By MITCH STACY AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow says his injured pinky finger on his throwing hand won’t keep him out of Sunday’s game against San Francisco. The finger was dislocated last Sunday when the second-year quarterback was hit on a strip-sack on the Bengals’ first possession against the
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By MATT O’BRIEN and FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writers Robotic vacuum cleaners wouldn’t start. Doorbell cameras stopped watching for package thieves, though some of those deliveries were canceled anyway. Netflix and Disney movies got interrupted and The Associated Press had trouble publishing the news. A major outage in Amazon’s cloud computing network Tuesday severely disrupted
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By MATT O’BRIEN and FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writers Robotic vacuum cleaners wouldn’t start. Doorbell cameras stopped watching for package thieves, though some of those deliveries were canceled anyway. Netflix and Disney movies got interrupted and The Associated Press had trouble publishing the news. A major outage in Amazon’s cloud computing network Tuesday severely disrupted
Continue Reading By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to make the federal government carbon-neutral by 2050, with a 65% reduction in planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and an all-electric fleet of cars and trucks five years later. The White House says the order shows how the
Continue Reading ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Hawks forward Solomon Hill is expected to miss the remainder of the season with a hamstring injury, adding to the team’s growing lack of depth on the wing. The Hawks say an MRI showed Hill suffered a torn right hamstring tendon when he slipped and did a split in Sunday’s loss
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN President Joe Biden will sign an executive order Wednesday directing the federal government to get to net-zero emissions by 2050, using the power of the federal purse to buy clean energy, purchase electric vehicles and make federal buildings more energy efficient. This story is breaking news and it will be updated.
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Newsmax says it is not renewing the contract of its former White House correspondent, Emerald Robinson, who was taken off the air last month after spreading false information about COVID-19 vaccines online. Robinson had sent a message to “Christians” on Twitter falsely claiming that vaccines contained a marker called Luciferase that
Continue Reading By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew braved poor visibility and frigid rapids to reach a car partly submerged in water near the brink of Niagara Falls, then lowered a rescue swimmer on a hoist who pulled out the driver trapped inside. The woman did not survive. Petty Officer 2nd Class
Continue Reading By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — Justin Fields is set to return to the Chicago Bears’ lineup. Coach Matt Nagy said Wednesday the prized rookie quarterback will start when the team visits the Green Bay Packers this week after missing the past two games because of broken ribs. Fields, the
Continue Reading By DAVID A. LIEB and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Tens of millions of workers across the U.S. are in limbo as federal courts have issued different rulings related to President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for larger private companies, certain health care workers and federal government contractors. A federal appeals court panel has allowed a
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN en Español) — Susana Higuchi, ex primera dama de Perú y exesposa del expresidente de ese país Alberto Fujimori, falleció en las últimas horas, según informó este miércoles su hija Keiko en su cuenta de Twitter. “Después de una dura lucha contra el cáncer, nuestra madre Susana Higuchi acaba de partir
Continue Reading By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho woman says her lawsuit challenging the state’s ban on transgender athletes should continue moving through the court system because she is enrolled as a student at Boise State University and plans to play soccer on the school’s club team next spring. Transgender athlete Lindsay
Continue Reading ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Jenna Staiti had 17 points and 10 rebounds, Que Morrison added 16 points and 11 rebounds, and No. 21 Georgia eased by North Florida 69-40. Morrison scored nine points in the first quarter as Georgia jumped out to a 20-5 lead and led by double figures the rest of the way.
Continue Reading By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Chinese and Russian state media are working in overdrive to denigrate the Biden administration’s Summit for Democracy taking place this week, calling the project hypocritical. A flurry of tweets from Chinese diplomats refer to the event as a “so-called” democracy summit, while a Russian political commentator writing in a state-run Chinese
Continue Reading WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Michael Dowse is resigning as CEO of the U.S. Tennis Association after about two years in the position. During his tenure, the coronavirus pandemic led to a zero-spectators U.S. Open in 2020 and an increase in participation in the sport. The USTA announced Wednesday that Dowse is stepping down effective
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Sol Amaya (CNN) — El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, descartó este miércoles el envío de tropas estadounidenses a Ucrania para defender al país de una eventual invasión rusa, un día después de exponer las consecuencias de tal incursión en una tensa llamada telefónica con el presidente Vladimir Putin. En declaraciones a los periodistas
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury says the government of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele secretly negotiated a truce with leaders of the country’s powerful street gangs. The explosive accusation cuts to the heart of one of Bukele’s most highly touted successes in office: a plunge in the country’s
Continue Reading By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Sheriff’s officials say they have discovered the 1974 Pinto a 22-year-old student was driving on his way back to Auburn University from Georgia when he disappeared more than 45 years ago. Sheriff James Woodruff of Troup County, Georgia says that Kyle Wade Clinkscales’ car was pulled from
Continue Reading By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Outrage is spreading on social media in Myanmar over images and accounts of the alleged killing and burning of 11 villagers captured by government troops in the country’s northwest. Photos and a video of charred corpses in a village in Sagaing region have circulated widely. They are
Continue Reading By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer Canadian Pacific’s $31 billion plan to acquire Kansas City Southern cleared one of its final hurdles Wednesday when CP shareholders overwhelmingly approved the deal that would create the first railroad connecting the United States, Canada and Mexico. The ownership of the Missouri-based railroad is expected to change next Tuesday
Continue Reading By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Trying to defuse large protests by environmentalists, Serbia’s populist government has decided to suspend two key laws that would help mining giant Rio Tinto launch a lithium mine in western Serbia. For two consecutive weekends, thousands of protesters in Belgrade and elsewhere have blocked main roads
Continue Reading COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Cleveland Indians outfielder and commentator Jack Graney has won the Hall of Fame’s Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting. Graney, who died in 1978, will be honored during the Hall’s induction weekend from July 22 to July 25. Graney first played for Cleveland as a pitcher for two games
Continue Reading By Ellie Kaufman, CNN A bipartisan group of Senators criticized the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act which passed the House late Tuesday night, saying the bill does not go far enough to reform the military justice system for survivors of sexual assault. Sen. Kristen Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York, criticized the
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By Matt Egan, CNN Business After nearly two full years of Covid-driven chaos, JPMorgan Chase is predicting 2022 will usher in a return to normalcy and a full healing of the economic wounds caused by the health crisis. “Our view is that 2022 will be the year of a full global recovery, an end of
Continue Reading By Moira Ritter Days after Better.com’s CEO unceremoniously fired 900 people over Zoom, several executives are handing in their resignation letters. Three of the companies top communications executives — Tanya Gillogley, head of public relations, Melanie Hahn, head of marketing, and Patrick Lenihan, VP of communications — all resigned, according to multiple media reports. According
Continue Reading CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Moira Ritter Days after Better.com’s CEO unceremoniously fired 900 people over Zoom, several executives are handing in their resignation letters. Three of the companies top communications executives — Tanya Gillogley, head of public relations, Melanie Hahn, head of marketing, and Patrick Lenihan, VP of communications — all resigned, according to multiple
Continue Reading By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas judge is due to issue a ruling Thursday on whether to limit medical information that prosecutors receive about former Raiders player Henry Ruggs III following a fiery fatal crash. Ruggs didn’t appear with his attorneys in court on Wednesday. They argued the state
Continue Reading By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas judge is due to issue a ruling Thursday on whether to limit medical information that prosecutors receive about former Raiders player Henry Ruggs III following a fiery fatal crash. Ruggs didn’t appear with his attorneys in court on Wednesday. They argued the state
Continue Reading FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Fresno State is bringing back Jeff Tedford for a second stint as coach after Kalen DeBoer left to take over at Washington. Athletic director Terry Tumey announced that Tedford returns after coaching the Bulldogs from 2017 to 2019. Tedford had a 26-14 record at his alma mater before stepping down for
Continue Reading By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business If you have a job, you’re probably getting a bigger raise next year. Base pay may increase by an average of 3.9% in 2022, the largest one-year projected hike since 2008, according to The Conference Board’s latest wage survey of 240 companies, the majority of which each employ more than
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