By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer Two boats collided just 17 minutes into the final, 10-day leg of the around-the-world Ocean Race. The crash sent first-place 11th Hour Racing back to port in The Hague, the Netherlands, to try to patch a gaping hole in its carbon fiber hull. The Newport, Rhode Island-based boat has
Continue ReadingKCNC, BRIAN WILLIE, CNN By Andi Babineau and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — As the city of Denver celebrated its first NBA championship, a police sergeant providing security for players riding on a fire truck was run over as people at a victory parade moved into the street, officials said Thursday. Chief of Police Ron
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Al Pacino y su novia Noor Alfallah le dieron la bienvenida a un bebé, dijo a CNN un representante del actor. Pacino, de 83 años, y Alfallah, de 29 y productora de cine, pusieron a su hijo el nombre de Roman Pacino. El actor ganador del Oscar tiene otros tres hijos,
Continue ReadingBy JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Adieu France, hello America. Victor Wembanyama bid farewell to his teammates and the French league, before jetting off for what many predict will be a glittering NBA career. Wembanyama’s performance — 22 points, seven rebounds and four blocks — couldn’t prevent his Boulogne-Levallois team losing 92-85
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine, Elizabeth Joseph and Alexandra Coenjaerts, CNN Temecula, California (CNN) — Parents in the southern California city of Temecula are pushing back against the local school board’s recent decision to reject a social studies curriculum that includes gay rights after some board members claimed there was not enough parental involvement in the process
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Actor Al Pacino and girlfriend Noor Alfallah have welcomed a baby boy, a representative for Pacino told CNN. Pacino, 83, and Alfallah, 29, a film producer, named their child Roman Pacino. The Oscar-winning actor has three other children – two with Beverly D’Angelo and one with Jan Tarrant. When
Continue ReadingBy BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer METAIRIE, La. (AP) — Taysom Hill says Saints coaches have worked to tailor his practice time so it’s more in line with his uniquely dynamic role. Last season was the first in which Hill was no longer listed as a quarterback on the Saints’ roster. He was switched to
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — An Amazon worker and union organizer has been given her job back after she appealed her firing by the e-commerce giant earlier this month. Amazon on Thursday confirmed that it had reinstated Jennifer Bates — who became the face of the effort to unionize an Amazon facility
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press ENSCHEDE, Netherlands (AP) — Substitute Joselu has scored an 88th-minute winner and Spain has beaten Italy 2-1 at FC Twente Stadium to set up a meeting with Croatia in the Nations League final on Sunday. The Espanyol striker was just onside as he turned in a deflected shot by Rodri
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Known for her standup as well as her Emmy-winning late-’90s daytime talk show, Rosie O’Donnell is not one to beat around the bush. And when it comes to her history with Ellen DeGeneres – which includes both a friendship as well as a rivalry – O’Donnell isn’t holding back.
Continue ReadingBy ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer Thanks for your concern. That was Quinn Mathews’ message to people who criticized Stanford coach David Esquer for allowing him to throw a career-high 156 pitches in a super regional game against Texas. Mathews went out for the ninth inning even though his team had a five-run lead in
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Republican governors are pushing back against a proposal by the Biden administration to put conservation on equal footing with industry on vast government-owned lands. On Thursday, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem testified before the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources in favor of a bill that would require the Bureau of Land
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Following voter rejection of a new arena for the NHL’s Arizona Coyotes in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe, baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred hopes the Arizona Diamondbacks can reach a stadium deal for when their lease for Chase Field in Phoenix expires after the 2027 season. The baseball team has not decided
Continue ReadingBy JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Former West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Warren McGraw has died at age 84. McGraw spent five decades in public service. McGraw was elected as a Democrat to fill an unexpired six-year term on the Supreme Court in 1998. He lost his bid for a full 12-year
Continue ReadingPITTSBURGH (AP) — Jury deliberations are underway in the federal trial of a truck driver who killed 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in the nation’s deadliest attack on Jews. The jury went home Thursday without reaching a verdict. Deliberations are set to resume Friday. In closing arguments, a prosecutor said Robert Bowers killed his
Continue ReadingBy Mallika Kallingal and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Five dogs died Tuesday after an RV caught fire ahead of an American Kennel Club-sanctioned all-breed dog show in Tampa, Florida, according to fire officials. Bystanders noticed smoke coming out from the vent of a parked RV Tuesday afternoon. Some of them tried to enter the
Continue ReadingBy RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball will start a months-long approval process for the Oakland Athletics’ proposed move to Las Vegas, which appears set to become the second shift of a franchise in the last half-century. On the day Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo signed legislation granting $380 million
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is hoping that Julie Su’s role in brokering a deal between West Coast dockworkers and shippers will provide fresh momentum for the Senate to act on her long-stalled nomination to be labor secretary. Su flew to San Francisco to help
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Worldwide temperatures briefly exceeded a key warming threshold earlier this month, a hint of heat and its harms to come, scientists worry. The mercury has since dipped again, but experts say the short surge marked a new global heat record for June and indicates more extremes ahead as the planet enters an
Continue ReadingOZARK, Ala. (AP) — A man convicted of the 1999 cold case slaying of two teenage girls has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. Circuit Judge William Filmore on Thursday officially handed down the sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole to Coley McCraney. A jury decided the sentence
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