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Local, state, and federal agencies are taking steps to deal with the environmental fallout of a shrinking Salton Sea. The “Imperial Streams Salton Sea Feasibility Cost-Share Agreement” was signed Friday morning to conduct a feasibility study. The end goal is to restore the Salton Sea and its region. It’s the beginning of a renewed effort
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Nagy, CTV National News Vancouver Bureau Chief Click here for updates on this story ABBOTSFORD, B.C. (CTV Network) — Behind a blueberry field in B.C.’s Fraser Valley, there is an unremarkable barn where something remarkable is being made. A small team of welders headed by 53-year-old Kevin Stone is putting the finishing touches
Continue ReadingBy Olga Voitovych and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN A fresh barrage of Russian missile attacks across Ukraine on Friday morning put the entire country under air-raid alarm and sent people scrambling for shelter as explosions sounded overhead, with strikes hitting critical infrastructure and knocking out power. “They have set a goal to leave Ukrainians without light,
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN FIFA president Gianni Infantino told reporters that “every person dying is one person too many” when asked about the death of migrant workers. Infantino, the boss of soccer’s world governing body, was speaking to reporters in a press conference in Doha, Qatar, on Friday when he was asked to clarify how
Continue ReadingBy Adrian Ghobrial, Correspondent, CTV National News Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Warning: This article contains references to addiction and suicide. Like so many parents, Liz Ritchie hangs an ornament on her family’s Christmas tree for each of her children. As she hooks her son Jack’s to a branch,
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business About 100 Starbucks stores across America will be on strike for the next three days, as the union attempts to turn up the pressure in it year-long battle with the coffee retailer. This is the second widespread strike by Starbucks Workers United, which staged a one-day strike in November on
Continue ReadingCNN By Paula Hancocks, Yoonjung Seo and David Hawley, CNN “She’s smiling, look at her smile, her face.” Oh Il-seok looks lovingly at a photograph of his daughter taken in the last hours of her life. As he takes off his glasses to wipe his eyes, his wife whispers, “Ji-min is my friend, she is
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By EMILY SCHULTHEIS and FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A huge aquarium in Berlin burst, spilling debris, water and more than a thousand tropical fish out of the AquaDom tourist attraction in the heart of the German capital early Friday. Police said parts of the building, which also contains a hotel, cafes and
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Un nuevo estudio revela que casi el 6% de los 130 millones de personas que acuden cada año a los servicios de urgencias de EE.UU. son diagnosticadas erróneamente, lo que supone que 1 de cada 18 pacientes recibe un diagnóstico equivocado. El informe, publicado este jueves por la Agencia para
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By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says its latest round of sanctions will hit Russia’s military-industrial complex, as well as people and groups that are attacking Ukrainian civilians or kidnapping children. A European Commission vice-president said on Friday that the package would deal a blow to 168 companies or state
Continue ReadingBy Jacob Lev, CNN Tyrell Terry, a 2020 NBA draft pick of the Dallas Mavericks, has announced his retirement from basketball, citing anxiety. In an Instagram post on Thursday, the 22-year-old Terry called it “the darkest times” of his life while describing the anxiety basketball caused him. “Intrusive thoughts, waking up nauseous, and finding myself
Continue Reading By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The International Energy Agency says coal use across the world is set to reach a new record this year amid persistently high demand for the heavily polluting fossil fuel. The Paris-based agency said in a report published Friday that while coal use grew by only 1.2% in
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — The International Energy Agency says coal use across the world is set to reach a new record this year amid persistently high demand for the heavily polluting fossil fuel. The Paris-based agency said in a report published Friday that while coal use grew by only 1.2% in 2022, the increase pushed it
Continue ReadingBy Bethlehem Feleke and Christian Edwards, CNN A hippo has attacked a 2-year-old boy in Uganda, swallowing half of his body before spitting him out, a statement from the Uganda Police Force said on Friday. The child was attacked on December 4 at around 3 p.m. local time (7 a.m. ET) in the Katwe-Kabatoro district,
Continue ReadingCNN By Brian Fung, CNN Elon Musk’s Twitter sparked an international outcry on Thursday by suspending a number of journalists at major news organizations who cover him. But a different and possibly related move that Twitter took around the same time, against a fast-growing rival, could open the company up to regulatory scrutiny, some legal
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz and Brian Fung, CNN Elon Musk’s decision to suddenly ban prominent tech journalists from Twitter is fanning a fierce backlash from lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic. In Europe, Germany’s foreign ministry tweeted its concern with the impact Musk’s moves could have on press freedom, while a senior EU official said
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CNN By Joe Sutton and Amanda Jackson, CNN Winston-Salem State University, a historically Black institution in North Carolina, has addressed the use of law enforcement on its campus amid the online spread of a video that shows a Black student being arrested in a classroom after an apparent dispute with a professor. The incident Wednesday
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Shaken by the Federal Reserve’s aggressive stance this week on rates hikes to come, U.S. futures sold off sharply, pointing major markets toward another weekly loss. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P each skidded 1.1% before the opening bell Friday. Shares in
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Shaken by the Federal Reserve’s aggressive stance this week on rates hikes to come, U.S. futures sold off sharply, pointing major markets toward another weekly loss. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P each skidded 1.1% before the opening bell Friday. Shares in
Continue Reading By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press ROSARIO, Argentina (AP) — Excitement for Sunday’s World Cup final in Argentina is rising fast and anxiety is running particularly high in Messi’s hometown as many are hoping he will finally win the one major trophy missing from his illustrious career. The neighborhood in Rosario popularly known as La Bajada
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