2 children were killed and 8 other people injured when a car lost control at Texas drag race
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Picasso artworks auctioned for combined $109M in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Eleven Pablo Picasso artworks have been sold for a combined $109 million in a Las Vegas auction coinciding with the artist’s 140th birthday. The nine paintings and two ceramic pieces had been displayed inside the Picasso restaurant at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art for more than two decades until owner
Continue Reading Husband of detained Iranian-British woman on hunger strike
LONDON (AP) — The husband of U.K. charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has gone on a hunger strike again after a court decided she has to spend another year in an Iranian prison. Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained for more than five years in Iran. Husband Richard Ratcliffe started his fast on Sunday outside the British government’s
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No goals as Messi plays in his 1st ‘Classique’
MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Lionel Messi’s first “Classique” has ended in a 0-0 draw between Marseille and 10-man Paris Saint-Germain. The stalemate between the two bitter rivals reduced PSG’s lead over Lens at the top of the French league to seven points after 11 rounds. PSG played with 10 men after Achraf Hakimi was sent
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Free community college is out of Biden’s plan, but a bigger Pell grant could still help cut costs
By Katie Lobosco, CNN President Joe Biden’s plan to make tuition free at community colleges is unlikely to make it into the final bill to expand the nation’s social safety net. But boosting the federal Pell grant is still on the table and could have a big impact for low-income students. The latest proposal would
Continue Reading Small plane crashes into Wisconsin home, kills 2 onboard
MARENGO, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say two people died when a single-engine plane crashed into a home in northeastern Wisconsin. The Ashland County Sheriff’s Office received numerous 911 calls about 2:40 p.m. Saturday with reports of the crash in the town of Marengo. No one on the ground was hurt. The sheriff’s department says the
Continue Reading Inflation to fall to acceptable levels in second half of 2022, Treasury secretary says
CNN By Chandelis Duster, CNN US inflation levels are not expected to decrease to acceptable levels until the latter part of 2022, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday. The prediction comes as rising prices strain Americans’ wallets at grocery stores and fuel pumps amid high energy demand, already exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic wreaking havoc
Continue Reading Inflation to fall to acceptable levels in second half of 2022, Treasury secretary says
By Chandelis Duster, CNN US inflation levels are not expected to decrease to acceptable levels until the latter part of 2022, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday. The prediction comes as rising prices strain Americans’ wallets at grocery stores and fuel pumps amid high energy demand, already exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic wreaking havoc on
Continue Reading Florida’s top doctor refuses mask, is told to leave meeting
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Florida’s top health official was asked to leave a meeting after refusing to wear a mask at the office of a state senator who told him she had a serious medical condition. The Florida Senate president sent a memo to senators saying it was disappointing to
Continue Reading Pelosi floats Democrats acting alone as ‘one path’ to raising debt ceiling but still hopes for bipartisanship
By Veronica Stracqualursi and Daniella Diaz, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday suggested that the budget reconciliation process could be one way toward raising the debt ceiling in December. “That’s one path. But we’re still hoping to have bipartisanship,” Pelosi told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.” In September, Pelosi previously said
Continue Reading Tielemans, Maddison lead Leicester to 2-1 win at Brentford
LONDON (AP) — Youri Tielemans showed why Leicester is desperate for him to sign a new contract and James Maddison scored his first goal of the season in a 2-1 victory over Brentford in the Premier League. Tielemans hit a stunning long-range strike to open the scoring for Brendan Rodgers’ side. Mathias Jorgensen hauled Brentford
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A nurse created a baby registry for a new father after his unvaccinated wife died of Covid-19 before meeting their baby
By Alaa Elassar, CNN Eric Robison will never run out of words to describe his wife. Her smile, her laughter, her constant goofiness, the faces she made when she was grumpy, the kindness she bought out of him, the way she felt like home. Losing her made the world stop in its tracks, he says,
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A nurse created a baby registry for a new father after his unvaccinated wife died of Covid-19 before meeting their baby
Emily Robison was unvaccinated when she died of Covid-19, after fighting to survive for over a month. Just three weeks before her death, she had given birth to her and her husband, Eric Robison’s, first child. CNN affiliate KHBS/KHOG reports on what one nurse did to lend a helping hand to the new father.
Continue Reading Wolfsburg fires coach van Bommel after 13 games in charge
WOLFSBURG, Germany (AP) — Wolfsburg has fired coach Mark van Bommel after just 13 games in charge to make him the first Bundesliga coach to lose his job this season. The former Netherlands midfielder won all of his first four league games in charge as Wolfsburg briefly led the league but leaves on an eight-game
Continue Reading Antonio leads West Ham to 1-0 victory over Tottenham in EPL
LONDON (AP) — Michail Antonio took advantage of Harry Kane’s defensive inadequacies to lead West Ham to a 1-0 win against Tottenham in the Premier League. Antonio got the better of his marker, Kane, at a corner in the 72nd minute and poked home his seventh goal of the season in all competitions. The win
Continue Reading Former Afghanistan envoy says he quit because debate wasn’t rooted in reality
By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden’s former Afghanistan envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, said he quit the administration because internal debates weren’t rooted in events on the ground. “One reason I left the government is that the debate wasn’t really as it should be — based on realities and facts of what happened, what was going
Continue Reading 3.6 magnitude earthquake rattles metro Los Angeles
By Shawn Nottingham and Kelly Murray, CNN The Los Angeles metro area was hit with a 3.6 magnitude earthquake Sunday, according to data from the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake was recorded at a depth of 17 kilometers near Maywood and East Los Angeles. There were numerous reports on social media of the earthquake
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Schmitt’s campaign to pay for Texas trip to announce lawsuit
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office now says his campaign paid for a trip to Texas last week to announce a lawsuit seeking to force the restart of construction of a southern border wall, and taxpayers paid only about $820 for his spokesman to make the trip. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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With export restrictions eased, Colombia’s medical cannabis business is poised for liftoff
By Stefano Pozzebon When Beatriz Porras was studying agronomy at university in Tunja, Colombia, she thought her career would lead to growing coffee, like her parents, or flowers, the traditional agricultural staples for the country’s export market. Back then, growing marijuana was illegal, and security forces targeted plantations with forced eradication campaigns aimed at stemming
Continue Reading Hu wins horizontal bar, Uchimura shines at gymnastics worlds
KITAKYUSHU, Japan (AP) — China’s Hu Xuwei upstaged Tokyo Olympic champion Daiki Hashimoto of Japan to win the horizontal bar gold medal on the final day of the 50th artistic gymnastics world championships. Hu received 15.166 points to edge Hashimoto by just .100 of a point. But the night really belonged to six-time all-around world
Continue Reading Blackhawks put 2 more players in NHL’s COVID-19 protocol
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Riley Stillman and forward Jujhar Khaira have joined Patrick Kane in the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol. The winless Blackhawks also said assistant Marc Crawford will not coach against the Detroit Red Wings because of the protocol. The struggling Blackhawks are off to a 0-4-1 start. Kane leads the team with
Continue Reading Los Bravos de Atlanta ganan el banderín de la Liga Nacional y avanzan a la Serie Mundial
Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Los Bravos de Atlanta derrotaron 4-2 a los Dodgers de Los Ángeles en el sexto juego de la Serie de Campeonato de la Liga Nacional para hacerse con el banderín de la Liga Nacional y avanzar a la Serie Mundial, donde se enfrentarán al campeón de la Liga Americana,
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‘Succession’ star Nicholas Braun: Greg ‘feels unsafe all the time’
By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN The season premiere of HBO’s “Succession” saw a lot of moves on the chess board that is the Roy family’s power struggle. One of the pieces on that board, Greg, the beloved-by-viewers character who lives somewhere on thin border of the family’s inner circle, took a place on Team Kendall in
Continue Reading Let computers do it: Film set tragedy spurs call to ban guns
By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The tragedy that unfolded on a New Mexico movie set when Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun, killing a cinematographer, has led to calls for fundamental change in Hollywood. Some are saying real guns should be banned on sets. From a change.org petition to a
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Let computers do it: Film set tragedy spurs call to ban guns
By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The tragedy that unfolded on a New Mexico movie set when Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun, killing a cinematographer, has led to calls for fundamental change in Hollywood. Some are saying real guns should be banned on sets. From a change.org petition to a
Continue Reading School boards around the country are under fire. What exactly do they do?
By Theresa Waldrop School board members around the country have faced heckling, protests, even death threats and at least one lawsuit recently. Constituents have shown up at normally placid meetings to voice dissent of everything from mask mandate policies — or the lack of them — to teaching critical race theory and policies around transgender
Continue Reading ‘The Sopranos’ movie was never going to be as good as the TV show
Opinion by Bill Carter for CNN Business Perspectives I don’t know what people expected from “The Sopranos” prequel movie, “The Many Saints of Newark,” but many of the reactions have been along the lines of, “It’s good; but not as good as the TV show.” (That happens to be mine, as well.) Meanwhile, some of
Continue Reading Albuquerque police recover high school’s stolen band gear
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Police in Albuquerque say they have recovered a high school’s stolen truck that was filled with about $200,000 worth of band equipment. On the day of a major competition just a few hours before they were supposed to perform, the Las Cruces High School marching band discovered that all their equipment
Continue Reading Navajo Nation: No COVID-related deaths, 17th time in 24 days
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation has reported 61 more COVID-19 cases, but no coronavirus-related deaths for the 17th time in the past 24 days. The latest numbers released Saturday pushed the tribe’s totals to 36,083 confirmed COVID-19 cases from the virus since the pandemic began more than a year ago. The known
Continue Reading Pope Francis compares Libyan centers to ‘concentration camps’
By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Pope Francis has likened migrant detention centers in Libya to “concentration camps” and called on the international community to intervene in a worsening migrant situation in the central Mediterranean region. The Pontiff’s remarks after Sunday’s angelus come just a day after an Italian prosecutor summoned American Hollywood star Richard Gere
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