By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Josh Houtz’s love for the Miami Dolphins goes back decades. It started when he was a kid, just 5 or 6 years old, watching the players fly across the TV screen. To him, they almost seemed like superheroes. Back then, Houtz never thought about the toll the game could
Continue ReadingBy JAMES MARTINEZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Tennis has a fuzzy yellow problem most players don’t think about when they open can after can of fresh balls, or when umpires at U.S. Open matches make their frequent requests for “new balls please.” Because tennis balls are extremely hard to recycle and the industry
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer YouTube’s first season as the carrier of “NFL Sunday Ticket” begins this weekend. YouTube agreed to a seven-year contract with the league in December worth more than $2 billion per season to carry the NFL’s out-of-market Sunday afternoon games package on CBS and Fox. YouTube has had an official
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — Team USA bounced back from its shock defeat to Lithuania with a statement trouncing of Italy, 100-63, to reach the FIBA Basketball World Cup semifinals. Brooklyn Nets star Mikal Bridges was the standout performer for the US, scoring a game-high 24 points to go with seven rebounds in the
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Las fuerzas de Moscú han comenzado a cubrir algunos de sus aviones de ataque con neumáticos de autos, en lo que los expertos dicen que podría ser un intento improvisado para protegerlos de los ataques de aviones no tripulados ucranianos que han tenido un mayor éxito reciente en los aeropuertos
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Rolling Stones are back, and they’ve brought a few famous friends. “Hackney Diamonds,” the band’s first album of new songs in 18 years, features guest appearances from the likes of Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. Poignantly, it also features Charlie Watts, the stalwart Stones
Continue ReadingTALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Armenia says its forces will hold military exercises this month with the United States as tensions rose with longtime ally Russia. Armenia’s Defense Ministry says the exercises that begin Monday are aimed at preparing units for international peacekeeping operations. U.S. Army Europe and Africa Command says that about 85 U.S. soldiers
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza Nueva Delhi (CNN) — Las invitaciones a cenas en las que se hace referencia a India por su nombre sánscrito —Bharat— han avivado una disputa política y un debate público sobre cómo debe llamarse el país, su historia y su legado colonial, mientras Nueva Delhi se prepara para recibir a los líderes
Continue ReadingBy Caolán Magee, CNN (CNN) — Ani Kirakosyani found out she was pregnant a month after the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh began. In her village of Haterk, tucked in a valley between the Caucasus hills, food supplies ran out quickly and the shops started to close, Kirakosyani told CNN. The only food available was what she
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union is targeting six Big Tech companies including Amazon, Apple and Microsoft under new digital rules aimed at reining in the market power of online companies. Google parent Alphabet, Facebook owner Meta and TikTok parent ByteDance also were classified as online “gatekeepers” subject to
Continue ReadingBy Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — Spain’s former women’s national team coach Jorge Vilda called his sacking “unfair” on Tuesday and addressed why he clapped at Luis Rubiales’ assembly as fallout from the beleaguered soccer chief’s unwanted World Cup kiss continues. In an interview with Spanish sports radio program ”El Larguero” on Cadena SER,
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Continue ReadingBy Doug Drury (CNN) — Anyone who has traveled by air in the past 10 years will know how stressful airports can be. You didn’t leave home as early as you should have. In the mad rush to get to your gate, the security screening seems to slow everything down. And to add insult to
Continue ReadingBy Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — A grave unearthed in 1960 led researchers to hypothesize that Neanderthals interred their dead with flowers — challenging the prevailing view that the ancient humans were dumb and brutish. Now scientists say a key piece of evidence from the site, which helped shape the study of Neanderthals, might have been
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN (CNN) — Chinese property giant Country Garden has twice narrowly avoided defaulting on its debt in a matter of days. But it’s not home free. The developer, China’s largest in terms of home sales, continues to keep investors around the world on edge as it faces more upcoming payment deadlines on
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El fiscal especial Jack Smith no ha terminado con el expresidente Donald Trump y su entorno, a pesar de haberle imputado cuatro cargos criminales por su intento de tumbar las elecciones de 2020 y más de otras tres docenas de acusaciones por su acaparamiento de documentos clasificados en Florida. El
Continue ReadingBy Jason Morris and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who is presiding over the Georgia election subversion case against former President Donald Trump and 18 other co-defendants, will hold his first hearing Wednesday afternoon amid questions of how soon a trial could begin. In a break with the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United States has imposed sanctions on Sudanese paramilitary commander Abdelrahim Hamdan Dagalo for acts of violence and human rights abuses committed by his troops in their monthslong conflict with Sudan’s army. Abdelrahim is the brother of Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, leader of the Rapid Support Forces. According to Wednesday’s treasury
Continue ReadingBy CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The first African Climate Summit has ended with a call for world leaders to rally behind a global carbon tax on fossil fuels, aviation and maritime transport. It also seeks reform of the world financial system that forces African nations to pay more to borrow money
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz has urged Germany’s opposition and regional governments to help slash a “thicket of bureaucracy” that slows down Europe’s biggest economy, as his government grapples with poor poll ratings and a reputation for internal strife half way through its term. Scholz told lawmakers on Wednesday that his governing coalition has
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