By Scottie Andrew, CNN Quidditch, the real-life sport inspired by the airborne game played by young wizards in “Harry Potter,” is ditching its whimsical name. Now, athletes will mount broomsticks to play quadball. US Quadball and Major League Quadball, the sports’ two governing bodies in North America, both announced the new name of “quadball” this
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — A medida que una opresiva ola de calor se extiende por Estados Unidos y no muestra signos de disminuir hasta al menos el fin de semana, los líderes locales de todo el país están pidiendo que se extreme la precaución. El calor abrasador que ya se ha instalado en gran parte
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By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The Greek Cypriot president of Cyprus has dismissed proposals put forward by the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots as an “unacceptable” bid to permanently partition the ethnically divided nation. President Nicos Anastasiades said Wednesday that he considered the ideas to be “another attempt to entrench
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes (CNN Español) — De Estados Unidos a China, pasando por Europa, el mundo arde: las temperaturas altas ya se cobran cientos de vidas y las llamas devoran miles de hectáreas. ¿Por qué las olas de calor han alcanzado estas dimensiones históricas? La respuesta la anticiparon largamente los científicos: el factor cambio climático. “Nuestro modo
Continue Reading By Shimon Prokupecz, Eric Levenson, Rosa Flores and Rebekah Riess, CNN The Uvalde, Texas, schools superintendent has recommended the firing of Pete Arredondo, the school police chief who oversaw the response to May’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, according to a Board of Education meeting agenda. The board announced Wednesday it will hold a
Continue Reading By Radina Gigova, Sana Noor Haq and Jack Guy, CNN Russia’s objectives in Ukraine now extend beyond the eastern Donbas region into the country’s south, a senior government minister has said. As the war in Ukraine approaches its fifth month, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told state media that the “geography is different.” “It is
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN) –– Gemas y joyas valoradas en millones de dólares fueron robadas de un camión blindado que estaba estacionado en una parada cerca de Los Ángeles el lunes 11 de julio, informaron las autoridades. Ahora varias agencias investigan los hechos. Joyas valoradas en millones de dólares fueron robadas de un camión blindado cerca de
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, CNN A grand jury in Harris County, Texas, on Tuesday declined to indict a man who allegedly killed 9-year-old Arlene Alvarez while shooting at an armed robber in February, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said. “I just want to tell the family how saddened we are,” Ogg said. “We don’t have
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TORONTO (AP) — Seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams has been given a wild-card entry into the main draw of the National Bank Open next month. She will compete in Toronto for the first time since 2019 and return to WTA Tour singles play for the first time since August 2021. The former world No.
Continue Reading By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has filed a lawsuit seeking to hold nearly 20 companies liable for allegedly contaminating the environment with a group of chemicals known as PFAS. Kaul, a Democrat, filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Dane County circuit court. It names 18 companies as
Continue Reading DETROIT (AP) — The company that makes Can-Am Ryker motorcycles is warning people not to ride some of them because a handlebar bolt can break, causing loss of steering and raising the risk of a crash. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration put out an alert about the problem on Wednesday involving certain 2022
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By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Facing massive public pressure, Uvalde’s top school official has recommended the firing of the school district police chief who has been blamed for the botched law enforcement response to the elementary school shooting nearly two months ago that killed two teachers and 19 students. The South
Continue Reading By Jason Morris A New York judge has ordered Rudy Giuliani to testify next month as a witness before the Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury that’s investigating Donald Trump’s attempts to undermine the 2020 election. Giuliani, who is Trump’s former lawyer, was subpoenaed earlier this month. The order to appear on August 9 came after
Continue Reading PEYRAGUDES, France (AP) — Tadej Pogacar has claimed a third stage win at this year’s Tour de France as he sprinted away from Jonas Vingegaard in the punishing last climb of a grueling trek in the Pyrenees. But the two-time defending champion has failed to take significant time out of the Tour leader. Pogacar attacked
Continue Reading UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Uvalde superintendent recommends firing schools Police Chief Pete Arredondo amid growing outrage over shooting response.
Continue Reading By DAVID SHARP Associated Press The U.S. Postal Service plans to further increase the number of electric-powered vehicles it’s buying to replace its aging fleet of delivery trucks. The Postal Service now wants 50% of its initial purchase of 50,000 next-generation vehicles to be electric, up from the previous plan for 20% being electric. It
Continue Reading By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A jury in Florida has found Tesla just 1% negligent in a fiery crash that killed two teens, for disabling a speed limiter on the electric car. Tuesday’s verdict placed 90% of the blame on the driver, Barrett Riley, and 9% on his father, James Riley, who
Continue Reading By Luke McGee, CNN Boris Johnson will be succeeded as prime minister of the United Kingdom by either Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss after the Conservative Party leadership race was on Wednesday narrowed down to the final two candidates. Johnson resigned as party leader earlier this month after a series of scandals led to dozens
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Más de 12.000 personas firmaron una petición en línea en Change.org pidiendo a la Asociación de Tenis de los Estados Unidos (USTA, por sus siglas en inglés) y al gobierno de EE.UU. que le permitan a Novak Djokovic competir en el US Open. El 21 veces campeón de Grand Slam
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN One image distributed by Iranian media on Tuesday of Russia and Iran’s leaders meeting stood out. Russian President Vladimir Putin is shown clasping palms with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the two rulers — both heads of oil-rich countries grappling with grueling Western sanctions — boast about their tight
Continue Reading By SAM METZ Associated Press DELTA, Utah (AP) — Developers in rural Utah who want to create big underground caverns to store hydrogen fuel won approval for a $504 million federal loan this spring. They plan to convert the site of a 40-year-old coal plant to cleanly-made hydrogen by 2045. The seasonal storage project is
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By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Europe’s economy, which accounts for almost a fifth of the world’s output, is facing its toughest test since the pandemic erupted more than two years ago. A cocktail of risks threatens to throw growth into reverse at a moment of deep uncertainty. Like the United States and other developed economies,
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CNN By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Europe’s economy, which accounts for almost a fifth of the world’s output, is facing its toughest test since the pandemic erupted more than two years ago. A cocktail of risks threatens to throw growth into reverse at a moment of deep uncertainty. Like the United States and other developed
Continue Reading Opinion by Mark Zandi for CNN Business Perspectives The stock market is having a rough go. Since hitting an all-time high on the first trading day of the year, stock prices have fallen by more than 20%. Known as a bear market, the losses have been financially painful. Trillions of dollars in stock wealth has
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By Devan Cole, Paul LeBlanc and Jason Carroll, CNN Ivana Trump, a longtime businessperson and an ex-wife of former President Donald Trump, is being mourned Wednesday in New York. Mourners are gathering at St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church to remember the noted socialite. Former President Trump entered the church through a side entrance, and
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Take a closer look at the plane on the top of this story. Notice anything different about one of its engines? This Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger jet, has been recruited as a demonstrator to trial new cutting-edge open fan engine architecture which could help cut carbon emissions by up
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President Joe Biden on Wednesday will lay out a set of executive actions on climate change, according to a White House official, as prospects for his agenda dwindle in Congress. We are expecting to hear about the President’s plan as he will speak about climate issues in Massachusetts. It comes after democratic Senator Joe Manchin torpedoed his
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Europe is in an energy crisis, and it means countries will struggle to keep homes warm and industry humming this winter. That’s because Russia has slashed Europe’s flows of natural gas used to power factories, generate electricity and heat homes in the winter. Moscow says deliveries through a major pipeline to Germany,
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Disgraced former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh pleaded not guilty Wednesday to the murders of his wife and son, who were found shot to death on the family’s property in June 2021. The plea comes nearly a week after Murdaugh was indicted by a Colleton County grand jury
Continue Reading Disgraced former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh pleaded not guilty to the murders of his wife and son, who were found shot to death on the family’s property in June 2021. CNN’s Randi Kaye reports.
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