By Nectar Gan and Kylie Atwood, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed concern over Beijing’s “destabilizing actions” in the South China Sea in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, as the two sought to keep communications open despite a deepening rivalry. Blinken met with Wang in Laos
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Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Olympic organizers said they “deeply apologize” for introducing South Korea’s athletes as North Korea during the opening ceremony of the Paris Games. As the South Korean athletes waved their nation’s flag on a boat floating down the Seine River on Friday evening, they were announced in both French and English
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PARIS (AP) — Simone Biles will begin her quest for a second Olympic all-around title when she competes in all four events during qualifying on Sunday. Biles, 2020 Olympic champion Sunisa Lee and 2020 Olympic silver medalist Jordan Chiles will compete on all four events in qualifying. Jade Carey, the 2020 Olympic champion on floor
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By Sam Joseph, CNN (CNN) — The USA is the preeminent force in men’s Olympic basketball. It has won the gold medal on 14 occasions and frequently assembles some of the sport’s biggest stars on the international stage. So when a new upstart on the block, fresh off a captivating performance at the FIBA World
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — While Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe is best known for his celestial discoveries made in the 16th century — before the invention of the telescope — he was also an alchemist who brewed secret medicines for elite clients. But what exactly Brahe worked on in his alchemical laboratory, located beneath
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Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Anti-tourism protests have been sweeping across Europe this summer, with demonstrations taking place in the Netherlands, Greece, and of course, Spain. In early July, protesters marched through popular tourist areas in the Spanish city of Barcelona spraying unsuspecting visitors with water pistols while chanting “tourists go home. And most recently,
Continue Reading Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The UNESCO World Heritage committee has decided to register Japan’s controversial Sado gold mine as a cultural heritage site after the country agreed to include it in an exhibit about its dark history of abusing wartime Korean laborers. The decision Saturday is a sign of improving ties between Tokyo and
Continue Reading CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Several athletes have delivered standout performances at the 2024 Olympics, but the US in particular brought the star power to the Paris Games on Sunday. LeBron James led Team USA to an emphatic win over Serbia and Simone Biles fought through a calf injury in a triumphant return to
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Hers conducted a nationwide survey to see how Americans rate themselves in youthfulness, body positivity, emotional stability, and more.
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Motointegrator worked with research experts to look at the electric vehicle trends throughout the U.S. and what they say about the country’s transition.
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NEXT compiled some practical strategies to help prepare your business for summer-related incidents and mitigate risk.
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CarGurus provides specific information that you should be aware of before you venture into the marketplace for a used battery electric vehicle.
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It’s time for a vacation. FoodReady compiled a list of tips for avoiding food poisoning while traveling so that you can enjoy a worry-free trip.
Continue Reading By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — It’s been a tough couple of weeks for travel, with chaos caused by a global IT outage and then “coordinated sabotage” on French railways. So let’s lift the mood with some love stories, tales of Americans making fresh starts abroad and essential etiquette tips for traveling. The course of
Continue Reading AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Before Tokyo three years ago, the U.S. Olympic swim coaches pondered how to best support their athletes and help fire them up before a race, given there were no family or friends or fans in the stands. They turned to clanging cowbells. While spectators return to the pool in
Continue Reading By Lucas Lilieholm, Abeer Salman, Ibrahim Dahman, Benjamin Brown, and Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN (CNN) — At least 30 people have been killed and over 100 injured in an Israeli airstrike on a school in Deir-al Balah, central Gaza, where thousands were sheltering, Palestinian officials said. The Israeli military said it had launched the strike
Continue Reading Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes hit a school used by displaced Palestinians in central Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 30 people including several children, as the country’s negotiators prepared to meet international mediators about a proposed cease-fire. Seven children and seven women were among the dead taken from the
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By Steve Contorno and Aaron Pellish, CNN Nashville (CNN) — For a time, Donald Trump would have made for an unlikely headliner at a cryptocurrency confab. As president, Trump declared bitcoin “not money” and criticized it as “highly volatile and based on thin air.” He cautioned that crypto assets helped facilitate illegal underground markets. “We have
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Julia Hernández (CNN) — El tiempo caluroso y seco está avivando la actividad de los incendios forestales en el oeste de Estados Unidos y Canadá, con fuegos que dañan viviendas, causan heridos y obligan a evacuaciones. El mayor incendio forestal activo de EE.UU. ha calcinado más de 113.000 hectáreas en el este de Oregón y
Continue Reading By Dalia Faheid and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — California’s largest wildfire of the year has burned an area larger than the size of the city of Phoenix, destroyed dozens of buildings and forced thousands of residents to flee their homes as wildfires wreak havoc in the Western United States. Meanwhile, homes and businesses in
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By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — With the months of buildup for “Deadpool & Wolverine,” it’s hard to believe that the movie is finally out in theaters. Much of that hype, of course, had to do with speculation around who would cameo in the threequel, which doubles as a belated, warts-and-all love letter to the
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a fresh broadside against one of the world’s most popular technology companies, the Justice Department is accusing TikTok of harnessing the capability to gather bulk information on users based on views on divisive social issues like gun control, abortion and religion. Government lawyers wrote in documents filed late Friday
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Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A new era is coming for Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel in the wake of the capture by U.S. authorities of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the last of the grand old Mexican drug traffickers. Experts believe his arrest will usher in a new wave of violence in Mexico even as
Continue Reading Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A new era is coming for Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel in the wake of the capture by U.S. authorities of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the last of the grand old Mexican drug traffickers. Experts believe his arrest will usher in a new wave of violence in Mexico even as
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By Hannah Rabinowitz and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Allowing TikTok to continue to be operated by its current parent company could allow the Chinese government to covertly influence US elections, the Justice Department said in a court filing late Friday. In a federal appeals court filing, prosecutors raised concerns that TikTok’s algorithm could be
Continue Reading By Aimee Lewis, CNN (CNN) — Michael Ledecky remembers the day he was first beaten by his younger sister Katie in the pool, wrenching his goggles from his head and breaking them in two, an odd mixture of pride and anger enveloping him on that August evening. Time hasn’t faded the memory. The race, a
Continue Reading By Karol Suárez, CNN (CNN) — Federal agents arrested two Mexican alleged cartel bosses on Thursday, including Joaquin Guzmán López, the son of infamous cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, in one of the biggest victories for US law enforcement in recent years. The two detained men belong to the Sinaloa cartel, one of the world’s
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Ricky Ruiz, the California native, has made his return to the USL Championship League after spending the first half of this season with the Chattanooga Red Wolves FC in Tennessee who are a founding member of the USL League One. Ruiz played under Locomotive’s head coach Wilmer Cabrera in the
Continue Reading Associated Press FOREST RANCH, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of firefighters battling a wildfire in Northern California received some help from the weather Saturday hours after it exploded in size, scorching an area greater than the size of Los Angeles. The blaze was one of several tearing through the western United States and Canada, fueled by
Continue Reading Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine government personnel transported food and other supplies Saturday to a fiercely disputed shoal occupied by a Filipino navy contingent but closely guarded by Beijing’s forces in the South China Sea and no confrontations were reported, Philippine officials said. It was the first Philippine government supply trip to the
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