AP Basketball Writer PHOENIX (AP) — WNBA players’ union head Terri Jackson is concerned the league is being undervalued with the $2.2 billion over 11 years it will receive as part of the NBA’s recently approved media rights deals. The NBA’s Board of Governors approved that league’s next media rights deals with Disney, NBC and
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN Milwaukee (CNN) — America’s eyes are finally fixated on the 2024 election. After months of tuning out what had been a fairly predictable and uneventful race between the two party incumbents, recent earthshaking events have upended the state of politics, adding an unexpected wrinkle to the storyline and prompting audiences to
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Glen Powell gets an A for effort. The “Twisters” star is already prepping for his next movie, while simultaneously working on getting his college degree from the University of Texas in Austin. In a recent interview with IndieWire, Powell, 35, explained how he plans to juggle his course
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer U.S. filings for unemployment benefits rose again last week and appear to be settling consistently at a slightly higher though still healthy level. The Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless claims for the week ending July 13 rose by 20,000 to 243,000 from 223,000 the previous week. The total number of Americans
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — El área de la Bahía de San Francisco ha sido durante mucho tiempo, y sigue siendo, un bastión hippie-dippie de demócratas que votaron abrumadoramente por Hillary Clinton en 2016 y por Joe Biden en 2020. Pero hay una pequeña y poderosa secta de multimillonarios de Silicon Valley que están abriendo un
Continue ReadingAssociated Press GARDNERVILLE, Nev. (AP) — A grand experiment is underway in Nevada where an endangered desert wildflower stands in the way of a mining company’s plans to dig for lithium to help speed production of batteries for electric cars and other green energy projects. Australia-based Ioneer says the mine it wants to dig in
Continue ReadingAP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of U.S. homes to foreign nationals have fallen to the lowest level in more than a decade, hampered by a strong dollar and many of the hurdles that have kept the housing market in a deep sales slump for over two years. Some 54,300 previously occupied U.S.
Continue ReadingDocumented, Associated Press NEW YORK CITY (AP) — Brad Song thought he was about to get his e-bike stolen a second time in a less than a month after delivering an order for Chinese food app Fantuan Delivery. Seven strangers surrounded the Chinese immigrant and knocked him off the scooter. He was rescued when a
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — Classic Ferraris can be among the most valuable cars in the world with some selling for tens of millions of dollars. That value also means it’s a ripe market for counterfeits. Ferrari is so determined to maintain the authenticity of its cars, then, that it’s crushing potential fakes into
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say an Illinois sheriff’s deputy charged with murder in the death of a Black woman shot her in the face during a tense moment over a pot of water in her home. The details were in a court document filed Thursday in support of keeping Sean Grayson in
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Ursula von der Leyen has been reelected to a second five-year term as president of the European Commission after a vote by EU lawmakers, as the continent’s mainstream seeks to reassert itself in the face of a resurgent far right. In an earlier pitch to the European parliament in
Continue ReadingBy Evan Perez and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Investigators now believe that the Steam account in the name of the man who shot at former President Donald Trump over the weekend is fake, a US official briefed on the matter told CNN. Earlier Thursday, CNN, citing a source familiar with the matter, reported that
Continue ReadingANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish media reports say Greek pop star Despina Vandi has refused to perform on a stage in Turkey adorned with its flag and portrait of the country’s founding father, prompting the local mayor to ask her to leave her town. The 54-year-old singer was due to perform at a charity concert
Continue ReadingAssociated Press DAMASCUS (AP) — Results of Syria’s parliamentary elections show that President Bashar Assad’s Baath Party has won a majority of seats, as expected. The elections for 250 parliamentary seats were held Monday in government-held areas of the country. All 185 candidates from the Baath Party and its allies won seats, an increase from
Continue ReadingBy Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Bad news, heat haters: The dog days of summer are not, as Florence Welch once sang, over or done. The dog days of summer, the period during which the star Sirius rises alongside the sun, run from July 3 to August 11. Ancient people believed that Sirius influenced the weather,
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — There are plenty of actors who want more than anything to leave the characters that made them famous behind, but Jerry Ferrara is not one of them. Twenty years after the debut of “Entourage,” the man who played Salvatore “Turtle” Assante smiles as he talks to CNN about
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain is sweating under its first official heatwave of the year with temperatures expected to reach 40 degrees C (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in a large swathe of the country. The worst-off area will be the southern Guadalquivir river basin where thermometers could reach 44C (111F). Six regions are under
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A filmmaking legend and one of the world’s most enduring musical acts headline this year’s crop of Kennedy Center Honors recipients. Director Francis Ford Coppola and the Grateful Dead will be honored for lifetime achievement in the arts. Coppola says he’s delighted to be honored with fellow northern California recipient
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Bud Light, formerly the top-selling beer in the United States, has had a tough year since a boycott upended the industry. It’s only getting worse: The brand has now fallen into third place. Michelob Ultra, also brewed by Anheuser-Busch, leapfrogged Bud Light to become the second-best selling
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Chinese-led consortium has pulled out of its contract with Cyprus to build the island nation’s first natural gas import terminal over what it says was the Cypriot government’s failure to pay what it owed for work completed this year. The CPP-Metron Consortium said in a statement Thursday that
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