Germán Padinger (CNN) — El planeta se está calentando rápidamente, lo que ha provocado sequías históricas, inundaciones mortales y deshielos inusuales en el Ártico. También está provocando un aumento constante del nivel del mar, que, según los científicos, continuará durante décadas. El mar podría devorar grandes ciudades costeras, así se verían 0:57 Un nuevo estudio
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s governor has announced that he will be lifting a curfew and a ban on alcohol sales as the U.S. territory reports a drop in the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths. Current restrictions prohibit certain businesses from operating between midnight and 5 a.m. and also bar alcohol
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By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, U.S. heath officials have authorized an electronic cigarette, saying the vaping device from R.J. Reynolds can benefit smokers. The Food and Drug Administration said data submitted by the company showed its Vuse Solo e-cigarette helped smokers significantly cut back their use of
Continue Reading By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, U.S. heath officials have authorized an electronic cigarette, saying the vaping device from R.J. Reynolds can benefit smokers. The Food and Drug Administration said data submitted by the company showed its Vuse Solo e-cigarette helped smokers significantly cut back their use of
Continue Reading By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is warning that “difficult decisions must be made” as Democrats weigh trims to President Joe Biden’s expansive budget proposal. The $3.5 trillion proposal for expanding social services and fighting climate change is being chiseled to about $2 trillion, all paid for with
Continue Reading By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is warning that “difficult decisions must be made” as Democrats weigh trims to President Joe Biden’s expansive budget proposal. The $3.5 trillion proposal for expanding social services and fighting climate change is being chiseled to about $2 trillion, all paid for with
Continue Reading ST. PETER, Minn. (AP) — A private college in Minnesota has renamed its arboretum that originally honored an 18th century Swedish botanist who has been lambasted for promoting racist scientific theory. The 120-acre greenspace at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter has been known as the “Linnaeus Arboretum” since 1988. It recognized Carl Linnaeus, who
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By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — Colorado Avalanche star Nathan McKinnon will miss the season opener against the Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday night after testing positive for a breakthrough infection of COVID-19. Colorado general manager Joe Sakic said Tuesday that MacKinnon’s positive test surfaced Monday and that the center is “asymptomatic and
Continue ReadingBy Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business As any working mother will attest, trying to fulfill all work and family obligations every single day can seem impossible. “Work-life balance is a lie,” said TIAA president and CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women’s Summit on Tuesday. When she tried achieving a more balanced lifestyle, Duckett
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN Business) — Apple se está preparando para su segundo gran evento de lanzamiento de productos del otoño. Este martes Apple (AAPL) anunció que organizará un evento virtual el 18 de octubre. Según los rumores, es probable que la compañía utilice el evento para lanzar una versión actualizada de su computadora portátil
Continue Reading By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer A person familiar with the situation says Detroit Lions standout center Frank Ragnow has a season-ending toe injury that requires surgery. The person spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity because the team had not provided an update on Ragnow’s condition. Ragnow was hurt earlier this month at Chicago after
Continue Reading By JOHN BOHNENKAMP Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s Tory Taylor is selling a T-shirt for charity. It reads Punting Is Winning. It’s a good motto for the No. 2 Hawkeyes. They’ve taken advantage of the field position Taylor has provided them all season and turned it into a 6-0 record. Taylor has
Continue Reading By GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Senegal has become the first team to advance to the final World Cup playoffs in Africa after Famara Diedhiou’s hat trick secured a 3-1 win over Namibia. Sadio Mane provided the crosses for Diedhiou’s first and third goals. Morocco followed about six hours
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania and Belarus were deemed “very high” risk travel destinations on Tuesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean also moved into the “Level 4: Very high level of Covid-19” category on the agency’s regularly updated list of
Continue Reading By MARIA DI MENTO of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Umbrella groups that serve and advocate for nonprofits or grant makers and donors are an unsexy part of the charitable world. They act as scaffolding to strengthen organizations that do good by bringing nonprofit leaders and philanthropists together to learn from one another,
Continue Reading By CODY JACKSON and ANDREW DALTON Associated Press VAN HORN, Texas (AP) — As William Shatner prepares to be beamed up at age 90 for his first real-life spaceflight, he’s bringing out the awe in people around a rural Texas spaceport. The mayor of Van Horn, the nearest town to the port where Shatner on
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Business Since the pandemic began, demand among homebuyers has far exceeded the supply of available homes, causing real estate prices to skyrocket. But as high as prices are, they have yet to peak, according to a new report from Goldman Sachs. The investment bank projects that home prices — already at
Continue Reading By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Another international hat trick for Cristiano Ronaldo and another win for Denmark to seal qualification for the World Cup. There also was yet more crowd trouble in a game between England and Hungary as the latest World Cup qualifying games in Europe took on a familiar narrative. Ronaldo extended
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — White Sox outfielder Luis Robert left Game 4 of the AL Division Series against the Houston Astros because of tightness in his right leg. Robert was replaced in center field by Adam Engel to start the seventh inning, with Chicago trailing 6-1 and on the brink of elimination. He was 1 for
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy and Mostafa Salem, CNN Distributing Covid-19 vaccine booster shots in some countries while inoculations across Africa lag is “immoral,” according to the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO). The increasing use of boosters is “immoral, unfair and unjust and it has to stop,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told CNN’s
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