By Jackson Dill, CNN Dangerous heat will continue on Sunday in the West but relief is finally in sight. Unfortunately, that reprieve will be brief as temperatures will rise again by next weekend. “The prolonged heat wave across the southwestern US will continue for another couple days, but a cooling trend is near,” says the
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By John Blake, CNN They never ran out of things to talk about. It was obvious from the start. He was a brawny former Maine lobsterman with a booming baritone. She was a redhead with freckles from Wisconsin who worked in corporate recruiting. They talked about everything from sci-fi movies and her love for the
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN A man from Windsor, southern England is set to have major surgery next month after his kidneys grew up to an estimated 40kg (88lb) due to polycystic kidney disease (PKD). Warren Higgs has suffered multiple strokes and aneurysms due to his condition, he told CNN. According to a GoFundMe page, he
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN It all began with a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in 2013. That’s the year Eric Reed got his father, Ted Reed, and his father-in-law, Bob Caldwell, concert tickets to see the Southern rock band as a Father’s Day gift. “Before then, I really wasn’t a huge fan of live music, but that
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The final round of the Miss Arizona competition took place Saturday night in Phoenix, Arizona. Our very own Miss Yuma County and Miss Yuma County’s Outstanding Teen have been in rehearsals throughout the past week. Gabriella Heinz and Ellie Evans have held their current titles for more than 18 months and it’s the moment of truth for them.
Continue Reading By Alec Snyder, CNN Madison Vollbracht says she burned out after five years working as a veterinary technician. Her work was already grueling before the Covid-19 pandemic — staff shortages, long hours, little pay and no overtime. But the pandemic sparked a dramatic increase in pet adoptions, “Covid puppies and kittens,” as Vollbracht calls them,
Continue Reading By Leah Asmelash, CNN More than 60 years ago, Marion Gerald Hood was rejected from a medical school because of his race. This week, the school apologized. The Emory University School of Medicine formally apologized to Hood, inviting him to speak at the Atlanta, Georgia, university Thursday as part of a Juneteenth event. “As a
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By Nadine Schmidt and Sheena McKenzie, CNN During Germany’s Covid-19 lockdown, Rabbi Zsolt Balla earned a devoted online following, live-streaming prayer services on Facebook. Now, as the country begins to open up, he’s taking on a previously unimaginable job as the German military’s chief rabbi — its first in almost 90 years, since Adolf Hitler
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — La investigación sobre la muerte de Diego Armando Maradona avanzó esta semana con las primeras tres audiencias indagatorias. En mayo, el equipo de fiscales de San Isidro a cargo de la causa imputó por el presunto delito de “homicidio simple con dolo eventual” a siete de los profesionales
Continue ReadingBy Philip Wang and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN The United States is more than tripling its vaccine allocation to Taiwan, as the island battles a Covid-19 outbreak and resists pressure from Beijing to take China’s homegrown inoculations. Washington has shipped 2.5 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Taipei, the US State Department spokesperson Ned Price tweeted on
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN) — Hoy en día es raro que exista una persona en Brasil que no haya perdido a un ser querido por culpa del covid-19 dicen científicos locales, cuando el país alcanzó el sombrío hito del medio millón de muertes atribuidas al virus. La nación suramericana, que alberga a la mitad de la
Continue Reading By Sahar Akbarzai, CNN Maya Nepos had only a few days left before graduating from college at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, when she realized she had $600 worth of unused meal plan money left. Nepos didn’t have in-person classes during the pandemic and therefore didn’t utilize her meal plan much. At first, Nepos
Continue Reading By Amanda Watts and Dakin Andone, CNN A 2-year-old was killed and three others — including a 9-year-old — were wounded in two separate shootings on freeways in Detroit Thursday night, according to Michigan State Police. The first shooting occurred on Interstate 75 near Seven Mile Road around 9:45 p.m. local time, MSP’s Detroit division
Continue Reading By Teele Rebane and Livia Borghese, CNN Captain Angelo Capurro started showing symptoms of Covid-19 on his second day at sea. Within five days, the 61-year-old skipper was confined to his cabin, unable to get out of bed. Six days later he was dead — leaving the MV Ital Libera cargo ship without a shipmaster,
Continue Reading By Mallika Kallingal and Andy Rose, CNN Police in Oregon are searching for a suspect believed to be responsible for three separate attacks that left three people dead and one person seriously injured on Friday. “We have not positively identified who this individual is,” Coos County District Attorney Paul Frasier said at a news conference.
Continue ReadingBy Jason Hanna, CNN What was Tropical Storm Claudette has now become a tropical depression but was still dumping heavy rain as it pushed into the Southeast Saturday evening, threatening to add to the flooding it already has left in parts of four states. It also appears to have spawned a tornado that littered a
Continue ReadingBy Rodrigo Pedroso and Juliana Koch, CNN There is barely a person in Brazil today who hasn’t lost a loved one to Covid-19, say local scientists, as the country reached the grim milestone of half a million deaths. The South American nation, which holds half the continent’s population, is being decimated by the virus. On
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, CNN A woman died this week after she fell more than 200 feet from a Wyoming peak while on a sunrise hike with her husband, according to the Sheridan County Sheriff’s Office. In a post on Facebook, the sheriff’s office said it received a report Tuesday at about 5:50 a.m. local time
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris, CNN The Air Force’s Thunderbirds honored a man Friday who jumped into an Ocean City, Maryland, bay last month to save a toddler. Jonathan Bauer was selected to ride in the back seat of an F-16 as part of the Thunderbirds’ “Hometown Hero,” program, local officials said. “Jonathan Bauer is our hometown
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — La FIFA confirmó a CNN este viernes que sancionó a México con una multa de más de US$ 65.000, además de que la selección deberá jugar sus próximos dos juegos oficiales a puerta cerrada, debido a los «cantos homófobos de sus aficionados» durante dos juegos de eliminatorias olímpicas
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