By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN New York (CNN) — Snap said Thursday that it has garnered more than 4 million paying customers for its subscription service Snapchat+. The news comes on the one-year anniversary of Snap launching the service on its flagship platform, Snapchat, and shows how it is finding some early success in getting users
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — La Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos dice que los colegios y universidades ya no pueden tener en cuenta la raza como base específica para conceder una admisión, lo que constituye una decisión histórica que anula un precedente de hace mucho tiempo que ha beneficiado a los estudiantes negros y latinos en la
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By BRIAN MAASS Click here for updates on this story BOULDER, Colorado (KCNC) — At 47 years old, Atif Ali thought he would be at the mid-point of his life. Instead, he finds himself planning for his death, as he has been diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, which has no known
Continue ReadingBy JOHN RAMOS Click here for updates on this story SAUSALITO, California (KPIX) — The health of the ocean off the Northern California coast is in trouble, as biologists have seen a massive die-off of the kelp forests that are essential to a healthy ecosystem. Scientists think bringing back sea otters may be one solution.
Continue ReadingBy CBS MIAMI TEAM Click here for updates on this story MIAMI (WFOR) — A Miami-Dadde attorney caught our attention, but not because of his legal expertise. Hashim Burney volunteers at Miami-Dade Animal Services, he’s been doing it for the past seven years. He said he loves spending time with dogs and taking them out
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — The off-screen attention regarding Henry Cavill’s exit can’t help but bleed into the new season of “The Witcher,” which will mark the “Man of Steel” star’s last with the Netflix show. Based on the initial episodes, Cavill could leave on a relatively high note, thanks to a tighter,
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By Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — Italians were supposed to be on a “pasta strike” this week but it was called off after prices for the national staple started to fall. Zoom out, though, and global food prices are still far higher than a year ago, despite precipitous drops in the cost of key
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Viewers aren’t the only ones who appreciate the (brief) reunion of Samantha Jones with her “Sex and the City” friends. In a preview of Kim Cattrall’s upcoming appearance on “Today,” the actress, who portrays the character, talked about her cameo during the second season of “And Just Like
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By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Demonstrators breached the perimeter of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad Thursday, a day after a protester burned a copy of the Quran in Sweden. The protests in the Iraqi capital were ordered by the powerful Iraqi Shia cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, who also called for the expulsion of the Swedish
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By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Former Vice President Mike Pence told CNN on Thursday that “repelling Russian aggression” is in the United States’ “national interest,” after meeting earlier in the day with the Ukrainian president during a visit to the war-torn country. The show of support for Ukraine comes as Republicans vying for the
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By Alex Stambaugh and Hadas Gold, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the most controversial aspect of his government’s proposed judicial reform, a provision allowing the national legislature, the Knesset, to overturn Supreme Court rulings, has been dropped and will not be returning. Pressed on whether the provision to allow a
Continue Reading By Alex Stambaugh and Hadas Gold, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the most controversial aspect of his government’s proposed judicial reform, a provision allowing the national legislature, the Knesset, to overturn Supreme Court rulings, has been dropped and will not be returning. Pressed on whether the provision to allow a
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Manifestantes intentaron entrar este jueves a la embajada de Suecia en Bagdad, la capital de Iraq, tras la quema del Corán en Suecia, muestran videos. Las protestas fueron ordenadas por el poderoso clérigo chií iraquí Muqtada al-Sadr, que también pidió la expulsión del embajador sueco en Bagdad. Vídeos que circulan
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By Ariane de Vogue and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court revived the case of a former mail carrier, an evangelical Christian, who said the United States Postal Service violated federal law by failing to reasonably accommodate his inability to work on Sundays. The court said unanimously that a lower court was too
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By Jill Martin, CNN (CNN) — Caroline Wozniacki, a former world No. 1 and the 2018 Australian Open champion, has announced she’s returning to tennis. Wozniacki, now 32, had retired from the sport following the 2020 Australian Open after a 15-year career, winning 30 singles titles. She and her husband, former NBA player David Lee,
Continue ReadingBy CNN staff (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Thursday said colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as an express factor in admissions. In a fiery dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by the court’s other liberals, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, said the opinion “rolls back decades of precedent and
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By Ariane de Vogue, Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court says colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a specific basis for granting admission, a landmark decision overturning long-standing precedent that has benefited Black and Latino students in higher education. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the
Continue ReadingBy Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Demonstrators breached the perimeter of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad Thursday, a day after a protester burned a copy of the Quran in Sweden. The protests in the Iraqi capital were ordered by the powerful Iraqi Shia cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, who also called for the expulsion of the Swedish
Continue ReadingBy KPTV Staff Click here for updates on this story WASHOUGAL, Washington (KPTV) — A recent high school graduate in southwest Washington is heading into the “real world” with a big chunk of change after winning thousands of dollars from a lottery ticket. Lance Wall, 18, won $50,000 in his first time playing the lottery.
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By Marianne Garvey, Dan Heching and Megan Thomas, CNN (CNN) — Madonna has been discharged from the hospital and transported to her New York City home via a private ambulance, a source with knowledge of the matter told CNN Thursday. “She’s in the clear,” the individual told CNN. A source close to the singer told
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