By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton named rookie Bo Nix as the team’s starting quarterback for the upcoming season on Wednesday. “We’ve kind of gone through our process. In the very beginning of it all, just speaking with [General Manager] George [Paton] and [Owner & CEO] Greg [Penner] and
Continue ReadingBy Sharon Braithwaite and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Food deliveries have resumed to Sudan’s famine-threatened Darfur region following the reopening of a key border crossing by Sudanese authorities after a six-month closure, as civil war rages in the country. The United Nations food agency said in a statement on Wednesday that the first convoy
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — 2023 Wimbledon champion Markéta Vondroušová will miss the upcoming US Open after undergoing shoulder surgery, she announced on social media. The 25-year-old’s defense of her Wimbledon title ended in a huge first-round upset to Jessica Bouzas Maneiro in July and Vondroušová wrote she has been “struggling with shoulder pain
Continue ReadingBy Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — What do a mountainside resort and economists have in common? Next to nothing, if it weren’t for an annual invite-only summit the Kansas City Federal Reserve hosts at the Jackson Lake Lodge nestled in a valley by the Teton mountains just outside Jackson Hole, Wyoming. And it’s
Continue ReadingBy Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — A group representing the families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza plans to boycott the government’s commemoration of the first anniversary of the October 7 attack, frustrated by the slow progress in negotiations to bring back their loved ones. “The Israeli government’s glaring inability to secure the hostages’ return
Continue ReadingHONOLULU (AP) — Forecasters say Tropical Storm Hone has formed in the central Pacific Ocean. The Central Pacific Hurricane Center in Honolulu says in an 11 a.m. advisory that the storm has maximum sustained winds of 40 mph. It is centered about 1,090 miles east-southeast of Honolulu and is moving west-northwest at 14 mph. Forecasters
Continue ReadingCNN By Barbie Latza Nadeau, Niamh Kennedy, Lauren Kent and Kara Fox, CNN Porticello, Italy (CNN) — The body of British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been recovered from the sunken Bayesian superyacht, Italian interior ministry official Massimo Mariani told Reuters Thursday. Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah is still missing, Mariani said, and divers are still
Continue ReadingAssociated Press GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — The largest diamond found in more than a century has been unearthed at a mine in Botswana, and the country’s president showed off the fist-sized stone to the world at a viewing ceremony Thursday. The Botswana government says the huge 2,492-carat diamond is the second-biggest ever discovered in a
Continue ReadingBy Martha Alexander, CNN (CNN) — Good news for anyone who permanently decimated their eyebrows in the 1990s with a pair of tweezers and bad lighting: the barely-there brow is making a comeback. Big browed beauties like Cara Delevingne and Zoe Kravitz have shaped grooming standards for well over a decade — but if trend
Continue ReadingBy Tom Page, CNN (CNN) — The final of the 2030 FIFA World Cup is five years and 11 months away, and the design for the stadium which hopes to host the match has finally been revealed. The Grand Stade Hassan II soccer stadium in Morocco – one of three countries co-hosting the tournament alongside
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is urging diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine during a visit to Poland, saying that no conflict can be solved on a battlefield. Modi held talks Thursday in Warsaw with Polish counterpart Donald Tusk, and will head to Kyiv later in the
Continue ReadingBy Esha Mitra, Salman Saeed, Anna Coren, Rebecca Wright and Lex Harvey, CNN New Delhi/Cumilla, Bangladesh (CNN) — Rescuers are scrambling to evacuate flooded communities after heavy rains inundated parts of Bangladesh and northeast India, killing at least 36 people and causing rivers on both sides of the border to reach extreme levels. Nearly 4.5
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — Taylor Swift didn’t endorse former President Donald Trump last weekend. Ryan Reynolds wasn’t photographed wearing a pro-Kamala Harris shirt. And the Communist Party USA never backed President Joe Biden’s now-defunct campaign. But these false claims about the 2024 campaign, and dozens of other posts with similar fake endorsements,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Two Russian climbers who were injured on the slopes of one of northern Pakistan’s highest mountains reached a hospital in the region on Thursday, a week after they were stranded after being hit by falling ice. The climbers were part of a five-member Russian team that was attempting to
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau, Niamh Kennedy, Lauren Kent and Kara Fox, CNN Porticello, Italy (CNN) — The body of British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been recovered from the sunken Bayesian superyacht, Italian interior ministry official Massimo Mariani told Reuters Thursday. Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah is still missing, Mariani said, and divers are still searching
Continue ReadingBy Kostyantyn Hak, Olga Voitovych, Lauren Kent, Sergey Gudkov and Lizzy Yee, CNN Pokrovsk, Ukraine (CNN) — Parents are hiding their children from local authorities to avoid mandatory evacuation in the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, a strategically important location, amid warnings that Russian forces are advancing rapidly. Communities in and around Pokrovsk are being
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Las dos principales compañías ferroviarias de carga de Canadá cerraron sus operaciones, según la dirección de las dos compañías, dejando sin trabajo a 9.000 miembros del sindicato Teamsters que opera los trenes y asestando un golpe potencial a las economías canadiense y estadounidense. Casi un tercio de la carga manejada por
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) –Sphen, un pingüino papúa australiano que se convirtió en un improbable símbolo mundial de la igualdad, murió por aparentes causas naturales a los 11 años, según informó este jueves el acuario de Sídney donde residía. Sphen saltó a la fama mundial en 2018 cuando se asoció con otro pingüino papúa macho, Magic,
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan and Hassan Tayir, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Hungry tourists hiking on the Great Wall of China can now get their lunch delivered – from the air. Chinese food delivery giant Meituan says its new drone service, announced last week, will bring food, drinks and other goods such as medical supplies to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A French destroyer rescued 29 mariners from an oil tanker that came under repeated attack from Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the Red Sea, while also destroying a bomb-carrying drone boat in the area. The Sounion is now at anchor in the Red Sea and no longer drifting.
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