By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Alex Rodriguez was standing near his courtside seat, oblivious to a few fans who were snapping a quick photo of the baseball great as they walked by. He was watching the Minnesota Timberwolves warm up instead. Rodriguez — currently part of the Timberwolves’ ownership group,
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By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Alex Rodriguez was standing near his courtside seat, oblivious to a few fans who were snapping a quick photo of the baseball great as they walked by. He was watching the Minnesota Timberwolves warm up instead. Rodriguez — currently part of the Timberwolves’ ownership group,
Continue Reading By MARC BOWMAN Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Brady Singer won for the first time in over a month as the Kansas City Royals beat the Detroit Tigers 5-2. The Royals earned their first winning homestand since July last year. Singer allowed 12 baserunners and repeatedly pitched out of trouble for his first
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Perseverance rover now has a new job: acting as a location scout on Mars. In addition to collecting the first samples from an ancient river delta on the red planet, the robotic explorer has been scouting out flat areas around Jezero Crater that could serve as a landing site for
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By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order on Wednesday that limits her office from extraditing people to or from Michigan if they’re facing criminal charges for obtaining, providing or assisting an abortion. The order signed by Whitmer, who has been supportive of abortion rights, aims to protect women who
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Alexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business) — Pronto podrás suscribirte a una versión más barata de Netflix que contará con publicidad, si bien esa opción todavía está en una “fase temprana”. Netflix se asociará con Microsoft para este nuevo plan de suscripción con publicidad, según anunciaron ambas compañías este miércoles. La colaboración se produce luego
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By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer The U.S. is getting another COVID-19 vaccine choice. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday cleared Novavax shots for adults. It’s a more traditional type of vaccine than the Pfizer and Moderna shots already used to protect most Americans. Still, millions of adults haven’t yet gotten vaccinated even this
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — El presidente de Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, oficializó este miércoles su decisión de retirar al embajador de Nicaragua en Costa Rica, Duilio Hernández, quien se desempeñó en el cargo durante cuatro años consecutivos. El anuncio fue publicado en La Gaceta, diario oficial de Nicaragua, en su edición digital de este miércoles,
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN The ability to enhance your body is everywhere today: wearable tech to help you sleep better or exercise more efficiently, “smart drugs” to sharpen your focus and memory recall, injectable fillers to tweak the features of your face, genetic testing to identify and mitigate potential health risks. But what if humans fully
Continue Reading By Yon Pomrenze, CNN In 1995, he was an undercover officer for the Boston Police when he was mistaken for a suspect and severely beaten by his own colleagues. Next month, Michael Cox will lead the force as the city’s new police commissioner. Making the announcement Wednesday, Mayor Michelle Wu spoke about Cox’s close links
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — La Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés) de Estados Unidos autorizó el uso de emergencia de la vacuna contra el covid-19 de Novavax en adultos. Es la cuarta vacuna contra el coronavirus disponible en Estados Unidos y utiliza un tipo de tecnología de vacuna diferente a
Continue Reading By BRIAN HALL Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jose Miranda hit a game-ending, three-run homer against Milwaukee’s Josh Hader as the Minnesota Twins finally got a timely hit to beat the Brewers 4-1. Miranda’s third hit of the game traveled to the second deck in left field. Hader walked Jorge Polanco and allowed a single
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — The attorney for Dan Snyder told the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform there is no reason for the owner of the Washington Commanders to testify under subpoena for the congressional investigation into the NFL team’s workplace culture. Snyder attorney Karen Patton Seymour sent a letter to committee chairwoman Carolyn B.
Continue Reading By AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes have acquired defenseman Brent Burns from San Jose and winger Max Pacioretty from Vegas. The team hopes those additions will help them make a deeper postseason push. The Hurricanes sent forward Steven Lorentz, a goaltender prospect and conditional third-round draft pick to
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By Yenny Sanchez, CNN Ana de Armas is known for her work on the big screen, and it seems the star would like to keep it that way. In a recent interview, the “Knives Out” actress admits she took a break from living in Los Angeles because she experienced “horrible” attention while she dated ex-boyfriend
Continue Reading By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix has picked Microsoft to help deliver the commercials in a cheaper version of its video streaming service expected to launch later this year with a pledge to minimize the intrusions into personal privacy that often accompany digital ads. The alliance announced Wednesday marks a
Continue Reading By Oren Liebermann, CNN The Pentagon carried out successful tests of two different hypersonic missiles systems recently, the US Air Force and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced Wednesday. The AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) had its second consecutive successful test on Tuesday after a series of testing failures earlier in the program.
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Alexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business)– Los precios de los alimentos siguen subiendo, pero puede que haya un cierto alivio en el horizonte. En los 12 meses que terminaron en junio, los precios generales de los alimentos aumentaron un 10,4%, el mayor incremento anual desde febrero de 1981, según los datos publicados este miércoles por
Continue Reading By Annie Grayer and Clare Foran, CNN A statue of civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune has officially replaced a statue of a Confederate general in the US Capitol’s Statuary Hall. Bethune has made history as the first Black person to have a state-commissioned statue in Statuary Hall, which features two statues from each state.
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — Algunos estados de Estados Unidos, como California e Illinois, ofrecen cheques de alivio económico a sus residentes para mitigar el impacto de la inflación que se ha disparado en el país. Con un aumento de los precios al consumidor del 9,1% interanual, la inflación alcanzó el nivel más alto en
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By Jen Christensen, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use in adults. It is the fourth coronavirus vaccine available in the United States, and it uses a different type of vaccine technology than the shots already available. Novavax’s vaccine will be available as two-dose primary series
Continue Reading By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Protesters in Hungary’s capital have blocked main traffic arteries for the second day in a row in opposition to a tax overhaul pushed through this week by lawmakers from the country’s right-wing governing party. Several thousand demonstrators, many of them independent entrepreneurs affected by the new
Continue Reading The Associated Press Stocks ended another shaky day lower on Wall Street Wednesday after a highly anticipated report on inflation turned out to be even worse than expected. The S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq fell. Stocks took a few U-turns through the day, as has become the norm on Wall
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CNN By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business TikTok on Wednesday announced several updates intended to help users customize their viewing preferences and filter out content that may be problematic or too mature for young users, amid renewed scrutiny of the potential harms social media poses to teens. The short-form video app is tweaking its viewing experience
Continue Reading By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business TikTok on Wednesday announced several updates intended to help users customize their viewing preferences and filter out content that may be problematic or too mature for young users, amid renewed scrutiny of the potential harms social media poses to teens. The short-form video app is tweaking its viewing experience so
Continue Reading By Phil Mattingly, CNN Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo on Wednesday had a blunt message about stalled legislation that would address a critical shortage in semiconductor chips. “The message is, time’s up,” Raimondo said in an interview with CNN a few hours before traveling to Capitol Hill with top defense and intelligence officials to meet
Continue Reading NEW YORK Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Delta, Fastenal fall; Twitter, Devon Energy rise.
Continue Reading By Peter Nickeas, CNN The release this week of 82 minutes of school surveillance video from the May massacre in Uvalde, Texas, is fueling scrutiny over what, if any, consequences officers might face for their decision to retreat from gunfire and wait an hour to confront the shooter inside the school where he killed 19
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — The champagne had barely stopped flowing from the Colorado Avalanche’s Stanley Cup celebration when they traded for a new goaltender, signaling that Darcy Kuemper would not be back. Kuemper tried not to think too much about where he would be going. When the goalie musical
Continue Reading TORONTO (AP) — Canada will prepare for its first World Cup since 1986 with exhibitions against host Qatar and Uruguay. The 43rd-ranked Canadians will play No. 49 Qatar on Sept. 23 and No. 13 Uruguay on Sept. 27, both at Vienna. Canada opens the World Cup Group F against second-ranked Belgium on Nov. 23, plays
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