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Sinema strikes big bipartisan infrastructure deal and suffers a Democratic backlash
When a group of 22 senators negotiates a $1 trillion bill, conversations can go off track. And when they did — "far too many (times) to recount," joked one senior staffer — Arizona Sen. Krysten Sinema would urge them to finish the job, even if that required some liquid courage.
[ cnn.com ]Heat and humidity make 'Tokyo Summer the worst in the history of Olympics'
Japan's summers are hot, humid, and can be deadly. If records are being broken during events at the Olympics, Tokyo 2020 could also emerge with perhaps a record it wouldn't have wanted.
[ cnn.com ]Greenland lost more than 8.5 billion tons of surface mass on Tuesday
Greenland is experiencing its most significant melting event of the year as temperatures in the Arctic surge. The amount of ice that melted on Tuesday alone would be enough to cover the entire state of Florida in two inches of water.
[ cnn.com ]US gymnast Suni Lee wins gold after injuries, tragedies and a horrific accident
• Sunisa Lee: 'I didn't think I would ever be here' • Live updates: The latest on the Olympics • Analysis: What Simone Biles' 'twisties' means • Olympics schedule and events to watch
[ cnn.com ]'I didn't think I would ever be here,' says Sunisa Lee after winning gold at Tokyo
• Live updates: The latest on the Olympics • Analysis: What Simone Biles' 'twisties' means • Olympics schedule and events to watch
[ cnn.com ]Maine church asks Supreme Court to block state Covid restrictions due to Delta
A church in Maine is asking the Supreme Court to block the state from enforcing or reinstating any Covid-related restrictions that the house of worship says would violate its religious liberty rights under the Constitution.
[ cnn.com ]Mandating vaccines for military would send powerful message
A Category 5 Covid hurricane is making landfall in the United States, and the Biden administration must use every tool in its toolkit to blunt its impact -- especially if the country is to weather a storm that will likely intensify in the fall should preventative measures not be taken now.
[ cnn.com ]Remembering the civil rights hero most Americans have never heard of
Robert Parris Moses, who passed away this week at the age of 86, is the most important civil rights activist most Americans have never heard of. He died on what would have been the 80th birthday of Emmett Till, the Black boy lynched in 1955 whose open-casket funeral put the violence that defined Jim Crow Mississippi on national display.
[ cnn.com ]Daniil Medvedev asks who will take responsibility if he dies in Tokyo Olympics' heat and humidity
Amid spiking temperatures and humidity at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday, tennis player Daniil Medvedev posed an unsettling question: Who would take responsibility if he were to die on court?
[ cnn.com ]Nurse: Health care workers who go unvaccinated offer unfair, unequal care
Covid-19 has killed over 600,000 Americans and sickened many more. It's hard for me to understand why people would refuse a vaccine that could save their lives and those of their family. But as a nurse, what I find even harder to understand is why some health care workers choose not to get vaccinated and put patients at risk as a result.
[ cnn.com ]High schoolers built a device that allows people in wheelchairs to walk their babies
For many parents, taking their babies on a walk or cradling them to sleep is a blessing that's easy to take for granted. But for Jeremy King, it's something he feared he would never be able to do.
[ cnn.com ]Four parents of transgender boys speak on raising their sons in a world that can be hostile
For over half an hour on a March afternoon, Arkansas legislators, activists and pediatricians outlined reasons why they considered gender-affirming health care dangerous, arguing in support of a bill that would ban transgender minors from accessing that care.
[ cnn.com ]What the For the People Act would mean for veterans with disabilities
Deployed to Iraq in 2003, US Marine Corps field radio operator Joanna Sweatt took cover in tight-spaced bunkers for hours at a time -- a tour of service laden with the stresses of being in a war zone that led to a blood clotting disease.
[ cnn.com ]Authorities here say they're facing a gun violence 'crisis.' They're asking residents for help
Saleemah Graham-Fleming had been told she wouldn't be able to have children. That's why she always called Sanaa Amenhotep, the oldest of her three daughters, a miracle.
[ cnn.com ]Dr. Gupta: Traveling to the Olympics was like traveling to cover a natural disaster
When I first told my medical colleagues that I would be traveling 14 hours to Tokyo, they looked at me with a bit of surprise, then hesitantly told me simply to "be safe." It is the same reaction I have often received when jetting off to cover a natural disaster, like the earthquake in Haiti, or a conflict, like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This time, however, the mission was to report on how people from all over the globe would converge for the Olympic games in a city under a state of emergency due to the pandemic.
[ cnn.com ]Analysis: Why would anyone trust Brexit Britain again?
Just seven months after singing its praises, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is attempting to rewrite the Brexit deal he signed with the European Union.
[ cnn.com ]New Capitol Police chief says he'd be 'a fool to not be concerned' about ongoing threat
In his first day on the job, Tom Manger -- the new chief of the US Capitol Police -- said Friday that he would be "a fool to not be concerned" about the threat of more attacks on the Capitol, especially given chatter on extremists' forums about possible action in August.
[ cnn.com ]Tennessee resumes vaccination outreach to parents, not children
Tennessee's top health official said Friday that vaccination efforts for teens will continue but that marketing efforts would be clearly directed at parents rather than their children.
[ cnn.com ]Opinion: Ending mask rule on planes would kill people
Over the last 18 months, the story of the pandemic in the United States has steadily evolved, from rising terror as the virus took hold, to a long winter of anguish and then to profound relief as a scientific triumph-- vaccines!-- arrived and did their job amazingly well. But then the story shifted again, darkly, as the Delta variant thwarted our happy ending, largely because of vaccine refuseniks in about a third of the country.
[ cnn.com ]Lebanon's water system on brink of total collapse, says UN
Lebanon's water supply system is on the verge of total collapse, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), in what would mark the latest development in the eastern Mediterranean country's slide into chaos.
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