By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer The Mohegan Sun casino has suspended wagering on the WNBA after questions were raised over a potential conflict in taking bets on the Connecticut Sun, a team also owned by the Mohegan Tribe. The issue came up last week after Gov. Ned Lamont opened the sportsbook by placing a
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By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer The Mohegan Sun casino has suspended wagering on the WNBA after questions were raised over a potential conflict in taking bets on the Connecticut Sun, a team also owned by the Mohegan Tribe. The issue came up last week after Gov. Ned Lamont opened the sportsbook by placing a
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — These are now Juan Soto’s Washington Nationals. He is their lone bona fide superstar, someone around whom they will try to rebuild — or, to use general manager Mike Rizzo’s preferred term, “reboot.” Soto is the only player left from the 2019 World Series champions who
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EL PASO, Texas — A total of nine El Pasoans died from Covid-19 over the past week, with three of those being breakthrough deaths involving fully-vaccinated people who also had underlying health conditions, the El Department of Public Health announced Monday. The nine latest victims – seven men and two women – all had underlying
Continue ReadingBy Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business To say the pandemic has been transformative for business is an understatement. So perhaps it’s not surprising that three of the top 10 women named to Fortune’s 2021 Most Powerful Women list, released Monday, run companies in the health sector or that half of them became CEOs during the Covid
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a person was shot in the leg Monday near New York City’s Times Square. It was the third shooting this year in an area that is a top destination for Big Apple tourists. The shooting happened shortly after noon near the entrance to a subway station at 40th Street
Continue Reading By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals can look back upon their first full post-pandemic season in one of two very different ways. They could look at it as a bitter disappointment given the hopes they had to contend this season. Or they could like at it
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By Fredreka Schouten Nineteen states have passed 33 news laws this year that make it harder to vote, according to an updated analysis released Monday by the liberal Brennan Center for Justice. The report, which covers legislative activity through September 27, finds that: Four states bundled together an array of new voting restrictions into single
Continue Reading By Clare Foran and Lauren Fox, CNN Congress is staring down a potential financial catastrophe with no clear resolution in sight. The debt limit must be either raised or suspended soon with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warning lawmakers that the federal government will likely run out of cash by October 18 unless Congress raises the
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Tras evaluar los datos sobre la efectividad de una dosis de refuerzo de la vacuna Comirnaty (BioNTech / Pfizer) para la población de entre 18 y 55 años que ya completó su esquema de inmunización contra el covid-19, el Comité de Medicamentos Humanos de la Agencia Europea del Medicamento
Continue Reading By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press A Texas man who joined the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 has been sentenced to 45 days behind bars. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan handed down the sentence for Matthew Mazzocco on Monday after she blasted comparisons between the riot and the Black Lives Matter protests
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By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press A Texas man who joined the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 has been sentenced to 45 days behind bars. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan handed down the sentence for Matthew Mazzocco on Monday after she blasted comparisons between the riot and the Black Lives Matter protests
Continue Reading By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The son of an Iranian-American man who has been detained in Iran for more than five years is calling for his father’s immediate release so that he can receive emergency and potentially life-saving surgery. Baquer Namazi is 84 years old and requires surgery within days to clear
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Nineteen-year-old pop singer Billie Eilish has broken numerous records in her short career. Now she will become the Glastonbury Festival’s youngest-ever solo headliner when she takes the stage at the 2022 event. Eilish teased the news Sunday on Instagram, posing herself wearing a Glastonbury hoodie in a photo captioned “2022.” The festival’s
Continue Reading By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A court has set a Dec. 23 deadline for former President Donald Trump to undergo questioning in a former “Apprentice” contestant’s defamation lawsuit over what he said in denying her sexual assault allegations. Lawyers for Summer Zervos and Trump discussed the case during a Manhattan court
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By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A court has set a Dec. 23 deadline for former President Donald Trump to undergo questioning in a former “Apprentice” contestant’s defamation lawsuit over what he said in denying her sexual assault allegations. Lawyers for Summer Zervos and Trump discussed the case during a Manhattan court
Continue Reading By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Rockies missed the postseason for a third straight season and another standout player drafted by the organization could be heading out of town. Shortstop Trevor Story plans to test free agency. The team dealt disgruntled third baseman Nolan Arenado to the St. Louis Cardinals
Continue Reading By ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Dozens of students and teachers from a prominent music school in Afghanistan have been flown to safety on their way to Portugal, where the government has agreed to grant them asylum. The group was on board a flight carrying 235 people out of Kabul’s international airport to
Continue Reading By JIM SALTER Associated Press Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has declined to grant clemency to death row inmate Ernest Johnson, despite requests for mercy from the pope, two federal lawmakers and thousands of petition signers. Johnson was convicted of killing three convenience store workers during a closing-time robbery in 1994. He is scheduled to die
Continue Reading By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin is listing quarterback Graham Mertz as questionable for Saturday’s game at Illinois. He was taken to a hospital with a chest injury after he was sacked in the third quarter of this weekend’s loss to Michigan. Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst says test results were
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By Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologist Hurricane hunters have been flying inside hurricanes for more than 50 years, collecting data. They’ve been tossed around and risked their lives for the sake of hurricane research and keeping communities safe. Now they have a new partner, which will be on the water with eyes inside the storm from
Continue Reading By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer VOORHEES, N.J. (AP) — Philadelphia Flyers coach Alain Vigneault is denying accusations that he ever gave players drugs without doctor’s consent. Former Flyers goalie Robin Lehner in a series of tweets says teams give players sedatives and anxiety pills without a doctor’s consent. He referenced the Flyers and Vigneault,
Continue Reading By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Pirates manager Derek Shelton says the team has made progress even while finishing last in the NL Central for a third straight season. Pittsburgh’s record of 61-101 was the franchise’s worst since 2010. Shelton says despite the struggles he saw signs of growth from players
Continue Reading By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press The Treasury Department has announced plans to start reallocating rental assistance money in a bid to get more cash into the hands of families facing eviction. The details released Monday follows the slow pace of distribution in many parts of the country. A little more than 16.5% of the tens
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza Nota del editor: Kent Sepkowitz es médico y experto en control de infecciones en el Centro Oncológico Memorial Sloan Kettering de Nueva York. Las opiniones expresadas en esta columna son suyas. Ver más opinión en CNNEE. (CNN) — Un nuevo enfoque para manejar la pandemia del covid-19 ahora podría estar sobre la
Continue Reading ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Police in Georgia say former NASCAR driver John Wes Townley was shot to death in a dispute that involved a hatchet after showing up at a house occupied by his estranged wife and another man. A statement by police in Athens says the 31-year-old Townley had the weapon at some point
Continue Reading By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer Indiana quarterback Michael Penix Jr. will be out indefinitely after injuring his throwing shoulder in Saturday’s loss at Penn State. Coach Tom Allen says the redshirt junior does not need surgery to repair the separated AC joint in his left shoulder, at least not yet. He will be re-evaluated
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Getafe has fired coach Míchel González after their winless start in the Spanish league. The club made the announcement a day after drawing with Real Sociedad 1-1that earned its first point of the season. Getafe had lost its first seven matches for its worst ever start in the league. It was outscored
Continue Reading By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Stella McCartney’s virus-conscious show was shown to a fraction of the normal Paris audience. But that did not detract from its energy or celebrity pull. Paul McCartney surprised his designer daughter backstage amid a huddle of guests that included Demi Moore and Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris,
Continue Reading By JAKE SEINER AP Baseball Writer With Shohei Ohtani, Bryce Harper and the rest of baseball’s MVP front-runners left out of the postseason, there’s a chance for some budding stars to cement their place among the game’s top names. Nobody is likely to match the breakout had by Rays rookie Randy Arozarena last fall, when
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