By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal investigators say an oil tanker hit an oil platform at night off Louisiana because its Turkish operating company didn’t give the ship’s master time to recover from 50 hours of sleepless travel. Nobody was hurt in the crash early Oct. 17, 2020. But the National
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By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal investigators say an oil tanker hit an oil platform at night off Louisiana because its Turkish operating company didn’t give the ship’s master time to recover from 50 hours of sleepless travel. Nobody was hurt in the crash early Oct. 17, 2020. But the National
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LONDON (AP) — The rugby international between the Barbarians and Samoa has been called off only 90 minutes before kickoff at Twickenham due to six confirmed cases of the coronavirus among the Barbarians players and staff. The decision was made following a recommendation by the Professional Game Testing Oversight Group. The Rugby Football Union says
Continue Reading By ELODIE SOUPAMA and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press LE GOSIER, Guadeloupe (AP) — France’s government is offering to discuss greater autonomy for the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. The island has been wracked by virus-related rioting and strikes that reflect long-running frustrations over inequality with the French mainland. The overnight offer by the government minister
Continue Reading By ELODIE SOUPAMA and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press LE GOSIER, Guadeloupe (AP) — France’s government is offering to discuss greater autonomy for the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. The island has been wracked by virus-related rioting and strikes that reflect long-running frustrations over inequality with the French mainland. The overnight offer by the government minister
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Sol Amaya (CNN) — Las autoridades sanitarias de la República Checa están investigando un caso sospechoso de la variante ómicron del coronavirus en un viajero que llegó recientemente de Namibia, dijo el Instituto Nacional Checo de Salud Pública en un comunicado enviado por correo electrónico a CNN este sábado. El instituto dijo que una prueba
Continue Reading By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has been on a PR blitz promoting his new book. In “Republican Rescue,” Christie says Republicans should stop talking about 2020 and focus on the future or risk losing elections. Christie’s rebuke of former President Donald Trump’s election lies is
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden descended on the island of Nantucket this week looking to preserve the sense of normalcy that the nation was so looking forward to over this holiday season. The President and first lady brought a brood of children, grandchildren and their significant others to
Continue ReadingCNN By Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden descended on the island of Nantucket this week looking to preserve the sense of normalcy that the nation was so looking forward to over this holiday season. The President and first lady brought a brood of children, grandchildren and their significant others
Continue Reading By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Postal workers who recall packages and letters piled up in distribution hubs a year ago are gearing up for another holiday crush. The Postal Service and private shippers UPS and FedEx are bolstering their hiring by bringing in about 230,000 seasonal workers to ensure they don’t
Continue Reading By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Postal workers who recall packages and letters piled up in distribution hubs a year ago are gearing up for another holiday crush. The Postal Service and private shippers UPS and FedEx are bolstering their hiring by bringing in about 230,000 seasonal workers to ensure they don’t
Continue Reading SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Morisi Kvitelashvili has become the first Georgian to win a figure skating Grand Prix after edging out Mikhail Kolyada and Kazuki Tomono in a tight contest at the Rostelecom Cup. Each of the top three skaters fell once in a free skate decided by close judging calls as Kvitelashvili won with
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — “El pasado nunca está muerto”, escribió una vez el Nobel William Faulkner. “No es ni siquiera pasado”. Esa famosa cita podría aplicarse a muchos de los ganadores del concurso Fotógrafo Histórico del Año 2021, en el que fotógrafos de todo el mundo compartieron imágenes de los sitios históricos, paisajes y estructuras
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan has apologized “for the hurt” that whistleblower Azeem Rafiq experienced but he again denied making racist comments while at county club Yorkshire. Rafiq’s revelations about the racism and bullying he suffered at Yorkshire has sparked a crisis in the English game. His accusation about Vaughan prompted
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — La Asociación Femenina de Tenis (WTA, por sus siglas en inglés) “sigue profundamente preocupada” porque la estrella del tenis china Peng Shuai “no esté libre de censura o coerción”. En una declaración por correo electrónico este sábado, la WTA dice que el CEO Steve Simon ha intentado comunicarse con Peng “a
Continue Reading TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s annual Golden Horse Awards kicked off Saturday with a Hong Kong drama receiving the most nominations for the Asian equivalent of the Academy Awards. This year, the Hong Kong film “Drifting” which is based on a 2012 court case involving homeless people in a working neighborhood, received 12 nominations including
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By Topher Gauk-Roger and Raja Razek, CNN Four men have been arrested in connection with theft at a Home Depot in California, where as many as 10 people entered the store Friday night and left with a range of stolen tools, according to law enforcement officials. The incident took place at approximately 8 p.m. local
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN Wouldn’t you like to stop your stressful, anxious thinking in its tracks? Turns out you can, and while you’re at it, you can make yourself feel and act better too. That’s the basis of cognitive behavioral therapy, which burst onto the psychological scene in the 1960s and has been gathering accolades
Continue ReadingBy John Sinnott CNN It proved less of a match, more a walk in the park for Brooks Koepka. So much so that the fifth edition of “The Match” in Las Vegas, which was scheduled to be over 12 holes, didn’t go the distance. Bryson DeChambeau didn’t win a single hole, before conceding on the
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — Tres cuerpos carbonizados fueron encontrados en un edificio incendiado en el distrito de Chinatown de la capital de las Islas Salomón, Honiara, las primeras muertes reportadas después de tres días de protestas violentas en las que más de 100 personas fueron arrestadas. La policía está investigando la causa de su muerte
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