AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Kydall Hunter hit seven 3-pointers in her collegiate debut and No. 25 Texas went on to rout New Orleans 131-36 in the season opener for both teams. Aliyah Matharu added 18 points, Joanne Allen-Taylor had 15, DeYona Gaston 12 and Latasha Lattimore 11 for the Longhorns. Hunter was 7 of 8
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Alexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business) — Los hogares estadounidenses están cargando con cantidades récord de deuda a medida que los precios de las viviendas y los automóviles se disparan, las infecciones de covid siguen cayendo y la gente vuelve a sacar sus tarjetas de crédito. Entre julio y septiembre, la deuda de los hogares
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By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Brian Williams says he’s leaving NBC News at the end of the year. He remade his career as an MSNBC host after losing his job as “NBC Nightly News” anchor in 2015 for making false claims about his role in a wartime story. His contract
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By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Brian Williams says he’s leaving NBC News at the end of the year. He remade his career as an MSNBC host after losing his job as “NBC Nightly News” anchor in 2015 for making false claims about his role in a wartime story. His contract
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes (CNN) — El mundo avanza hacia un aumento de temperatura de 2,4 grados Celsius por encima de los niveles preindustriales (si no más), según un nuevo análisis, a pesar de los compromisos nuevos y actualizados de los países, incluidos los que se hicieron en la COP26 en Glasgow, Escocia. La organización de control
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CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Cubs have hired Greg Brown as their hitting coach. Brown is Chicago’s seventh hitting coach in 11 seasons. He replaces Anthony Iapoce, who departed after the Cubs hit .237 this year and finished with a 71-91 record. The 41-year-old Brown spent the past two seasons as the minor league hitting
Continue Reading By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) — Used to the often glacial pace of baseball free agency in recent winters, general managers are treating the threat of a work stoppage next month as not even a speedbump in the sport’s offseason. While other sports launch a free agent frenzy in the first
Continue Reading MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP) — Digna Strautmane and Derea Hermosa combined for 37 points on 17-of-20 shooting and No. 17 Georgia Tech rolled to a 74-40 win over Central Michigan. Strautmane, a fifth-year player who transferred from Syracuse, was 8-of-10 with two 3-pointers for 19 points and Hermosa went 8 of 10 for 18. Eylia
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS (AP) — The executive who took over as head of casino company Wynn Resorts when its founder and namesake Steve Wynn resigned in February 2018 has announced he’ll step down at the end of January. Matt Maddox said in a statement he believed that after four years as CEO it was the right
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS (AP) — The executive who took over as head of casino company Wynn Resorts when its founder and namesake Steve Wynn resigned in February 2018 has announced he’ll step down at the end of January. Matt Maddox said in a statement he believed that after four years as CEO it was the right
Continue Reading PANAMA CITY (AP) — Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli has won his second acquittal on charges he tapped the phones of opponents and journalists. Martinelli, who served from 2009 to 2014, went on trial in July, after he was was acquitted of similar charges in 2019. In August 2019 he was acquitted on espionage and
Continue Reading By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Trayce Jackson-Davis scored 21 points and grabbed 14 rebounds and Xavier Johnson added 14 points to lead Indiana past Eastern Michigan 68-62. Mike Woodson won his first game as the Hoosiers new coach. Indiana has won 22 of its last 23 season openers, this one
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes (CNN Español) — Un juzgado de Panamá fijó el 18 de julio de 2022 como el inicio de la audiencia preliminar principal por el caso Odebrecht. Un total de 62 imputados enfrentarán la justicia. Se les acusa de delitos contra el orden económico, en la modalidad de blanqueo de capitales, así como por
Continue Reading By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Salvadoran immigrant who admitted fatally shooting four people during a two-week rampage in Nevada in 2019 has pleaded guilty to the two killings that occurred in rural Douglas County. It’s part of a deal with prosecutors that will spare 22-year-old Wilber Ernesto Martinez Guzman the
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By Brian Stelter, CNN Business Anchorman Brian Williams, a 28-year veteran of NBC News and MSNBC, said Tuesday that he is leaving the company at the end of this year. “This is the end of a chapter and the beginning of another,” Williams said in a statement. “There are many things I want to do,
Continue Reading MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — Josh Jefferson had 16 points as Middle Tennessee rolled past Brescia 98-59 on Tuesday night in a season opener. Isaiah Turner had 13 points for Middle Tennessee.
Continue Reading SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Max Klesmit scored 23 points as Wofford rolled past Bob Jones University 117-79 in a season opener. Klesmit hit 4 of 6 3-pointers.
Continue Reading By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Myanmar has sentenced two members of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party to 90 years and 75 years in prison after finding them guilty of corruption. The sentences appear to be the most severe so far for any of the dozens of
Continue Reading By Maeve Reston, CNN Amid a swirl of questions about his absence from the public eye over the past week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday that he had decided to cancel his plans to attend the United Nations climate summit in Scotland after what he described as “an intervention” from his kids, who couldn’t
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CNN By Maeve Reston, CNN Amid a swirl of questions about his absence from the public eye over the past week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday that he had decided to cancel his plans to attend the United Nations climate summit in Scotland after what he described as “an intervention” from his kids, who
Continue Reading TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Russel Tchewa posted 16 points as South Florida routed Bethune-Cookman 75-54 in a season opener. Jamir Chaplin had 13 points and eight rebounds for South Florida.
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — Se dice que los brasileños aman el carnaval, el fútbol y la cerveza. Por eso, según los baristas de Uruguay, la Conmebol les pidió en octubre que tengan suficiente stock del preciado elemento: cerveza fría para las finales de la Copa Sudamericana y de la Copa Libertadores del 20 y
Continue Reading By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — California’s game against Southern California has become the first major college football postponed this season because of COVID-19. The game was delayed until Dec. 4 after a series of positive tests in the Golden Bears program. Cal played last week at Arizona without starting quarterback
Continue Reading By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The owner of a San Francisco Bay Area solar energy company has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for an audacious Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of $1 billion. Jeff Carpoff received the maximum penalty Tuesday after pleading guilty last year to conspiracy to
Continue Reading By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The owner of a San Francisco Bay Area solar energy company has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for an audacious Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of $1 billion. Jeff Carpoff received the maximum penalty Tuesday after pleading guilty last year to conspiracy to
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation on Tuesday reported 41 more COVID-19 cases and one additional death. The tribe had gone without reporting a coronavirus-related death 25 times in the previous 40 days. The latest numbers pushed the tribe’s totals to 37,586 confirmed COVID-19 cases from the virus since the pandemic began more
Continue Reading By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has launched a $738 million investment fund to fast-track emerging low emissions technologies including carbon capture and storage. The ruling conservative coalition wants the fund to be administered by the Clean Energy Finance Corp., a government-owned green bank. But that would require
Continue Reading BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Toni Rocak scored a career-high 27 points, Bryce Pope scored 14 of his 18 in the second half and UC San Diego beat California 80-67 for the Tritons’ first win over a Pac-12 Conference opponent. UCSD (1-0), which began its transition to Division I in 2020, lost its first 12 games
Continue Reading SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego is suing scooter companies to get them to pay the city’s costs to defend any lawsuits generated by the two-wheeled vehicles that have proliferated on public sidewalks. The Union-Tribune reports the city attorney filed suit against Bird, Lyft and other firms that signed operating agreements with San Diego to
Continue Reading SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego is suing scooter companies to get them to pay the city’s costs to defend any lawsuits generated by the two-wheeled vehicles that have proliferated on public sidewalks. The Union-Tribune reports the city attorney filed suit against Bird, Lyft and other firms that signed operating agreements with San Diego to
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