Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN It was too good to last. While summer saw much of Europe open up to American visitors, offering them the chance to fulfill lockdown dreams of eating gelato in Italy or touring the art museums of Paris, the season’s end has brought with it new restrictions, and the doors to the continent
Continue ReadingCNN, HLN, KGO Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN It was too good to last. While summer saw much of Europe open up to American visitors, offering them the chance to fulfill lockdown dreams of eating gelato in Italy or touring the art museums of Paris, the season’s end has brought with it new restrictions, and the doors
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Italian police are investigating a Somali man for attempted murder after he allegedly slashed two bus ticket controllers in the beach resort town of Rimini, then wounded three pedestrians as he fled. State radio said investigators have ruled out terrorism and think the 26-year-old asylum-seeker was under the influence of drugs during
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN) — La adolescente británica Emma Raducanu ganó su primer título de Grand Slam al derrotar a la canadiense Leylah Fernández 6-4, 6-3 en la final del US Open este sábado, completando una carrera espectacular en la primera final de adolescentes en el Flushing Meadows desde 1999. Con su victoria en sets seguidos,
Continue ReadingALCAÑIZ, Spain (AP) — Francesco Bagnaia has fended off a late charge by Marc Márquez to win the Aragón GP for his first MotoGP victory. Bagnaia and Márquez exchanged positions at the top a few times in the final laps but the Italian held on after Márquez went wide off the track in the final
Continue ReadingBY COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has promised to “break and smash” the human trafficking networks that smuggle migrants across the border from Turkey. Mitsotakis, in a news conference Sunday following his Saturday keynote speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair, also said, in response to a question
Continue ReadingBy Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Saturday released the first of what is expected to be several documents related to its investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and suspected Saudi government support for the hijackers, following an executive order by President Joe Biden. The newly declassified document, which is
Continue ReadingCNN By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Saturday released the first of what is expected to be several documents related to its investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and suspected Saudi government support for the hijackers, following an executive order by President Joe Biden. The newly declassified document, which
Continue ReadingBy QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Not long after 9/11, the Bush administration shifted its attention to Iraq, saying it was part of an “axis of evil” that pursued anti-American policies. In subsequent months, the U.S. asserted that brutal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was armed with weapons of mass destruction
Continue ReadingBy MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer LULING, La. (AP) — Louisiana students were just getting back to class after a year and a half of COVID-19 disruptions when Hurricane Ida struck. Now many of them are missing school again. Nearly 170,000 public school students statewide have no school to report to. Top administrators promise that
Continue ReadingBy MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer LULING, La. (AP) — Louisiana students were just getting back to class after a year and a half of COVID-19 disruptions when Hurricane Ida struck. Now many of them are missing school again. Nearly 170,000 public school students statewide have no school to report to. Top administrators promise that
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar, CNN Brittany Starks knows what it’s like to struggle. Despite being a single mother who lives paycheck to paycheck and has been homeless twice, Starks hasn’t allowed her hardships to break her spirit. Rather, they’ve inspired her to spread kindness. One way the hairstylist does that is by offering other struggling parents
Continue ReadingPRESQUE ISLE, Maine (AP) — Maine potato growers are feeling optimistic with a solid crop awaiting harvest and reopening restaurants driving stronger demand. Growers are looking for something to cheer after a dismal 2020 in which crops withered from heat and drought, and some potatoes were given away. Don Flannery from the Maine Potato Board
Continue ReadingPRESQUE ISLE, Maine (AP) — Maine potato growers are feeling optimistic with a solid crop awaiting harvest and reopening restaurants driving stronger demand. Growers are looking for something to cheer after a dismal 2020 in which crops withered from heat and drought, and some potatoes were given away. Don Flannery from the Maine Potato Board
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer ROME (AP) — Seven minutes is all Zlatan Ibrahimović required to score in his first match back after four months out for a left knee injury. Ibrahimović came off the bench on the hour mark then quickly redirected a cross from Ante Rebić from close range for AC Milan’s
Continue ReadingBy Anneken Tappe, CNN Business The American consumer is dealing with a lot of problems: higher prices, shortages and the Delta variant. America’s economy can’t fully recover without help from its consumers, who are the backbone of the nation’s economic strength. But rising inflation, goods shortages, supply chain issues and rising coronavirus cases have left
Continue ReadingBy Anna Coren, Radina Gigova and Tim Lister, CNN Harrowing accounts have emerged of the Taliban detaining and brutally assaulting reporters covering a protest in Kabul earlier this week, with one Afghan journalist telling CNN he thought he was going to die. Video journalist Nemat Naqdi and video editor Taqi Daryabi from the Afghan online
Continue ReadingCNN By Anna Coren, Radina Gigova and Tim Lister, CNN Harrowing accounts have emerged of the Taliban detaining and brutally assaulting reporters covering a protest in Kabul earlier this week, with one Afghan journalist telling CNN he thought he was going to die. Video journalist Nemat Naqdi and video editor Taqi Daryabi from the Afghan
Continue ReadingLOGANSPORT, Ind. (AP) — A military procession has returned the body of a Marine who was among U.S. troops killed in a suicide bombing at Afghanistan’s Kabul airport to his Indiana hometown. The procession marked the beginning of memorial services for 22-year-old Marine Corps Cpl. Humberto Sanchez, of Logansport. Sanchez’s body arrived Sunday at Grissom
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi, CNN The US paused to honor what it lost on September 11, 2001 — and in the two decades since the terrorist attacks that changed the world. In services all over the country, bells rang, bagpipes wailed and tears flowed as the reading of thousands of victims’ names marked the nation’s collective
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