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Month: May 2023

‘Strive harder’: Amazon workers protest company’s climate impact, return-to-office mandate

By ED KOMENDA Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Telling executives to “strive harder,” hundreds of corporate Amazon workers protested what they decried as the company’s lack of progress on climate goals and an inequitable return-to-office mandate during a lunchtime demonstration at its Seattle headquarters Wednesday. The protest came a week after Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting

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House debt ceiling vote to avert default on track with Biden and McCarthy both confident of passage

By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING, STEPHEN GROVES and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The debt ceiling and budget cuts package is heading toward House passage after crossing a crucial hurdle Wednesday. President Joe Biden expressed optimism the deal he negotiated with Speaker Kevin McCarthy would pass later in the evening. They have worked

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EXCLUSIVE: Trump captured on tape talking about classified document he kept after leaving the White House

CNN By Katelyn Polantz, Paula Reid and Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of a summer 2021 meeting in which former President Donald Trump acknowledges he held onto a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran, multiple sources told CNN, undercutting his argument that he declassified everything.

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Un escáner encuentra un collar de oro junto al diente de un tiburón prehistórico entre los restos del Titanic

Carolina Calero (CNN) — Un collar con el diente de un tiburón prehistórico conocido como megalodón ha sido descubierto entre los restos del Titanic durante un escaneo digital del barco hundido. El collar permaneció en el fondo del océano durante más de 100 años tras el hundimiento del Titanic en 1912, según Magellan, una empresa

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The new regulation is part of the country's goal to drop its nationwide tobacco use to less than 5% by 2035.

Canada will start putting health warnings on individual cigarettes. It will be the first country to do so

CNN By Carma Hassan, Paula Newton and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — “Tobacco smoke harms children.” “Cigarettes cause leukemia.” “Poison in every puff.” Those are among the messages that will soon appear – in English and French – on cigarettes in Canada. The country announced Wednesday it will require health warnings to be printed directly

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The new regulation is part of the country's goal to drop its nationwide tobacco use to less than 5% by 2035.

Canada will start putting health warnings on individual cigarettes. It will be the first country to do so

By Carma Hassan, Paula Newton and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — “Tobacco smoke harms children.” “Cigarettes cause leukemia.” “Poison in every puff.” Those are among the messages that will soon appear – in English and French – on cigarettes in Canada. The country announced Wednesday it will require health warnings to be printed directly on

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Qatar’s prime minister met with top Taliban leader in Afghanistan earlier this month, sources say

By Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — Qatar’s prime minister met secretly with the Taliban’s top leader earlier this month in Afghanistan, two sources familiar with the meeting confirmed to CNN. The meeting happened in the southern city of Kandahar on May 12, between the Taliban Supreme Leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada and Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin

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EXCLUSIVE: Trump captured on tape talking about classified document he kept after leaving the White House

By Katelyn Polantz, Paula Reid and Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of a summer 2021 meeting in which former President Donald Trump acknowledges he held onto a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran, multiple sources told CNN, undercutting his argument that he declassified everything. The

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La “dama del baúl” finalmente tiene nombre: policía identifica un cadáver desconocido que encontró en Halloween hace 53 años gracias al ADN

Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Después de que la policía encontrara un cadáver en un baúl negro en una zona boscosa de Florida hace 53 años, el misterio de la “dama del baúl” se convirtió en un caso sin resolver que captó la atención del público durante décadas. Pero gracias a las pruebas de ADN, la

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Police in Atlanta arrest 3 behind bail fund supporting protests against police training complex

By JEFF AMY and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Police on Wednesday arrested three Atlanta organizers who have been aiding protesters against the city’s proposed police and fire training center, striking at the structure that supports the fight against what opponents derisively call “Cop City.” The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced its agents

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