By Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — Tiger Woods has made an early exit from the Open Championship, but the US golfer has vowed to be back for the 2025 major. A second round six-over 77 at Royal Troon in Scotland on Friday improved upon an opening 79, but left the 48-year-old well short of the
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Happy Friday to the Borderland! We are under an ABC-7 First Alert because of the chances of rain lingering throughout the weekend. Your weather team is tracking a very active weather pattern where the Borderland may see an opportunity for rain daily in the Borderland with the highest chances on Monday. Likewise, the Borderland will
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By Kathleen Toner, CNN Moscow, Idaho (CNN) — Sometimes, a book can have a life-changing impact. For Payton McGriff, that turned out to be true. McGriff was a sophomore at the University of Idaho when she read Half the Sky, which examines the oppression of women in developing countries. She was shocked to learn that
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Actress Cheng Pei-pei, best known for her martial arts roles in films such as “Come Drink with Me” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” has died. She was 78. “It is with a heavy heart that we announce that the rumors are true. Our mother, Cheng Pei Pei, passed away
Continue Reading By Sam Joseph, CNN (CNN) — Seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has praised Ralf Schumacher after the former F1 driver revealed on Monday that he was in a same-sex relationship. Schumacher, the younger brother of seven-time champion Michael Schumacher, posted a picture with his partner on Instagram, who was later named as Etienne
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Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Korean Football Association has filed a complaint with FIFA over an alleged racist remark toward Wolverhampton’s Hwang Hee-chan during a recent preseason match against an Italian team in Spain and urged for stronger anti-racism measures. The incident involved an alleged anti-Asian comment from a Como player and
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party and the country’s most powerful politician, has died following months of ill health, official media said Friday. He was 80. “General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party Nguyen Phu Trong passed away at 13:38 on July 19, 2024, at
Continue Reading By Florence Davey-Attlee, Ibrahim Dahman, Eyad Kourdi, Jeremy Diamond and Avery Schmitz, CNN (CNN) — The Aljamal family was widely respected in Gaza’s Nuseirat camp. They were known as pious and prominent members of the community. While people knew they had connections to Hamas, neighbors say no one could have guessed how deep those links
Continue Reading Belén Liotti (CNN) — Cuando el expresidente Donald Trump subió al escenario en el mitin del fin de semana pasado en Pensilvania entre ovaciones atronadoras, los miembros de la campaña presentes esperaban escuchar un discurso típico. Lo que no sabían: los agentes del orden público habían detectado a una persona sospechosa en la manifestación casi
Continue Reading By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Over the years, some coffee chains have shifted their sit-down business models to prioritize speed. Take a look back at the beloved Starbucks era when baristas would handwrite customers’ names on their drink orders as smooth jazz music played in the background. Here’s what else you need to know
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — La interrupción global de computadoras que afectó a aeropuertos, bancos y otras empresas este viernes parece deberse, al menos en parte, a una actualización de software emitida por la importante firma estadounidense de ciberseguridad CrowdStrike, dijeron expertos a CNN. CrowdStrike dijo a sus clientes la madrugada de este viernes que las
Continue Reading Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — The last time Republicans gathered for a full convention, they were plagued by internal division and fear. Morale was near rock bottom. And the party’s presidential nominee showed little desire, or capacity, to add new voters to his political coalition. What a difference eight years make. The Republican officials, strategists
Continue Reading Associated Press DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Officials say two Australian and three Indonesian nationals have survived after a tourist helicopter crashed in Bali, due to being entangled in a kite string. Indonesia’s Transportation Minister said Friday that the Bell 505 Jet Ranger X helicopter, owned by PT. Whitesky Aviation, came down in Pecatu village in
Continue Reading Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese and Taiwanese coast guards have conducted what is believed to be their first joint drill off Japan’s eastern coast, officials said Friday, a move seen as an effort to expand maritime cooperation amid concern about China’s increasingly assertive activity in regional seas. Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi Friday
Continue Reading AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks slumped Friday in another washout, as businesses around the world scrambled to contain the effects of a disruptive technology outage. The S&P 500 fell 0.7% to close its first losing week in the last three and its worst since April. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped
Continue Reading Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Public sector workers in Nigeria on the minimum wage will see their salaries double after the government reached an agreement on Thursday with labor unions that have been threatening further strikes as the cost of living spirals. The unions were threatening further strikes because of a cost-of-living crisis that
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Miles de simpatizantes coreaban “lucha, lucha, lucha” y agitaban los puños este jueves por la noche mientras Donald Trump se regodeaba en el amor del nuevo Partido Republicano que él construyó y que lo aclama como un superhéroe tocado por Dios. A estados de distancia, Joe Biden se sentaba aislado
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The global computer outage affecting airports, banks and other businesses on Friday appears to stem at least partly from a software update issued by major US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, experts told CNN. CrowdStrike told customers early Friday that the outages were caused by “a defect found in a single content
Continue Reading By Sophie Tanno, Anna Chernova and Moscow staff, CNN (CNN) — Evan Gershkovich, the first American journalist to be arrested on espionage charges in Russia since the Cold War, has been found guilty of spying and sentenced to 16 years in prison by a Russian court, in a case that the US government, his newspaper
Continue Reading By Sydney Bishop, CNN (CNN) — It’s been a month since anyone reported seeing Taylor Casey. She was last spotted near Paradise Island in the Bahamas on June 19. Still, her loved ones are making sure she is being seen – by publicly campaigning for her safe return. Chicagoan Casey is described by friends and
Continue Reading By Laura He, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China’s ruling Communist Party has set ambitious long-term policy goals at its most important political meeting on reform, but offered little detail on how to pull the world’s second-largest economy out of a worsening downturn. In a behind-closed doors meeting known as the third plenum, more than
Continue Reading Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Britain’s new government to help Kyiv’s forces attack deeper inside Russia to stop deadly missile strikes. He made the appeal during a rare address by a foreign leader to a U.K. Cabinet meeting. Zelenskyy said “long-range capability” to destroy sites where Russian weapons are
Continue Reading Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The bodies of four Pakistanis killed in an attack on a Shiite mosque in Oman this week have been repatriated and handed to their families. Relatives of the victims were present when the Pakistan International Airlines flights landed at the Islamabad and Lahore airports. The bodies were later given to the
Continue Reading Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Cheng Pei-pei, a Chinese-born martial arts film actor who starred in Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” has died, her family announced Friday. She was 78. Cheng, who had been diagnosed with a rare illness with symptoms similar to Parkinson’s disease, passed away Wednesday at home surrounded by her
Continue Reading KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s billionaire king, Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar, was officially installed six months after he was sworn in for a five-year term under a unique rotating monarchy system. The coronation at the national palace on Saturday formalized the sultan’s role as Malaysia’s 17th king in a ceremony steeped in Malay culture and
Continue Reading YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenian authorities say that a small training plane of the Armenian air force has crashed. The crash on Friday killed the two-member crew. Authorities said the Soviet-made Yak-52 aircraft crashed about 20 kilometers or about 12 miles north of Armenia’s largest city and capital Yerevan. They said the plane was on
Continue Reading By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Years ago, some people would spend hours at Starbucks. Today, it’s a takeout counter. At many Starbucks locations, you’re lucky to find anyone sitting down. Under Howard Schultz, Starbucks’ longtime leader, cafes were positioned as a “third place” between work and home, where people could linger for
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By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Washington (CNN) — Multiple leading Democrats tell CNN they feel caught in what one described as a “doom loop,” with every move to keep President Joe Biden in or push him out further destroying their chances against Donald Trump. It’s breaking the resolve of even staunch allies. It’s feeding bad polls. It’s turning
Continue Reading Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has praised a tentative deal between the European Union and Serbia that paves the way for the disputed excavation of lithium. It’s a mega project that could reduce Europe’s dependency on China but one that has been fiercely criticized by environmentalists and opposition groups. Scholz on Friday
Continue Reading Julia Hernández (CNN) — Enormes protestas en todo Bangladesh escalaron en violencia mortal esta semana, con enfrentamientos entre estudiantes, partidarios del Gobierno y policías armados que avivaron la ira generalizada por las cuotas de empleo en la función pública, que los opositores consideran discriminatorias. Según los informes, decenas de personas murieron y cientos resultaron heridas
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