By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Germany has its first Olympic skeleton champion, and the country is simply sliding away from all challengers so far at the Beijing Olympics. Christopher Grotheer was a runaway winner in the men’s skeleton event that ended Friday night, the first German to win gold in the
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By Dakin Andone, Nick Valencia and Jade Gordon, CNN A Black FedEx driver who says he was shot at by a White father and son while delivering packages in Mississippi “can definitely see the similarities” between his case and that of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man who was chased and murdered in south Georgia. “That’s
Continue Reading FedEx driver D’Monterrio Gibson was shot at by two White men while dropping off packages. He is now on unpaid leave from the company. Gibson and his lawyer join New Day to share his story.
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN John Mayer has opened up about the loss of his dear friend Bob Saget to another close friend, Andy Cohen. Mayer recently appeared on “SiriusXM and Pandora Small Stage Series Show,” where he shared with Cohen that he’s been working on a song in tribute of Saget, who died in
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By Brenda Goodman, CNN The BA.2 virus — a subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant — isn’t just spreading faster than its distant cousin, it may also cause more severe disease and appears capable of thwarting some of the key weapons we have against Covid-19, new research suggests. New lab experiments from Japan show that
Continue Reading By Amanda Sealy, CNN As the NFL’s 2021 season kicked off with the defending Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers taking on the Dallas Cowboys, the league had managed to vaccinate more than 90% of its players and staff against the coronavirus. It already had an entire pandemic season under its belt and knew what
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe, CNN There’s just something about a hug. After a child has a hard day of feeling alone and stressed, it seems like a hug from someone they love could be just the cure. It’s not just a feeling, experts say. Evidence shows it’s important to our well-being at every stage of life.
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — Son decenas y están por todo América Latina. Es la región donde existe la mayor proporción de investigadoras a nivel mundial, aunque todavía luchan por acceder a puestos de liderazgo, según la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (Unesco). En cifras, las mujeres
Continue Reading By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Olympic snowboarding judges are coming under scrutiny for their scoring of Canadian slopestyler Max Parrot’s gold-medal run. Parrot appeared to grab his knee instead of his board during one of his tricks. That an error likely would have cost him enough points to fall short
Continue Reading By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer Who is your favorite celebrity? Chances are, they’re in a Super Bowl ad this year. While Super Bowl ads usually feature a bevy of big names, this year advertisers have gone even further. “The vast majority of ads are including big star power, from athletes to actors to chefs,”
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By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer Who is your favorite celebrity? Chances are, they’re in a Super Bowl ad this year. While Super Bowl ads usually feature a bevy of big names, this year advertisers have gone even further. “The vast majority of ads are including big star power, from athletes to actors to chefs,”
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Desde hace dos semanas, los manifestantes del Convoy de la libertad que adelantan protestas en Canadá han logrado frustrar tanto a los líderes políticos como a los encargados de hacer cumplir la ley con sus inflexibles protestas contra las restricciones de covid-19. Las fuerzas policiales de todo el país han
Continue Reading By Nick Paton Walsh, Sandi Sidhu, Julia Hollingsworth, Masoud Popalzai, Sitara Zamani, Abdul Basir Bina, Katie Polglase and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN Newly released testimony from US military survivors of the August 26 attack at Kabul airport has cast doubt on the findings of the Pentagon’s investigation into the incident, which concluded that nobody was hit
Continue Reading CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Sandi Sidhu, Julia Hollingsworth, Masoud Popalzai, Sitara Zamani, Abdul Basir Bina, Katie Polglase and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN Newly released testimony from US military survivors of the August 26 attack at Kabul airport has cast doubt on the findings of the Pentagon’s investigation into the incident, which concluded that nobody was
Continue Reading By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Constitutional Court has refused to temporarily block the implementation of a coronavirus vaccine mandate for care and health workers that is due to come into force in mid-March. The country’s top court said Friday that it had rejected a bid to impose an injunction against the
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv Reseña (CNN) — “El estafador de Tinder” (“The Tinder Swindler” en su título original) da la sensación de esos documentales que Investigation Discovery parece producir a un ritmo vertiginoso, pero está obteniendo tracción adicional gracias a una plataforma en Netflix. Combinando las cualidades de una película de Lifetime con un título pegadizo, los
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Happy Friday! The warm, dry and quiet weather will continue Friday. High temperatures will reach the upper 60s and low 70s with light winds and clear skies. Tomorrow a weak system along with a cold front will bring windy conditions and cooler air. We warm back up Sunday through next Tuesday as a stronger weather
Continue Reading Julia Garner and Anna Chlumsky star in Shonda Rimes’ series about the fake German heiress who dazzled New York’s elite. David Daniel has a look.
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Inventing Anna” transforms a juicy real-life drama about a con artist among the influencer crowd into a fairly inert limited series, in part by giving almost equal weight to the reporter who broke the story. Shonda Rhimes caught lightning in a bottle for Netflix with “Bridgerton,” but her latest creation
Continue Reading By ROB GILLIES, TOM KRISHER and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press WINDSOR, Ontario (AP) — A Canadian judge has ordered protesters at the Ambassador Bridge over the U.S.-Canadian border to end the 5-day-old blockade that has disrupted the flow of goods between the two countries and forced the auto industry on both sides to roll back
Continue Reading By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Super Bowl advertisers this year want Americans to forget about pandemic woes and focus on the future: of electric vehicles, mind reading Alexas, robots and cryptocurrency. And also to harken back to the nostalgic past with nods to ’90s movies like “Austin Powers” and “The
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Eve has introduced her son to the world. The rapper, actress and former host of “The Talk” welcomed her first child with her husband, entrepreneur Maximillion Cooper. Eve announced the news along with a photo of the baby sleeping peacefully on her verified Instagram account. “Our Beautiful boy was born
Continue Reading By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Shaun White’s brilliant and transcendent Olympic career is over. It ended with a fall on his final run down the halfpipe, a heartfelt ovation from the crowd and then a tearful farewell to a sport he helped define. A few mountains away, Mikaela Shiffrin finally made
Continue Reading By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer No. 5 Kentucky rides a five-game winning streak into a home game with Florida to highlight weekend action in the Southeastern Conference. The Gators have won four straight. The Wildcats are only a game behind No. 1 Auburn in the SEC standings with the Tigers’ 80-76 overtime loss at
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By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer No. 5 Kentucky rides a five-game winning streak into a home game with Florida to highlight weekend action in the Southeastern Conference. The Gators have won four straight. The Wildcats are only a game behind No. 1 Auburn in the SEC standings with the Tigers’ 80-76 overtime loss at
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Yorkshire cricket club can resume hosting international matches after its suspension was lifted in recognition of the club’s “good progress” on addressing problems of racism and bullying. Yorkshire’s Headingley Stadium will now host England’s third test against New Zealand in June and a one-day international against South Africa in July. The England
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By Coy Wire, Dan Moriarty, Bex Wright, Hannah Ritchie and Jack Bantock, CNN Newly-crowned Olympic champion Nathan Chen has told CNN that he still hopes to stand on the podium to celebrate Team USA’s figure skating silver in Beijing. Chen and his US teammates missed the opportunity to collect their medals from the figure skating
Continue Reading By CNN Sports staff The doping scandal surrounding Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) figure skater Kamila Valieva has rocked the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. The 15-year-old Valieva, a breakout star of the Games who helped the ROC take home gold in the figure skating team event, was allowed to compete despite testing positive for the banned
Continue Reading LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Sadio Mané has returned to Liverpool after celebrating Senegal’s title in the African Cup of Nations and is set to be in contention for the Premier League match at Burnley on Sunday. Mané led Senegal to its first African Cup championship by converting the decisive penalty in a shootout win over
Continue Reading By Amy Woodyatt, CNN English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur has told supporters it is time to “move on” from using the “Y-word” — deemed anti-Semitic — after conducting a review of the term among the club’s fanbase. The review, which had over 23,000 responses, found that 94% of those surveyed acknowledged the Y-word can
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