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By Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN Railroad workers could get the paid sick days that were at the heart of their threat to go on strike — if the Biden administration steps in with an executive order. Workers have been unsuccessful getting their demands for paid sick leave met through months of negotiations with
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By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A massive winter storm blew toward the center of the U.S. on Monday, threatening millions of people with heavy snow, freezing rain and flooding. The National Weather Service warned that there would be “numerous, widespread, and impactful weather hazards in the heart of the country
Continue ReadingBy Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Ayda Zugay clasps her hands together, trying to keep her nerves in check. She’s been waiting for this day for decades. At any moment the woman she tried to find for so long will finally be here. It’s been more than 23 years since a stranger on an airplane gave
Continue Reading By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO and REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press ANDAHUAYLAS, Peru (AP) — The anger of Peruvians against their government is nowhere more visible than in Andahuaylas, a remote rural Andean community where the poor have struggled for years and where voters’ support helped elect now-ousted President Pedro Castillo, himself a peasant like them. Their
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Ella Nilsen and René Marsh, CNN Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility have made history by successfully producing a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, a breakthrough hailed by US officials as a “landmark achievement” and a “milestone for the future of clean energy.” Here’s what you need to
Continue Reading By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Four Native American tribes in Michigan have agreed with the state and federal governments on a revised fishing policy for parts of the Great Lakes. The tentative deal covers sections of Lake Michigan, Lake Huron and Lake Superior included in an 1836 treaty that
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By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — Atlanta Braves general manager Alex Anthopoulos acknowledges he paid a substantial price to acquire Sean Murphy from the Oakland Athletics in a three-team trade. Anthopoulos believed adding one of the game’s top catchers was worth the cost. “We definitely gave up a ton,” Anthopoulos said Monday.
Continue Reading By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer More than 50 years after banning him for his low-key racial injustice protest at the Munich Olympics, the International Olympic Committee says it will allow American gold-medal sprinter Vince Matthews back at the games. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee was copied in on a letter from the IOC,
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday refused a request from tobacco companies to stop California from enforcing a ban on flavored tobacco products that was overwhelmingly approved by voters in November. R.J. Reynolds and other tobacco companies sought the high court’s intervention to keep the ban from taking effect by Dec. 21. There
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran executed a second prisoner on Monday convicted over crimes committed during the nationwide protests challenging the country’s theocracy, publicly hanging him from a construction crane as a gruesome warning to others. The execution of Majidreza Rahnavard came less than a month after he
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Family members of Poland’s only cosmonaut, who circled Earth in a Soviet spacecraft in 1978, say he has died. Gen. Miroslaw Hermaszewski was 81. His death Monday was announced by his son-in-law, European Parliament member Ryszard Czarnecki. The retired air force pilot died at a hospital in Warsaw of complications from
Continue Reading By JORGE RUEDA AND ASTRÍD SUAREZ Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Colombian government and the nation’s largest remaining rebel group say they will continue to stage peace talks in Mexico, following three weeks of negotiations in Venezuela that have only yielded modest results. Negotiations between Colombia and the National Liberation Army began in
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Meghan, duquesa de Sussex, afirma que la entregaron como “alimento para los lobos”, mientras el príncipe Harry habla de “manipulación institucional” en el nuevo tráiler de Netflix sobre la segunda parte de la docuserie de la pareja, que se transmite este jueves. En el video, que se publicó este lunes, Harry
Continue ReadingBy WPVI Staff Click here for updates on this story PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Firefighters battled a two-alarm fire in the Frankford section of Philadelphia on Monday afternoon. The fire broke out at about 12:30 p.m. on the 4700 block of Salem Street. The flames started in one of the rowhomes but spread to several others,
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Authorities today identified a 61-year-old Santa Ana man who died in Thermal after the pickup truck he was driving overturned into a dirt shoulder. The Riverside County coroner’s office identified the man as Lippel Romulo. A passenger, a 39-year-old Walnut woman, sustained moderate injuries in the one-vehicle wreck and was taken to the Desert
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, CNN More than 2,400 migrants crossed into the United States near El Paso, Texas, daily over the weekend, according to a senior Border Patrol official, marking what he described as a “major surge in illegal crossings” in the region. “Over the weekend, the El Paso Sector experienced a major surge in illegal
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By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida lawmakers have advanced sweeping GOP legislation intended to shore up the state’s struggling home insurance market in the year’s second special session devoted to the topic. In the session that began Monday, legislators discussed a proposal that would create a $1 billion reinsurance fund, reduce
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La revisión por parte de un perito independiente de las pruebas incautadas en Mar-a-Lago, residencial del expresidente Donald Trump, no continuará. Este lunes, la jueza Aileen Cannon desestimó formalmente el caso, con el que Trump buscó impugnar la incautación de evidencia en Mar-a-Lago y en el que ella nombró al perito
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said numerous times since 2015 that Tesla cars would be entirely self-driving in two years, or less. But years after his self-imposed deadlines have blown by, it still hasn’t happened. Even when equipped with a $15,000 technology package that is literally called “Full Self Driving
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN Español) — La gran final del Mundial de Qatar está a solo unos días de distancia: el domingo 18 de diciembre conoceremos quién será el próximo campeón de la competencia más importante del fútbol. Argentina – Croacia en las semifinales del Mundial de Qatar 2022, en vivo Sin embargo, antes de que eso
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