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By Ali Zaslav and Jessica Dean, CNN The Senate on Thursday passed historic legislation that would help millions of veterans who were exposed to toxic burn pits during their military service. A wide bipartisan majority approved the long-awaited bill by a vote of 84-14. It will now go to the House of Representatives, where House
Continue ReadingBy Allison Chinchar and Monica Garrett, CNN Meteorologists More than 65 million people in over a dozen states are under heat alerts Thursday. From the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys to the Southeast, temperatures will be in the upper 90s, with heat index levels well into the triple digits. Power outages continue for a third day
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By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer Seattle Storm star and five-time Olympic gold medalist Sue Bird announced Thursday the 2022 season will be her last playing in the WNBA. The announcement by Bird, 41, ended any speculation about her future; she had acknowledged in February when she re-signed with Seattle that this would likely be
Continue Reading By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota senators are staying silent on how they will vote as they weigh whether to remove Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg from office for his conduct surrounding a 2020 fatal car crash. Most say they will be impartial, likening themselves to jurors or judges who
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Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — “La fortuna favorece a los valientes”, decía Matt Damon en un video publicitario, lanzado a finales de 2021, en el que invitaba a la gente a invertir en criptomonedas. Las monedas virtuales estaban en pleno auge y tras años de escepticismo finalmente comenzaban a ganar credibilidad. Ahora su valor va
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN New moms in Maine, Minnesota, New Mexico and Washington, DC, will have access to a year of postpartum Medicaid coverage, the Biden administration announced Thursday. An estimated 15,000 low-income women will be able to remain in Medicaid beyond the 60 days required by federal law. They join 238,000 new moms in
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Decades-high inflation is changing US consumers’ grocery habits. Kroger, the nation’s largest grocery store chain, said Thursday that budget-constrained shoppers were buying fewer items in stores, favoring Kroger’s cheaper store brands instead of name brands, and switching from beef to pork. “Rising inflation has consumers rethinking their shopping and eating
Continue ReadingBy Daniella Diaz and Morgan Rimmer, CNN The chief GOP negotiator in the bipartisan talks to find a gun safety package that can pass the US Senate warned Thursday evening that the negotiations could fall apart if they drag on, as many lawmakers leave Washington for the weekend. “Indecision and delay jeopardize the likelihood of
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By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Markets worldwide are back to tumbling on Thursday, and Wall Street is down roughly 3% in a widespread wipeout as worries about a fragile economy roar back to the fore. The S&P 500 was 3.1% lower in afternoon trading, more than reversing its blip of
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By The Associated Press Sunday, June 19 On this date in 1895, J.O. Dunbar, editor of the Phoenix Gazette, who called the Governor, Territorial Secretary, Attorney General and the Marshal, “assassins, looters, hoodoos, patronage peddlers and land grant sharks” was convicted and fined $3,000 for libel by a Tucson court. On this date in 1915,
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, CNN Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, will face Republican businessman Nick Begich III, independent orthopedic surgeon Al Gross and Democratic former state Rep. Mary Peltola in the August special general election for the state’s at-large US House seat, CNN projects. The four candidates advanced from
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Los cuerpos de cientos de pingüinos azules han llegado a las playas de la costa norte de Nueva Zelandia en las últimas semanas, según sus conservacionistas, quienes temen que el cambio climático este haciendo que los pingüinos mueran de inanición. Los kororā, también conocidos como pequeños pingüinos azules, son nativos de
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection used its latest public hearing on Thursday to focus on the pressure that then-President Donald Trump put on his vice president, Mike Pence, to delay or reject the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory on Jan. 6, 2021. The committee is trying to show how that pressure
Continue Reading By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The cryptocurrency company Circle says it will start issuing its first euro-denominated cryptocurrency, a stablecoin known as Euro Coin, later this month. It would be the first stablecoin in euros backed by a large player in the industry and could potentially become a major conduit
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Business Another indication the hot housing market is cooling off? New residential construction and the number of permits issued for building homes both fell in May. The number of housing starts fell for the second month in a row in May, dropping 14.4% from April and 3.5% from the year before.
Continue Reading By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A California doctor who is a leading figure in the anti-vaccine movement was sentenced on Thursday to two months in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol, where she delivered speeches to rioters during the mob’s attack. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, D.C., also sentenced Dr. Simone Gold to
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin Nueva York (CNN Business) — Revlon, el gigante de los cosméticos de 90 años, solicitó la protección del Capítulo 11 de bancarrota debido a su agobiante deuda y a la creciente competencia de las celebridades. El fabricante de esmaltes de uñas y barras de labios dijo que la medida le permitirá “reorganizar
Continue Reading DETROIT (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk is appealing a federal court ruling that upheld a securities fraud settlement over Musk’s tweets claiming that he had the funding to take Tesla private in 2018. Musk lawyer Alex Spiro filed a notice of appeal Wednesday with the federal appeals court in Manhattan. No grounds were stated,
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Stella Chan, CNN A Death Valley National Park tourist was found dead Tuesday after his car ran out of gas, the National Park Service (NPS) reports. A park ranger noticed a lone car in the parking lot on June 8 at Zabriskie Point, a popular spot to view sunrise and sunset, according to an NPS
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan and Kate Sullivan, CNN The Energy Department sent an invitation to oil industry executives Wednesday night to meet next week to discuss high gas prices, an official familiar with the matter tells CNN. The official said the invitation went out to the same seven oil companies to which President Joe Biden wrote a
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