CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — A security camera at a Florida aquarium recorded a group of women changing clothes, and top executives watched the video. But the board chairman at Clearwater Marine Aquarium says it wasn’t “boys being boys.” The Tampa Bay Times reports that Paul Auslander says an internal investigation determined that the recording was
Continue ReadingBy Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails and Ivana Kottasová, CNN The busy Kabul street looks almost as if nothing has changed. People rush by, as shopkeepers arrange their colorful merchandise, and police direct traffic. There’s one big change, though: There are almost no women here. Since the Taliban took over the Afghan capital on Sunday, women
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By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Sen. Dianne Feinstein is calling on federal land managers to conduct an investigation to determine how many of the wild horses captured on public lands in the West end up at slaughterhouses. The California Democrat is urging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to reevaluate the
Continue ReadingBy Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business The jobs that major chains in the United States are having the most trouble filling right now aren’t inside their stores ringing up customers and stocking shelves. They’re at their warehouses selecting items, packing boxes and loading trucks. Amazon, Walmart, Dollar Tree and other retailers are dangling wage hikes, signing
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By Ben Burnstein, CNN The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan is particularly disheartening to Americans who fought there. Across 20 years of combat, almost 800,000 troops deployed to the war zone — many of them more than once. Images of the American withdrawal and questions about the war’s legacy now aggravate long-held frustrations that have been
Continue Reading Kristen Rouse, a US Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, describes the messages she and other veterans have received from Afghan interpreters who are unable to find safety as the Taliban besiege the country.
Continue Reading By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Business has quickly returned to normal in Zambia after veteran opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema was declared president-elect and the incumbent president Edgar Lungu conceded his election defeat. Citizens brushed aside concerns of violent chaos that had been prevalent in the tense days before and after voting
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By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer Bryan Harsin moved some 2,170 miles from his longtime home for his new job as Auburn’s coach.But that’s hardly the only big change facing the former Boise State quarterback/assistant coach/head man. Harsin is making the leap from the Mountain West to the mighty Southeastern Conference, and certainly seems undaunted
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By Brian Lowry, CNN Disney’s recent run-ins with talent have seemingly complicated life for Marvel, as Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige spent part of the premiere for “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” on Monday cleaning up a “misunderstanding” involving Disney CEO Bob Chapek and the movie’s star, Simu Liu. During an earnings
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CNN’s John Avlon analyzes the finger-pointing among political parties after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban.
Continue Reading GENEVA, N.Y. (AP) — A rare framed photograph of Susan B. Anthony is being auctioned with a starting price of $5,000. The 20-by-16-inch photo was found in an concealed attic space in a building in Geneva, New York, after the property was sold in December. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported Tuesday that the owner
Continue Reading By Alex Rogers, CNN Former Nevada state Attorney General Adam Laxalt launched his campaign for US Senate on Tuesday, comparing his campaign against Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto to the Star Wars’ battles between the Rebels and the Empire. After images of his three children watching the movies, dressing up in costumes and playing with
Continue Reading By CHARLES ODUM AP Sports Writer Continuity on offense has given No. 5 Georgia momentum and reason to hope for big success in 2021. Offensive coordinator Todd Monken believes his unit is far ahead of last year’s unit as it enters its first full season with JT Daniels at quarterback. The offense thrived in the
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Sol Amaya (CNN) — Maria van Kerkhove, líder técnica de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) para el covid-19, le dijo a John Berman de CNN este martes que la OMS continúa recomendando que las personas con mayor riesgo de contraer covid deben vacunarse completamente antes de que grandes poblaciones en algunos países reciban
Continue Reading MOLINA DE ARAGÓN, Spain (AP) — A year ago Fabio Jakobsen was on a hospital bed fighting for his life in an induced coma after a horrific crash at the Tour of Poland. On Tuesday he was a stage winner again at a Grand Tour race after winning the fourth stage of the Spanish Vuelta.
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Oscar Holland, CNN Dozens of artworks once stolen from Jewish collectors by the Nazis in the 1930s and ’40s will be exhibited in New York starting on Friday. Taken before and during World War II, the paintings being displayed at Manhattan’s Jewish Museum include works by European greats Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro and Paul Cézanne.
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN It’s day two of philanthropy round. Will you be wearing the Pants Store skort with the Kendra Scott earrings, or the Shein shorts with the bangles from Amazon? As long as you don’t forget the heels your grandmother ordered and a statement necklace, you’ll have the perfect OOTD. If those sentences
Continue Reading MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) — A white neighbor who shot at a Black family’s Michigan home, slashed tires on a vehicle and wrote racist graffiti on a pickup truck, told a judge he did it because of a Black Lives Matter sign in the window. Michael Frederick Jr. said during his sentencing in Macomb County
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business As General Motors and Ford work to develop self-driving vehicles, their lawyers are busy battling over what they should be allowed to call the technology. Late last month, GM filed a trademark infringement case to block Ford from using the name “BlueCruise” for its soon-to-be-released hands-free driving feature. Ford says
Continue Reading By Lauren Fox and Clare Foran, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is signaling that she won’t be backed into a corner next week by moderates in her caucus who are refusing to back a budget agreement unless the speaker first allows a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. It’s the first warning sign of a
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By Brian Stelter, CNN Business Poppy Harlow’s father taught her to love the law profession. “As a little girl,” the CNN anchor recalled, “I would sit with him at the kitchen table and he would take apart a camera or a printer and say ‘Look, Poppy, this is where they infringed a patent.’ ‘This is
Continue Reading ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The Denver Broncos bolstered their banged-up backfield by signing free agent running back Adrian Killins on Tuesday when they made several moves to trim their roster to the 85-man limit. Killins, who is also a kickoff returner, is a former University of Central Florida standout who spent time rotating between the
Continue Reading By Raja Razek and Ray Sanchez, CNN Five mortuary trailers have been requested by the health services department in Texas, which is seeing a surge in Covid-19 cases and, along with Florida, leads the nation in pediatric hospitalizations. The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) submitted a request for the trailers following a review
Continue Reading By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Louis van Gaal says that his goal as new Netherlands coach is clear. And that’s “To be world champion.” But he conceded Tuesday it won’t be easy with very limited time to prepare his team for three crucial World Cup qualifiers next month. Van Gaal
Continue Reading SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Two hundred gallons of contaminated water spilled at the Los Alamos National Laboratory nearly a month ago after a worker failed to close a cooling valve. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that the July 19 incident at the lab’s plutonium facility caused some of the liquid to flow into
Continue Reading By Kate Sullivan, CNN The Biden administration on Tuesday is shipping the first of the 500 million Covid-19 doses that President Joe Biden pledged to share with countries around the world at the Group of Seven summit earlier this year. The US is sending 488,370 doses of Pfizer to Rwanda through the global vaccination program
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By Virginia Langmaid, CNN Two new studies published Tuesday show White people dominate health care spending across the United States, despite decades of efforts to equalize health care access. The studies, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, show per-person health care spending increased with age for every racial and ethnic group, but
Continue Reading By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New COVID-19 measures in New York City are putting restaurant servers, bartenders and ticket agents on the frontline of enforcing vaccination rules. The city is asking restaurants, gyms, museums and many other indoor venues to have patrons show proof of vaccination against COVID-19. That includes
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By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New COVID-19 measures in New York City are putting restaurant servers, bartenders and ticket agents on the frontline of enforcing vaccination rules. The city is asking restaurants, gyms, museums and many other indoor venues to have patrons show proof of vaccination against COVID-19. That includes
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Apple, Google and other big companies around the world are continuing to add to their massive piles of cash, a sign that corporations are increasingly nervous about how the highly contagious Delta variant of Covid-19 could damage the global economy. The world’s largest nonfinancial companies had a record
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