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
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Nicklas Backstrom’s hip injury opened a spot for 2019 and 2020 first-round picks Connor McMichael and Hendrix Lapierre to make the Washington Capitals roster. Lapierre is younger and came in with less fanfare. But he has been one of the biggest training camp surprises around
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By Chandelis Duster, CNN Andrew Yang, who unsuccessfully sought the 2020 presidential nomination and New York mayoralty this year as a Democrat, said Monday he is “breaking up” with the Democratic Party and has registered as an independent. “I changed my voting registration from ‘Democrat’ to ‘Independent’ today. It was a strangely emotional experience,” Yang
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By Clare Duffy and Sean Lyngaas, CNN Business Around six hours after Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram went down, service started coming back online, though coverage was still spotty. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all suffered outages midday Monday, according to public statements from the three Facebook services. Outage tracking site Down Detector logged tens of thousands of reports
Continue Reading By MITCH STACY AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincinnati Reds fell apart down the stretch and fell out of playoff contention but there were more than a few positive developments this season. The Reds recorded their first winning season in a full 162-game campaign since 2014. First-baseman Joey Votto had one of the
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Mookie Betts and the reigning World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers had four of the top 10 selling jerseys in Major League Baseball this season. Betts’ No. 50 uniform claimed the top spot for the second straight year after he was acquired prior to the 2020 season from the Boston Red
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Marlins played baseball over seven different months this season and had a winning record in only one. That would be October. They went 2-1. The hope entering the season was to play meaningful baseball in October and the Marlins fell way short of that
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — The British government says all the country’s electricity will come from renewable sources by 2035, a move that will help end the country’s reliance on imported fuel. Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said “the only way to strengthen Britain’s energy security is zero carbon power that is generated in this
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — The British government says all the country’s electricity will come from renewable sources by 2035, a move that will help end the country’s reliance on imported fuel. Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said “the only way to strengthen Britain’s energy security is zero carbon power that is generated in this
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By Kay Jones and Alta Spells, CNN An 11-year-old girl was killed and a 5-year-old girl injured after being shot while riding in a vehicle Saturday evening in Milwaukee, according to the police department. The two girls were passengers in a vehicle with other family members, when another car pulled up and started firing, according
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An 11-year-old girl died Saturday night in Milwaukee after she and her sister were shot in their family’s car.
Continue Reading By Swati Gupta, CNN India’s top court on Monday approved the government’s decision to pay about $670 for every coronavirus death in the country as compensation to the next of kin of the deceased. The payments tally to more than $300 million based on India’s current death toll, according to CNN’s calculation. It had officially
Continue Reading By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The trial of the suspect in the 2018 Florida high school massacre for fighting a jail guard has been delayed because his lead lawyer on the case is seriously ill. Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer ruled Monday that jury selection in Nikolas Cruz’s trial on jail
Continue Reading By FRANK BAJAK and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are back online after a massive global outage plunged the services and the businesses and people who rely on them into chaos for hours. Facebook said late Monday that “the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change”
Continue Reading By FRANK BAJAK and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are back online after a massive global outage plunged the services and the businesses and people who rely on them into chaos for hours. Facebook said late Monday that “the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change”
Continue Reading LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The Four Continents Championships for figure skaters from outside Europe will be held in Europe for the first time after Estonia stepped in as a replacement host for China. The International Skating Union says the competition is scheduled to run from Jan. 18-23 in the Estonian capital, Tallinn. The championships were
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza Nueva York (CNN Business) — Un alto ejecutivo de Facebook dijo este domingo en “Reliable Sources” de CNN que la compañía nunca podrá controlar todo el contenido de su sitio y que podría estar abierta a la regulación a medida que los legisladores continúen tomando medidas enérgicas contra el gigante tecnológico. El
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Jack Guy, CNN Redacted lines from letters between Marie-Antoinette and her alleged lover have been revealed for the first time, using advanced scientific techniques. The letters, exchanged by the doomed French queen and Count Axel von Fersen of Sweden during the French Revolution, were analyzed by a team of scientists from the Centre de Recherche
Continue Reading New York Times media columnist Ben Smith discusses his explosive exposé on digital media startup Ozy Media. He says he was “shocked by how fast” the company folded in the wake of his reporting.
Continue Reading By JOSH BOAK and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is urging Republican senators to “get out of the way” and let Democrats suspend the nation’s debt limit. Biden, who made the comment Monday, wants action to keep the U.S. government from coming dangerously close to a devastating credit default as
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
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN Netflix and Howard University have established a $5.4 million scholarship in honor of Chadwick Boseman, called The Chadwick A. Boseman Memorial Scholarship. The full scholarship will cover four years of tuition at Howard’s College of Fine Arts, which was renamed after Boseman earlier this year. Boseman attended the school studying directing
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson Kabul, Afganistán (CNN) — Un ataque terrorista no logró que Atifa Watanayar dejara de enseñar, pero ahora teme que los talibanes lo hagan. Incluso antes de que el grupo militante entrara en Kabul, la profesora de inglés sentía una intensa incertidumbre y angustia. A principios de mayo, estaba en la entrada de la
Continue Reading WATFORD, England (AP) — Claudio Ranieri is back in the English Premier League after being hired by Watford. The 69-year-old Italian replaces Xisco Munoz, who was fired on Sunday after 10 months in charge. Ranieri is most famous for leading Leicester to the Premier League title in 2016 at preseason odds of 5,000-1. He has
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — In a historic first, Russia is set to launch an actor and a film director to space to make a feature film in orbit. The project has been hailed by Russia’s space chief as a chance to raise the prestige of the nation’s space program. Actor Yulia
Continue Reading NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Michael Renzi has died after a career in which he served as musical director of “Sesame Street” and worked with the likes of Peggy Lee, Mel Tormé, Lena Horne and some of the other biggest names in jazz and pop. A funeral home says Renzi died Wednesday at age 80 at
Continue Reading By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — FIFA is in talks with Qatari authorities about scrapping the mandatory vaccination requirements for the World Cup. Qatar announced in June that it would require any fans wanting entry into next year’s tournament to be fully inoculated against the coronavirus, but has said nothing about
Continue Reading By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — FIFA is in talks with Qatari authorities about scrapping the mandatory vaccination requirements for the World Cup. Qatar announced in June that it would require any fans wanting entry into next year’s tournament to be fully inoculated against the coronavirus, but has said nothing about
Continue Reading WINDSOR, Ontario (AP) — The busiest border crossing between Canada and the U.S. has fully reopened following a police investigation into possible explosives found in a vehicle. Police say they detained one person in connection with the probe that for nearly seven hours significantly hampered traffic Monday across the Ambassador Bridge linking Windsor, Ontario, with
Continue Reading NYON, Switzerland (AP) — Women’s soccer leagues across Europe have joined UEFA in criticizing FIFA plans for biennial men’s and women’s World Cups. They claim that both would threaten how the women’s game is developing. Leagues in England, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden say staging a men’s World Cup every two years will “hamper
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