Weekly Rewind: Desert heat records, defunding the police, building new school
From dreading the desert heat, to celebrating Somerton’s first high school, get all the details in this week’s Weekly Rewind.
Continue ReadingMonth: July 2021
Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 played for Batsarashkina
Gold medalist Vitalina Batsarashkina receives her medal after winning the women’s 10m air pistol event. It was the first time music from Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 was played at a medal ceremony.
Continue ReadingGlobal phone hacks expose darker side of Israel’s ‘startup nation’ image
Journalists from 17 news outlets are working together to expose evidence of spyware that specifically targets journalists, activists and politicians, calling it the Pegasus Project. CNN’s Hadas Gold reports.
Continue ReadingGlobal phone hacks expose darker side of Israel’s ‘startup nation’ image
The Washington Post’s Dana Priest talks about the sophisticated technology used to spy on journalists, activists and two women linked to Jamal Khashoggi.
Continue ReadingGlobal phone hacks expose darker side of Israel’s ‘startup nation’ image
By Hadas Gold, CNN Business Audacious Mossad spy operations around the world. The plucky “startup nation” home to reams of billion-dollar ideas. These are two drivers of Israel’s image abroad that its political and business leaders have long been happy to push. That slick image appears to have taken a hit with new reports that
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What you missed on Day 2 of the Tokyo Games
Watch all the best moments from Day 2 of the Olympics. New sports like surfing and skateboarding began while softball and swimming continued competition.
Continue ReadingThe largest fire in the US continues to defy crews’ efforts to tame it. And the weather isn’t helping
By Aya Elamroussi and Claire Colbert, CNN Despite the efforts of firefighters battling the Bootleg Fire, the raging flames of the nation’s largest wildfire continued to spread in southern Oregon as officials declared weather warnings in the area. The fire has scorched 408,930 acres as of Sunday, an expansion of more than 6,000 acres since
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Four shootings in Seattle leave 3 dead, 5 injured
By Hollie Silverman and Susannah Cullinane, CNN Three people were killed and five more were injured in a series of unrelated shootings in Seattle early Sunday, according to police. The four incidents all took place within three hours, the Seattle Police Department said in a release. The first occurred around 1:48 a.m. outside of a
Continue Reading Bob Moses, civil rights legend, dead at age 86
By Rachel Trent, CNN Civil rights legend Bob Moses died at age 86, according to a statement from NAACP President Derrick Johnson. A cause of death was not immediately known. Moses was born in New York City in January 1935 and grew up in Harlem, according to his biography on Stanford University’s King Encyclopedia of
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Lillard says no time to panic after U.S. collapse against France
Panic? You won’t find any in Team USA’s Damian Lillard—not even after the U.S. men’s basketball team’s late collapse to France on Sunday in their opening game at the Tokyo Olympics. It was the first American men’s basketball loss at the Olympics since 2004 and only the sixth in the history of the tournament.
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Men’s triathlon kicks off with bizarre false start
A motor boat in the way of athletes disrupts the start of the men’s triathlon in Tokyo, stopping the race in bizarre fashion and marking the first-ever false start call in the sport’s Olympic history.
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Gas prices continuing to rise in Yuma
Gas prices in Arizona have gone up about 0.7 cents per gallon, bringing the average price to about $3.12 per gallon.
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Eight-time Olympian Oksana Chusovitina says farewell
After competing in her eighth Olympic Games, Oksana Chusovitina of Uzbekistan bids an emotional farewell, following a standing ovation from her fellow gymnasts. She began her Olympic career before Simone Biles was born.
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Men’s triathlon kicks off with bizarre false start, first in Olympic history
And they’re off—again. For the first time in Olympic history, a triathlon race was forced to restart after a bizarre false start call.
Continue ReadingMeteor lights up the night in Norway
By Elaine Ly and Theresa Waldrop, CNN An “unusually large” meteor illuminated the night sky over southern Scandinavia early Sunday morning before at least some of it came rumbling down near Oslo, the capital of Norway. The meteor “lit up the sky for a brief time as if broad daylight,” just after 1 a.m., Steinar
Continue ReadingFauci: ‘We’re going in the wrong direction’ on Covid-19 cases
By Chandelis Duster, CNN Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that the US is “going in the wrong direction” as the number of Covid-19 cases continues to rise, particularly among unvaccinated Americans. “If you look at the inflection of the curve of new cases and, as you said in the run-in to this interview, that it
Continue ReadingFauci: ‘I’m very frustrated’ with vaccine holdouts
Chief Biden Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci tells CNN’s Jake Tapper that the latest covid surge “is an unnecessary predicament we’re putting ourselves in.”
Continue ReadingCalifornia’s largest wildfire is threatening thousands of structures
By Dakin Andone, CNN California’s largest wildfire has destroyed multiple buildings and is threatening thousands more as the battle against the blaze stretched into its 12th day. Low moisture in vegetation and limited access in the remote area have hampered firefighters, officials said. The Dixie Fire had grown to 190,625 acres and was 21% contained
Continue ReadingWhy experts say dividing travellers by vaccination status at airports is a good idea
By Tom Yun, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — As Canada prepares to welcome non-essential international travellers, Toronto Pearson Airport and Vancouver International Airport are implementing separate lines for arriving passengers based on their vaccination status. It’s a move that health experts say will make travelling easier
Continue ReadingMeeting Paris emissions targets would bring more energy jobs globally, but not for Canada: study
By Tom Yun, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — A new study has found that if the world were to meet the targets set out in the Paris Agreement, there would be eight million more jobs globally by 2050. But in this scenario, researchers say some fossil
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