By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — Just a day after running the fourth fastest under-18 100m time in history, 16-year-old sprint sensation Gout Gout has broken Australia’s longstanding men’s 200m record. Peter Norman’s 200m national record of 20.06 seconds had stood since the 1968 Olympics, the country’s oldest remaining record, but Gout ran 20.04s in
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Por Mostafa Salem, CNN Las partes interesadas de todo el mundo tienen que contar ahora con el impacto geopolítico de una ofensiva rebelde liderada por un grupo islamista en Siria que podría amenazar el control del presidente Bashar al-Assad sobre el país. Los rebeldes sirios han realizado un avance relámpago en el norte del país,
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: railway ambitions in Greece, Vietnam, Britain and the United States, exciting new maritime adventures from Virgin Voyages and the Orient Express, plus the world’s top cities for 2024. Life at sea Spending $120,000 for a vacation sure does sound expensive. However, if it means
Continue Reading CNN By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: railway ambitions in Greece, Vietnam, Britain and the United States, exciting new maritime adventures from Virgin Voyages and the Orient Express, plus the world’s top cities for 2024. Life at sea Spending $120,000 for a vacation sure does sound expensive. However, if it
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By Clare Duffy and Erika Tulfo, CNN New York (CNN) — TikTok’s US-based users could have only a few more weeks to enjoy scrolling through their For You Page before the app is banned in the country starting on January 19, 2025. A US appeals court on Friday upheld the law that requires TikTok to
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By Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN Washington (CNN) — “Get Pete Hegseth on the phone!” It was March 2018, and then-President Donald Trump was meeting with his Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary, Dr. David Shulkin, about how to reform veteran health care. But it was Hegseth, then a Fox News personality, whose opinion Trump
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Fashion is fickle and styles come and go — even for orcas, apparently. In 1987, a group of killer whales off the northwestern coast of North America briefly donned salmon “hats,” carrying dead fish on their heads for weeks. Recently, a male orca known as J27, or “Blackberry,” was
Continue Reading Por Catherine Nicholls, CNN Al menos cuatro personas fueron trasladadas al hospital tras una explosión en un edificio de apartamentos en La Haya, Países Bajos, este sábado, según las autoridades. La explosión tuvo lugar sobre las 6.15 hora local, según los bomberos, y provocó el derrumbe parcial y el incendio de un edificio de apartamentos
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Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani official says armed men killed six security personnel and wounded seven in a checkpoint attack in the northwest. The assault happened in Kurram district, where fierce sectarian fighting has killed at least 130 people during the past few weeks. A ceasefire between the area’s Sunni and Shiite
Continue Reading Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The far-right Alternative for Germany party has presented its candidate for chancellor in the country’s upcoming election. In practice, Alice Weidel has no chance of taking the chancellery as other parties refuse to work with the populist party. But Alternative for Germany, or AfD, which was founded in 2013, has
Continue Reading Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government fell early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a sudden rebel offensive sprinted across government-held territory and entered the capital in 10 days. Syrian state television aired a video statement by a group of men saying that President Bashar
Continue Reading KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Denmark has delivered a second batch of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. In a message on Telegram, Zelenskyy praised Denmark and lamented a lack of dedication from other allies. The announcement comes as Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region marks a day of mourning for 10 people killed in a
Continue Reading Por Ashley R. Williams, Evan Perez, Mark Morales, Brynn Gingras, Shimon Prokupecz, Elise Hammond y Tori B. Powell, CNN Mientras la investigación sobre el tiroteo mortal contra un ejecutivo del sector sanitario en Manhattan entra en su cuarto día, la Policía está reuniendo pistas, como una mochila, fotos, videos, munición, ADN y otras, para ayudar
Continue Reading Por Yoonjung Seo y Edward Szekeres, CNN El presidente de Corea del Sur, Yoon Suk Yeol, sobrevivirá a la votación sobre su destitución después de que los legisladores del partido gubernamental boicotearan el Parlamento este sábado. Varios legisladores abandonaron el Parlamento antes de la votación para destituir al presidente Yoon por su decisión de imponer
Continue Reading By Gregory Krieg, Kristen Holmes and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — The Notre Dame Cathedral provided the luminous backdrop for President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the geopolitical stage Saturday, when French officials put an ornate line under the five-year project to restore the soaring landmark with a reopening ceremony featuring dozens of world leaders. Trump,
Continue Reading Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An explosion and fire rocked a neighborhood in the Dutch city of The Hague on Saturday, killing three people and injuring other people and destroying several apartments, according to authorities. The cause of the disaster was unclear. Mayor Jan van Zanen said investigators were looking into “all possibilities.”
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Chalkbeat shares insights from families who have made the switch from in-person to cyber school in Philadelphia.
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The 19th explains that the stakes in United States v. Skrmetti are even higher than most Americans realize. If the court rules to keep the ban on gender-affirming care in place, the consequences could be wide-reaching.
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The Marshall Project reports that when Americans take to the streets to make their voices heard, they’re inevitably dragging their digital trails right along behind them.
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Votebeat reports that Texas’ lawmakers have resisted efforts to expand online voter registration options while some people who filled out forms find out too late that they never made it onto the rolls.
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The Trace spotlights Lieutenant Valerie Martinez-Jordan, who has trained over 2,000 officers in a Louisiana program that prevents abusers from accessing firearms, even as federal laws become looser.
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — It’s a go-to question at bar trivia: what is the only national flag in the world that isn’t rectangular or square shaped? The answer is Nepal. But beyond the simple fact of its uncommon shape, Nepal’s flag is a bit of a mystery. Depending who you ask, the flag
Continue Reading By Nathaniel Meyersohn and Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — Companies are closing headquarters, scrubbing their websites of top executives’ photographs and increasing armed security details for key leaders following the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Health insurer Medica temporarily closed its Minnetonka, Minnesota, headquarters as a safety precaution, a spokesperson told CNN.
Continue Reading Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Voting has officially closed in most polling centres throughout Ghana, bringing to an end the presidential and legislative elections poised to be a litmus test for democracy in a region shaken by extremist violence and coups. The capital, Accra, was almost a ghost town for much of the day
Continue Reading Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Howling winds couldn’t stop Notre Dame Cathedral ’s heart from beating again. With three resounding knocks on its doors by Paris Archbishop Laurent Ulrich, wielding a specially designed crosier carved from fire-scorched beams, the monument roared back to life Saturday evening. For the first time since a devastating blaze nearly
Continue Reading Por Samantha Delouya, CNN Google demandó este viernes a la Oficina de Protección Financiera del Consumidor (CFPB, por sus siglas en inglés), impugnando la decisión de la agencia de poner la división de pagos de Google bajo supervisión federal. En una copia de la demanda facilitada por Google, la empresa afirma que la supervisión de
Continue Reading Associated Press MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan high school choir performs its annual holiday concert not near a Christmas tree, but rather in it. The Mona Shores Singing Christmas Tree is set to wrap up its 40th year with two shows on Saturday at the Frauenthal Center in Muskegon. The 67-foot-tall, tree-shaped structure features
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AP Sports Writer WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Bryson Daily was the American Athletic Conference’s offensive player of the year, then the MVP of its championship game. Army coach Jeff Monken thinks his quarterback deserves something bigger — the biggest award in all of college football. Monken said following the No. 24 Black Knights’ 35-14
Continue Reading By Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — He killed a high-profile CEO on a sidewalk in America’s largest city, where thousands of surveillance cameras monitor millions of people every day. But the man who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a busy hotel keeps evading capture. Now, authorities say he might have slipped out of New
Continue Reading Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday installed 21 new cardinals, many of whom are key figures in his reform agenda: A Dominican preacher who acted as the spiritual father for Francis’ recent gathering of bishops, a Neapolitan “street priest” like himself, and a Peruvian bishop who has strongly backed his crackdown on
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