PHOENIX (AP) — The Phoenix Mercury have signed WNBA leading scorer Tina Charles, their second big addition in as many days. Phoenix announced Charles’ signing a day after adding Diamond DeShields in a three-team trade with Chicago and New York. Charles joins a roster that includes Diana Taurasi, Brittney Griner and Skylar Diggins-Smith, who led
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By Matt Egan, CNN Business January’s shockingly strong jobs report suggests the US economy is healthy enough to withstand the Federal Reserve’s plans to raise interest rates in the coming months, former Obama economist Austan Goolsbee told CNN on Friday. “We had an honest-to-God blockbuster positive surprise of a job report. Hopefully, it’s a sign
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Rescatistas en Marruecos llevan casi tres días tratando de alcanzar a un niño de 5 años atrapado en un pozo en el norte del país, informó este viernes el medio estatal MAP. El niño, que se llama Rayan, se encuentra atrapado en el pozo que llega a más de 30
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By Ben Morse, CNN And so, the 2022 Winter Olympics is underway. Following an opening ceremony filled with fireworks, amazing lightshows and some colorful costumes, the competition among athletes for medals on Saturday in Beijing will really get going. While many around the world might recognize sports in the Summer Games, the Winter edition of
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – New Mexico State University Police officers arrested a 50-year-old woman who they say refused to wear a mask while attending Thursday night’s basketball game. An NMSU spokesman said officers had asked the woman several times to put on a mask. During the game, he said she would put it on
Continue Reading Trans swimmer Lia Thomas has been breaking school and national records. The sport has revised its rules, and 16 of her teammates say she has an ‘unfair advantage.’ 1980 Olympic Silver Medalist Sharron Davies says, ‘We have to use science.’
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By Ali Zaslav and Lauren Fox, CNN A bipartisan group of senators are moving closer to a long-sought deal to renew and modernize the lapsed Violence Against Women Act, after a series of hangups stalled progress on the landmark legislation that expired more than three years ago. “We had a meeting on it this morning,
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Employers added a record 6.6 million jobs during Joe Biden’s first 12 months in office, by far the strongest record of any president’s first year in office. The unexpected strength of the January jobs report — along with some revisions in readings for November and December — pushed Biden over
Continue Reading By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The dissident Chinese architect behind the Beijing stadium hosting Friday’s opening ceremony of the Winter Games has scoffed at the head of the U.N. health agency. He said China should award him “a gold medal” for not asking hard questions about its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN) — El general Frank McKenzie, jefe del Comando Central de EE.UU., dijo que una investigación del Pentágono sobre las explosiones afuera del aeropuerto de Kabul en agosto de 2021, que cobraron la vida de 13 miembros del servicio estadounidense, se debieron a un solo agresor, y no fue el ataque “complejo” que los funcionarios
Continue Reading By Gabby Orr, CNN In a resolution formally censuring GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, the Republican National Committee on Friday called the events surrounding the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol “legitimate political discourse.” A copy of the resolution obtained by CNN claimed that the two lawmakers were “participating in a
Continue Reading By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer Across both Super Bowl rosters, there is a great divide. The Rams are the team loaded with veterans and the Bengals are the new kids on the block. Los Angeles has the star power, which figures with Hollywood next door. Cincinnati has a bunch of relative no names
Continue Reading By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Joe Burrow knew Evan McPherson must be a special kicker if the Cincinnati Bengals were willing to spend a fifth-round pick on a position usually filled by undrafted players and journeyman. But the Bengals targeted McPherson and made him the only kicker taken in the 2021 draft, a
Continue Reading By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — It’s official: New York is now the largest sports betting market in America after just four weeks of taking mobile bets. The Empire State blew past New Jersey in January to seize the market lead, taking over $1.6 billion worth of sports bets. That’s $300
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By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — It’s official: New York is now the largest sports betting market in America after just four weeks of taking mobile bets. The Empire State blew past New Jersey in January to seize the market lead, taking over $1.6 billion worth of sports bets. That’s $300
Continue Reading COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — USA Swimming has canceled a meet in Iowa, and it is reviewing its calendar for the rest of 2022 after the world championships were pushed back another year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The TYR Pro Swim Series Des Moines was set for March 2-5 at the MidAmerican Energy Aquatic
Continue Reading By Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN Michael Avenatti was convicted Friday of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for stealing from Stormy Daniels. Prosecutors alleged that Avenatti — who helped negotiate the $800,000 advance for Daniels’ October 2018 book “Full Disclosure” — defrauded his former client by instructing her literary agent to send
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EL PASO, Texas – The winter storm that moved through the area on Wednesday night brought freezing temperatures to the Borderland. For reference, on Wednesday night in El Paso, temperatures bottomed out at 20 degrees at the airport with windchill in the single digits. On Thursday at the airport, 18 was the low, with windchill
Continue Reading By Jeremy Herb, Barbara Starr and Oren Liebermann, CNN Gen. Frank McKenzie, the head of US Central Command, said a Pentagon investigation into the August 2021 bombing outside the Kabul airport that killed 13 US service members was the result of a single bomber, and it was not the “complex” attack that US officials initially
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CNN By Allison Morrow, CNN Business The Labor Department’s monthly jobs report can be hard to interpret, especially as Covid has blown up analysts’ models that measure the economy. But the January report, released Friday, is one to pay attention to. The headline result — 467,000 jobs added last month — came in far better
Continue Reading By Allison Morrow, CNN Business The Labor Department’s monthly jobs report can be hard to interpret, especially as Covid has blown up analysts’ models that measure the economy. But the January report, released Friday, is one to pay attention to. The headline result — 467,000 jobs added last month — came in far better than
Continue Reading By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Manhattan real estate is back and it is booming. In 2021, prices were near record highs and sales were higher than they’d been in more than three decades. The Big Apple was hit hard at the beginning of the pandemic. Prices dropped and sales activity slowed. But Manhattan came back
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VADO, New Mexico – A vehicle towing multiple horses slammed into a Doña Ana County firetruck Thursday morning, killing one horse and sending one person to the hospital, according to a fire captain in the department. At the time of the crash, firefighters were responding to another crash at 7:15 a.m. near mile marker 156,
Continue Reading Why have 31 states introduced bills barring trans girls and women from playing girls’ and women’s school sports, despite having few cases where it’s an issue? CNN’s Michael Smerconish speaks to Veronica Ivy, a transgender athlete and two-time masters track cycling world champion.
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN In a rare public rebuke,Kim Kardashian has pushed back on estranged husband Kanye West’s posting about their daughter North being on TikTok. On Friday the rap mogul, who now goes by “Ye,” posted a screen grab on his verified Instagram account of their eight-year-old on TikTok. “Since this is my
Continue Reading By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — The first day of medals at the Beijing Olympics could be the start of another Norwegian gold rush. Aleksander Aamodt Kilde is among the favorites in the men’s downhill, which is one of the marquee events of NBC’s prime-time coverage Saturday. Fellow Norwegian Terese Johaug looks
Continue Reading IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa men’s basketball coach Fran McCaffery has tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss the Hawkeyes’ home game against Minnesota on Sunday. Assistant Billy Taylor will be serve as the acting head coach in McCaffery’s absence. Iowa has lost three of its last four games. The Hawkeyes’ game at Ohio
Continue Reading LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane won’t have much time to celebrate, lament or rest after the African Cup of Nations final. The Liverpool teammates are due back in time for the team’s next English Premier League game on Thursday when the squad renews its pursuit of league-leading Manchester City. Liverpool manager
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El Gobierno de Colombia presentó este jueves una estrategia contra los laboratorios de droga que será incluida en la nueva iniciativa antinarcóticos, denominada “Esmeralda”. Entre las acciones, el ministro de Defensa, Diego Molano, destacó la intervención al “cibernarcotráfico”. Explicó que en los laboratorios se concentra la productividad y donde “más
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La película “Moonfall” sigue una órbita familiar hacia el ridículo, ya que la última epopeya de desastres del director Roland Emmerich es ruidosa, apresurada y sin ataduras a la lógica, así como a la gravedad. Aunque algunos pueden divertirse sucumbiendo a las tonterías, esta luna mala no llega ni siquiera al
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