By Dalal Mawad, Camille Knight and Gregory Wallace, CNN French aviation safety investigators have opened a probe after an Air France Boeing 777 airplane approaching Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport was involved in a “serious incident,” according to BEA, the French bureau that investigates air crashes and aviation safety. In an audio recording of air
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By HANNAH FINGERHUT and RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — About 1 in 4 fans of Major League Baseball feel at least some anger toward the sport after its first work stoppage in a generation, according to a new poll, but the vast majority are still excited about the new season. That’s according
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macamilarincon (CNN) — Fuertes lluvias y tornados podrían azotar el sureste de Estados Unidos este miércoles, mientras el sur todavía lidia con los daños que dejaron las tormentas a principios de esta semana y que cobraron la vida de al menos dos personas. Más de 42 millones de personas estaban bajo algún nivel de amenaza
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By The Associated Press Associated Press The United States and allies are again escalating sanctions against Russia after evidence that Russian troops murdered Ukrainian civilians in a town near Kyiv. Among the new sanctions are measures targeting the family of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The White House said Wednesday that President Joe Biden will sign
Continue Reading NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Sun Belt Conference is reviving men’s soccer this fall. The nine-team league will include new members James Madison, Marshall and Old Dominion along with soccer-only members Kentucky, South Carolina and West Virginia. They’ll join existing Sun Belt schools Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern and Georgia State. Marshall won the 2020 NCAA
Continue Reading AUGSBURG, Germany (AP) — Augsburg pushed further clear of relegation danger in the Bundesliga by beating Mainz 2-1. Swiss midfielder Ruben Vargas scored what proved to be the winning goal in the 56th minute, securing Augsburg’s third victory in its last four league games. It lifted the team above Wolfsburg and into 13th place, six
Continue Reading By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer The Biden administration has announced that federal student loan payments will remain paused through Aug. 31, extending a freeze that began in 2020 but was set to end after this month. The action is meant to help millions of borrowers regain financial footing before they’re back on the hook
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El músico británico Ed Sheeran ganó un caso de derechos de autor de alto perfil por su exitosa canción de 2017 “Shape of You”. En un veredicto de la Corte Suprema de Londres este miércoles, un juez dictaminó que Sheeran no copió la canción “Oh Why” del artista Sami Switch.
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By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A group of bipartisan Texas lawmakers visited a death row inmate whose execution they are trying to stop amid doubt about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter. State Reps. Jeff Leach and Joe Moody on Wednesday led a group of lawmakers to the Mountain View
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By David Goldman, CNN Business The West is tapping more of its emergency oil reserves to help wean itself off Russian crude. The International Energy Agency announced Wednesday it would supply the oil market with 60 million additional barrels of crude from its emergency stockpiles. The Paris-based IEA, which monitors energy supplies for the world’s
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — ¿Alguna vez has abierto una botella de cerveza, la has servido en un vaso transparente y la has dejado al aire libre bajo el sol? Tal vez hayas vuelto a ella después de un tiempo para tomar un sorbo, y algo no sabe del todo bien. Si has experimentado este sabor
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El primer ministro del Reino Unido, Boris Johnson, dijo que las mujeres transgénero no deberían competir en deportes femeninos. Las declaraciones las hizo a pesar de decir que sus comentarios podrían verse como “controvertidos”. “No creo que los hombres biológicos deban competir en eventos deportivos femeninos. Y tal vez eso
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By Paul LeBlanc, Jasmine Wright and Sam Fossum, CNN Two members of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday, becoming some of the latest high-profile Washington figures to contract the virus in recent days. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo announced their positive diagnoses after having attended the elite
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials are signaling that they will take a more aggressive approach to fighting high inflation in the coming months — actions that will make borrowing sharply more expensive for consumers and businesses and heighten risks to the economy. In minutes from their policy meeting
Continue Reading By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — To encourage the Washington Commanders to stay in Maryland, the Maryland House has approved a measure with a $400 million plan to develop the area around FedEx Field in the suburbs of the nation’s capital. The bill approved Wednesday doesn’t include money for a new stadium
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Former All-Star CC Sabathia was hired as a special assistant to baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred. The 41-year-old, who retired after the 2019 season, is tasked with addressing player relations, diversity, equity and inclusion, social responsibility, youth participation and broadcasting. Sabathia will work with The Players Alliance. He is a vice president
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Puede que la subvariante BA.2 del coronavirus sea realmente la “variante sigilosa”. La subvariante de ómicron causó hasta 3 de cada 4 casos de covid-19 en Estados Unidos la semana pasada, según la más reciente vigilancia genómica de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. (CDC,
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina lawmakers paused Wednesday to honor the University of South Carolina’s national championship women’s basketball team in a raucous celebration. The party included Gamecocks chants and the team’s unofficial anthem blaring through the House chamber. South Carolina won the national championship Sunday with a 64-49 victory over UConn. The accomplishment
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EL PASO, Texas– The owner of Zions Bow Ties always wanted to have his own fashion show; after his wife’s passing last year, he decided to finally do one in her honor. Joseph Snell told ABC-7 he and his wife, Roselyn, shared a passion for fashion and believes The Queen Has Spoken’s fashion show is
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CANUTILLO, Texas – On a quiet and cool Saturday morning, a group of hot air balloon pilots and family and friends gathered at Gallegos Park to take to the skies. Coat of Many Colors, with Pilot Vernon Greggerson, and Cap’n Andy Bubba, the pilot of Hubba Bubba, brought their large balloons to the park to
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — La Asamblea Legislativa de El Salvador aprobó una reforma al Código Penal para castigar con penas de 10 a 15 años de cárcel a quienes elaboren o colaboren en la realización de pinturas, textos, diseños, dibujos o cualquier otra forma de expresión visual en bienes inmuebles de uso público
Continue Reading By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats are accusing oil companies of “ripping off the American people” and putting profits before production as Americans suffer from higher gasoline prices amid the war in Ukraine. Oil executives, testifying before Congress for the second time in six months, responded that oil is a global
Continue Reading FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — The budget-conscious Atlanta Falcons signed former first-round picks Rashaan Evans and offensive lineman Germain Ifedi to one-year contracts. Evans bolsters the Falcons at linebacker after spending the past four seasons with the Tennessee Titans. He was the 22nd overall pick in the 2018 draft from Alabama, Ifedi gives Atlanta additional
Continue Reading By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Russia says it made a debt payment in rubles this week, a move that may not be accepted by Russia’s foreign debtholders and could put the country on a path to an historic default. The action by Russia was in response to the most recent
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — It was a sunny and warm afternoon, only a few people were lucky enough to be playing golf at Augusta National and heavy equipment was being driven onto the course. That work crew’s mission: to remove a massive tree from the left side of the
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez and Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir, CNN Kenneth Runnels doesn’t see himself as a “victim” of the drought. He says he’s an “adapter.” Runnels is the chief administrator of the Antelope Point Marina on Lake Powell, the second-largest reservoir in the country and part of the Colorado River system, which provides water
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — The attorneys general of six states have written to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell , expressing concern over the league’s treatment of female employees and admonishing him for a lack of improvement to the league’s workplace culture. Without improvement, the attorneys general warned of potential legal action. The letter outlines concerns of
Continue Reading By JAKE SEINER AP Baseball Writer There’s a lot to catch up on from a bizarre baseball offseason before the 2022 season officially begins with first pitch at Wrigley Field. Certainly, the sport is ready to move forward and wash off a winter when owners and players fought fiercely and occasionally publicly over how to
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By Brenda Goodman, CNN From the early days of the pandemic, doctors noticed that in severe cases of Covid-19 — the ones that landed people in the hospital on ventilators with shredded lungs — most of the internal wreckage wasn’t being directly inflicted by the virus itself but by a blizzard of immune reactions triggered
Continue Reading By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Covid is in a lull in the United States: Masks are often an afterthought, people are going out again and some of the worst-hit industries during the pandemic — like movie theaters — are starting to get back to normal. That’s why so much is riding on one particular blockbuster:
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