By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — The Paris Games paid tribute to Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei after her death on Thursday, days after allegedly being burned by her boyfriend. A eulogy was played at the 2024 Paralympics after the T54 and T12 marathons on Sunday, together with a photo of Cheptegei on the big
Continue ReadingAssociated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris plans a four-day campaign trip through major swing states after the Democrat’s debate with Republican Donald Trump. Her “New Way Forward” tour will include a new television spot, rallies, canvassing events and programs designed to target important voting groups. The period after Tuesday’s debate in Philadelphia
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON, Ky. (AP) — Authorities searched a rugged, hilly area of southeastern Kentucky on Sunday for a man suspected of shooting 12 vehicles and wounding five people on a busy interstate. Joseph A. Couch, 32, was named a suspect in Saturday’s shootings on Interstate 75 after authorities said they recovered his SUV on
Continue ReadingHOLTSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say two young sisters apparently drowned in a pond near their Long Island apartment complex. Police say a family member called police Saturday afternoon to report that the girls, ages 2 and 4, had gone missing. Officers and locals searched the girls’ apartment complex in Holtsville and found them unresponsive
Continue ReadingISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish president has hit out at military graduates who took a pro-secular oath during their graduation ceremony, promising that those behind it would be “purged” from the military. Speaking at a conference for Islamic schools in the northwestern city of Kocaeli on Saturday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described those involved as
Continue ReadingBy Patrick Snell and Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — Wojtek Czyz had long dreamed of becoming a professional soccer player – and those dreams were close to coming true, when at 21 he had just signed a contract with a professional club. But shortly after penning his deal, Czyz suffered a life-changing injury after a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press Ylenia Aguilar raised her sons in Arizona, so they’re no strangers to scorching heat. She remembers “seeing soccer kids and my own children pass out and faint from, you know, heat-related illnesses,” she said. “It was seeing my sons dehydrated.” Schools across the U.S. are carpeted in heat-absorbing asphalt and lack shade. The
Continue ReadingIn a story published Sep. 8, 2024, about overheated school buildings and schoolyards, The Associated Press erroneously reported a conversion of temperature difference from Fahrenheit to Celsius. It is 38.9 degrees Celsius, not 21 degrees Celsius.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press CAIRO (AP) — A senior United Nations official says more than 16 months of war in Sudan has killed more than 20,000 people, a grim figure amid a devastating conflict that wrecked the northeastern African country. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, gave the tally in a news conference
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino preacher accused of sexual abuse and human trafficking in the Philippines and similar charges in the United States has surrendered. The Philippine national police said Sunday night that Apollo Quiboloy and four other co-accused in sexual abuse and other crimes surrendered in his religious complex in southern
Continue ReadingWSB, CNN By Isabel Rosales, Sara Smart and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — The mother of the teenager suspected of killing four people during a shooting at a Winder, Georgia, high school called to warn a school counselor before the attack, according to the suspect’s aunt and grandfather. Colt Gray, 14, apologized to his mother,
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — Here’s a bit of good news to kick off the week: The US is pumping so much oil that gas prices could drop below $3 a gallon in much of the country by Thanksgiving. And here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart.
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Jessica Pegula reached new heights in her already distinguished tennis career this week. A serial winner of other tournaments on the WTA Tour and firmly ensconced in the top 10 of the world rankings, she had never quite been able to replicate that success in grand slams, until this
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Ties van der Hoeven’s ambitions are nothing if not grand. The Dutch engineer wants to transform a huge stretch of inhospitable desert into green, fertile land teeming with wildlife. His sights are set on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, an arid, triangle-shaped expanse that connects Africa with Asia. Thousands of years
Continue ReadingAssociated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — When Donald Trump and Kamala Harris meet onstage Tuesday night in Philadelphia, they’ll both know there’s little debate that Pennsylvania is critical to their chances of winning the presidency. The most populous presidential swing state has sided with the winner of the past two elections, each time by just
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — From snacking on nacho cheese Doritos to washing collard greens in the bathtub, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is revealing more about herself as a person. The vice president is opening up and talking about more than the kind of president she’d be as she campaigns against Republican Donald Trump.
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — Boeing and the Machinists union, which represents 33,000 of its employees on the West Coast, have reached a tentative deal that could avoid a strike that had been set to start this Friday. Before it will take effect, the deal would need the approval of the rank-and-file
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The artificial intelligence industry has gone on a lobbying binge in the past few years, deploying scores of hired influencers to help shape potential government action. The growth is not surprising. The technology is being rapidly adopted by powerful sectors — health care, defense, financial services — all with the
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer To Howard Schultz, the chaos he observed at a Starbucks in Chicago one recent morning summed up the troubles of the company he long led as chairman and CEO. Commuters tumbled off trains and into a Starbucks store to pick up the orders they had placed on their cellphones. Drinks weren’t ready
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — King Charles III has attended church near the royal Balmoral estate in Scotland for prayers and reflection in remembrance of his mother Queen Elizabeth II on the second anniversary of her death. Charles and his wife Camilla have been spending the summer in the Scottish Highlands, where the late monarch died at
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