By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The airline that flew a load of monkeys to the U.S. who were later involved in a highway wreck says it will stop this shipments this month. Kenya Airways says it will not renew its contract with the monkey provider, whom it did not identify. The airline flew 100
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is making “the strongest possible appeal” to all combatants in Ethiopia to observe the Olympic Truce and halt hostilities. The U.N. chief told reporters Tuesday that observing the truce can allow people in need throughout the country to receive humanitarian aid and can help pave the way for
Continue Reading By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Whatever little chance there was of an on-time start to spring training all but vanished during a contentious 90-minute negotiating session between locked out players and Major League Baseball. Players made two slight moves during the first meeting in a week. Given the lack of
Continue Reading By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer Floyd Mayweather Jr. is ready to put his money into NASCAR. The Money Team Racing hopes to debut at the Daytona 500 with Kaz Grala as the driver. Grala will drive the No. 50 Chevrolet for the retired boxing great. Mayweather is the latest A-lister on the grid and
Continue Reading CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — UFC President Dana White has struck a partnership deal with the Pitbull-owned NASCAR race team Trackhouse Racing. The deal starts this week at the exhibition Clash in Los Angeles. White’s Howler Head Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey will serve as primary sponsor of Ross Chastain’s No. 1 Chevrolet in Sunday’s race at
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EL PASO, Texas – Hughey Elementary in east El Paso has been evacuated due to a gas leak. According to EPISD officials, a construction crew working near the school hit a gas line. Students are being evacuated to an area between Ross Middle School and Hughey Elementary. The call came out just after 12:30 p.m.
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By Fredreka Schouten, David Wright, Alex Rogers and Melissa Holzberg DePalo, CNN Some of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents in the Senate have raised enormous sums and head into the midterms with massive war chests, new campaign finance reports show. But they will face a well-funded opposition: In a sign of momentum for the political
Continue Reading By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — An Iran-flagged supertanker carrying more than 2 million barrels of condensate has docked at a Venezuelan port, with both countries facing U.S. sanctions. Analysts and satellite images analyzed by The Associated Press indicate the tanker Starla is at the port of Barcelona in northeastern Venezuela.
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HOUSTON, Texas – Space tourism company Zero-G Experience is inviting Borderland residents to find out what it’s like to be weightless in space, but only going up 36,000 feet in a plane. In March, the company will be in Houston and Austin, offering people the chance to board a specially-equipped Boeing 727 and float in
Continue Reading By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban lobbied for a higher volume of Russian natural gas shipments to Hungary during a meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The meeting Tuesday came as tensions continue to soar over Russia’s buildup of troops along its borders with Ukraine.
Continue Reading By Jeff Zeleny, Kate Sullivan and Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden spent Tuesday afternoon starting the process of courting crucial senators who will play key roles in confirming his future Supreme Court nominee, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, as he got set to pick the man who will guide the nominee through the
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN Wordle has taken over the internet. A no-frills daily word game in which players have six tries to guess a new five-letter word each day, the game has become a phenomenon. Every day, social media is alight with users posting the green and yellow boxes indicating their scores. The game is
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business In a few years, cars going down a road in a historic section of Detroit will theoretically be able to charge their batteries as they drive. That’s the goal of an Israeli company that is finalizing an agreement with the state of Michigan’s Department of Transportation to build the roughly
Continue Reading SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — A rare football card featuring Tom Brady in the year he won his first Super Bowl has sold for $118,000 at auction. The 2002 Topps Finest X-Fractor card was one of only 20 featuring the NFL quarterback who won his first Super Bowl on Feb. 3, 2002. He won a total
Continue Reading By Clare Foran, Manu Raju and Ted Barrett, CNN Key swing vote Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia offered a grim pronouncement on the status of President Joe Biden’s remaining domestic agenda, saying on Tuesday that the Build Back Better act is “dead,” underscoring how the sweeping proposal to expand the social safety net has
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El secretario de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos, Alejandro Mayorkas, fue recibido con preocupación y frustración durante las reuniones con agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza de EE.UU. en varios lugares a lo largo de la frontera sur la semana pasada, según fuentes familiarizadas con las discusiones y los audios y videos
Continue Reading By Caroll Alvarado and Jenn Selva, CNN Two campus officers were shot and killed Tuesday during an active shooter situation at Bridgewater College in Virginia, according to college spokesperson Logan Bogert. “I can confirm that a campus police officer and a campus safety officer died from gunshot wounds today,” Bogert told CNN’s Josh Campbell. College
Continue Reading Hearts are heavy in two communities after a student was killed in a school shooting in Minnesota and two campus officers have been shot and killed at a college in Virginia.
Continue Reading By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The PGA Tour is set for beautiful weather at Pebble Beach, with one eye on Saudi Arabia. The Saudi-funded Asian Tour has the Saudi International this week that has attracted defending champion Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau. They are among 20 of
Continue Reading ZURICH (AP) — Former England youth international Felix Nmecha has switched to play internationally for Germany after FIFA approved a change of nationality. The 21-year-old midfielder was born in Germany before moving to England and progressing through Manchester City’s academy into the first team before leaving last year for Bundesliga club Wolfsburg. Nmecha started out
Continue Reading The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Autonomous vehicle taxis are up and running in San Francisco and the public has been invited to try one out. Employees of General Motors and its autonomous vehicle subsidiary Cruise have been testing out the service for weeks, but on Tuesday Cruise posted a signup page for anyone
Continue Reading By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Javon Frazier and other HBCU players have something to prove in 2022, and more opportunity to prove it. Nearly a year after none of their peers were selected in the NFL draft, Frazier and others from Historically Black Colleges and Universities participated in the first
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso police say they have taken four juveniles into custody after they caused about $100,000 in damage at two elementary schools. According to police, officers were first called out Sunday at 6:50 p.m. in response to a business burglary. Investigators say they would later learn four juveniles had entered two
Continue Reading By Allison Morrow, CNN Business If Joe Rogan wasn’t already a household name before last week, he almost certainly is now. His Spotify-based podcast’s Covid commentary created a backlash that led several musicians and customers to boycott the platform. So, who is Rogan? He’s someone who requires a lot of slashes: Comedian/commentator/podcast host/media personality. Rogan,
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — The Champignons League pizza is fine with UEFA after all. European soccer’s governing body says it does not mind that a German frozen pizza manufacturer is referencing the Champions League with one of its cheesy offerings. Pizza Wolke had said Sunday that it had received a letter from a lawyer acting on
Continue Reading By Mirna Alsharif, CNN A New York City police officer is facing hate crime charges after he allegedly punched a motorist until he was unconscious while using anti-Muslim slurs, according to the district attorney’s office. Riggs Kwong, 50, was off-duty when the incident occurred on January 16, according to a news release from the office
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Thirty-five years after “Dirty Dancing,” Fox takes Baby out of the corner (or more accurately, storage) as the basis for an unscripted/celebrity/competition/dancing show, called (what else?) “The Real Dirty Dancing.” It’s unlikely you’ll have the time of your life watching, except perhaps for those who choose to laugh at it
Continue Reading By BRUCE LOWITT AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The only full season of NFL perfection in the Super Bowl era including winning the championship occurred in 1972. When the Dolphins took the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum field against Washington on Jan. 14, 1973, they were 16-0. But they were underdogs to the veteran
Continue Reading By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer It can be argued — and has been for decades — that a perfect record including winning a championship makes that team the best in its sport. Maybe. And maybe the 1972 Miami Dolphins wouldn’t have matched up with, say, the great Steelers dynasty of the later 1970s.
Continue Reading By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer A once-ambitious but now faltering Facebook-backed digital currency project known as Diem is dead, its assets sold to bank holding company Silvergate Capital. Silvergate and the Diem Association announced the sale on Tuesday. Diem said it became clear from its talks federal regulators that the project could not move
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