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Month: August 2022

Former Tennessee Speaker Casada arrested in corruption probe

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s disgraced former House Speaker Glen Casada and his top aide were arrested Tuesday on federal charges including bribery, kickbacks and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Their indictments follow the abrupt resignation in March of Republican Rep. Robin Smith, who pleaded guilty to

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Herschel Walker knocks new health care and climate law: ‘Don’t we have enough trees around here?’

By Michael Warren, CNN Herschel Walker, the Republican Senate nominee in Georgia, criticized the spending provisions in the newly passed health care and climate law, including money allocated for an urban forestry program which he dismissed as unnecessary. “[A] lot of money it’s going to trees. Don’t we have enough trees around here?” Walker said

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

Identifican a la sospechosa de varios tiroteos en Atlanta que dejan dos personas muertas

macamilarincon (CNN) –– La mujer sospechosa de matar a dos personas en múltiples tiroteos en Midtown Atlanta durante la tarde de este lunes fue identificada como Raissa Kengne, según el agente Anthony W. Grant, portavoz de la Policía de Atlanta. A Kengne la localizaron en el Aeropuerto Internacional Hartsfield-Jackson de Atlanta. Las autoridades la detuvieron

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Low-income residents, visible minorities disproportionately affected by flooding risks in Canada: study

By Alexandra Mae Jones, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — While climate change is affecting the entire globe, experts have emphasized that its detrimental impacts fall more heavily on some groups than others — an observation underlined by a new study that has found socially vulnerable groups

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Why is vaccine uptake in kids 5-11 so low? Infectious disease expert Dr. Isaac Bogoch offers his take

By Michael Lee, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story     Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — A lower likelihood of severe illness from COVID-19 and a desire for more data could be reasons why some parents have chosen not to get their children fully vaccinated, infectious disease expert Dr. Isaac Bogoch says. Speaking to

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Bipartisan group of senators urge State Department to designate American teacher as ‘wrongfully detained’ in Russia

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN A group of nine bipartisan senators called on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to immediately designate an American teacher sentenced to 14 years in Russian prison as “wrongfully detained,” a classification that would allow the US government to undertake active diplomatic efforts to secure his release. In a letter Tuesday, the

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