By Nectar Gan, CNN Business Police in China have arrested 234 suspects allegedly involved in a rural banking scandal, a month after hundreds of depositors protested over their lost savings in one of the largest demonstrations the country has seen since the pandemic began. Since April, four rural banks in China’s central Henan province have
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By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Brandon Drury hit a two-run homer in the first inning and later added an RBI single, and the San Diego Padres beat the San Francisco Giants 6-5 in a game that included a pair of delays. Josh Bell had an RBI single for San Diego
Continue Reading Heather Chen, CNN Jurong Bird Park, one of Singapore’s oldest and most iconic attractions, has announced that it will cease operations and shut its doors after more than 50 years. However, there is some good news. The world-famous park — home to some 3,500 birds including parrots, flamingos, penguins and eagles — will join the
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By DEREK GATOPOULOS and ADAM PEMBLE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Before taking a shot, Ukrainian sniper Andriy buries his face in a foldout mat, breathing slowly and deliberately. “I need to be completely relaxed, to find a place where I will not move the rifle when I pull the trigger,” he says. “I
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By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Gautam Adani was already Asia’s richest man. Now he’s also the world’s third richest person, overtaking LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault and becoming the first Asian person to take that spot, according to Bloomberg and its Billionaires Index. Adani, who runs one of India’s top conglomerates, is now believed to be
Continue Reading By Emiko Jozuka and Jessie Yeung, CNN More than a decade after Japan’s worst nuclear disaster, the town that hosts the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant finally lifted its evacuation order on Tuesday, allowing former residents to come home. The town of Futaba, previously deemed off-limits, is the last of 11 districts to lift
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau China’s southern city of Shenzhen on Monday shut down the world’s largest electronics market and suspended public transport nearby as authorities enforced neighborhood-wide lockdowns in response to a small number of Covid cases. Huaqiangbei, a busy shopping area home to thousands of stalls selling computer components, mobile phone
Continue Reading By JILL PAINTER LOPEZ Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Aaron Judge hit his 50th home run of the season but Shohei Ohtani also went deep during their MVP showdown, and the Los Angeles Angels held off the slumping New York Yankees 4-3. The top two candidates for AL MVP both delivered before a sellout
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN As shoppers at a grocery in Bend, Oregon, meandered down aisles and considered produce choices Sunday night, a 20-year-old gunman burst into the Safeway store and began firing, killing two people and injuring at least two others. Police responded to the Forum Shopping Center around 7 p.m., authorities said. Rushing in,
Continue Reading By Hilary Whiteman, CNN One of Australia’s longest-running cold cases has ended with the conviction of former high school teacher Chris Dawson for the murder of his wife Lynette in 1982, so he could start a new life with his then 16-year-old student. On Tuesday, Justice Ian Harrison found Dawson, 74, guilty following a three-month
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks followed Wall Street lower Thursday after strong U.S. jobs data fueled expectations of further interest rate hikes and Chinese manufacturing activity weakened. Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney declined. Oil prices rose nearly $1 per barrel. U.S. government data Tuesday that showed there were
Continue Reading By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Corbin Carroll’s ability to hit helped the Arizona Diamondbacks win in his big league debut on Monday night. The top prospect’s ability to run helped him dodge a would-be postgame shower. Carroll had a go-ahead, two-run double to break a fifth-inning tie and the Diamondbacks climbed
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CNN’s Carolyn Manno reports on Serena Williams first round match at the US Open – which she has said will be her final major tournament.
Continue Reading By LINDSEY TANNER AND PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press DAYTON, OHIO (AP) — In the dim light of a clinic ultrasound room, Monica Eberhart reclines on an exam table as a nurse moves a probe across her belly. Waves of fetal cardiac activity ripple across the screen. “The heartbeat,” the nurse says. “About 10 weeks and
Continue Reading By KRISHAN FRANCIS and BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president says his bankrupt country’s talks with the International Monetary Fund for a rescue package have successfully reached final stages as he presented an amended budget that seeks to tame inflation and hike taxes. President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is also
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olivertapia (CNN) — Serena Williams, en el que probablemente sea el último torneo de tenis de su carrera histórica, abrió la competencia individual con una victoria por 6-3, 6-3 sobre Danka Kovinić en la primera ronda del US Open en el estadio Arthur Ashe. Williams comenzará su participación en dobles con su hermana Venus el
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Stacker compiled the highest paying education jobs in El Paso, TX using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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UPDATE (08/30): The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the derailment. Police confirm the man that died is 49-year-old Mario Aurelio Navarro, who was the train conductor. Investigators with the Police Department’s Crimes Against Persons Unit determined that earlier work was being done on a portion of the track and a derailment device had been
Continue Reading ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Aaron Judge has hit his 50th home run of the season, connecting in the eighth inning for the New York Yankees against the Los Angeles Angels. The slugger sent a 434-foot solo drive to left-center off reliever Ryan Tepera to trim New York’s deficit to 4-3. Judge became one of 10
Continue Reading By Amanda Musa, CNN Dean “Diz” Laird, the only known Navy ace to shoot down both German and Japanese planes during World War II, has died, his daughter told CNN on Monday. He was 101. Andrea Laird said her father died by her side in Walnut Creek, California, on August 10. In June, according to
Continue Reading By RICH ROVITO Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Garrett Mitchell hit a tying home run in the eighth inning and Keston Hiura connected for a game-ending shot in the ninth as the Milwaukee Brewers rallied past the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-5. Hiura, who replaced injured first baseman Rowdy Tellez in the fourth, launched a two-run homer
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olivertapia (CNN Español) — El actor mexicano Eugenio Derbez tuvo un accidente en el que se fracturó algunos huesos del hombro, según informó 3Pas Studios, casa productora fundada por el actor. Mediante un comunicado publicado el martes, 3Pas Studios indicó que el productor y actor mexicano tuvo un accidente en el que se fracturó algunos
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By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — Hours before Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey declared “a major step forward to secure our border” with the installation of 130 double-stacked shipping containers, hundreds of migrants found their way around them, belying his claim. They walked through tribal lands to the edge of a towering wall
Continue Reading CINCINNATI (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols tagged his major league record 450th different pitcher for a home run, connecting off Cincinnati left-hander Ross Detwiler in a 13-4 rout of the Reds. Pujols hit his 694th home run overall. He had been tied with Barry Bonds for most pitchers as longball victims at
Continue Reading By Sophia Saifi, Kathleen Magramo, Mayumi Maruyama and Angela Dewan, CNN UN Secretary General António Guterres on Tuesday warned that the world is “sleepwalking” into environmental destruction, as he launched a flash $160 million appeal for flood-ravaged Pakistan. More than 1,100 people have been killed and 33 million others impacted in one of the country’s
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — When Serena Williams won the 1999 U.S. Open for her first Grand Slam title at age 17, she wore white beads in her hair. Williams won her first match of the 2022 U.S. Open at age 40. And her daughter, Olympia, was courtside, sporting a hairstyle paying homage to Mom’s from
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — RJ Barrett has agreed to a contract extension with the New York Knicks, agent Bill Duffy said Monday night. ESPN first reported the agreement, saying the four-year deal could be worth up to $120 million. Barrett is entering his fourth season with the Knicks and has seen his scoring numbers climb
Continue Reading CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans have acquired offensive lineman Dennis Daley from the Carolina Panthers. The Titans sent their 2024 fifth-round pick to the Panthers in exchange for Daley and Carolina’s seventh-round pick in 2024. Daley was a sixth-round pick by the Panthers in 2019 and started nine games last season and 21
Continue Reading By IAN HARRISON Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Danny Jansen hit a three-run homer in the seventh inning and singled home the winning run in the 11th as the Toronto Blue Jays overcame a four-run deficit to defeat the Chicago Cubs 5-4. Jansen connected off Erich Uelmen for his 11th homer, then won it with
Continue Reading By BRIAN HALL Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Gio Urshela’s three-run double in the fifth inning pushed the Minnesota Twins ahead and four relievers made the lead stand in a 4-2 win over the Boston Red Sox. Urshela punched a 3-2 pitch from John Schreiber into the right-field corner, scoring all three runners who had
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