Sol Amaya (CNN) — Un leopardo de las nieves murió después de contraer covid-19 en el zoológico Miller Park en Bloomington, Illinois. Rilu, un leopardo de las nieves de 11 años, luchó con una neumonía inducida por covid-19 antes de morir, según una publicación en la cuenta de Instagram verificada del Miller Park Zoo. “Rilu
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TORONTO (AP) — Italy winger Lorenzo Insigne will end his 15-year association with Napoli at the end of the season after signing a pre-contract agreement with Toronto FC in Major League Soccer. Insigne will join Toronto on a four-year deal starting July 1. The 30-year-old Insigne was one of Italy’s best players in winning the
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Jim Gaffigan is driving for the first time in 30 years. He’s also bought a home in the country and has started gardening. Indeed, the pandemic has changed us all. Gaffingan, his wife Jeannie and their five children, Marre, Jack, Katie, Michael and Patrick, spent the spring of 2020 in the early
Continue Reading ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan State-Michigan men’s basketball game has been postponed because the Wolverines have fewer than seven scholarship players cleared to play due to pandemic protocols. The 10th-ranked Spartans were slated to go for their ninth straight win. Michigan and Michigan State will work with the Big Ten to reschedule the
Continue Reading MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United manager Ralf Rangnick says Paul Pogba’s recovery from a thigh injury has been slower than expected and the France midfielder might not return to training for up to a month. Pogba pulled up during training on international duty with France in early November. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who was United
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An award-winning Iranian filmmaker and poet who had been jailed on state security charges but was released on furlough after contracting COVID-19 has died. Semiofficial ISNA news agency said Baktash Abtin, 47, who was released nearly a month ago, died in a Tehran hospital. Last year he won a
Continue Reading By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar says Greece should refrain from testing Turkey’s patience with provocations, including with a threat to extend its territorial waters in the Aegean. Speaking to a group of journalists in Ankara on Saturday, Akar added Turkey wants to resolve disputes with neighbor
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CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Samantha Murphy Kelly and Clare Duffy, CNN CES, the closely-watched annual consumer electronics show, looked drastically different this year. Sure, some things were familiar: companies showed off the latest batch of flashy TVs. The onslaught of oddball gadgets got odder. And there was no shortage of next-level health trackers, including a
Continue Reading By Samantha Murphy Kelly and Clare Duffy, CNN CES, the closely-watched annual consumer electronics show, looked drastically different this year. Sure, some things were familiar: companies showed off the latest batch of flashy TVs. The onslaught of oddball gadgets got odder. And there was no shortage of next-level health trackers, including a lightbulb that tracks
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Sol Amaya (CNN) — Más de 45 millones de personas están bajo avisos meteorológicos invernales en el medio oeste y el noreste de Estados Unidos este sábado antes de un sistema de tormentas que traerá lluvias heladas a la región durante el fin de semana. Se espera que varios estados del medio oeste, incluidos Illinois,
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By Theresa Waldrop, CNN Night owls on the mid-Atlantic coast were treated to a show in the sky overnight as a NASA rocket launched from the Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia. The sounding rocket launched at midnight, according to a tweet from the Wallops facility. The launch was set to visible in coastal
Continue Reading By Sana Noor Haq, CNN A snow leopard has died after contracting Covid-19 at Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington, Illinois. Rilu, an 11-year-old snow leopard, struggled with Covid-19 induced pneumonia before death, according to a post on the Miller Park Zoo verified Instagram account. “Rilu arrived at the Miller Park Zoo in 2011 from the
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — Los áridos desiertos y matorrales de Australia no siempre fueron así, según un sitio fósil recién descubierto y extraordinariamente bien conservado en Nueva Gales del Sur. Las arañas, cigarras, avispas, plantas y peces fosilizados, que datan de hace entre 11 millones y 16 millones de años durante la época del Mioceno,
Continue Reading BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Hundreds of people in Serbia have spent part of a holiday weekend blocking roads to protest plans for lithium mining in the Balkan country. The protests came a day after Orthodox Christians in Serbia and many other countries celebrated Christmas. The demonstrations took place on Saturday in the capital, Belgrade, and
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Hundreds of people in Serbia have spent part of a holiday weekend blocking roads to protest plans for lithium mining in the Balkan country. The protests came a day after Orthodox Christians in Serbia and many other countries celebrated Christmas. The demonstrations took place on Saturday in the capital, Belgrade, and
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By Dan Merica, Jeff Zeleny and Allie Malloy, CNN Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was remembered by a host of top Democratic politicians at his memorial service in Las Vegas on Saturday, with President Joe Biden hailing the Nevada Democrat as someone who “would always have your back” and former President Barack Obama recalling
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Looking to buy Nike sneakers, Adidas sweats, Crocs clogs, Polo shirts or Canada Goose parkas? You’re likely to have better luck these days snagging them from their own stores or on their websites than at mom-and-pops and smaller chains. These major brands and other top shoe and clothing labels are
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — La estrella del tenis checa Renata Voráčová se fue de Australia después de decidir dejar de participar en el Abierto de Australia, dijo este sábado a CNN una oficina de prensa del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de la República Checa. “La señora Vorackova se fue de Australia durante la mañana de
Continue Reading By Olga Pavlova and Duarte Mendonca, CNN Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh counterpart Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Saturday discussed restoring “order” in Kazakhstan following days of violence and unrest, as several high-profile officials were detained on suspicion of treason. Tokayev told Putin the situation in his country was “progressing on the way to stabilization”
Continue Reading CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Allison Morrow, CNN Business If you haven’t secured a raise in a while, now’s the time to make your move. Yes, inflation is high, supply chains are still a mess, unionization efforts are taking root across industries and retail theft is on the rise — all legitimate headaches for employers. But Corporate
Continue Reading By Allison Morrow, CNN Business If you haven’t secured a raise in a while, now’s the time to make your move. Yes, inflation is high, supply chains are still a mess, unionization efforts are taking root across industries and retail theft is on the rise — all legitimate headaches for employers. But Corporate America has
Continue Reading By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The three white men sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery will soon face standing trial a second time. Father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, were sentenced Friday by a Georgia Superior Court judge. While
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — A medida que la escasez de pruebas de covid-19 agrava una creciente crisis de nuevas hospitalizaciones, más estados de Estados Unidos están compitiendo para ayudar a los hospitales y las redes de atención médica con personal y suministros. La escasez de personal está aumentando a medida que los trabajadores de atención
Continue Reading By Eryn Mathewson, CNN The last 12 months have been weird for me. I’m a pretty healthy 39-year-old marathon runner. And yet I had a heart attack, was subsequently diagnosed with a rare disease, and broke my right clavicle — all within months of each other, all unexpected and unwelcome. This past year was supposed
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso, CNN Seattle firefighters rescued a man trapped in the basement of his house after it “slid 15-20 feet off its foundation” during a landslide, authorities said Friday. “The steep slope area behind the house had slid likely as a result of high levels of precipitation which resulted in the top floor of
Continue Reading By JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer Members of the recently formed Hockey Diversity Alliance are sharing their painful experiences in launching a campaign to eradicate racism in the NHL. The five current and former players are featured in a powerful two-minute video which is the centerpiece to what the HDA is calling its “TapeOutHate” campaign.
Continue Reading By ERIC WILLEMSEN Associated Press The FIS race director of the men’s Alpine skiing World Cup has said Thursday’s slalom in Zagreb should not have been started and calls the decision-making process “not acceptable.” Race director Markus Waldner was not present at this race and replaced by FIS official Emmanuel Couder. The race in Croatia
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — Ha sido una larga espera para Mariah Bell, de 25 años. Por primera vez en los nueve años que ha sido una competidora senior, Bell ganó el título nacional de patinaje artístico femenino de EE. UU. luego de la conclusión del patinaje libre femenino este viernes por la noche, lo que
Continue Reading BEIRUT (AP) — Hundreds of people have held a rally in Beirut to protest measures imposed against the unvaccinated, saying individuals should have the right to decide whether to be inoculated or not. Vaccination is not compulsory in Lebanon but in recent days authorities have become more strict in dealing with people who are not
Continue Reading By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations says it will hold talks in Sudan aimed at salvaging a fragile democratic transition. The announcement comes amid a grinding stalemate following an October coup and the prime minister’s resignation last week. The U.N. envoy for Sudan said in a statement the U.N.-facilitated political
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