The Idaho Legislature has brought business to halt for the next two weeks amid an outbreak of COVID-19 among lawmakers and staff at the state Capitol. The Idaho House and the Senate each voted Friday to recess and return on April 6. Idaho House Speaker Scott Bedke, a Republican, told reporters during a news conference
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After stiff-arming calls for his resignation from leading state Democratic lawmakers, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is staking his political fate on the outcome of a pair of independent investigations into allegations he sexually harassed or behaved inappropriately toward several women. The first probe, launched by New York Attorney General Letitia James, appears to be
Continue Reading Alexi McCammond is out as editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue even before officially starting, she and the magazine’s owner announced Thursday. The announcement of her appointment to the job had sparked outrage from the publication’s staffers and readers as well as some celebrities because of anti-Asian and homophobic tweets she posted a decade ago. “I became
Continue Reading In generations past, the arrival of spring meant not just warming days, chirping birds and frolicking baby animals, but also an energy-intensive project for homemakers: spring cleaning. After a winter cooped up in a small home heated by wood or coal—the standard heating system until the central HVAC boom of the 1960s—increasingly warmer weather meant
Continue Reading President Joe Biden didn’t waste a beat when asked this week whether he believed his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin was a “killer.” “Mm-hmm,” Biden told ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, nodding slightly, “I do.” Some of the President’s advisers who share his assessment were still surprised by his answer, which overshot what many believed would
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A Michigan pizzeria owner was taken into custody early Friday morning after she “continued to willfully violate the state’s food laws, public health orders and a court-ordered Temporary Restraining Order” related to COVID-19 measures, according to the state’s attorney general. Marlena Pavlos-Hackney, 55, the owner of Marlena’s Bistro and Pizzeria in Holland, was arrested without
Continue Reading The House on Friday overwhelmingly supported a measure condemning the military coup in Myanmar that ousted the country’s civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. But some conservative Republicans didn’t support the measure, and it’s unclear why. Every House Democrat backed it, while 14 Republicans voted against it and GOP Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona voted
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One of the four victims of the Atlanta spa shootings who were of Korean ethnicity was a South Korean citizen and permanent resident of the US, an official said. The other three are believed to be Americans of Korean ethnicity, Kwangsuk Lee, the Deputy Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Atlanta, told CNN
Continue Reading Vacation deprivation is about to be replaced by a travel boom, according to Expedia CEO Peter Kern. He told CNN’s Julia Chatterley earlier this week that people are beginning to think about their future travel “very quickly.” Reservations on the travel website for some parts of the United States this summer are “all booked up”
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Election will replace Republican who died of COVID-19 before swearing-in The first congressional elections of the 2022 midterm cycle are set for Saturday, when Louisiana voters go to the polls to fill a pair of vacancies in the state’s House delegation. A Democratic battle is brewing in the New Orleans and Baton Rouge-area 2nd District,
Continue Reading A new, more contagious and potentially more deadly variant of the coronavirus is spreading across the US, and health officials are worried. The B.1.1.7 variant, first spotted in the UK, is not only more easily transmitted, but it also appears to be more deadly. Dr. Anthony Fauci warned about it Friday in a White House
Continue Reading As the end of the pandemic tunnel gets brighter and brighter, has a season ever better aligned with where most people are in the world right now? Spring is the season of hope — that things will get better after they were worse. The river will “flow again after it was frozen,” Ernest Hemingway wrote
Continue Reading Iceland has reported a volcanic eruption on the southwest Reykjanes Peninsula, southwest of the capital Reykjavík,the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) tweeted Friday. “A volcanic eruption started this evening at 20:45 near Fagradalsfjall in Geldingadalur,” IMO said in a tweet. “The eruption is considered small at this stage and the eruptive fissure is app. 500 m
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has withdrawn his country from an international treaty to protect women through a presidential decree issued in the early hours of Saturday. The move has sent shockwaves through a country that has been reeling from high-profile domestic violence cases and femicides. Turkey was the first country to sign the Council
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Paul Stewart played for the England international team and some of English football’s leading clubs, notably Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool. It’s a career to be proud of, but Stewart’s memories are often consumed by the horrific daily cruelty he says he suffered between the ages of 11 and 15 as a youth footballer.
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A month after winter storms blanketed the Lone Star state with snow, leaving millions of people in the dark and without water, food banks are concerned there won’t be enough produce for Texans in need. The economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a significant rise in hunger across the US. In Texas,
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(CNN) – Europa perdió su oportunidad de detener la tercera ola de la epidemia de coronavirus antes de que se saliera de control. Ahora debe pagar un alto precio, con la imposición de nuevos cierres en todo el continente. En la noche de este jueves, Francia anunció nuevas restricciones en 16 regiones, incluidas París y
Continue Reading (CNN Español) –– Vecinos y automovilistas quedaron atrapados durante horas este viernes en un barrio considerado de alta densidad delictiva, en medio de reportes de un intenso tiroteo y enfrentamientos entre cuerpos de seguridad y delincuentes. La sorpresiva situación se presentó después del mediodía en sectores de la zona de Caracas conocida como Cota 905.
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Community college students in the Phoenix area are getting an extra week of Spring Break after a suspected cyberattack crippled their schools’ computer networks. A network outage has impacted the information technology systems of the Maricopa County Community College District, Interim Chancellor Steven Gonzales announced in a message to students Friday evening. “Out of an
Continue Reading Surveillance video recorded by a business next to Youngs Asian Spa, where a spate of shootings started that left eight people dead this week, appears to show the suspect parking his vehicle in front of the spa. The video, provided to CNN by Gabby’s Boutique, shows a Hyundai pull into a parking spot. The vehicle,
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