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By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Raiders offensive coordinator Greg Olson made a key discovery before his last game against the Baltimore Ravens. Olson spotted Darren Waller working out as a practice squad player for Baltimore and told coach Jon Gruden how impressive Waller looked. The Raiders then signed Waller away from the Ravens
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By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Raiders offensive coordinator Greg Olson made a key discovery before his last game against the Baltimore Ravens. Olson spotted Darren Waller working out as a practice squad player for Baltimore and told coach Jon Gruden how impressive Waller looked. The Raiders then signed Waller away from the Ravens
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By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera returned to its home after an 18-month absence caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Before a masked crowd of 3,600, music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin led a performance of the Verdi Requiem in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. The Met had
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By RONALD BLUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera returned to its home after an 18-month absence caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Before a masked crowd of 3,600, music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin led a performance of the Verdi Requiem in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. The Met had
Continue Reading VIENNA (AP) — Ethiopia’s Derara Hurisa has been disqualified for wearing the wrong shoes after winning the Vienna Marathon. The 24-year-old Hurisa crossed the line first by three seconds but was later told he had been disqualified. That was because the soles of his shoes were 1 centimeter (0.4 inches) thicker than the maximum 4
Continue Reading VIENNA (AP) — Ethiopia’s Derara Hurisa has been disqualified for wearing the wrong shoes after winning the Vienna Marathon. The 24-year-old Hurisa crossed the line first by three seconds but was later told he had been disqualified. That was because the soles of his shoes were 1 centimeter (0.4 inches) thicker than the maximum 4
Continue Reading VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) — Billy Horschel became the second American after Arnold Palmer to win the BMW PGA Championship following a dramatic final round. Lee Westwood, Bernd Wiesberger, Matt Fitzpatrick and Tyrrell Hatton secured the final automatic qualifying places in Europe’s Ryder Cup team on Sunday. Horschel spun his approach shot at the par-5
Continue Reading By ALBERT AJI Associated Press DARAA, Syria (AP) — The badly damaged old section of the southern Syrian city of Daraa, which until recently was held by opposition gunmen, appears to have slowly returned to some sense of normalcy. The capture of Daraa al-Balad marked another victory for President Bashar Assad, whose forces now control
Continue Reading By DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Finnish crew of Kalle Rovanpera and Jonne Halttunen has won the Acropolis Rally after leading through most of the four-day World Rally Championship race. Rovanpera, driving a Toyota Yaris, beat Ott Tanak from the Hyundai team by 42.1 seconds. Rovanpera’s stablemate Sebastien Ogier, the defending
Continue Reading By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Quarterback Deshaun Watson was inactive as expected for Houston’s opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars. The reason was listed as not injury related. Coach David Culley said early in the week that Watson would not play and named Tyrod Taylor the team’s starting quarterback. Watson’s future with
Continue ReadingBy Ellie Kaufman Sixty years after the United States’ failed Bay of Pigs invasion, the remnants of the US and Cuba’s fractured relationship are tucked away in a small neighborhood of the US Naval base at Guantánamo Bay. Nineteen Cubans still live on the base almost 60 years after the base closed its borders with
Continue ReadingCNN By Jackson Dill, CNN Weather Parts of the Texas coast are under a hurricane watch as Tropical Storm Nicholas is forecast to gain in strength, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm is forecast to gain peak sustained winds of 65 mph Monday into Monday night, with the center of the storm located over
Continue Reading By HANK KURZ Jr. AP Sports Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two races into the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, regular-season champion Kyle Larson is still the points leader. But the stable of contenders at Joe Gibbs Racing is making the most noise with victories in the last two races. Martin Truex Jr. led a 1-2-3
Continue Reading By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer Johnny Rodgers’ electrifying 72-yard punt return for a touchdown was the signature play of a rare game that lived up to “Game of the Century” billing. Rodgers helped No. 1 Nebraska defeat No. 2 Oklahoma 35-31 in the 1971 classic. Fifty years later, he still gets asked about the
Continue ReadingBy Jackson Dill, CNN Weather Parts of the Texas coast are under a hurricane watch as Tropical Storm Nicholas is forecast to gain in strength, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm is forecast to gain peak sustained winds of 65 mph Monday into Monday night, with the center of the storm located over the
Continue ReadingBy Susan Raff, Rob Polansky Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD, Connecticut (WFSB) — Saturday marks 20 years since one of the worst tragedies in U.S. history, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. A Hartford-based company called Aquiline Drones is honoring first responders in a unique way. Aquiline Drones said it recognizes that first
Continue Reading RENO, Nev. (AP) — Sixth-generation rancher Devere Dressler remembers seeing the Carson River teeming with fish as it flowed out of the eastern Sierra Nevada range, where the peaks were always capped with snow. Now, as the impacts of severe drought are felt across the West, Dressler sees a river running low, with far fewer
Continue Reading By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Northern Idaho has a long and deep streak of antigovernment activism that is confounding attempts to battle a COVID-19 outbreak. The surge has overwhelmed hospitals in the deeply conservative region. A deadly 1992 standoff with federal agents near the Canadian border helped spark an
Continue Reading ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s foreign minister says his country is working with the U.N.’s refugee agency to repatriate Syrians to their home country. The comments are at odds, however, with the U.N. agency’s overall policy towards returning migrants to Syria, which it still considers too dangerous. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Sunday that “we
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, CNN Illustrations by Leah Abucayan, CNN Millions of students are heading back to school with a challenge they didn’t have to face last year. The more contagious Delta variant is fueling a nationwide Covid-19 surge that’s sending hundreds of children to hospitals every day. The best weapon for students ages 12 and
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