By Jacqueline Howard, CNN A growing measles outbreak in Columbus, Ohio, has sickened more than a dozen unvaccinated children and hospitalized nine of them, and local public health officials are seeking assistance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We asked the CDC for assistance and they will be sending two epidemiologists at
Continue ReadingCNNEE Nota del editor: Wendy Guerra es escritora cubanofrancesa y colaboradora de CNN en Español. Sus artículos han aparecido en medios de todo el mundo, como El País, The New York Times, el Miami Herald, El Mundo y La Vanguardia. Entre sus obras literarias más destacadas se encuentran “Ropa interior” (2007), “Nunca fui primera dama”
Continue ReadingBy ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The discovery this week of violently antisemitic graffiti along a popular Maryland walking trail is just the latest in a rising of anti-Jewish vandalism and activity dating back a decade, according to local Jewish leaders. On Monday, graffiti was found along the Bethesda Trolley Trail depicting a
Continue ReadingTUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Federal jurors have convicted an Alabama woman in the death of a 3-year-old girl whose disappearance prompted a search for more than a week in 2019. News outlets report 32-year-old Derick Irisha Brown was convicted Thursday of a kidnapping that led to a death and conspiracy in the abduction of Kamille
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge in Florida has blocked a law pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that restricts certain race-based conversations and analysis in colleges. Tallahassee U.S. District Judge Mark Walker on Thursday issued a temporary injunction against the so-called “Stop Woke” act in a ruling that called
Continue ReadingBy Cheri Mossburg, Josh Campbell, Alaa Elassar and Andy Rose, CNN The man who was arrested for allegedly driving a vehicle into a group of law enforcement recruits in Whittier, California, was released from jail Thursday night, but the sheriff’s department insists they did not make a mistake. Nicholas Joseph Gutierrez, 22, was released from
Continue ReadingBy EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Bill Gates, on a visit to Kenya, has announced his foundation will spend $7 billion to improve health, gender equality and farming in Africa. The new pledge will be spent over the next four years and is in addition to existing Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on Mexico’s Familia Michoacana drug cartel, which it accused of manufacturing so-called rainbow fentanyl pills purportedly aimed at children. On Thursday, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control blocked any U.S. properties of the Hurtado brothers, the leaders of the cartel. The cartel is
Continue ReadingBy JOEY CAPPELLETTI and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Fresh off a commanding reelection victory in one of the nation’s premier swing states, Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says she will remain focused on her post and not growing speculation she could mount a future presidential run. In an interview with The
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who killed a police officer still faces execution later this month after a judge denied a special prosecutor’s request to halt the death sentence. Kevin Johnson is scheduled to die by injection on Nov. 29. Johnson killed Kirkwood, Missouri, Police Officer William McEntee
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A second Warm Springs teen has died following a head-on crash last week involving a passing vehicle on U.S. Highway 26 north of Madras that also claimed their aunt’s life, the girl’s Madras High School soccer team coach confirmed Friday.
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s longtime finance chief choked up on the witness stand Thursday, saying he betrayed the Trump family’s trust by scheming to dodge taxes on $1.7 million in company-paid perks, including a Manhattan apartment and luxury cars. Allen Weisselberg, a senior adviser and former chief
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Clare Duffy and Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Another employee exodus appears to be underway at Twitter as many workers rejected Elon Musk’s terms for staying with the company, choosing instead to depart, according to multiple current and former employees. As the deadline approached for Twitter employees to respond to Elon Musk’s
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy and Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Another employee exodus appears to be underway at Twitter as many workers rejected Elon Musk’s terms for staying with the company, choosing instead to depart, according to multiple current and former employees. As the deadline approached for Twitter employees to respond to Elon Musk’s ultimatum to commit
Continue ReadingBy Richard Allen Greene, Hadas Gold, Mostafa Salem and Oren Liebermann, CNN CNN has obtained exclusive images showing the damage and debris from a self-detonating drone attack against an oil tanker off the coast of Oman on Tuesday evening. The two images, provided by a Western defense official, show a hole in what appears to
Continue ReadingBy Leah Asmelash, CNN Arizona once boasted one of the most stringent policies barring access to higher education for undocumented students. But a recent shift in the state could signal changing perceptions of undocumented youth. This week, Arizona voters narrowly passed Proposition 308, which allows undocumented students both access to in-state tuition rates and state-funded
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration is charting a plan to enhance its surveillance of infant formula for Cronobacter bacteria. The agency said in a statement Tuesday that it would like to see Cronobacter infections added to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s list of national notifiable diseases, which
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Parece que se producirá otro éxodo de empleados en Twitter, ya que muchos trabajadores rechazaron el ultimátum de Elon Musk de trabajar “extremadamente duro” y optaron por abandonar la empresa, según varios empleados y extrabajadores. A medida que se acercaba la fecha límite para que los empleados de Twitter respondieran al
Continue ReadingBy Andi Babineau and Alaa Elassar, CNN Yellowstone National Park officials have identified the person whose foot was found floating in one of the park’s deepest hot springs in August. Los Angeles resident Il Hun Ro, 70, was identified “in the last three weeks” using DNA analysis, the park said in a news release Thursday,
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar, Eric Levenson and Emma Tucker, CNN A suspect was taken into custody in connection with the investigation into the killing of four University of Idaho students in November in an off-campus home in Moscow, two federal law enforcement sources confirmed to CNN on Friday. During a news conference on Friday, Moscow Police
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