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By Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — One Sunday night in February, Will Shortz was at his desk at home in Pleasantville, New York, when he leaned to his left and realized he couldn’t sit back up straight. “I knew immediately I had had a stroke,” he told CNN. The stroke was on the right side
Continue ReadingLEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — Three people were killed and eight others were injured in central Mississippi when someone opened fire into a group of young people on a trail who were celebrating a school’s homecoming football game. The Holmes County Sheriff’s Office says the gunfire early Saturday was proceeded by a fight between two young
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Gonzalo Zegarra (CNN) — Militares norcoreanos han sido filmados recibiendo uniformes y equipamientos en un campo de entrenamiento en el extremo este de Rusia, lo que parece confirmar los informes del Servicio Nacional de Inteligencia de Corea del Sur (NIS) de que 1.500 soldados han sido enviados para recibir entrenamiento militar y ser desplegados en
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Some 200,000 mail carriers have reached a tentative contract deal with the U.S. Postal Service that includes backdated pay raises and a promise to provide workers with air-conditioned trucks. The new agreement, which still needs to be ratified by union members, runs through November 2026. Letter carriers have been working without a new
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Karl Peterson has been living the cruel inverse of the American dream. His rent keeps getting higher, but his apartments keep getting smaller. Peterson left the Midwest nine years ago for the epicenter of an economic boom, only to gradually learn that endless sunshine and desert views are increasingly
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By Patrick Oppmann, CNN (CNN) — Cuba suffered a second nationwide blackout Saturday morning, hours after officials said power was being slowly restored. “At 6:15 am a new total outage occurred of the national electroenergetic system,” a post on the Cuba Electrical Union’s official Telegram channel said. “The Electric Union is working to reestablish it.”
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A mile and a half beneath the ocean’s surface, the seafloor seems nearly as alien as the surfaces of other planets. Deep-sea volcanic ridges, formed by the collisions of tectonic plates, create underwater hot springs in an otherwise frigid environment. These hydrothermal vents belch warm towers of elements that
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s government says some electricity has been restored on the island after one of the country’s major power plants failed and left millions without electricity for two days. Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy said that the country had 500 megawatts of energy in its electrical grid early Saturday.
Continue ReadingReligion News Service (RNS) — In mid-September, Val Smith, chief sustainability officer at Citigroup, one of the United States’ Big Four of banking, met with four religious environmental activists to discuss the company’s record on fossil fuel investment. In 2021, Citi had pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, but according to reports by
Continue ReadingPersonal essay by Cynthia Moss, CNN Vienna, Austria (CNN) — After more than a year of planning and dreaming about seeing the Eras Tour in person, I was singing my favorite Taylor Swift song surrounded by thousands of fellow Swifties. The lyrics to “Death by a Thousand Cuts” cut deeper than usual, however, because I
Continue ReadingTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The man who gained social media fame for riding out two hurricanes in his boat in Tampa has been arrested. Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrest records show 54-year-old Joseph Malinowsky, known as “Lt. Dan” in TikTok posts, was arrested Friday for trespassing and failure to appear in court on previous charges
Continue ReadingReligion News Service (RNS) — This past Sunday, worshippers returned to Biltmore Church, a megachurch in Asheville, North Carolina, for the first time in person after Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina. It was bittersweet, said Bruce Frank, the church’s pastor. People were glad to be together, even as many are still grieving. “There is
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — A California man has been charged with drugging and sexually assaulting nine women, including one woman who died from the drugs, prosecutors said Friday. Michael DiGiorgio, 50, faces multiple charges including murder, rape by use of a drug and furnishing a controlled substance, according to court records obtained by
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LEWISVILLE, Texas (AP) — Two neighboring Texas cities illustrate the divide in American politics between the diverse, potential electorate in the country and the actual electorate, which is heavily white and wealthier. For a long time, the presumption has been that closing that gap between places like Lewisville and Flower Mound north of
Continue ReadingBy Sam Joseph, CNN (CNN) — San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall will be activated for the team’s Week 7 matchup against the Kansas City Chiefs, according to head coach Kyle Shanahan, seven weeks after he was shot in the chest during an attempted robbery in San Francisco’s Union Square. Pearsall was hospitalized overnight
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris said Saturday that Republican former President Donald Trump was “cruel” for how he talked about the grieving family of a Georgia mother who died after waiting 20 hours for a hospital to treat her complications from an abortion pill, as she put combating restrictions on reproductive
Continue ReadingAssociated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The family of a Guatemalan journalist has celebrated his transfer to house arrest following his jailing for over two years amid his newspaper’s anti-corruption investigations. José Rubén Zamora, the founder of newspaper El Periódico, was released from jail Saturday evening. The daily specialized in anti-corruption reporting before closing a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LEWISVILLE, Texas (AP) — Deep in the heart of Texas’ sprawl, the city of Lewisville embodies the Lone Star State. Bisected by Interstate 35 and ribboned with six- and eight-lane thoroughfares lined with chain stores, Mexican restaurants and pawn shops, Lewisville, 23 miles north of Dallas, is the prototypical slice of the nation’s
Continue Reading Julia Hernández (CNN) — La vicepresidenta Kamala Harris y el expresidente Donald Trump coincidieron este viernes en Michigan, ambos de gira por el estado mientras libran una reñida batalla por sus potencialmente decisivos 15 votos del Colegio Electoral. Los dos convergieron en el condado de Oakland, al noroeste de Detroit, rico en votos, donde una
Continue ReadingBy Carlos Castañeda Click here for updates on this story BAY AREA, California (KPIX) — Thousands of Pacific Gas and Electric customers in the Bay Area began the day Friday without power after the utility turned off electricity to areas most threatened by high winds and fire danger. The so-called Public Safety Power Shutoffs began
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