ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Hundreds of hot-air balloons created a colorful tapestry against a blue sky in New Mexico’s largest city, kicking off a nine-day annual event that was canceled last year due to the pandemic. Saturday morning’s mass ascension was the first of five scheduled for the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. The 2020 fiesta
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Zlatan Ibrahimovic has withdrawn from Sweden’s squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Kosovo and Greece. The national team said the veteran striker hasn’t fully recovered from a knee injury. Ibrahimovic turns 40 on Sunday. He was called up by Sweden this week with coach Janne Andersson saying “I hope
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By John Blake, CNN At first, Clint Smith had trouble making out the objects beside a white picket fence in the distance. Then he drew closer; what he saw made him shudder. Planted in a garden bed in front of the fence were the heads of 55 Black men impaled on metal rods, their eyes
Continue Reading By STEPHEN McGRATH Associated Press BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — More than 5,000 far-right protesters have gathered in Romania’s capital of Bucharest to reject new pandemic measures coming soon as authorities seek to combat an alarming surge of COVID-19 infections. Daily COVID-19 infections in the European Union nation of 19 million have skyrocketed from around 1,000
Continue Reading By Nada Bashir, CNN US climate envoy John Kerry said Saturday that global targets to slash greenhouse gas emissions are “do-able,” striking an optimistic tone at the end of final high-level meeting before the COP26 international climate talks in Glasgow next month. Kerry said the more than 40 ministers who attended the pre-COP26 event in
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Las cosas están a punto de ponerse un poco tranquilas entre la NASA y su flota de exploradores robóticos de Marte. Y es que está a punto de producirse una esperada interrupción de las comunicaciones, todo ello gracias al Sol. La conjunción solar de Marte sucede entre el 2 y el
Continue Reading By Liam Reilly, CNN Three bronze busts depicting the late Congressman John Lewis, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd have been placed in New York’s Union Square as part of Confront Art’s inaugural “SEEINJUSTICE” exhibition. The statues, created by Chris Carnabuci, stand 10 feet tall on platforms and “honor the lives and ongoing messages through art,
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business Bill Gross, billionaire and the ‘bond king,’ was found guilty in contempt of court for tormenting his California neighbors by blasting music — again. Orange County Superior Court Judge Kimberly Knill ruled that Gross and his wife, Amy Gross, violated a 2020 order that prohibited the couple from playing loud
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Washington Capitals center Nicklas Backstrom says he’s taking his hip injury rehab slowly and has no timetable on when he’ll be able to play. Backstrom has not skated during training camp and seems like a long shot to play in the season opener Oct. 13
Continue Reading ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Danny Willett began his third round at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in sunshine and ended it in torrential rain and high winds. He played some fine golf in between on the Old Course at St. Andrews in a 6-under 66 that left the Englishman with a three-stroke lead. Willett
Continue Reading By BRADY McCOMBS Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints urged members Saturday at a church conference to listen to the faith’s leaders when they seek “pure truth.” Church President Russell M. Nelson thanked members who have followed church guidance, which has been to
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HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities in Houston say a driver fleeing from police in Houston struck and killed three valets before crashing into a ditch. Assistant Police Chief Yasar Bashir said a patrol sergeant saw the driver doing doughnuts, or driving in circles, in a parking lot Friday night and tried to stop the vehicle as
Continue Reading HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities in Houston say a driver fleeing from police in Houston struck and killed three valets before crashing into a ditch. Assistant Police Chief Yasar Bashir said a patrol sergeant saw the driver doing doughnuts, or driving in circles, in a parking lot Friday night and tried to stop the vehicle as
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By Virginia Langmaid, CNN Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics announced on Friday early result that indicate their experimental oral antiviral drug molnupiravir might halve the risk of death or hospitalization from Covid-19. In a news release, the company said 7.3% of 385 patients who received the antiviral were either hospitalized or died from Covid-19, compared with
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Hundreds of hot-air balloons created a colorful tapestry against a blue sky in New Mexico’s largest city, kicking off a nine-day annual event that was canceled last year due to the pandemic. Saturday morning’s mass ascension was the first of five scheduled for the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. The 2020 fiesta
Continue Reading By OLEG CETINIC Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A Brazilian Indigenous leader is appealing to France’s president to use his sway to fight deforestation of the Amazon. The leader, Ninawa, of the Huni Kui people, delivered a letter to the office of French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday. He urged the French leader to pressure
Continue Reading BURNLEY, England (AP) — Burnley and Norwich saw their winless starts to the Premier League continue as they fought out a 0-0 draw which at least provided a first point of the season for the Canaries. The first 0-0 draw between these clubs after 44 meetings in all competitions neatly summed up how their seasons
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PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Tesla says it delivered 241,300 electric vehicles in the third quarter even as it wrestled with a global shortage of computer chips that has hit the entire auto industry. The Palo Alto, California, company’s sales from July through September beat Wall Street estimates. Third-quarter sales rose 72% over the 140,000
Continue Reading WOLVERHAMPTON, England (AP) — Hwang Hee-chan’s two goals earned Wolverhampton a 2-1 victory over winless Newcastle in the Premier League to pile the pressure on manager Steve Bruce. The South Korea forward scored in the 20th and 58th minutes for Wolves’ first home goals in the Premier League this season. Jeff Hendrick’s 41st-minute equalizer briefly
Continue Reading By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Atlético Madrid has handed Barcelona another humbling defeat after Luis Suárez and Thomas Lemar set up goals for each other in a 2-0 win in the Spanish league. Barcelona’s latest loss came hours after club president Joan Laporta broke his silence and pledged that Ronald Koeman
Continue Reading By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — DJ LeMahieu has a sports hernia that will require offseason surgery, but the New York Yankees’ leadoff hitter will attempt to play through the injury in October. The major league batting champion last year, LeMahieu was out of the starting lineup again for a critical
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By Theresa Waldrop, CNN Noreen Wredberg and her husband, Michael, weren’t really expecting to find anything at Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park, she said, and she wasn’t sure what she had found when she picked up a stone. Turns out, it was a yellow diamond weighing 4.38 carats. “I didn’t know it was a
Continue Reading By DAVID SHARP Associated Press BATH, Maine (AP) — A warship bearing the name of the U.S. Sen. Carl M. Levin has been christened at Maine’s Bath Iron Works. The late Michigan senator’s three daughters Erica, Laura and Kate simultaneously smashed bottles of sparkling wine on the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer during the ceremony on Saturday.
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Late goals by Timo Werner and Ben Chilwell sent Chelsea to the top of the Premier League after a 3-1 win over 10-man Southampton at Stamford Bridge. James Ward-Prowse scored an equalizer for Southampton from the penalty spot only to be sent off in the 77th minute for a late, lunging tackle
Continue Reading JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban official says gunmen have shot and killed two Taliban fighters and two civilians in the eastern city of Jalalabad. Two other civilians were wounded in the attack, said Mohammad Hanif, a cultural official for the city’s surrounding province, Nangarhar. No one claimed responsibility for the Saturday shooting, but the
Continue Reading LEEDS, England (AP) — Leeds has held on for its first victory of the Premier League season after defender Diego Llorente scored early in the 1-0 win over Watford. The Spain center back netted from close range after 18 minutes by getting his left foot on the ball after Watford midfielder Juraj Kucka tried to
Continue Reading By CHARLES ODUM AP Sports Writer ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Georgia quarterback JT Daniels is out of the starting lineup for Saturday’s key Southeastern Conference game against No. 8 Arkansas because of a right lat injury. Stetson Bennett is making his second start of the season. Daniels’ injury was not expected to keep him from
Continue Reading By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Cristiano Ronaldo was grumbling to himself and shaking his head as he went straight toward the tunnel at the final whistle of Manchester United’s latest slip-up at Old Trafford. He had plenty to be aggrieved about. Ronaldo had not only seen his team drop more points at home in
Continue Reading By Kaanita Iyer, CNN Women and allies will gather at more than 600 marches across the United States on Saturday in support of reproductive rights, with the largest rally expected in the nation’s capital, according to organizers. These “Rally for Abortion Justice” marches come as the most restrictive anti-abortion bill yet went into effect in
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By Dakin Andone, CNN David Lee Roth, the original lead singer of Van Halen, has announced his retirement in an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “I am throwing in the shoes. I’m retiring,” Roth told the newspaper in a phone call. “This is the first, and only, official announcement … You’ve got the news.
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