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Month: August 2023

ProPublica report offers broadest look yet at Clarence Thomas’ luxury travel bankrolled by wealthy friends and reveals private jet and helicopter rides and VIP sporting event tickets

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The lifestyle Justice Clarence Thomas has enjoyed over the last three decades bankrolled by gifts and hospitality from his wealthy friends is more extensive than previously known, according to a new ProPublica report, and has included numerous flights on private planes, skybox tickets to sporting events, stays at luxury

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Soccer player Da’vian Kimbrough, 13, becomes youngest professional athlete in US team sports history

By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Soccer team Sacramento Republic announced on Wednesday that it had signed 13-year-old Da’vian Kimbrough to a professional contract, making him the youngest professional athlete in US team sports history. Kimbrough signed the contract with the team in the USL Championship – the second-tier of US soccer – aged 13

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Ethiopia’s government recaptures Amhara region towns from militia, government and residents say

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s government and residents say the military has recaptured several areas in the embattled Amhara region from local militia fighters. Details of dozens of civilians killed have begun to emerge amid an internet shutdown. The goverment says the military has reclaimed control of six towns including

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Scientists are fighting to save the ‘blue heart’ of Europe

By Nell Lewis, CNN Bosnia and Herzegovina (CNN) — The Neretva River carves its way through Bosnia and Herzegovina’s impenetrable forest. A mesmerizing blue-green, it runs 140 miles (225 kilometers) from deep within the Dinaric Alps to the Adriatic Sea – at some points disappearing into subterranean channels before re-emerging in bubbling springs. One of the coldest rivers

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China expands the number of countries for travel by its big-spending tourists

BEIJING (AP) — China has increased the number of countries that its big-spending tourists can visit by more than 70 following the lifting of its last COVID-19 travel restrictions. The decision comes as international flights gradually return to their pre-pandemic levels. China implemented draconian controls within the country and almost entirely closed its borders after

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Trump and one co-defendant plead not guilty to latest charges in classified docs case; another arraignment is postponed

By Holmes Lybrand and Randi Kaye, CNN Ft. Pierce, Florida (CNN) — Donald Trump’s body-man Walt Nauta pleaded not guilty to new criminal charges brought by special counsel Jack Smith in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, while the arraignment for his co-defendant Carlos De Oliveira has been postponed because he still doesn’t have a Florida

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