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By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Its perfectly preserved streets and still-standing houses provide a unique opportunity to see how people lived nearly 2,000 years ago. A visit to the ancient city of Pompeii, frozen in time when it was covered by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE, provides memories of a lifetime. But
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Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN) — La atleta refugiada Manizha Talash fue descalificada de la competencia de breaking B-Girl en los Juegos Olímpicos por usar una capa con las palabras “liberen a las mujeres” durante su competencia del viernes. La joven de 21 años, que huyó de Afganistán después de que los talibanes comenzaran a tomar
Continue Reading Julia Hernández (CNN) — La exdirectora ejecutiva de YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, una pionera de la tecnología que fue una de las primeras empleadas de Google, murió después de vivir con cáncer de pulmón durante dos años, según su marido. “Con profunda tristeza comparto la noticia del fallecimiento de Susan Wojcicki. Mi amada esposa durante 26
Continue Reading Julia Hernández (CNN) — Un avión de pasajeros que transportaba a 62 personas se estrelló en las afueras de São Paulo este viernes por la tarde, y murieron todos los que iban a bordo, según un comunicado emitido por la aerolínea Voepass. Las dramáticas imágenes que circularon por las redes sociales mostraban la caída del
Continue Reading Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Mientras las autoridades policiales venezolanas detenían a centenares de personas por participar en las protestas posteriores a las elecciones presidenciales del 28 de julio, la asociación civil Espacio Público dice haber documentado al menos 16 casos de anulación de pasaportes a periodistas y activistas de Derechos Humanos. Carlos Correa, director
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Watching climbing at the Paris Olympics makes it seem as if it’s a sport that would be completely out of the question for a weekend athlete. The speed, strength and dexterity with which the competitors scale the walls appear impossible to match. Think again. With over 600 climbing gyms in the United States,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A worker at a federal prison in California has died and investigators are examining whether he was exposed to fentanyl shortly before his death, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. Marc Fischer, a mailroom supervisor at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atwater, California, died Friday after he
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A worker at a federal prison in California has died and investigators are examining whether he was exposed to fentanyl shortly before his death, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. Marc Fischer, a mailroom supervisor at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atwater, California, died Friday after he
Continue ReadingBy Erika Tulfo, CNN (CNN) — Even as tech giants pour billions of dollars into what they herald as humanity’s new frontier, a recent study shows that tacking the “AI” label on products may actually drive people away. A study published in the Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management in June found that describing a
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CNN By Irene Nasser, Abeer Salman, Ibrahim Dahman, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Lex Harvey and Allegra Goodwin, CNN (CNN) — At least 93 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli strike on a school and mosque in Gaza sheltering displaced people, according to local officials, sparking international outrage. Gaza Civil Defense said people were performing dawn prayers
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Defense Department disagreement over how to bring to justice the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and two others has thrown the cases into disarray and surfaced tension between the desire of some victims’ families to see a final legal reckoning and the significant obstacles that may make
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Susan Wojcicki, a pioneering tech executive who helped shape Google and YouTube, has died, her husband said. She was 56. Wojcicki played a key role in Google’s creation and served nine years as YouTube’s CEO, stepping down last year to focus on her “family, health, and personal projects I’m passionate about,” she said
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libyan officials say clashes between two heavily armed militia groups in the country’s capital terrorized residents and killed about a dozen people, the latest bout of violence in the largely lawless North African nation. They said that the clashes, which involved heavy weapons, occurred Friday in Tripoli’s eastern neighborhood of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s newly-elected president has reappointed a U.S.-educated official as director of the country’s nuclear department. Iranian state TV reported Saturday that 67-year-old civil engineer Mohammad Eslami will continue his work as head of the country’s civilian nuclear program and serve as one of the country’s several vice presidents. The
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Excavations and metal-detecting work at the site of a famous ship burial in Suffolk, England, have revealed missing pieces that could help archaeologists better understand an intriguing but incomplete sixth century artifact. A team of archaeologists, volunteers and conservators unearthed additional fragments of a Byzantine bucket at Sutton Hoo,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Susan Wojcicki, a pioneering tech executive who helped shape Google and YouTube, has died, her husband said. She was 56. Wojcicki played a key role in Google’s creation and served nine years as YouTube’s CEO, stepping down last year to focus on her “family, health, and personal projects I’m passionate about,” she said
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea is again flying balloons likely carrying trash toward the South, adding to a bizarre psychological warfare campaign amid growing tensions between the war-divided rivals. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said Saturday that the winds could carry the balloons to regions north
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PARIS (AP) — From the Australian b-girl with the meme-worthy “kangaroo” dance move to the silver-medal winning Lithuanian in a durag, breaking’s Olympic debut had a few moments that raised questions from viewers about whether the essence of the hip-hop art form was captured at the Paris Games. Rachael Gunn, or “b-girl Raygun,”
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia has announced increased security measures in the border region of Kursk. An incursion there this week by Ukrainian forces caught Russian troops off guard and exposed its military vulnerabilities in the nearly 2½–year-old war. The Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday that fighting was continuing in the Kursk region
Continue ReadingAP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Mars and Jupiter are cozying up in the night sky for their closest rendezvous this decade. They’ll be so close Wednesday, at least from our perspective, that just a sliver of moon could fit between them. In reality, our solar system’s biggest planet and its dimmer, reddish
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