Australia’s Ashleigh Barty, the top-ranked singles player in women’s tennis, has announced she will not play in either the Western & Southern Open or the US Open, citing Covid-19 concerns. “My team and I have decided that we won’t be travelling to the US for the Western and Southern Open and the US Open this
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The NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks may not be changing its team name, but it will no longer allow costume headdresses at future team-sanctioned events and home games at the United Center. The move comes amid pressure on the Blackhawks and a number of other sports teams to change its team name over what some feel is
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Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Neb. (Lincoln Journal Star) — A jury in Nebraska on Wednesday found a Wyoming man guilty of making threats against President Donald Trump last year while driving through the state headed for Washington, D.C. Timothy Cessor’s trial had started Monday in U.S. District Court in Omaha. The
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic has compared himself to Benjamin Button after becoming the first man to score 50 league goals for both Milan clubs. The 38-year-old star made the comparison to the fictional character, who ages in reverse, after scoring a brace in AC Milan’s 4-1 win over Sampdoria on Wednesday. “I’m like Benjamin Button, I’ve always
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The US airline industry has generally faced two obstacles in enticing more people to fly: fear and fares. Before the novel coronavirus, few feared flying thanks to the extreme rarity of airline crashes in the United States, and domestic inflation-adjusted fares that were about the lowest ever. As a result, a record 811 million people
Continue Reading Rory McIlroy has suggested that he may choose not to return to Europe to compete on the European Tour this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Northern Irishman is competing in the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Tennessee this week and will play in the US PGA Championship next week and the US Open
Continue Reading All 50 states have now issued warnings about mysterious packages of seeds people have been getting in the mail. Officials think they may be related to a type of scam designed to increase positive online reviews. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On With Your Day. (You can
Continue Reading A northern California Indian tribe’s sacred land is now back under their ownership, thanks to the help of a conservancy group. The Esselen Tribe, one of the state’s smallest and least well known tribes, inhabited the Santa Lucia Mountains and the Big Sur coast for thousands of years, according to their website. Nearly 250 years
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As the CEOs of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple faced Congress on Wednesday, many things they or their employees had said in the past were used against them. As they grilled Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook about whether their companies were too powerful and engaged in monopolistic practices, members of the
Continue Reading A Japanese court recognized dozens of victims of radioactive “black rain” as survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bombing on Wednesday, clearing the way for them to receive medical benefits just days before the 75th anniversary of the attack. In its verdict, the Hiroshima district court said the 84 plaintiffs, who suffered radiation-related illnesses after the
Continue Reading By the sound of it there’s clearly something special about the Fabregas family genes. There is of course renowned footballer Cesc Fabregas — World Cup and European Championship winner with Spain and a player who has enjoyed a glittering and trophy laden career with some of Europe’s top clubs. Then there is Fabregas’ great-grandmother. She
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Botox injections may do more than erase the signs of age, or prevent you from feeling painful migraines — they may alleviate depression as well, a new study confirms. Doctors inject Botox to smooth facial wrinkles and treat health problems such as severe sweating, uncontrollable blinking, chronic migraines, overactive bladders and neurological disorders that cause
Continue Reading Florida’s Broward County sheriff says he’s got no plans to end an operation cracking down on large gatherings, which has already resulted in more than 200 citations. The operation’s goals were two-fold, Sheriff Gregory Tony said in a virtual news conference Wednesday: to reduce the large gatherings that were taking place and to crack down
Continue Reading Performing onstage in front of other campers. Bonding with cabinmates. Careening down a zip line. For 16-year-old Brady Thompson, summer has been synonymous with fun at Roundup River Ranch in Gypsum, Colorado. During each of the three summers before this one, the resident of West Des Moines, Iowa, headed to the ranch for a week
Continue Reading The rocky start to the baseball season is leaving some fans disappointed, with a number of games on hold because of a coronavirus outbreak on the Miami Marlins. After more than a dozen Miami Marlins players tested positive for the coronavirus, games scheduled in Miami and Philadelphia, where the Marlins last played, were postponed. While
Continue Reading From the Palestinian Territories to Mexico, videographer Trip Jennings has covered protests around the world. But it was on his home ground of Portland, Oregon, where he received his first significant injury. “I got hit right in the eye,” Jennings told CNN, saying he suspects it was a pepper ball. “I remember seeing the lens
Continue Reading For centuries, the source of Stonehenge’s massive sarsen stones have been an open mystery. Archaeologists and historians have long debated where the giant sarsen stones, used to create the prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, could have come from. On Wednesday, researchers announced a breakthrough discovery that placed the sarsen stones’ likely origin in West Woods
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One of the more puzzling aspects of the novel coronavirus is just how many organ systems are impacted through the course of the disease. We’ve heard about the heart, lungs and respiratory symptoms, but a growing mystery is its impact on the nervous system. A report in April suggested more than a third of 214
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MIDLAND, Texas — President Donald Trump took sweeping digs at “crazy left radical Democrats” on a trip Wednesday to the fracking fields of West Texas, launching unsubstantiated claims that a Democratic administration would destroy everything from the country’s suburbs to the U.S. energy industry. Trump, speaking in front of stacked oil barrels, also played down
Continue Reading Education and lifestyle behaviors in our teens and 20s appear to impact our risk of cognitive decline and dementia in later life, according to three new studies presented Thursday at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2020. A lack of access to high-quality education at an early age; being overweight during early adulthood; or having high
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EL PASO, Texas — From Burges High School to UTEP to the top of the NFL, Aaron Jones has carried El Paso with him everywhere he’s gone. He’ll be the first to tell you the Sun City is the place he’s most comfortable. “El Paso’s home for me and it’s going to be home,” says
Continue Reading Two brazen emu siblings named Kevin and Carol have been banned from a hotel in Australia’s Outback for bad behavior. Located in a small, isolated township of the same name in central western Queensland, the tiny Yaraka Hotel has just four rooms, as well as campgrounds and a pub. Co-owner Chris Gimblett tells CNN Travel
Continue Reading A “furry cloth substance” found in the Starbucks coffee of an off-duty Los Angeles police officer last month was not a tampon, authorities said. Based on evidence, investigators concluded the item was possibly a cleaning cloth commonly used by store employees, according to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, which investigated the case. “The investigation was
Continue Reading Five French-made jet fighters arrived in India on Wednesday, the first of 36 New Dehli ordered as it moves to upgrade its air force amid a spike in tensions with China. “The Birds have landed safely in Ambala,” Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh tweeted. “The touchdown of Rafale combat aircrafts in India marks the beginning
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas passed a grim milestone of more than 6,000 deaths caused by the coronavirus, with 313 newly-reported fatalities Wednesday. It came as El Paso recorded its second-deadliest reported day of the pandemic with 13 additional fatalities to raise the county’s death toll to 252. The stark figures pushed Texas’ death total to
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Minneapolis police have identified a suspect whom they believe helped initiate the riots and destruction in the city following the killing of George Floyd. According to a search warrant filed earlier this week, the man is associated with the “Aryan Cowboys,” which the Anti-Defamation League lists as a White supremacist prison and street gang. The
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EL PASO, Texas — University of Texas at El Paso students tell ABC-7 they’re frustrated with the university after seeing the amount of fees added to their statement for the Fall 2020 semester. Some students are turning to social media claiming they should have the option to not pay for some mandatory fees, specifically the
Continue Reading Police in Hong Kong have arrested four members of a student-led pro-independence group for suspected secessionist offenses on social media under the city’s sweeping new national security law. The arrests are among the first since the law was imposed on the city by China on July 1, which also criminalized subversion, terrorism, and collusion with
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Plano, TX (KTVT) — It’s a new technology that could drastically speed up the detection and treatment of patients with COVID-19. A member of the team who developed it is a teenager from Plano. Sixteen-year-old Moksh Nirvaan has passion for artificial intelligence that led to a brainstorming session
Continue Reading Rolando and Yolanda Garcia were doing everything they could to protect themselves from the coronavirus. They rarely ventured out of their home in the Rio Grande Valley. One of their children described them as “retired home bodies.” After the Memorial Day weekend, more businesses started reopening and more people started venturing out in larger numbers.
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