By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has celebrated a contract extension to star defender Virgil van Dijk and defended the club’s lack of spending on players compared to some of its rivals this off-season. Van Dijk has signed a new deal until 2025 and that is a huge vote of confidence
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Una jueza del condado de Los Ángeles desestimó uno de los 11 cargos en una acusación contra Harvey Weinstein, según Greg Risling, portavoz de la oficina del fiscal de distrito de ese condado. El cargo cinco en la acusación, de agresión sexual, fue eliminado el jueves. Los fiscales dicen que
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By Charles Riley, CNN Business Disney shares are up more than 5% in premarket trading after the entertainment giant added more steaming video subscribers than Wall Street expected and reported a strong recovery for its theme park business. But the company still can’t escape the coronavirus pandemic. Disney shares have gained less than 1% this
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ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria’s official news agency APS says a prosecutor has ordered an investigation into the circumstances of the mob killing of a man accused of setting fires that devastated the region. Wildfires in Algeria have killed at least 69 people through the mountainous Berber region. The killing took place in Larbaa Nath
Continue Reading By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States says it’s sending a special envoy to Ethiopia as the fast-moving conflict in the Tigray region has spread into neighboring regions and Ethiopia’s government calls on all able citizens to stop the resurgent Tigray forces “once and for all.” The widening war in
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Continue Reading By SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet The threat of COVID-19 still looms, but Americans are getting back out there and once again spending on travel, dining out, entertainment and commuting. If you spent much of the past year and a half at home, the cost of going out can surprise you, especially if your values, money
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By SARA RATHNER of NerdWallet The threat of COVID-19 still looms, but Americans are getting back out there and once again spending on travel, dining out, entertainment and commuting. If you spent much of the past year and a half at home, the cost of going out can surprise you, especially if your values, money
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — “Sí, es verano, pero este tipo de calor puede matar”. Un severo recordatorio del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, mientras el calor peligroso envuelve las costas este y oeste hasta el comienzo del fin de semana, coloca a casi la mitad del país bajo alertas de calor y potencialmente rompiendo temperaturas récord
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By Manu Raju and Daniella Diaz, CNN Nine Democratic House moderates are threatening to withhold their support for their party’s must-pass budget resolution until Speaker Nancy Pelosi changes course and instead allows their chamber to first vote on the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan the Senate approved this week. The threat, outlined in a letter
Continue Reading Mariana Toro Cerca de Poškonys, frontera entre Lituania y Belarús (CNN) — Desesperados, asustados y pidiendo ayuda, emergen de la oscuridad: un grupo de migrantes yazidi, perdidos en los bosques del este de Europa. Es una imagen surrealista, y que se ha repetido en muchas noches recientes. Habiendo sobrevivido a la persecución del ISIS en
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN Sen. Rand Paul just got temporarily kicked off YouTube for an inaccurate tirade against masks. Sen. Mitch McConnell, meanwhile, has been airing ads that urge people to go out and get the vaccine. The two Kentucky Republicans now perfectly exemplify the national divide over how to handle a
Continue Reading CNN’s Ed Lavandera reports from Texas, where some hospitals are so overrun they are using tents to triage patients amid a rapid surge in Covid-19.
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN Business Devastating heat. Debilitating droughts. Crippling frost. Extreme weather is creating nightmares for farmers around the world — and making food more expensive for Americans. Arabica coffee futures have almost doubled over the past year to seven-year highs as Brazil grapples with frost conditions that have wiped out crops. Retail coffee
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has refused to renew a visa for a BBC journalist in Moscow — an effective expulsion amid simmering tensions between the two countries. Russia’s state Rossiya 24 TV station said late Thursday that BBC correspondent Sarah Rainsford will have to leave Russia before the end of the month when her visa
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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN A never-ending pandemic: Death, dying, sickness, masks, school is back, but is it safe? Is it a cold or Covid? Job losses, looming evictions, political fur flying — the types of stressors we are facing just keep rising. Have you pulled all your hair out yet? Or maybe it’s worse —
Continue Reading By Deidre McPhillips and Naomi Thomas, CNN Covid-19 hospitalizations in the United States have been growing for more than a month, and at the current pace — more than 2,500 patients added each day over the past week, according to data from the US Department of Health and Human Services — the US will surpass
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By Aya Elamroussi and Rebekah Riess, CNN People in New Orleans will be required to show either proof of vaccination or a recent negative Covid-19 test to enter certain indoor places starting Monday, according to the city. The new rule will apply to those who want to visit bars, restaurants, breweries, gyms, fitness centers, sports
Continue Reading The CDC is set to talk Covid-19 vaccines today.
Continue Reading By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A new fire that broke out Friday morning on Greece’s second largest island of Evia was still burning late in the afternoon, south of the area where a massive wildfire has decimated forests and torched homes, and was still smoldering 10 days after it started. Greece’s
Continue Reading olivertapia Kabul, Afganistán (CNN) — Los talibanes tomaron el control de la ciudad de Kandahar, la segunda ciudad más grande de Afganistán, dijo el viernes a CNN el miembro del Parlamento afgano Gul Ahmad Kamin, mientras el grupo insurgente continúa su rápido avance hacia la capital, Kabul. Kandahar, que se encuentra en el sur del
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s defense minister has visited a Tokyo shrine viewed by China and both Koreas as a symbol of Japanese wartime aggression to pray for the war dead just days before the nation marks the 76th anniversary of its World War II defeat. Victims of Japanese actions during
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Carnival cruise on which 27 people tested positive for COVID-19 just before the ship made a stop in Belize City this week is headed back to Galveston, Texas. The Belize Tourism Board said in a statement earlier this week the positive cases were among 26 crew members and one passenger
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Carnival cruise on which 27 people tested positive for COVID-19 just before the ship made a stop in Belize City this week is headed back to Galveston, Texas. The Belize Tourism Board said in a statement earlier this week the positive cases were among 26 crew members and one passenger
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Carnival cruise on which 27 people tested positive for COVID-19 just before the ship made a stop in Belize City this week is headed back to Galveston, Texas. The Belize Tourism Board said in a statement earlier this week the positive cases were among 26 crew members and one passenger
Continue Reading By ASHRAF SWEILAM Associated Press EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian officials say that a roadside bomb has exploded in the restive northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, killing seven members of the security forces. The dead included an officer, and six others were wounded. The troops were riding an armored vehicle on Thursday when the
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed, CNN A “disgrace to our country.” “The tyranny we rejected.” “An embarrassment to every American.” In presiding over the cases of hundreds of people accused of breaching the US Capitol on January 6 in support of then-President Donald Trump, federal judges have not held back when describing the unprecedented nature of the
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Text by Will Noble; video by Max Burnell, CNN On October 1, 2000, the skirts of Princess Anne and Princess Margaret deflated for the final time. These two colossal SR.N4 hovercraft had shuttled vacationers and booze cruisers between the UK and France since the late 1960s. Now it was time to say au revoir. What
Continue Reading By Katie Bo Williams, Natasha Bertrand and Alex Marquardt, CNN The Biden administration is receiving regular intelligence reports indicating Russian efforts to interfere in US elections are evolving and ongoing, current and former officials say, and in fact, never stopped, despite President Joe Biden’s warnings to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the summer and a
Continue Reading By Phil Mattingly, CNN In touting the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill hours after it passed the Senate with 19 Republican votes on Tuesday, President Joe Biden took a moment to needle his critics. “From the time I announced my candidacy, bringing the country together and doing things in a bipartisan way was characterized as a
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