Paris transport strike disrupts subway, trains to suburbs
PARIS (AP) — Commuters in Paris are facing disruptions as public transport workers hold a one-day strike to protest what they say is an…
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Paris transport strike disrupts subway, trains to suburbs
PARIS (AP) — Commuters in Paris are facing disruptions as public transport workers hold a one-day strike to protest what they say is an…
Continue ReadingCate Blanchett to receive Film at Lincoln Center award
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lincoln Center will honor Cate Blanchett with its 47th Chaplin Award at the arts organization’s annual…
Continue ReadingAudible founder Don Katz to be honored by PEN America
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of Audible Inc., a leading force in the booming audiobook industry, will be honored…
Continue ReadingAudible founder Don Katz to be honored by PEN America
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of Audible Inc., a leading force in the booming audiobook industry, will be honored…
Continue ReadingLeDuc skates as 1st openly nonbinary US Winter Olympian
By SALLY HO Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — U.S. pairs skater Timothy LeDuc became the country’s first openly nonbinary Winter Olympian when…
Continue ReadingTransgender swimmer Lia Thomas sets Ivy record in 200-yard freestyle at Ivy championships
By Eric Levenson, CNN Lia Thomas, a transgender woman swimmer for the University of Pennsylvania, won the 200-yard freestyle race at the Ivy League…
Continue ReadingTransgender swimmer Lia Thomas wins 100-yard freestyle for third title at Ivy women’s championships
CNN By Eric Levenson, CNN University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas won the 100-yard freestyle in a meet record of 47.63 seconds on Saturday at…
Continue ReadingThurgood Marshall’s signed oath, the works of Maya Angelou: See the features of the White House exhibit honoring Black pioneers
CNN By Eva McKend, CNN An exhibit highlighting pioneering Black Americans is on display at the Executive Residence as the Biden administration aims…
Continue ReadingGOP Rep. Jim Hagedorn of Minnesota has died
By Melanie Zanona, CNN Rep. Jim Hagedorn, a Minnesota Republican who had been battling kidney cancer, has died, his wife announced Friday. He was 59.…
Continue ReadingSpain: Conservative party rift grows into all-out battle
By ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Months of simmering tensions within Spain’s main opposition party has come to a head with an…
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Tarasova, Morozov in second, lead ROC into free skate
Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov finish second in the short program. The pair are in second and lead the ROC’s pairs going into the free…
Continue ReadingAmazon workers in NYC set to vote on whether to unionize
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The battle to unionize Amazon workers is intensifying after labor officials…
Continue ReadingSotheby’s selling art treasures from divorced couple’s trove
LONDON (AP) — Artworks by Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and other modern masters are going up for auction as part of a billionaire…
Continue ReadingEl gobierno de Biden propone eliminar los obstáculos para que los inmigrantes utilicen las prestaciones públicas y busquen un estatus legal
Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El gobierno de Joe Biden planea poner en marcha una nueva norma que elimine los posibles obstáculos para los…
Continue ReadingRepublican lawmakers bar journalists from statehouse floors
By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s state Senate passed rules this week limiting where the press can go to report in…
Continue ReadingMicrosoft’s blockbuster Activision Blizzard deal could raise uncomfortable challenges for US antitrust enforcers
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business It has been about two decades since Microsoft and the US government went head-to-head in one of the country’s…
Continue ReadingMinnesota Rep. Jim Hagedorn dies at 59 after cancer battle
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn, a conservative Republican from southern Minnesota who followed his…
Continue ReadingMiddle-school children fall prey to fatal fentanyl overdoses
CNN, KGO, WFSB By Jen Christensen, CNN At age 14, Alexander Neville was still very much a curious kid. He was a Boy Scout who enjoyed getting…
Continue ReadingRupert Murdoch Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of media magnate Rupert Murdoch. Personal Birth date: March 11, 1931 Birth place: Melbourne,…
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