By Jay Croft and Randi Kaye, CNN The woman accused of killing an elite cyclist in Texas used someone else’s passport to flee to Costa Rica, where she changed her hair length and color to avoid authorities, according to the US Marshals Service. Authorities say they found Kaitlin Marie Armstrong at a hostel in Costa
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By Livia Borghese, Jula Buckley and Maureen O’Hare, CNN The countdown has begun. From January 16, 2023, visitors to Venice — that jewel in Italy’s tourism crown — will have to pay for the privilege. It’s set to become the first city in the world to require an entrance fee. The launch date was announced
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By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Renewed efforts are underway to investigate and possibly discipline two attorneys that helped the Donald Trump campaign challenge New Mexico’s 2020 presidential election results in the weeks prior to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. A group including former Albuquerque Mayor Martin
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NEW YORK (AP) — Coming off a Final Four appearance, Villanova and new coach Kyle Neptune will face Tom Izzo’s Michigan State in one of the major attractions of the seventh Gavitt Tipoff Games. The Big East and Big Ten Conferences announced the eight men’s basketball contests on Friday. The series will run from Nov.
Continue Reading By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Zach LaVine is staying with the Chicago Bulls. The two-time All-Star and Olympic gold medalist said Friday he has agreed to a new deal with the Bulls. LaVine will be signing a five-year max contract worth about $215 million, according to a person with direct knowledge
Continue Reading By FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Lightning have accomplished one of their top offseason priorities, retaining forward Nick Paul with a seven-year contract worth just over $22 million. General manager Julien BriseBois announced deal Friday, three days after saying the club wanted to re-sign Paul as well as
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — El pleno del Congreso unicameral de Perú aprobó censurar al ministro del Interior, Dimitri Senmache. La moción, que contó con 78 votos a favor, 29 en contra y 8 abstenciones, fue sustentada en “su falta de capacidad de gestión en la conducción del sector” y en la “grave omisión de
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BERLIN (AP) — German state officials said Friday that they want advertisers and social media influencers to label any photos that have used so-called beauty filters. Critics argue that the filters, which offer easy ways to touch up images and remove supposed blemishes, promote unrealistic standards of beauty particularly among women and girls. The dpa
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by Chiara Grimes, CNN Business For the 44 million Spanish-speaking individuals in the United States, opening a bank account can be an intimidating journey with an array of obstacles. Seis, a new bank targeting Spanish-speaking people, is trying to reshape the mobile banking experience to be more inclusive of immigrants. Trevor McKendrick, the company’s founder,
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CNN by Chiara Grimes, CNN Business For the 44 million Spanish-speaking individuals in the United States, opening a bank account can be an intimidating journey with an array of obstacles. Seis, a new bank targeting Spanish-speaking people, is trying to reshape the mobile banking experience to be more inclusive of immigrants. Trevor McKendrick, the company’s
Continue Reading By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business The baby formula shortage in the United States has left many mothers and families desperately scrambling to feed their infants. The shortage has been made more acute by the low rate of breastfeeding in the country compared to most industrialized nations, health researchers say, which has made the United States
Continue Reading By Jennifer Henderson, CNN Bhagavan “Doc” Antle, who appeared in the 2020 docuseries “Tiger King,” and four others have been indicted on 10 counts of wildlife trafficking and money laundering charges. Authorities claim that Antle and his employee “laundered more than $500,000 in cash they believed to be the proceeds of an operation to smuggle
Continue Reading By Manveena Suri and Chris Liakos, CNN Business A chocolate factory in Belgium has temporarily shut its doors after discovering salmonella in a production batch. Swiss chocolate producer Barry Callebaut paused production at its plant in Wieze, Belgium, on Monday, the company said in a statement Thursday. The Wieze plant is the biggest chocolate factory
Continue Reading CNNEE (CNN) — La abuela colocó su cabeza entre sus manos y comenzó a sollozar. “Ella no tenía que sufrir”, dijo Adela Aguilar, sacudiendo la cabeza al recordar el momento en que su nieta se despidió de ella el mes pasado. Adela Ramírez acababa de cumplir 28 años y tomó una decisión importante: dejar Cuyamel,
Continue Reading LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Mohamed Salah has signed a new three-year contract with Liverpool which will keep him at the club until 2025. The Egypt international had entered the final year of his existing contract after negotiations over extending his stay dragged on for most of last season. The 30-year-old forward’s wage demands had been
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer The San Jose Sharks have fired coach Bob Boughner and his staff two months after the regular season ended. The team is still in the middle of a search for a new general manager after Doug Wilson stepped down after nearly two decades on the job. Interim GM Joe
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN If she hasn’t already, Kate Bush may want to send Netflix a muffin basket. The singer has broken three world records, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, thanks to her 1985 song “Running Up That Hill” being featured on the latest season of the series “Stranger Things.” Bush
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey “Little House on the Prairie” star Melissa Gilbert is remembering her late co-star Michael Landon, more than three decades after he died of pancreatic cancer at age 54. “Today is the 31st anniversary of the death of one of the most influential people in my life and I am so, so sad,”
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Millie Bobby Brown will star in a new Netflix film from the Russo brothers, called “The Electric State.” The “Stranger Things” star will play an orphaned teen in a “retro-futuristic” world. According to Netlix’s announcement, the movie “follows an orphaned teen (Brown) as she traverses the American West with a robot and
Continue Reading By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer European tour chief Keith Pelley is firing back at players who threaten legal action if their punishment is not rescinded for joining the Saudi-backed rebel league. The Daily Telegraph obtained a letter that 16 players sent to the European tour. The tour fined them 100,000 pounds for playing in
Continue Reading By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Minecraft YouTuber Technoblade has died at the age of 23 following a year-long battle with cancer, his family announced Friday. In a YouTube video entitled “so long nerds,” the content creator’s father shared a final message from his son with his subscribers. “Hello everyone, Technoblade here,” the message began. “If you’re
Continue Reading Ángela Reyes (CNN Español) — Sí, sucedió otra vez. Llegó el mes de julio y, con él la avalancha de memes del julio favorito de internet: Julio Iglesias. En realidad, desde hace semanas que los usuarios de las redes sociales están calentando motores con chistes del cantante español. Junio, hay que decirlo, también estuvo inundado
Continue Reading By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press A former Georgetown University tennis coach has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for pocketing more than $3 million in bribes in exchange for helping wealthy parents cheat their kids’ way into the school. The sentence for Gordon Ernst is by far the toughest punishment handed down
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Three-time defending champion Novak Djokovic’s next opponent is an oft-injured guy ranked outside the top 100 and making his Grand Slam debut thanks to a wild card. And he had never won an ATP Tour match until last month. Now he has won eight in
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By Rosa Flores, Chris Boyette and Michelle Krupa, CNN The alleged driver of a tractor-trailer where sweltering conditions led to the death of 53 migrants this week in San Antonio didn’t realize the truck’s air conditioning unit had stopped working, according to a federal criminal complaint filed Wednesday in the investigation into the deadliest human
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez and Taylor Romine, CNN In an attempt to slash the wide-ranging impacts of plastic pollution, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law the country’s most sweeping restrictions on single-use plastics and packaging on Thursday, the same day the Supreme Court limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to tackle the worsening climate crisis.
Continue Reading By FRANK GRIFFITHS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has appealed against the British’s government decision last month to order his extradition to the U.S. The appeal was filed Friday at the High Court, the latest twist in a decade-long legal saga sparked by his website’s publication of classified U.S. documents. No
Continue Reading By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic. Travelers across the United States experienced hundreds of canceled flights and a few thousand delays on Friday, much as they did earlier this week. Patricia Carreno
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By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic. Travelers across the United States experienced hundreds of canceled flights and a few thousand delays on Friday, much as they did earlier this week. Patricia Carreno
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By Amy Woodyatt and Jacob Lev, CNN Mychelle Johnson, wife of Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges, posted a series of photographs showing what appear to be injuries to her face and body on Instagram and a hospital discharge document, two days after her husband was arrested and charged with a felony in Los Angeles. Johnson
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