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By Jessica DuLong, CNN When her teenage son, upset that he’d forgotten to do a homework assignment, ran from their home one morning, Traci Baxley panicked. Instead of just worrying about his feelings, she feared for his life. A Black kid on foot in a predominantly White Florida neighborhood, wearing his school hoodie — had
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN There is a new comet in town, and December is your only chance to see it before disappears forever. Astronomers say that Comet Leonard is our best and brightest comet to see in 2021. The comet was first discovered in January by astronomer Greg Leonard. The celestial object has likely spent
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BASRA, Iraq (AP) — An explosion has rocked the center of Iraq’s southern city of Basra, killing at least two people and wounding two others. The blast on Monday sent a column of black smoke into the sky. Local news reports initially reported a car bomb, but the governor of Basra told reporters on the
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olivertapia (CNN) — La forma en que dejas ir a los empleados es importante para la reputación de tu empresa. Piensa en el CEO de Better.com, que acaba de despedir a unos 900 empleados en una llamada de Zoom muy breve y se enfrentó rápidamente a fuertes críticas. Nadie reaccionará nunca positivamente al enterarse de
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — French rescue workers have pulled a toddler and the child’s mother from the rubble of a three-story apartment building that collapsed in a suspected gas explosion on southern France’s Mediterranean coast. Firefighters are still searching Tuesday through rubble for three other people feared buried in the blast in the coastal town of
Continue Reading BASRA, Iraq (AP) — A large explosion has rocked the center of Iraq’s southern city of Basra, with local news reports saying there are multiple casualties. It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion on Monday. The blast sent a column of black smoke into the sky. Local reports said it was likely a
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette and Kay Jones, CNN The body of Kathleen Moore was positively identified Tuesday evening, just hours after it was discovered. Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said in a news conference Tuesday evening that her body was discovered about 50 yards Northeast of the home of her 30-year-old boyfriend Colin Knapp. He was arrested on Monday
Continue Reading By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s parliament is set to debate a proposed vaccine mandate for hospital and nursing home staff, among other measures meant to help break the country’s biggest wave so far of coronavirus infections. At a special session Tuesday, parliament’s lower house also will discuss plans for vaccinations to
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By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets have followed Wall Street higher as anxiety about the coronavirus’s latest variant eases. London, Frankfurt, Tokyo and Shanghai advanced. Oil prices gained for a second day. Wall Street futures were higher after the chief White House medical adviser said the omicron variant might
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets have followed Wall Street higher as anxiety about the coronavirus’s latest variant eases. London, Frankfurt, Tokyo and Shanghai advanced. Oil prices gained for a second day. Wall Street futures were higher after the chief White House medical adviser said the omicron variant might
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez, CNN The White House says President Joe Biden told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that the United States is prepared to launch strong economic measures should Russia invade Ukraine — signaling that these new measures would pack a bigger punch than the sanctions issued in 2014 that failed to stop Russia
Continue Reading By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press KUJE, Nigeria (AP) — As Nigeria tries to meet an ambitious goal of fully vaccinating 55 million of its 206 million people in the next two months, health care workers in some parts of the country risk their lives to reach the rural population. Some of them must travel without
Continue ReadingBy Rob Shackelford and Taylor Ward, CNN Power has been restored to parts of downtown Honolulu after heavy rain flooded the area, but many residents and businesses will remain without power through Tuesday, according to a statement from Hawaii Electric. “Hawaiian Electric crews worked throughout the night to restore service to customers in downtown Honolulu
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global investors are watching nervously as one of China’s biggest real estate developers tries to avoid a default on its $310 billion mountain of debt. Evergrande Group, which is scrambling to turn assets into cash, rattled financial markets Friday when it warned it might run out
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global investors are watching nervously as one of China’s biggest real estate developers tries to avoid a default on its $310 billion mountain of debt. Evergrande Group, which is scrambling to turn assets into cash, rattled financial markets Friday when it warned it might run out
Continue Reading By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates says that it is changing its official workweek to Monday to Friday, a change that will start next month. The UAE’s state-run WAM news agency said on Tuesday that as of January, government employees would work a half-day on Friday,
Continue Reading By ISABEL DEBRE Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates says that it is changing its official workweek to Monday to Friday, a change that will start next month. The UAE’s state-run WAM news agency said on Tuesday that as of January, government employees would work a half-day on Friday,
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s incoming governing parties have signed their agreement for what they portray as a progressive coalition, a day before Olaf Scholz is due to succeed longtime leader Angela Merkel as chancellor. The agreement hammered out last month between Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats, the environmentalist Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats received strong
Continue Reading olivertapia Hong Kong (CNN) — China amenazó al gobierno de Joe Biden con represalias por su decisión de imponer un boicot diplomático a los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno de 2022 en Beijing. Además, advirtió que la medida podría dañar las relaciones bilaterales. La administración Biden dijo el lunes que no enviaría una delegación oficial de
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Every time new climate research is published, news headlines are posted or tweets are shared, a giant steel box perched on a granite plain in the Australian state of Tasmania will be recording it all. With its thick steel walls, battery storage and solar panels, the developers of “Earth’s Black Box”
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