By Amy Woodyatt and Roseanne Roobeek, CNN (CNN) — Dutch beach volleyball player Steven van de Velde, who was convicted of raping a 12 year old girl, spoke out for the first time since controversy over his admittance into the Olympic Games. Van de Velde, who is now 30 but was 19 at the time
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Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — Official figures show that Britain’s economy continued its recovery from recession at the end of last year, with its GDP increasing by 0.6% between April and June. The second-quarter growth in economic activity, as measured by gross domestic product, followed a 0.7% increase in the first quarter and was in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Tiers of graves are stacked deep underground in a bloated Gaza cemetery, where Sa’di Baraka spends his days hacking at the earth, making room for more dead. “Sometimes we make graves on top of graves,” he said. Baraka and his solemn corps of volunteer gravediggers in the
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China says it will restrict exports of a mineral used in a wide range of products from batteries to weapons. The Commerce Ministry announced Thursday that export controls will be placed on antimony starting Sept. 15. It says the move is being made to safeguard China’s security and fulfill international non-proliferation obligations.
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — Colin Kaepernick might have an option to get back into the NFL, but not as a player this time. In an interview with USA TODAY, Los Angeles Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh said he was keen for Kaepernick to join the team in a coaching capacity one day. “If
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — New Zealand is set to extradite internet mogul Kim Dotcom to the United States after the country’s justice minister gave his approval on Thursday. Dotcom, who was born in Germany but has New Zealand residency, had been fighting his extradition to the US since 2012. He is facing charges
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Storms began late last night and continued overnight into this morning. These storms brought a few more showers than some of our other more recent storms, which is good news for firefighting efforts. The other side of the coin is that because we’ve been so hot and dry this summer, and we’re in the height
Continue ReadingJulia Hernández (CNN) — El jardinero estrella de los Yankees de Nueva York, Aaron Judge, no es ajeno a hacer historia en las Grandes Ligas de Béisbol, y este miércoles lo hizo de nuevo. El bateador de 32 años conectó el jonrón número 300 de su carrera en la victoria del equipo por 10-2 sobre
Continue ReadingYEKATERINBURG, Russia (AP) — A U.S.-Russian dual national has been convicted of treason in a Russian court and sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges stemming from a donation of about $52 to a charity aiding Ukraine. News reports say Ksenia Khavana, whom Russian authorities identify by her maiden name of Ksenia Karelina, was
Continue ReadingAssociated Press KOLKATA, India (AP) — Police say scores of people went on a rampage at a medical college campus in eastern India, attacking vehicles and ransacking some patient wards during a Wednesday night protest by thousands of people against an alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor last week. The rape incident has
Continue ReadingBy Nia Mclean, CNN (CNN) — Survival rates for Black women are far worse after bystander CPR than for White men, according to a study published this month in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. The study highlights a troubling disparity in the effectiveness of bystander CPR for cardiac arrests that happen outside a hospital setting. While
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Health Ministry in Gaza says more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war. The announcement on Thursday comes as new efforts are underway to broker a cease-fire to the conflict, now in its 11th month. The ministry’s count does not distinguish between civilians
Continue ReadingCNN By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Hurricane Ernesto is on track to strengthen over record-warm water to deliver a blow to Bermuda and ramp up coastal danger for much of the United States’ Eastern Seaboard after it thrashed Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power. The
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — It took Kylian Mbappé just 68 minutes to open his account for Real Madrid as the French superstar helped Los Blancos to a 2-0 win over Atalanta in the UEFA Super Cup final. Widely regarded as a glorified preseason friendly, the Super Cup is contested between the winners of
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its war on Hamas following the group’s October 7 attack, the health ministry in the enclave said Thursday, yet another dark milestone in the 10-month-old conflict. The ministry said 40 people had died in Gaza during the past 24 hours, taking the total number
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, MJ Lee, Kevin Liptak and Kayla Tausche, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden is still smarting from having been forced to abandon his reelection campaign more than three weeks ago and has made clear to those close to him that he was particularly unhappy with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with whom
Continue ReadingBy Jeff Zeleny and Arit John, CNN Morganton, North Carolina (CNN) — One month ago, battleground North Carolina was slipping away from Democrats. Now, with Vice President Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket, the state is competitive once again. “Folks were feeling so downtrodden and they just didn’t feel like we could win
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — A Russian court has sentenced a Russian-American woman to 12 years in prison for treason after she made a donation of just over $50 to a US-based charity supporting Ukraine. Ksenia Karelina, 33, had pleaded guilty to the charges. She was detained in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg earlier
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — For nearly a decade and a half, New Yorkers have awaited the arrival of a self-filtering, cross-shaped pool floating in the city’s East River after the proposal was partially crowdfunded and eventually approved by the city. Now the futuristic design has an official home. Last week, Governor Kathy Hochul
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