By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Lahaina, Hawaii (CNN) — A week after blowtorch winds brought the most horrific disaster in modern Hawaiian history, members of Maui’s working class have become do-it-yourself first responders and cul-de-sac commanders. With everything from U-Haul trucks to borrowed boats to dugout canoes, hundreds of lifeguards, carpenters and bartenders
Continue ReadingBy Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Yet another record has fallen in this summer’s extreme-weather epicenter of Phoenix, but this one is doing more than fueling the heat – it’s a sign of a much more widespread issue developing in the Southwest. Phoenix is experiencing its driest start to summer after recording no measurable
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Washington (CNN) — The US government plans to rein in the vast data broker industry with new, privacy-focused regulations that aim to safeguard millions of Americans’ personal information from data breaches, violent criminals and even artificial intelligence chatbots. The coming proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would extend existing regulations
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez and Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — Not many would have predicted it before the tournament kicked off, but Spain became the first team to book its place in the Women’s World Cup final on Tuesday. La Roja produced another impressive performance to beat Sweden 2-1 in the semifinals to make yet more
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Halle Berry channeled her inner Barbie for her 57th birthday. The Oscar winner visited World of Barbie in Santa Monica, Calif., with her boyfriend, Van Hunt, and 15-year-old daughter, Nahla, who wore pink along with her mom for the outing. “My mini me (but not so mini anymore) and
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM Associated Press SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — The opera world is split in two: Some European productions reinvent works in ways composers never imagined, and traditional stagings favored in the U.S. are condemned by cognoscenti. Martin Kušej’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” in Salzburg includes cocaine-fueled fights, a predator priest, a nearly naked hooker
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — El excorredor de la NFL Alex Collins, que jugó con los Seattle Seahawks y los Baltimore Ravens, murió en un accidente de moto este domingo por la noche, según la Oficina del Sheriff del condado de Broward. Tenía 28 años. Los investigadores dicen que Collins conducía su motocicleta este domingo por la
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Gretener, CNN (CNN) — Female reproductive health experts are calling on Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to rethink its restrictions on reproductive health content. The company has long faced criticism for removing and restricting female reproductive health information with a prominent report from the Center for Intimacy Justice early last
Continue ReadingYELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories (AP) — Members of the Canadian Armed Forces are set to mobilize in the Northwest Territories as wildfires threaten communities including the territorial capital, and hundreds of people have been airlifted to safety. The military is expected to send a helicopter and Twin Otter airplane along with 124 soldiers, with 100 set
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — Attorneys made brief opening arguments Tuesday in the trial of two white men in Mississippi who are accused of chasing and shooting at a Black FedEx driver who had dropped off a package at a home. Brandon Case and his father, Gregory Charles Case, were
Continue ReadingAmarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Gold coins dating back more than 2,000 years have been found by metal detectorists in Wales, making them the first hoard of Iron Age gold coins to have been discovered in the country. The 15 coins, which have been declared treasure, are known as staters. They were found the Welsh
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Venus Williams volvió atrás en el tiempo con una actuación de época para asegurarse su primera victoria en cuatro años contra una jugadora del top 20. Williams, de 43 años, derrotó este lunes a la rusa Veronika Kudermetova por 6-4 y 7-5 en la primera ronda del Western & Southern Open de
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French authorities say most vacationers have been able to return to their campsites after a wildfire broke out near the seaside resort of Argeles-sur-Mer in southern France. Up to 3,000 vacationers in four campsites were evacuated Monday evening as a precaution. Authorities say the fire was contained overnight but remains under close
Continue ReadingBy Shawn Nottingham, CNN (CNN) — Carlos de Oliveira, the Mar-a-Lago property manager, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to multiple obstruction-related offenses tied to former President Donald Trump’s alleged unlawful retention of documents after leaving office, including classified material at Trump’s Florida resort. De Oliveira, 56, was accompanied by his attorney at the arraignment, which lasted
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein and Kevin Liptak, CNN Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CNN) — President Joe Biden hasn’t let his predecessor’s previous three indictments stop him from traveling the country and trying to break through with a pitch on “Bidenomics.” On Tuesday, he tried again in Wisconsin, hoping his argument about more jobs and manufacturing can lend at
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Actor Eric Braeden shared a positive health update. The “Young and the Restless” star, who has played Victor Newman for over four decades, took to Facebook Live to share news on his cancer battle. “As of three days ago, I am cancer-free,” Braeden said in a video. In April,
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — El Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM) de México dice que rescató a 231 migrantes que viajaban en la parte trasera de un tráiler en Puebla este lunes, dijo organismo en un comunicado este martes. El tráiler circulaba por la autopista México-Puebla cuando se pidió al conductor que se detuviera para una inspección;
Continue ReadingBy RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban view their rule of Afghanistan as open-ended, drawing legitimacy from Islamic law and facing no significant threat, their chief spokesman said in an interview marking the second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of the country. He also indicated a ban on female education will
Continue ReadingBy Jon Passantino, CNN (CNN) — Prominent ESPN “SportsCenter” anchor Sage Steele, who sparked controversy over her comments about vaccine mandates, female sports reporters, and former President Barack Obama’s racial identity, has left the network after settling a lawsuit. Steele, who joined ESPN in 2007, was removed from the network’s air in 2021 after her
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business New York (CNN) — The decline in traditional broadcast and cable television viewership is accelerating, falling below a major milestone for the first time. In July, linear TV made up less than half of all TV viewing, according to Nielsen. Both broadcast and cable “each represented record low shares” of
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