By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — R&B superstar R. Kelly faces the possibility of decades in prison after being convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking in federal court in New York City. A jury found him guilty Monday after a trial in which several accusers testified he subjected them
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Denny Hamlin will reach the third round of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs next month having faced the make-or-break pressure of the postseason only twice. Ending the first race of each postseason round in victory lane can do wonders for the blood pressure of a
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Derek Jeter had a problem. In 2020, his third year as chief executive and part-owner of the Miami Marlins, the team broke their long streak of missing the playoffs. But after the team had traded away nearly every big-name player on its roster in recent years, he was looking at
Continue ReadingCNN By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Derek Jeter had a problem. In 2020, his third year as chief executive and part-owner of the Miami Marlins, the team broke their long streak of missing the playoffs. But after the team had traded away nearly every big-name player on its roster in recent years, he was looking
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — Lionel Messi has recovered from a knee injury and is expected to return for Paris Saint-Germain against Manchester City in the Champions League on Tuesday. PSG coach Mauricio Pochettino says the Argentina star is fit again. Messi had previously been ruled out of two consecutive league games following a knock to his
Continue ReadingPORTAGE, Ind. (AP) — Indiana Dunes National Park closed all of its beaches and a northwest Indiana water utility shut down an intake facility after an orange substance apparently spilled from a U.S. Steel plant into a Lake Michigan tributary. Portage Mayor Sue Lynch says she began receiving calls about 5:50 p.m. Sunday about the
Continue ReadingBy JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer America had yet to really learn about sexual harassment when Anita Hill testified against Clarence Thomas in front of an all-male Senate panel in October 1991. He was confirmed to the Supreme Court anyway, but Hill’s work was just beginning. Now, the 65-year-old Hill wishes she could’ve told her
Continue ReadingBy Priya Krishnakumar, CNN The FBI released its annual Uniform Crime Report for 2020 on Monday, showing that the number of homicides increased nearly 30% from 2019, the largest single-year increase the agency has recorded since it began tracking these crimes in the 1960s. The report, which is on par with preliminary numbers that were
Continue ReadingBy CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — Hertha Berlin’s millionaire backer Lars Windhorst was meeting Prince Albert II of Monaco on a luxury yacht as his team was getting trounced 6-0 by Leipzig in the Bundesliga. It was the second successive heavy defeat Hertha suffered against one of the teams Windhorst wants to
Continue ReadingPARIS (AP) — French President Macron was hit on the shoulder by an egg thrown at him by a young man during an international food trade fair in the French city of Lyon. A video of the incident shows Macron walking through the crowd when an egg bounced off him without breaking. Lyon prosecutors said
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — After hovering for years at lows sometimes near $1 per pound, coffee futures — the price large buyers agree to pay upon delivery months down the road — are now around $1.90 per pound. Factors including wild weather in Brazil, supply bottlenecks and worker
Continue ReadingBy JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s new prime minister has appealed to the international community to stand together against Iran. In his maiden speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Naftali Bennett accused the Iran of marching forward toward the development of a nuclear weapon and threatened to to act alone if the
Continue ReadingMADRID (AP) — Law enforcement agencies from eight European countries have pounced on a Balkan crime organization allegedly running the continent’s largest cocaine distribution network. Officials say they made 61 arrests and seized more than 4 metric tons (4.4 tons) of the drug. The European Union’s police agency said Monday the cartel set up a
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business As Jared Isaacman and his three fellow crewmates were freeflying through Earth’s orbit, shielded from the unforgiving vacuum of space by nothing but a 13-foot-wide carbon-fiber capsule, an alarm started blaring. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft’s systems were warning the crew of a “significant” issue, Isaacman said. They’d spent months
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN Broadway is back and the 74th Tony Awards were presented Sunday after a long delay due to the pandemic. The event honored productions from the 2019-2020 Broadway season. See the full list of nominees below with winners indicated in bold. Best Musical “Jagged Little Pill” “Moulin Rouge: The Musical” *WINNER “Tina:
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Some hospitals and nursing homes in New York began removing workers Monday for failing to meet a state-mandated deadline to get a COVID-19 vaccine as Gov. Kathy Hochul pleaded with holdouts to get 11th-hour inoculations. It was not clear Monday if a wave of suspensions and
Continue ReadingMariana Toro Washington (CNN) — La presidenta de la Cámara de Representantes, Nancy Pelosi, dijo el domingo por la noche que la Cámara votará el jueves sobre el plan de infraestructura de US$ 1 billón, mientras el futuro de la amplia agenda económica del presidente Joe Biden sigue siendo incierto. La votación está programada mientras
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California has among the lowest rates of death nationally among pregnant women and new mothers. But the numbers for Black women tell a different story. The most recently available state and federal data shows Black women in California were more likely to die during pregnancy or
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Hu and Richard Roth, CNN Afghanistan and Myanmar have withdrawn from their speaking slots at the United Nations General Assembly at the last minute, amid disputes over who should represent those countries. Both saw their elected governments overthrown earlier this year. Afghanistan’s UN representative Ghulam Isaczai — an appointee of the country’s former
Continue ReadingBy Jack Bantock, CNN 21:54 BST. May 8, 2019. Amsterdam. A flick by Dele Alli sends Lucas Moura racing into the Ajax penalty area. A sweep of a left foot later, and the Brazilian sends an entire fanbase into a state of delirium. Moura’s second-half hat-trick has just completed one of the all-time famous European
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