By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Locked-out players are meeting with Major League Baseball for the sixth straight day as management’s end-of-Monday deadline approaches for a labor deal that would salvage opening day and a 162-game schedule. Mets pitcher Max Scherzer and shortstop Francisco Lindor, Yankees pitcher Gerrit Cole and free
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LONDON Crystal Palace has allowed an early second-half own-goal in a 1-1 draw with Burnley in the Premier League. Jeffrey Schlupp put Palace ahead after nine minutes but Luka Milivojevic’s own-goal just 40 seconds after the break kept the south London club winless in its past four home games in the league. Midtable Palace’s last
Continue Reading MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo hit the post and his Manchester United teammates wasted a slew of other great chances in a 0-0 draw with Watford in the Premier League. United stayed in fourth place but gave renewed hope to its rivals for the final Champion League qualification spot by failing to beat a
Continue ReadingCNN Staff The 2022 NAACP Image Awards, which honor achievement by people of color in culture and entertainment, were presented on Saturday. Jennifer Hudson was among the night’s big winners, earning the event’s awards for Entertainer of the Year and outstanding actress in a motion picture for her performance as Aretha Franklin in the film
Continue Reading By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — Wolfsburg and Borussia Mönchengladbach have played a dramatic 2-2 draw in the Bundesliga as the league’s players and fans showed solidarity with Ukraine following the Russian invasion. The German soccer league urged clubs to observe a minute’s silence before their games. Union Berlin bounced back from
Continue ReadingBy Brian Stelter, CNN Business Chris Licht, the producer who created “Morning Joe,” revamped “CBS This Morning” and revitalized “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” has been selected to run CNN once Discovery merges with WarnerMedia this spring, according to three sources with knowledge of the plan. The parties involved have not yet commented on
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN The first two days of the Conservative Political Action Conference featured a parade of speakers who described President Joe Biden as weak and incompetent, Democrats as leftist ideologues and Donald Trump’s presidency as a smashing success. Aside from such subjective assertions, the speakers in Orlando made some objectively false and misleading
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CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Ashley Strickland, CNN The sun is getting more active — and two solar missions are perfectly poised to capture the stellar show. The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission between NASA and the European Space Agency, is gearing up for its closest approach to the sun so far on March 26.
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN As a space enthusiast, I’ve always wanted to sail among the stars to a galaxy far, far away. I got a step closer this week when I boarded the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser at Walt Disney World for a preview of the first-of-its-kind immersive experience, opening on March 1. As a
Continue ReadingBy Joyce Lupiani Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens has announced that the city of Atlanta is lifting certain COVID-19 restrictions and mandates, including the indoor mask mandate. Masks will still be required at public meetings and programs in City facilities. Public agencies affiliated with the City
Continue ReadingBy KITV Web Staff Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU, Hawaii (KITV) — The Navy announced late Friday night that it found elevated levels of beryllium at Pearl Harbor Elementary School. The initial sample, taken from an outdoor sink at the school, tested positive for beryllium at a level higher than the limit
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Hurwitz Click here for updates on this story BEAVERTON, Oregon (KPTV) — A Beaverton house is destroyed after a fire ripped through it Friday morning. Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue says the fire started around 10:00 a.m. Friday morning at a home on Southwest Sammy Drive near 187th Avenue. Before crews arrived, TVF&R
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, Phil Mattingly, Kevin Liptak and Donald Judd, CNN The White House, along with the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Canada, announced Saturday evening that they would expel certain Russian banks from SWIFT, the high-security network that connects thousands of financial institutions around the world, pledging to “collectively ensure
Continue ReadingCNN, CNNBUSINESS By Nikki Carvajal, Jeremy Diamond, Kevin Liptak and Kate Sullivan, CNN The US is taking immediate action on Monday to prohibit American dollar transactions with the Russian central bank and fully block the Russian direct investment fund, senior administration officials said, an aggressive move that aims at some of Russia’s most powerful means
Continue Reading By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — Christian Eriksen has returned to competitive football as a second-half substitute for Brentford against Newcastle, 259 days after a cardiac arrest during a European Championship game for Denmark. The stadium in west London united in applauding Eriksen’s entry to the Premier League in the 52nd
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Lviv, Ucrania (CNN) — En la estación de tren de Lviv, en el rincón más occidental de Ucrania, cerca de la frontera con Polonia, cientos de personas salen de los trenes y desembarcan mientras suenan las sirenas. La terminal, una de las estructuras Art Nouveau más históricas de Europa, es ahora un punto
Continue Reading By Faith Karimi, CNN Photos by Austin Steele, CNN Alex Podebryi has barely slept in three days. In the dead of night he scans livestreams for updates on the Russian forces invading his home country. He zooms in on social media videos of tanks rolling into Ukrainian cities. He watches images on TV of shell-shocked
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, CNN US Customs and Border Protection officers have seized nearly $3 million worth of methamphetamine hidden in small packages within a shipment of onions at a commercial facility in San Diego, the agency said. Federal officers at the Otay Mesa port-of-entry facility last Sunday encountered a 46-year-old man who was driving a
Continue ReadingBy Jon Sarlin, CNN Business Bitcoin is a pollution-creating mess. Despite efforts to make the energy-intensive mining process friendlier to the environment, it has grown significantly more reliant on fossil fuels over the past year. China’s cryptocurrency mining ban in the spring of 2021 significantly worsened Bitcoin’s environmental impact, according to a new research on
Continue ReadingCNN By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Cryptocurrency prices are climbing after Russia’s ruble sank to another record low and Moscow was hit with new sanctions. As of 5:25 a.m. ET on Tuesday, bitcoin had jumped 13% over the last 24 hours to $43,163, according to cryptocurrency tracker CoinDesk. Other cryptocurrencies moved higher, too. Ethereum climbed
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