[ad_1] Minneapolis CNN — The pandemic dislodged the global supply chain, hurling once smoothly running businesses, industries and economies into a state of disarray. After almost three years of enduring wild swings and extremes, the system is slowly getting up to speed and into better sync: Ocean freight timelines are …
Read More »Newport News, Virginia: A 6-year-old shot a teacher with his mother’s gun. The tragedy highlights the lack of strong secure storage laws across the nation
[ad_1] CNN — In the week since a six-year-old boy in Newport News, Virginia took a gun from his home, brought it to school and shot his teacher, community members and officials are grappling with an unsettling question: How did the child get access to a loaded firearm? “There’s a …
Read More »Parents are not OK after three years of Covid and a brutal winter of RSV and respiratory illnesses
[ad_1] CNN — With children back in school and daycare after the holidays, weary parents fear what illness awaits them next during this brutal respiratory virus season. Since October, RSV, a respiratory virus which often is most severe in young children and older adults, hit early and cases started rising …
Read More »Oregon congresswoman suffers concussion after being struck by car while crossing street
[ad_1] Washington CNN — Democratic Rep. Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon is recovering at home after she and her husband were struck by a car Friday evening “while were they walking across a street in a crosswalk.” Bonamici’s communications director, Natalie Crofts, who shared the news of the accident in a …
Read More »Paramedics in Illinois charged with murder after patient dies
[ad_1] CNN — Two paramedics in Illinois are facing murder charges after a patient died of positional asphyxiation shortly after he was taken to a hospital in December, court documents say. Peggy Finley, 44, and Peter Cadigan, 50, responded to a home in Springfield on December 18 after police requested …
Read More »Keenan Anderson, cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder, dies from cardiac arrest after being tased by Los Angeles police
[ad_1] CNN — A 31-year-old father and English teacher died from cardiac arrest last week after he was repeatedly tased by police, according to the Los Angeles Police Department, marking the third officer-involved death in the city this year. Police encountered Keenan Anderson, who is the cousin of Black Lives …
Read More »Frustration is rising over Covid drug shortages in China, and there are no easy answers
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Meanwhile in China newsletter, a three-times-a-week update exploring what you need to know about the country’s rise and how it impacts the world. Sign up here. Hong Kong CNN — As Jo Wang, an event planner in …
Read More »NYC mayor cites slower economic growth spurred by high office vacancy, cost of migrant crisis and health care, in budget address
[ad_1] CNN — New York City Mayor Eric Adams unveiled the state of the city’s economic outlook as part of a $102.7 billion budget proposal for 2024 on Thursday, highlighting slow economic growth despite spikes in tourism and jobs. Adams touted investments that will be made into public safety and …
Read More »NYC nurses strike ends after tentative deal reached with hospitals
[ad_1] New York CNN — A nurses strike at two private New York City hospitals has come to an end after 7,000 nurses spent three days on the picket line. The New York State Nurses Association union reached tentative deals with Mount Sinai Health System and Montefiore Health System. The …
Read More »How much should people worry about Covid’s XBB.1.5 variant? Our medical analyst explains
[ad_1] CNN — A new Covid-19 variant, XBB.1.5, is spreading rapidly throughout the United States. In December 2022, the proportion of new Covid-19 infections due to this Omicron offshoot have increased from 4% to 18%, according to a January 6 release from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, …
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