By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Katie Taylor used to pretend she was a boy so she could box. Amanda Serrano fought for thousands of dollars with a resume that in men’s boxing would earn her many millions. Now they meet Saturday night in one of the most significant women’s boxing
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN Even the most casual “Jeopardy!” viewers might have recently seen footage making the internet rounds of a supremely unbothered Mattea Roach wagering $8,000 in the “Anatomy of Words” category. “You know what — if I wager a lot and lose today, like, whatever, I had such a good run,” the bespectacled
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By Tami Luhby, CNN More Americans than ever before have health coverage thanks to the Affordable Care Act, which is helping send the nation’s uninsured rate to near record lows, the Biden administration announced Friday. Fueled by Covid-19 relief measures and renewed federal investment, enrollment in Obamacare plans, Medicaid expansion and Basic Health Plan policies
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By David Goldman, CNN Business Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to support the ruble continue to pay off — and then some. Russia’s currency hit a two-year high against the US dollar Friday. The ruble gained ground after the country said it managed to pay back creditors with dollars as Russia tries to avoid a
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For the past two years, the federal government has turned away migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, including those who are seeking asylum, using a public emergency health order known as Title 42. It was launched by the Trump administration at the start of the pandemic and continued under the Biden administration. The U.S. Centers for
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Sergio Gomez (CNN Español) — “Doctor Strange en el Multiverso de la Locura” es la primera película de Marvel Studios que se estrena en 2022. Como viene siendo habitual en el Universo Cinematográfico de Marvel (o MCU en inglés por Marvel Cinematic Universe), cada nueva producción ofrece nuevos desarrollos en los personajes principales, y para
Continue Reading Victoria Fernandez (CNN Español) — Todo comenzó con un dolor de muelas. Eso fue lo que trajo a Gary Poteat al consultorio del médico. Pero después de varias citas y una biopsia, Poteat descubrió que tenía células renales malignas en la mandíbula, resultado del cáncer de riñón en etapa IV, algo con lo que solo
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CNN By David Goldman, CNN Business Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to support the ruble continue to pay off — and then some. Russia’s currency hit a two-year high against the US dollar Friday. The ruble gained ground after the country said it managed to pay back creditors with dollars as Russia tries to avoid
Continue Reading By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Former No. 1 Naomi Osaka has kicked off her clay season with a comfortable straight-sets win over qualifier Anastasia Potapova in the first round of the Madrid Open. Osaka has pledged to be more positive with herself this season. The four-time Grand Slam champion defeated Potapova
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN When Mariane Ibrahim opened her elegant, new three-story art gallery in Paris last September, she became one of the few Black gallerists to set up shop in the French capital and dedicate the space to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. Located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, among other noted
Continue Reading By Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb, Elizabeth Stuart and Brian Stelter, CNN Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Fox’s Sean Hannity exchanged more than 80 text messages between Election Day 2020 and Joe Biden’s January 2021 inauguration, communications that show Hannity’s evolution from staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump’s election lies to
Continue Reading Carlton McCoy visits the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery to learn about how she is working to highlight diverse perspectives in the French art scene. Be sure to tune into “Nomad with Carlton McCoy” premiering on CNN this Sunday at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
Continue Reading By CNN CNN has obtained 2,319 text messages that former President Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows sent and received between Election Day 2020 and President Joe Biden’s January 20, 2021, inauguration. Meadows selectively provided these messages to the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Among
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BANGKOK (AP) — Petronas, Malaysia’s state-owned oil and gas company, has announced it is withdrawing from Myanmar’s offshore Yetagun natural gas project, The company, through two subsidiaries, has held a 40.9% participating interest in the project, with Myanmar’s state oil company and oil exploration companies from Japan and Thailand as its partners. Petronas is the
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden and his advisers are still in conversations about how to approach November’s Group of 20 summit, whose hosts received confirmation Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to attend. Biden has said Russia should be ejected from the G20. Senior members of his administration have walked out of
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — Durante el primer mes de la invasión rusa de Ucrania las miradas del mundo estuvieron concentradas sobre Kyiv, la capital ucraniana. Rusia atacó el país en múltiples frentes. Pero el asalto en el norte sobre Kyiv amenzó directamente al gobierno de Ucrania, que se ha negado a abandonar la capital
Continue Reading By Chloe Melas, CNN You might not know his name, but you’ve probably seen his videos. To his 8 million followers on Instagram and TikTok, Jimmy Darts, 26, shares videos in which he surprises strangers with cash and other gifts. Born in Minnesota, Darts, whose real name is Jimmy Kellogg, spoke with CNN about his
Continue Reading Social media star Jimmy Darts has given away over a hundred thousand dollars. He looks for strangers to perform random acts of kindness and hands them money.
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By CNN Sport staff Six-time grand slam champion Boris Becker was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail on Friday for flouting the terms of his bankruptcy in 2017, according to the UK’s Insolvency Service. Earlier this month, the 54-year-old Becker, a former world No. 1 and three-time Wimbledon champion, was found guilty of four offenses
Continue Reading Host of “The Late Late Show” James Corden has announced that he will be leaving the show in 2023. Corden has been the host since 2015.
Continue Reading By Eric Bradner and Jeff Zeleny, CNN J.D. Vance’s bid for the Ohio Republican Senate nomination has turned into the clearest early test in this year’s midterm elections of former President Donald Trump‘s influence over the candidates whom GOP primary voters back and the policies that animate the party. Trump plucked Vance from a pack
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — German police have searched offices of Deutsche Bank in connection with a money laundering investigation. The bank confirmed Friday that its offices had been raided. In a statement Deutsche Bank said that the probe by the Frankfurt public prosecutor’s office was “in connection with suspicious activity reports filed by the bank.” It
Continue Reading By Sara Smart, CNN Over the next couple of months, one man will attempt to row close to 4,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. Peter Harley, 61, hopes to set sail next week, weather permitting, from Virginia Beach and make his way to La Trinité-sur-Mer, France. He told CNN on Thursday he estimates the entire
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — A bomb scare set off scenes of panic at Israel’s airport after an American family showed up with an unexploded artillery shell they had found in the Golan Heights. The family had intended to bring it back as a souvenir. Videos showed passengers ducking for cover, running and screaming at the departure
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Germán Padinger (CNN) — En el Parque de la Victoria, al oeste del centro de Moscú, se eleva un enorme obelisco en cuya base hay una estatua de San Jorge, el santo patrono de Rusia, clavando su lanza en un dragón adornado con la cruz esvástica, un símbolo de la victoria soviética sobre la Alemania
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El 29 de mayo los colombianos vuelven a las urnas, esta vez para elegir al próximo presidente y vicepresidente de Colombia. Casi 39 millones de electores están citados el último domingo de mayo, desde las 8 am hasta las 4 p.m., para elegir al mandatario que llevará las riendas
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Han pasado poco más de dos años desde que las mascarillas se volvieron parte de la vida diaria de millones de personas en todo el mundo. Ahora, debido al descenso de casos de covid-19, y campañas de vacunación que han protegido a los ciudadanos del covid-19, muchas ciudades y
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In a bid to restore forests and fight climate change, Canadian startup Flash Forest aims to plant 1 billion trees by 2028, using drones and aerial mapping.
Continue Reading By Laura Vargas, CNN Not every urban metropolis is known as the City in the Forest like Atlanta is. So tree loss is something the city takes seriously. And now arborists in Atlanta are teaming up to save the city’s trees by setting an ambitious goal. The firm Peachtree Arborists, with help from the nonprofit
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN It was 2014 and Diamond Joe was having a moment. The muscle-car-revving, hair-metal-blasting party animal, conceived as satire by The Onion as Joe Biden’s alter-ego, had suddenly become the toast of Washington — never mind the actual Joe Biden doesn’t drink and has remained happily married for four decades. Still, the
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