RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes have re-signed defenseman Ethan Bear to a one-year, $2.2 million contract. The team announced the deal Thursday, which marked exactly one year since the Hurricanes acquired Bear in a trade with Edmonton. Bear had five goals and nine assists in 58 games last season and struggled to find
Continue Reading European soccer restarts in earnest for the new season with Bundesliga teams Borussia Dortmund and Stuttgart playing third-division opposition in the first round of the German Cup. Dortmund plays at 1860 Munich and Stuttgart visits Dynamo Dresden. Second-division Nuremberg and Karlsruher SC also face lower-league opposition on the opening night of the competition. The Bundesliga
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By Annie Grayer, Ryan Nobles and Zachary Cohen, CNN The House select committee investigating January 6 is zeroing in on former officials from Trump’s Cabinet for testimony and is particularly interested in learning more about conversations among officials about possibly invoking the 25th Amendment after the US Capitol attack. The panel has interviewed former President
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urielblanco (CNN Español) — Junto con el Aeropuerto Internacional Felipe Ángeles y la refinería de Dos Bocas (obras ya inauguradas, aunque sin funcionar en su máximo potencial), el Tren Maya es uno de los proyectos insignia del Gobierno mexicano de Andrés Manuel López Obrador. La obra (ubicada en los estados del Golfo de México, en
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By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For more than a decade, US Bank pressured its employees to open fake accounts in their customers’ names in order to meet unrealistic sales goals, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Thursday, in a case that is deeply similar to the sales practices scandal uncovered
Continue Reading LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Everton has signed Dwight McNeil from relegated Burnley for a reported $24 million. The winger becomes the third player to move to Goodison Park in the offseason. Former Burnley center back James Tarkowski also joined and left back Ruben Vinagre signed on loan from Portuguese team Sporting on Wednesday. McNeil has
Continue Reading By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — An Australian and a Canadian mountain climber died last week in northern Pakistan while attempting to scale K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, officials from the two countries said Thursday. The death of Matthew Eakin was announced by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, which expressed
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By Marianne Garvey Super producer Norman Lear turned 100 on Wednesday, and spent his birthday in Vermont with his family. He will be publicly honored in September when ABC airs a special on his life, called “Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter.” Lear is behind some of TV’s best sitcoms, including, “All in
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un diamante rosa de 170 quilates descubierto en Angola puede ser la piedra preciosa más grande encontrada en 300 años, según la minera australiana Lucapa Diamond Company. El diamante llamado “Lulo Rose” fue encontrado en la mina de diamantes aluviales de Lulo, en la región de Lunda, Norte de Angola,
Continue Reading SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker is set to be fit in time for the start of the Premier League season even though he’ll miss the Community Shield against Manchester City this weekend. Alisson has been struggling with an unspecified injury and hasn’t played since the 4-0 loss to Manchester United in a
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Jack Guy and Sana Noor Haq, CNN The Spanish government has launched a summer campaign encouraging women of all shapes and sizes to go to the beach. “Summer is for us too. Enjoy it however, wherever and with whoever you want,” the Ministry of Equality tweeted Wednesday. “Today we raise a toast to a summer
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By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Mortgage rates dropped last week as fears grow that the US economy is entering a recession. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.30% in the week ending July 28, down from 5.54% the week before, according to Freddie Mac. That is still significantly higher than this time last year when it
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — En una amplia entrevista con la CBS, una de las principales abogadas de Johnny Depp, que saltó a la fama asegurando una victoria legal contra su exmujer, habló de las ventajas de un equipo legal joven, de la petición de su cliente de tener cámaras en el tribunal y rechazó
Continue Reading By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday dismissed fears that the US is in a recession after a government report showed the US economy shrunk again in the second quarter, arguing there are “signs of economic progress,” including in the labor market and consumer spending. The President said slower growth was expected compared
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Thomas Page and Henry Hullah, CNN How do you tell a story when the final chapter is public knowledge? You start at the end. “Fire of Love,” Sara Dosa’s moving documentary about husband-and-wife volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft, begins on June 2, 1991, at Mount Unzen in Japan. The Kraffts, rockstar scientists in their field,
Continue Reading By ALAN FRAM and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden hailed a nascent Democratic package of climate, health care and tax initiatives as “a giant step forward” for the country Thursday as congressional leaders began nailing down votes for a campaign-season bill they’ve cast as a boon for voters struggling with
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Sofía Petro Alcocer es una de los cinco hijos de Gustavo Petro, el presidente electo de Colombia, por lo que su vida ha estado marcada transversalmente por la política. “Desde que tengo memoria, siempre, siempre, he estado en la política, porque yo nací y él ya estaba metido en
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British actor Joseph Quinn, who plays Eddie Munson on Stranger Things, says he was briefly detained at an airport when trying to enter the U.S. for an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Quinn says he was held up by immigration in Secondary Inspection where a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer directed him to an interview
Continue Reading By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Those who love “The Golden Girls” and live in the Los Angeles area will soon have what can only be called a golden opportunity. From the people behind the “Saved by the Bell”- and “90210”-themed pop-up restaurants, The Golden Girls Kitchen is set to open this weekend in Beverly Hills. The
Continue Reading By Betsy Klein, Manu Raju, Alex Rogers and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday urged congressional Democrats to quickly pass the surprise legislative agreement that has breathed new life into his legislative agenda. “This bill is far from perfect, it’s a compromise.But it’s often how progress is made, by compromises. The fact is
Continue Reading Director Sara Dosa talks to Sara Sidner about her documentary “Fire of Love” which examines the lives, and deaths, of pioneering French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft.
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona, CNN Former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney was seen by reporters leaving his interview Thursday with the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021. Mulvaney resigned from his position as special envoy to Northern Ireland in the aftermath of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. He previously
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Many people who are dieting and exercising to intentionally lose weight will come up against the dreaded plateau. The decrease in the number on the scale they had seen for some time stops, and they can’t seem to push below that barrier, even with continued restrictions, said Shana Minei Spence, a
Continue Reading By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates retreated this week just as the Federal Reserve announced another big rate hike in its bid to get four-decade high inflation under control. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the 30-year rate fell back to 5.3% from 5.54% last week.
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Bob Costas tells CNN why former President Donald Trump is aggrieved at the PGA and is hosting a LIV Golf tournament after Trump told the Wall Street Journal that the backlash over Jamal Khashoggi’s murder has ‘totally died down.’
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Los estadounidenses tienen que darse cuenta de que los esfuerzos para controlar la inflación desbocada, aunque se puede decir que son necesarios, tienen consecuencias reales en la economía que pueden perjudicar. Mucho. Hubo un tiempo no muy lejano en el que: Un pequeño ejército de agricultores, en protesta por las
Continue Reading CNN By Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden will speak Thursday on the economic and climate package announced by Sen. Joe Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that’s giving a surprise boost to the President’s legislative agenda. The speech will take place at 12:00 p.m. ET in the State Dining Room, the White House
Continue Reading By Ben Morse, CNN Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has apologized for using a derogatory term for little people. Speaking in a press conference on Tuesday at the team’s training camp, Jones was paying tribute to former players and staff who have passed away recently. In particular, Jones spoke about Larry Lacewell, the team’s former
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QUEENS, New York — JetBlue Airways announced on Thursday that it would purchase Spirit Airlines, a combination that would create America’s fifth-largest airline. The announcement comes a day after Spirit pulled the plug on a deal to merge with Frontier. The merger of Spirit and Frontier was proposed in February, but it never won the
Continue Reading By TOM MURPHY and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers Sales of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine and treatment in the second quarter propelled the pharmaceutical giant to the largest quarterly sales in its history. The coronavirus vaccine Comirnaty brought in $8.85 billion in sales, and the treatment Paxlovid added another $8.12 billion as company revenue totaled $27.74
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