By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — The price for Deshaun Watson went up for the Browns in 24 hours. Call it football inflation. Cleveland’s trade for the legally entangled quarterback became official Sunday when the Browns released statements explaining their decision to add him following an extensive investigation. Watson has been accused
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By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — The price for Deshaun Watson went up for the Browns in 24 hours. Call it football inflation. Cleveland’s trade for the legally entangled quarterback became official Sunday when the Browns released statements explaining their decision to add him following an extensive investigation. Watson has been accused
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of former Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. He is currently the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council. Personal Birth date: September 14, 1965 Birth place: Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia) Birth name: Dmitry Anatolyvich Medvedev Father: Anatoly Medvedev, professor Mother: Yulia Medvedeva, professor and
Continue Reading LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic weightlifting champion Nijat Rahimov has been stripped of his 2016 gold medal and banned for eight years for doping. The Court of Arbitration for Sport says the Kazakh lifter was guilty of “four urine substitutions.” He was disqualified from all his results since March 2016. Rahimov’s world record at the
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By Kelly Mena and Fredreka Schouten, CNN A version of this story appeared in the CITIZEN BY CNN newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. With less than eight months to go before the November midterms, Republican lawmakers around the country are racing to change election laws. In 14 states,
Continue Reading SHERMAN, Texas (AP) — Emergency managers say a 73-year-old woman has been killed by a tornado in Northern Texas.
Continue Reading By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams is preparing to lift requirements that children under age 5 wear face masks in school. Adams on Tuesday said that he will make masks optional for those in daycare and prekindergarten starting April 4 if case rates and the
Continue Reading By Natasha Bertrand, Vasco Cotovio, Jennifer Hansler and Jim Sciutto, CNN The US and NATO believe that Belarus could “soon” join Russia in its war against Ukraine, US and NATO officials tell CNN, and that the country is already taking steps to do so. It is increasingly “likely” that Belarus will enter the conflict, a
Continue Reading By CHRIS SHERIDAN AP Basketball Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Michael Jordan retires at the age of 40 for the third and final time after an illustrious basketball career. He finishes with 15 points in 28 minutes of a loss by the Washington Wizards to the 76ers in Philadelphia. Jordan receives several ovations through the game
Continue Reading By JOHN NADEL AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant shoots and keeps shooting from all over the court and from every angle. The Los Angeles Lakers star has 26 points by halftime and finishes the game with 81 points for the second-highest total in NBA history. Bryant’s big game leads the Lakers
Continue Reading By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer The top two women from the Beijing Olympics, Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova, won’t be at the world figure skating championships this week in Montpellier, France. Neither will Kamila Valieva, the fourth-place finisher whose positive doping result casted a shadow over the entire Winter Games. That’s because all Russian
Continue Reading By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — The “Malice at the Palace” starts as a disagreement between Indiana Pacers forward Ron Artest and Detroit Pistons power forward Ben Wallace. It becomes one of the worst incidents in sports history. Artest lays on the scorers table to de-escalate things where he is
Continue Reading By CHRIS SHERIDAN AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A star-studded draft takes place with 18-year-old phenom LeBron James picked No. 1. Carmelo Anthony is picked No. 3 followed by Chris Bosh at No. 4 and Dwyane Wade at No. 5. The Detroit Pistons infamously takes Darko Milicic as the No. 2 overall pick.
Continue Reading The Associated Press Timeline of the National Basketball Association during the 2000s to the NBA’s 75th season. The timeline includes milestone moments in the league’s history and key moments off the court as the NBA celebrates its 75th season.
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By Deblina Chakraborty, CNN A subvariant of Omicron, BA.2, is leading to a new wave of Covid-19 infections across Europe. Cases in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and other countries are going up, driven by this very contagious coronavirus strain. The proportion of Covid-19 cases due to BA.2 is rising in the United States,
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN One of the most prominent architecture firms in the world is designing a new metaverse — a virtual city that hopes to be a libertarian utopia. Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has revealed renderings of the “cyber-urban” Liberland metaverse, a small virtual city made of futuristic, curving buildings in the architectural style that
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Golf’s major championship season is on the horizon. The Match Play in Austin, Texas, features the top 64 players available from the world ranking. Four of the top 12 chose not to play with the Masters two weeks away. That includes the last two PGA Tour winners, Sam Burns and Cameron
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Golf’s major championship season is on the horizon. The Match Play in Austin, Texas, features the top 64 players available from the world ranking. Four of the top 12 chose not to play with the Masters two weeks away. That includes the last two PGA Tour winners, Sam Burns and Cameron
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By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Electric vehicle battery maker LG Energy Solution, a joint-venture partner with automaker General Motors, plans a $1.7 billion expansion in western Michigan that will add up to 1,200 jobs by 2025. The project at the company’s site in Holland was approved Tuesday for $56.5 million in
Continue Reading By COLLEEN LONG, AMANDA SEITZ and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has been countering disinformation coming from the Kremlin on the violent conflict in Ukraine. Getting accurate news about the war into Russia, though, is a trickier issue. President Vladimir Putin has shut down Russia’s last three independent media outlets, created
Continue Reading By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer DETROIT (AP) — Oakland Hills Country Club has landed the U.S. Open in 2034 and 2051. The USGA made the announcement Tuesday at the Detroit Athletic Club. The governing body also says Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania, previously scheduled to have the U.S. Open in 2034, will have the
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Opinion by Gina Cummings for CNN Business Perspectives With inflation hitting a 40-year high in the United States, working families are swimming ever faster in the effort to stay afloat. But the water just keeps rising, as mostly stagnant wages are also rapidly losing value. The federal minimum wage has lost at least 21% of
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Dolly Parton has long wanted to do a Broadway musical about her life, but the pandemic has her reconsidering that. “We were talking about doing my Broadway musical and we were really, really far out ahead of that, and then Covid hit and that changed my mind about a whole
Continue Reading By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer MacKenzie Scott donated $436 million to Habitat for Humanity International and 84 of its U.S. affiliates – the largest publicly disclosed donation from the billionaire philanthropist since she pledged to give away the majority of her wealth in 2019. The international group received $25 million from Scott and her
Continue Reading By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Rafael Nadal says he will be sidelined for four to six weeks because of a rib injury. The problem may put in jeopardy his preparations for the French Open in two months. Nadal says he underwent exams in Spain on Monday and results showed he has
Continue Reading By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Alibaba has a message for investors nervous about its slowing growth and geopolitical uncertainty: We think our stock is cheap and we’re putting our money where our mouth is. Shares of Alibaba rose more than 11% Tuesday after the Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant announced it was boosting
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Ukraine is appealing to a Chinese maker of civilian drones to block what the Ukrainian government says is their use by the Russian army to target missile attacks. The appeal to DJI Technology Co. highlights the conflict in Ukraine for Chinese companies. Beijing says Moscow is its “most important strategic partner” at
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LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) — A former Las Vegas, New Mexico, school security guard will serve 10 years in prison for sexually abusing a female student. The Las Vegas Optic reports 53-year-old Abran Ulibarri was sentenced Monday at a hearing where the victim, who was 14 at the time, spoke in favor of prison time.
Continue Reading Oscar Holland, CNN One of Andy Warhol’s iconic Marilyn Monroe portraits could become the most expensive 20th-century artwork ever to go under the hammer, with auctioneer Christie’s expecting bids “in the region of” $200 million. The 40-square-inch “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn,” one of dozens of images the artist made of Monroe in the 1960s, will
Continue Reading ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota environmental regulators say damage to the state’s public groundwater resources from missteps during construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline is more severe than previously known. The state Department of Natural Resources says Enbridge Energy crews ruptured three groundwater aquifers while building the 340-mile pipeline across northern Minnesota last
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