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Month: August 2023

Research is growing into how best to stop gun violence. One city looks to science for help

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Gun violence prevention research has experienced a small boom in the wake of mounting shooting deaths, expanded funding and burgeoning advocacy. And a growing number of cities are teaming with researchers to develop evidence-based plans to cut down on fatal shootings. In Tennessee — a

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As research grows into how to stop gun violence, one city looks to science for help

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — “That’s where I got shot,” said Rashaad Woods, nodding toward a convenience store in Knoxville’s “gun zone.” There were bullet holes in a church’s walls. Nearby was a shuttered nightclub where some people were killed. “There was a point in time I wasn’t comfortable standing

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T-Mobile to lay off 5,000 employees

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — T-Mobile on Thursday announced it plans to lay off 5,000 employees, or around 7% of its total staff, over the next five weeks. The reductions will largely affect corporate and back-office jobs that are “primarily duplicative” to other roles and will reduce the company’s middle management layers,

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Scores of women and girls were sexually assaulted after peace deal in Ethiopia’s Tigray, study shows

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Scores of women and girls in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region were sexually assaulted, often by multiple men alleged to be combatants, after a peace agreement last year ended the conflict there, according to a new study of medical records released on Thursday. The youngest girl raped

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Norway is rebuilding a reindeer fence at the border to stop the animals’ costly strolls into Russia

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway is rebuilding a dilapidated reindeer fence along its border with Russia in the Arctic to stop the animals from wandering into the neighboring country — costly strolls for which Oslo has to compensate Moscow over loss of grassland. Norwegian officials said Thursday that so

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Resumen de noticias: Trump se entrega en una cárcel del condado de Fulton

Sol Amaya Esta cobertura en vivo finalizó. Puedes seguir todas las noticias deDonal Trump aquí. Fila superior, de izquierda a derecha: Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis (Ilustración fotográfica de Alberto Mier/CNN) The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.

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Roadways reopen at Detroit Metro Airport following flooding that had partly blocked a terminal

By Eric Levenson, Mallika Kallingal and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Roadways at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport have reopened after overnight flooding partly blocked a terminal and thunderstorms halted incoming flights on Thursday. Access to the McNamara Terminal has been restored, airport authorities said Thursday afternoon. Both the northbound and southbound tunnels on

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France’s Macron aims to push economic and immigration reforms despite political challenges

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is vowing to make key economic, immigration and education reforms. That vow comes despite France’s divisions and political challenges that have included months of protests against pension changes and recent rioting over a teen killed by police. Macron says in a wide-ranging interview with Le Point magazine published

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