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CNN By Allison Hope, CNN Hold the flowers and the chocolates and the sappy love poems. Forget Valentine’s Day and Galentine’s Day and the pressure to make plans and buy things and give unto others. This year, celebrate Solotine’s Day on February 15. Ditch the obligations and the loved ones surrounding you 24/7 and practice
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq, CNN A mezzanine floor collapsed at a bar in east London on Saturday, leaving more than a dozen people injured. The London Air Ambulance Service (LAS) responded to reports at 4:44 p.m. local time that an area of the building had given way at the Two More Years bar and restaurant
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By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — The Winter Olympics finally look like the Winter Olympics. Real snow fell in Beijing for the first time since the Olympics began. It gave the city the appearance and feel of a real Winter Games. There was also fresh snow in the mountains where events have
Continue ReadingBy Gloria Borger, Jamie Gangel and Ashley Semler, CNN In Donald Trump’s White House, telephones were a valued commodity. The then-President loved to talk to everyone, said a former White House aide. “He took everybody’s calls,” the aide said, even interrupting national security briefings to make and receive calls. The phone was his lifeline, according
Continue ReadingCNN By Gloria Borger, Jamie Gangel and Ashley Semler, CNN In Donald Trump’s White House, telephones were a valued commodity. The then-President loved to talk to everyone, said a former White House aide. “He took everybody’s calls,” the aide said, even interrupting national security briefings to make and receive calls. The phone was his lifeline,
Continue ReadingBy Kim Berryman, Holly Yan and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A police crackdown to remove protesters decrying Covid-19 mandates could soon restore some normalcy to American and Canadian businesses hit hard by a blockade at the border. Windsor Police have started arresting protesters blocking the Ambassador Bridge, the busiest land border crossing in North America. The
Continue Reading By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer BEIJING (AP) — Some Olympics signs in Beijing talk of staying “together for a shared future.” Others warn: “Don’t cross the line.” This might seem ironic, but it isn’t. For the Chinese capital, it’s natural. Visitors may find this ironic — hypocritical, even. It’s not. For Beijing, it’s the
Continue Reading By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — The alternate on a curling team doesn’t usually have many responsibilities. But when the U.S. men fell behind Canada early, American skip John Shuster took advantage of the opportunity to sub Colin Hufman into the game. Hufman is a first-timer at the Winter Games who can
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — The Ukrainian Olympic team has followed the lead of skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych in calling for peace. Heraskevych held up a sign with a Ukrainian flag and the message “No War in Ukraine” after completing a run in the skeleton competition on Friday at the Beijing Games. The message came against the
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer BEIJING (AP) — As in many sports, and plenty of other fields, Alpine skiing has a lingua franca — those are the words and phrases that allow folks from various places to communicate in a shared language. This helps Olympic ski racers better understand the conditions they are competing
Continue Reading By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Marte Olsbu Roeiseland earned her third gold medal of the Beijing Olympics by winning the women’s biathlon 10-kilometer pursuit race. The Norwegian started the race with a lead because of her win in the sprint race and hit 19 of her 20 targets. Roeiseland held her
Continue ReadingBy Alessandra Freitas, CNN When Andre Peart left New York state Bare Hill Correctional Facility in 2018, he didn’t have anywhere to go. He had no apartment or job. He was no longer together with his long-term girlfriend. He didn’t know who to contact or even how. Having spent almost six years incarcerated, he missed
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH and PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writers BEIJING (AP) — American ski racing standout Mikaela Shiffrin and boyfriend Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway are two elite athletes in the same sport who prop each other up and help each other out. They attend each other’s races. They offer each other tips. As it
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By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Miley Cyrus has only been alive for about half the Super Bowls ever played, but her setlist on the eve of the 56th spanned the whole history of the big game and then some. Cyrus mashed up songs on Saturday night from the 60s, 80s
Continue Reading By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Miley Cyrus has only been alive for about half the Super Bowls ever played, but her setlist on the eve of the 56th spanned the whole history of the big game and then some. Cyrus mashed up songs on Saturday night from the 60s, 80s
Continue Reading By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — The Russian team opened a lead on the first leg of the men’s cross-country skiing relay and then held on for the Olympic gold medal. Sergey Ustiugov maintained more than a minute lead on the last lap over the two-man chasing group of Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo
Continue ReadingBy Tara John, CNN Corpses strewn through wrecked buildings in the aftermath of an apparently deadly explosion. Distraught mourners, grieving for lost loved ones. And amid the smoldering ruins, evidence of Western military equipment. In a world all too familiar with graphic images of one disaster after another, it’s easy to imagine the grim footage.
Continue Reading By JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer BEIJING (AP) — Michelle Karvinen of Finland led a group of teammates across the ice to console Japan captain Chiho Osawa in a touching moment at the Olympic women’s hockey tournament. It happened immediately following Finland’s 7-1 win in the quarterfinals that eliminated Japan. Karvinen is one of several
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN This weekend, Javi Gomez is traveling nearly 500 miles from his native Miami to Florida’s capital in Tallahassee to plead his case against a piece of legislation LGBTQ advocates are calling the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. He’s nervous. He’s ready. In elementary school, classmates called him names for what they thought
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer BEIJING (AP) — Being confined to the bubble in Beijing may be new for some Olympians. It’s a familiar feeling for the dozen hockey players and two coaches who were in one of the NHL’s playoff bubbles in 2020. Canada captain Eric Staal even says Beijing’s bubble is better
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