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By Helen Regan, CNN The Great Barrier Reef has deteriorated to such an extent it should be listed as a world heritage site “in danger,” a United Nations committee said Tuesday — prompting immediate backlash from the Australian government. UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee recommended the listing, recognizing the climate crisis as the driving factor behind

By Rodrigo Pedroso, CNN At least 140 positive Covid-19 cases have been detected among players, members of delegations and service providers since the beginning of the Copa América tournament in Brazil on June 13, according to the country’s health ministry. Brazil was chosen to host the football tournament earlier this month despite concerns about the

By Hannah Gard and Brandon Miller, CNN The same storm system that brought tornadoes to Chicago late Sunday was prompting thunderstorm watches from Tennessee to Canada across the Northeast on Monday afternoon. Four severe thunderstorm watches were covering more than 30 million people and included major cities such as Nashville; Pittsburgh; Buffalo, New York; and

By Zahid Mahmood and CNN staff Prominent Emirati rights activist, Alaa Al-Siddiq, 33, died in a car accident near London on Saturday. The UK-based human rights organization which she chaired, ALQST, announced her death in a statement on Sunday. “With deep sadness, ALQST mourns the death of its Executive Director, icon of the Emirati human

By Mario Medrano, Tatiana Arias and Karol Suarez, CNN Nicaragua’s National Police have detained a fifth presidential candidate, bringing the total number of opposition leaders so far detained to 15 ahead of the November general election. Miguel Mora Barberena, from the Democratic Restoration Party (PRD), was detained on Sunday, accused of committing acts that threaten

A Canadian legislator is calling for an investigation and a community is asking for answers after video showed a Montreal police officer kneeing on the neck of a Black 14-year-old. CNN affiliate CTV Network reports.

By Madeline Holcombe and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN A Canadian legislator is calling for an investigation and a community is asking for answers after video showed a Montreal police officer kneeing on the neck of a Black 14-year-old, according to CNN news partner CBC. Frantz Benjamin, a member of the National Assembly of Quebec, said several

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business Many companies are becoming more flexible with when and where their employees can work, but it’s the direct managers and supervisors who really set the tone on remote work for their teams — and not everyone is crazy about it. While some managers are fine with their direct reports working

Opinion by David Dollar, Yiping Huang and Yang Yao for CNN Business Perspectives In 2012, the Chinese government set a long-term goal: build China into a fully developed and prosperous country by 2049, 100 years after the founding of the People’s Republic. Given its success since the beginning of economic reform in 1978, this kind

At least 20 people were injured when a tornado carved a 22-mile path through southern Alabama, officials said. The tornado struck as Tropical Storm Claudette was passing over the area, the National Weather Service said in a storm damage survey.

By Holly Yan, Monica Garrett and Judson Jones, CNN After pummeling communities along the Gulf Coast and inland, the storm known as Claudette strengthened to become a tropical storm again Monday as it deluged coastal North Carolina. Claudette’s maximum sustained winds intensified early Monday to 40 mph — barely over the threshold between a tropical

By Alta Spells, CNN A massive storm and at least one tornado ripped through the Chicago suburbs late Sunday night, injuring at least five people and damaging more than 100 homes. The line of severe storms will continue to track east Monday, with the strongest storms expected in late afternoon and evening from southern Ohio

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Elon Musk said the new 1,020-horsepower Tesla Model S Plaid electric sedan would be able to go from zero to 60 miles an hour in less than 2 seconds. And it can, according to a recent test by MotorTrend, but that’s assuming you’ve followed a strict set of steps which

By Jessie Yeung, CNN New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is set to become the first transgender athlete to compete in the Olympic Games, after she was selected for the national team on Monday. She will compete in the women’s 87-kilogram category, according to a statement released by the New Zealand Olympic Committee that also announced

Claudette continues to dump heavy rain across much of the Southeast. Although a tropical depression now, there is a chance of restrengthening to a tropical storm. CNN meteorologist Karen Maginnis has the latest.

A trial cruise scheduled to sail from Miami puts the cruise industry one step closer to resuming operations out of US ports, more than a year after the pandemic brought cruises to a halt in the United States. CNN’s Leyla Santiago reports.

By Aya Elamroussi and Jason Hanna, CNN A tropical storm warning has been issued for large swaths of the North Carolina coast as Tropical Depression Claudette continues to dump heavy rain across much of the southeastern US Sunday morning. Claudette was was located about 85 miles west-southwest of Atlanta as of 5 a.m. Sunday, according

By Jackson Dill, CNN Dangerous heat will continue on Sunday in the West but relief is finally in sight. Unfortunately, that reprieve will be brief as temperatures will rise again by next weekend. “The prolonged heat wave across the southwestern US will continue for another couple days, but a cooling trend is near,” says the

By Jack Guy, CNN A man from Windsor, southern England is set to have major surgery next month after his kidneys grew up to an estimated 40kg (88lb) due to polycystic kidney disease (PKD). Warren Higgs has suffered multiple strokes and aneurysms due to his condition, he told CNN. According to a GoFundMe page, he

By Rodrigo Pedroso and Juliana Koch, CNN There is barely a person in Brazil today who hasn’t lost a loved one to Covid-19, say local scientists, as the country reached the grim milestone of half a million deaths. The South American nation, which holds half the continent’s population, is being decimated by the virus. On

Claudette continues to threaten portions of the Southeast with tornadoes, damaging winds, and heavy rain. Meteorologist Allison Chinchar has the latest.

By Jason Hanna, CNN What was Tropical Storm Claudette has now become a tropical depression but was still dumping heavy rain as it pushed into the Southeast Saturday evening, threatening to add to the flooding it already has left in parts of four states. It also appears to have spawned a tornado that littered a

By Sugam Pokharel and Nectar Gan, CNN Legendary Indian sprinter Milkha Singh has died at the age of 91 after a month-long battle with Covid-19, according to a family statement obtained by CNN affiliate News 18. Known as the “Flying Sikh,” Singh was one of India’s most successful track and field athletes. He won four

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Tharnicaa was eight months old when Australian Border Force officers burst into her home in rural Australia, and tore her Sri Lankan refugee parents and their children from their new life. The shocking dawn raid infuriated locals who began a nationwide campaign against their removal to Sri Lanka, where as minority

By Vasco Cotovio and Isa Soares, CNN He claims he was tortured by the authorities in Cape Verde and that even worse punishments await him if he is extradited to the United States. Alex Saab, the Colombian businessman who’s also said to be a ‘financier’ and ‘front man’ of embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, told

By Allison Chinchar, Hannah Gard and Monica Garrett, CNN The West is in the midst of a record-breaking heat wave this week, as all-time records were shattered and daily records broken in over a dozen states. Even by desert standards, the heat wave in the Southwest is atypical. On Thursday, the National Weather Service in

By Amanda Watts, CNN Canada has extended its Covid-19 restrictions on non-essential international and US travel until July 21. Bill Blair, Canada’s minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, announced the decision Friday on Twitter. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged that the extension of the travel restrictions may be “frustrating” for many people when

By Paul P. Murphy, CNN; Photo Editing by Will Lanzoni, CNN As extreme drought continues to choke the southwest, new satellite images are showing the significant effect it’s having on California’s reservoirs — many have critically low water levels. According to the US Drought Monitor, all of California is in some form of drought, with

CNN’s Stephanie Elam reports on the harsh drought plaguing the Western US and explains the impact this can have on the rest of the country.

By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Tesla has long led the auto industry — sometimes controversially — with its driver-assist system Autopilot. Now, it finds itself suddenly following the lead of an unlikely rival: Subaru. The automakers couldn’t be more different in many ways. Subaru builds family haulers for outdoorsy types, while Tesla has attention-grabbing features

Opinion by Shelley Stewart and Michael Chui for CNN Business Perspectives If Juneteenth doesn’t make you think about the economy, maybe it should. Racial discrimination has an obvious human cost, but there’s an economic cost, too. In new research, we examined the disparities Black Americans face in various economic roles — as workers, business owners,

By Aya Elamroussi and Stephanie Elam, CNN T.J. Atkin’s family has been in the cattle ranching business for nearly a century. In that time, he says, a drought has never hit their operations this hard. “Everyone else I’ve talked to says in 85 years, it has not been this bad,” Atkin told CNN. “We have

By Jay Croft and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Heavy rain and tropical storm-force winds were spreading across parts of the Gulf Coast on Friday as a tropical disturbance closed in on the US. There were tropical storm conditions from east of Morgan City, Louisiana, to the Florida Panhandle. About 7 million Americans are under warnings for

By Anna Bahney If there were ever a time to sell a house of horrors, the time is now. In this wild market, in which record low inventory and soaring demand is pushing home prices ever higher, you might expect that any old thing you put on the market would sell. Mimi Foster, a real

A Colorado Springs, Colorado, house was so badly trashed by a former tenant that its real estate agent describes it as a “house of horrors.” CNN affiliate KMGH takes us inside.

The newest tropical threat in the Gulf of Mexico aims for the northern Gulf Coast this weekend. Tropical storm warnings are already in place. CNN Meteorologist Tom Sater has the latest forecast.

By Hannah Gard and Judson Jones, CNN Not Lousiana again. The state is starting off this hurricane season right where it left off last year: In the sights of another tropical system. Tropical storm warnings are in effect from Intracoastal City, Louisiana, to the Alabama/Florida border, as Potential Tropical Cyclone (PTC) Three drifts toward the

By Brisa Colon, Pete Burn and Alexandra Meeks, CNN As record heat bakes the Southwest and an intensifying drought tightens its grip, vegetation in California has dried to historic levels, putting the region at even greater risk of wildfires, officials say. In the Los Angeles area, moisture levels in vegetation have fallen to lows not

By Marnie Hunter, Naomi Thomas and Keri Enriquez, CNN Health officials in the United States have eased their stance on the safety of cruise travel for vaccinated passengers, lowering the travel alert level just over a week before the first cruise in more than 15 months is scheduled to set sail from a US port.

By Anna Bahney, CNN It’s not just puppies and sourdough starter. Another thing that spiked during the pandemic: the purchase of vacation homes. Remote workers who were able to log on from anywhere snapped up homes in vacation areas, sending seasonal home purchases skyrocketing last year. Vacation home sales rose by 16% in 2020 from

By James Briggs and Jack Guy, CNN Business British supermarket chain Waitrose will change the name of one of its products to remove a racial slur used in South Africa during apartheid, the company announced Wednesday. The product, formerly known as “Kaffir Lime Leaves,” will have new packaging under the name “Makrut Lime Leaves.” Waitrose

By Jack Guy, CNN A therapy dog has played a role in saving a woman who was considering taking her own life on a bridge over a highway in the UK, first responders attending the scene have said. Digby normally helps firefighters in therapy sessions deal with trauma. But in a change to his usual

By John Keefe and Rachel Ramirez, CNN As the Pacific Northwest prepares for record-breaking heat, vast swaths of the West are experiencing a historic and unrelenting drought, the worst in the region in at least 20 years. The most severe drought is centered in the Southwest in California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. But areas of

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN With millions of Californians set to experience a heat wave in the coming days, the operator of the state’s power grid issued an alert that called for residents to conserve electricity on Thursday. The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) issued a statewide Flex Alert, urging people to cut back their electricity

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business General Motors announced Wednesday that it has increased its planned spending on electric vehicles to $35 billion by 2025. That represents a 75% increase since March, 2020. At that time, GM had said it would spend $20 billion on electric vehicles in that timeframe — an amount that was later

By Rafael Rome, Natalie Gallón and Karol Suarez, CNN Construction flaws led to the collapse of a Mexico City subway line that killed 26 people and left dozens injured last month, according to the preliminary findings of an independent probe released by the city government on Wednesday. The investigation, carried out by Norwegian risk management

The third named storm of the season will likely develop soon and bring drenching rains to the northern Gulf Coast by the end of the week. CNN meteorologist Jennifer Gray is tracking the latest.

By Hannah Gard and Monica Garrett, CNN The US will likely be hit by the first tropical system of the season by the end of this week, bringing nearly a foot of rain to parts of an already drenched South. The system is currently stationed over the Bay of Campeche in the Gulf of Mexico

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. Facts The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30. The areas covered include the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. The National Weather Service defines a hurricane as a “tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds

By David Williams, CNN As a dangerous heat wave grips much of the western US, doctors say that sidewalks, roads and other surfaces can get hot enough to cause serious burns in a matter of seconds. The Arizona Burn Center – Valleywise Health in Phoenix warns that these surfaces can reach temperatures of 180 degrees

By Eliza Mackintosh and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN British Prime Minister Boris Johnson described his health minister as “totally f**king hopeless” during the early days of the pandemic, text messages published by his disaffected former chief adviser revealed on Wednesday. Writing on Substack and in a Twitter thread, Dominic Cummings shared photos of his WhatsApp conversations

By Pedram Javaheri, Judson Jones and Hannah Gard, CNN With upwards of 300 record-high temperatures in jeopardy this week, more than an eighth of the US population — over 40 million people — are on alert across the western US for a long-lasting, potentially lethal heat wave. “No easy way to say this, so we’ll

By Anna Bahney, CNN Business What do homebuyers have to do to get a house in this cutthroat real estate market? Offer sellers a Caribbean vacation? Bid $1 million over the asking price? Pay a competing bidder hundreds of thousands of dollars to walk away? What about buying two homes just to live in one?

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN One of Arizona’s largest wildfires has scorched more than 139,000 acres and continues to spread rapidly as weather conditions are expected to remain hot and dry. More than 1,000 people are fighting to tame the Telegraph Fire, burning east of Phoenix, as it has grown and began merging with the neighboring

Opinion by Hakeem Jeffries and Reverend David K. Brawley for CNN Business Perspectives The basic American contract is that if you work hard and play by the rules, you should be able to purchase a home and provide a comfortable living for your family. But this contract has long been broken for far too many

By Zamira Rahim, CNN It’s an arachnophobe’s worst nightmare: towns draped in spider webs. Residents of the Australian region of Gippsland in the state of Victoria were greeted with layers of gossamer cobwebs after the area was hit by severe flooding, according to CNN affiliate 9News. The Victoria State Emergency Service issued multiple flood warnings

By Melissa Gray, CNN Roald Dahl, the author of children’s classics such as “James and the Giant Peach” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” believed in stories that enthralled young readers, getting them to love books for a lifetime. He put those thoughts in a letter sent more than 30 years ago to a university

By Hannah Gard and Monica Garrett, CNN Nevada and Arizona are looking at breaking all-time state record highs this week, but Phoenix was only able to tie its record Tuesday because of wildfire smoke. The National Weather Service (NWS) forecasted a high of 117 degrees in Phoenix on Tuesday, which would have surpassed the record

By Zamira Rahim, CNN A “special” Australian kelpie has sold for a record-breaking 35,200 Australian dollars ($27,090) at a working dog auction in the country’s Victoria state. Two-year-old kelpie Hoover was sold at the Australian Premier Working Dog Auction in the town of Casterton on Sunday, CNN affiliate 7News reports. The sale has broken a

By Maureen O’Hare; video by Diana Diroy, CNN One year ago, Southwest Airlines flight attendant JacqueRae Sullivan was feeling overwhelmed by events in the United States following the death of George Floyd. The protests in her home city of Dallas, Texas, turned violent on the night of May 29 and when she went on social

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Three communities in Arizona have been asked to evacuate after a fire that crews have been working for days to contain jumped the containment line. The Telegraph Fire grew overnight, burning through 104,755 acres with containment down to 68%, fire authorities said during a community meeting late Monday. Track wildfires in

By Jessie Yeung and Swati Gupta, CNN The pilot had just completed a commercial flight from the United States to Covid-struck India when he received the news his colleague had died of the virus. “We parked the plane in Delhi, switched off the engines, switched on our phones, and the guy sitting next to me

By Amanda Jackson, CNN A man driving on a Florida highway was left uninjured after lightning struck his vehicle Monday morning, according to officials. The lightning strike damaged the compact SUV the 48-year-old was driving and left a 7-foot-long, 4-inch-wide gouge in the pavement, according to Florida Highway Patrol (FHP). The man, who police didn’t

By Hannah Gard and Jennifer Gray, CNN All-time records are in jeopardy this week as a dangerous heat wave bakes much of the Western United States, an area already begging for moisture due to exceptional drought. “Record-high tempertures will just continue the vicious cycle that so often happens in droughts, where hot, cloudless skies result

By Jennifer Gray, Hollie Silverman and Michael Guy, CNN [Breaking news update, published at 11:30 p.m. ET] Tropical Storm Bill strengthened from a tropical depression in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina Monday night. It is the second named storm of the North Atlantic Hurricane Season. The storm is likely to be

By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business Teenage workers are in high demand this summer, especially at Main Street businesses. And that will come as a relief since working teens were hard hit by pandemic-related layoffs. In May of 2020, their national unemployment rate was just shy of 30%, according to federal jobs data. But by this

Opinion by Chuck Collins for CNN Business Perspectives If you paid $5 in taxes in 2011, you paid more that year than Jeff Bezos, one of the wealthiest people in the world. That’s just one of the many revelations from ProPublica’s release of secret IRS files. The fact that the US tax system is rigged

By Hollie Silverman, Kay Jones and Michael Guy, CNN Multiple wildfires prompted evacuations in California and Arizona over the weekend after quickly charring more than 1,500 acres of land. The region has already seen hundreds of acres burned as a drought continues to grip the region amid rising temperatures and a strengthening heat wave that

Story by Reuters Cambodia’s capital of Phnom Penh has started evicting its famous “floating villages” on the banks of the Tonle Sap River, despite the objections of longtime residents who say they have nowhere else to go. For generations, the floating wooden houseboats of Phnom Penh have been both livelihood and way of life for

Story by Reuters South Korea will exempt some travelers who have received their Covid-19 vaccine shots overseas from its mandatory two-week quarantine, health authorities said on Sunday, June 13. As of May 5, the quarantine exemption was only applicable to people fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in South Korea. The new rules will go into effect

On average, six people die every week in the National Park system according to officials. The parks work hard and offer tips to keep hundreds of millions of yearly visitors safe.

The maker of the iconic aluminum travel trailer is jumping into the off-road van business with the Interstate 24X.