Surfing Round 2 preview: Big names with their backs against the wall
2024 Olympic surfing Round 2 preview
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Wisconsin Republicans ask voters to take away governor’s power to spend federal money
Associated Press Wisconsin Republicans are asking voters to take away the governor’s power to unilaterally spend federal money, a reaction to the billions of dollars that flowed into the state during the COVID-19 pandemic. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers was free to spend that money as he pleased, angering Republicans who wanted the Legislature to have
Continue ReadingElecciones presidenciales en Venezuela: abre el colegio electoral de Madrid
Sofía Barruti (CNN Español) — El Centro Cultural Fernando de los Ríos, lugar que el Consulado de Venezuela en Madrid ha habilitado para que los venezolanos de su circunscripción voten en las elecciones presidenciales, ha abierto sus puertas este domingo pasadas las seis y media de la mañana, hora local. Horas antes de que abriera,
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Spain beats Italy, 2-1, in women’s beach volleyball
Spain won the first and third sets to defeat Italy in pool play of the women’s beach volleyball tournament at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Continue ReadingEven on quiet summer weekends, huge news stories spread to millions more swiftly than ever before
AP Media Writer James Peeler’s phone blew up with messages as he drove home from church in Texas. Reading a book on her couch in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Wendy Schweiger spied something on Facebook. After finishing a late-night swim in the Baltic Sea off Finland, Matti Niiranen clicked on a CNN livestream. Each learned that President
Continue ReadingEl secretario Austin se reunirá con sus homólogos japonés y surcoreano en el primer encuentro trilateral en 15 años, según un alto cargo de Defensa de EE.UU.
Sofía Barruti (CNN) — El secretario de Defensa de Estados Unidos, Lloyd Austin, mantendrá una reunión trilateral con sus homólogos de Japón y Corea del Sur en Tokio este domingo, hora local, la primera de este tipo en 15 años, dijo un alto funcionario de Defensa estadounidense. La reunión trilateral se produce casi un año
Continue ReadingCalifornia town decimated by 2018 wildfire threatened again by state’s largest this year, as fires plague Oregon and Canada
By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — As the Park Fire continues to rapidly grow and threaten thousands more acres of northern California, an evacuation warning has been issued for the town of Paradise, a place where people know the horrors of a raging wildfire all too well. In 2018, the deadliest wildfire in state history,
Continue ReadingAfter years of fighting Iowa’s strict abortion law, clinics also prepared to follow it
Associated Press AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa is set to join more than a dozen other states where abortion access has been sharply curbed since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The law banning most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy takes effect in Iowa at 8 a.m. Monday. The state’s abortion
Continue ReadingFirefighters helped by cooler weather battle blaze that has scorched area larger than Los Angeles
Associated Press FOREST RANCH, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of firefighters battling a wildfire in Northern California received some help from the weather hours after it exploded in size, scorching an area greater than the size of Los Angeles. The blaze was one of several tearing through the western United States and Canada, fueled by wind
Continue ReadingFirefighters helped by cooler weather battle blaze that has scorched area larger than Los Angeles
Associated Press FOREST RANCH, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of firefighters battling a wildfire in Northern California received some help from the weather hours after it exploded in size, scorching an area greater than the size of Los Angeles. The blaze was one of several tearing through the western United States and Canada, fueled by wind
Continue ReadingCan tech help solve the Los Angeles homeless crisis? Finding shelter may someday be a click away
Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Billions of dollars have been spent on efforts to get homeless people off the streets in California, but outdated computer systems with error-filled data are all too often unable to provide even basic information like where a shelter bed is open on any given night, inefficiencies that can lead
Continue ReadingMudslide kills 15 people near tourist site in China as rains from tropical storm Gaemi drench region
Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Fifteen people were killed after a mudslide hit a homestay house in a tourist area in southeastern China on Sunday as heavy rains from what remained of a tropical storm drenched the region, state media said. Elsewhere in China, a delivery person on a scooter was killed Saturday after being
Continue ReadingBlinken expresa su preocupación por las “acciones desestabilizadoras” de Beijing en el Mar de China Meridional en una reunión con su homólogo chino
Sofía Barruti (CNN) — El Secretario de Estado de EE.UU., Antony Blinken, expresó su preocupación por las “acciones desestabilizadoras” de Beijing en el Mar de China Meridional en una reunión con su homólogo chino, Wang Yi, en la que ambos trataron de mantener abiertas las comunicaciones a pesar de la creciente rivalidad. Blinken se reunió
Continue ReadingTakeaways from AP’s story on inefficient tech slowing efforts to get homeless people off the streets
Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles is the nation’s epicenter of homelessness, where more than 45,000 people live in weather-beaten tent encampments and rusting RVs. But even in the state that is home to Silicon Valley, technology has not kept up with the long-running crisis. Billions of dollars have been spent to get
Continue ReadingMaduro is declared winner in Venezuela’s presidential election as opposition claims it prevailed
Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s opposition claimed victory in Sunday’s presidential election, setting up a showdown with the government, which earlier declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner. “The Venezuelans and the entire world know what happened,” opposition candidate Edmundo González said in his first remarks. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said the margin
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Caroline Marks impresses in first heat of women’s event
Caroline Marks started the women’s event off with a bang in the first heat. After being a bit out in front on her first go-around of the 2024 Games, she made sure to get a late drop into her second wave.
Continue ReadingContainer of hazardous materials catches fire, closing crucial highway connecting Los Angeles and Las Vegas for 48 hours
By Sara Smart and Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — A stretch of the major highway between California and Las Vegas was closed for 48 hours after a tractor trailer carrying hazardous materials overturned and caught on fire. The California Highway Patrol announced Sunday morning that all lanes of Interstate 15 were open after crews worked
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Surfing Round 1 recap: Americans put on perfect performance
Round 1 of the 2024 Olympic surfing competition just wrapped up and Teahupo’o was roaring as advertised, delivering extreme waves and the potential for monstrous scores. Here’s everything you need to know from the first round of the tournament in Tahiti.
Continue ReadingTechnology’s grip on modern life is pushing us down a dimly lit path of digital land mines
AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — “Move fast and break things,” a high-tech mantra popularized 20 years ago by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, was supposed to be a rallying cry for game-changing innovation. It now seems more like an elegy for a society perched on a digital foundation too fragile to withstand a defective
Continue ReadingTalk of Olympic fashion — and the Paris rain — at starry Ralph Lauren fashion event
AP National Writer PARIS (AP) — Fashion. Sports. And of course, the rain. Those were the topics — separately, and together — on everyone’s lips as a gaggle of luminaries from sports, entertainment and media packed into designer Ralph Lauren’s Paris eatery Saturday evening in yet another high-wattage celebrity Olympic gathering in the French capital.
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