By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Artemis I mega moon rocket is ready for its fourth attempt at a final prelaunch test, according to an update from NASA officials on Wednesday. The crucial test, known as the wet dress rehearsal, simulates every stage of launch without the rocket leaving the launchpad at Kennedy Space Center in
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — People flocked to pools, beaches and cooling centers in a swath of the Midwest and South spanning from northern Florida to the Great Lakes on Wednesday as a heat wave pushed temperatures into the 90s and beyond and may have caused the deaths of at least two
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) — La Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos desestimó la apelación de un grupo de estados liderados por republicanos para intervenir en un caso que desafía la política de inmigración de “carga pública”, impuesta en la era Trump y cuya versión el gobierno de Biden dejó de implementar. El caso no se centró en
Continue ReadingCNN By Ariane de Vogue, Tierney Sneed, Priscilla Alvarez and Chandelis Duster, CNN The Supreme Court dismissed an appeal Wednesday brought by a group of Republican-led states seeking to intervene in a case challenging the Trump-era “public charge” immigration policy, a version of which the Biden administration has abandoned. The case did not center on
Continue ReadingBy CURT ANDERSON Associated Press The federal investigation into the deadly collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium building is entering a new phase that involves cutting and drilling into concrete and steel to determine what role they played. The National Institute of Standards and Technology said Wednesday that what’s known as invasive testing will begin
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN Tombstones in what’s now Kyrgyzstan have revealed tantalizing details about the origins of the Black Death, the world’s most devastating plague outbreak that is estimated to have killed half of Europe’s population in the space of seven years during the Middle Ages. The source of that pandemic has been debated by
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Artemis I mega moon rocket is ready for its fourth attempt at a final prelaunch test, according to an update from NASA officials on Wednesday. The crucial test, known as the wet dress rehearsal, simulates every stage of launch without the rocket leaving the launchpad at Kennedy
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden commemorated Pride Month by signing a new executive order on Wednesday that takes a number of steps aimed at shoring up equality for LGBTQ Americans, a move which comes amid a wave of Republican-led efforts in dozens of states to limit the rights of LGBTQ
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN A federal watchdog has found that for years, the Interior Department’s safety and enforcement branch was unaware of an oil and gas company that regularly vented and flared a potent planet-warming gas at levels exceeding the department’s own requirements. Interior’s Office of the Inspector General found that an energy company operating
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN The Biden administration is facilitating an additional shipment of infant formula on Thursday, the White House announced, transporting specialty formula from Switzerland to the US through ongoing “Operation Fly Formula” efforts as the federal government continues to work to address the shortage. The administration, the White House said in a statement
Continue ReadingCNN By Mia Alberti, Rodrigo Pedroso, Jorge Engels, Camilo Rocha and Philip Wang, CNN The Brazilian ambassador to the UK has apologized to the family of missing journalist Dom Phillips after they were wrongly told that two bodies had been found in the search operation. Phillips’ family told CNN in an email that Fred Arruda,
Continue ReadingCNN By Anna Chernova and Karen Smith, CNN Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been transferred from the penal colony where he was serving his term to a higher security prison facility. The jailed politician was relocated to a maximum-security prison in Melekhovo in the Vladimir Region, according to Russia’s state media outlet TASS citing
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN) — El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, pidió a las principales compañías petroleras que tomen “medidas inmediatas” para aumentar el suministro, diciéndoles en una nueva carta que los márgenes de beneficio “históricamente altos” son inaceptables en un momento en el que los estadounidenses siguen viendo aumentar los precios en el surtidor
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Karolina Pliskova has edged Bianca Andreescu 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (7) at the Berlin Open to reach her second quarterfinal of the year. The fourth-seeded Pliskova hit 17 aces against Kaia Kanepi in the first round and added 12 more against Andreescu. But the Czech player had to fight back from a break
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Independent booksellers are growing in number and becoming more diverse. Membership in the American Booksellers Association currently stands at just over 2,000. That’s its highest total in years and more than 100 over the previous summer. Dozens of new stores are owned by people of
Continue ReadingBy MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — An unusual alliance of international activist groups, Mexican prosecutors and a dog trained to sniff out memory devices joined forces this month to catch a high-profile suspected pedophile in Mexico City. A Netherlands-based group that fights human trafficking tipped off activists at the U.S.-based Operation Underground
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden is still debating whether to lift some tariffs on China put in place by his predecessor as he mines his authorities for ways to bring down skyrocketing prices that have caused his approval ratings to plummet. Biden is on track to announce a decision on tariffs within a
Continue ReadingGOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING, EVERYONE… Today we get to enjoy a nice, pleasant day in between storm patterns. Under mostly sunny skies, our daytime highs will reach the mid to upper 70’s, with a few spots breaking through 80 degrees. Breezes will be gentle out of the south and SW at 5-10 mph. Clouds will thicken
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) — El Hospital Carilion Franklin Memorial en Rocky Mount, Virginia, está lleno: atiende su cuota de casos de covid-19 y problemas más comunes en esta época del año, como los accidentes de barcos. Pero sus profesionales también tratan a pacientes enfermos por algo engañosamente peligroso: el calor extremo. Las altas temperaturas en el
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish toy company Lego said Wednesday it plans to invest more than $1 billion over 10 years to build a new factory in the U.S. state of Virginia and to enlarge an existing factory in Mexico. The moves in North America follow Lego’s announcement last year of a similar investment in
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