By SARA BURNETT and JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press WAUCONDA, Ill. (AP) — The race to be Illinois’ next governor is also a battle among billionaires, including two whose names won’t appear on Tuesday’s primary ballot. Republican candidates Darren Bailey, who as a state lawmaker fought pandemic measures such as mask mandates, and former prosecutor Richard
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By Phil Mattingly, CNN House Democrats’ anxiety bubbled to the surface as they awaited the belated arrival of White House officials. The three top advisers to President Joe Biden arrived 13 minutes late for a meeting with the caucus on, according to the invitation sent to members, “messaging on the economy.” The presentation and question-and-answer
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business All things considered, video game leader Electronic Arts is having a pretty decent year despite inflation worries, recession fears and other macroeconomic headwinds. Shares of EA are only down about 2% in 2022, a drop that’s not nearly as bad as the rest of the tech sector, which
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By Tim Lister, Julia Kesaieva, Salma Abdelaziz, Pierre Bairin and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Russia targeted the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv with a series of missile attacks Sunday, as leaders of the G7 nations gather in Germany for the first day of their annual summit. One person died and at least six were wounded in a
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso Police investigated a stabbing in West El Paso early Sunday morning. The initial report was released just after 2 a.m. The Crimes Against Persons called out to the scene. First responders confirmed that the stabbing happened on the 6400 block of Belton Road. There has been no information released
Continue Reading By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Senior U.S. officials are in Sri Lanka seeking ways to help the island nation cope with an unprecedented economic crisis and severe shortages of essential supplies. The energy minister warned in a tweet that new fuel shipments would be delayed and people shouldn’t be lining
Continue Reading By Nicquel Terry Ellis and Nicole Chavez, CNN Civil and reproductive rights groups say the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is yet another attack on communities of color which will leave millions of Black and brown women without access to abortion care. Since the ruling became public Friday, leaders of Black, Latino,
Continue Reading Leaders of Black, Latino, Asian American, and Native American groups say their communities would be among the hardest hit by abortion restrictions.
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — Leaders of three French energy companies have called on the French public to immediately reduce consumption of fuel, oil, electricity and gas amid shortages and soaring prices due to Russia’s supply cuts and the war in Ukraine. The leaders of TotalEnergies, EDF and Engie said in a joint statement published in the
Continue Reading By Jacquelyne Germain, CNN Beyoncé has hailed this summer’s liberation anthem with the release of her new single “Break My Soul” — and its Black queer roots are undeniable. The song’s release earlier this week comes at the intersection of Juneteenth, Pride Month and Black Music month. A house track at its core, the song
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Camille Knight and Elias Lemercier, CNN It’s a typical Wednesday lunchtime in Paris, the streets buzzing with tourists, terraces packed with tables, when the wail of an air raid siren fills the air. Its groan tears across the city for nearly two minutes, reaching a crescendo above the midday traffic before dying away. It’s a
Continue Reading By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Europe and the United States have barred the import of Russian oil to cut off a crucial revenue source for the Kremlin. But the plan to pile pain on President Vladimir Putin, forcing him to reconsider his war in Ukraine, hasn’t worked. Russia is making just as much money from
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi and Gregory Krieg, CNN Several states are working to protect abortion rights — and efforts were ramping up among Democratic leaders and lawmakers on Sunday — following the US Supreme Court’s ruling eliminating the federal constitutional right to an abortion, with Saturday marking the first full day without the nationwide protection in
Continue Reading Kristan Hawkins, an anti-abortion activist and president of Students for Life of America, joins CNN’s Pamela Brown to discuss her stance on abortion and her reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Continue Reading Attorney Gloria Allred, who represented Norma McCorvey, known in court documents as Jane Roe, reacts to the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Continue Reading CNN’s Jake Tapper asks Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams whether she supports adding more justices to the Supreme Court.
Continue Reading Text by Dakin Andone, Visuals by Leanza Abucayan, CNN Minutes after a gunman killed 10 people in a Boulder, Colorado, grocery store in March 2021, a woman stood in the back of the supermarket where she worked in Denver, about 30 miles away, staring at harrowing images of the scene as she scrolled through her
Continue Reading An eyewitness describes the gory scene around Monday’s fatal shooting in Highland Park, Illinois.
Continue Reading By CNN’s Teele Rebane, Eyad Kourdi and Reuters South Africa was on Sunday mourning the deaths of 22 young people — some of them as young as 13 — at a tavern in East London. National police minister Bheki Cele told reporters when visiting the scene that he could not yet say what happened at
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden may be overseas in the Bavarian Alps, but the political division and sour mood he left behind will be difficult to ignore as he begins this year’s Group of 7 summit. Rising costs — driven in part by the Russian invasion of Ukraine — will be central to
Continue Reading Biologists in Florida have caught an 18-foot long, 215-pound python. The snake was the biggest Burmese python ever recorded in the state, according to the Conservancy of Southwest Florida.
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN She’s massive, invasive and covered in scales: A record breaking 215-pound, 18-foot-long Burmese python has been captured in Florida. The python is the heaviest ever captured in the state, the Conservancy of Southwest Florida announced on Wednesday. The huge reptile was captured by the conservancy as part of its invasive Burmese
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By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Cal Raleigh had three hits, Kevin Padlo hit a two-run, bases-loaded single in the sixth inning and the Seattle Mariners overcame a monstrous home run by Shohei Ohtani to rally for a 5-3 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday night. Julio Rodriguez went
Continue Reading By RICHARD J. MARCUS Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Bryce Harper will be sidelined indefinitely with a broken left thumb after he was hit by a pitch from Blake Snell in the Philadelphia Phillies’ 4-2 victory over the San Diego Padres. The reigning NL MVP checked his swing as the 97-mph fastball from Snell
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La primera nave espacial de la NASA diseñada para estudiar un asteroide metálico no será lanzada este año como estaba previsto, según anunció la agencia este viernes. La ventana de lanzamiento de la misión Psyche para 2022, que se abrió el 1 de agosto y se cierra el 11 de octubre,
Continue Reading By SCOTT BORDOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Kody Clemens hit his first major league home run to lead the Detroit Tigers to a 6-3 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks. Clemens, the 26-year-old son of seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens, hit a three-run homer in the top of the sixth inning off Arizona
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — “Creemos que cortando rutas y utilizando otros métodos de lucha es de la única forma que se pueden cambiar las cosas acá, en Argentina”, afirmaba en 2002 Darío Santillán, un joven hasta el momento ignoto, que había decidido sumarse a los llamados movimientos piqueteros que desde los años 90 venían
Continue Reading Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Rusia transferirá sistemas de misiles Iskander-M con capacidad nuclear a su aliado Belarús en los próximos meses, dijo el sábado el presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin. Putin le dijo al presidente de Belarús, Alexander Lukashenko, en una reunión en San Petersburgo que los sistemas de misiles “pueden usar tanto
Continue Reading PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Sebastián Blanco converted a tiebreaking penalty kick in first-half stoppage time just after 19-year-old goalkeeper Abraham Rodriguez made his Major League Soccer debut in place of injured William Yarbrough, and the Portland Timbers beat the Colorado Rapids 3-0 on Saturday night. Yarbrough, a 33-year-old who has made three international appearances for
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Stacker investigated the number of LGBT people who have children in Texas using data from the Williams Institute.
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