Simone Biles has withdrawn from the individual all-around competition to focus on her mental health, USA Gymnastics announced on Wednesday. More to follow. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2021 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.… MORE
California’s power grid operator has issued a statewide alert urging residents to cut back electricity use Wednesday due to higher-than-normal temperatures expected in Northern California and tight energy supplies across the West. Officials called for voluntary electricity conservation from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday to avoid rolling outages during the persistent heat, the California…… MORE
The change in CDC guidance recommending all Americans wear a mask indoors in areas with high Covid-19 transmission is a sign of the change the Delta variant has carved into the pandemic landscape, Dr. Anthony Facui told CNN. “We’re not changing the science,” the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease told…… MORE
Doctors across the state are in panic mode. Louisiana saw it’s highest spike in single day hospitalizations since the very start of the pandemic. 1,390 patients in hospitals within the state as of Tuesday. 169 new patients in just one day.Dr. Jeffrey Elder, the medical director for emergency medicine for LCMC Health said, “Everyone is…… MORE
About 20 anti-mask protesters gathered at the Broward County School Board headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Tuesday, forcing a postponement of a discussion on mask requirements for the upcoming school year, a school board member told CNN. “Folks weren’t wearing masks and refused to follow the rules — rules that people have followed for…… MORE
Katie Ledecky has won the women’s 1500-meter freestyle final, giving the American her first gold medal of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Ledecky, who holds the world record in the 1500m, came into this event a huge favorite. It is her sixth Olympic gold medal in her career, and she now has eight total Olympic…… MORE
Louisiana saw the highest spike in single-day hospitalizations statewide since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. According to Gov. John Bel Edwards’s office, hospitalizations rose Monday by 169 patients. This is the highest single-day increase in hospitalizations since March 2020, according to Edwards’s office. Ventilator use also increased by over 1,000 and 20 new deaths…… MORE
Ashley Corte celebrated her birthday this past weekend ― without her grandmother’s gift.Corte, who lives in New Orleans’ Lakeview neighborhood, says her grandmother mailed her a birthday card with a check inside. She has yet to receive it.”She keeps asking, ‘Did you get your check?'” Corte said of her grandmother. “And I’m like, no, I…… MORE
Democratic donor Ed Buck on Tuesday was convicted by a federal jury of nine felonies, including giving methamphetamine to two men who died at his West Hollywood apartment after being injected with the drug. Buck was found guilty of two counts of distribution of methamphetamine resulting in death, four counts of distribution of methamphetamine, one…… MORE
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