By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Anything is possible! The Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals are heading to Super Bowl LVI after yesterday’s thrilling NFL conference championship games. The Bengals have zero Super Bowl wins in the history of the franchise, but never doubt an underdog! They may have what it takes to shock the world
Continue Reading On CNN’s State of the Union with Dana Bash, Delaware Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester reflects on what President Biden’s pledge to name a Black woman to the Supreme Court means to her personally.
Continue Reading With the threat of a possible Russian invasion looming, even Ukrainians outside the military are preparing to fight. CNN’s Sam Kiley reports from Kyiv.
Continue Reading The Russian military, which had announced naval drills off the coast of Ireland, agreed to move them further away after fishermen vowed to disrupt them. CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan speaks with some of the fishermen involved in the process.
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has apologized for lockdown-flouting parties at 10 Downing St. But Johnson insisted that he and his government can be trusted. Johnson told lawmakers in the House of Commons on Monday that he would make changes to the way the government is run
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By Jack Bantock, CNN Christian Eriksen has signed for English Premier League club Brentford as the 29-year-old Dane bids to resume his playing career after suffering a cardiac arrest at Euro 2020 in June. The former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder joins Brentford until the end of the current season having not played since he collapsed during
Continue Reading By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch coast guard says rescue helicopters have evacuated all 18 crew members from a ship that was left drifting rudderless in a wind turbine park off the Dutch North Sea coast after colliding with another ship during a powerful storm. The collision happened Monday
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olivertapia Esta semana comienzan los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno. Un día clave en la batalla contra el cáncer. Una bomba ciclónica en EE.UU. Dos años desde el primer caso de covid-19 en España. La hazaña de Nadal. Además, Rams y Bengals, al Super Bowl. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero
Continue Reading By Natasha Bertrand The Biden administration has identified several elite Russian government officials and business leaders that the US intends to sanction if Russia invades Ukraine, a senior administration official told CNN. The official said “specific sanctions packages” have been developed against Russian elites “in or near the inner circles of the Kremlin and play
Continue Reading By Whitney Wild, Zachary Cohen and Evan Perez, CNN Then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris drove within several yards of a pipe bomb lying next to a bench outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters on January 6, 2021, and remained inside the DNC for nearly two hours before the bomb was discovered, according to multiple law enforcement
Continue Reading By Donie O’Sullivan and Jo Shelley, CNN A fishing community on the southern tip of Ireland breathed a sigh of relief this weekend after the Russian government gave in to appeals from local fishermen who said naval drills ordered by Moscow off the Irish coast could endanger their livelihoods. “I’m shocked, really,” Patrick Murphy, head
Continue Reading MILAN (AP) — Dolce&Gabbana says it will drop the use of animal fur in all its collections starting this year, and transition to eco-friendly faux fur. The Milan fashion house on Monday joined other luxury brands including Armani, Gucci, Prada and Moncler in adhering to guidelines set by the Fur Free Alliance. The alliance is
Continue Reading By DAVID McHUGH Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Economic growth in the 19 countries that use the euro slowed down at the end of last year. The European Union’s statistics agency said Monday that growth in last three months of 2021 was at 0.3%, down from 2.2% in the July-September quarter. The European economy
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — Partes del noreste de Estados Unidos aún se están recuperando de cantidades récord de nieve a medida que la región se prepara para temperaturas frías continuas. El nor’easter que golpeó el fin de semana se convirtió en una “bomba ciclónica” el sábado por la mañana, lo que significa que la tormenta se
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials say skeleton silver medalist Nikita Tregubov and one of his teammates will miss the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing after contracting the coronavirus and that other athletes are also in doubt. Russian Bobsled Federation president Elena Anikina has told state news agency Tass that Tregubov and his teammate Vladislav Semenov
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By Travis Caldwell and Robert Shackelford, CNN The Northeast continues to face dangerous cold Monday as it digs out of record snow from a bomb cyclone storm that sapped power to more 100,000 customers in Massachusetts alone and canceled some 5,000 US flights. Highs across New England and parts of the Mid-Atlantic are expected to
Continue Reading By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer Christian Eriksen is set for a remarkable playing comeback after signing for English Premier League club Brentford, almost eight months after having a cardiac arrest and collapsing on the field at the European Championship. The Denmark playmaker has signed a contract until the end of the season in
Continue Reading olivertapia Seúl, Corea del Sur (CNN) — Desde el cambio de año, Corea del Norte ha intensificado las pruebas de misiles en desafío al derecho internacional a un ritmo frenético que muchos de los que vigilan de cerca al estado rebelde esperan que continúe. Según los analistas, siete pruebas de misiles de Corea del Norte
Continue Reading By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s economy is projected to grow 8% to 8.5% in the financial year beginning April 1, signaling a strong recovery after it was slammed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The government’s annual economic survey, released Monday, comes a day before Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is due to
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN The fitness tracker on your phone or wrist may be doing more than just monitoring your steps — it could kick them up a notch. Monitoring exercise increased that activity among the more than 16,000 participants in a study published last week. Researchers looked at data from 121 randomized control trials
Continue Reading By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The mayor of a Connecticut city has ordered two police officers be placed on administrative leave after the families of two Black women criticized the police responses and investigations into their deaths. Bridgeport Mayor Joseph Ganim expressed his condolences Sunday to the families of Lauren Smith-Fields and Brenda Lee Rawls, saying
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH and PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writers Winter Olympians in outdoor sports such as Alpine skiing or snowboarding say the weather can be a key factor in success or failure. The wind, the light, the temperature and whether or not there is any precipitation can affect all sorts of things during competition. Those
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH and PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writers BEAVER CREEK, Colo. (AP) — Olympic athletes in Alpine skiing and other outdoor sports dependent on snow are worried as they see winters disappearing. Ski racers who will compete entirely on manufactured snow during the Beijing Games in February know that global warming is threatening the
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By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business China’s government is using new intimidation methods against journalists and their sources, according to an annual survey by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China. The report, which was released Monday, said foreign correspondents are facing “unprecedented hurdles” covering the world’s most populous nation. Those hurdles include online trolling, cyber hacking,
Continue Reading olivertapia Nueva York (CNN Business) — Spotify respondió el domingo a las críticas que recibió con respecto al contenido sobre el covid-19 después de que varios artistas de renombre dijeron que abandonarán la plataforma si esta continúa dando espacio al comediante Joe Rogan, cuyo podcast ha difundido afirmaciones engañosas e inexactas sobre las vacunas y
Continue Reading By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A top Hong Kong official has resigned after he attended a birthday party with 200 guests, at least one of whom later tested positive for the coronavirus. Cabinet member Caspar Tsui says he did not “set the best example during the recent outbreak” and was resigning
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Denise pensó que su divorcio había quedado atrás. Entonces llegó la pandemia. Y no pasó mucho tiempo antes de que el caso de custodia que ella pensaba que estaba cerrado ya no lo estuviera. El covid-19 es una realidad diaria que millones de padres divorciados y en proceso de divorcio en
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By Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing Bureau, CNN Business A Chinese subway system’s attempt to spread some Lunar New Year cheer backfired over the weekend, as panicked passengers mistook seasonal red QR codes for positive Covid tests. Chinese social media users reported Sunday that the Shanghai metro’s QR code — which passengers scan when they
Continue Reading By Laura He, CNN Business Coronavirus outbreaks and strict lockdowns in China are continuing to take their toll on the country’s factories. A private index measuring activity at factories in China fell to 49.1 in January from December’s 50.9. It’s the lowest level for the Caixin/Markit manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index since February 2020, when the
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By Eliott C. McLaughlin, Angela Barajas and Melissa Alonso, CNN A federal judge Monday rejected the plea deal reached by prosecutors and Travis McMichael on hate crime charges, an agreement that would have precluded his federal trial in Ahmaud Arbery’s killing. Earlier, McMichael had agreed to plead guilty to a single hate crime charge —
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