Over half a dozen locations reached all-time temperature records on Saturday across the Southwest. Meteorologist Allison Chinchar has more on the dangerous heat to end the weekend.
Continue ReadingAfter Pfizer announced that it is seeing waning immunity from its coronavirus vaccine and it will seek emergency use authorization from the FDA in August for a booster dose, the FDA and the CDC released a joint statement saying boosters were not needed yet.
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN For the first time, travelers in Tibet can enjoy the area’s mountainous views at high-speed. A 435-kilometer (250-mile) rail line connecting Tibetan capital Lhasa with the city of Nyingchi entered into service on June 25, giving all 31 provincial-level regions of mainland China access to high-speed train travel. 47 tunnels,
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Hu, Mitchell McCluskey and Jessie Yeung, CNN Haitian authorities have arrested a man they say helped orchestrate the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, the country’s police chief announced on Sunday. Moise was killed Wednesday in his Port-au-Prince home, in an attack that has shaken a country already rattled by rampant violence and political
Continue ReadingBy Diksha Madhok, CNN Business Indians on Twitter — from top politicians to business executives — are celebrating one of the women who flew to the edge of space along with Richard Branson. Sirisha Bandla, who is the vice president of government affairs and research operations at Virgin Galactic, roared into the sky over New
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN) — Primero estaba el “blackface”. Ahora está el “blackfishing”. El término ha aparecido cada vez más en las noticias para describir el comportamiento de los artistas blancos que parecen estar imitando la apariencia de los negros. No es un cumplido. El último ejemplo es la estrella del pop Iggy Azalea, quien
Continue ReadingBy Alanne Orjoux and Holly Yan, CNN Defeating this pandemic and the highly contagious Delta variant isn’t just about protecting yourself through vaccination — it’s also about having others in the community vaccinated, doctors say. “Even if you are vaccinated, if you’re living in an area with high rates of Covid-19 spread — and with
Continue ReadingThe death toll from the Surfside, Florida, condo tower collapse rose to 86 as recovery efforts resume after they were briefly halted because of a lighting strike, officials said. CNN’s Natasha Chen reports.
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone, CNN The death toll in the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, rose to 90 on Sunday, officials said in a news conference. Seventy-one of the victims have been identified and their next of kin have been notified, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said. There are now 217 people accounted for and
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — Una aguerrida selección italiana ganó este domingo Eurocopa 2020 luego de vencer en penales a Inglaterra en el estadio de Wembley. Esta victoria significó la segunda Eurocopa para Italia, mientras que los ingleses siguen con su extensa racha sin conseguir un título en selección mayor (desde la Copa del Mundo de
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN On a night fraught with tension, Italy clinched its first major title for 15 years with a penalty shootout win over England in the Euro 2020 final. Luke Shaw’s goal inside the opening two minutes gave England a lead it looked like it would hold onto all night, before a goalmouth
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan, CNN Editor’s note: CNN has launched the Meanwhile in China newsletter, a three-times-a-week update exploring what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. Sign up here. One of China’s wandering elephants has finally made it home. The herd of wild Asian elephants shot to fame
Continue ReadingBy Diksha Madhok, CNN Business Twitter is going through an extraordinarily tough year in India. But the company’s response to the turmoil has left even some people who would like to be on its side baffled. Silicon Valley’s biggest tech firms have been locked in a tense stand-off with India over strict new information technology
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By Jennifer Hansler and Brad Lendon, CNN United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reaffirmed the US’ commitment to defend the Philippines’ armed forces from attack in the South China Sea, under a 70-year-old mutual defense treaty. Blinken made the comments Sunday, in a statement marking the fifth anniversary of a ruling by an
Continue ReadingDidi shares plunged as much as 22% in premarket trading as fallout continued over news of the company’s troubles in China. CNN’s David Culver reports.
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Business China’s crackdown on Big Tech just keeps growing. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) — the country’s powerful internet watchdog — this weekend proposed that any company with data on more than one million users must seek the agency’s approval before listing its shares overseas. It also proposed companies must
Continue ReadingBy Camille Furst and Alaa Elassar, CNN California has confirmed the first death from the West Nile virus in the state for 2021. The death occurred in San Luis Obispo County, according to a news release from the California Department of Public Health. It gave no further identifying information about the death. “West Nile virus
Continue ReadingBy Paul LeBlanc, CNN Family welfare experts for months have looked to the easing of coronavirus pandemic restrictions as the turning point that would bring clarity about child abuse and neglect rates after a year of unreliable data. But even with Covid-19 protocols relaxing nationwide, experts told CNN it’s too soon to know the scale
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By Randi Kaye and Theresa Waldrop, CNN Baby pictures. Toys. Photo albums. Passports. These are just a few of the items found by the search teams at the site of the collapsed Surfside, Florida, condo building that drove home the immensity of what they were doing, one crew member said. The crews at the site
Continue ReadingBy Sheena McKenzie, CNN A derelict plot on the banks of the Danube River in Budapest, Hungary, might seem like an unusual epicenter for a political earthquake. But that was before Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s populist government announced a controversial plan for a prestigious Shanghai university to open its first overseas campus there in 2024
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