By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kevin Harvick is a fading star trying to keep pace in a NASCAR that now seems more suited for younger drivers. He’s 46 years old, in his 22nd full NASCAR season and hasn’t won a race since 2020. So a slow start in NASCAR’s
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Cubs veteran Kyle Hendricks is set to deliver the first pitch of the season against Corbin Burnes and Milwaukee at Wrigley Field just past 2:20 p.m. EDT, the first of seven games still on the calendar amid rainy forecasts across the country. The World Series champion Atlanta Braves open at home
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By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Vaccine experts are grappling with how to formulate a U.S. strategy for future COVID-19 booster campaigns. A panel of federal advisers to the Food and Drug Administration spent hours Wednesday debating key questions about updating the vaccines. They didn’t reach any firm conclusions. FDA regulators cautioned
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By Rebekah Riess and Eric Levenson, CNN A Missouri circuit court judge on Tuesday dismissed all criminal charges against three tour boat employees involved in the 2018 duck boat sinking near Branson, Missouri, that left 17 people dead, according to court documents. Judge Alan Blankenship wrote the court did not find probable cause the defendants
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urielblanco (CNN) — Otros 42 genes relacionados al desarrollo del alzhéimer se descubrieron en el mayor estudio realizado hasta la fecha sobre el riesgo genético de la enfermedad. “Este es un estudio trascendental en la investigación sobre el alzhéimer y es la culminación de 30 años de trabajo”, afirmó en un comunicado Julie Williams, coautora del
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By PETER SMITH Associated Press U.S. churches are bracing for an unprecedented reckoning with their histories operating boarding schools for Native Americans. Native children were forced to attend these schools in the 19th and 20th centuries. The schools broke down students’ connections with their families, tribes and traditions and tried to assimilate them into a
Continue Reading By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Every big leaguer thinks their team has a chance when they arrive to spring training. The old “hope springs eternal” cliché is, after all, more apropos to Major League Baseball than perhaps any other professional sport. It’s been a few years, though, since the
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN) — Australia gastará US$ 2.600 millones (3.500 millones de dólares australianos) para mejorar sus sistemas de misiles defensivos, en el contexto de que la seguridad en la región de Asia-Pacífico se ha vuelto más difícil por la creciente asertividad militar de China, dijo este martes el ministro de Defensa del país. El
Continue Reading By Clare Foran and Melissa Holzberg DePalo, CNN Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Gibbs said on Wednesday that he will not seek reelection and will instead retire as he expressed frustration with redistricting in his state. In a statement, Gibbs referenced what he described as “the circus redistricting has become in Ohio,” and went on to
Continue Reading By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Luxury fashion brand Chanel says it will stop selling its clothes, perfumes and other luxury goods to Russian customers abroad if they plan to take the products back to the country. The move comes after the French fashion house had shuttered its boutiques in Russia, a step
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By Amy Woodyatt and Matias Grez, CNN UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that transgender women should not compete in female sports in comments he said he knew could be seen as “controversial.” “I don’t think that biological males should be competing in female sporting events. And maybe that’s a controversial thing … but
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By Omar Jimenez, Brad Parks and Peter Nickeas, CNN Prosecutors declined to file charges against the Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Amir Locke or any other officers involved in the no-knock warrant service that led to the 22-year-old Black man’s death in early February. An officer shot Locke within a few seconds of entering
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By MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A major report says American nursing home residents are subjected to ineffective care and poor staffing, and that facility finances are shrouded in secrecy and regulatory lapses go unenforced. The study out Wednesday from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is calling for
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business It’s looking awful gloomy out there on Wall Street. Traders are making big bets against retailers as recession fears gain steam. Investors are growing more skeptical of energy stocks following the spike in oil prices, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. And investors are souring on health care
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Estados Unidos tomó medidas adicionales este miércoles para aumentar la presión económica sobre Rusia y el presidente Vladimir Putin, luego de que se conocieran las horribles imágenes de la ciudad de Bucha, Ucrania. El gobierno de Biden anunció nuevas sanciones contra las instituciones financieras rusas, así como contra individuos, incluidas
Continue Reading Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business In a historic first, a crew of four civilians are set to launch to the International Space Station this week as part of an inaugural mission for the commercial spaceflight company Axiom Space. They’ll be riding on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, and docking at the station via a SpaceX Dragon
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By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has traveled to Connecticut to appear at a deposition in a lawsuit over his calling the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax. His trip to Bridgeport comes after he was fined for defying a judge’s order to appear
Continue Reading By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has told a House panel that Russia’s actions in Eastern Europe “will have enormous economic repercussions in Ukraine and beyond.” Yellen said Wednesday that globally, “spillovers from the crisis” are heightening economic vulnerabilities in many countries that are already facing higher debt burdens
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By Tierney Sneed The US Justice Department is charging Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev with sanctions violations, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday, the first criminal charges against an oligarch since Russia invaded Ukraine. “As the indictment charges, the Treasury Department previously identified Malofeyev as one of the main sources of financing for Russians promoting separatism
Continue Reading ATLANTA (AP) — Jonas Hayes, who as interim coach led Xavier to its first NIT championship in 64 years, has been hired as Georgia State’s coach. Hayes, an Atlanta native and University of Georgia alumnus, replaces Rob Lanier, who left Georgia State to lead SMU’s program. Hayes was an assistant coach at Xavier before being
Continue Reading US Special Envoy for Yemen, Tim Lenderking, speaks with CNN’s Becky Anderson about the recent two-month truce, the Iran-aligned Houthi movement and the wider regional power struggle.
Continue Reading By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to a nationwide truce for the first time since 2016. Meant to last for two months but eligible for renewal, it is the most significant step towards ending the hostilities since the war began seven years ago, and a win for United Nations and United States
Continue Reading By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business The United States is on the brink of a retirement crisis. The primary savings tool for Americans — your 401(k) — isn’t helping. By the end of the decade, about 21% of the country’s population will be 65 or older, up from 15% in 2016, according to forecasts by the
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter A 5-4 Supreme Court reinstated a Trump-era rule Wednesday that restricts the authority of states to reject federal permits under the Clean Water Act in another ruling putting the court’s emergency docket in the spotlight. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s liberal justices in dissent, arguing
Continue Reading By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer LeBron James ends weeks of speculation over his future by announcing his decision on an ESPN special that he has decided to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers and his home state of Ohio after seven years to join Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh at the Miami Heat seeking his first
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — The NBA suspends the season “until further notice” after Rudy Goebert of the Utah Jazz tests positive for the coronavirus. The move comes hours after the majority of the league’s owners were leaning toward playing games without fans in arenas. The league says in a statement
Continue Reading By BRIAN MAHONEY and TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writers LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — NBA players walk out on playoff games inside the league’s bubble against the coronavirus pandemic upset over racial injustice and the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin. That city’s NBA team, the Bucks, started
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Good morning! The next few days will feature breezy to windy conditions. Expect afternoon highs to reach the 80s again today with plenty of sunshine. Cooler air moves in from the east dropping afternoon highs to the 70s Thursday afternoon. warm er temperatures return this weekend.
Continue Reading By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has charged a Russian oligarch with sanctions violations and has taken down a cybercrime operation controlled by a Russian military intelligence agency. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the actions at a news conference Wednesday. The case against against Konstantin Malofeyev accuses
Continue Reading By Anneken Tappe and Matt Egan, CNN Business US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Wednesday about the economic shock waves set off by the war in Ukraine, including disruptions to the global flow of food and energy. “Russia’s actions represent an unacceptable affront to the rules-based, global order, and will have enormous economic repercussions in
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