By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold talks with the governors of Germany’s 16 states amid growing concern about the steep rise in new coronavirus cases in the country. The video call between Merkel and the governors will take place Tuesday after Germany’s highest court rules on complaints filed
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DALLAS, Texas — ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Dianna Russini reported Monday morning that Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy has tested positive for Covid-19. As a result, McCarthy will have to miss Thursday night’s game against the New Orleans Saints. Schefter tweeted that a source told him there could be up to eight more positive
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By Rob Picheta, Henrik Pettersson and Lauren Kent, CNN Swedish lawmakers have again elected Magdalena Andersson to the role of prime minister — days after she resigned from the post — and she is set once more to become the first female leader in the country’s history. Andersson was first chosen to be prime minister
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El CEO de Twitter, Jack Dorsey, dejará su cargo pero seguirá siendo miembro del consejo de administración de la plataforma de medios sociales, según ha anunciado la compañía este lunes en un comunicado. Dorsey será sucedido por Parag Agrawal, director de tecnología de Twitter. “He decidido dejar Twitter porque creo
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By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African doctors say the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases attributed to the new omicron variant is resulting in mostly mild symptoms. Dr. Unben Pillay, a general practitioner in Gauteng province where 81% of the new cases have been reported, said so far the cases have been
Continue Reading By Katie Bo Lillis, CNN The US intelligence community “struggled” to brief President-elect Donald Trump in 2016, achieving “only limited success” in educating and developing a relationship with the incoming president, according to a newly released unclassified history of the transition period published by the CIA’s in-house academic center. Although Trump spent substantial time with
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By Wayne Sterling, CNN Fenway Sports Group (FSG), which owns Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox and English Premier League team Liverpool, has reached an agreement to acquire controlling interest of the National Hockey League’s Pittsburgh Penguins. FSG made the announcement on Monday and said as part of the transaction, Hockey Hall of Famer, Mario
Continue Reading By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Fenway Sports Group has reached an agreement with the Pittsburgh Penguins that would give the conglomerate controlling interest in one of the NHL’s marquee franchises. The Penguins announced the two sides have come to terms on a deal, which will need to be approved by the
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By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Fenway Sports Group has reached an agreement with the Pittsburgh Penguins that would give the conglomerate controlling interest in one of the NHL’s marquee franchises. The Penguins announced the two sides have come to terms on a deal, which will need to be approved by the
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Scotland’s leader says she will renew her push for independence from the United Kingdom next year with the aim of holding a referendum on secession in 2023. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Monday that the independence campaign “will resume in earnest” in spring 2022 “COVID permitting.” She
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Scotland’s leader says she will renew her push for independence from the United Kingdom next year with the aim of holding a referendum on secession in 2023. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Monday that the independence campaign “will resume in earnest” in spring 2022 “COVID permitting.” She
Continue Reading MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate whose execution by lethal injection was halted nearly four years ago has died after a long fight with cancer. Doyle Hamm’s attorney, Bernard Harcourt, says complications from lymphoma contributed to Hamm’s death in prison on Sunday. He was 64. Hamm was scheduled to be put to death for
Continue Reading German government people have suggested that big crowds at sports events should be reduced. That follows a weekend which featured one empty-stadium Bundesliga game and another with a crowd of 50,000. Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert says it is “really hard to understand” how 50,000 people can attend an event when the official
Continue Reading By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say four children including an infant and their grandmother have been found shot to death in a Southern California home and that the children’s father was arrested on suspicion of killing them. Police say the children’s mother found the bodies Sunday night in the city
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Joy Behar offered up some life advice that was not well received by some. During a recent episode of “The View,” the comic weighed in on a conversation about talking politics over Thanksgiving dinner. Behar suggested that gay people who haven’t come out to their families yet do so. “I’d
Continue Reading The Riverside Cubs, the football team for the California School for the Deaf, made a historic run to their first-ever high school championship game. CNN’s Nick Watt spoke with players about what reaching this goal means to them.
Continue Reading By Nick Watt and Jack Hannah, CNN Founded 68 years ago, the Cubs, the football team of the California School for the Deaf Riverside, had never reached a championship game. “I mean, the team stunk, quite honestly,” Jordy Valencia, the team’s 6-foot-2 starting wide receiver told CNN. “CSDR were often viewed as kind of a
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By Marnie Hunter, Naomi Thomas and Karla Cripps, CNN Governments are trying to buy time with a rash of new travel restrictions as they figure out the potential impact of Omicron. But the restrictions are being criticized by some officials and medical experts as ineffective and potentially damaging to global coronavirus tracking. “I think this
Continue Reading Salim Abdool Karim, an epidemiologist and former co-chair of South Africa’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Covid-19, tells CNN’s John Berman that a travel ban will have little, if any, impact on slowing the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19.
Continue Reading Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a CNN medical analyst and cardiologist, responded to the latest travel restrictions related to the Omicron coronavirus variant, saying travel bans are “an illusion of protection.”
Continue Reading By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Temple has fired football coach Rod Carey after three lackluster seasons. The Owls completed a 3-9 season on Saturday with their seventh straight lopsided loss, falling to Navy 38-14. Carey went 12-20 at the Philadelphia-based school after being hired away from Northern Illinois in January 2019.
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and TALI ARBEL AP Business Writer Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has stepped down as CEO of the social media platform. He has been succeeded by Twitter’s current chief technology officer, Parag Agrawal. Dorsey will remain on the board until his term expires in 2022. Agrawal joined Twitter in 2011 and has been
Continue Reading CAIRO (AP) — A court has found a leading Egyptian human rights activist guilty of insulting a judicial election commission in a tweet he posted last year following a national vote. His group says Monday the misdemeanor court in the capital of Cairo fined the director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal rights, 10,000 Egyptian
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By Brian Fung, CNN Business Jack Dorsey, the cofounder and public face of Twitter, will step down from his role as CEO, effective immediately, the company announced Monday. Dorsey will remain a member of Twitter’s board until at least next year. Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s chief technology officer, will take over as CEO. “I’ve decided to
Continue Reading By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s most acclaimed Indigenous actor, David Gulpilil, has died of lung cancer, a government leader said on Monday. He was 68 years old. Gulpilil found his widest audiences with his roles in the 1986 hit film “Crocodile Dundee” and in director Baz Luhrmann’s 2008 epic “Australia”
Continue Reading By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden offered some words of encouragement to a young girl who struggles with a stutter, empathizing with her as someone who has had a lifelong stutter himself. “I promise you it’ll go away if you just keep at it, OK?” Biden tells the girl — whose name is Avery
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un estudiante de la Universidad de Nevada, Las Vegas, murió pocos días después de participar en un combate de boxeo benéfico de una fraternidad. El joven se derrumbó poco después de la pelea, según declaraciones de la universidad y el abogado de su familia. En lo que la escuela describió
Continue Reading By BARBARA ORTUTAY, MICHELLE CHAPMAN and TALI ARBEL AP Business Writers Jack Dorsey is leaving his post as Twitter’s chief executive. It’s the second time in his career that he’s stepped down from the job. This time he says it’s by choice. Dorsey offered no specific reasons for his resignation Monday beyond an abstract argument
Continue Reading By ARNO PEDRAM Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A Black woman will, for the first time, join other luminaries interred in France’s Pantheon. That woman is entertainer Josephine Baker, and the honor will take place Tuesday. But critics in France say that by focusing on an American-born figure, France is continuing a long tradition of
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Los funcionarios de salud de Estados Unidos están instando a los estadounidenses a no ser complacientes y usar todas las herramientas a su disposición para prepararse para la variante ómicron del coronavirus, que recientemente fue considerada una “variante de preocupación” por la Organización Mundial de la Salud. El riesgo global
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