By Nathaniel Meyersohn and Anna Bahney, CNN New York (CNN) — Home Depot’s sales dropped 2% during its latest quarter as consumers took on fewer major home projects. Still, Warren Buffett is betting big on home builders. “We did see continued pressure in certain big-ticket, discretionary categories,” Home Depot CEO Ted Decker said in a
Continue ReadingBy BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A migrant boat has sunk off Tunisia’s port city of Sfax, leaving five people dead and seven others missing. The dead included a child. Sfax is the starting point for most attempts to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy. A Sfax court spokesperson said 23
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv Trump enfrenta una nueva acusación en Georgia. Lionel Messi tendrá su propia serie con el Inter Miami. Marte está girando más rápido. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad. 1. Acusan a Trump por esfuerzos para anular las elecciones de 2020 en Georgia Un jurado investigador del
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Giants star Joc Pederson is scared to fly. Outfielder Seth Brown of the Oakland Athletics, too. They are hardly the only ones. Longtime manager Dusty Baker would bet that anxiety in the air has shortened more than a few careers. He recalls watching
Continue ReadingBy TERESA M. WALKER AP Pro Football Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee running back Derrick Henry is delighted that his Titans teammate Ryan Tannehill enjoys flying and earned his pilot’s license this summer. Just don’t expect him to join his quarterback in a small plane anytime soon. “Oh, no! I am not going up
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Novak Djokovic is preparing to play on American soil for the first time since 2021 after the Covid vaccine requirement for non-US travelers was lifted earlier this year. Djokovic, who is unvaccinated against Covid-19, will play at the Western & Southern Open in the Cincinnati suburb of Mason, Ohio,
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Poetry, prose and now songwriting: Ghent University in Belgium is launching a new literature course dedicated to the literary merit of Taylor Swift’s discography. This fall, “Literature: Taylor’s Version” — a nod to the artist’s re-recorded album titles — will be available to students, curated by assistant professor Elly
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — En un final de locos, España derrota a Suecia 2 a 1 en una de las semifinales del Mundial Femenino de Fútbol, en un duro encuentro que tuvo las principales emociones sobre el final. Cuando sonó el pitido final, la cruda emoción del fútbol del torneo se puso de manifiesto:
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — The second crewed moon landing mission — Apollo 12 in 1969 — had a secret payload attached to one of the legs of its lunar lander. It was a ceramic tile about as large as a thumbnail, with six artworks etched on it, one of them by Andy Warhol.
Continue ReadingBy Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — English golfer Charley Hull has criticized protestors who interrupted the final round of the Women’s Open on Sunday. Home favorite Hull was playing the 17th hole of the major at Walton Heath Golf Club in Tadworth, England, with soon-to-be-crowned champion Lilia Vu when protestors carrying red and yellow flares
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS and PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writers BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A country spends millions to deliver a major international sports event to the world. That money buys a chance to project strength at home and abroad and maybe even glosses over that country’s oft-dissected shortcomings. That pattern has played out in China,
Continue ReadingBy Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — One US National Guard soldier at Mississippi’s Camp Shelby died on Friday and another has since been sent to the hospital after both reported symptoms associated with heat injury amid sweltering regional temperatures, the military agency said. The deceased soldier experienced a medical emergency on Friday after completing a
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN Español) — El fenómeno político en torno a Javier Milei, el candidato de derecha antisistema surgido en los últimos años en Argentina, ya no puede ser descrito como una novedad: el aspirante presidencial viene en franco ascenso al menos desde haber obtenido una banca como diputado en 2021. Pero tras haberse convertido
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The drug epidemic has become deadlier than ever in the United States in recent years, and a new poll from KFF captures the significant toll that substance use has had on families nationwide. More than a quarter of adults surveyed say they or a member of their family has
Continue ReadingCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Finland’s former Prime Minister Alexander Stubb says he will run as a candidate in the presidential election early next year, in a race that also includes a popular former Finnish foreign minister who was a negotiator of the country’s recent membership in NATO. Stubb, who headed the Finnish government in 2014-2015
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN (CNN) — A 3-year-old migrant girl who was on a Texas-sponsored bus to Chicago died last week, prompting investigations by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies, authorities said. The child, an asylum seeker who died August 10, has been identified by Illinois officials
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK Associated Press NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Human rights activists in Niger say they have been unable to gain access to top political officials who were detained after mutinous soldiers ousted the African nation’s democratically elected president. The executive secretary of a Nigerien human rights groups says the military officers who carried out
Continue ReadingBy Tara Subramaniam, Angus Watson and Akanksha Sharma, CNN (CNN) — Four Australian surfers who went missing after their boat was struck by a storm in a remote part of Indonesia have been rescued after more than 38 hours at sea, according to parents of the missing tourists. Australians Steph Weisse, Will Teagle, Jordan Short
Continue ReadingBy Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — Former NFL running back Alex Collins, who played with the Seattle Seahawks and Baltimore Ravens, died in a motorcycle accident on Sunday night, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. He was 28. Investigators say Collins was driving his motorcycle late Sunday night when he crashed into the rear passenger
Continue ReadingBy DASHA LITVINOVA and DAVID McHUGH Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russia’s central bank made a big interest rate hike Tuesday, an emergency move designed to fight inflation and strengthen the ruble after the country’s currency reached its lowest value since early in the war with Ukraine. The ruble has lost more than a
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