By CNN Staff (CNN) — Unexpected tech outages have been impacting airlines and airports across the world. Major hotel brands have also reported outages. Here’s what to know if you’re planning to travel this weekend. What’s going on? Widespread IT problems are impacting global travel. It’s believed the issue stems, at least in part, from
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Take a look at how U.S. men’s soccer player Kevin Paredes feels about making his Olympic debut at the 2024 Paris Games and how his Dominican heritage has impacted his career.
Continue ReadingBy Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Department of Education will pause student loan payments for 8 million borrowers after a federal appeals court temporarily blocked a repayment plan that the Biden administration launched last year. The fate of the plan, known as SAVE (Saving on a Valuable Education), is in flux as courts
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez and MJ Lee, CNN Washington (CNN) — Vice President Kamala Harris has spent much of the year traveling around the country, tackling the Republican party and its leader, former President Donald Trump. But now she’s throwing her political punches at another opponent: Sen. JD Vance. Mounting concerns over President Joe Biden and his viability as a candidate have
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Janet Jackson loves performing. Doing publicity around her work, not so much. During an interview with the radio program “Heart Evenings with Dev Griffin,” the topic of being interviewed came up and Jackson made clear her feelings. “I don’t mean to be rude, but I have to be
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN) — Los apagones tecnológicos alteraron las operaciones en todo el mundo el viernes, y los aeropuertos fueron los más afectados por el problema. Desde Manila hasta Berlín y Newark, pilotos, miembros de la tripulación y pasajeros quedaron varados en los aeropuertos debido a que los cortes de servicio cibernético causaron importantes retrasos
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story KEITHVILLE, Louisiana (KTBS) — An elderly couple in Keithville is still picking up the pieces of their mobile home after it rolled onto its roof during Tropical Storm Beryl. Joe and Elizabeth Jamison were found standing on their ceiling after strong winds lifted their home
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story MAUI COUNTY, Hawaii (KITV) — Police are warning residents about a fake jewelry scam that’s making the rounds across the Islands. Maui Police officials say they have received reports in the last week of scammers selling fake jewelry at the Queen Ka’ahumanu Center, The Shops
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A U.N. envoy says a week of indirect talks involving Sudan’s warring parties has ended in Geneva. He described the discussions on Friday as an “encouraging initial step” in a complex process. Representatives of the Sudanese army and rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces accepted invitations to meet separately with the U.N. secretary-general’s
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Retired Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg has been released from jail in New York City after serving a sentence for lying under oath. The city Department of Correction’s online inmate database shows he was released Friday. The agency and Weisselberg’s lawyer confirmed his release from Riker’s Island. The 76-year-old
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — ¿Cuál fue tu primera cita más emocionante? En 2016, dos jóvenes rusos conocidos por sus aventuras extremas de “rooftopping” (que consistían en escalar ilegalmente lugares como La Sagrada Familia y la Torre Eiffel) se saltaron el superficial cóctel de la hora feliz y, en cambio, ascendieron al rascacielos sin terminar más
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — Venezuela elegirá a un nuevo presidente el 28 de julio entre diez candidatos, aunque, según las encuestas, hay dos aspirantes claramente despegados del resto: el presidente Nicolás Maduro y el abanderado de la oposición mayoritaria, Edmundo González Urrutia. Maduro va por su tercer mandato y también por tercera ocasión la
Continue ReadingBy Adam Rife Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WDJT) — The Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression held a demonstration and march against recent violence in the city, some connected to the RNC, on Thursday, July 18. As of a few days ago, the demonstration was not supposed to happen. The
Continue ReadingAP Media Writer From a media perspective, Donald Trump failed to stick the landing at the Republican convention that nominated him as its presidential candidate for a third time. His acceptance speech, which exceeded 90 minutes and stretched past midnight Eastern time into Friday, won him wide praise for its vivid recounting of last weekend’s
Continue ReadingCNN By Sophie Tanno, Anna Chernova and Moscow staff, CNN (CNN) — Evan Gershkovich, the first American journalist to be arrested on espionage charges in Russia since the Cold War, has been found guilty of spying and sentenced to 16 years in prison by a Russian court, in a case that the US government, his
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Activists who marched outside the Republican National Convention are trumpeting their efforts, despite crowd estimates falling short. Milwaukee police are praising their cooperation with other agencies in convention security, even as Ohio officers face scrutiny for the shooting death of a man. Some activists and attendees say there was more
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN) — Un fallo informático ha afectado a importantes servicios en todo el mundo, interrumpiendo las conexiones de transporte público, retrasando vuelos internacionales y restringiendo las operaciones de instalaciones y empresas de atención médica. Esto es lo que necesitas saber Crowdstrike, Microsoft y las aerolíneas afectadas: ¿Qué hay detrás del apagón cibernético? La
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan counterterrorism police say they have arrested an al-Qaida leader who was a close aide to Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. Deputy inspector general of police Usman Gondal identified the man as Amin ul Haq and said he was
Continue ReadingAP Film Writer The new Netflix documentary “Skywalkers: A Love Story” takes viewers to wild, vertigo-inducing heights. The film is about Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus, Russian rooftoppers who take jaw-dropping photos on some of the world’s tallest buildings. Filmmaker Jeff Zimbalist and his team spent six years following the couple as they traveled to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press In early 2022, Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal wrote on social media that “reporting on Russia is now also a regular practice of watching people you know get locked away for years.” A year later, he was the one locked up after he was arrested in March 2023 on
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