By George Ramsay, CNN Romanian teenager David Popovici set a world record in the 100-meter freestyle with a time of 46.86 seconds at the European championships in Rome on Saturday. The 17-year-old broke the previous record, set by Brazilian Cesar Cielo in 2009, by 0.05 seconds as he took gold ahead of Hungary’s Kristof Milak
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EL PASO, Texas- As summer begins to dwindle the temperatures are dropping slightly and the rain chances are rising. On Monday the Borderland will be seeing a 20% chance of rain that will jump up to 40% for the rest of the week. Temperatures will be in the high 90s until Tuesday when they drop
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By Daniella Diaz, CNN A man shot and killed himself after driving into a vehicle barricade near the US Capitol Building early Sunday morning, US Capitol Police said. The incident happened shortly after 4 a.m. ET, when the man drove his car into a barricade at East Capitol Street and Second Street. He then exited
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By Allison Morrow and Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Confused about inflation? You’re not alone. Inflation is, paradoxically, both incredibly simple to understand and absurdly complicated. Let’s start with the simplest version: Inflation happens when prices broadly go up. That “broadly” is important: At any given time, the price of goods will fluctuate based on shifting
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By Andrew Torgan, CNN Did you go on a health kick during the pandemic? A lot of people did. And with millions suddenly working from home and gyms shut down from coast to coast, fitness equipment makers like Peloton saw their sales skyrocket. But my oh my … how times have changed. Here’s what else you
Continue Reading David Laufman, the former chief of the Department of Justice’s counterintelligence division who investigated Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified documents, discusses the FBI’s search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
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By Eric Cheung and Devan Cole, CNN A US congressional delegation led by Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Ed Markey has arrived in Taipei on an unannounced two-day visit, the second US congressional delegation to Taiwan this month. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi drew the ire of China when she became the first US speaker to visit in
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By Eric Cheung, CNN A US congressional delegation led by Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Ed Markey has arrived in Taipei on an unannounced two-day visit, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Joanne Ou said in a statement on Sunday night. The delegation also consists of Democratic Reps. John Garamendi, Alan Lowenthal and Don Beyer, and Republican
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PARIS (AP) — Monaco has signed midfielder Mohamed Camara from Austrian club Salzburg on a five-year deal. Monaco said the 22-year-old Mali midfielder has a contract until 2027. No financial details were given but French reports estimated Monaco paid 15 million euros ($15.4 million) for Camara. He has scored three goals in 15 appearances for
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By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Last year, Facebook-parent Meta effectively pushed back its timetable for rolling out end-to-end encryption by default across its various social platforms, with an executive saying the privacy-enhancing change would not happen until sometime in 2023. The delay came under a new spotlight this week after news broke that Facebook messages
Continue Reading By Rachel Janfaza, Ethan Cohen, Melissa Holzberg DePalo, Clara Grudberg and Nicholas Anastacio, CNN Lt. Gov. Josh Green will win the Democratic nomination for governor in Hawaii, CNN projects. As of 7 a.m. ET on Sunday, Green is winning 63.7% of the vote, while former Hawaii first lady Vicky Cayetano has 21.4% and Rep. Kai
Continue Reading By Mostafa Salem, Eyad Kourdi, Jorge Engels, Hira Humayun, Hamdi Alkhshali and Lina El Wardani, CNN At least 18 children died in a fire that killed dozens of worshippers gathered for Sunday morning mass at a church in Giza, greater Cairo, according to hospital documents seen by CNN. The toll stands at 41 dead and
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By DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A United Nations-chartered ship loaded with 23,000 metric tons of Ukrainian grain destined for Ethiopia was getting ready to sail from a Black Sea port. It’s the first shipment of its kind in a World Food Program plan to assist countries facing famine. Ukraine and Russia
Continue Reading By George Ramsay Manager Erik ten Hag said Manchester United’s game plan was put “in the bin” during a disastrous 4-0 defeat against Brentford. The result leaves United bottom of the Premier League having lost to Brighton last weekend as four goals in the first 35 minutes helped Brentford to an emphatic victory — the
Continue Reading By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Robinhood, as its name suggests, was designed to take the power of the stock market away from the rich fat cats on Wall Street and hand it over to regular people. Now, ironically, Robinhood may need to join forces with one of the very titans of Wall Street
Continue Reading By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Pete Buttigieg wasn’t quite feeling it. It was late and White House aides had given him the cryptic guidance during their prep call for his Sunday show appearances on July 24: “We’re not taking any swings.” That last weekend in July, the transportation secretary was — like most Democrats — still
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By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press Facing prison time and dire personal consequences for storming the U.S. Capitol, some Jan. 6 defendants are trying to profit from their participation in the deadly riot, using it as a platform to drum up cash, promote business endeavors and boost social media profiles. A Nevada man jailed on riot
Continue Reading YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — A strong explosion at a fireworks storage area tore through a popular market in Armenia’s capital on Sunday, killing at least two people, injuring 60 others and setting off a large fire. Firefighters labored into the night after the early afternoon blast at the Surmalu market to put out the blaze
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, CNN In the Supreme Court decision overturning a New York gun law, the three liberal justices opened their dissent by citing data from two of the leading researchers of gun violence in America. The first was the CDC. The second was the Gun Violence Archive. “Since the start of this year (2022),
Continue Reading By Harry Enten, CNN Former President Donald Trump left office over a year and a half ago, and yet he is still dominating the news. Whether it be the FBI searching Mar-a-Lago or the Republican primaries in August, you might forget that President Joe Biden is the one who currently lives at the White House.
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Julia Buckley Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the pandemic-snarled water, Europe is having another cataclysmic summer. This time, it’s not pandemic red tape, but what looks set to be the continent’s worst drought in history. Around 63% of the land across the EU and UK had either drought warnings
Continue Reading NEW DELHI (AP) — Veteran stock market investor and Indian billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, nicknamed India’s own Warren Buffett, died Sunday in Mumbai city, Press Trust of India news agency reported. He was 62. Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the tributes for the business magnate, who had an estimated net worth of $5.8 billion, according to
Continue Reading By Amir Tal and Hadas Gold, CNN At least eight people, including five Americans, were wounded in a shooting attack targeting a bus near the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City early Sunday morning. Around 1:30 am local time Sunday (6:30 p.m. ET), police said in a statement that a “terrorist armed with weapons shot
Continue Reading By DEREK GATOPOULOS and VASILISA STEPANENKO Associated Press NOVOSELIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — As battles raged around Kyiv, one Russian advance was stopped in front of Maria Metla’s home. Artillery gutted most of the house, while the rest was pulverized by tank fire. Metla, 66, is now counting on her neighbors to have somewhere to live
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By Allison Chinchar and Jennifer Gray, CNN Meteorologists Bee populations are declining. More than half of the bat species in the United States are in severe decline or listed as endangered. And international scientists recently announced the monarch butterfly is perilously close to extinction. What these three creatures have in common is that they are
Continue Reading By Tina Burnside, CNN A man was arrested on suspicion of driving his car into a crowd Saturday evening in Pennsylvania, killing one person and injuring 17 others, before killing his mother later that night in a neighboring county, authorities said. The car plowed into a crowd in Columbia County’s Berwick Borough for an all-day
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe, CNN One teen pulls around a suitcase full of drugs, another is the victim of statutory rape, and many sex scenes show full-frontal nudity. That’s “Euphoria,” which might be your favorite show — but it’s understandable if it is not the model you want for your own teens. So what do you
Continue Reading By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi energy company Aramco said Sunday its profits jumped 90% in the second quarter compared to the same time last year, helping its half-year earnings reach nearly $88 billion. The increase is a boon for the kingdom and the crown prince’s spending power as
Continue Reading By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — For their 16th wedding anniversary, Democrats in Hawaii gifted Josh Green and his wife, Jaime, a comfortable margin of victory in the gubernatorial primary Saturday. Green, the state’s current lieutenant governor, handily defeated former first lady Vicky Cayetano and Kaiali’I Kahele, who decided to seek the governor’s
Continue Reading By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s peaceful presidential election saw a brief disruption when riot police responded to scuffles at the national ballot tallying center amid tensions over the close results. Police remained at the center on Sunday. An ally of longtime opposition leader and candidate Raila Odinga announced from the
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