BRUGGE, Belgium (AP) — Defending champion Filippo Ganna of Italy has secured back-to-back gold medals at the road world championships by retaining the men’s time trial title. Ganna won with a small margin of just over five seconds to beat Belgian Wout van Aert for the second year running. Remco Evenepoel, another Belgian rider, claimed
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue and Devan Cole, CNN A Texas doctor is publicly revealing that he violated a state law that bans abortions after six weeks and says he is inviting legal challenges under the controversial law, which has so far withstood efforts by pro-abortion rights supporters to block it. “On the morning of Sept.
Continue ReadingBy Genevieve Beauchemin and Brooklyn Neustaeter, CTV News Click here for updates on this story MONTREAL, Quebec / TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — An Afghan interpreter has been reunited with her family in Canada after they were able to board one of the last evacuation flights out of Kabul. Maryam Sahar told CTV National News
Continue ReadingBy Anthony Vasquez-Peddie, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — Given the option, would you rather get vaccinated by taking a shot in the arm or eating a bowl of vegetables? Scientists at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) are currently studying whether they can turn edible plants,
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN RONAYNE and MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California recall election was a blowout win for Gov. Gavin Newsom that reinforced the state’s political divisions. The first-term Democrat has about 64% of the votes counted so far, with big support in coastal areas and urban centers including Los Angeles
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (AP) — At Oregon’s Capitol hundreds gathered to protest Gov. Kate Brown’s COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates. The Statesman Journal reports that on Saturday people at the rally lined both sides of Court Street in front of the Capitol building, and filled the first block of the mall during about two hours of
Continue ReadingBy JUAN A. LOZANO, ERIC GAY, ELLIOT SPAGAT and EVENS SANON Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — The U.S. is flying Haitians camped in a Texas border town back to their homeland and trying to block others from crossing the border from Mexico. It’s a massive show of force that signals the beginning of
Continue ReadingBy TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Vinícius Junior and Karim Benzema added to their impressive starts to the season by scoring late goals in Real Madrid’s 2-1 win against Valencia in the Spanish league. Vinícius Júnior scored his fourth goal of the season in the 86th minute and Benzema netted his sixth
Continue ReadingBy JIM HEINTZ and DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Early results Sunday in Russia’s parliamentary election show the dominant pro-Kremlin party well in the lead, but it is unclear if the party will retain the two-thirds majority of seats that would allow it to change the constitution. Results from about 30% of the
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter As the Supreme Court finds itself in an unwelcome political spotlight at the start of a new term, Justice Stephen Breyer defended the institution Sunday in an interview on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” insisting that the court is driven not by political considerations, but by judicial philosophy.
Continue ReadingBy ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is making his case to voters on the final day of campaigning before Monday’s Canadian election. He’s warning that his Conservative opponents would weaken the nation’s battle against the pandemic. Polls indicate the race is close and Trudeau is unlikely to get the
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is travelling to the United States with senior Cabinet officials to urge world leaders attending the U.N. General Assembly to take urgent action on climate change ahead of this fall’s COP26 climate summit in Scotland. Johnson is set to co-host a meeting
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is travelling to the United States with senior Cabinet officials to urge world leaders attending the U.N. General Assembly to take urgent action on climate change ahead of this fall’s COP26 climate summit in Scotland. Johnson is set to co-host a meeting
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business After Bart Schoenfeld’s Chevrolet Bolt EV was recalled for the second time, he’d had enough. GM had warned that some of the cars could have a manufacturing defect that might cause them to catch fire. For safety’s sake, the automaker recommended Bolt owners restrict their use of the car to
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — King Willem-Alexander has officially unveiled a new memorial in the heart of Amsterdam’s historic Jewish Quarter to honor the more than 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust. Designed by Polish-Jewish architect Daniel Libeskind, the memorial is made up of walls shaped to form four Hebrew letters spelling
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MOOSE, Wyo. (AP) — Authorities say a body discovered Sunday in Wyoming is believed to be Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito. An FBI agent said the cause of death not yet been determined. Petito and her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, left in July on a cross-country trek in a converted van to visit national parks in
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Gard, CNN Weather This year’s busy tropical season continues as more activity ramps up in the Atlantic. Tropical Depression Seventeen intensified into Tropical Storm Rose Sunday afternoon, about 370 miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands, says the National Hurricane Center. The other active storm currently in the Atlantic basin is Tropical Storm
Continue ReadingBy Alta Spells, CNN Two people were fatally shot at a parking deck at North Carolina Central University in Durham on Saturday night, prompting a lockdown of the nearby college football game, authorities said. Two men were shot and taken to the hospital where they were both pronounced dead, the Durham Police Department said on
Continue ReadingBy MAURICIO SAVARESE and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — One of Sao Paulo’s biggest favelas is celebrating its centennial — a sign of the permanence and resilience of poor communities that were once thought of as temporary. Paraisopolis community leader Gilson Rodrigues says that authorities didn’t do much to help the local
Continue ReadingBy JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Lionel Messi hit the crossbar with a curling free kick and looked angry at being taken off in the 75th minute in his home debut for Paris Saint-Germain. Substitute Mauro Icardi scored deep into stoppage time as PSG scraped a 2-1 win over Lyon in the
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