Most Social Security recipients say 2.8% COLA isn’t enough
The Motley Fool reports that 54% of Social Security recipients find the upcoming 2.8% COLA insufficient to cover rising living costs.
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What top marketing job candidates really want
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Continue ReadingThe death-themed board game that outsold Monopoly
By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our travel news round-up this week: Nevada’s haunted clown motel, Rome’s crypt adorned with the bones of 4,000 friars, plus Seoul’s legendary honky-tonk bar. Ouija boards explained Back in 1967, commercial Ouija boards were so popular that they outsold Monopoly in the United States. But what is the
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Do recent sports gambling scandals mean the end of leagues’ deals with sportsbook apps? It’s a longshot
By Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — American sports suffered another black eye after the arrests this week of an NBA coach and a current NBA player for their alleged ties to illegal sports betting and rigged poker games. It’s the latest example of gambling and players breaking the rules. But for those who think this
Continue ReadingHurricane Melissa is now a rare Category 5 storm as it closes in on a historic, catastrophic landfall in Jamaica
By CNN Meteorologist Chris Dolce (CNN) — Melissa rapidly intensified over the weekend and is now a rare Category 5 hurricane with 160 mph winds. The National Hurricane Center expects it to make landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday morning as the strongest hurricane on record to strike the island. The center of the hurricane is
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Bill Clinton once called the White House movie theater the ‘best perk’ of the job. It was destroyed this week
By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — One of the stars of the White House is no more. The White House Family Theater, the movie theater which first came to be in 1942 when a cloakroom was converted into a screening room, was demolished this week as part of the destruction of the East Wing
Continue ReadingCómo un pequeño error se convirtió en una interrupción masiva que derribó Internet
Por Lisa Eadicicco y David Goldman, CNN Una interrupción masiva de AWS el lunes que hizo caer algunas de las aplicaciones y servicios más populares del mundo comenzó con un error. El error, que se produjo cuando dos sistemas automatizados intentaban actualizar los mismos datos simultáneamente, se convirtió en algo significativamente más serio que los
Continue ReadingPolls open in Ivory Coast as incumbent Ouattara seeks a fourth term amid a weakened opposition
Story by Associated Press Abidjan, Ivory Coast (AP) — Polls opened in the Ivory Coast on Saturday to elect a new leader as longtime President Alassane Ouattara seeks a fourth term after key contenders were barred from contesting. Ballot stations opened shortly after 0800 GMT following initial delays. Some 8.7 million people registered to vote.
Continue ReadingLa demolición del Ala Este habla de la presidencia arrolladora de Trump
Análisis por Stephen Collinson, CNN Todos dicen lo mismo la primera vez que entran en la Casa Blanca: es mucho más pequeña de lo que esperaban. Dentro del Ala Oeste, el Despacho Oval, la Sala del Gabinete y las oficinas de los altos funcionarios se encuentran a pasos de distancia. La mansión ejecutiva, con sus
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He’s the sole caretaker for his disabled son. Now he faces deportation
By Zoe Sottile, Caroll Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — When Heury Gómez returned from a much-awaited birthday vacation in August, he was ready for the responsibility of a lifetime: caring full-time for his disabled son. A few months before the vacation, Gómez, a 43-year-old legal resident of the US from the Dominican Republic, had been awarded
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Sospechoso arrestado en relación con tiroteo mortal ocurrido en septiembre en Coachella
Luis Medina RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KUNA) – La Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Riverside anunció el viernes un arresto en relación con un tiroteo mortal ocurrido el mes pasado en Coachella. Los investigadores afirman haber identificado al sospechoso como un hombre de 59 años residente de Coachella. Fue localizado el miércoles y arrestado cerca de una
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Adolescente muere tras choque y fuga en La Quinta a principios de mes
Luis Medina LA QUINTA, Calif. (KUNA) – La Estación Thermal de la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Riverside informó el viernes por la noche que uno de los dos adolescentes atropellados por un vehículo mientras andaban en bicicleta por la Carretera 111 en La Quinta a principios de mes. Liam Cantu de 14 años quien
Continue Reading How a DNA test solved a medical mystery – and revealed a doctor’s decades of deception
By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — Summer McKesson struggled to breathe for years. Doctors told her it was because her blood would not stop clotting – and they couldn’t figure out why. A single clot alone can be lethal; but the recurring and unexplained clots that formed in McKesson’s heart and lungs were a medical
Continue Reading Student handcuffed after Doritos bag mistaken for a gun by school’s AI security system
By Karina Tsui, Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Armed police handcuffed and searched a student at a high school in Baltimore County, Maryland, this week after an AI-driven security system flagged the teen’s empty bag of chips as a possible firearm. Baltimore County officials are now calling for a review of how Kenwood High School
Continue ReadingFrustrated Arizonans have waited more than a month for their new congresswoman to be seated
By Steve Contorno, Ashley Killough, CNN Tucson, Arizona (CNN) — For years, immigration attorney Rachel Wilson has relied on her local congressional office to help untangle bureaucratic knots that threaten her clients’ ability to live and work in the United States. That aid used to come from the staff of longtime Rep. Raúl Grijalva, until
Continue ReadingRubio dijo que los recortes de ayuda de EE.UU. eran para reducir la burocracia. Pero hay más niños refugiados pasando hambre
Por Rebecca Wright, Ivan Watson, Salman Saeed y Su Chay, CNN En el suelo de su pequeña casa improvisada en un campo de refugiados en Bangladesh, su madre, Fátima Begum, alimenta a Sofiya frotándole las encías con una pasta alimenticia diseñada para tratar la desnutrición severa. Estos paquetes vitales fueron proporcionados por el Gobierno estadounidense,
Continue ReadingMiss USA crowns Nebraska’s Audrey Eckert the winner as scandal-hit pageant heralds ‘new era’
By Oscar Holland and James Legge (CNN) — Audrey Eckert from Nebraska was named Miss USA on Friday, as the scandal-hit annual pageant returned under new ownership. The 22-year-old digital safety advocate beat 50 other contestants to claim the crown at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada. Ivy Harrington from New Jersey and Chantéa
Continue ReadingJet-powered bombs and planes-turned-missiles: Ukrainian and Russian militaries improvise and adapt in a battle of wits
By Tim Lister, Victoria Butenko, Kosta Gak, CNN (CNN) — Improvise and innovate have become the watchwords for both the Russian and Ukrainian militaries as they try to outwit each other on the ground, at sea and in the air. Several recent developments illustrate this constant evolution of tactics and weaponry: a new Russian jet-powered
Continue Reading How a tiny bug spiraled into a massive outage that took down the internet
By Lisa Eadicicco, David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — A massive AWS outage Monday that brought down some of the world’s most popular apps and services all started with a glitch. The bug – which occurred when two automated systems were trying to update the same data simultaneously – snowballed into something significantly more serious that
Continue ReadingLa “plataforma de combate más letal” de la Armada de EE.UU., el portaviones USS Gerald R. Ford, será enviado al Caribe
Por Brad Lendon, CNN El portaviones USS Gerald R Ford, considerado por la Marina de Estados Unidos como “la plataforma de combate más capaz, adaptable y letal del mundo”, está siendo enviado al Caribe mientras la administración Trump aumenta la presión militar sobre Venezuela por presunto narcotráfico. He aquí un vistazo al Ford y los
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