By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Matthew Aucoin’s “Eurydice” opens at the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday night in the first of seven performances running through Dec. 16. Based on Sarah Ruhl’s 2003 play, with a libretto by Ruhl, the opera gives a contemporary take on the Orpheus myth from a woman’s point
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By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer USC, Washington State and Washington have all dismissed coaches before the end of the season. But it’s likely that there are more coaching changes afoot in the Pac-12. Among those on the hot seat are Arizona State’s Herm Edwards, Stanford’s David Shaw, and Cal’s Justin Wilcox. The coaches
Continue Reading LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — An air quality monitoring outfit says Lahore has become the world’s third most polluted city as increasing smog has engulfed Pakistan’s cultural capital. The bad air has sickened hundreds with respiratory and other illnesses. Lahore ranked third behind Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, and Mongolia’s capital Ulaanbaatar on the pollution index.
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Dean McDermott didn’t make his family’s holiday card photo shoot. His wife, actress Tori Spelling, shared the card on her Instagram Monday and explained why. The photo showed her and the couple’s five children. “It’s that time again,” the caption on the photo began. “And it’s a winter wonderland at
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The European Tour, now called the DP World Tour, finished its season last week. It begins a new season this week. The Joburg Open is the first of three straight South African events that start the new season. The Joburg Open is offering a spot in the British Open to the
Continue Reading ROME (AP) — The only person convicted in the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher has been freed after serving most of his 16-year prison sentence. Italian news agencies LaPresse and ANSA quoted attorney Fabrizio Ballarini as saying Rudy Guede’s planned Jan. 4 release had been moved up a few weeks by a judge
Continue Reading By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Jurors in the trial of the three men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery must decide whether one or all of them is guilty of murder. A conviction could send them to prison for life. Father and son Greg and Travis McMichael grabbed guns and pursued
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By AJ Willingham, CNN You know what they say, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is all fun and games until one of the balloons goes down. Since the parade started marching balloons around Manhattan in 1927, the massive floating figures have occasionally come untethered, blown clear away, or been punctured, stabbed, deflated and subjected to
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urielblanco (CNN Español) — La Champions League regresa una vez más. Entre este martes y miércoles se jugarán 16 partidos correspondientes a la jornada 5 de la fase de grupos del torneo de fútbol más importante del mundo a nivel de clubes.. Algunos equipos llegan a esta jornada ya clasificados a los octavos de final
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Dollar Tree will soon be $1.25 tree. The company — one of America’s last remaining true dollar stores — said Tuesday it will raise prices from $1 to $1.25 on the majority of its products by the first quarter of 2022. The change is a sign of the pressures low-cost
Continue Reading CNNEE (CNN) — En Estados Unidos se celebra en grande el Día de Acción de Gracias, y la indudable protagonista de la fiesta –claro, además del espíritu de agradecimiento y recogimiento– es la comida. Millones de familias en el país comerán pavo este jueves. ¿Por qué? Mira esta y otras respuestas aquí: La cena de
Continue Reading By EUGENE GARCIA and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police say a group of thieves smashed windows at a department store at a luxury mall. The latest incident in a trend of smash-and-grab crimes is part of a national trend that targeted a Nordstrom store late Monday. It came
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By EUGENE GARCIA and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police say a group of thieves smashed windows at a department store at a luxury mall. The latest incident in a trend of smash-and-grab crimes is part of a national trend that targeted a Nordstrom store late Monday. It came
Continue Reading By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Perhaps one of the greatest mysteries of Thanksgiving is the cranberry sauce — and we’re not talking about why people eat it: Why are the labels on Ocean Spray cans upside down? Observant consumers have noticed that the labels on jellied cranberry sauce cans are flipped, meaning the rounded edge
Continue Reading CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s rebels say a Saudi-led coalition airstrike has gutted a plastics factory in the rebel-held capital of Sanaa, the latest attack amid an escalation in fighting in recent weeks. The early Tuesday strike hit a factory owned by a Syrian national and situated near a hospital in the south of the city,
Continue Reading By SARA BURNETT, KATHLEEN FOODY and TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press Participants like the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies were in the holiday spirit as they stepped off for the Waukesha Christmas Parade. But as they reveled, a red SUV was also heading down Main Street behind them, moving at a pace far faster than the parade. Police
Continue Reading THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch coronavirus infection numbers have hit a new weekly record, climbing 39% while hospital and intensive care unit admissions also rose sharply. The latest evidence of a surge in COVID-19 cases came Tuesday, a day after the government introduced legislation to parliament that would clear the way to restrict access
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Kevin Hart stays close to his comfort zone in one respect in “True Story” — playing a wealthy and famous comedian — while stretching in another, in a dark drama of cascading stakes and consequences. Also producing the Netflix limited series with “Narcos’” Eric Newman, Hart delivers a crisp and
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN) — A raíz del tiroteo masivo en la escuela de 2018 en Parkland, Florida, surgió una nueva generación de activistas adolescentes que insistieron en que el viejo ciclo de auge/caída de la política de control de armas en este país ya no existía. Atrás quedaría la poca capacidad de atención del público
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By Stella Chan, CNN The crash that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant and eight others was an “horrific accident,” but the county did not cause it and Vanessa Bryant’s lawsuit claiming photos taken at the crash scene were leaked should be dismissed, lawyers for Los Angeles County said in a court filing Monday. “County personnel
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By Tierney Sneed The Biden administration is asking the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals to wipe away an order from another appeals court blocking its Occupational Safety and Health Administration vaccine mandate. Several lawsuits were brought challenging the OSHA mandate, and last week the cases were consolidated in the 6th Circuit, an appeals court
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By Ben Church, Aleks Klosok and David Close, CNN AS Roma player Felix Afena-Gyan says he believes there was “no racist intent” in a comment made by an unidentified person while the Ghanaian forward unboxed a new pair of shoes given to him by manager Jose Mourinho. In a video posted on social media Monday,
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Michael Bublé may soon become as synonymous with Christmas as Santa Claus. This year he’s got new Christmas music coming out, a Christmas television special, a holiday drink called Merry Berry Bublè and a new video for a song titled “Christmas Sweater.” That’s just the start. He’s also about to do a
Continue Reading By Becky Anderson, Eoin McSweeney, Zeena Saifi and Noon Salih, CNN Sudan’s newly reinstated prime minister told CNN on Tuesday that he compromised in a deal with the country’s military in order to “avoid bloodshed” and a civil war. Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and other ministers were detained during a military coup last month that
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Good Morning! Clouds will be on the increase today with high temperatures running above average. The winds will be out of the south-southwest between 5 and 15 mph.
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, Blue Origin, announced that it would be launching Good Morning America host Michael Strahan to the edge of space. Strahan will be joined by the daughter of the first American astronaut and four paying customers. Liftoff is slated for 9:30 am CT on December 9 from
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer “Good Morning America” co-host Michael Strahan is going to space next month. Strahan, who turned 50 on Sunday, will join Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of astronaut Alan Shepard, on the Dec. 9 mission aboard the New Shepard, a spacecraft named after her father, the first American in
Continue Reading By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Expect to pay more for some of your favorite cereals, snacks, soups and cooking brands next year. General Mills notified retail customers that it’s raising prices in mid-January on hundreds of items across dozens of brands. They include Annie’s, Progresso, Yoplait, Fruit Roll-Ups, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch,
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen, CNN President Joe Biden wants half the vehicles sold in the US to be electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids by 2030. But to reach that goal, not only do Americans need to start buying more electric vehicles, they need more charging stations to plug them into. EVs and plug-in hybrids accounted for
Continue Reading CNN By Kate Sullivan and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday will announce the release of emergency oil reserves to combat high energy prices ahead of the busy holiday travel season, but it will be weeks before the barrels hit the market. The Department of Energy will release 50 million barrels of oil
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