By Harmeet Kaur and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Diwali wasn’t a big part of Radha Patel’s childhood growing up in Maryland. Her parents, though Hindu, weren’t particularly observant, and while the family attended Diwali celebrations and pujas hosted by other relatives, they didn’t necessarily do anything special at home. Now that Patel has two kids of
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EL PASO, Texas — Frontier Airlines just made it quicker for El Pasoans to go to Disney World or Universal Orlando as it’s now offering non-stop flights from El Paso to Orlando. The new year-round service will be available three days a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. On Wednesday, Frontier Airlines held a ribbon-cutting
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urielblanco Hong Kong (CNN) — El entusiasmo por los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno de Beijing 2022 es cada vez mayor en China, con gente clamando por puestos como trabajadores voluntarios (incluso mientras las restricciones se endurecen en medio de un brote de covid-19). Desde que se abrieron las solicitudes hace casi dos años, más de
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A White high school teacher is on “home assignment” and under investigation after he showed up to teach in blackface, according to the school principal. A business teacher at Parkdale Collegiate Institute, a public high school in Parkdale, near Toronto, Ontario, joined other staff and students who were dressed up for
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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Two Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officers have been charged with helping conceal evidence of a shooting and the involvement of the brother of a former officer. Lt. Marcus Harper and Officer Ananias Carson were charged Tuesday as accessories after the fact in what police say was a gang-related shooting. Harper and Carson
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By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force says nearly 8,500 active duty members of the Air Force and Space Force have missed the deadline for getting COVID-19 vaccinations, including 800 who flatly refused and nearly 5,000 with pending requests for a religious exemption. The Air Force said
Continue Reading By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer An Australian privacy authority has ordered facial recognition company Clearview AI to stop scanning the faces of Australians and destroy the images and related data it has already collected. It’s the latest challenge for the New York startup that has angered privacy advocates around the world over its practice
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By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer An Australian privacy authority has ordered facial recognition company Clearview AI to stop scanning the faces of Australians and destroy the images and related data it has already collected. It’s the latest challenge for the New York startup that has angered privacy advocates around the world over its practice
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Cavaliers forward Lauri Markkanen has joined teammate Kevin Love and entered the NBA’s health and safety protocols. The team said Markkanen will miss Wednesday’s game against Portland and his status will be updated “at the appropriate time.” The 7-foot Markkanen is in his first season with Cleveland after being acquired in a
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By Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN When my junior year of high school ended, I rejoiced. That meant the end of mandatory gym class. Not gifted athletically, I hated everything about sports and exercise — the sweat, the hammering heart, the requirement to learn activities I had no interest in, like archery and square dancing. At
Continue Reading By Matt Egan, CNN Business Everyday Americans are getting hammered by high prices at the pump, and Bank of America thinks the pain may just be getting started. Gas prices have surged to a seven-year high of $3.40 a gallon nationally and are flirting with $4 in Nevada, Washington State and Oregon. Bank of America
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and landing on July 21, 2011. China and Russia are the only other countries to have independent spaceflight
Continue Reading By JOHN KEKIS AP Sports Writer It seems parity has arrived in the Atlantic Coast Conference, just look no further than the results on scoreboards. Nailbiters have become commonplace with Clemson in a down year and no truly dominant team in the league. Even unbeaten Wake Forest has had its shaky moments on the way
Continue Reading By DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota and coach P.J. Fleck have agreed to a new seven-year contract that lasts through the 2028 season. The Gophers are currently in first place in the Big Ten West Division. The deal is pending approval by the university’s board of regents. Fleck’s base salary this
Continue Reading By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Thirty years ago, Ken Welch’s father sought unsuccessfully to become the first Black mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida. Welch wore his dad’s campaign button Tuesday when he claimed a resounding victory for the top office in the once-segregated city. Welch recognized his milestone in a
Continue Reading By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Voters have reelected the Black mayor of Iowa’s eighth-largest city, Waterloo, which will also have its first majority-Black City Council. The historic outcome of Tuesday’s election followed a campaign marked by bitter debates over policing and race. Quentin Hart, who became Waterloo’s first Black
Continue Reading By DORIAN COLBERT RosterWatch Nearing the halfway point of the NFL’s regular season, it’s good to realize there are still some “set it and forget it” plays for fantasy going into Week 9. These are my best bets to find the end zone.
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Leah Dolan, CNN Two years after her Oscar-nominated performance in the musical “A Star is Born,” Lady Gaga is set to return once more to the silver screen. This time she’ll be playing the socialite Patrizia Reggiani — who arranged the murder of her ex-husband, fashion house head Maurizio Gucci — in Ridley Scott’s retelling
Continue Reading CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s president has ordered his administration to start moving its offices next month to a sprawling new administrative capital in the desert outside Cairo. President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has directed the government to begin working from the new complex starting Dec. 1. The $45 billion city is biggest of the mega-projects el-Sissi
Continue Reading By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Prosecutors in Las Vegas say former Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III was speeding at 156 mph with a blood-alcohol content twice Nevada’s legal limit before his sports car slammed into another vehicle, killing a 23-year-old woman. Ruggs made his initial court appearance Wednesday and posted
Continue Reading By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Prosecutors in Las Vegas say former Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III was speeding at 156 mph with a blood-alcohol content twice Nevada’s legal limit before his sports car slammed into another vehicle, killing a 23-year-old woman. Ruggs made his initial court appearance Wednesday and posted
Continue Reading By DAVID GINSBURG Associated Press Versatile Baltimore Colts running back Tom Matte has died. Matte spent his entire 12 years in the NFL with the Colts. During the 1965 season, in a memorable three-game stint, he filled in at quarterback. After scoring three touchdowns to carry Baltimore past Cleveland in the 1968 NFL title game,
Continue Reading PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Penguins have placed star center Sidney Crosby and defenseman Brian Dumoulin in the COVID-19 protocol after both tested positive. Coach Mike Sullivan says Crosby is dealing with mild symptoms while Dumoulin remains asymptomatic. They are the seventh and eighth members of the Penguins to test positive for COVID-19 since training
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy, CNN Business A former Apple employee who helped form the #AppleToo movement against alleged harassment and discrimination inside the company told the National Labor Relations Board in a complaint on Tuesday that she believes she was fired in retaliation for her organizing efforts. Janneke Parrish, who told CNN Business last month she’d
Continue Reading By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Private companies are making their Wall Street debuts at a record clip this year. There already have been more initial public offerings through the first three quarters of 2021 than there were in all of 1996 — the best year ever for IPOs, according to FactSet. In the
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — A defrocked Chicago priest who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing children was released from an Illinois prison last month and is now back living in the city. The Illinois Department of Human Services confirmed that Daniel McCormack was released Oct. 7 from the state’s Treatment and Detention Facility for sex offenders. McCormack
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By Marianne Garvey Dolly Parton is showing her love for her husband of 55 years, Carl Thomas Dean. The legendary singer, who turned 75 this year, took to Instagram with a throwback picture of herself and Dean holding hands. Dean has a (seemingly photoshopped) Dolly Parton T-shirt on. “Find you a partner who will support
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By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press The oldest college in Louisiana is celebrating its first granting of tenure to a Black faculty member, and discussing why this racial milestone took nearly two centuries to accomplish. Centenary College of Louisiana associate professor Andia Augustin-Billy now has a lifetime appointment to teach French, literature, women’s studies and other
Continue Reading By Barbara Starr, Oren Liebermann and Adam Pourahmadi, CNN US officials rejected a claim from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard that they had prevented the US Navy from confiscating Iranian crude oil aboard a tanker in the Gulf of Oman. Two officials say the Navy was monitoring an incident, which happened last week, when several Iranian fast
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Miami considered making a trade with Houston for Deshaun Watson but did not ask his accusers to sign nondisclosure agreements in the hopes of resolving the sexual assault and misconduct cases against the embattled quarterback, Dolphins general manager Chris Grier said Wednesday. Grier spoke
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