Last Sunday the NFL saw top teams like the Green Bay Packers and the New England Patriots stumble in their quest for a divisional crown. With losses by the league leaders, second-place squads like the Buffalo Bills and the Minnesota Vikings will look to take a leap in the standings. These wild-card contenders, in addition
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Saudi Aramco on Saturday released details of an initial public offering that could shatter records and will give investors the chance to own a piece of the world’s most profitable company. Saudi Arabia’s state oil company said the offering period will begin on November 17 and close on December 4. It will price its shares
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Known for its many temples, mysterious holy men and bustling ghats along the River Ganges, the Indian city of Varanasi also produces some of the world’s finest silk saris. The handwoven Banarasi sari, with its intricate motifs and generous use of gold or silver zari — or thread — is widely sought after, especially by
Continue Reading Three people were trampled and hospitalized Saturday as thousands rushed to get into rapper Travis Scott’s music festival in Houston. An Instagram video posted by the “Sicko Mode” rapper showed fans climbing over fences and a large crowd knocking down a barricade to get to the Astroworld festival. Three people were sent to the hospital
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SAN ELIZARIO, Texas — Dozens of people gathered for the 23rd Annual Veterans Parade and Celebration in San Elizario on Saturday. “To me its a very special day in remembrance of all the military personnel that have done their service for this nation,” said Carlos Soza, a Vietnam veteran who attended the special event. The
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A former substitute teacher faces an assault charge after she allegedly beat a student at a Texas high school on Friday, the Hays County Sheriff’s Office said. The incident, which unfolded in a foreign language class at Lehman High School in Kyle, Texas, was captured by other students in cell phone videos that later circulated
Continue Reading Marquis A. Jefferson, the father of Atatiana Jefferson, died Saturday at age 59. Marquis Jefferson suffered a cardiac arrest and was taken to a hospital in Dallas on Friday night, family spokesman Bruce Carter said. His death comes less than a month after his daughter was fatally shot by a police officer in her home
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It was a tale of two halves for the UTEP Miners as the football team lost its 8th game in a row. This time it was against the Charlotte 49ers in the first ever meeting between the two schools in football. Charlotte erased a 21-7 halftime deficit by scoring 21 unanswered points over the final
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El PASO, Texas — A pedestrian was rushed to the hospital after being struck by a vehicle in east El Paso on Saturday evening. A fire department dispatcher said the person was seriously injured at Montana Avenue and Wedgewood Drive before 10 p.m. No other information was immediately available.
Continue Reading The rancher and philanthropist best known for playing the original “Marlboro Man” has died after a life spent not smoking. Robert ‘Bob’ Norris died in the care of Pikes Peak Hospice in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Nov. 3, according to a statement released by Tee Cross Ranches, which he founded. Norris was 90. “If any
Continue Reading Some might call Kanye West a character. But to someone on the internet, he’s not a very good one. An unidentified person replaced a photo of Uncle Ruckus, a racist character in the popular animated series “The Boondocks,” with a picture of Kanye wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat. So when Google searching
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The “Baby Trump” balloon has been slashed — and as a result, deflated. The popular protest symbol against President Donald Trump was floating among the throngs of college football fans in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on Saturday when it was attacked by a man, an organizer of the protest told CNN. At about 2:30 p.m. ET, before
Continue Reading A Clark Atlanta University student who was found dead in a park had filed a police report describing unwanted kissing and touching days before she went missing, authorities said. The man she filed the report against is now one of two people accused of her murder. Alexis Crawford, 21, vanished from her off-campus apartment more
Continue Reading President Donald Trump received a mostly cheerful welcome from the crowd attending Saturday’s major college football game between the University of Alabama and Louisiana State University. Before the game’s kickoff, the President and first lady Melania Trump received a big cheer as they waved to the crowd at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The crowd
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When India’s Supreme Court ordered in November 2000 that polluting industries in Delhi’s residential areas be relocated outside of the city, the workers from those industries came out onto the streets in protest — fearful that they were about to lose their livelihoods. The protests, which eventually turned violent, foreshadowed a battle that continues to
Continue Reading The attorney for the whistleblower, whose complaint initiated the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, responded Saturday to House Republicans’ call for his client to testify, saying that an in-person interview is a non starter but the offer for lawmakers to submit written questions still stands. House Republicans included the whistleblower in Saturday’s letter
Continue Reading Gordon Hayward of the Boston Celtics, who started the season playing all-star quality basketball again, left Saturday’s game against the San Antonio Spurs with a fractured bone in his left hand. It’s the second notable injury for Hayward, who missed almost all the 2017-2018 season because of an ankle injury. “This one doesn’t feel near
Continue Reading Italian law now requires vehicles to have a safety device that alerts drivers if a child has been left behind in the rear seat or a car seat. The law went into effect Thursday and is designed to prevent hot car deaths. Some devices will send visual and audible alerts when someone gets out of
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(CNN Español) — Una menor de edad falleció y varias personas resultaron heridas durante un concierto del rapero Neutro Shorty en Caracas, según un reporte de la Agencia Venezolana de Noticias (AVN). La joven se encontraba este sábado en el Parque Generalísimo Francisco de Miranda, donde cerca de 4.000 asistentes se dieron cita para el
Continue Reading John Bolton has stayed pretty quiet since resigning as President Trump’s national security adviser in September. But he evidently has a book’s worth of something to say. Bolton has struck a deal to write a book for Simon & Schuster, according to two sources with knowledge of the deal. One of the sources said the
Continue Reading It feels as if everybody’s got something to say about Whitney Houston, the pop star and actress who died in 2012 at 48. Her mother, Cissy Houston, wrote a book in 2013, detailing her loss. Her friend, BeBe Winans, wrote a book titled “The Whitney I Knew.” Her producer, Narada Michael Walden, wrote a book
Continue Reading (CNN) — Una orangutana de 33 años a la que se le otorgó ‘personalidad jurídica’ en Argentina, fue trasladada a un nuevo hogar en Wauchula, Florida. Patti Ragan, directora del Centro para los Grandes Simios, donde ahora vive Sandra, la orangutana, le dijo a CNN que ha estado “inquisitiva, tranquila, comprometida e interesada en su
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The cast of Starz dramedy “Vida” knows what life is like for Latinx creatives in Hollywood. So when members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, in town for a two-day visit to Los Angeles, stopped by the set on Thursday, the cast didn’t shy away from telling them their truth. “I think the reason why ‘Vida’
Continue Reading (CNN) — El ranchero y filántropo mejor conocido por interpretar al original “Hombre Marlboro” murió después de una vida sin fumar. Robert ‘Bob’ Norris murió al cuidado del Hospicio Pikes Peak en Colorado Springs, Colorado, el 3 de noviembre, según un comunicado publicado por Tee Cross Ranches, que él fundó. Norris tenía 90 años. “Si
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — El presidente de Bolivia, Evo Morales, dijo este sábado que estaba en marcha un golpe de Estado “contra un gobierno democráticamente electo” y convocó a un diálogo con los partidos que obtuvieron asambleístas en las recientes elecciones. En medio de la crisis política y social por la que atraviesa Bolivia luego de
Continue Reading As federal prosecutors pursue their case against a pair of South Florida businessmen at the center of an alleged plot to hijack the US political process, their trail is sure to lead here if it hasn’t already. This strip of white sand beaches and towering condos — a half dozen bearing the name Trump —
Continue Reading Four African American women known as the “Hidden Figures” who worked at NASA during the Space Race are being awarded Congressional Gold Medals, the highest civilian award in the US. President Donald Trump signed into law the Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act on Friday. Engineers Christine Darden and Mary Jackson, as well as mathematician
Continue Reading Cindy McCain said that her husband, the late Sen. John McCain, would be “terribly upset” about several recent events and she lamented the unwillingness of Republicans in Congress to speak out. “I think he’d be disgusted with some of the stuff that’s going on,” McCain told “Axe Files” host David Axelrod in an interview airing
Continue Reading Joel Francisco was 14 years into a life sentence for selling crack cocaine when he got his second chance. A landmark piece of criminal justice reform legislation, passed with the support of President Donald Trump and rare bipartisan backing, had made Francisco newly eligible for an older law that reduced the sentences for convicted crack
Continue Reading House Republicans on Saturday submitted a list of witnesses they’d like to testify as part of the chamber’s impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump and Ukraine. In a letter to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, Republicans listed the anonymous whistleblower, former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden, former US special envoy for Ukraine
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