By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Megan Rapinoe and Rose Lavelle are back with OL Reign. The National Women’s Soccer League club re-signed Rapinoe to a one-year deal. Lavelle signed for two. Terms were not released. Rapinoe and Lavelle were on the U.S. team that won the World Cup in 2019. Both spent time
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By Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN Debunked election fraud claims made in Michigan by former President Donald Trump’s legal team ended up in a draft executive order directing the military to seize voting machines nationally, the state’s top election official said on Wednesday. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said that she shared the
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general wants to put a stop to former President Donald Trump’s attempted end-run around a yearslong civil investigation into his business practices. Attorney General Letitia James asked a judge Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit aimed at halting the probe. James argued in
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EL PASO, Texas – ABC-7 spoke with UTEP head basketball coach Joe Golding as the team prepares for another round of conference games this week. The Miners will welcome two opponents from the Sunshine State to the Don Haskins Center. Florida Atlantic will take on the Miners Thursday at 7:00 p.m., and then on Saturday
Continue Reading By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Blackhawks are taking an unusual approach to their search for their next general manager and plan to make a decision before the NHL trade deadline in March. Blackhawks CEO Danny Wirtz says the interview process will include candidates “both inside and outside of hockey.”
Continue Reading By CHARLES ODUM AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Sacramento Kings guard Terence Davis will be out indefinitely after injuring his right wrist in Tuesday night’s 128-75 loss to the Boston Celtics. Davis took a hard fall during the game and the injury was announced afterward. Tests on Wednesday revealed damage to tendons in the
Continue Reading By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Jimmy Garoppolo’s playoff performance is all anyone would need to understand the decisions the San Francisco 49ers made last offseason at quarterback. The lack of downfield throws and handful of bone-headed plays explain why the Niners felt the need to trade three first-round
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN Español) — La denuncia de una mujer que afirma haber sido víctima de una violación grupal estremece a Uruguay, al tiempo que genera un debate sobre los mecanismos de respuesta rápida a este tipo de situaciones. En declaraciones a varios medios locales, la fiscal de Delitos Sexuales Sylvia Lovesio señaló que la
Continue Reading By MARK LUDWICZAK Associated Press Brandon Beane just can’t watch. With the sting of his team’s crushing playoff exit still fresh in his mind, Buffalo general manager Beane has been unable to muster the strength to re-watch the Bills’ divisional round loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. “I haven’t slept much,” Beane said. “So I’ve
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Chihuahua — A Juarez family endures a nightmare situation. They believed authorities had found the family’s missing son, but it turned out not to be true. It started when 14-year-old Kevin Adrian Leon Contreras disappeared a week ago. Authorities began searching for him. Police notified the boy’s family Monday they found a body matching Kevin’s description
Continue Reading By GARY B. GRAVES AP Sports Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Chris Mack is out as Louisville men’s basketball coach after he and the school agreed to part ways. Assistant Mike Pegues has been named interim coach for the remainder of the Cardinals’ season. The agreement was announced Wednesday following a special joint meeting of
Continue Reading VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The Vancouver Canucks have hired Patrik Allvin as general manager. Allvin was assistant GM for the Pittsburgh Penguins for just over a year and becomes the 12th GM in Canucks history. He’s the first Swede to be a general manager in the NHL. The 47-year-old Allvin had been with the
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CNN By Steve Contorno, CNN A contentious confirmation hearing for Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo ended abruptly Wednesday after Democrats walked out in protest, prompting Republicans to immediately vote to favorably recommend Ladapo. Democrats grew increasingly exasperated at Ladapo for his lengthy, circular responses that wouldn’t directly answer their questions about his background and
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By Ellie Kaufman, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order designating sexual harassment as an offense in the US military’s judicial code. Biden took the step after it was included in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act. A provision in the NDAA required that the President take this step to make sexual
Continue Reading By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer During his nearly three-decade tenure, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has authored a number of important opinions. His style is straightforward, without rhetorical flourish and marked by a tendency toward numbered points. A former law professor, he readily delves into the intricacies of federal statutes.
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — Former players Abby Wambach, Robbie Rogers and Cobi Jones were appointed to a seven-person advisory council on inclusion by the U.S. Soccer Federation. Titled Game Changers United, the group also includes former Coca-Cola Co. vice president Ricardo Fort, Jay Vickers of the UNLV Sports & Research Initiative, Terri Cooper of Deloitte Consulting
Continue Reading PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jeff Carter still has plenty of hockey in front of him. The veteran Pittsburgh Penguins forward has agreed to a two-year contract extension that runs through the 2023-24 season. The deal carries an average annual value of $3.125 million. The 37-year-old Carter has flourished since arriving at the trade deadline last spring.
Continue Reading By TOM CANAVAN AP Sports Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — New Giants general manager Joe Schoen isn’t promising a quick turnaround for the once-proud franchise after five straight double-digit losing seasons. He did promise to build the Giants the right way while keeping in mind he wants to see improvement every season. A little
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Los responsables sanitarios del gobierno de Biden esbozaron este miércoles una visión a largo plazo de un futuro en el que la nación coexista con el covid-19, sin vivir en crisis ni enfrentarse a la interrupción de la vida normal. “Seguimos avanzando hacia un momento en que el covid no perturbe
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By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation named four new members to its board of trustees on Wednesday, marking the first outsiders added to the charity’s board in its two-decade history. The new additions, which include a billionaire, a baroness and the CEO of the Gates Foundation, are being brought on
Continue Reading SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s Senate says it was the target of a cyberattack that disabled its internet provider, phone system and official online page. It is the latest in a string of similar incidents in recent years. Senate President José Luis Dalmau said in a statement Wednesday that there is no
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By Jen Christensen, CNN Moderna announced Wednesday that the first participant has been dosed in the company’s Phase 2 clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine booster shot that is specific to the Omicron variant. Moderna is advancing the trial into its next phase as research published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine found
Continue Reading By Katia Hetter, CNN A new subvariant of Omicron is spreading rapidly in some parts of the world. This spinoff from the original Omicron variant, called BA.2, has been found in at least 49 countries, including the United States. In some countries, like Denmark, BA.2 has already surpassed the original Omicron (BA.1) as the dominant
Continue Reading By Katie Lobosco, CNN President Joe Biden reversed a number of the Trump administration’s policies during his first year in office — but he has left tariffs in place on $350 billion of Chinese goods that were imposed by his predecessor. Some of those tariffs, which are paid by American importers, have been in place
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Moderna has begun testing an omicron-specific version of its COVID-19 vaccine in healthy adults. Moderna announced the study Wednesday. Earlier this week, competitor Pfizer began similar research with its reformulated shots. It’s not clear that global health authorities will decide the vaccines need to be changed. The shots still offer strong
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By Paula Reid and Tierney Sneed, CNN Florida radio host Joseph “Big Joe” Ellicott is cooperating with the US Justice Department’s investigation into Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida after pleading guilty in a separate bribery scheme, Ellicott’s attorney tells CNN. Ellicott agreed on Monday to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and
Continue Reading By Karol Suarez, CNN When Xiomara Castro led a march through the Honduran capital in 2009, demanding that her husband, who was ousted in a military coup, be returned to power, it was the first time she seized the political spotlight, according to Honduran political experts CNN spoke to for this article. Now, the former
Continue Reading By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — For the second time in as many months, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has fined the owners of a former New Jersey nuclear power plant for security-related violations. The agency said Wednesday it fined Holtec Decommissioning International $50,000 for security violations at the former Oyster
Continue Reading BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni will not travel for Thursday’s World Cup qualifying match against Chile after testing positive for COVID-19. Scaloni told a news conference that his assistants Walter Samuel and Roberto Ayala will be in charge for the match. Argentina has already secured a spot at the tournament in
Continue Reading By Cheri Mossburg, CNN Nearly three weeks after the body of a teenage girl was found dumped on a busy freeway off-ramp in Los Angeles, local leaders are pleading for tips from the public and offering a large reward as an incentive to solve her killing. Tioni Theus, 16, was found in the early morning
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