By DAVID GINSBURG AP Sports Writer COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — The Hall of Fame basketball coach Lefty Driesell has died. His family says Driesell died Saturday at his home in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Driesell’s folksy drawl belied a fiery on-court demeanor. He rebuilt struggling programs and won 786 games over parts of five decades.
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — Kansas City continúa de luto después de un tiroteo masivo en el mitin de victoria de los Chiefs en el Super Bowl que dejó a una madre de dos hijos muerta y a más de 20 personas heridas, incluidos niños, mientras los investigadores trabajaban para descubrir exactamente cómo se desarrolló el
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Protestors took the streets in Senegal’s capital Saturday to keep the pressure on President Mack Sall to hold elections quickly. Hundreds of people walked and biked through downtown Dakar chanting “Macky dictator” while others called for the liberation of opposition prisoners in jail. After the country’s
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky and Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — Starbucks has opened its first cafe designed to give customers with disabilities a “more accessible store experience,” the company announced Friday in a news release. The move is part of a wider inclusivity initiative that Starbucks has undertaken to design easily navigable retail spaces
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — On July 20, 1969, the world watched as humankind landed on the moon for the first time. But the perfect touchdown of the Eagle lunar lander by NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong was anything but easy. As he and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin flew over the intended landing site, Armstrong
Continue ReadingSTERLING, Va. (AP) — Authorities in Virginia are investigating the cause of a house explosion and fire that killed one firefighter, injured 10 others and leveled a home in a Washington, D.C., suburb. Firefighters were called to the home in Sterling, Virginia, by a report of a gas smell at about 7:30 p.m. Friday. They
Continue ReadingBy JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sought to contain the political fallout of a presidential pardon scandal during an annual state of the nation address on Saturday, his first public appearance since Hungary’s president, his ally, resigned a week ago. The nationalist Orbán is under intense pressure
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — El cuerpo del opositor ruso encarcelado Alexey Navalny debe ser entregado a su familia “inmediatamente”, dijo este sábado su portavoz Kira Yarmysh, acusando a los funcionarios rusos de mentir para retrasar el proceso. El feroz crítico del presidente de Rusia Vladimir Putin, de 47 años, murió el viernes después de sentirse
Continue ReadingBy GARY FIELDS Associated Press BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — As President Joe Biden campaigns for reelection, he’s warning that Donald Trump will be a grave threat to American democracy if he’s in the White House. That message is a key part of Biden’s strategy. But interviews with the kinds of voters Biden will need to
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — With its bright lights, big names and halftime shows, the Super Bowl has always been the biggest sporting ticket in the US. But even by Super Bowl’s standards, this year’s edition was a whole different ball game. Between the storylines on the field to those off it – yes,
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — Imagínate un mundo completamente estéril. Ante ti hay un paisaje volcánico, desprovisto de flora y fauna. Esparcidas por esta extensión gris y negra hay cuerpos de agua poco profundos. En cada una de estas piscinas naturales se elabora una combinación precisa de sustancias químicas y condiciones físicas que podrían servir como
Continue ReadingBy MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Thousands of South Africans have gathered in the capital to show support for the country’s biggest opposition party as it prepares for a much-anticipated national election. Many of the Democratic Alliance backers assembled in Pretoria on Saturday expressed faith the party would deliver better basic
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City was at its highest moment of community pride, celebrating a Super Bowl win, when it experienced one of 21st-century American culture’s most traumatic events — a public mass shooting. By the time it was over, one woman was dead and nearly two dozen
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — Cerca de 2,7 millones de electores están llamados a participar este domingo 18 de febrero en las elecciones al Parlamento de Galicia, en las que se elegirá a los 75 diputados que compondrán esta asamblea en la próxima legislatura y que, dependiendo de la representación que obtenga cada partido, definirán
Continue ReadingBy GARY FIELDS Associated Press BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Just blocks from the shuttered Bethlehem Steel plant, the Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley was bustling on a recent day with scores of older people eating lunch. Downstairs, out of sight, a constant stream of visitors was shopping in its massive food pantry. Over the past seven
Continue ReadingWJLA, WUSA, CNN By Gabe Cohen, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — On a recent Tuesday morning, guards escort Malcolm, a 17-year-old from DC, into a circuit courtroom where he’ll soon be sentenced for attempted robbery. As he walks to his seat, slumped and handcuffed in a jail jumpsuit, with an exhausted look on his face, he gives
Continue ReadingBy Gabe Cohen, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — On a recent Tuesday morning, guards escort Malcolm, a 17-year-old from DC, into a circuit courtroom in Maryland where he’ll soon be sentenced for attempted robbery. As he walks to his seat, slumped and handcuffed in a jail jumpsuit, with an exhausted look on his face, he gives a
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Nicholls, Pauline Lockwood and Alex Marquardt, CNN Munich, Germany (CNN) — Hamas’s demands for a hostage deal are “delusional” and need to be “close to reality,” Israel’s Coordinator for the Captives and the Missing, Gal Hirsch, told CNN Saturday. “We want a deal very much and we know we need to pay prices.
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — It’s not just you. A lot people think Google searches are getting worse. And the rise of generative AI chatbots is giving people new and different ways to look up information. While Google has been the one-stop shop for decades — after all, we commonly call
Continue ReadingBy MELINA WALLING Associated Press Many companies, philanthropic organizations and national and international entities tout the promise of alternative crops to fight climate change. They fund initiatives promoting crops like sorghum and cassava, declare the “year of the millet” or give grants to researchers working on dandelions that could one day replace rubber. But while
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