The 12th annual Chalk the Block Public Art Festival takes place this weekend in downtown El Paso. Every year, the family-friendly event brings more than 45,000 people to downtown to enjoy a sidewalk chalk art competition, temporary art installations, street performances, live music stage, local art and food vendors, free art activities at the El
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Aaron Jones of the Green Bay Packers teased Dallas Cowboys cornerback Byron Jones with a sassy wave goodbye during last Sunday’s game, and now he literally has to pay for it. The running back said on Friday that he was fined $10,527 by the NFL for “taunting/ unsportsmanlike conduct” during the game at AT&T Stadium
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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, is facing off against opponents from both political parties in Saturday’s jungle gubernatorial primary, in which all candidates, regardless of party affiliation, run against each other. If Edwards can emerge with greater than 50% of the vote, he’ll win reelection outright. If he doesn’t, a runoff will be
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At just 22, Max Verstappen has already reached some notable milestones. In 2015 aged 17, he became the youngest driver to compete in a Formula 1 race. A year later he crossed the finish line in Spain as the youngest winner of an F1 race while also becoming the first from the Netherlands to stand
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From paper beer bottles to the vegan bacon cheeseburgers (yep, those exist), here are three food stories you might have missed: 1. Nestlé is selling vegan alternatives to bacon and cheese The plant-based trend is not dying anytime soon. Nestlé is adding to the menu of fake-meat options. The global food company said on Wednesday
Continue Reading Video game company Blizzard Entertainment walked back some penalties on an esports player who aired support for the Hong Kong protests after gamers around the world called for a boycott of the company. Blizzard explained Friday that it disqualified Hearthstone player Ng “Blitzchung” Wai Chung for shouting the protest slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of
Continue Reading For many Americans, LGBTQ history can be a portal of pain. That’s in no small part because it tends to feel so incomplete: lives lived belatedly, lives lost prematurely. However, at CNN’s LGBTQ town hall on Thursday, when nine Democratic presidential candidates went deep on the sorts of issues that often get short shrift, this
Continue Reading Last month Shep Smith decided that he had simply had enough. With President Trump actively distorting the truth and many of his own colleagues helping him do it, the Fox News star prided himself on anchoring a newscast that countered the network’s pro-Trump opinion shows. The way Smith saw it, he was making sure that
Continue Reading Under normal circumstances, Coco Gauff wouldn’t have made the main draw at this week’s tournament in Linz, Austria. But after getting a bit of luck, the 15-year-old has taken full advantage to become the WTA’s youngest tennis finalist since Nicole Vaidisova in 2004 after beating Andrea Petkovic 6-4 6-4 Saturday. Gauff became a crowd favorite
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Reg Watson, the creator of popular Australian soap opera “Neighbours” has died, according to the show’s Twitter account. “Everyone at Neighbours is sad to hear of the passing of our creator, Reg Watson,” Jason Herbison, executive producer of the show, said in a statement on Twitter on Friday. “He was a pioneer of drama, prolific
Continue Reading Kanye West — a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump who once called slavery a choice — brought his Sunday Service performances to one of the country’s most prestigious historically black colleges Saturday. And the faculty and students were kind of here for it, kind of not. West pulled up to Howard University around 8
Continue Reading California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Friday that will end the use of private prisons and privately-run immigration detention facilities. Under the new law, California will phase out the use of these for-profit, private detention facilities by 2028. The state will be prohibited from renewing contracts or signing new contracts with a private prison
Continue Reading The Pentagon confirmed Friday that US troops in Syria “came under artillery fire from Turkish positions” and demanded that Turkey halt all operations that could require the US to take “immediate defensive action.” “US troops in the vicinity of Kobani came under artillery fire from Turkish positions at approximately 9 p.m. local Oct. 11,” Navy
Continue Reading A version of this story first appeared in CNN’s Impeachment Watch newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. What a week. We are less than three weeks out from the start of the impeachment inquiry. Recapping just the last seven days: Lawyers for the whistleblower said they were representing another
Continue Reading A fresh series of Facebook ads this week by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren seeks to put the social media giant on the defensive — by telling a lie. The ads, which began running widely on Thursday, start with a bold but obvious falsehood: That Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg have endorsed President
Continue Reading American companies doing business in China are navigating an unprecedented array of risks, from slowing growth to the trade war and pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. But that hasn’t stopped many of them from pushing deeper into the vast Chinese market. A handful of US businesses have gotten positive signals from China in recent weeks,
Continue Reading With the indictment Thursday of associates of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, New York federal prosecutors are yet again behind a criminal case that threatens Trump’s inner circle. That has raised fears in law-enforcement circles that the head of the office, Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman, could be in the crosshairs of the
Continue Reading Cruise passengers held their breath as a 22.5 meter wide cruise liner became the largest boat to pass through Greece’s narrow Corinth Canal, according to its operator. Carrying 929 passengers on board, the Braemar cruise liner narrowly managed to squeeze through the rocky walls of the canal — which measures a maximum of 25 meters
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Cool start to the day. We will see temperatures climb up to the upper 60s with calm winds and abundant sunshine. Westerly winds will move into the borderland brining our temperatures to seasonal averages. We’ll have a nice warm-up for Sunday and Monday before a small disturbance moves in Tuesday bringing a chance of storms
Continue Reading A family on vacation in South Carolina found more than just seashells and crabs while strolling along the beach. Justus Holland and his family were enjoying Fripp Island’s beach on October 6 when they came across a “large, dark object” floating in the water, police said. It weighed 44 pounds. The family dragged the package
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Nota del editor: David Bittan Obadía es abogado escritor, analista de temas políticos e internacionales, columnista del diario El Universal de Venezuela y colaborador de otros medios de comunicación. Ha participado en el Congreso Judío Mundial y es expresidente de la comunidad Judía de Venezuela. (CNN Español) — El gobierno de Ecuador ha decidido sincerar su
Continue Reading Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg has been stripped of his role as chairman as the company struggles to get its grounded 737 Max jets cleared to fly again. The company’s board of directors on Friday said the move was an effort to strengthen “safety management,” and Muilenburg will continue as CEO, president and a director. The
Continue Reading Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a new assessment of President Donald Trump as “a very, very smart man” who won’t be easy for Democrats to defeat in the 2020 election. “I used to think that Donald Trump was not too smart. I certainly don’t believe that anymore,” Reid, a Nevada Democrat who served
Continue Reading Jimmy Carter isn’t doing a photo opportunity. He’s here to work. The former president stands underneath a tent on a muddy lot on a recent rainy morning constructing corbels, a support structure made by gluing, drilling and nailing three pieces of wood together. His wife, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, stands a few feet away,
Continue Reading US Sen. Ted Cruz on Saturday condemned China’s handling of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, saying suppression of free speech in the territory showed fear from what he called a “dictatorship” in Beijing. “The Chinese Communist government, I believe, is terrified of the protesters in the streets in Hong Kong,” the Texas Republican told reporters
Continue Reading (CNN) — “Los estadounidenses nos vendieron”, dicen los kurdos que protegen la base estadounidense en Siria. Las fuerzas kurdas que custodiaban una base militar estadounidense en el norte de Siria le dijeron a CNN que sienten que han sido traicionadas por sus aliados estadounidenses después de que el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump despejó el camino
Continue Reading First things first: The theme song of the week is the closing credits to Timon & Pumbaa. Poll of the week: A new Fox News poll of Democratic primary voters nationwide finds that 32% want former Vice President Joe Biden to be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2020. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren comes in at
Continue Reading Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge has successfully completed the first ever marathon under two hours in the Austrian capital of Vienna, two years since he fell 25 seconds short. The 34-year-old ran the 26.2 miles in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 40 seconds at Vienna’s Prater-Hauptallee (main avenue) — an achievement considered one of the ultimate milestones
Continue Reading Actress Ruby Rose is sharing her journey with depression, saying she’s struggled with a series of mental health issues her entire life. The “Orange is the New Black” star documented the experience in a social media post Thursday to mark World Mental Health Day. “I’ve struggled with mental health my entire life,” she captioned a
Continue Reading President Donald Trump on Friday questioned why the US government is protecting the whistleblower whose complaint sparked House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. “Why are we protecting a person that tells things that weren’t true?” Trump said, even though many of the whistleblower’s allegations have been corroborated by other evidence, including the transcript of the President’s call
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