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Month: September 2022

7-year-old Delaware County girl gives gift of life after suffering devastating brain bleed

By Walter Perez Click here for updates on this story     WALLINGFORD, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — A Wallingford, Pennsylvania family’s loss turned into life thanks to some miraculous odds. Elizabeth Raiburn says anyone who knew her 7-year-old daughter Mackenzie Rose would tell you that she was something else. “She was feisty and she was sassy. She definitely

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Rick Scott rebuffs McConnell in defense of Senate candidates

By Alex Rogers, CNN National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott pushed back on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for acknowledging last month that “candidate quality” could hurt the party’s ability to take back the chamber. On Thursday, Politico published an interview with Scott saying that he and McConnell have a “strategic disagreement” over the

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California passes massive climate and clean energy package, halts closure of state’s last nuclear plant

By Ella Nilsen, CNN California state lawmakers worked late into Wednesday night to pass an aggressive climate legislation package, including $54 billion in new spending on clean energy and drought resilience measures, and a bill to stop the planned closure of the state’s last nuclear plant. The legislative action comes as California and other Western

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GOP candidates mask rigid abortion stances after Roe ruling

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Strict, anti-abortion Republicans running in competitive House, Senate and governor’s races in key battleground states are trying to distance themselves from their past statements and positions. This is in light of reignited enthusiasm among abortion rights supporters since the June U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning

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Judge says Lindsey Graham must answer questions to grand jury but limits scope of testimony

By Holmes Lybrand Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina must appear before the Georgia special grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, a federal judge ruled Thursday, but the scope of his testimony will be limited. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is leading the investigation into former President Donald

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Las puntuaciones de los estudiantes se desplomaron en matemáticas y lectura después de la pandemia, según una evaluación nacional de EE.UU.

Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Las puntuaciones en matemáticas y lectura de los alumnos de 9 años en Estados Unidos cayeron entre 2020 y 2022 a un nivel no visto en décadas, una señal premonitoria del estado de la educación estadounidense dos años después de que comenzara la pandemia de covid-19. Los resultados formaban parte de

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Biden to issue a warning over American democracy in rare prime-time speech: ‘We have to defend it’

By Kevin Liptak, Phil Mattingly and Kaitlan Collins, CNN A pair of fiery speeches inside packed gymnasiums over the past week left even some White House aides surprised at President Joe Biden’s new-found sense of electricity. Yet when he delivers a rare prime-time address Thursday evening in Philadelphia, Biden’s somber assessment of American democracy isn’t

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Grief into action: Asheville advocates believe education best tool to fight opioid crisis

By Samiar Nefzi Click here for updates on this story     ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — Communities internationally held vigil events in honor of National Overdose Awareness Day on Wednesday, Aug. 31. In Asheville, SeekHealing held a two-hour event in Carrier Park. “The reality of what is happening is a crisis,” SeekHealing executive director Jennifer Nicolaisen

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Ukrainian prosecutors identify Russian soldier suspected of shooting civilians from CNN report

By Sara Sidner, Lauren Kent, Victoria Butenko, Sandi Sidhu and Kostyantyn Gak, CNN It was a chilling shooting: Russian soldiers caught on camera killing unarmed Ukrainian civilians as they walked away from an encounter on the outskirts of the capital Kyiv. CNN first reported on the shooting in May, after obtaining exclusive surveillance video of

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Biden warns Trump and his closest followers are trying to undermine American democracy in combative speech

By Kevin Liptak, Phil Mattingly and Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden delivered his sharpest rebuke yet of Republicans and their fealty to his predecessor in an evening speech in Philadelphia on Thursday, alleging they “thrive on chaos” and warning their attempts to undermine democracy could devolve into violence. “They live not in the light

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Some improvement seen as Jackson water woes continue

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi officials set up emergency distribution centers for handouts of water and hand sanitizer Thursday in the capital city of Jackson, as efforts to restore a flood-impaired, long-troubled water system continued. Jackson’s residents were already under a boil-water order before flooding from

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