By Dalia Faheid, Alea Motwane, Dakota Smith, Kate Petersen, CNN (CNN) — Erin Cotton didn’t notice the smoke until her eyes started to water and her two children complained they felt itchy. “That’s when I remembered what I felt like during the Palisades Fire,” said Cotton, a Washington, DC, mo...
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EL PASO, TX (KVIA) -- Saturday, we're continuing to monitor an active monsoon pattern through the weekend. Through Sunday, we're tracking the best chance for scattered to widespread showers and thunderstorms, with slow-moving storms capable of producing heavy rainfall, gusty outflow winds, and lo...
Last week (July 5-11) was defined by the transition from temporary, emergency U.S. surcharges toward a permanent, investigation-justified centralized trade architecture. The USTR’s launch of public hearings for the 60-nation forced labor tariffs signaled that Washington will lock in a new dou...
Millions of older Americans are targeted by financial scams each year. One analysis published by the U.S. Department of the Treasury found $27 billion in suspected elder financial exploitation in just a 12-month period. As digital banking, payments and communication become more common, scamme...
It’s rare in an era of partisan division to hear a veteran of the Clinton and Obama presidencies agreeing with a right-leaning economist who worked for George W. Bush. Yet these prominent voices from opposite ends of the political spectrum teamed up to mostly praise a law passed by the Repu...
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Walking into Windsor Park Elementary in Corpus Christi, Texas, it’s hard to miss the mass of bright, colorful paper balloons taped on the wall, displaying photos of dozens of children who have read at least 1 million words this school year. “It’s something that the students are very, very p...
Omaira Garcia didn’t realize life on her small ranch in Abilene, Texas, was about to change forever until clouds of dust — kicked up by a mysterious project next door — began to engulf her home. The Air Force veteran said she found out about OpenAI’s plans to build its flagship Stargate dat...
For most businesses, energy is a line item that gets paid without much scrutiny. The bill arrives, it gets processed, and attention moves on to more pressing operational concerns. That approach is increasingly costly. Average commercial electricity rates rose 4.8% year over year as of early 2...
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More than two thousand years ago, Chinese players kicked a leather ball across training grounds in a game called Cuju to develop balance, endurance, and precision with their feet. The game evolved gradually until the 1860s when England transformed dozens of local clubs into an organized body ...
For health care professionals at all levels, from medical students to attending physicians, student loan debt is as pervasive as the common cold. Unfortunately, it takes a lot longer to go away. Severe student loan debt can affect borrowers’ financial health for years or even decades. This ...
By Dalia Faheid, Alea Motwane, Dakota Smith, Kate Petersen, CNN (CNN) — Erin Cotton didn’t notice the smoke until her eyes started to water and her two children complained they felt itchy. “That’s when I remembered what I felt like during the Palisades Fire,” said Cotton, a Washington, DC, mo...
By Daria Tarasova-Markina, Svitlana Vlasova, Lauren Kent, CNN (CNN) — Nikopol, in southern Ukraine, rarely makes the headlines – overshadowed by the threats to the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant directly across the river. But this city on the front line of Russia’s full-scale invasio...
Por Hanna Ziady, CNN Gran Bretaña necesita desesperadamente recuperar su chispa. Su economía está teniendo dificultades, los servicios públicos están bajo presión y las mejoras en los niveles de vida se han ralentizado hasta casi detenerse en las últimas décadas. La inestabilidad política es la...
By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — When a Brooklyn coffee shop announced on social media it was banning Rep. Dan Goldman over his views on Israel, some of his Jewish colleagues in Congress wanted their Democratic leadership to weigh in. But even as the controversy rocketed around the internet, Hous...
Por Emma Tucker, CNN Dos trabajadores del Servicio Forestal de EE.UU. realizaban trabajo de campo en un bosque del norte de California la mañana del jueves cuando fueron secuestrados a punta de pistola, atados con bridas y llevados a un remolque remoto, dijeron las autoridades. Usando el telé...
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – Regular readers of this space know that I am on a never-ending quest for a true everyday carry fixed blade. Oftentimes, fixed blades can be made extremely well and are highly functional. But are they small enough and light enough to carry for long periods of time on a regu...
Por Alessandra Freitas, CNN Al principio, lo único que Miiyah Paavola podía ver era un espeso muro de humo. Desde su casa en la Namaygoosisagagun Firsi Nation, en el noroeste de Ontario, el humo parecía estar cerca. Pero la remota comunidad indígena dice que ese lunes 13 de julio, el Minist...
By Hanna Ziady, CNN Manchester, England (CNN) — Britain badly needs its mojo back. Its economy is struggling, public services are strained and improvements in living standards have slowed to a crawl in recent decades. Political instability is the new normal, and the national mood is bleak. Co...
Felix Lipov // Shutterstock Approximately 323 million people visited American national parks in 2025, a 2.7% year-over-year decrease and the first annual decline since 2020. President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 signed the act creating the National Park Service to leave natural and histori...
By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Two US Forest Service workers were doing field work in a northern California forest on Thursday morning when they were abducted at gunpoint, zip-tied and led to a remote trailer, authorities said. Using one of the victims’ phones to make a call, a suspect said he h...
By Alessandra Freitas, CNN (CNN) — At first, all Miiyah Paavola could see was a thick wall of smoke. From her home in Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, northwestern Ontario, the smoke appeared close. But the remote Indigenous community says that on that Monday, July 13, they were told by the ...
By Kasha Patel, Chiara Negrello, CNN Scardovari, Italy (CNN) — As the sun was rising, two fisherwomen dragged their boat through the Scardovari lagoon in northeastern Italy. Oscarina Soncin stood in one of the largest clam-harvesting sites in Europe — the frigid water lapping against her knees ...
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EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- Seventeen animal shelters across New Mexico will receive nearly $2 million to improve the care and sheltering of domestic cats and dogs, according to the New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration. The Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) administers t...
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- The City of Las Cruces is inviting residents to help shape the City’s future through a series of public meetings and a "Community Needs Survey" launching as part of the City Strategic Plan Update. Over the coming weeks, residents will have opportunities to "share their p...
Por Kasha Patel, CNN Se espera que los incendios forestales lleven aire insalubre a más de 120 millones de personas este fin de semana, pero el humo y sus partículas tóxicas no siempre son claramente visibles. En algunos lugares, el horizonte queda cubierto por evidentes tonos anaranjados anorm...
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- As many soccer fans across the nation and the Borderland prepare for the 2026 FIFA World Cup Final between Argentina and Spain, an animal at the El Paso Zoo will make its prediction on the winner. Before the kickoff of the final game, Taj the Greater One-Horned Rhino will...
Por Mauricio Torres, CNN en Español El Gobierno de Venezuela accedió a US$ 346 millones de sus propios recursos que tenía congelados en el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) para poder atender la emergencia causada por los fuertes sismos que golpearon al país el 24 de junio, informó este viern...
Por Erick E. Beltran, CNN en Español El Mundial 2026 no solo se vivió en las canchas. También impulsó un consumo récord de música en Spotify, donde los aficionados crearon más listas de reproducción relacionadas con el fútbol que en cualquier otra edición del torneo y llevaron las escuchas de c...
A man who works for the GEO Group allegedly shot a woman protesting near the ICE Processing Center in Aurora on Thursday night, according to a press release from the Aurora Police Department on Friday afternoon.
Max Zepeda is ecstatic to be a part of the ABC-7 team as a multimedia journalist. He joined ABC-7 in June 2026. Before arriving in El Paso, Max lived in Phoenix, Arizona, where he studied sports journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State Univ...
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) - El Pasoans turned to their air conditioning units to stay cool as temperatures rose over the last few weeks. And electric bills are also on the rise, prompting shock among homeowners and renters. Shoppers making their way to grocery stores noted the higher costs on El Paso...
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- Former Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima has ended his independent bid for New Mexico governor and is endorsing the Republican Party nominee. Miyagishima made the announcement on his campaign's social media page on Friday, July 17. He had originally started running as a De...
Por Anabella González, CNN en Español El número de víctimas por el doble terremoto que sacudió Venezuela el 24 de junio ascendió este viernes a 5.069 personas, según las cifras oficiales difundidas por el Gobierno de la presidenta encargada, Delcy Rodríguez. Se trata de 139 personas más en comp...
Por Harmeet Kaur, CNN La semana pasada, el presidente Donald Trump declaró que el “alto el fuego” con Irán había “TERMINADO”, mientras las fuerzas de Estados Unidos llevaban a cabo noches consecutivas de ataques contra Irán. Trump anunció originalmente el alto el fuego a principios de abril, ...
By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Many millions of Americans and Canadians are breathing bad air right now due to smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires and additional wildfires in northern Minnesota. If you’re in an affected area, it’s important to check air quality before you go anywhere t...
California-based vegetable producer Taylor Farms said on Friday that it will remove products potentially linked to a growing cyclosporiasis outbreak across the country.
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