By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — The Bundesliga will have full stadiums for the first time in months this weekend as coronavirus restrictions are scrapped across Germany in time for the season finale. Union Berlin has sold all 22,012 tickets for its home game against Cologne on Friday. Borussia Dortmund will host
Continue ReadingBy JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence has unveiled a new policy platform for Republicans ahead of this year’s midterm elections. Pence on Thursday offered a framework for candidates — and possibly himself — as he carves out a path ahead of a potential 2024 presidential run. Pence’s
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Estas son algunas de las líneas generales de la triste y sórdida telenovela de Hunter Biden, el hijo del presidente Joe Biden, cuya proximidad al poder lo ayudó a ganar millones, pero cuya adicción le costó mucho: Usó el nombre de su padre para ganar mucho dinero, a menudo de compañías extranjeras.
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — El presidente Joe Biden está evaluando liberar una cantidad récord de petróleo de las reservas de EE.UU. a medida que persisten los altos precios de la gasolina. Un plan que se está considerando implica liberar alrededor de 1 millón de barriles por día de la Reserva Estratégica de Petróleo para los próximos
Continue ReadingCNN By Michael Nedelman, CNN Stopping the next major coronavirus variant involves knowing where it might come from. With Omicron, those answers are still a mystery: How did a variant that looked so different from all its older cousins appear so suddenly? How to explain its jumble of mutations, many of which had rarely been
Continue ReadingBy Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Americans’ biggest health care priorities revolve largely around affordability, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll, with most wanting to see Congress tackle drug prices. More broadly, inflation and rising costs dominate the public’s concerns. The findings, released Thursday, show that 55% of Americans call inflation and rising prices the
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China and the Solomon Islands have signed a draft version of a security pact that could see Chinese police and other forces take up duties in the Pacific Island nation, drawing concerns from traditional partners New Zealand, Australia and others. The Solomon Islands government on Thursday said the draft agreement had been
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — OPEC and allied oil producers including Russia have decided to stick to a modest increase in the amount of crude it pumps to the world. The move Thursday supports higher prices even as the Biden administration readies an attempt to lower them by releasing oil from strategic reserves. The group, known as
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — OPEC and allied oil producers including Russia have decided to stick to a modest increase in the amount of crude it pumps to the world. The move Thursday supports higher prices even as the Biden administration readies an attempt to lower them by releasing oil from strategic reserves. The group, known as
Continue ReadingYEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says he will meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Brussels on April 6 to lay the groundwork for peace talks to end the decades-long conflict over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh. There have been recent clashes that have raised concerns about the stability of a
Continue ReadingBy SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The prosecutor in the case against 26 Saudi nationals charged in the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi has requested that their trial in absentia be suspended and the case be transferred to Saudi Arabia. The panel of judges made no ruling on the prosecutor’s
Continue ReadingBy Kikue Higuchi and Ben Church, CNN History was made on Wednesday as 91,553 fans packed into Camp Nou — the largest football stadium in Europe — to watch the second leg of the UEFA Women’s Champions League quarterfinal between Barcelona and Real Madrid. The attendance was the biggest to ever watch a women’s football
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appealed directly to Australian lawmakers for more help in its war against Russia including armored vehicles and tougher sanctions. Zelenskyy has been tailoring his message to individual countries through video appeals like the one shown Thursday to legislators in the Australian
Continue ReadingBy BILL WHITEHEAD Associated Press PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — Robinson Canó is ready to take another swing at first base. A second baseman throughout his career, Canó is scheduled to play first in spring training Thursday as the New York Mets experiment with options that could keep his bat in the lineup on
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN en Español) — Este jueves Bomberos de Chile informó a través de su cuenta verificada de Twitter que hay hasta el momento 40 casas afectadas por un incendio forestal en Valparaíso. Bomberos Chile agregaron que hay 200 bomberos movilizados en 47 unidades combatiendo el fuego en las zonas de Quilpué, Limache, Villa Alemana,
Continue ReadingIn a report and accompanying dataset released Friday, the Oregon Health Authority showed that in 2019, commercial insurers paid Oregon hospitals double what Medicare paid for the same services.
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Unclaimed income tax refunds totaling almost $1.5 billion may be waiting for an estimated 1.5 million taxpayers who did not file a 2018 Form 1040 federal income tax return, but people must act before the April tax deadline, according to the Internal Revenue Service.
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s hiring boom of the past year has narrowed racial disparities in unemployment. Yet the Federal Reserve’s ongoing interest rate hikes — shaping up to be the steepest in 15 years — threaten to reverse that progress. The Fed’s increases will mean higher borrowing rates that
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s hiring boom of the past year has narrowed racial disparities in unemployment. Yet the Federal Reserve’s ongoing interest rate hikes — shaping up to be the steepest in 15 years — threaten to reverse that progress. The Fed’s increases will mean higher borrowing rates that
Continue ReadingBy JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — It’s been 40 years since Formula One last ventured into Sin City for back-to-back Las Vegas races staged in the parking lot of the Caesars Palace hotel. The European-headquartered series raced in Las Vegas in 1981 and 1982, then packed up with little incentive
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