By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Twitter continues to trail Facebook and Instagram by a wide margin when it comes to the number of users. The social media firm doesn’t generate the type of cool buzz that YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat do among millennials and Gen Z influencers. Even so, Twitter is having an
Continue ReadingAs skateboarding makes its Olympic debut in Tokyo, Japan’s home team is gunning for gold. CNN’s Blake Essig speaks with the Osaka Daggers, a cutting-edge street skateboarding crew, to trace the country’s skateboarding origins and explores how it’s gaining in popularity as it prepares to make a splash at the Summer Games.
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Australian equestrians are excited to still be able to compete at the Tokyo Olympics.
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Find out where to watch every minute of rugby competition at the Tokyo Olympics.
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Una familia en Georgia está de luto después de que un niño de 5 años, descrito como alguien que no tenía “nada más que amor puro”, murió pocos días después de que le diagnosticaran covid-19. Los casos de covid-19 en niños van en aumento en Estados Unidos Wyatt Gibson sufrió un derrame
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi and Rebekah Riess, CNN Tennessee officials voted Thursday to remove the bust of a Ku Klux Klan and Confederate leader Nathan Bedford Forrest from the State Capitol and into the Tennessee State Museum. “After more than a year in the making, this process has finally come to a close,” said Tennessee Republican
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — El relevo de la antorcha olímpica ha sido degradado para los Juegos de Verano de Tokio 2020, con el covid-19 convirtiendo el viaje tradicionalmente público de la llama desde Olimpia, Grecia, en un asunto en gran parte privado. Si bien los Juegos Olímpicos pasados han visto la antorcha llevada bajo el
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American Kara Kohler, 2019 world bronze medalist, wins her single sculls heat in 7:49.71 to advance to the quarterfinals; IRL’s Puspure, ROC’s Prakatsen, GBR’s Thornley, Austria’s Lobnig and NZL’s Twigg win the others.
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The Tokyo Olympic Games officially get underway Friday with the Opening Ceremony at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo.
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The Netherlands and Poland win heats one and two of the men’s quadruple sculls in 5:39.80 and 5:39.25, respectively, auto-advancing to the A final along with second-place finishers Australia and Italy.
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Tommy Dorfman se presentó a sí misma como una mujer trans y en las redes sociales anunció que se identifica con el pronombre ella. “Estoy especialmente agradecida con todas las personas trans que caminaron por este camino, rompieron barreras y arriesgaron sus vidas para vivir auténtica y radicalmente como ellos mismos antes
Continue ReadingSeveral people in Zhengzhou, China have died after record-breaking rainfall flooded the city’s subway. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced as emergency services have been deployed to assist in the rescue operations.
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan and Zixu Wang, CNN At least 33 people have died and eight remain missing in central China, as authorities ramp up rescue and recovery efforts following devastating floods that submerged entire neighborhoods, trapped passengers in subway cars, caused landslides and overwhelmed dams and rivers. Torrential rains have battered Henan province since last
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By Aya Elamroussi and Rebekah Riess, CNN Tennessee officials voted Thursday to remove the bust of a Ku Klux Klan and Confederate leader Nathan Bedford Forrest from the State Capitol and into the Tennessee State Museum. “After more than a year in the making, this process has finally come to a close,” said Tennessee Republican
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By Rebekah Riess, CNN After a Louisiana man who declined to be vaccinated died of Covid-19, his mother organized a vaccine drive at his memorial to help prevent the same outcome befalling other family and friends. Betty Antoine wanted to encourage people to get inoculated after her son, 46-year-old Baton Rouge resident Brandon Haynes, refused
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In the men’s double sculls heats, France wins heat one in an Olympic-record 6:10.45, besting New Zealand’s 6:11.30 from 2012, but the Netherlands lowers it to 6:08.38 in heat three; Poland wins heat two in 6:11.22.
Continue Reading By Radina Gigova and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Business Vaccine inequity is undermining a “truly global economic recovery” from Covid-19, according to data released Thursday by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the University of Oxford. The organizations said vaccine inequity would have a “lasting and profound impact” on the
Continue Reading CNN’s Larry Madowo shares his frustration and anger over losing his uncle to Covid-19 and says vaccine inequality around the world must end.
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Brady Ellison and Mackenzie Brown led the way for the American men and women during the archery ranking round on Friday in Tokyo.
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN) — Dos semanas después del asesinato del presidente de Haití, Jovenel Moïse, en su casa en Puerto Príncipe, un hecho que ha generado una ola de incertidumbre en el país, su familia se prepara despedir los restos del mandatario. Según un comunicado publicado el lunes por la oficina de la primera dama,
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