By Zoe Sottile, CNN A huge sinkhole has opened up right next to a West Virginia police department, disrupting traffic and requiring several schools to move their classes online. The sinkhole, located on West Virginia Route 20 right next to the police department, is a long-standing problem in Hinton, West Virginia. When the sinkhole first
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Mientras la Universidad de Idaho lamenta la pérdida de cuatro estudiantes asesinados durante un ataque en una casa fuera del campus el fin de semana pasado, la comunidad sigue en crisis por los pocos detalles sobre la muerte de los estudiantes y la ausencia de un sospechoso identificado. Los cuatro estudiantes
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES As Twitter became knotted with parody accounts and turmoil, Rachel Terlep, who runs an account for the Washington State Department of Natural Resources that intersperses cheeky banter with wildfire and weather warnings, watched with equal parts trepidation and fascination. “It kind of feels like a supernova moment right now — a big,
Continue ReadingBy CALVIN WOODWARD, ZEKE MILLER and NATHAN ELLGREN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — People in their 80s lead countries, create majestic art and perform feats of endurance, one even scaling Mount Everest. It’s soon time for Joe Biden, 80 on Sunday, to decide whether he has one more mountain to climb — the one to
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN A bird thought to be extinct for 140 years has been rediscovered in the forests of Papua New Guinea. The black-naped pheasant-pigeon was documented by scientists for the first and last time in 1882, according to a news release from nonprofit Re:wild, which helped fund the search effort. Rediscovering the bird
Continue ReadingBy CALVIN WOODWARD, ZEKE MILLER and NATHAN ELLGREN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The oldest president in U.S. history is hitting a milestone birthday. Biden turns 80 on Sunday, and questions are swirling about whether he has the acuity and stamina to run for president again, if he chooses to do so. He says he
Continue ReadingBy CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Piles of snow, in some places taller than most people, buried parts of western and northern New York as a lake-effect storm pounded areas east of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario for a third straight day Saturday, with possibly even more to come. Snowfall totals as
Continue ReadingBy Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Customers are pulling back on spending at Gap and Old Navy — particularly in one specific category that shows just how much families are feeling inflation’s pinch. In tough times, parents typically skimp on themselves and focus on meeting the needs of their growing children. But Gap and Old Navy
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — El discurso de casi una hora de duración del presidente de la FIFA, Gianni Infantino, en vísperas de la Copa del Mundo de 2022 en Qatar ha sido descrito como “insensible” y un “insulto” a los trabajadores migrantes por parte de grupos de derechos humanos. En un monólogo explosivo, y a veces
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Intel’s announcement earlier this year of a $20 billion manufacturing operation bringing thousands of jobs to rural Ohio was greeted as an economic boon. But behind that enthusiasm lurked a pressing question. “Where are we putting everybody?” asked Melissa Humbert-Washington, vice president of programs and services
Continue ReadingBy JOHN LEICESTER and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised 125 anti-aircraft guns and other air-defense technology as he made an unannounced visit Saturday — his first — to Ukraine’s snow-blanketed capital for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The air-defense package, which Britain valued at 50
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A funeral has been held for one of two Polish men who died in a missile explosion near the border with Ukraine. Boguslaw Wos and another man died Tuesday in Przewodow, a small Polish farming community, as Ukraine was defending itself against a barrage of Russian
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — El propietario de un condominio en Maryland se suicidó en una explosión que provocó el colapso parcial del edificio y dejó heridas a otras 14 personas a principios de esta semana, dijo la policía el viernes. Juan Pablo Marshall Quizon, de 36 años, murió por inhalación de humo y por quemaduras,
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed and Evan Perez, CNN Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday appointed a special counsel to oversee the criminal investigations into the retention of national defense information at former President Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago resort and parts of the January 6, 2021, insurrection. Both investigations implicate the conduct of Trump, who on Tuesday declared
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine, CNN A carpenter who was among six people shot during a September shooting on an East Oakland, California, school campus has died from his injuries, district officials said Friday. The victim, identified only as David, died on Thursday after “fighting to recover from injuries he sustained,” according to a statement from Oakland
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN Español) — Qatar es uno de los países más ricos del mundo, en base a su Producto Interno Bruto (PIB) per cápita, y ha estado en este selecto grupo desde hace décadas. Impulsado por sus vastos recursos petroleros y, sobre todo, gasíferos en el Golfo Pérsico, el país pasó de ser un
Continue ReadingBy Christina Maxouris, CNN On Thursday, Dan Langenkamp marked 12 weeks since his wife, Sarah, was killed. To honor her, Dan and his two young sons do what they do every day at around 4:05 p.m., the time Sarah died: They drop whatever they are working on, gather together, hold hands and talk to her,
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Doha, Qatar (CNN) — En vísperas de la Copa del Mundo de 2022 en Qatar, el presidente de la FIFA, Gianni Infantino, lanzó un discurso contra los críticos occidentales del controvertido torneo en un explosivo monólogo de una hora de duración. Infantino, el presidente del organismo rector del fútbol mundial, miró con tristeza
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY and GIANFRANCO STARA Associated Press PORTACOMARO, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis made a rare personal getaway Saturday, returning to his father’s birthplace in northern Italy for the first time since ascending the papacy to celebrate the 90th birthday of a second cousin who long knew him as simply “Giorgio.” Francis’ two-day visit
Continue ReadingStory by Nathaniel Meyersohn, Video by John General, CNN Business Way in the back of the grocery store, at the end of the sleepy baking aisle, sits a brand decades past its prime: Jell-O gelatin. Today, Jell-O is served to patients at hospitals. Or schoolchildren throw it around during food fights at lunch and college
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