BOSTON (AP) — Former NFL Pro Bowl wide receiver Demaryius Thomas is the latest in a growing list of football players diagnosed with CTE. His family said Tuesday that researchers found that Thomas, who died in December at age 33, suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy. The four-time Pro Bowl wide receiver was dealing with depression,
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By Yong Xiong, Hannah Ritchie and Nectar Gan, CNN A massive online database apparently containing the personal information of up to one billion Chinese citizens was left unsecured and publicly accessible for more than a year — until an anonymous user in a hacker forum offered to sell the data and brought it to wider
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Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — Casi tres años después del “estallido social” en las calles de Chile, que llevó a un plebiscito para cambiar la constitución y finalmente a un cambio de gobierno en las últimas elecciones, el país tiene el borrador final de su nueva Constitución, que se someterá a votación el 4 de
Continue Reading EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — University officials say a wide receiver on the Emporia State football team died over the weekend in a cliff-diving accident. Brexten Green died Saturday at Grand Lake in Oklahoma. He came to Emporia State from Cashion High School in Cashion, Oklahoma. Emporia State President Ken Hush said Tuesday in a campus-wide
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By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — European Council President Charles Michel has urged North Macedonia to back a French-proposed compromise on ending a dispute with neighboring Bulgaria that’s blocking the country’s long-delayed European Union accession bid. Violent protests erupted in North Macedonia’s capital, Skopje, where demonstrators tried to storm government buildings,
Continue Reading The Large Hadron Collider will restart again as scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research search for a better understanding of the building blocks of the universe. Ten years ago, the machine helped scientists confirm the existence of the Higgs boson. Watch CNN’s coverage in 2012 of this groundbreaking discovery.
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN A decade ago, the Large Hadron Collider, Earth’s most powerful particle accelerator, proved the existence of an subatomic particle called the Higgs boson — thought to be a fundamental building block of the universe dating back to the big bang billions of years ago. Now, physicists at the European Organization for
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — British Airways says it will cancel hundreds more summer flights after previously announced cuts in scheduled flights proved insufficient to ease travel disruptions. The announcement on Tuesday will affect tens of thousands of travelers planning to fly from London’s Heathrow and Gatwick airports. The airline said in the spring that it would
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — El tenista Nick Kyrgios deberá comparecer ante un tribunal el mes que viene en Canberra, la capital de Australia, tras haber agredido supuestamente a su exnovia a finales del año pasado, según informa la prensa australiana. Cuando se le preguntó sobre la acusación este martes, la policía australiana dijo a CNN en
Continue Reading By The Associated Press PGA Tour and European tour players will be on both sides of the Atlantic this week. Under a new arrangement, the Scottish Open and the Barbasol Championship in Kentucky are sanctioned by both tours. That gives the Scottish Open the strongest field it has ever had. The only player from the
Continue Reading By Gregory Krieg, CNN A gunman in Highland Park, Illinois, killed seven people and injured dozens more on a July Fourth parade route on Monday, setting off a manhunt that paralyzed the Chicago region before a suspect was apprehended by police later in the day. The wounded ranged from ages 8 to 85. All the
Continue Reading By Brenda Goodman, CNN Repeatedly catching Covid-19 appears to increase the chances that a person will face new and sometimes lasting health problems after their infection, according to the first study on the health risks of reinfection. The study, which is based on the health records of more than 5.6 million people treated in the
Continue Reading By OLEG CETINIC and ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Israel’s caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Tuesday used his first trip abroad since taking office to urge world powers to step up pressure on Iran over its nuclear activities. He called the Islamic republic a threat to regional stability. Lapid met in
Continue Reading By Edward-Isaac Dovere Debra Messing was fed up. The former “Will & Grace” star was among dozens of celebrity Democratic supporters and activists who joined a call with White House aides last Monday to discuss the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. The mood was fatalistic, according to three people on the call, which was
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CNN, LIZ VAN HEEL, GETTY IMAGES By Edward-Isaac Dovere Debra Messing was fed up. The former “Will & Grace” star was among dozens of celebrity Democratic supporters and activists who joined a call with White House aides last Monday to discuss the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. The mood was fatalistic, according to three
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — German biotech company CureVac has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against rival BioNTech for work that it says contributed to the development of the BioNTech-Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. BioNTech said its work is original and it plans to “vigorously” contest the claim. CureVac last year reported disappointing results from late-stage testing of its
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By Megan Marples, CNN Angry, upset, depressed, anxious. Those were some of the emotions that flooded over many people when the United States Supreme Court announced it was overturning Roe v. Wade, eliminating the federal right to an abortion. Many others are celebrating the decision, but a majority of Americans apparently are not. Sixty-one percent
Continue Reading By Megan Marples, CNN Angry, upset, depressed, anxious. Those were some of the emotions that flooded over many people when the United States Supreme Court announced it was overturning Roe v. Wade, eliminating the federal right to an abortion. Many others are celebrating the decision, but a majority of Americans apparently are not. Sixty-one percent
Continue Reading By Isil Sariyuce, Yusuf Gezer and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Turkish security forces killed a child on Sunday after opening fire on a vehicle carrying migrants from the eastern Van province near Turkey’s border with Iran, a local official told CNN on Tuesday. The official, who is from the office of the Van governor and who
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HIGHLAND PARK, Illinois — Officials say the person of interest in July 4th parade shooting pre-planned the attack for several weeks. Deputy Chief Chris Covelli said that Robert “Bobby” E. Crimo III used a high-power rifle “similar to an AR-15,” to fire over 70 high-power rounds. Covelli said Crimo accessed the roof of a business
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Both Macy Gray and Better Midler are being accused of being transphobic. Gray, best known for her 1999 hit song “I Try,” seemed to anticipate the backlash during an appearance that aired Monday on Fox Nation’s “Piers Morgan Uncensored.“ “I will say this and everyone’s gonna hate me but as
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UPDATE: A resolution to deprioritize abortion investigations by the El Paso Police Department did not pass, El Paso City Council voted 5 to 4 against the item. Mayor Oscar Leeser cast the tie-breaking vote. City Representatives Alexsandra Annello, Henry Rivera and Peter Svarzbein voted in favor. While representatives Joe Molinar, Isabel Salcido, Claudia Rodriguez, Cissy
Continue Reading CALAIS, France (AP) — Belgian rider Wout van Aert won the hilly fourth stage of the Tour de France and extended his overall lead after attacking strongly on the day’s final climb. The Belgian rider kept the leader’s yellow jersey for the Jumbo–Visma team after taking it for the first time Saturday. He also extended
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Rangers have given forward Julien Gauthier a one-year contract extension. General manager Chris Drury announced the move. Gauthier had three goals and four assists in 49 games this past season. The 24-year-old has five goals and 13 assists in 96 career NHL games, split between the Rangers and
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Tom Hanks doesn’t get to battle Tim Allen at the box office and he has feelings about that. In a clip from an interview with CinemaBlend, which was posted on the publication’s Instagram account, Hanks was asked bout his new film “Elvis” being in theaters the same time as “Lightyear.”
Continue Reading WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Wimbledon quarterfinalist Nick Kyrgios is due in court back home in Australia next month. A lawyer representing him says the “precise nature of” the allegations “is neither certain at this moment nor confirmed by either the prosecution or” the 27-year-old professional tennis player. Johannessen wrote that “the allegations are not considered
Continue Reading By Maegan Vazquez and Oren Liebermann, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday bestowed the Medal of Honor to four Army veterans who fought in the Vietnam War, upgrading previous honors they had received for their acts of valor. The individuals who received the medal — the most prestigious decoration in the US military — are
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Former NBA player Lorenzo Brown is eligible to play for Spain’s national team after being granted Spanish citizenship. The Spanish basketball federation welcomed the American player saying his arrival is “part of its strategy to expand the base of players and talent available to play for the national team.” The federation says
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El presidente electo de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, propuso este martes un cese del fuego bilateral con la guerrilla del Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) con el fin de empezar las negociaciones de un acuerdo de paz, que fueron canceladas durante el gobierno del saliente presidente Iván Duque. “Hoy en
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — It says a lot about Novak Djokovic that a two-sets-to-none hole at Wimbledon on a day he was hardly at his best never seemed insurmountable. Not to him. Not to anyone watching. Says a lot about his history of overcoming that sort of deficit. A
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