WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Two-time Olympic women’s shot put champion Valerie Adams has announced her retirement at the age of 37. Adams also won Olympic silver and bronze medals and was a four-time world champion, a four-time world indoor champion and three-time Commonwealth Games champion. One of 18 children of a Tonga-born mother and
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GRAMBLING, La. (AP) — Art Briles out at Grambling after school criticized for hiring the disgraced former Baylor football coach.
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Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) –- El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, pronunciará este martes su primer discurso sobre el Estado de la Unión ante ambas cámaras del Congreso, una comparecencia que ha servido históricamente a los mandatarios para promover sus logros así como las prioridades de su Gobierno y sus objetivos políticos. Este año
Continue Reading By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin has emerged as one of college basketball’s biggest surprises because of an uncanny ability to win close games. The 10th-ranked Badgers have won their last 14 games that were decided by six points or fewer. This marks the first time since the introduction of
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CNNEspañol sjv (CNN) — Los multimillonarios rusos Mikhail Fridman y Oleg Deripaska rompieron filas con el Kremlin y pidieron el fin de la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania. Fridman, que nació en el oeste de Ucrania, escribió en una carta al personal que quería que “terminara el derramamiento de sangre”. Guerra Rusia – Ucrania: última
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By ALAN SUDERMAN and FRANK BAJAK Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Russia has some of the best hackers in the world, but in the early days of the war in Ukraine, its ability to create mayhem through malware hasn’t had much of a noticeable impact. Instead, it’s Ukraine that’s marshalled sympathetic volunteer hackers in
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By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Netflix is refusing to air Russian state TV channels in the country — something that the streamer would have been required to do by Russian law starting this week. “Given the current situation, we have no plans to add these channels to our service,” Netflix told CNN Business in a
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Wizards have signed guard Tomas Satoransky. Satoransky was waived by San Antonio on Saturday. The 6-foot-7 Satoransky returns to the team he spent his first three NBA seasons with from 2016-19. He was drafted by the Wizards in the second round in 2012, then played three seasons in Spain. In
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Students and staffers at New Mexico State University stood in solidarity with Ukraine Monday evening, protesting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ilya Shapirovskiy, an associate professor in NMSU’s department of mathematics, stood in the crowd with his ten-year-old daughter as she held a sign that read “Stop the war: Peace for
Continue Reading By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Granada and Cádiz have drawn 0-0 in a Spanish league match marked by a fan racially insulting a player. A fan behind one of the goals at Granada’s stadium was seen on the television broadcast making what appeared to be gestures imitating a monkey as Cádiz
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By Melanie Zanona, CNN Republican leaders in Congress are condemning two GOP lawmakers, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona, for speaking at a White nationalist conference over the weekend. On Monday evening, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy publicly weighed in on the matter for the first time. “Last week, I
Continue Reading By Allison Morrow, CNN Business The US and its European allies on Friday announced new sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a rare move targeting a foreign leader’s personal wealth. But the impact of those sanctions may be largely symbolic. Although Putin is believed to hold billions of dollars in personal wealth, little is
Continue Reading By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business General Motors is joining a host of other companies in cutting off its business with Russia. The Detroit-based automaker announced Friday it is halting all exports to the country which is currently invading neighboring Ukraine. Cutting off exports to Russia will not be terribly costly to GM, though. GM only
Continue Reading By Clare Foran and Ted Barrett, CNN Longtime Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blum, died Sunday evening following “a long battle with cancer,” according to an announcement from Feinstein’s office. Feinstein, a California Democrat, said in a statement that her “heart is broken today.” “My husband was my partner and best friend for more
Continue Reading BERGAMO, Italy (AP) — Russia international Aleksei Miranchuk held his head down and didn’t celebrate after scoring the final goal in Atalanta’s 4-0 win over Sampdoria in Serie A. Miranchuk’s goal came hours after Russia’s national team was suspended from qualifying matches for the World Cup as Moscow was pushed toward pariah status in sports
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By Brian Fung, CNN Business Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are all taking tougher stances on content from Russian state media amid intensifying pressure from European officials for the Big Tech platforms to act against pro-Russian propaganda and address the escalating information war in Ukraine and across the internet. But there are concerns that cracking down
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By Marnie Hunter and Forrest Brown, CNN Vietnam was the only destination added to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s highest-risk Level 4 category for travel on Monday. The “very high” risk category still contains more destinations than all the other levels put together, with nearly 140 places now at Level 4. In
Continue Reading CNN By Brian Fung, CNN Business Apple has stopped selling all of its products in Russia due to the invasion of Ukraine, the company announced Tuesday. The company said in a statement that it is “deeply concerned” about the Russian invasion and that in response, it has “paused all product sales” in the country. Apple
Continue Reading CNN By Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand and Barbara Starr, CNN Ukrainian forces have so far managed to stave off Russian ground forces massed less than 20 miles north of the embattled capital Kyiv — but though they’ve defied US intelligence predictions that the city would likely fall within one to four days of a
Continue Reading By Paul P. Murphy, Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Tim Lister, Josh Pennington and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, is believed to have been one of the invading Russian military’s first strategic targets. Home to 1.4 million people, it is located less than 20 miles from the Russian border, in northeast Ukraine. It
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — Las fuerzas ucranianas han logrado hasta ahora mantener a raya a las fuerzas terrestres rusas, las cuales se encuentran a menos de 32 kilómetros al norte de la asediada capital de Ucrania, Kyiv. Pero, a pesar de que han desafiado las predicciones de los servicios de inteligencia de Estados Unidos, según las
Continue Reading By Kara Scannell and Paula Reid, CNN Lawyers for former President Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are appealing the New York state judge’s decision earlier this month ordering them to sit for depositions in the New York attorney general’s civil investigation into the Trump Organization. The notice of appeal, filed on Monday,
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By Forrest Brown, CNN Beth Pratt first explored the wonders of Yellowstone National Park through the pages of a book. Inside a tattered hardcover entitled “National Parks of the U.S.A.,” she still has a list where she penned in five Western parks she dreamed of visiting. Among the quintet was Yellowstone. “I can still remember
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — New York City FC has signed 14-year-old midfielder Maximo Carrizo to a homegrown contract that makes him the youngest first-team signing in MLS history. Carrizo signed his deal on the same day he celebrated his 14th birthday. The contract runs through the 2027 season with an option for 2028. He’s the
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Monday: BP, EPAM Systems fall; Tupperware, First Horizon rise.
Continue Reading By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer Art Briles is out as Grambling State’s offensive coordinator, less than one week after the disgraced former Baylor coach was surprisingly hired. Briles has been a pariah in college football since 2016, when he was fired by Baylor after an investigation concluded he and his staff took no action
Continue Reading By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer Art Briles is out as Grambling State’s offensive coordinator, less than one week after the disgraced former Baylor coach was surprisingly hired. Briles has been a pariah in college football since 2016, when he was fired by Baylor after an investigation concluded he and his staff took no action
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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press An advocacy group that represents thousands of racehorse owners has filed an ethics complaint against New Mexico racing and gambling regulators. The New Mexico Horsemen’s Association claims multiple state laws have been violated. The association says the Racing Commission and Gaming Control Board are attempting to silence its members
Continue Reading The Associated Press Markets quivered Monday amid worries about how high oil prices will go and how badly the global economy will get hit after the U.S. and allies upped the financial pressure on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. Stocks swung down, up and down again, while investors herded into gold in search of
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — La invasión de Ucrania por parte de Rusia ya superó los 100 días, y los combates continúan en varios puntos del país. Esta es la cronología de los hechos. Los combates comenzaron el 24 de febrero, cuando tropas rusas —provenientes de Rusia y Belarús— cruzaron la frontera en varios puntos
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