CNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN When you fill up your coffee machine or humidifier, is tap water your choice? Naturally, many of us question how sterile our tap water is — or maybe even get a bit anxious thinking about the microorganisms in our faucets. Despite some misconceptions, tap water is generally harmless when ingested
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN When you fill up your coffee machine or humidifier, is tap water your choice? Naturally, many of us question how sterile our tap water is — or maybe even get a bit anxious thinking about the microorganisms in our faucets. Despite some misconceptions, tap water is generally harmless when ingested
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN When you fill up your coffee machine or humidifier, is tap water your choice? Naturally, many of us question how sterile our tap water is — or maybe even get a bit anxious thinking about the microorganisms in our faucets. Despite some misconceptions, tap water is generally harmless when ingested
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN When you fill up your coffee machine or humidifier, is tap water your choice? Naturally, many of us question how sterile our tap water is — or maybe even get a bit anxious thinking about the microorganisms in our faucets. Despite some misconceptions, tap water is generally harmless when ingested during
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Una nueva variante de covid-19, XBB.1.5, se está extendiendo rápidamente por todo Estados Unidos. En diciembre de 2022, la proporción de nuevas infecciones por covid-19 debido a esta rama de ómicron aumentó del 4% al 18%, según un comunicado del 6 de enero de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención
Continue ReadingBy NICOLAE DUMITRACHE AND STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania’s anti-organized crime agency has carried out seven additional house searches in its investigation into divisive social media influencer Andrew Tate, an official said Thursday. Ramona Bolla, spokesperson for the agency, DIICOT, said searches are taking place in the counties of Bucharest, Ilfov,
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Subway, one of the world’s most recognizable fast food brands, might be up for a sale, according to the Wall Street Journal. The privately held company has obtained advisers to explore sale that could value Subway at more than $10 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported. If reached, it would
Continue ReadingBy KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has ruled that inaction by the country’s former president and four others led to Easter Sunday bomb attacks in 2019 that killed nearly 270 people and ordered them to pay compensation for violating the basic rights of the victims and their
Continue ReadingBy Alasdair Howorth, CNN Defending champion Rafael Nadal will face English youngster Jack Draper in the opening round of the Australian Open in a bid to retain his 2022 crown and extend his grand slam tally. World No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz may be missing the tournament through injury, but with the return of Novak Djokovic
Continue ReadingMax Foster, Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Lianne Kolirin, CNN Prince Harry has set a record with his tell-all memoir “Spare,” after the English language version sold more than 1.4 million copies in its first day of publication. The bumper sales included all formats of the book — paper, audio and electronic — in the US, Canada
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, is set to visit Poland and Germany this month amid rising antisemitism. Emhoff will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and hold meetings aimed at combating antisemitism in the U.S. and worldwide. Emhoff is the first Jewish person to
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone and Josh Campbell, CNN The man suspected of killing four University of Idaho students appeared in court Thursday for a status conference, where a judge scheduled a preliminary probable cause hearing to begin June 26. Bryan Kohberger, who faces four counts of first-degree murder — in the fatal stabbings of Kaylee Goncalves,
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister says that the United Arab Emirates agreed to extend a $2 billion loan to his country and provide a additional $1 billion as his nation struggles to recover from devastating floods this summer and a dire economic crisis. Prime Minister Shahbaz
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — The European Union’s highest court says travelers whose package tours were ruined by the imposition of restrictions to combat the COVID-19 pandemic may be entitled to at least a partial refund. The European Court of Justice weighed in on Thursday after being asked for its opinion by a court in Germany. The
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A Hungarian government minister says the country will take legal action against the European Union’s executive arm if it cannot reach an agreement on EU funding for university study-abroad programs. A recent decision by the European Commission to cut funding for the Erasmus student exchange program
Continue ReadingBy STEVE PEOPLES, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press TAVERNIER, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis highlighted illegal immigration last fall by sending dozens of immigrants from Texas to an island off the Massachusetts coast. But the ambitious Republican governor has adopted a more cautious approach as thousands of Cubans flock to
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of nurses at two New York City hospitals have ended a three-day strike after reaching a tentative contract agreement. Union officials say it will relieve chronic short staffing and boost pay by 19% over three years. Nurses began returning to work at Mount Sinai Hospital
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of nurses at two New York City hospitals have ended a three-day strike after reaching a tentative contract agreement. Union officials say it will relieve chronic short staffing and boost pay by 19% over three years. Nurses began returning to work at Mount Sinai Hospital
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis will deliver a final send-off for Cardinal George Pell during a funeral Mass on Saturday, the Vatican said, as revelations emerge of the Australian prelate’s growing concern about what he considered the “disaster” and “catastrophe” of the papacy under Francis. The Vatican on Thursday
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN The Boston Celtics became the first team in the NBA this season to reach 30 wins after beating the New Orleans Pelicans 125-114 at TD Garden in Boston on Wednesday night, largely behind a combined 72 points from the team’s stars, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. Brown scored season-high 41 points
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