SHARON HILL, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a child was killed when gunfire erupted outside a high school football game near Philadelphia. Officials said the gunfire erupted shortly before 9 p.m. Friday near the main gate to the football field at Academy Park High School in Sharon hill shortly after the conclusion of the game
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN Some of the most insightful discoveries about the past have been found in caves. Like sanctuaries of history, caves have sheltered delicate fossils, artwork, ancient tools and even DNA in the dirt. Every unearthed revelation is another piece of the evolutionary puzzle. Places like Denisova Cave are the reason we know
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By Karol Suarez and Danielle Renwick When early in his term, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called on the United States to stem the flow of weapons trafficked across the border, he was only the latest in a succession of Mexican leaders to do so. According to Mexican officials, some half a million US
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By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer Victoria Hayward will be back on the field this weekend as a softball player — and as an owner. After hitting .300 at the Tokyo Olympics, the Canadian outfielder heads one of four teams that start play Saturday at Athletes Unlimited outside Chicago. Athletes Unlimited launched with softball in
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By Kevin Liptak, Kaitlan Collins, Jeremy Herb and Phil Mattingly, CNN When Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley informed President Joe Biden just past 9:15 a.m. on Thursday that terrorists had detonated a suicide bomb at the Kabul Airport gates, the President was angry and dismayed — but not surprised. Biden had just walked down
Continue Reading By KRISTA LARSON Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Authorities in Senegal say dozens of people are missing and feared dead after a wooden boat capsized off the coast. At least 60 people were believed to have been onboard when the vessel sank, and authorities only rescued 11 survivors. Despite efforts to locate victims by
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Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — La Comisión Nacional del Agua (Conagua) de México informó este sábado en un comunicado que en la madrugada Nora se intensificó a huracán categoría 1. “El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN) de la Comisión Nacional del Agua (Conagua), en coordinación con el Centro Nacional de Huracanes de Miami, mantiene
Continue ReadingCNN By Laura Smith-Spark, Barbara Starr, Nick Paton Walsh and Sandi Sidhu, CNN The US military carried out a drone strike against what it said was an ISIS-K planner in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, amid warnings of possible further terror attacks targeting the last-ditch US evacuation effort from Kabul. The desperate mission to airlift US
Continue Reading By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN When Medgar Evers and Jimmie Lee Jackson were killed amid a yearslong battle for voting rights, it brought a sense of doom and darkness over the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Evers, a NAACP field secretary and civil rights leader who organized voter registration drives, boycotts and protests against
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By Kelly Murray, CNN She’s the girl who dared to challenge Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl to an “epic” online drum duel — and won. And finally, the multi-instrumental phenomenon has realized her dream of playing on stage with her musical hero. On Thursday, topping off the band’s live performance at The Forum in Inglewood,
Continue Reading Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s conservative People’s Party has voted overwhelmingly to reelect Chancellor Sebastian Kurz as its leader at a party gathering. Kurz, 35, received the backing of 533 of 536 delegates, or 99.4%. He has led the party, known as OVP, since 2017, and became the country’s youngest-ever chancellor later that year.
Continue Reading By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Empty cow pastures on one day can be bustling with hundreds of firefighters the next as fire camps with colorful tent cities spring up. More than 20,000 wildland firefighters are battling some 100 large wildfires in the U.S. West, and truckloads of supplies and equipment are
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By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press Health investigators across the U.S. are finding it nearly impossible to keep up with the deluge of new COVID-19 infections and carry out contact tracing efforts that were once seen as a pillar in the nation’s pandemic response. States are hiring new staff and seeking volunteers to bolster the
Continue Reading By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press Health investigators across the U.S. are finding it nearly impossible to keep up with the deluge of new COVID-19 infections and carry out contact tracing efforts that were once seen as a pillar in the nation’s pandemic response. States are hiring new staff and seeking volunteers to bolster the
Continue Reading CONWY, Wales (AP) — The Americans have won the Curtis Cup again thanks to its dominant play in singles. The matches were tied going into the final session. The Americans won six of the eight singles matches and halved another. That added to a 12.5-7.5 victory over Great Britain & Ireland. Rose Zhang led the
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN) — Beber hasta tres tazas de café al día puede proteger tu corazón, según un nuevo estudio. Entre las personas que no han sido diagnosticadas con una enfermedad cardíaca, el consumo regular de café de 0,5 a 3 tazas al día se asoció con un menor riesgo de muerte por enfermedad
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — The International Paralympic Committee says two athletes from Afghanistan have arrived in Tokyo to compete in the Paralympics. The IPC says the two-person team of Zakia Khudadadi and Hossain Rasouli had flown from Kabul to Paris before continuing on to Tokyo. Khudadadi will be Afghanistan’s first
Continue Reading By Daniel Dale Republican former football star Herschel Walker announced this week that he is running for a US Senate seat in Georgia. Some senior Senate Republicans have expressed concerns that Walker’s past words and actions threaten his chances to beat incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock. But Walker was urged to run by former President Donald
Continue Reading Former NFL star and Trump ally Herschel Walker announced he is running for US Senate in Georgia, prompting concerns from some Republicans over his past and personal life.
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El Paso, Texas– A quiet weather pattern is expected across the borderland this weekend and for the start of the work week. Chances for thunderstorms will remain in the forecast throughout the week with storm chances increasing by the end of the week. Afternoon temperatures will remain in the lower 90s the next several days
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, CNN Fast food restaurant chain Bojangles will close all stores for two Mondays to give staff a “well-deserved break” following the challenges the restaurant industry has been facing during the pandemic, the company said. All company-owned stores will close August 30 and September 13 to allow 8,000 staff members and managers time
Continue Reading OpenTable is teaming up with Clear to help restaurants with proof of vaccination requirements. CEO Debby Soo says the company is offering restaurants several tools to manage through the pandemic.
Continue Reading By MARK LONG AP Pro Football Writer Minshew Mania is on the move. The Jacksonville Jaguars traded backup quarterback Gardner Minshew to Philadelphia for a conditional draft pick in 2022. The Jaguars received a sixth-round pick that would become a fifth-rounder if Minshew plays 50% of snaps in three games. Minshew joins a QB room
Continue Reading By Faith Karimi, CNN The fourth-graders walk up to a full-length mirror — one after the other — at a school in southwest Atlanta. “I’m smart!” a girl in braids says. “I’m a good person!” a boy donning a mask adds. A bespectacled boy follows with, “I’m strong and independent,” before hurriedly walking away. In
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By WILSON RING Associated Press A decade after a Vermont teenager disappeared as the rains of Tropical Storm Irene started inundating the state, his mother is still hoping someone will be able to answer the question about what happened to him. Marble Arvidson was 17 when he left his Brattleboro foster home on Aug. 27,
Continue Reading By WILSON RING Associated Press A decade after a Vermont teenager disappeared as the rains of Tropical Storm Irene started inundating the state, his mother is still hoping someone will be able to answer the question about what happened to him. Marble Arvidson was 17 when he left his Brattleboro foster home on Aug. 27,
Continue Reading By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Bryson DeChambeau goes into the weekend at the BMW Championship with a one-shot lead over Patrick Cantlay. Jon Rahm is two shots behind. Rahm had a chance to take the lead when he returned Saturday morning to complete the storm-delayed second round. He missed
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — A new report from Russia’s state statistics agency shows the country recorded a record number of deaths in July of people infected with coronavirus. The report from the Rosstat agency said 50,421 people suffering from COVID-19 died during the month, sharply higher than the previous record of 44,435 in December. However, the
Continue Reading By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN At some point when I was about halfway through the film “Midsommar” and someone was being bludgeoned to death, I had a thought: I need to do better about picking my pre-sleep programming. As someone who dedicates most of my waking hours to watching television — taking a break only to
Continue Reading By Barbara Starr and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Another terrorist attack on Kabul’s airport is “highly likely in the next 24-36 hours,” President Joe Biden said commanders have informed him. The President’s Saturday afternoon statement came hours after the Pentagon said two “high profile” ISIS targets were killed and another was injured in a US drone
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