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Month: September 2023

Florida public school teacher who led assembly that singled out Black students is resigning

By Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — A Flagler County Public Schools teacher who led an assembly last month that singled out Black fourth- and fifth-grade students at a Florida elementary school, telling them to improve their school performance, has resigned, according to a school district spokesperson. Anthony Hines submitted his resignation letter last week, according

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Republican congressman says Tuberville’s hold on military nominations is ‘paralyzing’ and a ‘national security problem’

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Washington (CNN) — House Foreign Affairs Chairman Mike McCaul, a Republican, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday that GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s hold on military nominations is “paralyzing” and a “national security problem.” “The idea that one man in the Senate can hold this up for months … is paralyzing the

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Portugal routs Luxembourg in record 9-0 win without suspended Ronaldo. Drone delays Armenia-Croatia

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Portugal didn’t need Cristiano Ronaldo to rack up its biggest-ever win in a competitive game. A 9-0 rout of Luxembourg in European Championship qualifying was achieved without Ronaldo because the five-time world player of the year was suspended because of an accumulation of yellow cards in earlier Group J

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Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is erupting again after months of quiet

By Melissa Alonso, Raja Razek and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano began erupting again after nearly three months of quiet, with glowing lava flows bursting within one of its craters Sunday, according to the US Geological Survey. The eruption started around 3:15 p.m. local time in Halemaʻumaʻu crater in Kilauea’s summit caldera at Hawai’i

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

El huracán Lee, ahora de categoría 3, empieza a crear condiciones peligrosas en las playas del sureste de EE.UU., según los meteorólogos

Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — A última hora de este domingo, el huracán Lee empezaba a causar peligrosas olas y corrientes de resaca en algunas partes de la costa sudeste de EE.UU., y se espera que en los próximos días se den condiciones peligrosas en las playas de más zonas de la costa este a

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American Red Cross declares national blood shortage due to low donor turnout and climate disasters like Hurricane Idalia

By Jacqueline Howard and Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — The American Red Cross is sounding the alarm that the United States’ blood supply has fallen by nearly 25% since early August, to what it describes as “critically low levels.” The organization, which provides about 40% of US blood and blood components, announced on its website

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Mexico’s former foreign minister threatens to leave party over candidate selection process

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s former Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard says that he will wait to see how the ruling party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador handles his call to nullify its recently completed presidential candidate selection process, but warned that if not satisfied he will leave the party. Ebrard said Monday that

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Earthquake robbed Moroccan villagers of almost everything — loved ones, homes and possessions

By SAM METZ and MOSA’AB ELSHAMY Associated Press TAFEGHAGHTE, Morocco (AP) — His dead relatives have been dug out and buried, but the remnants of Musa Bouissirfane’s former life are still trapped under rubble and dust in the ruins of the mud-brick Moroccan village of Tafeghaghte. “It’s incredibly challenging to lose your entire family and

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Deputies fired over tasing grandfather 35 times: “the most clear cut case of police negligence, brutality and abuse”

By Austen Erblat Click here for updates on this story     Colorado (KCNC) — Two Las Animas County sheriff’s deputies were recently fired over an incident where they allegedly tased an unarmed man 35 times. The sheriff’s office fired Deputy Mikhail Noel and Lt. Henry Trujillo over a November 2022 incident in Trinidad, about 200 miles

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