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MADRID (AP) — Struggling Spanish club Mallorca has hired veteran Mexican coach Javier Aguirre. Aguirre arrives with the goal of saving Mallorca from relegation with nine rounds to go in the Spanish league. The club owned by American businessman Robert Sarver sits in 18th place with 26 points. Aguirre coached México’s national team during two
Continue Reading By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer Olympic bronze medalist Shoma Uno edged silver medalist Yuma Kagiyama to lead a Japanese sweep of the first three spots after the men’s short program at the figure skating world championships in France. Uno scored 109.63 points for his program for the second-highest score in the world this season
Continue ReadingBy Drew Marine Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Early Sunday morning, around two o’clock, a Nest Camera notification woke Cathy Rossman up. “She looked at it and then she woke me up because she saw somebody out here with a gas can,” David Rossman, her husband, said. David sprung
Continue ReadingBy Anastasia Graham-Yooll, Richard Allen Greene, Michael Callahan and Tara John, CNN Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu held a meeting on Saturday, state media reported, amid speculation over his whereabouts and health during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. State news agency Tass reported Shoigu met with the country’s Ministry of Finance to discuss maintaining the
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BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon is keeping the brother of the country’s embattled central bank governor in custody, days after he was arrested. The brothers — Governor Riad Salameh and Raja Salameh — have been charged with illegal enrichment and money laundering over the past few years, during Lebanon’s economic meltdown. A second judge reviewed the
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — Dozens of nations, including the United States and much of Europe, say they’re united in seeking to “radically” reduce imports of Russian oil and gas after its invasion of Ukraine. But they also want to ensure those efforts don’t fuel climate change. At a two-day meeting of the International Energy Agency that
Continue ReadingBy CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed NATO leaders virtually Thursday as they gathered for an emergency summit on Russia’s war in Ukraine. Zelensky stopped short of issuing his usual request for a no-fly zone, but he asked NATO to supply his country with military equipment. Below is a transcript of the English translation of
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Britney Spears does not know who Pete Davidson or Scott Disick are, but she finds them funny. In a since deleted Instagram post that has been shared on social media, Spears reposted Disick’s Instagram Story that included footage of Davidson and some friends nodding off while watching a movie. Disick
Continue Reading By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s mayor exempted athletes and performers from the city’s vaccine mandate Thursday, while keeping in place the rule for countless other workers who faced losing their jobs for refusing to get vaccinated. The mandate had kept Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving from playing
Continue Reading By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s mayor exempted athletes and performers from the city’s vaccine mandate Thursday, while keeping in place the rule for countless other workers who faced losing their jobs for refusing to get vaccinated. The mandate had kept Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving from playing
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has contradicted the governing body of swimming by asserting that it has not withdrawn from all events on this year’s calendar in response to being banned from the world championships because of the war in Ukraine. Russian and Belarusian swimmers were banned Wednesday from competing at the world championships in Hungary.
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We are watching temperatures rise fairly rapidly today, with low 90s anticipated as the Jet tracks farther North and pulls warmer air up into the Southland. Typically our high this time of year is 82, we’ll be roughly 12 degrees above that this afternoon. The air mass in place will keep us well above normal
Continue ReadingBy Scottie Andrew, CNN James Van Der Beek sobbing. The guy who blinks in disbelief. That disturbing dancing baby. For these and millions more GIFs, we have Stephen Wilhite to thank. GIFs, those looping animated images, are a universal language — when words fail, a clip of a cool cat spinning beats on a turntable
Continue ReadingBy KTVT Staff Click here for updates on this story MESQUITE, Texas (KTVT) — Officials with the Mesquite Police Department have released video of a shootout that happened between officers and a suspect on March 14. Officers were called to an apartment complex in the 3700 block of Gus Thomasson Road to look into some
Continue ReadingBy KPTV Staff Click here for updates on this story GRESHAM, Oregon (KPTV) — The Multnomah County Medical Examiner’s Office is asking for the public’s help identifying a woman who was found dead in the area of the Springwater Corridor Trail in Gresham on Feb. 24. The medical examiner’s office described the woman as white,
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Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — De tanques a misiles hipersónicos, de drones a ojivas termobáricas y lanzamisiles portátiles, la invasión de Rusia a Ucrania, que acaba de cumplir un año, ha mostrado una enorme cantidad de armas empeñadas en el conflicto más grande que ha visto Europa desde principios de siglo XX. Entre los arsenales
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — The chance to get free gasoline is fueling a rush to get in line at some four dozen Chicago-area gas stations. The tab for Thursday’s gas giveaway is being picked up by businessman and onetime Chicago mayoral candidate Willie Wilson. He has contributed $1 million to pay for as much as $50
Continue Reading By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer Stephen Wilhite, the inventor of the internet-popular short-video format, the GIF, has died. He was 74. His wife, Kathaleen, said Thursday in a phone interview that he died of COVID on March 14. Wilhite, who lived in Milford, Ohio, won a Webby lifetime achievement award in 2013 for inventing
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb and Barbara Starr, CNN Senior Russian military leaders have declined calls from their US counterparts since before the invasion of Ukraine began, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday. The last known time that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with Russian Minister of Defense Sergey Shoygu was on February 18, and Joint Chiefs Chairman
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Companies in the S&P 500 bought a record amount of their own stock last year and don’t show any signs of slowing down. Flush with cash from solid earnings, major corporations repurchased $882 billion of stock in 2021. Goldman Sachs is forecasting stock buybacks to reach $1 trillion
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