By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Navy Reserve lieutenant commander Jesse Iwuji is now juggling a budding NASCAR career. After 15 total starts across NASCAR’s national series, Iwuji will at last get a chance to run a full season. He’s teamed with NFL Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith to build
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By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Navy Reserve lieutenant commander Jesse Iwuji is now juggling a budding NASCAR career. After 15 total starts across NASCAR’s national series, Iwuji will at last get a chance to run a full season. He’s teamed with NFL Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith to build
Continue Reading JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Longtime Jacksonville State baseball coach Rudy Abbott, has passed away. He was 81. The school said Abbott died on Wednesday morning. He led the Gamecocks to back to back NCAA Division II national championships in 1990 and 1991 during his 32-year reign ending in 2001. They won eight Gulf South Conference
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The priciest Super Bowl commercials will cost a record $7 million this year, according to NBC. To put that into terms many of the big game’s advertisers will understand, that’s about 160 bitcoin or 2,200 ether. Cryptocurrencies will be taking center stage during the ad breaks of Super
Continue Reading ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Chelsea will get another chance to win the Club World Cup for the first time after beating Al Hilal 1-0 to set up a meeting with Palmeiras in the final. Romelu Lukaku’s close-range goal in the 32nd minute settled a match between the European champions and the Asian
Continue Reading By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Justin Jefferson is excited the Minnesota Vikings are getting an offensive-minded head coach. The team is expected to hire Los Angeles Rams offensive coordinator Kevin O’Connell after the Super Bowl. He’ll replace Mike Zimmer, who was a longtime defensive coordinator before the Vikings put
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CNN By Jeff Zeleny and Gabby Orr, CNN The three words about the US Capitol attack that have sparked a firestorm inside the Republican Party — “legitimate political discourse” — were not included in early drafts of the resolution to censure Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, a person involved in the process tells CNN,
Continue Reading By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer Iszac Henig didn’t know Lia Thomas when he reached out to her in October. Thomas had been making headlines as a transgender woman swimming for Penn. Henig just wanted to let her know she had the support of another swimmer who has some idea of what she was going
Continue Reading By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Lia Thomas is a transgender woman who swims for the University of Pennsylvania. It has been an unforgettable, controversial season in her first year. Three years ago, she was on the men’s team for Penn. This year, she is setting records as critics say it is
Continue Reading By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Lia Thomas is a transgender woman who swims for the University of Pennsylvania. It has been an unforgettable, controversial season in her first year. Three years ago, she was on the men’s team for Penn. This year, she is setting records as critics say it is
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macamilarincon (CNN) — En medio de la crisis entre Ucrania y Rusia, y tras la decisión del presidente Vladimir Putin de reconocer como territorios independientes a Donetsk y Luhansk, en las reacciones han surgido de manera reiterada los acuerdos de Minsk. El acuerdo, el segundo de su tipo (y el que importa), se forjó en
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urielblanco (CNN) — Tres personas fueron detenidas por el asesinato de la periodista mexicana Lourdes Maldonado, anunció este miércoles el presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, en su conferencia de prensa diaria. Maldonado fue asesinada en la colonia Santa Fe de Tijuana, Baja California, el 23 de enero de 2022. De acuerdo con un
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AZTEC, N.M. (AP) — A fire official in northwestern New Mexico says there’s an active wildfire threat in the region despite it still being winter. Capt. Tony Herrera, the wildland coordinator for San Juan County Fire and Rescue, said fire dangers generally diminish during winter but there has been heightened fire activity due to dry
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Una imagen de un lago congelado y el reflejo de las ramas de un sauce sobre la superficie helada del agua se llevó el máximo galardón del Premio del Público al Fotógrafo de Vida Silvestre de 2021. La imagen del fotógrafo italiano Cristiano Vendramin, que originalmente formaba parte de una lista
Continue Reading By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. The traffic to the cancellation page for Spotify Premium has jumped in recent weeks as the audio streaming company faces a wave of backlash over its support for podcaster Joe
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Federal and state agencies say a strain of avian flu that can cause high mortality rates among birds has been confirmed at a commercial turkey farm in southern Indiana. The United States Department of Agriculture says its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza was
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CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. The traffic to the cancellation page for Spotify Premium has jumped in recent weeks as the audio streaming company faces a wave of backlash over its support
Continue Reading By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer U.S. antitrust regulators have not challenged the $43 billion combination of Discovery and AT&T’s WarnerMedia during a key review period, according to corporate securities filings, easing the way for the deal to close in the next few months. Discovery says it and AT&T have not gotten objections from the
Continue Reading By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer U.S. antitrust regulators have not challenged the $43 billion combination of Discovery and AT&T’s WarnerMedia during a key review period, according to corporate securities filings, easing the way for the deal to close in the next few months. Discovery says it and AT&T have not gotten objections from the
Continue Reading Marysabel E. Huston-Crespo (CNN Español) – Nos vamos acercando rápidamente a los Oscar, la noche más importante de Hollywood. Este martes se dio a conocer la lista de nominaciones a la edición 94 de los premios. La cinta “The Power of the Dog” lidera las nominaciones: tiene 12. También hay presencia hispana entre los distinguidos.
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By Hannah Ryan, CNN West Ham United’s French international defender Kurt Zouma has been fined by the English Premier League club and is facing an investigation from the UK’s leading animal welfare charity after a video emerged online that showed him kicking and slapping a cat. On Wednesday, West Ham released a statement on its
Continue Reading By Matt McFarland, CNN Business The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing will sue Tesla, alleging systematic racial discrimination and harassment, the automaker said in a blog post Wednesday. Department spokesperson Fahizah Alim declined to confirm or comment on the expected lawsuit. If filed, the lawsuit would be the latest in a series of
Continue Reading By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Republican Rep. Greg Pence on Wednesday publicly defended his brother, former Vice President Mike Pence, who said former President Donald Trump was “wrong” in claiming that Pence had the right to overturn the 2020 election on January 6, 2021. The former vice president has been the subject of harsh criticism from
Continue Reading By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Denver Broncos tight end Andrew Beck has won the NFL’s Salute to Service award. Beck will be recognized at NFL Honors, the prime-time awards show Thursday night at which The Associated Press reveals its individual award winners for the 2021 season. USAA, which provides
Continue Reading By David Close, CNN An independent investigation into sexual harassment allegations against Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder will be conducted by the NFL and not the team, a National Football League spokesperson said Wednesday. The Commanders earlier had announced the hiring of a private firm headed by two former federal prosecutors to investigate the allegations
Continue Reading By Betsy Klein, Kaitlan Collins and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden will host Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats at the White House Thursday, a White House official confirmed to CNN, as he ramps up his courting of critical senators before selecting a successor to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Biden, the official added, “has also
Continue Reading By ROB GILLIES and TOM KRISHER Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — A blockade of the bridge between Canada and Detroit by protesters demanding an end to Canada’s COVID-19 restrictions has forced the shutdown of a Ford plant and is beginning to have broader implications on the North American auto industry. Canada has been beset in
Continue Reading By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — NBC can breathe a sigh of relief after Shaun White reached the final of the halfpipe. The snowboarding star’s finale is set for Thursday night in prime time, although it almost happened earlier. He fell on his first attempt in qualifying but rebounded on his next
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By Sharon Braithwaite, Laura Smith-Spark, Lauren Kent and Salma Abdelaziz, CNN UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has signaled an early end to all coronavirus restrictions in England, including the legal requirement to self-isolate for positive Covid-19 cases, if “encouraging trends” continue. Johnson said he would present the government’s strategy “for living with Covid” when parliament
Continue Reading By Brian Stelter, CNN Business Discovery and AT&T received a long-awaited green light from the Justice Department on Wednesday, driving the two companies closer to completing Discovery’s takeover of WarnerMedia. AT&T is planning to spin off CNN and the rest of WarnerMedia in the coming months, at which point Discovery will merge with WarnerMedia, creating
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