By Lee Peck Click here for updates on this story MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — More than 50 local kids spent their Saturday learning the ins and outs of baseball from one of the greats. Former New York Mets and Mobile native — Cleon Jones — taking time to give back. The Cleon Jones Legends Baseball
Continue ReadingBy Chandelis Duster, Kaitlan Collins and Lauren Fox, CNN Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey on Sunday warned against treating federal funding as “Monopoly money” as negotiations on how to pay for a bipartisan infrastructure bill ramp up ahead of a critical week. “A very, very important category for me is how all this is going to
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story BARTON, Wisconsin (WDJT) — The Washington County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an explosion and house fire that happened in Barton near West Bend on Friday, July 23. Officials were notified of the incident at a single family residence near Norman and Jeanellen around 8:18 p.m.
Continue ReadingRepublican Gov. Asa Hutchinson says he doesn’t plan to impose a mask mandate nor a vaccine mandate in Arkansas at this time, despite the state’s rising Covid-19 cases that health experts have compared to a “raging forest fire.”
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Sunday defended his decision to approve a statewide ban on face mask mandates earlier this year, citing a low coronavirus case rate at the time — a rate that is now rapidly rising. “Well, that was the will of the General Assembly. I signed it. At
Continue ReadingBy Adrienne Vogt, CNN With more medals set to be awarded at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Sunday, here are just some of the events that viewers can check out this weekend. (Remember, Tokyo is 13 hours ahead of Eastern Time in the US.) Swimming: The swimming qualifying heats continue in the women’s 400-meter freestyle
Continue ReadingBy Zahid Mahmood, CNN Nearly two-thirds of women in the UK military have experienced bullying, sexual harassment and discrimination during their career, a landmark parliamentary report revealed on Sunday. The UK defense subcommittee, which described its inquiry into the treatment of women in the military as “one of the most important” in its history, said
Continue ReadingBy Seamus Fagan and Kevin Dotson, CNN The United States has won its first medals of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as Chase Kalisz and Jay Litherland finished first and second in the Men’s 400-meter Individual Medley. Chase Kalisz won gold with a time of 4:09.42, while Litherland finished just behind him with a time of
Continue ReadingBy Jacob Lev, CNN An Iranian taekwondo athlete competing for the Refugee Olympic Team made her mark at Tokyo 2020 after she defeated two-time Olympic gold medalist Jade Jones. Kimia Alizadeh beat Team Great Britain’s Jones 16-12 on Sunday in the women’s -57kg taekwondo round of 16. She then overcame China’s Lijun Zhou in the
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose, CNN Comedian Jackie Mason, known for his rapid-fire befuddled observations in a decades-long standup career, died at a New York hospital Saturday at the age of 93, long-time friend and collaborator Raoul Felder told CNN on Saturday night. “He died peacefully with several close friends and family at his side,” Felder said.
Continue ReadingBy Martin Goillandeau and Kara Fox, CNN UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who recently tested positive for and recovered from Covid-19, has apologized after suggesting people shouldn’t “cower” from Covid-19. “I’ve deleted a tweet which used the word “cower,” he said. “I was expressing gratitude that the vaccines help us fight back as a society,
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN For many parents, taking their babies on a walk or cradling them to sleep is a blessing that’s easy to take for granted. But for Jeremy King, it’s something he feared he would never be able to do. That was until a group of high school students in Maryland designed and
Continue Reading Chef Camilla Marcus tells CNN’s Bill Weir about her dreams for sustainable eating — and cutting down on food waste — both in restaurants and at home.
Continue Reading By Bill Weir and Rachel Clarke, CNN There is nothing more dear to us than our food culture — what our momma cooks, what our grandma fed us. Being told that what is on our plate is hurting the planet can feel like a threat to our souls. Science and innovation are bringing a dizzying
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris, CNN Across America, there’s a grim sense of déjà vu. Despite now having a powerful tool to help suppress the spread of coronavirus — three very effective vaccines — the nation is once again seeing rising cases, hospitalizations and deaths, driven by and affecting mostly Americans who have not been vaccinated. On
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business Tesla is the most secretive automaker on the planet, so investors are always eager to pore through its quarterly report and conference call, when they finally can get more than tweet-sized morsels of information. The last two quarterly results have disappointed them. Shares have fallen nearly 30% from their record
Continue ReadingThe Dow fell about 725 points -the worst day for the Dow since a 943-point drop in late October. It was the biggest decline this year. CNN’s Matt Egan reports.
Continue ReadingBy Anneken Tappe, CNN Business The Federal Reserve was already keeping a close eye on rising prices. Now it has to contend with the Delta coronavirus variant. The highly contagious Delta variant of Covid-19 is racing across the globe, causing a shortage of workers in the United Kingdom and heaping stress on the battered global
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN When Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president in 2016, a little-known businessperson received a prime convention speaking slot just minutes before the nominee: Tom Barrack. “I’m here because Donald Trump is one of my closest friends for 40 years,” Barrack told the crowd in Cleveland, beaming
Continue ReadingLuis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — El abogado y precandidato presidencial por la Alianza Ciudadana, Noel José Vidaurre Argüello y el comentarista político Jaime José Arellano Arana permanecen desde este sábado en sus residencias bajo custodia policial, según informó la institución a través de una nota de prensa. La policía informó que Vidaurre Argüello
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