MILAN (AP) — Defending Serie A champion AC Milan will open the season at home against Udinese. Runner-up Inter Milan visits newly-promoted Lecce on the opening day, Juventus hosts Sassuolo and Napoli visits Hellas Verona. The season starts the weekend of Aug. 13. There will be a lengthy pause because of the World Cup in
Continue ReadingBy VALENTINA PETROVA, STEPHEN McGRATH and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s parliament has voted to lift a veto that has long blocked European Union membership negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania. The move raises fresh hopes that the bloc can now press on with its expansion plans in the Western Balkans
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Harlan, CNN Through the entirety of a five-course dinner, three NBA stars said little about basketball. There was barely a mention of an NBA title the Golden State Warriors had won the night before; no talk of which jersey they’d wear next season; hardly a word about a likely induction into the sport’s
Continue ReadingCNN, SENATE TV, CITY OF UVALDE By Clare Foran, Kristin Wilson and Annie Grayer, CNN President Joe Biden will sign a bipartisan bill to address gun violence into law Saturday before departing for Europe, the White House announced Friday. The bill amounts to the first major federal gun safety legislation in decades and marks a
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.S. Defense Department says an Afghan prisoner held in U.S. custody for nearly 15 years has been released from the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Friday’s announcement on the release of Asadullah Haroon Gul came hours after the Britain-based Reprieve and the Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said
Continue ReadingBy Isil Sariyuce, CNN and Reuters Turkish firefighters were battling a blaze for a third day Friday near the Aegean coastal resort of Marmaris, in the same area that was hit last year by the worst fires in the country’s history. Reuters footage showed smoke billowing from hills as the blaze spread through the woodlands
Continue ReadingMUNICH (AP) — The European tour says players who competed in the Saudi-backed breakaway LIV series will not be allowed to play in the Scottish Open and two other upcoming tournaments. The tour says any players who took part in the inaugural LIV event in England this month have been suspended from the Scottish Open,
Continue ReadingCNN By Claire Colbert and Michelle Watson, CNN A black bear in Sevierville, Tennessee, died after it got into an unlocked car in search of food, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency said Thursday in a news release. Sevierville is about 30 miles from Knoxville in East Tennessee, just north of the Great Smoky Mountains National
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Thinking of traveling to Europe next summer? If so, get ready to pay a fee before you enter. The European Union has announced the launch of its long-awaited visa waiver plan. Under the new system, EU residents are exempt and have the freedom to spend as much time as they
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN Thinking of traveling to Europe next summer? If so, get ready to pay a fee before you enter. The European Union has announced the launch of its long-awaited visa waiver plan. Under the new system, EU residents are exempt and have the freedom to spend as much time as they want
Continue ReadingBy Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN PJ Rodriguez‘s 7-year-old son, John, is learning to cope with the loss of his grandmother and great grandmother. He was close to both and at times gets sad that he can’t talk to them, but a therapist has taught him to refocus his mind on happy memories when he gets
Continue ReadingBAD HOMBURG, Germany (AP) — Bianca Andreescu reached her first final in more than a year after Simona Halep withdrew ahead of their semifinal match at the Bad Homburg Open with a neck injury. It’s the first grass-court final for Andreescu. She will play Caroline Garcia on Saturday. Garcia had to spend close to three
Continue ReadingBy Toyin Owoseje, CNN Sharon Stone says she has “lost nine children” through miscarriages, saying women are made to feel that losing a baby is “something to bear alone and secretly,” with a sense of failure. The Golden Globe-winning actress shared her painful experience underneath an Instagram post by People magazine, where “Dancing with the
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN A tiny spacecraft with big implications for lunar exploration is ready to launch. The miniscule satellite, called a CubeSat, is about the size of a microwave oven and weighs just 55 pounds (25 kilograms), but it will be the first to test out a unique, elliptical lunar orbit. The CubeSat will
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Ashley Strickland, CNN A tiny spacecraft with big implications for lunar exploration has launched. The miniscule satellite, called a CubeSat, is about the size of a microwave oven and weighs just 55 pounds (25 kilograms), but it will be the first to test out a unique, elliptical lunar orbit. The CubeSat
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Serena Williams has held a practice session on Centre Court and will begin her Wimbledon comeback by facing Harmony Tan. Tan is a 24-year-old from France who is ranked 113th and owns a 2-6 career record in Grand Slam matches. The placement of Williams in
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian state media is reporting that authorities have detained five people accused of organizing a skateboarding event where dozens of teenagers mixed freely and girls didn’t wear headscarves. A video of the “Go Skateboarding Day” held off a boulevard in the southern city of Shiraz went viral on social
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — Se cumplen exactamente cuatro meses desde que Vladimir Putin ordenó la invasión de Ucrania y Rusia está a punto de tomar definitivamente la ciudad de Severodonetsk, clave para tomar el control del este del país. Además, las fuerzas rusas también lograron avances y reclamaron el control de dos pueblos al
Continue ReadingBy Jason Morris and Sara Murray, CNN Georgia investigators are scrutinizing Rudy Giuliani‘s appearance before state lawmakers in 2020, where he peddled baseless claims of voter fraud and encouraged legislators to appoint a new slate of presidential electors. The special purpose grand jury — which has been investigating whether former President Donald Trump or his
Continue ReadingBRUSSELS (AP) — A day after endorsing Ukraine’s candidacy to join the European Union, the bloc’s leaders turned their attention Friday to the severe economic turbulence looming over the coming months as the full impact of Russia’s war sinks in and the threat of recession rises. The EU’s 27 leaders gathered in Brussels to grapple
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