By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Watching a movie in theaters these days can feel like a feat of endurance. Many of the biggest, buzziest films of the past year have tested audiences’ attention spans — and bladders — with running times approaching three hours. There was “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” which ran for 2 hours and
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan, CNN Making her Olympic debut for Team China, California-born figure skater Zhu Yi was eager to prove herself to the Chinese public. Instead, the 19-year-old is facing a firestorm on Chinese social media after she fell flat on the ice and finished last in the women’s short program team event Sunday. On
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Follow all the action live from the U.S. women’s hockey team’s tilt against Switzerland.
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Stocks tumbled sharply in January and the market has remained choppy in February. There are worries globally about earnings, inflation, interest rates and Omicron. But some market experts think investors shouldn’t be too concerned. Why? Volatility is normal. And market corrections, defined as a 10% pullback from a
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq, CNN A pack of orcas hunting and killing an adult blue whale has been recorded for the first time, scientists say. The stalking episode took place in March 2019 at Bremer Bay, Western Australia, according to research published in the latest edition of the scientific journal Marine Mammal Science. Two more
Continue ReadingBy NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Rivalries have a way of spicing up the Winter Olympics. The U.S.-Canada matchup in women’s hockey may be the best rivalry going at the Beijing Games. Other marquee matchups include Mikaela Shiffrin and Petra Vlhova in Alpine skiing, and Nathan Chen against Yuzuru Hanyu in figure
Continue ReadingBy Eva McKend, CNN In the hours leading up to Shalanda Young’s Senate confirmation hearing to be deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, emails circulated among Black staffers on Capitol Hill. “Let’s support our sister Shalanda Young today,” one read. “Sorors please watch and support our very own Soror Shalanda,” another read,
Continue ReadingZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Turkish ski jumper Fatih Arda İpcioğlu has declined to say if the crescent and star on his blue skis the day before the normal hill competition at the Beijing Olympics was a statement in support of China’s Uyghur community. The design on the skis used Saturday seemed to recognize the Uyghurs’
Continue ReadingBy LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Ryoyu Kobayashi of Japan won the Olympic ski jumping gold medal on the normal hill. Kobayashi jumped last and best. He cleared 99.5 meters and had 129.6 points thanks to his graceful style from start to finish. Manuel Fettner of Austria won silver and Dawid
Continue ReadingBy BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump recently told a mostly white crowd at a rally in Texas that his legal troubles are the fault of Black prosecutors he called racists. Trump repeated his charges of racism to underscore his contention that he couldn’t possibly be treated fairly
Continue ReadingBEIRUT (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency says children held in a prison in northeast Syria that witnessed 10 days of fighting between U.S.-backed fighters and Islamic State group militants are living in “incredibly precarious” conditions and they should not have been there in the first place. UNICEF added in its Sunday statement a day
Continue ReadingBy Max Foster, Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Niamh Kennedy, CNN Britain’s Prince Charles has paid tribute to his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, as she marks her 70th anniversary on the throne on Sunday, saying her devotion continues to inspire with each passing year. The Prince of Wales, 73, congratulated the Queen on her “remarkable achievement” of
Continue ReadingVATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has described as “beautiful” how people rallied around efforts to try to save a boy trapped in a well for days in a village in Morocco. Francis expressed thanks to the Moroccan people as he greeted the public Sunday in St. Peter’s Square. Francis praised people for “putting their
Continue ReadingBy Tim Lister, CNN New satellite images released by a US-based technology company appear to show that Russia’s military has advanced deployments at several locations in Belarus, a move likely to concern Ukraine and NATO amid fears that the Kremlin is planning an incursion into Ukrainian territory. The deployments are likely linked to joint exercises
Continue ReadingCNN By Tim Lister, CNN New satellite images released by a US-based technology company appear to show that Russia’s military has advanced deployments at several locations in Belarus, a move likely to concern Ukraine and NATO amid fears that the Kremlin is planning an incursion into Ukrainian territory. The deployments are likely linked to joint
Continue ReadingBy LAETITIA BEZAIN Associated Press ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Cyclone Batsirai’s torrential winds and rain are hammering Madagascar, after landing on the island’s east coast. Madagascar’s National Office for Risk and Disaster Management said an estimated 45,000 people have been displaced by the tropical storm. After gaining strength in the Indian Ocean with gale-force winds
Continue ReadingBy JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When Ketanji Brown Jackson’s younger daughter was 11, she drafted a letter to President Barack Obama suggesting her federal-judge mom for a vacancy on the Supreme Court. Leila Jackson wrote that her mother is “determined, honest and never breaks a promise to anyone even
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Therese Johaug of Norway wins gold in the women’s cross country skiing 15km event. Natalia Nepryaeva of the Russian Olympic Commitee and Austria’sTeresas Stadlober win silver and bronze respectively.
Continue ReadingBy MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and CZAREK SOKOLOWSKI RZESZOW-JASIONKA, Poland (AP) — A few dozen elite troops and equipment from the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division have landed in southeastern Poland near the border with Ukraine. Hundreds more troops are still expected. President Joe Biden has ordered the deployment of 1,700 soldiers to Poland amid fears of a
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq, CNN The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is the second Games to take place during the coronavirus pandemic, after Tokyo 2020 last summer. But even a global pandemic hasn’t stumped the ambitions of the nearly 3,000 Olympic hopefuls who are scheduled to compete this year. Athletes from about 91 nations are set
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