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By VIN A. CHERWOO AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Filip Chytil scored the tiebreaking goal early in the third period and the New York Rangers staved off elimination with a 5-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series. Jacob Trouba and Alexis Lafrenière each had a goal
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Joyous bedlam erupted Wednesday at an employee appreciation and awards buffet at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas when the resort chief executive announced that all 5,400 people who work there will receive a $5,000 bonus. “It’s amazing!” said Edgar Rives, a cook for nine years in the employee cafeteria, after a
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By Andi Babineau and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Convicted Arizona murderer Clarence Dixon was executed by lethal injection Wednesday morning despite several attempts by his attorneys to delay his death, the state department of corrections confirmed. Dixon, 66, is the first person to be put to death in Arizona since the botched lethal injection execution of
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CNN EXCLUSIVE by Sara Sidner, Sandi Sidhu, Vasco Cotovio, Kostyantyn Gak and Oleksandra Titorova, CNN Russian soldiers shot two unarmed civilians as they walked away after an encounter in the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. CNN has obtained surveillance video of what is now being investigated as a war crime by Ukrainian prosecutors.
Continue ReadingEXCLUSIVE by Sara Sidner, Sandi Sidhu, Vasco Cotovio, Kostyantyn Gak and Oleksandra Titorova, CNN Russian soldiers shot two unarmed civilians as they walked away after an encounter in the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. CNN has obtained surveillance video of what is now being investigated as a war crime by Ukrainian prosecutors. Both
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Romine, Christina Maxouris, Aya Elamroussi and Eric Levenson, CNN A rapidly moving brush fire destroyed at least 20 homes and forced the evacuation of nearly a thousand homes in Orange County, California, on Wednesday in a foreboding sign of the new normal for the region. The Coastal Fire began Wednesday afternoon at about
Continue ReadingBy Sam Fossum and Shawna Mizelle, CNN President Joe Biden predicted Wednesday that if the Supreme Court officially overturns Roe v. Wade’s holding of a federal constitutional right to abortion, the court will next look to strike down other landmark cases guaranteeing Americans’ rights, from same-sex marriage to contraception access. “It’s not just the brutality
Continue ReadingCNN, WBBM, WGCL, KOKI, KXAN, POOL, YOUTUBE, GETTY IMAGES By Sam Fossum and Shawna Mizelle, CNN President Joe Biden predicted Wednesday that if the Supreme Court officially overturns Roe v. Wade’s holding of a federal constitutional right to abortion, the court will next look to strike down other landmark cases guaranteeing Americans’ rights, from same-sex
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COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (AP) — Rookie Rhyne Howard scored 21 points, including five of Atlanta’s 13 3-pointers, and the Dream held off the Los Angeles Sparks 77-75 on Wednesday night. Howard made a 3-pointer in the corner with 3:07 left in the fourth quarter for a seven-point lead, but Atlanta did not score again. The
Continue Reading COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (AP) — Rookie Rhyne Howard scored 21 points, including five of Atlanta’s 13 3-pointers, and the Dream held off the Los Angeles Sparks 77-75 on Wednesday night. Howard made a 3-pointer in the corner with 3:07 left in the fourth quarter for a seven-point lead, but Atlanta did not score again. The
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic has been named as the NBA’s Most Valuable Player for the second season in a row. The 27-year-old Serbian — who was the 41st pick of the 2014 draft — was named as an All-Star for the fourth successive season after another dominant year from the
Continue Reading By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press The largest wildfire burning in the United States was heading toward mountain resort towns in northern New Mexico on Wednesday, prompting officials to issue another set of warnings for more people to evacuate as the fast-moving fire picked up momentum. The blaze was racing up steep slopes and along
Continue Reading SAN DIEGO (AP) — Chicago Cubs shortstop Nico Hoerner came out of Wednesday’s series finale against the Padres with a sprained right ankle an inning after colliding with second base umpire Dan Iassogna in center field. Hoerner was on the ground in pain after the collision in the first inning and was tended to by
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Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Business) – James Cromwell, una de las estrellas de “Succession”, pegó su mano a un mostrador de un Starbucks en Nueva York para protestar por el cargo adicional que cobra la cadena por las leches veganas. El incidente, que ocurrió este martes, fue una protesta coordinada con Personas por el Trato Ético
Continue Reading CNN, WJCL By Joe Sutton, Claudia Dominguez and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Delaware State University, a historically Black institution, said its women’s lacrosse team was racially profiled by sheriff’s deputies last month during a traffic stop in Georgia. The team’s bus was headed north on Interstate 95 in Liberty County on April 20 following a game
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The Cleveland Guardians are dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak that has sidelined manager Terry Francona and several of the team’s coaches, prompting the first coronavirus-related postponement in Major League Baseball this season. Cleveland’s game Wednesday in Chicago against the White Sox was scrapped to allow for more testing and contact tracing.
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN For Lisa Wright, an elite-level diving judge from New Zealand, it was supposed to be the highlight of her career — the chance to adjudicate at the sport’s premier event at the Olympics. But the scenes that unfolded after the men’s 10-meter platform final in Tokyo last year “darkened” her Olympic
Continue Reading FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A jury in Texas has cleared American Airlines of responsibility for an alleged sexual assault by a celebrity chef it hired against one of its flight attendants. In the verdict Wednesday, jurors in the civil lawsuit concluded that an assault occurred but that Fort Worth, Texas-based American was not at
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