BERLIN (AP) — A techno parade whose initiators include the founder of the Love Parade, once a popular annual party in Berlin, took to the streets of the German capital Saturday with calls for the city’s electronic music culture to be added to a World Heritage list. The “Rave the Planet” parade set out from
Continue ReadingBy HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — Bobby Shapiro ran down Central Avenue in socks, moving toward the street corner where gunfire had erupted just moments before. At first, he only wanted to confirm that what he was hearing was real — a mass shooting at a July 4 parade
Continue Readingby Alexandra Peers, CNN Business Sixty years ago today, the pop artist Andy Warhol unveiled a wall of 32 Campbell Soup can paintings at a Los Angeles gallery, one for each flavor of soup then in production. Not long after, the company sent over a lawyer. Thus began a decades-long hate-love relationship between the artist
Continue ReadingBy GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press THIRA, Greece (AP) — Cruise-ship tourists crowding souvenir shops and couples chasing the perfect Instagram sunset throng the alleyway outside the Monastery of St. Catherine, steps from Santorini’s world-famous volcanic cliffs. Inside this convent on one of the trendiest islands in Greece, a predominantly Christian Orthodox country, 13 cloistered Catholic
Continue ReadingBy Solarina Ho, CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Canada (CTV Network) — Those who have regularly fasted intermittently for decades have a lower chance of being hospitalized or dying from COVID-19 compared to people who do not practice the eating plan, according to a new American study. The small study,
Continue ReadingBy Megan DeLaire, CTVNews.ca Writer Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Canada (CTV Network) — Facebook users can now use the desktop version of the social media platform in the Inuit language Inuktitut, Meta has announced. Meta launched the new official language setting, now available globally, through a partnership with Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.,
Continue ReadingLJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — A top court in Slovenia has ruled that bans on same-sex couples getting marrying and adopting children are unconstitutional in the small European country. Constitutional Court judges ruled 6-3 on both issues Friday, saying that Slovenia’s laws allowing only opposite-sex marriages and adoptions violated a constitutional prohibition against discrimination. The court
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — En una esquina: la dieta mediterránea, de gran prestigio médico y eterna favorita de los nutricionistas. El contendiente: la popular dieta keto, o cetogénica, conocida por restringir los carbohidratos a unos preciados pocos al día. Los defensores de la dieta keto afirman que reduce el apetito, derrite la grasa abdominal y
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Carlos Santana has postponed his next six shows after collapsing on stage during a concert on Tuesday, temporarily stepping away from the stage “out of an abundance of caution for the artist’s health.” July concerts in Noblesville, Indiana; Cincinnati, Ohio; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Rogers, Arkansas; Dallas, Texas; and Woodlands,
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer NORTH BERWICK, Scotland (AP) — Greg Norman once talked about playing in the British Open next week. Now he doesn’t even get to attend the dinner at St. Andrews for past champions. Norman, who won the Open at Turnberry in 1986 and at Royal St. George’s in 1993, would
Continue ReadingBy Phil Mattingly, CNN As President Joe Biden started to roll out the core of his economic team, a reality started to dawn on denizens of what had become a vibrant online community: Econ Twitter was being raided. The new government roles would almost certainly limit the participation of prominent members of the unofficial group
Continue ReadingCNN, CNNBUSINESS By Phil Mattingly, CNN As President Joe Biden started to roll out the core of his economic team, a reality started to dawn on denizens of what had become a vibrant online community: Econ Twitter was being raided. The new government roles would almost certainly limit the participation of prominent members of the
Continue ReadingBy DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Tiger Woods returns to St. Andrews for the British Open with plenty of memories. Some of them are not related to the two claret jugs he won at the home of golf. There was the time his swing was so dialed in that he hit the right zero on
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Italian authorities on Saturday put the final death toll of an avalanche in northern Italy at 11 and said all the victims had been identified nearly a week after a chunk of ice detached from a melting glacier and sent a torrent of ice, rock and debris on hikers below. Carabinieri Cmdr.
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — El funeral del ex primer ministro de Japón Shinzo Abe se llevará a cabo el lunes y el martes, dijo la oficina de Abe a CNN. El lunes se realizará un velorio, seguido de un servicio conmemorativo el martes, dijo la oficina de Abe. Aquí te contamos las últimas noticias
Continue ReadingFORT LEE, N.J. (AP) — Attention drivers at the George Washington Bridge: Your cash is no good here. Starting Sunday, drivers looking to cross the Hudson River from New Jersey into New York will go through an electronic tolling system. Drivers without E-ZPass who would otherwise be paying cash will instead have their license plates
Continue ReadingBy JEROME PUGMIRE AP Auto Racing Writer Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff ultimately sees Lewis Hamilton and George Russell’s crashes as a positive sign the car is getting faster. He even joked they were like synchronized swimmers for crashing almost simultaneously in Friday’s dramatic ending to sprint qualifying. Wolff looked at the speed of a
Continue ReadingBy Jacquelyne Germain, CNN Angela Gregg’s 4-year-old son, Mychal Moultry Jr., known to loved ones as MJ, was killed by a stray bullet while getting his hair braided last year during Labor Day weekend in Chicago’s South Side neighborhood Woodlawn. She remembers him as a genius who was set to skip ahead to kindergarten after
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — El Departamento de Salud de Puerto Rico confirmó este viernes su segundo caso positivo de la viruela del mono. Las autoridades explicaron en un comunicado de prensa que “el mismo corresponde a un adulto en el grupo de edad de 20 a 35 años con historial de viaje a Europa.
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN Español) — El 9 de julio de 1816, seis años después de romper sus vínculos con el Imperio Español, las Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata, futura República Argentina, declararon formalmente su independencia. Estas son 10 voces de protagonistas de la historia de Argentina en torno al largo proceso de emancipación
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