By Sonnet Swire and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The first Black woman nominated to the US Supreme Court by President Joe Biden will be a “beneficiary” of affirmative action, Republican Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi said Friday. “The irony is that the Supreme Court is at the very same time hearing cases about this sort of
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By IGNATIUS SSUUNA Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — The Eritrea cycling team has been excluded from the Tour of Rwanda race because its members have not been vaccinated against COVID-19. Eritrea is the only one of the African Union’s 55 members states that’s yet to vaccinate any of its population. Rwanda Cycling Federation president
Continue ReadingBy CRYSTAL BUI Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — Atlanta police say they’ve arrested a man accused of killing of a baby boy in Atlanta. 22-year-old DeQuasie Jonathan Little is now in custody. Police say six-month-old Grayson Fleming-Gray was caught in the crossfire of a shootout Monday. He was riding with
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Rory McIlroy has moved within two shots of leader Justin Harding after three rounds at the Dubai Desert Classic as the Northern Irishman tries for a third win at the event. McIlroy shot a 3-under 69 to get to 10 under overall at the tournament he won in 2009
Continue ReadingBy CONNOR MCCARTHY Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — A business owner in northeast Portland is joining a long list of business owners fed up with crime in the city and demanding change. Lonnie Thompson owns Carolina Kustoms on Northeast Columbia Boulevard. Shortly after midnight Friday, he said three people
Continue Reading MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis entered on a wild card and were dubbed the Special Ks on their wild ride to the men’s doubles title at the Australian Open. A 7-5, 6-4 victory over Matt Ebden and Max Purcell meant the long-time friends became the first home-grown pairing to win the
Continue ReadingBy Livia Borghese, CNN Italy’s current president Sergio Mattarella has been re-elected for a second mandate, speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Robert Fico, announced Saturday. Mattarella received 759 out of a possible 1009 votes from “great electors” — the members of parliament and regional representatives charged with electing the president in a process that
Continue ReadingBy Emerson Lehmann Click here for updates on this story RACINE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — Families looking for some winter fun can now enjoy a picnic in a snow globe at the Racine Zoo. The program is back for its third year with four ‘globes’ available for groups to rent for 90 minute sessions. A session
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Alejandra Ramos Londres (CNN) — La posibilidad de una inminente invasión rusa a Ucrania intensifica el estado de alarma en la región, amenazando con hundir aún más a los 44 millones de habitantes del paÃs en las garras del conflicto. Pero un movimiento del Kremlin también se extenderÃa mucho más allá de la frontera compartida
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CNN By Katie Hunt, CNN NASA intends to keep operating the International Space Station until the end of 2030, after which the ISS would be crashed into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean known as Point Nemo, according to newly published plans outlining its future. Launched in 2000, the space lab has orbited 227
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN “It’s just a jump to the left, and then a step to the right.” The catchy song from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” may as well have been our soundtrack for the last two years. Ever since the pandemic’s arrival, it has felt a bit like living in a time warp,
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By MARK PRATT and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — More than a foot and a half of snow has fallen in some areas of the northeastern U.S. amid a fierce winter storm. Parts of 10 states from Virginia to Maine are under blizzard warnings Saturday. Wind gusts surpassed 70 mph in a few
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — El CEO de Tesla, Elon Musk, dijo el miércoles que cree que el objetivo de robots humanoides es lo más importante en lo que está trabajando. El fabricante de vehÃculos eléctricos anunció por primera vez sus planes de robots en su AI Day el año pasado. En lugar de mostrar algún
Continue ReadingBy Sonnet Swire and Evan Perez, CNN An American woman from Kansas who allegedly joined ISIS and led an all-woman battalion in Syria has been arrested and charged by federal prosecutors with providing and conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, was apprehended in Syria earlier and was transferred
Continue Reading By Michelle Watson and Claudia Dominguez, CNN The US Navy has been granted a permit to discharge up to five million gallons of treated water a day from its Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage facility after that water was contaminated by a petroleum leak that sickened military families and children in Hawaii. Statements from the
Continue Reading Sol Amaya (CNN) — Usando genealogÃa genética y ADN familiar, la policÃa de Colorado resolvió los casos de hace décadas de los homicidios de cuatro mujeres,. El asesino era un hombre que se suicidó en la cárcel en 1981. Las tres mujeres y una adolescente fueron asesinadas a puñaladas entre 1978 y 1981 en el
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WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Worcester Polytechnic Institute President Laurie Leshin has announced that she is stepping down at the end of the current academic year to become the director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Leshin, the first woman to serve as president of WPI, has been at the private college for eight years.
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN It seemed too good to be true: The cutie who you matched with on a dating app sent sweet messages, told fantastic stories and even made you a Spotify playlist. Then you never hear from them again. That is a West Elm Caleb. It all started out on TikTok, where women
Continue Reading BANGKOK (AP) — The governor of a province in eastern Thailand has declared a state of emergency after an oil slick washed up on a sand beach, shutting down restaurants and shops in a setback for the pandemic-hit tourism industry. Some 20-50 tons of oil are estimated to have leaked Tuesday night in the Gulf
Continue Reading By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press A 50-year-old bridge that collapsed in Pittsburgh had been rated as poor on a recent inspection report. But transportation officials and engineering experts caution that doesn’t necessarily signal imminent danger for the thousands of other U.S. bridges with the same designation. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and the
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