By Haley Britzky, CNN The Air Force’s fleet of B-2 Spirit bombers is temporarily grounded after one of the aircraft had an in-flight malfunction earlier this month. On December 10, a B-2 had to make an emergency landing and was damaged on the runway at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. There were no injuries
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Mark Zuckerberg, fundador y CEO de Meta, confirmó que la publicación de la Copa Mundial de Lionel Messi es la que más “like”‘ tiene en la historia de Instagram. “La publicación de Leo Messi en la Copa del Mundo es ahora la más ‘likeada’ en la historia de Instagram. WhatsApp también
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister is urging the international community to give his country desperately needed aid to help 20 million flood victims survive the harsh winter. Pakistan is struggling to cope with the humanitarian aftermath of vast floods earlier in the year that inundated as much as one
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN The Federal Reserve’s super-sized interest rates are not scaring most companies into cutting back on spending, according to a survey released on Wednesday. About two-thirds of chief financial officers say the current level of interest rates have not impacted their spending plans, according to the CFO Survey conducted by Duke University
Continue ReadingBy Jeanne Sahadi, Katie Lobosco and David Goldman, CNN It will take time for lawmakers and the public to digest the trove of documents relating to former President Donald Trump’s tax returns released Tuesday night by the House Ways and Means Committee. Trump repeatedly defied convention and refused to release his tax returns both as
Continue ReadingCNN By Jeanne Sahadi, Katie Lobosco and David Goldman, CNN It will take time for lawmakers and the public to digest the trove of documents relating to former President Donald Trump’s tax returns released Tuesday night by the House Ways and Means Committee. Trump repeatedly defied convention and refused to release his tax returns both
Continue ReadingBy Tara De Boer, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Nakissa Koomalsingh is drawing up the plays for women’s basketball in Canada, hoping to lead it toward a bright future. As the founder of Toronto-based HOOPQUEENS, the first paid women’s basketball leagues in the country, Koomalsingh has made
Continue ReadingBy Christy Somos, CTV National News Associate Producer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Fourteen days after sanctioned Russian cargo ship the Lady R docked at the naval harbour at Simon’s Town in South Africa for three days, the government has yet to deliver an explanation. The Lady R, which
Continue ReadingBy CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — International pressure is growing on Rwanda as France and Germany are the latest parties to openly accuse the country of supporting armed rebels in neighboring eastern Congo — with possible repercussions for foreign aid that Kigali has long enjoyed. For months, renewed attacks by the M23
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN Simiso Buthelezi, Miracle Amaeze and Luis Quiñones are some of the talented boxers who have died this year as they pursued their sporting careers and chased dreams of world titles. It’s an accepted risk of the profession. A database first compiled by anti-boxing activist Manuel Velazquez and updated in the Electronic
Continue ReadingBy FRANCIS KOKUTSE Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Ghana’s state media says that four men have each been sentenced to 10 years in prison in Ghana for kidnapping two Canadian volunteers in the West African country several years ago. The Ghana News Agency said the men were found guilty of conspiracy and kidnapping Lauren
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Una gran tormenta de invierno y una ráfaga de frío afectarán a casi todos los estados de EE.UU. y traerán lo que el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional llama un “evento único en una generación” que paralizará los viajes en algunos de los días de mayor actividad del año. El fortalecimiento de
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — ¿Nació Jesús un 25 de diciembre? Millones de cristianos celebran este día la Navidad, pero lo cierto es que en la Biblia —y específicamente los Evangelios, que es donde se narran episodios de su vida— no hay mención a una fecha específica de su nacimiento. De hecho, las primeras comunidades
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Anna Cooban, CNN The United Kingdom is one step closer to conducting its first ever satellite launch from its own shores. The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), a regulatory body, said on Wednesday that it had granted the final licenses to Virgin Orbit to carry out the launch. Virgin Orbit, a
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN The United Kingdom is one step closer to conducting its first ever satellite launch from its own shores. The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), a regulatory body, said on Wednesday that it had granted the final licenses to Virgin Orbit to carry out the launch. Virgin Orbit, a US subsidiary of
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister thinks it’s time to “drain the swamp” in the European Union, something he imagines could lead all the way to dissolving the bloc’s legislature. In an annual international news conference in Budapest on Wednesday, Viktor Orban said a recent corruption scandal involving several
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Russia announced an ambitious plan to beef up its military from 1 million to 1.5 million and create multiple new units. It’s an attempt to bolster the forces that have lost momentum and many soldiers in the war in Ukraine. Russia’s military chief cited NATO’s plans to incorporate Finland and Sweden
Continue ReadingBen Jones, CNN While governments prevaricate over climate change measures, millions of travelers worldwide have been voting with their feet and switching to trains as their preferred mode of transport. When you add in historically high motoring costs and unpredictable airline reliability, the incentives for switching to clean, green rail travel are more obvious than
Continue ReadingBy Pamela Brown, Holmes Lybrand and Allison Gordon, CNN Before the violent attack on her husband in late October, the security of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s California home had not been assessed by United States Capitol Police since 2018, Police Chief Thomas Manger told CNN’s Pamela Brown in an exclusive interview Tuesday. Lawmakers have pressed
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has criticized plans by his successor Gianni Infantino for a 48-team World Cup and an expanded Club World Cup. Blatter said that “what is happening at the moment is an overcommercialization of the game.” He made his remarks in an interview with German weekly Die Zeit released
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