By Paula Newton, Aya Elamroussi and Eric Levenson, CNN Access to three border crossings in Michigan, North Dakota and Montana have been cut off by truckers and like-minded demonstrators on the Canadian side of the border who are protesting Covid-related restrictions. To address the ongoing issue, the Canadian government announced Thursday it would send additional
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By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. men’s curling team isn’t dwelling on the last time it played Sweden at the Olympics. It’s thinking of the next time. Sweden beat John Shuster’s foursome 7-4 on Thursday in a rematch of the Pyeongchang gold medal match. Niklas Edin’s team remained perfect in
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By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is seeing its economic emergence from the unprecedented COVID-19 slowdown hampered by coronavirus-induced staff shortages, supply bottlenecks, runaway energy prices and subsequent inflation surges. The European Commission said Thursday that even though the economy has rebounded from losses at the height of the pandemic
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By Jeremy Herb, Katie Bo Lillis, Barbara Starr and Sean Lyngaas, CNN It might be a cyberattack targeting Ukraine’s energy grid. Or the movement of Russian battalions and tanks along the border and into firing range. Or perhaps even a long-range missile attack. They’re all potential signs US and European officials are closely monitoring that
Continue Reading CNN By Jeremy Herb, Katie Bo Lillis, Barbara Starr and Sean Lyngaas, CNN It might be a cyberattack targeting Ukraine’s energy grid. Or the movement of Russian battalions and tanks along the border and into firing range. Or perhaps even a long-range missile attack. They’re all potential signs US and European officials are closely monitoring
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Men’s figure skating gold medalist Nathan Chen discusses fellow Chinese-American ice skater Michelle Kwan and the influence she had on him when he was a child.
Continue Reading By Chandelis Duster, CNN Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said he’s looking to a new commission that will examine the US Department of Agriculture’s policies and programs for factors that have contributed to historic discrimination against farmers of color for an “outside look” to identify disparities, inequity and discrimination across the agency and recommend action. The
Continue Reading By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany Siemens AG saw net profit at the global maker of trains and industrial equipment rise 20% to 1.8 billion euros in the last three months of 2021. The rebounding global economy increased orders for its goods, including a 1-billion euro order for high speed
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — La amenaza de una invasión rusa a Ucrania ha aumentado la importancia de las defensas de Estados Unidos y la OTAN en Europa del Este, que durante décadas han actuado como un amortiguador entre Rusia y Occidente. El conflicto de Ucrania y Rusia explicado en 4 mapas La OTAN tiene cuatro grupos
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Reporters from abroad and Chinese reporters have different approaches to the daily news briefings at the Beijing Olympics. Western reporters have been focusing on a Russian skater who is reported to have tested positive for a banned substance. Chinese reporters usually take a softer line and
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Think you know which of Garth Brooks’ albums are the best of the best? Check yourself against Stacker’s deep dive into the charts.
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Stacker compiled a list of five significant uprisings by enslaved people throughout U.S. history, while also exploring everyday acts of resistance to slavery most high school history classes miss.
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Stacker compiled a list of 20 of the most memorable Super Bowl halftime shows from various news and entertainment sites.
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Stacker looked at break-up films and made a list of the very best. To qualify, the film had to have at least a 6.5 on IMDb and over 2,000 user votes.
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — AstraZeneca has recorded a big jump in revenue as it begins to take a profit from its coronavirus vaccine for the first time. The company recorded full-year revenues of $37.4 billion, an increase of 38% from the year before at constant exchange rates. Part of the boost came from $4 billion in
Continue Reading By MOSA’AB ELSHAMY Associated Press IGHRAN, Morocco (AP) — The death of a 5-year-old boy trapped for days in the dark depths of a well symbolizes for many villagers a curse that haunts their remote mountainous region in northern Morocco. Rif is dirt poor, neglected and dependent on its illegal cannabis crop to survive. Rayan’s
Continue Reading By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Therese Johaug’s appetite for Olympic gold medals was satisfied again. The Norwegian great added another title to her tally by winning the 10-kilometer classic race five days after winning the first gold medal of the Beijing Olympics. Johaug glided around the cold, windy course in 28
Continue Reading Scientists working in the United Kingdom announced that they more than doubled the previous record for generating and sustaining nuclear fusion, which is the same process that allows the sun and stars to shine so brightly. CNN’s Kim Brunhuber reports.
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By Rhea Mogul, Manveena Suri and Swati Gupta, CNN A college student has become a symbol of resistance in India’s Karnataka state, where religious tensions are rising over the right to wear religious clothing to school. Muskan Khan was attempting to hand in a college assignment in the city of Mandya when she was accosted
Continue Reading By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Members of the Philippines women’s soccer team which recently qualified for its first World Cup have played down social media comments that most of the players with mixed American ancestry “were not Filipino enough.” The Philippines beat Taiwan 4-3 in a penalty shootout last week after
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — Authorities in France and Belgium have banned road blockades threatened by groups organizing online against COVID-19 restrictions. The events are in part inspired by protesters in Canada. Citing “risks of trouble to public order,” the Paris police department banned protests aimed at “blocking the capital” from Friday through Monday. Online chat groups
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — A newspaper says a Chinese real estate developer that is struggling under $310 billion in debt is promising to deliver 600,000 apartments this year. That is a show of confidence that Evergrande Group can can avert a collapse and resume normal business. The company has left
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. ski team says Mikaela Shiffrin will enter the super-G at the Beijing Games. She has never raced that event at an Olympics but she did win it at the 2019 world championships. Shiffrin took a pair of trips about a half-hour apart down the
Continue Reading By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will begin offering Novavax Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine at hospitals, nursing homes and public health centers next week, adding another tool to fight a fast-developing omicron surge. The country reported a record 54,122 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, but officials are expressing cautious hope
Continue Reading ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Alessandro Haemmerle of Austria held off Eliot Grondin of Canada in a photo finish to win the Olympic men’s snowboardcross. The 20-year-old Grondin made it close by almost diving toward the finish line with his board. It wasn’t enough to overtake Haemmerle, who took home a medal in his third Olympics.
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN Español) — El expresidente de Perú Martín Vizcarra habló en exclusiva con Fernando del Rincón de CNN en Español sobre la que él cree que puede ser la forma de que el país supere la grave crisis política que lleva años arrastrando. “Yo creo que la salida a la crisis política que estamos
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — It took Duff Gibson many years to become an Olympic champion. It took him more years to explain the methodology behind that win. Gibson became Canada’s oldest individual Winter Olympics gold medalist when he captured the men’s skeleton title at the 2006 Turin Games. He has
Continue Reading Snowboarder Chloe Kim, the defending Olympic champion, discusses struggling with her mental health after winning gold in the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games and how she recovered from it. Whether she will compete in future Olympics, the 2022 Beijing gold medalist says it will depend on how she’s feeling, both mentally and physically.
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A peace agreement for eastern Ukraine has remained stalled for years. But it has come into the spotlight again amid a Russian military buildup near Ukraine that has fueled invasion fears. Top officials from Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany are set to meet in Berlin on Thursday
Continue Reading BARWON HEADS, Australia (AP) — Hannah Green’s first tournament appearance since November saw her tied for the lead after one round of the Vic Open tournament at 13th Beach Golf Links. The West Australian won the Women’s PGA tournament on the LPGA tour in 2019. She shot a six-under 67 on the par-73 Creek course
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