Today and tomorrow will be very similar. There is very little change in the overall pattern. Temperatures will be in the low to mid 70s in the afternoon under sunny skies while overnight lows will be crisp, in the 30s and 40s.This afternoon will be on the breezy side, similar to yesterday.We saw smoke yesterday
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — Lawyers in Britain representing dozens of women say that Mohamed Al Fayed — the former boss of Harrods — was a “monster” who raped and sexually abused young women throughout his time at the helm of the world-renowned London department store. The lawyers spoke on Friday at a news conference
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — The European Union will lend Ukraine up to €35 billion ($39 billion), providing the lion’s share of a $50 billion loan agreed by G7 nations earlier this year. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the loan Friday in a post on X as part of her
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — After NASA decided to keep them in space until 2025, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will now cast their votes in the November elections more than 200 miles above their nearest polling place. They will perform their civic duty by voting absentee from low-Earth orbit, joining multiple other
Continue ReadingBy Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — Two Georgia mothers, Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, died in 2022 because of a lack of care most likely tied to the state’s abortion ban, the nonprofit news outlet ProPublica reported this week. Both experienced complications after taking abortion medications, the reporting said — complications, doctors emphasized, that are
Continue ReadingCNN By Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — The Chelsea and England national team goalkeeper Hannah Hampton was just 11 years old when the diagnosis was made. The doctors who’d been treating her said there were three careers that she could never pursue: brain surgeon, pilot and professional athlete. Yet somehow, Hampton is now one of
Continue ReadingBy Don Riddell, CNN (CNN) — The Chelsea and England national team goalkeeper Hannah Hampton was just 11 years old when the diagnosis was made. The doctors who’d been treating her said there were three careers that she could never pursue: brain surgeon, pilot and professional athlete. Yet somehow, Hampton is now one of the
Continue ReadingKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities in Ukraine have advised residents in the capital Kyiv to stay indoors as air pollution, partly caused by fires in the region, blanketed the city. Ukraine’s Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources said the pollution was a result of the burning of peatlands and other wildfires in the region
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — In late 1965, at what’s now London Heathrow airport, a commercial flight coming from Paris made history by being the first to land automatically. The plane – A Trident 1C operated by BEA, which would later become British Airways – was equipped with a newly developed extension of the
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — Científicos que utilizan barcos rompehielos y robots submarinos descubrieron que el glaciar Thwaites en la Antártida se está derritiendo a un ritmo acelerado y podría estar en un camino irreversible hacia el colapso, lo que augura una catástrofe para el aumento global del nivel del mar. Desde 2018, un equipo de
Continue ReadingBy Thomas Lake, CNN (CNN) — Outside the US Capitol, he wore a red coat and held a gun. It was January 6, 2021, and the gunman stood on a scaffold above the west plaza as a flag-waving mob pressed against a police line. He raised the .38 revolver toward the gray-white sky and pulled
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, Annie Grayer and Haley Talbot, CNN Washington (CNN) — The House unanimously voted Friday to pass a bill bolstering Secret Service protection for major presidential and vice presidential candidates, a move that comes in the wake of two apparent assassination attempts targeting GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. The vote was 405-0. The bill
Continue ReadingTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s top leader has pardoned thousands of prisoners, including foreigners and people accused of anti-state crimes. The state-run IRNA news agency reported Friday that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pardoned and commuted the sentences of 2,887 prisoners. It says those pardoned included 39 people who were convicted of anti-state crimes and 40 foreign
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Scientists in South Africa say they have identified an outbreak of rabies in seals that is believed to be the first time the virus has spread in sea mammals. At least 24 Cape fur seals that were found dead or euthanized in various locations on South Africa’s
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — The last time Aaron Rodgers played NFL action at MetLife Stadium, he only lasted four snaps before a torn Achilles ended his season in Week 1 of the 2023 campaign. On Thursday – over a year since suffering the serious injury – the 40-year-old took to the field for
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — Kamala Harris’ revelation at the most recent presidential debate that she is a gun owner caught some viewers by surprise – the vice president has said relatively little over the years about her personal experience of owning a firearm. Responding to Donald Trump’s warning that Harris “wants to confiscate
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — As torrential rains sweep through Central and West Africa, floods have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands across the region. The extreme weather has worsened existing humanitarian crises in the countries which have been impacted the most: Chad, Nigeria, Mali and Niger. Over four million
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Scientists using ice-breaking ships and underwater robots have found the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate and could be on an irreversible path to collapse, spelling catastrophe for global sea level rise. Since 2018, a team of scientists forming the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, has been studying Thwaites — often
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is awarding $3 billion to U.S. companies to boost domestic production of advanced batteries and other materials used for electric vehicles, part of a continuing push to reduce China’s global dominance in battery production. The grants announced Friday will fund a total of 25 projects in 14
Continue ReadingBy Chelsea Bailey, Meridith Edwards and Omar Jimenez, CNN Springfield, Ohio (CNN) — From his small apartment here, Vilbrun Dorsainvil makes video calls to Haiti to spend time with his fiancée and their daughter, whom he never had a chance to meet. Three years ago, Dorsainvil said he was faced with an impossible choice: risk his
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