By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy has set Jan. 24 as the start date to begin voting for a new Italian president. The announcement Tuesday by the lower chamber of parliament officially kicks off a campaign that is expected to see Premier Mario Draghi and ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi vie for the prestigious
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olivertapia (CNN) — Menos de 20 vehículos abandonados permanecían en la carretera interestatal 95 en el este de Virginia el martes por la noche, después de que una fuerte tormenta invernal dejó varados a muchos automovilistas durante horas en la noche del lunes. Así se ve la fuerza destructora de la tormenta invernal que amenaza
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Novak Djokovic defenderá su título del Abierto de Australia en Melbourne este mes tras recibir una exención médica del mandato de vacunación, anunció este martes Tennis Australia (TA) en un comunicado. “Novak Djokovic competirá en el Abierto de Australia y está de camino a Australia”, decía el comunicado. “Djokovic solicitó una
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By AJ Willingham, CNN Stocks certainly started off the year on a positive note. The Dow and the S&P both closed out the first trading day of the year at all-time highs. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You
Continue Reading Measurable snow fell a span of nearly 1,200 miles, from the deep South to Nantucket. CNN Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has the details on how long to expect that to stick around and if any more is on the horizon.
Continue Reading Holmes was found guilty on four of eleven federal charges. Take a look back on how she and her billion-dollar idea crashed.
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By Jack Bantock, CNN If this was to be goodbye then Ben Roethlisberger gave Heinz Field the perfect sendoff, keeping the Pittsburgh Steelers’ postseason dreams alive with a 26-14 win over the Cleveland Browns on Monday. The 39-year-old quarterback said on Friday that “all signs were pointing” to the Browns game being his last regular
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By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwean journalists are praising Iden Wetherell, one of the country’s most principled and exacting editors, who died on Dec. 23 after a battle with Alzheimer’s. He was 73. Njabulo Ncube, national coordinator of Zimbabwe National Editors Forum, an organization Wetherell helped found in 2002, said that
Continue Reading By MOHAMMAD TAUFAN Associated Press PALU, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian security forces have killed a suspected militant accused of beheadings in a shootout Tuesday in a sweeping counterterrorism campaign against extremists in remote mountain jungles. Police say the man was a key member of the East Indonesia Mujahideen network. He was fatally shot by a
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CNNEspañol sjv Millones de personas bajo alertas de tormenta en parte de EE.UU. Apple rompe otro récord. Una mirada a los problemas más desafiantes de 2022. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad. 1 La flurona no es un virus nuevo: esto es lo que debes saber En las
Continue Reading By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll shows that a year after the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, only about 4 in 10 Republicans recall the attack by supporters of then-President Donald Trump as very violent or extremely violent. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll
Continue Reading DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford says it will nearly double the annual production of its electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck based on a high number of advance reservations. The company says that it will be able to build at a rate of 150,000 pickups per year at its electric vehicle factory in Dearborn, Michigan, by
Continue Reading DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford says it will nearly double the annual production of its electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck based on a high number of advance reservations. The company says that it will be able to build at a rate of 150,000 pickups per year at its electric vehicle factory in Dearborn, Michigan, by
Continue Reading By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The man suspected of starting the fire that gutted South Africa’s parliament buildings has appeared in court and will remain in custody pending his application for bail. Zandile Christmas Mafe faces several charges including arson, theft, housebreaking and contravention laws that restrict access to government buildings. Mafe
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By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic will get a chance to defend his Australian Open title after receiving a medical exemption to travel to Melbourne. The top-ranked Djokovic wrote on Instagram he has “an exemption permission” to compete at the tournament. Australian Open organizers have issued a statement to
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — German police say an Albanian man who disappeared after serving part of a sentence for his role in the killing of a high-ranking police officer in his homeland two decades ago has been arrested at Frankfurt Airport. Federal police said Tuesday that the 42-year-old was arrested on New Year’s Day as he
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN After you finish your fries, eat the ketchup packet. When you add your pasta to boiling water, toss the bag into the pot, too. If these instructions sound confusing to you, it’s only because you haven’t yet heard of Notpla, a London-based startup company that is designing a seaweed-based replacement for single-use
Continue Reading By Joseph Ataman and Tara John, CNN Armed with homemade explosives, fueled by conspiracy theories and fermented during the pandemic, French authorities say “The Overthrow” was a potentially dangerous creation. According to documents seen by CNN from the DGSI, France’s internal intelligence agency, the group was a far-right network with diverse ideological roots but a
Continue Reading By Yong Xiong and Karla Cripps, CNN After nearly four years of construction, China’s longest underwater highway tunnel is now open to vehicle traffic. At a length of 10.79 kilometers (6.65 miles), the Taihu tunnel stretches under Lake Taihu in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, about 50 kilometers east of Shanghai. According to government officials in
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — Mientras que decenas de millones de estadounidenses no vacunados se encuentran en mayor riesgo de contraer una enfermedad grave por infección de covid-19, doctores y centros de atención médica en todo el país informan que hay un número creciente de niños hospitalizados, algunos de los cuales son demasiado jóvenes para ser vacunados.
Continue Reading TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s health minister says same-sex couples will be able to have children through surrogate mothers in Israel as of next week. The announcement on Tuesday follows a court decision made last year that expanded surrogacy to gay couples. Under the previous regulations, Israeli same-sex couples looking to become parents could
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s environmentalist Greens have come out in favor of a second term for President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. That leaves the head of state well-placed to win another five years in office. The Greens on Tuesday became the last of the three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s new government to endorse Steinmeier. He was
Continue Reading By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese have flooded the streets in the capital of Khartoum and other cities in anti-coup protests as the country plunges further into turmoil following the prime minister’s resignation earlier this week. The premier was ousted in the October coup, only to be reinstated a month later following
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung and Hannah Ritchie, CNN Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Chow Hang-tung was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Tuesday for her part in organizing an unauthorized vigil to commemorate the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Chow is a former vice chairwoman of the now-disbanded organization Hong Kong Alliance, which since
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By Laura He, CNN Business Walmart has been swept up in controversy in China after one of its retailers was accused of removing products sourced from Xinjiang. It’s more evidence of how difficult it has become for Western businesses to navigate international politics in China. The firestorm began late last month when people on Chinese
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — Todos los estadounidenses se han visto obligados a considerar cuánto riesgo es aceptable para que la nación vuelva a ponerse de pie mientras la variante ómicron del nuevo coronavirus se sale de control. El país está siendo sepultado por una avalancha de nuevas infecciones, pero después de dos años agotadores y desmoralizadores,
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By Holly Yan and Travis Caldwell, CNN More children are getting hospitalized with Covid-19 than ever before as the Omicron variant’s dominance intensifies. An average of 672 children were admitted to hospitals every day with Covid-19 during the week ending Sunday, the highest such number of the pandemic, according to data from the US Centers
Continue Reading By Jason Hanna, Steve Almasy and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A 50-mile stretch of Interstate 95 in eastern Virginia reopened Tuesday night after a severe winter storm left some motorists stranded on the highway for more than 24 hours. All disabled vehicles were removed from I-95 in that stretch in the Fredericksburg area between Richmond and
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — A landslide at a construction site in southwestern China has killed 14 people and injured three others. Official reports say the cause of the landslide Monday evening in Guizhou province is under investigation. Workers were building a training facility for a hospital at the time of the landslide. Mountainous, inland Guizhou is
Continue Reading By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — A U.S.-led coalition official in Iraq says two explosives-laden drones that targeted a military base housing U.S. troops in western Anbar province have been destroyed. The official says the fixed-wing drones rigged with explosives were engaged by defensive capabilities at the Ain al-Asad airbase, and that the
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