How to watch Women’s 3000m speed skating competition
The first long track speed skating discipline of the 2022 Winter Olympics is the Women’s 3000m, an event recently dominated by the Netherlands.
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Alabama building to share names of KKK leader, Black student
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — A University of Alabama building named for a former governor who led the Ku Klux Klan a century ago will also bear the name of the first Black person to attend the school. News outlets report that trustees voted Thursday to rename Graves Hall as Lucy-Graves Hall. It will recognize Autherine
Continue ReadingWant to quit your job for a better gig? Here’s your to-do list
CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Kathryn Vasel and Jeanne Sahadi, CNN So much is working in favor of job seekers who want to wrangle a better position with better pay and better benefits these days. Even still, it’s rarely a seamless or stress-free process. Quitting your job is always a big deal and requires good planning and
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Green willows signal start of Spring Festival
Four hundred performers take the stage during the Opening Ceremony holding giant LED sticks meant to represent the Chinese New Year or “Spring Festival.”
Continue ReadingArtist envisions clock based on how Georgia rivers flow
By RON HARRIS Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — American conceptual artist Jonathon Keats is wading, quite literally, into time and space. He’s currently designing a municipal clock. The Atlanta River Time clock would display not the minutes and seconds that govern our lives, but time that speeds up or slows down based on how fast
Continue ReadingAt an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, a milestone union election is set to begin all over again
By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Last year, an improbable organizing effort among Amazon warehouse workers in a central Alabama suburb led to a high-profile push to create what would have been the first US union in Amazon’s history. While the vote indicated the union push had failed, the results were thrown out. Now workers
Continue Reading6 at jail hospitalized after fentanyl overdose, exposure
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials say four people in Josephine County jail custody and two deputies were hospitalized because of fentanyl overdose and exposure. The Josephine County Sheriff’s Office says four inmates were found to be under the influence of fentanyl Wednesday afternoon and two deputies were exposed to it. The sheriff’s office
Continue ReadingAmazon is the anti-Facebook
By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Amazon and Facebook’s Meta are two of the market’s biggest players. Both have come under pressure during a recent sell-off in tech stocks. But this morning, the direction of these companies and their stocks couldn’t look more different. What’s happening: Facebook’s earnings report triggered a 26% collapse in its stock
Continue ReadingMan accused of South Africa Parliament fire is denied bail
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The man accused of setting alight South Africa’s Parliament building in Cape Town was on Friday denied bail. Zandile Mafe, who was arrested in January for starting the fire that ravaged large parts of the Parliament building including the National Assembly chamber will remain in custody until
Continue ReadingUS backs rare flower habitat amid Nevada lithium mine fight
By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed designating critical habitat for a Nevada wildflower it plans to list as endangered. The move comes amid a conflict over the flower and a mine to produce lithium batteries for electric vehicles critical to the Biden administration’s plans
Continue ReadingSurprisingly strong jobs report: America adds 467,000 positions in January
By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business America’s jobs recovery got an unexpected boost in January despite the Omicron variant spreading rapidly throughout the country. The economy added 467,000 jobs last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday, significantly better than most economists had expected. Restaurants and bars added more than 100,000 jobs. Positions in retail,
Continue ReadingUS backs rare flower habitat amid Nevada lithium mine fight
By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed designating critical habitat for a Nevada wildflower it plans to list as endangered. The move comes amid a conflict over the flower and a mine to produce lithium batteries for electric vehicles critical to the Biden administration’s plans
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How to watch first day of Olympic short track speed skating
The first day of short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics involves the Mixed Team Relay and heats for the Women’s 500m and Men’s 1000m.
Continue ReadingThe best and worst of ‘And Just Like That…’
By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN And just like that, another chapter of “Sex and the City” is over. Simply put, this HBO Max revival — which was minus one Samantha and added a lot of new faces — has divided a fandom. (HBO Max, like CNN, is owned by WarnerMedia.) “And Just Like That…” was never
Continue ReadingOPINIÓN | ¡Inglaterra está de fiesta!
CNNEE Nota del editor: Mari Rodríguez Ichaso ha sido colaboradora de la revista Vanidades durante varias décadas. Es especialista en moda, viajes, gastronomía, arte, arquitectura y entretenimiento, productora de cine y columnista de estilo de CNN en Español. Las opiniones expresadas en esta columna son exclusivamente suyas. Lee más artículos de opinión en cnne.com/opinion. (CNN
Continue ReadingUSDA announces updates to school meal nutrition standards to begin in 2022-2023 school year
CNN, WPBF, WPEC, WPTV, WFAA By Liz Stark, CNN The Biden administration will implement new updates to school nutrition standards for the coming academic years, the US Department of Agriculture announced Friday, as part of an effort to make school meals healthier while schools also work to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. These transitional nutrition
Continue ReadingUSDA announces updates to school meal nutrition standards to begin in 2022-2023 school year
By Liz Stark, CNN The Biden administration will implement new updates to school nutrition standards for the coming academic years, the US Department of Agriculture announced Friday, as part of an effort to make school meals healthier while schools also work to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. These transitional nutrition standards — set to be
Continue ReadingAustria vaccine mandate to take effect, but few emulating it
By EMILY SCHULTHEIS and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — A law requiring most adults in Austria to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is ready to take effect, but the sense of urgency that accompanied its announcement in November has largely evaporated. Few other countries look likely to go as far as Austria as attention
Continue ReadingYacht reportedly built for Bezos too big for Dutch bridge
By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A giant, $500 million yacht reportedly being built for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos faces a delivery problem: It may require dismantling a beloved, historic bridge in Rotterdam that is blocking its passage to the sea. Reports this week that the Dutch city had
Continue ReadingYacht reportedly built for Bezos too big for Dutch bridge
By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and MIKE CORDER Associated Press ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A giant, $500 million yacht reportedly being built for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos faces a delivery problem: It may require dismantling a beloved, historic bridge in Rotterdam that is blocking its passage to the sea. Reports this week that the Dutch city had
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