proceeds. Christian Matthew Manley then waived his right to preliminary trial and asked that he
Continue Reading CNN By Paul P. Murphy and Nicole Chavez, CNN A math teacher in Southern California has been placed on leave after videos posted online showed her wearing a headdress and mimicking a Native American dance during a lesson. The video appears to have been recorded by a student in Riverside, California, during a math lesson
Continue Reading CNN, KFSN By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Family selfies, nature photos, an unanswered text and several calls that were never connected detail the final hours of a California couple and their child before they died on a hiking trail near Yosemite last August. Jonathan Gerrish, Ellen Chung and their 1-year-old daughter, Miju, died from hyperthermia, the
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GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California city will pay $500,000 to settle a lawsuit by a woman arrested for driving under the influence when she was actually having a stroke. The Orange County Register says the settlement ends a long legal battle over the arrest of Robin Winger, who was pulled over in
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN It was the late 1980s when South Korean artist Myonghi Kang began work on her painting “Le temps des camélias” (“The Time of Camellias”). Living in Paris’ 19th arrondissement at the time, she would periodically revisit the then-vertical canvas to add strokes of color or floral forms. “I would go back to
Continue Reading By Paul P. Murphy and Nicole Chavez, CNN A math teacher in Southern California has been placed on leave after videos posted online showed her wearing a headdress and mimicking a Native American dance during a lesson. The video appears to have been recorded by a student in Riverside, California, during a math lesson and
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By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government has set an ambitious target of fully vaccinating 90% of all eligible people to end coronavirus lockdowns. It provides a pathway to freedom for people in Auckland after more than two months under lockdown. They will regain many freedoms once 90% of
Continue Reading By NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s government has set an ambitious target of fully vaccinating 90% of all eligible people to end coronavirus lockdowns. It provides a pathway to freedom for people in Auckland after more than two months under lockdown. They will regain many freedoms once 90% of
Continue Reading WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation on Thursday reported 77 more COVID-19 cases, but no coronavirus-related deaths for the 15th time in the past 22 days. Tribal officials had reported 78 more cases and seven deaths on Wednesday. The latest numbers pushed the tribe’s totals to 35,660 confirmed COVID-19 cases from the virus
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dodgers opener Joe Kelly gave up a two-run homer to Atlanta’s Freddie Freeman in the first inning and soon exited with tightness in his right biceps in Game 5 of the NL Championship Series. The Braves led three games to one going into the matchup at Dodger Stadium and were trying
Continue Reading SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has proposed banning new oil and gas wells within 3,200 feet of sites such as schools and homes. It would be the largest in the nation if adopted but it’s far from final. It wouldn’t stop existing wells but would subject them to new pollution controls
Continue Reading SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has proposed banning new oil and gas wells within 3,200 feet of sites such as schools and homes. It would be the largest in the nation if adopted but it’s far from final. It wouldn’t stop existing wells but would subject them to new pollution controls
Continue Reading TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Police say three people were killed and one was critically injured in a shooting in Tacoma. The Tacoma Police Department said on Twitter at about 5:30 p.m. Thursday that two females and one male had died at the scene and that one male was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Continue Reading LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A prison transport driver convicted of sexually assaulting two female inmates has been sentenced to life in prison plus five years. U.S. District Judge D.P. Marshall on Thursday handed down the sentence to 53-year-old Eric Scott Kindley for the assaults and for knowingly possessing a firearm to further a violent
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — Una dosis de refuerzo de la vacuna contra el covid-19 de Pfizer / BioNTech tiene una alta eficacia (95,6%) en un ensayo de fase 3, anunciaron las compañías este jueves. Señalaron que “la eficacia fue constante independientemente de la edad, el sexo, la raza, la etnia o las condiciones comórbidas”. El
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — Les confiamos nuestros datos personales, subimos en ellas nuestras fotos y las usamos para consumir medios y realizar gran parte de nuestras comunicaciones. Hablar del impacto de las redes sociales en nuestras vidas parece ya una obviedad. Pero las redes sociales no son solo herramientas de comunicaciones: también son empresas
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