By Ashley Strickland, CNN NASA will launch a mission that will both fly by Venus and descend through its harsh atmosphere in 2029. Called DAVINCI, the Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry and Imaging mission will be the first to study Venus through both flybys and descent. The spacecraft is expected to explore
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By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Yordan Álvarez already has brought so much to the Houston Astros. On the day he and the team finalized a $115 million, six-year contract, general manager James Click spoke about how much more they expect the slugger to do for this franchise. “A cornerstone player,” Click
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By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Yordan Álvarez already has brought so much to the Houston Astros. On the day he and the team finalized a $115 million, six-year contract, general manager James Click spoke about how much more they expect the slugger to do for this franchise. “A cornerstone player,” Click
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Alexandra Ferguson La Habana, Cuba (CNN) — El gobierno de Cuba arremetió este lunes contra la decisión de Estados Unidos de no invitar a su país, ni a Nicaragua ni a Venezuela a la Cumbre de las Américas, la reunión regional que se celebra esta semana en Los Ángeles. ¿Por qué no estarán Cuba, Venezuela,
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CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business This year has so far been miserable for investors in social media companies. Shares of Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms have plunged more than 40% so far in 2022. Investors are concerned about CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s plans to transform the company into a metaverse
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business This year has so far been miserable for investors in social media companies. Shares of Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms have plunged more than 40% so far in 2022. Investors are concerned about CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s plans to transform the company into a metaverse player … whatever
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a major reason that US drivers are paying record prices for gasoline. But it’s not the only cause of the spike. Numerous factors are pushing prices up, with regular gasoline hitting a record $4.87 a gallon Monday according to AAA’s survey — up 25 cents
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EL PASO, Texas — A 61-year-old man died after a driver rear-ended him Sunday morning in central El Paso, according to El Paso Police. The victim has been identified as Juan Vasquez of west El Paso. According to police, the unidentified driver of a 2014 Chevrolet Silverado was driving behind Vasquez when for some unknown
Continue Reading By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business The pandemic brought a wave of new investors into the stock market. And now those newbies are facing their first major market downturn. Some Millennials and Gen Z-ers found themselves jobless and bored during peak Covid, yet flush with sudden access to cash through stimulus programs and increased federal unemployment
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN)– Varios jugadores de los Tampa Bay Rays no llevaron logotipos LGBTQ en sus uniformes para la celebración de la Noche del Orgullo (Pride Night) del equipo durante el partido del sábado contra los Chicago White Sox. Según el Tampa Bay Times, al menos cinco jugadores de béisbol de los Rays, los lanzadores
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By Brad Parks The upcoming state trial for former Minneapolis police officers Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng for their alleged role in George Floyd’s killing has been moved to January 2023, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill ruled Monday. Jury selection in the trial for Thao and Kueng, charged with aiding and abetting second-degree unintentional
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — The projected field for the Belmont Stakes is down to eight after two withdrawals the day before the post position draw. Neither Ethereal Road nor Howling Time will run in the third leg of the Triple Crown on Saturday. Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas says Ethereal Road has a
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN Business) — Un anuncio de televisión de un spray corporal para hombres fue retirado del aire en la India, después de que los críticos dijeran que hacía referencia a la violación en grupo. Celebridades de Bollywood como Priyanka Chopra, Richa Chadha y Farhan Khan se encuentran entre los que han arremetido contra
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The United States has sanctioned two prominent Bosnian officials. The Treasury Department on Monday accused them of threatening the peace, stability and prosperity in their country which has never fully recovered from its brutal inter-ethnic war in the 1990s. The Bosnian war pitted the country’s three main ethnic factions against each
Continue Reading By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies swept the Los Angeles Angels and enter a pivotal stretch to revive their season. The Phillies open a three-game series Tuesday at NL Central-leading Milwaukee. The series could show if the Phillies were one-weekend wonders in the wake of the enthusiasm of a
Continue Reading By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Budget airline Ryanair says it’s forcing South African travelers to the U.K. to do a test in the Afrikaans language to prove their nationality in an apparent effort to weed out those with phony passports. Dublin-based Ryanair, Europe’s biggest airline, mainly operates routes around Europe and doesn’t
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN) — Elon Musk hizo este lunes su amenaza más directa hasta el momento de cancelar la compra de Twitter, al acusar abiertamente a la compañía de violar el acuerdo de fusión por no proporcionar los datos que él solicitó sobre spam y cuentas falsas. Cronología del accidentado camino de Elon Musk hacia la
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El gran ciclista estadounidense Greg Lemond reveló que le diagnosticaron leucemia mielógena crónica. LeMond, ganador del Tour de Francia en tres ocasiones, anunció la noticia a través de un comunicado en su página web. LeMond, de 60 años, dijo en su declaración que se había sentido mal durante algún tiempo antes
Continue Reading By Adam Pourahmadi and Jeremy Herb, CNN Iran is only a few weeks away from having a “significant quantity of enriched uranium,” the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Director General Rafael Grossi said on Monday. “Having a significant quantity does not mean having a bomb,” Grossi told a press conference following the start of the quarterly
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN) — En Carolina del Sur y Texas, a las víctimas les dispararon en una fiesta de graduación de su escuela secundaria. En Kentucky, los asistentes a un funeral fueron atacados afuera de una iglesia. Múltiples atacantes acribillaron a balazos a una multitud en Filadelfia. En Chattanooga, Tennessee, los disparos ocurrieron en una discoteca.
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Just a couple of weeks after the Ingenuity helicopter celebrated a year of flying on Mars, things got quiet. For the first time, the Ingenuity team on Earth lost contact with Ingenuity on sols 427 and 428, or Martian days that correspond with May 3 and May 4. The little chopper’s
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed, CNN The Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a case brought to it by a Missouri Republican Senate candidate and his wife, who were seeking review of the professional disciplinary action they faced, as lawyers, for pointing guns at racial justice protestors demonstrating outside their St. Louis home. There were
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN A fishy ruling from California: A California court has ruled bees can legally be considered fish under specific circumstances. The ruling, released May 31, reversed an earlier judgment which found bumblebees could not be considered “fish” under the California Endangered Species Act. “The issue presented here is whether the bumblebee, a
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim, Abbas Al Lawati and Swati Gupta, CNN It took India less than 24 hours to discipline two politicians after a controversy that had been brewing at home for over a week caught the attention of its Arab trade partners. India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday suspended a spokesperson and expelled
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Tesla may not be cutting staff after all. That’s according to a tweet from its ever-mercurial CEO Elon Musk — an apparent contradiction to two emails he sent staff last week about planned job cuts and a hiring freeze, which pushed Tesla shares lower. Last Thursday, according to a Reuters
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — La superestrella de Los Angeles Lakers, LeBron James, se sumó a los muchos atletas que expresan su deseo de que la estrella de la WNBA Brittney Griner regrese a casa tras llevar más de 100 días detenida en Rusia. “Tenemos que unirnos y ayudar a hacer todo lo posible para traer a BG a
Continue Reading COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Lindsey Vonn, Michelle Kwan, Mia Hamm, Billie Jean King and the late Pat Summitt are among the nine individual women who will be inducted into the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame this summer, along with Michael Phelps and hurdling great Roger Kingdom. Others voted onto the 2022 class
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By Marianne Garvey Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler’s divorce has been up and down. But now that their settlement has been finalized, Cutler says he celebrated. “When the settlement came through, I threw a party,” he said on his podcast, “Uncut With Jay Cutler.” “I don’t recommend divorce for anybody. I’m just gonna go ahead
Continue Reading By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden ordered emergency measures Monday to boost crucial supplies to U.S. solar manufacturers and declared a two-year tariff exemption on solar panels from Southeast Asia as he attempted to jumpstart progress toward his climate change-fighting goals. His invoking of the Defense Production Act and his
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Humans’ historical greenhouse gas emissions have caused the climate crisis the world is in today. But it’s the amount emitted now and in coming years that will determine whether humanity can avert catastrophic climate changes. That’s the main finding of a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on
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