By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Gasoline for less than $4 a gallon is back, at least in some spots. Nearly one in five gas stations is charging under the $4 mark for a gallon of regular gas, according to OPIS, which surveys US gas stations to compute price averages for AAA. That’s about 24,000 stations
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EL PASO, Texas — A medical incident sent a driver jumping across lanes of traffic before finally crashing into another car, according to El Paso Police. It happened Monday morning just before 10 a.m. near Trawood Dr. According to police, a red car was going north on Lee Trevino Dr. when the driver suffered a
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By The Associated Press The former operator of the Cangrejeros de Santurce baseball team has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Puerto Rican winter league, alleging it colluded with Puerto Rico Mayor Miguel Romero to remove him from the franchise. Cangrejeros investor/operator Tom Axon was suspended for two years and fined $5,000 by the league
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels is doing things no other player has ever done. His roots are deep in northeastern Japan where he played high school baseball and got his start. High school baseball in Japan is highly competitive and is run in a
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urielblanco (CNN Español) — Quizá para el usuario cotidiano Netflix, la plataforma siga siendo la misma de siempre: películas, series, documentales en el catálogo, todo tipo de estrenos cada mes, e incluso hasta videojuegos temáticos (de Stranger Things, por ejemplo) si entras a la plataforma desde la app móvil. Sin embargo, en las entrañas de
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Families who breastfeed their children need support, according to guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics, and that requires social and systemic changes when it comes to workplace access and feeding stigma. The pediatricians association’s most recent guidance stressed the recommendation that infants be fed exclusively with human milk for the
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina-based insurance magnate whose convictions on corruption-related counts were overturned by a federal appeals court has been released from prison. The U.S. prison system says Greg E. Lindberg was let out of a minimum-security prison in Alabama late last week. It was the day after a judge agreed to
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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Evidence indicates that a helicopter that crashed in northern New Mexico after helping fight a wildfire over the weekend descended at a fast rate, with the craft ending up mangled and in pieces after first hitting the ground upright, the National Transportation Safety Board said
Continue Reading By Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN The Staten Island ferry, known for getting residents and commuters to and from Lower Manhattan to Staten Island in 25 minutes, is slowing the frequency of rides, due to an uptick in Covid-19 cases among its staff members, the New York City Department of Transportation announced. New York City’s positivity rate
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By Brian Fung, CNN Business Two Democratic senators are planning to reopen a high-stakes battle over internet access in the coming weeks, with a bill aiming to restore net neutrality regulations for broadband providers that a Republican-led Federal Communications Commission gutted in 2017. The draft bill from Sens. Ed Markey and Ron Wyden would explicitly
Continue Reading By Brenda Goodman, CNN Injected vaccines against the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 have been hugely successful, saving nearly 20 million lives globally in their first year of use and slashing the pandemic’s death toll by an estimated 63%, according to a recent study. Yet good as these shots are, they have not stopped the virus
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By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and MARC LEVY The Associated Press A man firing a rifle killed shoppers at an Indiana mall’s food court. A gunfight at a Houston home killed four people. A stand-up act by the comedian Craig Robinson in North Carolina didn’t even begin before club-goers fled from a man with a gun.
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN The head of one of the world’s most prestigious art exhibitions has resigned after this year’s show became embroiled in a scandal over antisemitic imagery. Sabine Schormann, managing director of Documenta, which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany, stepped down on Saturday. A statement from the exhibition’s supervisory board expressed
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Fire Department Water Rescue Team rescued two dogs stuck in canal gates Sunday. It happened just west of the Jonathan Rogers Water Treatment Plant. According to El Paso Fire, there were no injuries. A similar rescue happened just after July 4th. “Nova” ran away after being startled by
Continue Reading By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business KFC is trying out a new type of chicken nugget in an effort to attract younger consumers. Starting Monday, the chicken chain is offering Kentucky Fried Chicken Nuggets in restaurants in Charlotte, North Carolina, for a limited time. The nuggets are made with white meat and KFC’s signature 11 herbs
Continue Reading By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw will start for the National League on Tuesday night in the first All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium since 1980, and Tampa Bay’s Shane McClanahan will be on the mound for the American League. Los Angeles Angels two-way star Shohei
Continue Reading By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer NEW YORK (AP) — General Motors will keep its headquarters in its seven-building office tower complex in downtown Detroit, its CEO says. Mary Barra, in an interview with The Associated Press, said the automaker’s main office will remain in the Renaissance Center, the centerpiece of the city’s skyline just
Continue Reading CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Clemson’s top men’s basketball scorer PJ Hall needs right knee surgery and the team says there’s no timetable for when he might return. An MRI on Friday revealed the 6-foot-10 Hall’s kneecap had slid out of place. Hall already was rehabbing from foot surgery during the offseason. He said said in
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EL PASO, Texas– In 18 states that shared data through the current school year, the number of homeschooling students increased by 63% in the 2020-2021 school year, then fell by only 17% in the 2021-2022 school year, the AP reported. That is above pre-pandemic levels, despite the return of in-person learning. According to the U.S.
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN There are tens of thousands of Afghans who have applied for Special Immigrant Visas (SIV) whose applications are still being processed nearly a year after the botched US withdrawal from Afghanistan, a senior administration official said Monday, adding that the process will now be entirely overseen
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DOÑA ANA, County — LAS CRUCES, New Mexico- During a news conference, Dona Ana Sheriff Kim Stewart said her deputies were on the lookout for the driver who had been in a hit and run incident on Transmountain in El Paso, Texas. She showed a dashcam video of her deputy contacting 28-year-old Richard Guerra, driving
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EL PASO, Texas – The just-released House Investigative Committee report on the Robb Elementary shooting details missed warning signs and “systemic failures.” The shooting killed 19 students and two school teachers in Uvalde, TX. The report does not refer to the gunman by name, but rather the term “attacker” is used throughout. The committee said
Continue Reading By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business As prices surge and the UK economy struggles more than most of its peers, Starbucks is reportedly looking for an exit. The company is engaged with advisers to determine whether it could — or should — sell its business in the United Kingdom, according to UK newspaper The Times. Asked
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By Mark Morales The 19-year-old accused of killing 10 people and injuring three others when he opened fire with a high-powered rifle at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket pleaded not guilty to hate crime and firearms charges in federal court on Monday. Wearing an orange jumpsuit and shackled at his hands and feet, Payton Gendron
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley is calling out ESPN and its ESPY awards show for not inviting national player of the year Aliyah Boston to the ceremonies this week. Boston is the 6-foot-5 rising senior who helped the Gamecocks to their second national title in April. Boston won several
Continue Reading By Ellie Kaufman and Barbara Starr, CNN The Blue Angels, the US Navy’s elite flight demonstration squadron, has selected the first female fighter jet demonstration pilot for their upcoming season. Lt. Amanda Lee was selected to be a F/A-18E/F demonstration pilot along with Lt. Cmdr. Thomas Zimmerman, a release from the Blue Angels states. While
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Ya sea que no tengas electricidad, te enfrentas a un calor extremo, o intentas ahorrar dinero, hay formas de sentirse cómodo sin refrigeración artificial. El calor puede ser propicio para las actividades divertidas del verano, pero el cuerpo no debe estar demasiado caliente durante mucho tiempo, ya que el exceso de
Continue Reading By AJ Willingham, CNN Chris Evans isn’t too sure about these daggum newfangled iPhones. During an interview with Collider, Evans groused about the bulky buttonless-ness of his new iPhone 12 Pro, saying he still prefers his dearly departed iPhone 6s. “I feel like my new phone is too heavy,” says the man famous for playing
Continue Reading “Captain America” star Chris Evans says he misses his iPhone 6s, the 2014 model that he held onto until this year. He explains to Collider’s Steven Weintraub why he thinks his new iPhone 12 is too heavy.
Continue Reading By Michelle Watson, CNN Some emergency responders in Beech Grove, Indiana, couldn’t go to the scene of a shooting at a park Sunday because they were responding to a shooting at a mall, the city’s mayor said. “Our Beech Grove EMS … believe it or not, was not available for this incident,” Mayor Dennis Buckley
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