By Jack Bantock and Homero de la Fuente, CNN UEFA announced that this year’s Champions League Final will no longer take place in St. Petersburg following an extraordinary meeting of the governing body’s Executive Committee on Friday. The 2022 final was scheduled to be held at Krestovsky Stadium, which is sponsored by Russian state-owned company
Continue ReadingBy Chloe Melas, CNN Singer Regina Spektor is speaking out amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine. “Today my heart hurts because no matter how many great works of art and music (Guernica…. Masters Of War… Most of Okudzhava and Vysotsky… Vonnegut… Remarque… all those films in all those languages…) portray the horrors of war, new Masters
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Londres (CNN Business) — Occidente ha anunciado una lluvia de nuevas y duras sanciones destinadas a aislar a los bancos rusos del sistema financiero mundial y a privar al país de tecnología vital. Sin embargo, se mantiene en reserva un arma financiera muy poderosa: el SWIFT. Estados Unidos y la Unión Europea se
Continue ReadingRICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed by demonstrators who were tear-gassed by Richmond police during a protest in June 2020. Six people who were among a crowd protesting at the former monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee alleged that their First Amendment rights were violated. They also
Continue ReadingBy JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — An IndyCar fan survey found that Romain Grosjean is the series’ most popular driver, Team Penske is the favorite team and the Indianapolis 500 is the best race on the schedule. IndyCar says it received more than 53,000 responses to its Global Fan
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who will be nominated for the Supreme Court by President Joe Biden, has been a federal appeals court judge less than a year. But her seven years on the federal trial court in Washington, D.C., have given her plenty of time to produce notable opinions. They range from
Continue ReadingBy Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer, Zachary Cohen and Katelyn Polantz, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Hill riot tells CNN it will issue a subpoena to compel testimony from Kimberly Guilfoyle after she ended a virtual interview on Friday. Guilfoyle, who is engaged to Donald Trump Jr. and worked on his
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press A Florida man who grabbed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s podium and posed for photographs with it during the U.S. Capitol riot has been sentenced to more than two months in prison followed by one year of supervised release. U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton on Friday also ordered Adam Johnson to
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Six companies have bid a combined $4.3 billion for the right to build wind energy projects on the ocean floor off New Jersey and New York in the U.S. government’s largest such auction in history. The auction that ended Friday afternoon by the U.S. Bureau
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his brother are under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for possibly violating insider trading rules, according to media reports. The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed people familiar with the probe, said the investor watchdog agency is looking into sales of Tesla shares by
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for the city of Charleston say a marker honoring a Confederate general is not protected from removal under South Carolina law because of the way the 2000 act was written. The attorney say the Heritage Act only protects monuments to 10 wars specifically mentioned. They
Continue ReadingBy JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ school board has suspended the state’s top public school administrator over an offensive public comment about Native Americans. Its decision Friday to suspend Education Commissioner Randy Watson for 30 days without pay came after it unanimously rejected the resignation he submitted after the governor and
Continue ReadingBy Jodi Upchurch, CNN A major drug bust was made at sea, Molly Ringwald’s mom forgot her birthday, and an Olympic gold medalist showed off his moves off the ice. These are the must-watch videos of the week. High-speed chase at sea Three tons of cocaine were seized by Mexico’s army as a helicopter captured
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Jodi Upchurch, CNN A major drug bust was made at sea, Molly Ringwald’s mom forgot her birthday, and an Olympic gold medalist showed off his moves off the ice. These are the must-watch videos of the week. High-speed chase at sea Three tons of cocaine were seized by Mexico’s army as
Continue ReadingCNN By Jodi Upchurch, CNN A major drug bust was made at sea, Molly Ringwald’s mom forgot her birthday, and an Olympic gold medalist showed off his moves off the ice. These are the must-watch videos of the week. High-speed chase at sea Three tons of cocaine were seized by Mexico’s army as a helicopter
Continue ReadingCNN By Jodi Upchurch, CNN A major drug bust was made at sea, Molly Ringwald’s mom forgot her birthday, and an Olympic gold medalist showed off his moves off the ice. These are the must-watch videos of the week. High-speed chase at sea Three tons of cocaine were seized by Mexico’s army as a helicopter
Continue ReadingCNN By Jodi Upchurch, CNN A major drug bust was made at sea, Molly Ringwald’s mom forgot her birthday, and an Olympic gold medalist showed off his moves off the ice. These are the must-watch videos of the week. High-speed chase at sea Three tons of cocaine were seized by Mexico’s army as a helicopter
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Foot Locker’s stock tumbled 35% Friday after the shoe store predicted sales and profit would fall sharply this year. The culprit: Nike. The retailer, which didn’t explicitly mention Nike in its earnings report, said Friday that no single supplier is expected to account for more than about 60% of its
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A $2.7 billion recreational, residential and retail project aimed at car lovers is being proposed for an historic but vacant former airport in Atlantic City. DEEM Enterprises is a company based in Los Angeles and Atlantic City. It wants to build the project on the
Continue ReadingBy WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A $2.7 billion recreational, residential and retail project aimed at car lovers is being proposed for an historic but vacant former airport in Atlantic City. DEEM Enterprises is a company based in Los Angeles and Atlantic City. It wants to build the project on the
Continue Reading