By Lisa Eadicicco, CNN New York (CNN) — 23andMe, a standard-bearer for the at-home health movement, announced on March 23 that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to facilitate a sale, prompting many of its 15 million customers to wonder: What happens to my genetic data now? Privacy advocates and two state attorneys general
Continue ReadingBy Ben Tinker, CNN (CNN) — “Kids! Are one of you taking my lorazepams?” Victoria Ratliff (played by Parker Posey) asks her children in a scene from this season’s “The White Lotus.” “I just had my prescription filled, and I can tell some are missing,” she says. By this point in the series, the viewer
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CNN By Brad Lendon and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — Rescuers are desperately searching for survivors more than three days after a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar, toppling buildings as far away as the Thai capital Bangkok and sending tremors through nearby Chinese provinces. The first 72-hours after a quake are widely regarded as the
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By Rosa Rahimi, CNN London (CNN) — The chairwoman of a charity co-founded by Prince Harry has accused him of “harassment and bullying at scale” in a TV interview Sunday, after he and others involved with the charity quit this week. Sophie Chandauka, the chairwoman of Sentebale, said the Duke of Sussex unleashed “the Sussex
Continue ReadingPor Brad Lendon y Alex StambaugH Los equipos de rescate están buscando desesperadamente sobrevivientes más de dos días después de que un poderoso terremoto de magnitud 7,7 golpeara Myanmar, derribando edificios en lugares tan lejanos como la capital tailandesa, Bangkok, y enviando sacudidas a través de las provincias chinas cercanas. Más de 1.700 personas han
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By Hanna Park and CNN Meteorologists Mary Gilbert and Gene Norman (CNN) — Millions of people are under tornado watches across the central United States on Sunday – and confirmed tornadoes have been reported in Arkansas, Michigan and Missouri – as a volatile weather system has triggered power outages and huge hail. Roughly 170 million
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — Jordan Braxton still remembers her first Pride celebration in St. Louis, when it was still a relatively small gathering of about 5,000 people asserting their identity, in a city where simply being visibly gay was an act of resistance. It was in Forest Park, tucked away from downtown, and
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By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — In a buoyant address to supporters moments after taking the oath of office in January, President Donald Trump ribbed House Speaker Mike Johnson over the number of Republican lawmakers he had tapped for administration posts — vacancies that only tightened the GOP’s already slender majority. “He didn’t mind,” Trump
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By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. immigration officials are asking the public and federal agencies to comment on a proposal to collect social media handles from people applying for benefits such as green cards or citizenship, to comply with an executive order from President Donald Trump. The March 5 notice
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By THEIN ZAW, DAVID RISING and GRANT PECK Associated Press MANDALAY, Myanmar (AP) — The smell of decaying bodies permeated the streets of Myanmar’s second-largest city on Sunday as people worked frantically by hand to clear rubble in the hope of finding someone still alive, two days after a massive earthquake struck that killed more
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By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump lashed out at both Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday, expressing frustration with the Russian and Ukrainian leaders as he struggles to forge a truce to end the war. Although Trump insisted to reporters that “we’re making a lot of progress,” he acknowledged
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By WAFAA SHURAFA, MOHAMMAD JAHJOUH and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians in Gaza marked the normally festive Eid al-Fitr on Sunday with rapidly dwindling food supplies and mourning for several children killed in Israel’s latest airstrikes. There was anger as the bodies of 14 emergency responders were recovered in
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — US star Ilia Malinin defended his world figure skating title on Saturday with a dominant display on the ice inside Boston’s packed TD Garden. In truth, Malinin simply made official what many people already thought to be the case; that he is the best figure skater on the planet.
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish authorities said Sunday they arrested a Swedish journalist dispatched to cover ongoing nationwide protests on charges of terrorism and insulting the president. Joakim Medin of the daily Dagens ETC was detained as he arrived at Istanbul airport on Thursday and placed under arrest on Friday on charges of “membership in a
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Continue Reading Associated Press Nebraska Daybook for Sunday, Mar. 30. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Omaha bureau is reachable at 402-391-0031. Send daybook items to Nebraska@applanner.com. To see
Continue Reading Associated Press Missouri Daybook for Sunday, Mar. 30. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Missouri bureau is reachable at 816-421-4844. Send daybook items to Missouri@applanner.com. To see
Continue Reading Associated Press Kansas Daybook for Sunday, Mar. 30. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Kansas City bureau is reachable at 816-421-4844. Send daybook items to Kansas@applanner.com. To
Continue Reading Associated Press Iowa Daybook for Sunday, Mar. 30. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Des Moines bureau is reachable at 515-243-3281. Send daybook items to iowa@applanner.com. To
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Fredreka Schouten, Annie Grayer and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is using the power of the federal government to intimidate or neuter potential sources of opposition to him: The legal establishment, academia and prominent cultural institutions, the media, the judiciary, the Democratic Party, Congress and independent government oversight. The
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By BRIAN P. D. HANNON Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Emergency aid has streamed into Southeast Asia in the two days since a massive earthquake struck Myanmar and Thailand. Relief efforts are focused on Myanmar, where the estimated death toll rose to 1,644 by Sunday afternoon. The number of dead from Friday’s 7.7 magnitude quake
Continue ReadingPor Alexandra Skores Viajar por el cielo sin nada debajo, excepto 40.000 pies de aire enrarecido, puede parecer un lugar peligroso, pero cuando se trata de viajar en un avión comercial, de ninguna manera es la parte más riesgosa del vuelo. La seguridad de la aviación ha sido sometida a un renovado escrutinio tras una
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — When health workers stopped visiting her home in Pakistan to administer tuberculosis medication, Ratna Jamni began dragging herself to a clinic “step by painful step, when even standing feels impossible.” The 40-year-old had been receiving treatment and mental health support for months at home after contracting drug-resistant TB, but
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Sharon Savoy, a 65-year-old retiree from just outside of Toronto, had planned a typical three-month stay at her vacation home in Miami earlier this month. But then she abruptly decided to put the trip on hold, and now she wonders when she’ll ever go back to her second home.
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By Brad Lendon and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — Rescuers are desperately searching for survivors more than four days after a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar, toppling buildings as far away as the Thai capital Bangkok and sending tremors through nearby Chinese provinces. The first 72 hours after a quake are widely regarded as the
Continue ReadingPor Omar Jiménez y Elizabeth González Ella pidió ser identificada solo como “Ambo”, por temor a ser reconocida en su país natal. “La vida es muy difícil para mí”, dijo a CNN desde una escuela convertida en refugio, en un día húmedo y caluroso en la Ciudad de Panamá. Por encima del ruido ambiental de
Continue ReadingPor David Goldman El presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump, declaró el sábado que no le importa que los fabricantes de vehículos suban los precios debido a sus aranceles. De hecho, los animó a hacerlo. Cuando Kristen Welker, de NBC News, le preguntó en una entrevista telefónica si presionó a los fabricantes de automóviles para que
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By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ frailty was on full view as he left Rome’s Gemelli hospital last Sunday after five weeks battling pneumonia that nearly killed him. He could barely lift his arms to bless the crowd. His eyes were sunken, face bloated. And he visibly gasped for breath as
Continue Reading By The Associated Press NBA Monday FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG Utah 1 (218½) at CHARLOTTE at INDIANA 5½ (234½) Sacramento Miami 8½ (220) at WASHINGTON LA Clippers 2½ (211½) at ORLANDO Boston 4½ (236½) at MEMPHIS at OKLAHOMA CITY 15 (239) Chicago at DALLAS 10 (219½) Brooklyn at LA LAKERS 5½ (225½) Houston COLLEGE BASKETBALL
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By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press In New Mexico, police and prosecutors backed an effort to outlaw devices that convert pistols into machine guns. In Alabama, the governor made it a priority. Lawmakers in both states — one led by Democrats, the other by Republicans — responded this year with new laws making so-called Glock
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