By Laura Ly, CNN Family members of victims of the mass shooting at Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, called for gun reform and legislative action against anti-Black hate on Tuesday. The family members spoke in Washington, D.C. after a Senate Judiciary hearing on domestic terrorism in the wake of the Buffalo attack and were
Continue ReadingBy CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma bounced back from losing a Women’s College World Series semifinal to UCLA on Monday, dominating the Bruins in a game that started 30 minutes after the first one. Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso said the turnaround should not have been so quick. Gasso called it
Continue ReadingCONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s attorney general says he won’t bring criminal charges against protesters who disrupted an Executive Council meeting in September before it began and forced its postponement. Angry opponents of the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate moved around the room at St. Anselm College on Sept. 29. They shouted “shut it down”
Continue ReadingBy Peter Nickeas and Mark Morales, CNN City and law enforcement officials across New York state are worried that a looming US Supreme Court decision could lead to more people concealing and carrying guns — and officials are considering legislative efforts to counter the potential ruling. A ruling from the Supreme Court on the legality
Continue ReadingCNN By Emily Smith, CNN California has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, according to advocacy groups. And still the state has been rocked by three mass shootings in 44 hours. At least two of the suspected gunmen carried out the attacks using semi-automatic weapons and at least one of the guns
Continue ReadingCNN, CNNBUSINESS By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business You can add the World Bank to the growing chorus sounding recession alarm bells. In its latest outlook, World Bank president David Malpass said “for many countries, recession will be hard to avoid.” Malpass joins many others on Wall Street and at central banks around the
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Sparks have fired head coach and general manager Derek Fisher the team announced. Fisher took over the team before the 2019 season and became the GM a year later. He finished his career with a 54-46 record as coach. The Sparks missed the playoffs last season for the
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Las esponjas de cocina albergan más bacterias que los cepillos de cocina, los cuales podrían ser una forma más higiénica de limpiar los platos, según investigadores de Noruega. “La salmonela y otras bacterias crecen y sobreviven mejor en las esponjas que en los cepillos, la razón es que las esponjas de
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration decided Tuesday that authorizing Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine — which uses different technology from the three vaccines currently in use in the US — for emergency use in adults would be beneficial. Most of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee
Continue ReadingBy WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Diontae Johnson says he is trying to block out his contract status. Johnson is entering the final year of his rookie contract and is coming off a season in which he had a career-best 107 receptions. Johnson says he’s been paying attention
Continue ReadingBy MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — State officials across the nation have taken on Big Tech companies in the courts and state legislatures, and federal regulators have nipped at Twitter over alleged violations of users’ data privacy. Now, one state attorney general with an outsize personality and edge-skating stance nearly in the
Continue ReadingBy MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — State officials across the nation have taken on Big Tech companies in the courts and state legislatures, and federal regulators have nipped at Twitter over alleged violations of users’ data privacy. Now, one state attorney general with an outsize personality and edge-skating stance nearly in the
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM and JOE REEDY AP Sports Writers ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels fired manager Joe Maddon but still stretched their losing streak to 13 games, matching the worst skid in franchise history. Third base coach Phil Nevin will be the Angels’ interim manager when they host Boston on Tuesday night.
Continue ReadingCNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden arrived here Wednesday to play host to nearly two dozen leaders from Latin America, hoping to use new economic and migration announcements to demonstrate cohesion in a region of fractured politics and, at times, entrenched skepticism of the United States. His mission has been made more difficult
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN The decision by Mexico’s President to boycott this week’s summit for regional leaders in Los Angeles rendered futile months of work by President Joe Biden and other top officials to convince him to attend. Now, key nations in Central America are following President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s lead, dispatching only lower-level
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Atlanta shortstop Dansby Swanson has become the fourth member of the World Series champion Braves to go to salary arbitration. He is asking a three-person panel for $10 million while the Braves argued for $9.2 million. The case was heard by Jeanne Charles, Richard McNeill and Scott Buccheit. The 28-year-old Swanson
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Business Americans are continuing to lean on credit cards and loans, as consumer credit surged by $38 billion in April amid the highest inflation in 40 years. The latest Federal Reserve data on outstanding consumer credit, released Tuesday afternoon, comes after March’s record increase of $52.4 billion. That figure has since
Continue ReadingBy Matt McFarland, CNN Business Uber and Alphabet’s Waymo, which were once embroiled in a lawsuit over self-driving technology, are now working together on fully autonomous trucks. The companies announced Tuesday a “long-term strategic partnership” to deploy Waymo’s self-driving trucks on Uber Freight, a logistics platform that matches trucks with businesses shipping goods. Carriers purchasing
Continue ReadingBy JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer All-Pro receiver Deebo Samuel ended his offseason holdout by reporting for the first day of mandatory minicamp for the San Francisco 49ers. Samuel had skipped the voluntary portion of the offseason after telling ESPN in April that he wanted to be traded but showed up for the first
Continue ReadingBy GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Aaron Donald smiles and deflects the question when asked how seriously he considered retirement before the monster renegotiation of his contract. With Donald’s deal done, the Los Angeles Rams don’t appear to be headed toward training camp next month with any contract drama looming.
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