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By Betsy Klein and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden commemorated Pride Month by signing a new executive order on Wednesday that takes a number of steps aimed at shoring up equality for LGBTQ Americans, a move which comes amid a wave of Republican-led efforts in dozens of states to limit the rights of LGBTQ
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN A federal watchdog has found that for years, the Interior Department’s safety and enforcement branch was unaware of an oil and gas company that regularly vented and flared a potent planet-warming gas at levels exceeding the department’s own requirements. Interior’s Office of the Inspector General found that an energy company operating
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By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Russia’s Gazprom has announced a reduction in natural gas flows through a key European pipeline for the second day in a row. The move Wednesday came just hours after Germany’s vice chancellor said Russia’s initial gas reduction appeared to be political rather than a result of technical
Continue ReadingCNN By Rodrigo Pedroso, CNN Workers at Brazil’s national agency for indigenous people went on strike Thursday amid fury over the killings of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, citing longstanding concerns over illegal activity and violence in the Amazon rainforest. Staff at FUNAI, the government body responsible for the protection and
Continue ReadingCNN By Anna Chernova and Karen Smith, CNN Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been transferred from the penal colony where he was serving his term to a higher security prison facility. The jailed politician was relocated to a maximum-security prison in Melekhovo in the Vladimir Region, according to Russia’s state media outlet TASS citing
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego lifeguards saved two teens from the ocean at Mission Beach but a third slipped under the water and vanished, authorities said. Lifeguards spotted the swimmers in distress at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and were able to rescue two of them but one teen boy submerged and didn’t surface, San Diego
Continue Reading By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is expected to announce Wednesday that it will send about $1 billion in military aid to Ukraine, the largest single tranche of weapons and equipment since the war began, in a effort to help stall Russia’s slow but steady march to conquer the eastern
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Germán Padinger (CNN) — El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, pidió a las principales compañías petroleras que tomen “medidas inmediatas” para aumentar el suministro, diciéndoles en una nueva carta que los márgenes de beneficio “históricamente altos” son inaceptables en un momento en el que los estadounidenses siguen viendo aumentar los precios en el surtidor
Continue Reading By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Laura Romani, a Chicago-area resident with a background in education and library science, had been thinking of a new career. “I was at home a couple of years ago reflecting on all the experience I gained and how I wanted to contribute to the Latino
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN The Biden administration is facilitating an additional shipment of infant formula on Thursday, the White House announced, transporting specialty formula from Switzerland to the US through ongoing “Operation Fly Formula” efforts as the federal government continues to work to address the shortage. The administration, the White House said in a statement
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden is still debating whether to lift some tariffs on China put in place by his predecessor as he mines his authorities for ways to bring down skyrocketing prices that have caused his approval ratings to plummet. Biden is on track to announce a decision on tariffs within a
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN) — El Hospital Carilion Franklin Memorial en Rocky Mount, Virginia, está lleno: atiende su cuota de casos de covid-19 y problemas más comunes en esta época del año, como los accidentes de barcos. Pero sus profesionales también tratan a pacientes enfermos por algo engañosamente peligroso: el calor extremo. Las altas temperaturas en el
Continue Reading By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Automakers reported nearly 400 crashes over a 10-month period involving vehicles with partially automated driver-assist systems, including 273 with Teslas, according to statistics released Wednesday by U.S. safety regulators. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration cautioned against using the numbers to compare automakers, saying it didn’t
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By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Automakers reported nearly 400 crashes over a 10-month period involving vehicles with partially automated driver-assist systems, including 273 with Teslas, according to statistics released Wednesday by U.S. safety regulators. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration cautioned against using the numbers to compare automakers, saying it didn’t
Continue Reading COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish toy company Lego said Wednesday it plans to invest more than $1 billion over 10 years to build a new factory in the U.S. state of Virginia and to enlarge an existing factory in Mexico. The moves in North America follow Lego’s announcement last year of a similar investment in
Continue Reading By JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — A spokesman for a top military official in eastern Congo said Wednesday that if Rwanda “wants war, it will have war.” The comments by Gen. Sylvain Ekenge came as thousands of protesters took to the streets of the eastern Congo city of Goma to accuse Rwanda
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal indictment accuses a Missouri man and others of breaking into a prehistoric Native American archeological site and using shovels, rakes and other tools to dig up artifacts, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. Seventy-year-old Johnny Lee Brown of Clinton was charged in an 11-count indictment filed
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN With its cliff-chiseled road, dramatic curves and sheer drops towards the turquoise sea far below, the Amalfi Coast has become an iconic road trip destination. A little too iconic, perhaps — because these days, it has become as legendary for its traffic as for its spectacular setting. Tales of miles-long backups abound,
Continue Reading BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state-run news agency says the country’s caretaker energy minister has extended the licensing deadline for oil and gas companies to explore in the country’s territorial waters until mid-December, to give more firms the chance to bid. The agency said Wednesday’s decision to extended the deadline of the second round of licensing
Continue Reading BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s state-run news agency says the country’s caretaker energy minister has extended the licensing deadline for oil and gas companies to explore in the country’s territorial waters until mid-December, to give more firms the chance to bid. The agency said Wednesday’s decision to extended the deadline of the second round of licensing
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