Consumers worldwide are getting set for major online discounts. Amazon’s prime day sales event started this morning at 3am eastern and goes for 48-hours. The shopping event has become synonymous with deals, although not everything you want will be on sale. Still, there are lots of opportunities to save. Discounts will be offered on many items
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CNN, HLN By Kate Bennett and Kyle Blaine, CNN First lady Jill Biden‘s office issued an apology Tuesday morning after Biden faced criticism for citing “bodegas” and “breakfast tacos” to praise Latino diversity. Biden made the comments on Monday during a conference in San Antonio for the Latino civil rights and advocacy organization UnidosUS, where
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By Oren Liebermann, CNN The US carried out a drone strike in northwest Syria on Tuesday that killed Maher al-Agal, the leader of ISIS in Syria, US Central Command said. A senior ISIS official closely associated with Maher was seriously injured during the strike, CENTCOM said in a statement. An initial review indicated that there
Continue Reading Mexico’s President Andres Manuel López Obrador announced he will meet with President Biden in Washington today. This comes a month after López Obrador snubbed Biden’s invitation to the summit of the Americas in Los Angeles. Today’s conversations will signal how well their administrations can manage a challenging bilateral agenda. Their meeting will focus on tackling cross-border smuggling of drugs, people, and arms;
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BERLIN (AP) — The European Central Bank says its president, Christine Lagarde, was targeted in a hacking attempt but no information was compromised. The Frankfurt-based central bank said Tuesday in an emailed response to a query about a report by Business Insider that the attempt took place “recently.” The bank added that “it was identified
Continue Reading The White House wants to make second COVID boosters available to all adults. Right now, second boosters are only authorized for people who are at least 50 years old or immunocompromised. The food and drug administration is working to change that. Some experts are worried younger adults’ immunity is waning and the B.A. 5 sub-variant
Continue Reading By Kate Bennett and Kyle Blaine, CNN First lady Jill Biden‘s office issued an apology Tuesday morning after Biden faced criticism for citing “bodegas” and “breakfast tacos” to praise Latino diversity. Biden made the comments on Monday during a conference in San Antonio for the Latino civil rights and advocacy organization UnidosUS, where she commented
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PARIS (AP) — Michael Masi has left his role at motorsport’s governing body five months after being replaced as Formula One race director. The FIA says Masi is relocating to Australia “to be closer to his family and take on new challenges.” The 44-year-old Masi had been race director for three years but was replaced
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By Kareem El Damanhoury and Tara John, CNN Acclaimed director Jafar Panahi has become the third Iranian filmmaker to be arrested in the country in less than a week. Panahi, 62, who won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2015 for his film “Taxi,” was arrested in Tehran on Monday when
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By Amanda Musa and Rebekah Riess, CNN Former Dallas Cowboys running back Marion Barber III, who was found dead in his Texas apartment in June, died of heatstroke, a medical examiner’s report says. The manner of Barber’s death is listed as an “accident,” according to the Collin County Medical Examiner’s Office. On June 1, police
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Un turista estadounidense se cayó al cráter del Monte Vesubio este fin de semana en un intento de recuperar su teléfono móvil el fin de semana, dijo la policía italiana a CNN este lunes. El hombre, de 23 años y procedente de Baltimore, estaba caminando por un sendero no autorizado
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By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Matthew Berry, ESPN’s longtime fantasy sports guru, is leaving the network, Berry and ESPN announced Monday. “Here is a sentence I never thought I’d write. I can confirm that after 15 amazing years, I am leaving ESPN,” Berry tweeted Monday. He added that when he came to the company in
Continue Reading The national suicide prevention lifeline is transitioning to a three digit number Saturday. That new number will be 9-8-8. The line operated as 10 digit number for more than 15 years. Health officials are trying to reach more people because one caller out of every six hangs up before talking to anyone with the hotline.
Continue Reading By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine is getting an additional $1.7 billion in assistance from the U.S. government and the World Bank. The funds being provided Tuesday are to pay the salaries of Ukraine’s beleaguered health care workers and provide other essential services. The money from the U.S. Agency for International Development,
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macamilarincon (CNN) –– La NASA reveló en vivo este martes las primeras imágenes en color y de alta resolución del telescopio espacial James Webb, que muestran al universo como nunca antes lo habías visto. Desde una guardería estelar donde nacen estrellas, hasta las interacciones entre galaxias y la perspectiva única de un exoplaneta: estas son
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen, CNN Researchers in a new study have put actual dollar figures on economic harm caused by the countries most responsible for the climate crisis, and the ground-breaking data could serve as a starting point for legal action against the world’s wealthiest nations. The Dartmouth College study found that just five of the
Continue Reading Climate change is threatening one of America’s greatest resources–its National Parks
Continue Reading By Iqbal Athas, Rukshana Rizwie, Tara John and Hannah Ritchie, CNN Sri Lanka’s political and economic crisis escalated as protesters stormed the prime minister’s office on Wednesday, demanding the country’s leaders step down after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to the Maldives without resigning. Rajapaksa had been expected to formally resign Wednesday but instead left the
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has announced temporary taxes on banks and energy companies and promised a series of measures to help people suffering from soaring inflation and utility costs as Russia’s war in Ukraine drags on. The taxes on the banks and natural gas, electricity and petroleum companies are expected to
Continue Reading By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Jon Rahm is looking to immerse himself in the history of the home of golf during his time at the British Open this week. Rahm was fascinated to learn in a chat with the great Lee Trevino that the Old Course at St. Andrews
Continue Reading By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The US dollar is rising at a blistering clip, reaching its strongest level against other major currencies in almost two decades. That’s helpful for American tourists traveling abroad this summer. But on Wall Street, it’s growing cause for concern. “A very strong US dollar provides yet another headwind for earnings,”
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Nearly three years ago, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan kickstarted one of the art world’s biggest viral moments when he sold a banana duct-taped to a wall for $120,000 at Art Basel Miami. But Joe Morford, an artist from Glendale, California, is claiming that the world-renowned artist copied his own 2000 artwork titled
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — El legendario fondista Mo Farah contó a la BBC que fue víctima del tráfico de personas en el Reino Unido cuando era niño y que lo obligaron a trabajar como empleado doméstico. La revelación se produce en un nuevo documental de la cadena británica que se emitirá este miércoles. En él, Farah
Continue Reading By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Get your credit card out and your favorite booking platforms at the ready: US magazine and news website TIME has just released its list of the world’s 50 greatest places of 2022. The list was compiled by its international network of correspondents and contributors, and, says TIME in a statement, “with
Continue Reading By Livvy Doherty, CNN Business Heathrow Airport is asking airlines to stop selling any more tickets for travel this summer, as it announces a cap on passengers allowed to fly from the airport. The London airport will limit passengers to 100,000 a day until September 11, as it struggles to cope with high demand and
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NASA’s releasing the rest of the images from the Webb Telescope today. This fun, feel-good talker will preview them and set up a chance to showcase them. They change the way we see the universe!
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, y el de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, se reunirán en la Casa Blanca este martes en medio de una migración récord en el hemisferio y una alta inflación que ha afectado a ambos países. Estados Unidos y México se han apoyado históricamente
Continue Reading By JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer Montreal is finally getting its long-promised women’s pro hockey franchise, though the Premier Hockey Federation put the brakes on adding a second expansion team entering its eighth season. PHF Commissioner Reagan Carey tells The Associated Press it was in the U.S.-based, privately backed league’s best interest to take a
Continue Reading By Gregory Krieg, CNN The contentious Democratic House primary in Michigan’s 11th District, which pits two incumbents against each other after the state redrew its congressional map, has quietly become one of the key battlegrounds in the party’s evolving rift over Israel and overlapping debates about its broader ideological direction. On Wednesday, the campaign arm
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — London’s Heathrow Airport is capping daily passenger numbers for the summer and telling airlines to stop selling tickets as it steps up efforts to quell travel chaos caused by soaring travel demand and staff shortages. Britain’s busiest airport said Tuesday that it’s setting a limit of 100,000 passengers that it can handle
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