By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Woz is throwing his weight behind the “right to repair” movement. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, known in the tech world by his nickname, spoke out on the issue during a recent appearance on Cameo, a website that lets fans pay celebrities for video messages. In a post to Louis Rossmann,
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN Business NBC was presented with a new challenge producing the 2021 Olympic Games on Thursday after organizers said that spectators will be prohibited from the Tokyo venues, a move that eliminates a key component of live sports broadcasts and could give the competitions an eerie feel. The setback, which was announced
Continue ReadingFans were banned from the pandemic-postponed Tokyo Olympics which will open in two weeks, following a state of emergency on Thursday, Olympic Minister Tamayo Marukawa told the Japanese news agency Kyodo.
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Una revisión presupuestaria independiente advirtió a la asociación de condominios Champlain Towers South que sus reservas financieras presentaban una crítica falta de fondos ante las reparaciones estructurales que se necesitaban con urgencia poco más de un año antes de que el edificio colapsara, según muestra un documento obtenido por CNN. La asociación
Continue ReadingBy Bethan Edwards, for CNN A pair of battered looking track and field spikes — handmade by Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman — featuring a “prototype logo” could fetch $1.2 million at auction, according to Sotheby’s. “This rare pair of track spikes made in the 1960s and modified in the early 70s represents an important chapter
Continue ReadingUS Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy says he is concerned that the Detla variant of Covid-19 is behind the rise in cases of coronavirus in the US and warned that the unvaccinated are at risk because it spreads faster than any known variant.
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN Twenty-four states have seen an uptick of at least 10% in Covid-19 cases over the past week, Johns Hopkins University data shows, as health experts and the federal government keep pressing for more people to get vaccinated. The rapid spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus has only ratcheted up
Continue ReadingBy Reuters Giannis Antetokounmpo found his stride Thursday night. The question is: Are the Phoenix Suns so far ahead that it doesn’t matter? Devin Booker hit seven of his team’s postseason-franchise-record 20 3-pointers while scoring 31 points and the Suns went up 2-0 in the NBA Finals with a 118-108 victory over the visiting Milwaukee
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, Keith Allen and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN Minnesota police believe that what started as a traffic altercation on a highway this week ended in the homicide of a youth baseball coach, officials said. Jay Harrison Boughton, 56, of Crystal, Minnesota, died Tuesday in the emergency room at the North Memorial Hospital after a
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe and Eric Levenson, CNN Tropical Storm Elsa, which brought heavy rain and high winds to parts of Florida and Georgia, moved into the Carolinas on Thursday and is forecast to race northward up the East Coast over the next few days. Tornadoes were reported across northern Florida and southeastern Georgia on Wednesday,
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Pfizer dijo el jueves que observó una disminución de la inmunidad de su vacuna contra el coronavirus y que está retomando sus esfuerzos para desarrollar una dosis de refuerzo que protegerá a las personas de las variantes. La farmacéutica dijo que buscaría la autorización de uso de emergencia de la Administración de
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Lil Baby, músico y rapero estadounidense con una serie de éxitos en colaboración, y otro individuo están bajo custodia policial en Francia, sospechosos de transportar drogas ilícitas, dijo la fiscalía de París a CNN el jueves. La estrella del baloncesto James Harden, recientemente de los Brooklyn Nets, y Lil Baby estaban
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Hu, Kiarinna Parisi, Etant Dupain, Mitchell McCluskey, Gerardo Lemos, Helen Regan, Ivana Kottasová and Jack Guy, CNN Two US citizens are among more than a dozen arrested in Haiti in connection with the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, a top government official said Thursday. Elections Minister Mathias Pierre told CNN two US citizens
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — La variante delta del nuevo coronavirus sigue ganando terreno en todo el mundo. Los expertos han señalado que es más peligrosa, más infecciosa y el ex asesor principal del equipo de respuesta ante el coronavirus de Joe Biden llegó a llamarla “covid-19 con esteroides”. Sin embargo, expertos del sector salud han
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone, Madeline Holcombe, Paul Vercammen and Amir Vera, CNN The death toll in a condo building collapse in Surfside, Florida, has risen to 64, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said, after authorities made the decision to shift the search effort from rescue to recovery. Four more victims were recovered Thursday, Levine Cava
Continue ReadingBy Jake Kwon and Angus Watson, CNN The capital of South Korea and Australia’s largest city announced Friday they would increase their Covid-19 prevention measures to combat growing outbreaks of the Delta variant in both cities. Seoul will raise its distancing measures to its highest level ever to counter surging Covid-19 numbers, Prime Minister Kim
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Oregon’s newest millionaire – and its first ever to get that rich by getting the COVID-19 vaccine – is an Oregon State University student from McMinnville who first thought a text she got with the news of her big “Take Your Shot Oregon” jackpot could be a scam.
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For the first time since the start of the pandemic, St. Charles Health System is offering a treatment to help people with mild to moderate COVID-19 fight off the disease and, hopefully, avoid hospitalization.
Continue ReadingBy Chloe Melas, CNN Madonna is speaking out against Britney Spears’ nearly 13-year conservatorship. The reigning queen of pop posted a throwback photo of herself in a shirt that read “Britney Spears” to her Instagram stories with the caption: “Give this woman her life back. Slavery was abolished so long ago! Death to the greedy
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Deschutes County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue came to the assistance Thursday of a 74-year-old Bend man who was injured while hiking near the Green Lakes Trailhead west of Bend.
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