ATLANTA (AP) — Lou Williams announced his retirement from the NBA on Sunday. The move ends a career where he won the league’s Sixth Man award three times and scored more points off the bench than anyone in history. Williams played for six teams. He was with Philadelphia, Toronto, the Los Angeles Lakers, Houston, the
Continue ReadingCAIRO (AP) — Family members say Moustafa Bassiouni, an intrepid photo assistant and driver for The Associated Press’ Cairo bureau, has died at age 64. They said Monday he died in a Cairo hospital on Saturday after experiencing a heart attack. Bassiouni, who started as a driver for the bureau in 1991, became a pillar
Continue ReadingWILLOWBROOK, Ill. (AP) — At least 23 people were shot, one fatally, early Sunday during a gathering in a suburban Chicago parking lot that drew hundreds of people to celebrate Juneteenth, authorities said. TV news video showed the strip mall lot in Willowbrook filled with debris and police tape, about 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) southwest
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Police in Austria say they foiled an attack on Vienna’s annual Pride parade Saturday after arresting three suspects with alleged links to Islamic extremism. The three – aged 14, 17 and 20 – are Austrian nationals of Bosnian and Chechen origin, Omar Haijawi-Pirchner from Austria’s State Protection and Intelligence
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Happy Father’s Day to all you dads out there. We hope you enjoy the day — and that new “World’s Greatest Dad” mug. If you are not a father but would like to support dads and their families year-round, here’s how you can help. And here’s
Continue ReadingCNN By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Happy Father’s Day to all you dads out there. We hope you enjoy the day — and that new “World’s Greatest Dad” mug. If you are not a father but would like to support dads and their families year-round, here’s how you can help. And
Continue ReadingBy AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — When the first generations of social media natives are old and gray, they will bounce their grandchildren on their knee and tell them about the old days when Facebook was just for college kids and Twitter wasn’t a place for world-altering political discourse. As their rheumy gazes search the
Continue ReadingBy Giri Viswanathan (CNN) — Prompt access to hormone therapy can be a key tool in improving the mental health of transgender people, according to new research. In the research, which was presented Sunday at the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society, a team of scientists at the University of Melbourne found that reducing the
Continue ReadingBy Hayatullah Amanat, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — A new report published by Canadian Finance and Leasing Association highlights the alarming state of vehicle theft in Canada. In Toronto alone, there were 9,606 vehicle thefts in 2022. That’s triple the amount of thefts in 2015, when
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — El papa Francisco agradeció a los peregrinos sus oraciones, que, según él, le “sostuvieron” durante su reciente estancia en el hospital. El papa se dirigió a los peregrinos desde la ventana de los aposentos apostólicos del Vaticano durante el rezo del Ángelus, que fue aplazado la semana pasada por recomendación de
Continue ReadingTUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Ministers from Germany and France tasked with regulating migration are joining forces to try to curb deaths on dangerous routes across the Mediterranean Sea. The interior ministers are traveling Sunday for talks with their counterpart in Tunisia and the country’s president. Tunisia is a major North African stepping stone for migrants
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — More employers than ever are observing Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the US. Almost 40% of US employers now provide Juneteenth as a paid holiday, a significant increase from just 9% two years ago, according to data from HR consulting firm Mercer. Juneteenth is
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch, Adrienne Broaddus and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN (CNN) — At least one person was killed and 22 others were injured by gunfire overnight in Illinois, in a peaceful Juneteenth celebration turned deadly, police say. An unknown number of suspects fired multiple rounds from multiple weapons into the large crowd of people gathered to
Continue ReadingBy JOHN ROGERS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — You could call her the mother of Father’s Day. The late Sonora Smart Dodd launched the celebration of dads in 1910 in her hometown of Spokane, Washington. As a result, she is the one responsible for those annual gifts that run the gamut from embarrassingly silly-looking
Continue ReadingBy BISWAJEET BANERJEE Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — At least 96 people died in two of India’s most populous states over the last several days, officials said Sunday, with swaths of the country reeling from a sweltering heat wave. The deaths happened in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh and eastern Bihar where authorities
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he opposes any interim agreement reportedly being negotiated between the U.S. and Iran over its nuclear program. Netanyahu spoke after reports in Israeli media said understandings are being reached between Washington and Tehran that would seek to hold back
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Al menos 20 personas resultaron heridas y una murió en un tiroteo ocurrido durante la noche de este domingo en una celebración del Juneteenth [Día de la Emancipación] en Willowbrook, Illinois, según la policía. Algunos de los heridos fueron trasladados a hospitales en ambulancia y otros llegaron a pie, informó este
Continue ReadingBy GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — A project using artificial intelligence to track social media abuse aimed at players at the 2022 World Cup identified more than 300 people whose details are being given to law enforcement. FIFA says the people made “abusive, discriminatory, or threatening posts (or) comments” on platforms like
Continue ReadingBy SARA BURNETT Associated Press In a 2024 Republican presidential field full of long-shot candidates, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez may be — on paper anyway — the longest long shot of all. No sitting mayor has ever been elected U.S. president, a job that historically has been won by governors, vice presidents, senators or Cabinet
Continue ReadingCNN By Stephanie Elam, CNN (CNN) — Amy Iwasaki Mass knows the power of apology and reparations. She was in the first grade when her family and more than a hundred thousand other Japanese Americans were rounded up by the federal government and sent to internment camps in response to Japan bombing Pearl Harbor in
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