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CNN By Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — Dr. Anthony Fauci said he sees a direct link between the rise in death threats made against him and his family and public figures connecting him to Covid-19 conspiracy theories, which he noted happened earlier Monday during a contentious House hearing about the government’s response to the pandemic.
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By Jennifer Henderson and Kaila Nichols, CNN (CNN) — Two passengers and a pilot were injured after a hot air balloon hit power lines in Indiana on Sunday and the Federal Aviation Administration is now investigating the incident. The crash occurred in Lowell, Indiana – about an hour south of Chicago. The balloon envelope –
Continue Reading WLS, DEBBIE WAJVODA, CNN By WLS Digital Team, Leah Hope, and Eric Horng Click here for updates on this story LOWELL, Indiana (WLS) — A hot air balloon crash in northwest Indiana left three people on board injured on Sunday evening. Two of those injured were airlifted to Chicago hospitals, and crews later moved the
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer Asian shares retreated on Tuesday after a report showed that U.S. manufacturing contracted in May, in the latest sign the economy is slowing. Oil prices fell and U.S. futures edged higher. India’s Sensex led the region’s losses, plunging 4.1% to 73496.24 as the vote count for the country’s six-week-long
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Former Kelley Blue Book Publisher Bob Kelley died on May 28 at the age of 96 in Indian Wells, the company announced today. At age 15, Kelley worked for his family’s car dealership in Southern California before serving in the Navy during World War II, and once he returned to the dealership, his uncle began
Continue ReadingYELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Officials say an 83-year-old woman was gored and seriously injured by a bison in Yellowstone National Park. Park officials said in a statement that the woman from Greenville, South Carolina, was near the Storm Point Trail at Yellowstone Lake on Saturday when the bison lifted her off the ground
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The chief financial officer of The Epoch Times, a conservative multinational media company, has been indicted in a multi-year scheme to launder tens of millions of dollars in fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits and other funds. Arrested on Sunday, Weidong “Bill” Guan, 61, of Secaucus, New Jersey, appeared Monday before a federal
Continue ReadingBy KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India began counting more than 640 million votes Tuesday in the world’s largest democratic exercise, which was widely expected to return Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a third term after a decade in power. The six-week election was seen as a referendum on
Continue Reading By Mike Chinoy and Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — The shot is iconic: an unidentified man in a white shirt, hands full of bags, facing off against a column of tanks on Beijing’s Avenue of Eternal Peace, after the Chinese Communist Party ordered a bloody military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. The photo and footage of
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court will no longer accept complaints about Aileen Cannon, the judge presiding over the federal criminal case against Donald Trump in Florida, that appear to be part of an “orchestrated campaign.” The May 22 opinion from the 11th Circuit Judicial Council, which oversees
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, Amy Simonson, Maxime Tamsett, Raja Razek and Christina Maxouris, CNN (CNN) — Atlanta remains under a state of emergency Monday as it battles disruptions to its water service that began last week, leaving a swath of a major city under boil-water advisories and highlighting the pervasiveness of problems caused by America’s aging
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — The New York Stock Exchange said Monday that a technical issue that halted trading for some major stocks and caused Berkshire Hathaway to be down 99.97% has been resolved. In an update, NYSE said impacted stocks have reopened and “all systems are currently operational.” Intercontinental Exchange, the
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — Shares of GameStop climbed 21% on Monday as the renewed frenzy around meme stocks shows little sign of abating. The video game retailer’s stock soared hours after a Reddit post by stocks influencer Keith Gill — also known as “Roaring Kitty” — revealed that he had bought nearly $116 million
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press DEAUVILLE AIRPORT, France (AP) — ‘’To our forever heroes: Thank you” — those words inscribed by French schoolchildren on a big poster greeted dozens of U.S. World War II veterans, many in their 100s, as they arrived on Monday in Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
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By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Teagan Kavan has earned a new nickname. “I now call her Ice Kavan,” Texas coach Mike White said. The freshman acquired the moniker by throwing back-to-back one-hitters against Stanford in the Women’s College World Series. Texas beat the Cardinal 1-0 on Monday night to advance
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China says a spacecraft carrying rock and soil samples from the far side of the moon has lifted off from the lunar surface to start its journey back to Earth. The ascender of the Chang’e-6 probe lifted off Tuesday morning Beijing time and entered a preset orbit around the moon, the China
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In celebration of Pride Month, LGBTQ+ History & Archives of the Desert is presenting a monthlong partial display of its collection at Welwood Murray Memorial Library. The organization is a community-based archive with a mission of recording and presenting “the history of LGBTQ individuals, businesses, organizations and events centered in Palm Springs and the Coachella
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — President Joe Biden laid into his predecessor and likely opponent in November’s election, Donald Trump, for being convicted by a Manhattan jury on 34 felony counts related to hush money payments, saying Monday night that “this campaign has entered uncharted territory.” Speaking at
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Pop legend Cyndi Lauper will embark on the “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour” on Oct. 18 and will perform at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert on Sunday, Nov. 24. This tour marks Lauper’s first major run in a decade and she will be joined by special guests who will soon be revealed. Tickets
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