By Jack Bantock, CNN Revenge will be in the air at Madison Square Garden on Sunday as a tantalizing UFC 268 card tees up two world title rematches. Welterweight champion Kamaru Usman (19-1) faces Colby Covington (16-2) in New York in one of the sport’s most highly anticipated rematches ever, two years on from their
Continue ReadingFLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — Wide receiver Calvin Ridley will miss at least three games for the Atlanta Falcons after being placed on the reserve/non-football injury list. Players on the list must miss a minimum of three weeks. The move follows Ridley’s announcement last week that he needs “to step away from football at this
Continue ReadingBy DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A group of former coal company officials are going on trial in Kentucky next week. Federal prosecutors say they skirted federal rules meant to reduce deadly dust in underground mines. The four men worked for now-bankrupt Armstrong Coal. Prosecutors say they ordered workers at two Kentucky
Continue ReadingBy Kaanita Iyer, CNN A San Francisco law school named for a man who orchestrated a massacre of Native Americans is moving to change its name. The University of California Hastings College of the Law does not have the power to change the name, which is written in state law. But the board of directors
Continue ReadingBy Chloe Melas, CNN Things just got creepy, okurrr! Cardi B took to Twitter to share a letter and a hat from Penn Badgley’s character Joe Goldberg from “You.” “Hello, you… My stalking and killing may make me a certified freak, seven days a week, but it also brought me to… you,” he wrote. “Cardi
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Keita Nakajima has lived up to his billing as the No. 1 amateur in golf. He won the Asia-Pacific Amateur on the second extra hole. That makes the Japanese star the first top-ranked amateur to win the tournament. He beat Taichi Kho of Hong Kong, who finished with rounds
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett’s company reported a third-quarter profit that was roughly one-third the amount of last year’s profit because of much smaller paper gains on the value of its investments, but most of its businesses were continuing to recover from the effects of the pandemic. Buffett
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Ryan, CNN At least eight people were killed and many others injured after a crowd surged forward while rapper Travis Scott was on stage at the Astroworld Festival in Houston on Friday night. The incident occurred when the crowd surged toward the stage, crushing those at the front who were unable to escape,
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Tom Rice says that he hopes his vote this year to impeach President Donald Trump won’t be enough to overshadow his other accomplishments as he seeks a sixth term. The Myrtle Beach Republican told The Associated Press this week that he stands by his
Continue ReadingBy Donald Judd and Devan Cole, CNN Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Saturday his newly adopted son is doing well “after a terrifying few days” in the hospital. Buttigieg’s husband, Chasten, first announced that Gus had come home on Friday. “After 3 weeks in and out of hospitals, 125 miles in an ambulance, and a
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers will miss Sunday’s game at Kansas City after being placed in the NFL’s COVID-19 protocol. Because he is unvaccinated, he must stay isolated for at least 10 days.
Continue ReadingBy Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business As the criminal trial of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes entered its third month this week, much of the focus continued to be on how the failed blood-testing startup was able to attract investments from several wealthy families. Daniel Mosley, an investor who helped facilitate more than $400 million worth of
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN, CAMILLE FASSETT and KATI PERRY Associated Press As world leaders meet in Glasgow, Scotland, to try to ramp up efforts to curb climate change, the future of polar bears looms over them. Scientists and advocates say the threatened animals are “the canary in the cryosphere.” The Arctic has been warming twice as
Continue ReadingHANOVER, N.H. (AP) — A 9-foot-tall video game joystick made of wood, rubber and steel has made it into the Guinness World Records 2022. Dartmouth College professor and artist Mary Flanagan created the giant controller in 2006 to celebrate her childhood experience of “maniacally” playing Atari 2600 video games. She also wanted to see what
Continue ReadingBy Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business The Elf on the Shelf — a popular elf doll that parents place around their home in the runup to Christmas to “monitor” if the kids are being naughty or nice — has been showing up in many American households in the days after Thanksgiving for more than 15 years
Continue ReadingBy Tom Yun, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — Toronto rap superstar Drake wants to see a professional women’s basketball team in his city. On Wednesday, the rapper, who also serves as the Toronto Raptors’ global ambassador, posted a message to the WNBA on his Instagram story
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Dunham, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — The carbon footprints of the world’s richest one per cent are expected to be 30 times higher than the level needed to limit global warming to the 1.5 C target set out in the Paris Agreement in 2030.
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Archeologists in Pompeii have discovered a room that officials say offers “a very rare insight into the daily life of slaves” in the ancient Roman city. Officials from the Archeological Park of Pompeii said Saturday that the room served as both a dormitory and a storage area.
Continue ReadingBy David McKenzie, CNN Ethiopia’s military is calling on veterans to rejoin the army as two aligned rebel groups threaten the capital, marking the latest sign the government is marshaling its power to defend Addis Ababa. It comes as a new state of emergency allows broad powers of arrest and conscription for Ethiopians over the
Continue ReadingCNN By Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Richard Allen Greene, CNN Witnesses say Tigrayans are being arrested in Addis Ababa in a wave of alleged ethnic targeting by authorities, after a year-long conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. The detentions follow a dramatic escalation in the war last week, when the federal government declared a
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