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By John Keefe and Rachel Ramirez, CNN An unprecedented, multi-year drought continues to worsen in the West amid a period of record heat and dryness, which scientists say is a clear sign of how the climate crisis is affecting not only the weather, but water supply, food production and electricity generation. Despite some good rainfall

Opinion by Dana M. Peterson for CNN Business Perspectives As consumer prices rise for food, energy, housing and a number of other goods and services, Americans are feeling the pinch. But lower-income families and retirees on fixed incomes will especially feel their buying power erode — not just in the short-term, but for many years

Opinion by Dana M. Peterson for CNN Business Perspectives As consumer prices rise for food, energy, housing and a number of other goods and services, Americans are feeling the pinch. But lower-income families and retirees on fixed incomes will especially feel their buying power erode — not just in the short-term, but for many years

By Sara Spary, CNN A British man has been found guilty of a spate of “savage” stabbing attacks on 16 pet cats in the coastal city of Brighton, southern England, Sussex Police has confirmed. Steve Bouquet, a 54-year-old security guard, attacked the pet cats over a nine-month period near his home address, beginning October 2018.

By Sara Spary, CNN A British man has been found guilty of a spate of “savage” stabbing attacks on 16 pet cats in the coastal city of Brighton, southern England, Sussex Police has confirmed. Steve Bouquet, a 54-year-old security guard, attacked the pet cats over a nine-month period near his home address, beginning October 2018.

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Coastal areas in the Pacific Northwest have seen the worst of record-breaking heat, but millions in eastern Washington and Oregon are still under heat advisories through the upcoming weekend. Hundreds of deaths have been reported across the Pacific Northwest and Canada amid the unrelenting heat wave that has also swept through

By Aya Elamroussi and Amir Vera, CNN More than 50 million Americans remained Wednesday under heat alerts and hundreds of deaths have been reported across the Pacific Northwest and Canada amid a devastating heat wave. But relief is coming for many, forecasters say. Brittish Columbia and US cities — including Seattle and Portland — have

By Kocha Olarn, CNN For the first time in over 15 months, Thailand’s popular resort island of Phuket is allowing vaccinated international travelers to enter without quarantine restrictions. On July 1, at around 11 a.m., 25 passengers arrived at Phuket International Airport on a direct flight from Abu Dhabi. It was the first of four

By Kocha Olarn, CNN For the first time in over 15 months, Thailand’s popular resort island of Phuket is allowing vaccinated international travelers to enter without quarantine restrictions. On July 1, at around 11 a.m., 25 vaccinated passengers arrived at Phuket International Airport on a direct flight from Abu Dhabi. It was the first of

By Dave Alsup and Brisa Colon, CNN The Canadian village that set an all-time national heat record this week has been “devastated” by a fast-moving wildfire that engulfed the small town “within minutes” following an intense heat wave, officials said Thursday. The fire destroyed “most homes and structures in the village” of Lytton and several

By Derek Van Dam and Taylor Ward, CNN Meteorologists Tropical Storm Elsa is still several days from potentially nearing Florida — possibly around the site of the deadly condo collapse — as the third storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season to threaten land in the US. “It is too soon to determine what, if

By Hannah Gard and Monica Garrett, CNN The Fourth of July holiday weekend is quickly approaching, and weather conditions across the US will contrast starkly from coast to coast for the celebration. Dry and hot conditions will prevail in the West this weekend, although not as hot as the deadly heat they’ve been facing. Meanwhile,

By Hannah Gard and Monica Garrett, CNN The Fourth of July holiday weekend is quickly approaching, and weather conditions across the US will contrast starkly from coast to coast for the celebration. Dry and hot conditions will prevail in the West this weekend, although not as hot as the deadly heat they’ve been facing. Meanwhile,

By Tatiana Arias Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim will pay for all the costs needed to rebuild Mexico City’s subway overpass-stretch, which left 26 dead after it collapsed last month, according to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Lopez Obrador said during his daily press briefing on Wednesday that he met with Slim, and that the

By Tatiana Arias Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim will pay for all the costs needed to rebuild Mexico City’s subway overpass-stretch, which left 26 dead after it collapsed last month, according to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Lopez Obrador said during his daily press briefing on Wednesday that he met with Slim, and that the

By Sarah Moon, Jon Passantino and Rebekah Riess, CNN More than 230 deaths have been reported in British Columbia since Friday as a historic heat wave brought record-high temperatures, officials said Tuesday. The province’s chief coroner called it an “unprecedented time.” “Since the onset of the heat wave late last week, the BC Coroners Service

By America Arias and Karol Suarez Rescue specialists from Mexico are joining the massive search for survivors in the wreckage of the Surfside, Florida partial building collapse. In the disaster zone, assisting local, state and federal rescue crews, is the Mexico-based “Go Team” of Cadena International, a Jewish nonprofit which has responded to more than

By America Arias and Karol Suarez Rescue specialists from Mexico are joining the massive search for survivors in the wreckage of the Surfside, Florida partial building collapse. In the disaster zone, assisting local, state and federal rescue crews, is the Mexico-based “Go Team” of Cadena International, a Jewish nonprofit which has responded to more than

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business Survey after survey suggests many employees are thinking about leaving their jobs. Whether or not the so-called “great resignation” comes to pass, turnover and the war for talent is always a concern for employers. Which is why smart managers and senior leaders should be aware when valued employees are contemplating

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business Survey after survey suggests many employees are thinking about leaving their jobs. Whether or not the so-called “great resignation” comes to pass, turnover and the war for talent is always a concern for employers. Which is why smart managers and senior leaders should be aware when valued employees are contemplating

By Vasco Cotovio, Isa Soares, Rodrigo Pedroso and Marcia Reverdosa, CNN “Who’s mommy’s little girl?” 22-year-old Brazilian Sameque Gois asks as she plays with her baby’s tiny hand, in one of the several videos she showed CNN. In the footage, little Sarah responds to her mother with an ear-to-ear smile. Sarah was born in January

Canada and US cities in the Northwest have reported their hottest temperatures on record, and more than 52 million people are under a heat warning or advisory from coast to coast. CNN’s Jason Carroll reports.

By Angela Fritz, Carma Hassan and Brisa Colon, CNN Hundreds of people have visited emergency departments or urgent-care clinics in the Pacific Northwest since Friday — and as many as 230 deaths have been reported — as an excruciating heat wave smashed all-time temperature records in Oregon, Washington and Canada. Portland set record-high temperatures three

By Aya Elamroussi and Amir Vera, CNN More than 50 million Americans remained Wednesday under heat alerts and hundreds of deaths have been reported across the Pacific Northwest and Canada amid a devastating heat wave. But relief is coming for many, forecasters say. Brittish Columbia and US cities — including Seattle and Portland — have

Severe storms usher in cooler/drier air for the Northeast. CNN Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has the forecast and what to expect with the extreme heat out West.

Children in Brazil have been dying from Covid-19 at higher rates than nearly anywhere else in the world. Doctors and researchers say the country’s higher child death rate stems from several issues but the main culprit is social inequality. CNN’s Isa Soares reports.

By Juliana Koch and Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Despite a desperate need for Covid-19 vaccines, Brazil is suspending a deal to purchase 20 million doses of the Indian-made Covaxin vaccines, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday, after questions were raised about a pricing increase. The ministry said the decision was made on the recommendation of

By Sarah Moon, Jon Passantino and Rebekah Riess, CNN More than 230 deaths have been reported in British Columbia since Friday as a historic heat wave brought record-high temperatures, officials said Tuesday. The province’s chief coroner called it an “unprecedented time.” “Since the onset of the heat wave late last week, the BC Coroners Service

By Matt McFarland, CNN Business The US government will scrutinize cars’ driver-assist systems, a shift that’s likely to improve road safety, according to auto experts. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday that automakers will be required to report crashes involving driver-assist systems, as well as crashes of fully autonomous vehicles, which are less

By Angela Fritz, Carma Hassan and Brisa Colon, CNN Hundreds of people have visited emergency departments or urgent-care clinics in the Pacific Northwest since Friday — and as many as 60 deaths have been reported — as an excruciating heat wave smashed all-time temperature records in Oregon, Washington and Canada. Portland set record-high temperatures three

By Reuters Haiti will hold a constitutional referendum on Sept. 26, the same date as presidential and legislative elections, authorities said, after postponing the date twice in part because of the pandemic, an official calendar showed Monday. Political tensions in the Caribbean nation have been running high in recent months and Haitians have expressed fear

Opinion by Mark Zandi for CNN Business Perspectives Who would have thought that when the pandemic struck last spring that single-family housing would go on such a stellar run? Not me. But housing has been on a tear. Home sales, homebuilding and especially house prices have surged. Despite being overvalued, there is no sign the

By Nicole Chavez, CNN Canadian authorities are investigating multiple fires that destroyed four Catholic churches on Indigenous land in the past week. They are the latest in a string of recent events affecting the country’s Indigenous communities. The churches were destroyed as Canada confronts its history of systemic abuse of Indigenous communities with the recent

By Elaine Ly and Amy Woodyatt, CNN Prince Harry has told recipients of the Diana Award that his mother would have been proud of them in a surprise congratulatory message to those who have worked on issues related to the pandemic. “Thank you for inspiring us with your brilliance, your determination and your compassion,” he

By Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Mexico’s Supreme Court struck down laws which criminalized the recreational use of cannabis on Monday evening. The decisive 8-3 ruling comes after advocates pushed for decriminalization as a means to reduce drug-fueled cartel violence in the country. The court declared the prohibition of cannabis unconstitutional in 2018, leading lawmakers to move

By Lilit Marcus and Shawn Deng, CNN Shanghai‘s already-hot hotel scene just keeps getting hotter. The J Hotel Shanghai Tower, which opened on June 19, isn’t just another high-end property. It claims to be the highest hotel in the world. The J Hotel occupies the top floors of the Shanghai Tower — which at 632

US cities in the Northwest are all reporting their hottest temperatures on record in a wave that has more heat in store. CNN’s Don Lemon discusses with Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.

By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN The heat wave in the Pacific Northwest is taking its toll in more ways than one. Across the region — including Portland, Oregon, and Seattle — the high temps have resulted in a pause on some normal activities. Portland reached 115 degrees on Monday afternoon, breaking Sunday’s all-time record of

The “heat dome” weather phenomenon can trigger record breaking temperatures.

By Jennifer Gray, CNN Meteorologist The weather on the Fourth of July will either be too wet, too hot or too dry, depending on location, as many people look to get outside and celebrate Independence Day for the first time in two years. The South has been one area that has been consistently inundated with

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN As temperatures surged past 100 degrees, Bree Oswill gathered all the blankets and towels she could find and taped them to every window that didn’t have a shade. She doesn’t have central air conditioning and wanted to prevent every bit of sunlight and heat from entering her home. Growing up in

By Luke McGee, CNN The remains of 20 people have been discovered in a boat in the waters of the British overseas territory, the Turks and Caicos Islands. What they were doing in the waters, who they are and how they died remain unknown, though the local authorities have said that there is no suspicion

By Hannah Gard and Haley Brink, CNN Tropical Storm Danny weakened to a tropical depression Monday night as it made its way inland over South Carolina. Danny had maximum sustained winds of 35 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said in its 11 p.m. advisory, capping a turbulent day that saw the system fluctuate

Tropical Depression Four has formed and is expected to strengthen into a tropical storm, named Danny, before landfall on South Carolina this evening. CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers has the latest.

Key inflation readings soared above 5% this spring, with prices rising on everything from food to metals to transportation.

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business The Jeep Wrangler has cornered a very nice slice of the auto market for a long time. But that appears to be over now that the new full-size Ford Bronco has arrived. Based on test drives on road and off, Jeep has should be worried. We’re not talking about the

Ford is going after Jeep Wrangler’s niche with the new Bronco. CNN Business’ Peter Valdes-Dapena shows what it can do over steep hills, through creeks, and over rocks.

By Rob Picheta, CNN Dozens of firefighters are tackling a large blaze at the Elephant and Castle train station in south London, the city’s fire brigade has said. Video posted to social media showed smoke billowing from the station on Monday afternoon. The London Fire Brigade said 10 fire engines and approximately 70 firefighters were

Opinion by Richard Ditizio for CNN Business Perspectives When my brother died of AIDS 26 years ago this week, there were no celebratory Pride flags waving, no rainbow-clad corporate logos flooding social media with support. Instead, on that June day, I had to peruse a scant list of crematoriums willing to burn his virus-ravaged body,

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN The mercury kept climbing Monday in heat-baked Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, again setting record highs. Canada and US cities in the Northwest are all reporting their hottest temperatures on record in a wave that has more heat in store. Seattle had topped its all-time record high Sunday when thermometers climbed to

By Lilit Marcus, CNN Two men in Australia have been fined $760 each for violating Sydney‘s latest round of lockdowns after police found them naked and lost in the bush as they apparently fled from a wild animal. Officers in a police helicopter spotted the pair sunbathing naked on a beach in Royal National Park

By Angela Dewan, CNN In the window of a vintage shop in the Sydney suburb of Annandale, a sign expresses the frustration of many Australians with their country’s pandemic strategy. “Dear Customers, We will be closed for the foreseeable future because Scott Morrison is a useless dickhead who only ordered enough vaccine to vaccinate 4%

By Mia Alberti, CNN Defense officials are investigating after an employee from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) lost several “sensitive” documents that were later found by a member of the public, a ministry spokesperson said. The action follows a BBC report that the papers were found at a bus stop in Kent, southeast England.

Philip Wang, CNN Tesla began recalling more than 285,000 vehicles in China on Saturday over a safety risk concerning the vehicle’s cruise control feature. The cruise control system in certain models can be activated when drivers try to shift gears or accidentally touch the gear selector, resulting in accidental acceleration, according to China’s State Administration

By Peter Wilkinson, CNN Matt Hancock resigned as Britain’s Health Secretary Saturday, one day after he apologized for breaching Covid regulations. The politician was pictured kissing and embracing his adviser, with whom British tabloid The Sun alleges he is having an extramarital affair. “I want to reiterate my apology for breaking the guidance and apologise

By Rachel Ramirez and Cheri Mossburg, CNN It was only last year when Hannah Lindell-Smith woke up in the middle of the night with the taste of smoke in her mouth. The orange sky over Washington and Oregon was filled with embers as wildfires raged, leading to some of the region’s most prolonged and dangerous

By Hannah Gard and Haley Brink, CNN From the Pacific Northwest to the Northeast, the heat is on this weekend, and by next week soaring temperatures could travel as far north as the Arctic Circle. A historic heatwave has prompted excessive heat warnings for Washington and Oregon, as well as most of Idaho and parts

By Lilit Marcus, CNN How is it nearly July already? With more than half of 2021 already in the rear view mirror, there’s good news as more and more destinations either open their borders or loosen their regulations. In the United States and Caribbean Good news, Americans who want to travel domestically — more and

CNN’s Tom Foreman reports on the possible reasons for the collapse of the 40-year-old building in Florida and the lawsuit filed against the owners.

By Aya Elamroussi and Hollie Silverman, CNN Two days after the catastrophic partial collapse of a residential building in South Florida, officials remained focused on the search for the dozens of people believed to be under the mountain of rubble as an expert suggested it may be months before the cause of the disaster is

By Patrick Oppmann, CNN The four Cuban migrants stepped off the US Coast Guard cutter blinking and looking dazed under the blazing Caribbean sun. They risked their lives to cross the Florida Straits to go to the United States, only to be stopped at sea and returned to Cuba. A team of Cuban officials met

By Judson Jones, Pedram Javaheri, Hannah Gard and Derek Van Dam, CNN Meteorologists Widespread drought conditions, long summer days and an intense heat dome will force temperatures to soar to monthly and possibly all-time record high temperatures across the Northwest in the coming days. “This event will likely be one of the most extreme and

Britain’s beleaguered Health Secretary Matt Hancock has apologized for breaching Covid regulations after being pictured in an embrace with his adviser, with whom British tabloid The Sun alleges he is having an extramarital affair. CNN’s Bianca Nobilo reports.

By Jodi Upchurch, CNN A Boy Scout troop searches for shelter, Conan O’Brien smokes weed on air and Tom Brady raps “Hamilton.” Here are the must-watch videos of the week. An explosive examination An explosion detonated around 100 miles off Florida’s coast registered as a 3.9 magnitude earthquake by the US Geological Survey. The blast

By Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN The Queen has a whopping £369 million ($514 million) budget to refurbish her London pad — a figure that may seem excessive when she spends most of her time at Windsor Castle these days. This week, the Queen’s royal accounts for the past financial year were published, revealing

Opinion by Bill Carter for CNN Business Perspectives People are making summer travel plans; cheering fans are going to games; and late-night hosts are returning to their studios with live audiences. So is all right with the world? Maybe it’s getting there. Jimmy Fallon is back at 30 Rockefeller Center with a full live audience.

By Eliza Mackintosh, CNN Britain’s beleaguered Health Secretary Matt Hancock has apologized for breaching Covid regulations after being pictured in an embrace with his adviser, with whom British tabloid The Sun alleges he is having an extramarital affair. Hancock is under fire after The Sun published a story with photographs that appear to show him

By Pete Muntean, CNN With federal agencies trying to crack down on passengers who are violently acting out on commercial flights, officials now say travelers are attacking — and even biting — those staffing airport security checkpoints. In new details shared first with CNN, the Transportation Security Administration laid out two attacks on Transportation Security

Peter Valdes-Dapena for CNN Business Ferrari’s newest supercar will be an 818-horsepower plug-in hybrid with a V6 engine that can go from zero to 60 miles an hour in under three seconds. But, even with all that power and speed, Ferrari says this car is mostly about fun. When it goes into production early next

Ferrari’s latest hybrid supercar, the 296 GTB, can only travel up to 15 miles on its electric motor, but can hit top speeds above 205 mph.

Wedding celebrations were put on hold for most of 2020. That, coupled with plans for this year, is creating a back-log as couples look to book their special day. CNN’s Vanessa Yurkevich reports.

By Anna Bahney, CNN Business and Kevin Liptak, CNN The Biden administration extended the federal ban on evictions that was set to expire at the end of June by a month. This is intended to be the final extension of the eviction moratorium, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which issued

Opinion by Bill Carter for CNN Business Perspectives For the first time since 1993 (aside from a brief period in 2010), Conan O’Brien will not have a late-night television show. The last edition of “Conan” rolls out on TBS Thursday night. He does have something new planned for TV — a series on WarnerMedia’s HBO

Opinion by Khalid Usman and Bruce Spear for CNN Business Perspectives Probably nothing speaks more to the post-pandemic economic recovery in the United States than the dramatic rise in demand for leisure air travel over the past several months. Since the number of passengers began steadily increasing in March, US airlines have found themselves besieged

By Pedram Javaheri and Hannah Gard, CNN An extraordinary heat wave is taking shape this weekend, potentially unlike any other the Northwest US has experienced. As temperatures surge into the triple digits, Seattle could feel more like Las Vegas, while Portland could experience Phoenix-level warmth in an area where having air conditioning isn’t always the

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Blink-182 singer and bassist Mark Hoppus is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, he said Wednesday on his social media accounts. Hoppus said on Twitter that he’s receiving treatment but didn’t reveal the type of cancer he has. “For the past three months I’ve been undergoing chemotherapy for cancer,” he wrote. “I have

By Amy Sood, CNN Efforts to save Australia’s endangered Tasmanian devil population led to thousands of sea birds being wiped out on an island in the Tasman Sea, according to local environmentalists. A number of the devils were transplanted to Maria Island off the east coast of Tasmania in 2012 under the Save the Tasmanian

By Paula Newton and Nicole Chavez, CNN At least 751 unmarked graves have been found on the grounds of the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Canada, the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan says. The discovery was made in the days after Indigenous leaders began radar searching the school grounds on June 1, Cowessess Chief

By Rodrigo Pedroso and Jessie Yeung, CNN Brazil’s controversial environment minister, Ricardo Salles, announced Wednesday that he was stepping down from the position amid an investigation into allegations he obstructed a police probe into illegal logging. Salles’ term as minister since 2019 has been marked by high deforestation rates in the Amazon rainforest and a

By Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Buckingham Palace has admitted the royal household is not diverse enough, as it releases its annual financial report. The Sovereign Grant report disclosed for the first time that the proportion of ethnic minority employees within the royal household is 8.5% — with a target of 10% by the

By Anna Bahney, CNN Business and Kevin Liptak, CNN The Biden administration is expected to extend the federal eviction ban that was set to expire at the end of June by a month, according to officials familiar with the matter. The extension, which is expected to come from the US Centers for Disease Control and

By Angela Fritz, CNN Remarkable satellite images captured a year apart illustrate the severity of the California drought and the impact of the 2020 Bobcat Fire and Ranch 2 Fire in Los Angeles County. Between June 2020 and June 2021, Angeles National Forest went from green and lush to brown and parched. Water in three

By Simran Vaswani and Amy Woodyatt, CNN A series of Covid-19 restrictions have been introduced in Sydney following a growing number of cases in the Australian city. Residents of seven districts in the southern part of the city are restricted from traveling outside the metropolitical area, according to the latest update from the New South

By Aya Elamroussi and Joe Sutton, CNN Parts of Oregon and Washington state will be under an excessive heat watch this weekend as scorching, possibly record-breaking heat settles into the region. The excessive heat watch will go into effect Friday afternoon and continue through at least Monday, the National Weather Service said Tuesday. Portions of

By Hannah Gard and Monica Garrett, CNN It’s what the Southwest has been hoping for: rain. But the chance of showers and thunderstorms over the next few days will not provide the parched region the relief it’s looking for, and it could actually make the wildfire situation worse. Fire weather watches are in place for

By Nic Robertson, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Richard Roth, CNN Fifty of Afghanistan’s 370 districts have fallen to Taliban militants since May, according to the UN’s special envoy on Afghanistan Deborah Lyons, as the United States continues its military withdrawal from the country. “The Taliban recent advances are even more significant and are as a result

By Drew Kann, CNN Scientists are on high alert that the Amazon is careening toward a destructive fire season. Parts of Brazil and its typically lush rainforest are parched by drought and loaded with fire-kindling fuel after a surge of deforestation in 2020. Experts say the region has rarely been drier than it is now,

By Amy Sood, CNN A plague of mice in the Australian state of New South Wales has forced a prison to evacuate at least 420 inmates and 200 staff, according to local authorities. The mouse infestation at the Wellington Correctional Centre broke down parts of the prison building’s infrastructure, damaging internal wiring and ceiling panels.