By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Leyla Santiago, Mallory Simon, Linh Tran, Amara Walker, Pamela Kirkland and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN Miami-Dade County, Florida’s largest school district, voted 7-1 in favor of a mask mandate Wednesday, in defiance of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order on masks in schools and the threat of severe state penalties. The mask mandate does
Continue ReadingBy ASIM TANVEER Associated Press MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a powerful roadside bomb has exploded among a procession of Shiite Muslims in central Pakistan, killing at least three and wounding over 50 people. Videos circulating on social media showed police and ambulances rushing toward the site of the explosion. Several wounded people
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes (CNN) — Mientras luchamos un mes tras otro contra la pandemia, puede ser difícil mantener una actitud positiva con respecto al presente y el futuro. Incluso en pandemia, la psiquiatra Samantha Boardman sugiere que el mejor enfoque podría ser desarrollar fuerza y positividad desde adentro. En su nuevo libro, “Everyday Vitality: Turning Stress
Continue ReadingBy Charles Riley, CNN Business Nando’s has been forced to close dozens of restaurants in the United Kingdom due to shortages of the chain’s signature peri peri chicken. Some 45 outlets were shuttered across England, Scotland and Wales, a spokesperson for Nando’s told CNN Business on Wednesday. The company has dispatched some of its employees
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden está luchando contra un examen cada vez más profundo de su juicio, competencia e incluso su empatía por la caótica salida de Estados Unidos de Afganistán. Y cada intento que hace la administración para sofocar un furor que está empañando la imagen de Estados Unidos solo provoca
Continue ReadingHONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s government says it has granted a quarantine exemption to an individual to perform “designated professional work” following reports that Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman did not have to spend time in quarantine when she arrived in the city to film a TV series. It did not identify Kidman by name.
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s highest court has rejected the appeals of three people who were convicted in one of the country’s most high-profile murder trials involving a far-right group. The decision announced Thursday by the Federal Court of Justice confirms the life sentence given three years ago to Beate Zschaepe, the only known survivor of
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — Algunos pronósticos de modelos de computadora muestran que la tormenta tropical Henri tocaría tierra en el noreste de EE.UU. Pero no todos los modelos concuerdan, y el pronóstico oficial dice que Henri permanecerá en alta mar. Aún así, el cono de incertidumbre incluye partes de Nueva Inglaterra donde, incluso si no
Continue ReadingBy BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group said Thursday that an Iranian fuel tanker will sail toward Lebanon “within hours,” warning Israel and the United States not to intercept it. The delivery organized by Lebanon-based Hezbollah would be an apparent violation of U.S. sanctions imposed on
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi and Andy Rose, CNN The three Honolulu police officers who faced various murder charges over the killing of a 16-year-old boy will not stand trial after a judge ruled Wednesday that there was no probable cause to proceed with the case. Iremamber Sykap was shot eight times through the rear window of
Continue ReadingBy Sonia Moghe, CNN Federal prosecutors in New York began their case against R. Kelly with graphic testimony from a woman who says the R&B singer sexually abused her when she was 16 years old, and that she has a T-shirt with his semen on it. Jerhonda Johnson Pace, now 28, testified Wednesday that she
Continue ReadingBy SRDJAN NEDELJKOVIC and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press THEA, Greece (AP) — A Greek minister says a major wildfire that has ravaged a pine forest for four days, burnt homes and led to the evacuation of villages northwest of Athens is on the wane, but not yet under control. Hundreds of Greek and Polish firefighters,
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Al menos 125 turistas han sido evacuados de hoteles y llevados a refugios antes de la llegada del huracán Grace en el este de México, dijo el gobernador del estado de Quintana Roo, Carlos Joaquín González el miércoles por la noche. Se espera que Grace toque tierra el jueves temprano en el
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — A top Chinese official says “all-round efforts” are needed to ensure Tibetans speak Chinese and share the “cultural symbols and images of the Chinese nation.” Politburo member Wang Yang, who oversees policy toward China’s ethnic minorities, spoke in Tibet on the 70th anniversary of the Chinese invasion of the vast Himalayan region.
Continue ReadingBy AHMAD SEIR, TAMEEM AKHGAR, KATHY GANNON and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban violently dispersed scattered protests for a second day as they moved to consolidate their rule less than a week after seizing power. Experts, meanwhile, warned that Afghanistan’s already weakened economy could crumble further without the massive international
Continue ReadingBy ANNABELLE LIANG Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — Asian stock markets are mostly lower as worries surrounding the spread of the delta variant again take center stage Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.7% and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong slipped 1.5% on Friday. Benchmarks in Seoul and Shanghai fell, while Sydney’s inched higher. Traders
Continue ReadingBy ANNABELLE LIANG Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — Asian stock markets are mostly lower as worries surrounding the spread of the delta variant again take center stage Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.7% and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong slipped 1.5% on Friday. Benchmarks in Seoul and Shanghai fell, while Sydney’s inched higher. Traders
Continue ReadingBy COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press ALISTRATI, Greece (AP) — Persephone is not your ordinary robot. Billed as the world’s first robot used as a tour guide inside a cave, Persephone has been welcoming visitors to the Alistrati cave in northern Greece since mid-July. The multilingual robot covers the first 150 meters (500 feet) of the
Continue ReadingBy COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press ALISTRATI, Greece (AP) — Persephone is not your ordinary robot. Billed as the world’s first robot used as a tour guide inside a cave, Persephone has been welcoming visitors to the Alistrati cave in northern Greece since mid-July. The multilingual robot covers the first 150 meters (500 feet) of the
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President Joe Biden has nominated Oregon resident and tribal citizen Charles F. “Chuck” Sams III to head the National Park Service.
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