Biden takes on multiple crises without key confirmed officials at the helm
By Liz Stark, CNN President Joe Biden is facing a border crisis without a confirmed border commissioner, spending fights without an official budget…
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Gun politics scrambles Democrats’ efforts to confirm Biden’s ATF nominee and craft background checks deal
By Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN Top Democrats are quietly moving to lock down support for President Joe Biden’s imperiled nominee to head a…
Continue ReadingDamaging winds threaten more than 90 million people in the Midwest and Northeast
By Jackson Dill, CNN Severe weather — including possible tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds — will threaten more than 90 million…
Continue ReadingEnrique Peña Nieto Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. Personal Birth date: July 20, 1966 Birth…
Continue ReadingAmerica’s deep political fissures could cost the country its perfect credit rating
By Matt Egan, CNN Business Fitch Ratings warned on Tuesday that the United States could lose its perfect credit rating due in part to the ongoing…
Continue ReadingFitch warns US politics could hurt credit rating
Fitch Ratings said that governance is a “weakness” for the United States, specifically citing the January 6 insurrection and ongoing efforts to curb…
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Why do swimmers shave their bodies?
Caeleb Dressel, Katie Ledecky, Ryan Lochte and other Olympic swimmers share the performance and mental reasons for shaving, and explain why that…
Continue ReadingA wildfire has destroyed 90% of this town. Indigenous communities have been hit the hardest
By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Schoolteacher Katrina Sam has lived in Lytton in the Canadian province of British Columbia all her life, but a week after a…
Continue ReadingWhy inflation may not go away anytime soon
By Matt Egan, CNN Business America’s finance chiefs don’t think inflation will go away overnight. Chief financial officers, on average,…
Continue ReadingThis freshwater algae has three sexes that can all mate with each other, new research says
By Alexandra Mae Jones, CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — On the…
Continue ReadingVaccine passports: Where and how could they be used in Canada?
By Alexandra Mae Jones, CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — As…
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Biden in standoff with Democratic senators over who should lead FDA
By Kristen Holmes Nearly six months into a presidency fully engulfed in a battle against a global pandemic, President Joe Biden is in a standoff with…
Continue Reading‘We are seeing people passing quicker than before’: What hospitals look like in US Covid hot spots
By Christina Maxouris, CNN Dr. Sergio Segarra says when Covid-19 patient numbers in the Miami hospital he works in dipped below 20 last month, he…
Continue ReadingInflation is running hot. What comes next matters most
By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business US prices continue to march higher, triggering concerns among economists, policymakers and business leaders about the…
Continue ReadingThe lone Republican on 1/6 panel so far, Liz Cheney vows to ‘stand for the truth’
By Melanie Zanona and Alex Rogers, CNN Rep. Liz Cheney has a strong admonition for House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy: any Republican still challenging…
Continue ReadingCase involving body camera footage from Colorado officer charged with felony assault is a test for new state law
By Steve Almasy and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN A Colorado police officer was in court Tuesday morning at a bail hearing for an assault charge he faces for…
Continue ReadingTennessee is halting outreach on all vaccines for adolescents, including for Covid-19
Dr. Michelle Fiscus, the top vaccine official for the state of Tennessee, says she was fired after sharing a decades-old state policy about minors…
Continue ReadingTennessee is halting outreach on all vaccines for adolescents, including for Covid-19
By Madeline Holcombe, CNN The Tennessee Department of Health is halting all adolescent vaccine outreach, even for vaccines not related to Covid-19,…
Continue ReadingZomato is raising $1.3 billion in India’s biggest tech IPO
By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business India’s biggest tech IPO is here. Food delivery startup Zomato is looking to raise almost $1.3 billion this week…
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Venice bans cruise ships from the city center — again
Julia Buckley, CNN First there was a ban. Then it became a pre-ban for an uncertain date in the future. Then they were back in the city until further…
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