By Rachel Fadem, CNN (CNN) — Sharks have scared us a lot this summer, primarily for suspected attacks on humans. However, humans are a larger threat to sharks than sharks are to us. The 35th official Shark Week takes place from July 23 to July 29 on the Discovery Channel and aims to increase conversation
Continue ReadingBy Heather Chen, Josh Pennington, Maria Kostenko and Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — Russian missiles badly damaged dozens of Ukrainian architectural landmarks, including a historic Orthodox cathedral in the southern port city of Odesa, sparking outrage and prompting President Volodymyr Zelensky to vow retaliation. The strikes – the latest in a wave of attacks on
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — La ciudad de Padua, en el norte de Italia, comenzó a eliminar los nombres de madres homosexuales no biológicas de los certificados de nacimiento de sus hijos en virtud de una nueva legislación aprobada por el gobierno de “primero la familia tradicional” de la primera ministra Giorgia Meloni. Estos certificados de
Continue ReadingBy Zenebou Sylla and Nouran Salahieh, CNN (CNN) — Three months’ worth of rain over the course of one day has flooded the Canadian province of Nova Scotia since Friday night, inundating streets, forcing evacuations and leaving at least four people missing – including two children. A provincewide state of emergency has been declared, including
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN GILES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain appears headed for political gridlock after Sunday’s inconclusive national elections left parties on both the right and left without a clear path toward forging a new government. The conservative Popular Party won the elections, but it fell short of its hopes of scoring
Continue ReadingBy MATT YORK Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Associated Press photographer Matt York, who has covered Arizona for 23 years, recently was caught off guard by the heat wave that has shattered records in Phoenix. The 50-year-old York photographed life in the city for six of seven days as temperatures hovered above 110 Fahrenheit. On
Continue ReadingBy JIM SALTER Associated Press O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — In the national reckoning that followed the police killing of George Floyd three years ago, about 2,000 protesters took to the streets in a St. Louis suburb and urged the mostly white Francis Howell School District to address racial discrimination. The school board responded with a
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Supreme Court will flip from majority conservative to liberal control in August and Democrats have high hopes the change will lead to the state’s abortion ban being overturned and its maps redrawn to weaken GOP control of the Legislature and congressional districts. Democrats in the
Continue ReadingBy JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Those fleeing Afghanistan as the Taliban swept back into power two years ago included university students. They worried that the only way they’d be able to continue their education would be to leave their homeland. Their fears were justified when the Taliban returned to a harsh Islamic
Continue ReadingBy JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — As the Taliban swept back into power in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, Fahima Sultani and her fellow university students tried for days to get into the Kabul airport, only to be turned away by gun-wielding extremists. “No education, just go back home,” she recalled one
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN Español) — El 21 de julio se estrena en los cines de Estados Unidos la película “Oppenheimer”, dirigida por Christopher Nolan, que recrea cómo el científico J. Robert Oppenheimer lideró el proyecto de creación de la bomba atómica para Estados Unidos, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Se une así a una larga
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Una nueva cosecha de herramientas de inteligencia artificial promete simplificar las tareas, mejorar la eficiencia y aumentar la productividad en el lugar de trabajo. Pero esa no ha sido la experiencia de Neil Clarke hasta ahora. Clarke, editor del sector editorial, dijo que recientemente tuvo que cerrar temporalmente el
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — La selección femenina de Estados Unidos (USWNT) debutó en la Copa Mundial Femenina de la FIFA 2023 y las expectativas en el equipo no podrían ser más grandes. Primeramente, EE.UU. llegó como la selección defensora del título y, además, como la bicampeona del certamen, pues ganó los mundiales femeninos de 2015
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A security guard died after being shot at an Oregon hospital Saturday, and the suspect was later killed by police in a nearby community, authorities said. Police responded to reports that a person with at least one firearm fired shots inside Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center in Portland, the Portland Police
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A security guard died after being shot at an Oregon hospital Saturday, and the suspect was later killed by police in a nearby community, authorities said. Police responded to reports that a person with at least one firearm fired shots inside Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center in Portland, the Portland Police
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A hospital security guard was killed in a shooting at Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland on Saturday morning, and the suspect is dead after an officer-involved shooting in Gresham later in the day, police said.
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — Al menos 10 muertos y más de una treintena de heridos dejó en la madrugada de este sábado el accidente de un autobús de pasajeros que cayó a un precipicio cerca del municipio de El Playón, en el departamento de Santander, informó Lina Huari, directora de la Agencia
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The United States’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam in the Women’s World Cup drew 6.26 million viewers, making it the most-watched soccer telecast in the U.S. since last year’s men’s World Cup final. It is also the largest combined English- and Spanish-language audience for a U.S. women’s group stage match. Saturday afternoon’s
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Texas A&M University president M. Katherine Banks resigned Thursday amid controversy over the school’s failed attempt to hire a new professor to lead its journalism program. Banks’ decision came after the Faculty Senate announced its own plans to investigate why the school announced the hiring of journalist and professor
Continue ReadingBy Thomas Schlachter, CNN (CNN) — The Women’s World Cup enters its fourth day of fixtures with some of the tournament heavyweights kicking off their campaigns. Sweden takes on South Africa, Women’s World Cup debutant Portugal faces the Netherlands and France plays Jamaica in an action-packed day. Here’s what to look out for as these
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