July 2024

They made one-of-a-kind quilts that captured the public’s imagination. Then Target came along

July 23, 2024 9:18 AM Associated Press

Associated Press Over the past two decades, Gee’s Bend quilts have captured the public’s imagination with their kaleidoscopic colors and their daring geometric patterns. Direct descendants of slaves in rural Alabama managed to cultivate a groundbreaking art practice while facing oppression, geographic isolation and intense material constraints. As of this year, their improvisational art has

Biden to deliver Oval Office speech on his decision to exit 2024 race on Wednesday

July 23, 2024 9:15 AM CNN Newsource

By Michael Williams, MJ Lee and Kayla Tausche, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden will deliver a speech on his decision to drop out of the 2024 race on Wednesday. “Tomorrow evening at 8 PM ET, I will address the nation from the Oval Office on what lies ahead, and how I will finish

ANÁLISIS | Las elecciones de Venezuela podrían sacudir la geopolítica regional

July 23, 2024 9:15 AM CNN Newsource

Sol Amaya (CNN) — Sería fácil considerar las elecciones presidenciales de este domingo en Venezuela como un hecho consumado. El movimiento de oposición del país está desafiando a Nicolás Maduro, un hombre fuerte que ha gobernado Venezuela desde 2013 y ha dejado claro que tiene la intención de seguir haciéndolo, diciendo la semana pasada que

Hundreds of fraudulent votes cast in prestigious science fiction prize

July 23, 2024 9:06 AM CNN Newsource

By Louis Mian, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of votes were cast fraudulently for one finalist in the prestigious Hugo Awards, which honors the best science fiction and fantasy works of the previous year, its administrative team has revealed. Nearly 10% of votes were deemed fraudulent, with 377 out of 3,813 votes being disqualified. Many votes

The world’s most powerful passports for 2024 so far

July 23, 2024 9:03 AM CNN Newsource

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — What’s red on the outside, purple on the inside, and grants you access to 195 destinations around the world visa-free? It’s the Singapore passport, and it’s just been named the world’s most powerful travel document in a quarterly ranking of the passports with the most international clout. For the

Secret Service director steps down after assassination attempt against ex-President Trump at rally

July 23, 2024 8:51 AM Associated Press

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the Secret Service resigned Tuesday in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump that unleashed an outcry about how the agency failed in its core mission to protect current and former presidents. Kimberly Cheatle, who had served as Secret Service director since August

Dan Aykroyd revisits the Blues Brothers’ remarkable legacy in new Audible Original

July 23, 2024 8:49 AM Associated Press

AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The shades are on, the skinny tie is knotted and the fedora is perched just so — Dan Aykroyd is ready to look back. The actor-comedian is revving up the Bluesmobile to reminisce about the years he teamed up with John Belushi as the Blues Brothers, taking Hollywood

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigns

July 23, 2024 8:42 AM CNN

CNN By Evan Perez, Lauren Fox, Tierney Sneed, Holmes Lybrand and Whitney Wild, CNN (CNN) — US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has tendered her resignation amid scrutiny of security lapses related to the recent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, sources tell CNN. The move comes as lawmakers and an internal government watchdog move

Así será el tarjetón con el que los venezolanos elegirán nuevo presidente para los próximos seis años: Maduro aparece 13 veces

July 23, 2024 8:41 AM CNN Newsource

urielblanco (CNN Español) — El Consejo Nacional Electoral de Venezuela (CNE) develó el tarjetón electoral que mostrarán las máquinas el 28 de julio, a través del cual los electores podrán elegir entre los 10 candidatos un presidente para un período de 6 años que iniciará el 10 de enero de 2025. El presidente Nicolás Maduro,

Keanu Reeves explains why he’s always thinking about death

July 23, 2024 8:36 AM CNN Newsource

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Keanu Reeves is aging like the rest of us. And for that reason, “The Matrix” has shared, mortality has been on his mind. “I’m 59, so I’m thinking about death all the time,” Reeves told BBC News. “I’m young old.” Reeves is promoting his first novel, “The Book

Oscar Mayer Wienermobile flips onto its side after crash along suburban Chicago highway

July 23, 2024 8:36 AM Associated Press

OAK BROOK, Ill. (AP) — An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile got into a pickle on a Chicago highway. The hot-dog shaped Wienermobile hit a car Monday morning along Interstate 294 and its driver lost control and overcorrected, causing it to roll onto its side near the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook, Illinois State Police said. No

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigns: Sources

July 23, 2024 8:35 AM ABC News

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who came under scrutiny for the agency’s failure to prevent the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, has resigned, according to two sources familiar with the decision. Cheatle had faced calls to step down since the shooting at a Trump rally on July 13, which left one attendee

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigns

July 23, 2024 8:34 AM CNN Newsource

By Evan Perez, Lauren Fox, Tierney Sneed, Holmes Lybrand and Whitney Wild, CNN (CNN) — US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has tendered her resignation amid scrutiny of security lapses related to the recent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, sources tell CNN. The move comes as lawmakers and an internal government watchdog move forward

Edmundo González Urrutia: “La amnistía no está prevista en nuestro sistema jurídico. Eso hay que verlo con mucho detenimiento”

July 23, 2024 8:27 AM CNN Newsource

Sol Amaya (CNN Español) — Cuando faltan apenas unos días para que se celebren unas elecciones históricas en Venezuela, el candidato a presidente por la oposición mayoritaria Edmundo González Urrutia habló con CNN en Español y remarcó la importancia del diálogo y la negociación con el oficialismo en caso de que Nicolás Maduro, actual presidente

Google makes abrupt U-turn by dropping plan to remove ad-tracking cookies on Chrome browser

July 23, 2024 8:26 AM Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — Google is dropping plans to eliminate cookies from its Chrome web browser, making a sudden U-turn on four years of work to phase out a technology that helps businesses tracks users online. The company had been working on retiring third-party cookies, which are snippets of code that log user information, as part

Dozens killed and thousands flee as Israel shrinks ‘humanitarian zone’ in Gaza

July 23, 2024 8:20 AM CNN Newsource

By Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of Palestinians have been killed and thousands more forced to flee after Israel launched a fresh ground assault against what it said were Hamas targets in the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Monday that it was

Famed national park evacuated in Canada as fires threaten the area

July 23, 2024 8:19 AM CNN Newsource

By Mary Gilbert, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — Dangerous wildfires forced a town and a major national park in Canada’s Alberta province to evacuate overnight Monday. Evacuation orders were issued around 10 p.m. for “everyone” in Jasper and Jasper National Park, according to the province’s emergency alert system. On Tuesday evening, the park said on Facebook

Colombian bullfighters decry new ban on the centuries-old tradition and vow to keep it alive

July 23, 2024 8:19 AM Associated Press

Associated Press CHOACHI, Colombia (AP) — Sebastián Caqueza says a new law to ban bullfighting in Colombia by mid-2027 will not dampen his passion for the sport that he has been practicing since has was a small boy. Caqueza became a professional matador five years ago by taunting a fully grown bull for about 20

US is investigating Delta’s flight cancellations and faltering response to global tech outage

July 23, 2024 8:19 AM Associated Press

AP Business Writers U.S. regulators are investigating why Delta Air Lines failed to recover as quickly as other airlines from a global technology breakdown and whether Delta’s treatment of passengers stranded by canceled and delayed flights violated federal rules. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday announced the investigation into Delta’s response to the outage, which

As hurricane season begins, here’s how small businesses can prepare in advance of a storm

July 23, 2024 8:18 AM Associated Press

AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The hurricane season roared into the U.S. with Hurricane Beryl hitting Texas in early July. And NOAA is predicting an above-average storm season this year. So how can a small business be ready? There are steps to take to make sure you’re prepared for storms and insured for

UK government scrapping use of a barge off English coast to house asylum-seekers

July 23, 2024 8:18 AM Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — The British government says it will end the controversial use of a barge to house asylum-seekers off the south coast of England. The Labour government said Tuesday it will save $26 million next year by not using the Bibby Stockholm as it overhauls its immigration system. It’s part of a larger plan

German court rules in migration case that there’s no general danger now to all civilians in Syria

July 23, 2024 8:14 AM Associated Press

BERLIN (AP) — A German court has ruled that there is no longer a general danger to all civilians from the long-running conflict in Syria. In the ruling it rejected a claim to protected status by a Syrian man who had been convicted in Austria for involvement in smuggling people into Europe. The ruling was

US home sales fell in June to slowest pace since December amid rising mortgage rates, home prices

July 23, 2024 8:13 AM Associated Press

AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in June for the fourth straight month as elevated mortgage rates and record-high prices kept many would-be homebuyers on the sidelines. Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell 5.4% last month from May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.89

Police in St. Maarten detain suspect in shooting of politician whose wife was killed in the attack

July 23, 2024 8:11 AM Associated Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in St. Maarten say they have detained a suspect linked to the recent shooting of a politician in an attack that killed his wife and shocked many in the normally peaceful Dutch Caribbean territory. Police and prosecutors said in a statement Monday that they would not release further

Snoop Dogg will be one of the final torchbearers at the Paris Olympics

July 23, 2024 8:10 AM CNN Newsource

By Zayn Nabbi and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — American rapper and actor Snoop Dogg will be one of the final torchbearers of the Olympic flame ahead of the Games’ Opening Ceremony in Paris on Friday. Snoop Dogg, whose full name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., will carry the torch through the neighborhood of Saint-Denis, according to

Suspected gunman in Croatia nursing home killings charged on 11 counts, including murder

July 23, 2024 8:06 AM Associated Press

Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatian police say a suspected gunman in a mass shooting in a nursing home in Croatia is facing 11 criminal charges after he was accused of killing six people, including his own mother, and wounding as many more. The mass killing stunned Daruvar, a spa town of some 8,500

Army investigation reveals series of failures ahead of Maine mass shooting carried out by reservist

July 23, 2024 8:02 AM CNN Newsource

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — A US Army investigation into Robert Card — the Army reservist who shot and killed 18 people in Lewiston, Maine, last year — found a series of failures and breakdowns in communication among Card’s military chain of command, civilian law enforcement and medical providers, occurred ahead of the mass shooting. The investigation found communication failures “impacted [Sgt. 1st Class] Card’s continuity of

Israeli former national security officials and business leaders blast Netanyahu ahead of his speech to Congress

July 23, 2024 8:01 AM CNN Newsource

By Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — A group of senior Israeli figures including former national security officials, academics and business leaders have sent US congressional leadership a blistering letter accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is set to speak to Congress on Wednesday, of threatening both Israeli and American national security. The letter calls Netanyahu

Broward School Board to decide fate of employee after transgender athlete controversy

July 23, 2024 7:58 AM CNN Newsource

By CAROLINA BORGES, DANNIELLE GARCIA Click here for updates on this story PLANTATION, Florida (WSVN) — The Broward County School Board is set to meet Tuesday to discuss the possible termination of Jessica Norton, an Information Management Specialist at Monarch High School, following a controversy involving her transgender child’s participation on the girls’ volleyball team.

Belarus’ foreign minister arrives in North Korea for talks expected to focus on Russia cooperation

July 23, 2024 7:51 AM Associated Press

Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Belarus’ foreign minister has arrived in North Korea as experts predict that he and North Korean officials would discuss forming a trilateral anti-Western front also involving Russia. Video shot by Associated Press Television News shows Maxim Ryzhenkov being greeted by North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Jong Gyu.

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