By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — New York Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu tied a franchise playoff record after scoring 36 points in the No. 1 seed’s 91-82 win against the Atlanta Dream on Tuesday. The victory sees the Liberty advance to the WNBA playoff semifinals where they will meet the Las Vegas Aces, led by
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — A strike by more than 1,000 workers at a Samsung India Electronics plant has entered its third week. Management is at an impasse over their demands for recognition of the employees’ union and higher pay. Samsung India Electronics workers union spokesman said that the employees’ strike at the plant
Continue ReadingTexas Tribune, Associated Press The Texas Tribune and The Associated Press spent 24 hours in five cities on Texas’ border with Mexico to measure the impact of a dramatic drop in migrant crossings. In Ciudad Juárez, across from El Paso, no one was camping where, just a few months earlier, hundreds of asylum-seeking families waited
Continue ReadingTexas Tribune, Associated Press As midnight nears, the lights of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, fill the sky on the silent banks of the Rio Grande. A few months ago, hundreds of asylum-seeking families, including crying toddlers, waited for an opening to crawl through razor wire from Juarez into El Paso. No one
Continue ReadingAP Technology Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — For decades, video games have relied on scripted, stilted interactions with non-player characters to help shepherd gamers in their journeys. But as artificial intelligence technology improves, game studios are experimenting with generative AI to help build environments, assist game writers in crafting NPC dialogue and lend video games
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Week 3 of the 2024 NFL season left us with more questions than answers. We saw five previously winless teams get off the mark and others stutter just when they looked to be kicking into gear. There is still plenty left to play for with the season in its
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed several measures to bolster the state’s gun safety laws. The new laws signed by Newsom Tuesday will expand restrictions on who could own firearms, prevent the proliferation of “ghost guns” and increase protections for domestic violence survivors. The California Legislature is controlled by Democrats and
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, Sarah Ferris, Lauren Fox and Haley Talbot, CNN Washington (CNN) — Congress set up a chaotic, high-stakes fight over spending at the end of the year, after both chambers voted on Wednesday to avert a government shutdown. The Senate approved the stopgap spending bill – which will fund the government until December
Continue ReadingBy Krystal Hur, CNN New York (CNN) — The 2024 monster gold rally is picking up steam. The most actively traded gold futures contract has hit repeated highs this year, most recently notching a fresh record of $2,687.30 on Tuesday before retreating. That comes after the Federal Reserve slashed US interest rates by a supersized
Continue ReadingSofía Barruti (CNN) — Un buque de reabastecimiento de la Armada de Estados Unidos sufrió daños mientras operaba en Medio Oriente en un incidente que sigue bajo investigación, según un funcionario de la Armada. El USNS Big Horn sufrió daños después de que el buque reabasteciera y abasteciera de combustible a los buques de la
Continue ReadingStory by Reuters (CNN) — Former Hungarian fencer László Csongrádi has been left so distraught by the theft of his Olympic gold medal that he has offered to leave it to the thief in his will if it is returned. Csongrádi, 65, won the Olympic gold in the men’s team sabre competition at the 1988
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BERLIN (AP) — The leaders of Germany’s Greens, one of three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s troubled coalition government, say they will step down after the latest in a string of disappointing election results. The Greens’ support declined sharply in the European Parliament election in June. Voters ejected them from two state legislatures
Continue ReadingBy Manveena Suri and Aishwarya S Iyer, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — India has confirmed its first case of a deadlier strain of mpox, which has raised alarm among health officials around the world over the rapid pace of its spread. The clade Ib strain of the virus was confirmed by health authorities in the
Continue ReadingQUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities have brought a nurse they said was arrested over the weekend before state-run media to answer questions about her alleged suicide bombing attempt. The government-organized interview on Wednesday in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, was broadcast on national and local television channels. Balochistan has for years been the
Continue ReadingBy Francesca Perry, CNN (CNN) — Andrew Holmes’ images of trucks on Californian highways are sun-drenched, saturated and sharp. Looking at the crystal clear snapshots, you can almost hear the roar of the engines, feel the heat reflected off shiny aluminum gas tanks, and smell the diesel pumped out of the exhausts. But these are
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday pledged to build an economy that is both pro-business and helps the middle class as she pushed back against Republican nominee Donald Trump ’s claims that she’s advancing “communist” ideas. The Democratic nominee said in remarks at the Economic Club of Pittsburgh in battleground
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Multiple Secret Service failures ahead of the July rally for former President Donald Trump where a gunman opened fire were “foreseeable, preventable, and directly related to the events resulting in the assassination attempt that day.” That’s according to a bipartisan Senate investigation released Wednesday. Similar to the agency’s own internal
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, Annie Grayer and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Secret Service agents failed to take charge of decision-making for security at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally where former President Donald Trump was shot in July, a bipartisan Senate committee revealed in a new report Wednesday, leading to key lapses in preparation and communication that
Continue ReadingBy Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris holds a 12-point lead over former President Donald Trump among voters younger than 35 – a group that’s largely dissatisfied with the influence it holds in American politics, but remains optimistic about the country’s future, according to new CNN polling conducted by SSRS. Harris leads
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — Supermarket prices are no longer skyrocketing – except, of course, if you’re buying eggs. Egg prices spiked by 28.1% in August from 12 months ago, easily the biggest increase out of any food item tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The sticker shock in the egg
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