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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Sparks have fired head coach and general manager Derek Fisher the team announced Tuesday. Fisher took over the team before the 2019 season and became the GM a year later. He finished his career with a 54-46 record as coach. Assistant Fred Williams will take over as interim
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Las esponjas de cocina albergan más bacterias que los cepillos de cocina, los cuales podrían ser una forma más higiénica de limpiar los platos, según investigadores de Noruega. “La salmonela y otras bacterias crecen y sobreviven mejor en las esponjas que en los cepillos, la razón es que las esponjas de
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN Vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration decided Tuesday that authorizing Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine — which uses different technology from the three vaccines currently in use in the US — for emergency use in adults would be beneficial. Most of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee
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By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — State officials across the nation have taken on Big Tech companies in the courts and state legislatures, and federal regulators have nipped at Twitter over alleged violations of users’ data privacy. Now, one state attorney general with an outsize personality and edge-skating stance nearly in the
Continue Reading By GREG BEACHAM and JOE REEDY AP Sports Writers ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels’ free fall from having one of the best records in the American League to a 12-game losing streak cost Joe Maddon his job Tuesday. General manager Perry Minasian recommended making the move to owner Arte Moreno, then drove
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN The decision by Mexico’s President to boycott this week’s summit for regional leaders in Los Angeles rendered futile months of work by President Joe Biden and other top officials to convince him to attend. Now, key nations in Central America are following President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s lead, dispatching only lower-level
Continue ReadingCNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden arrived here Wednesday to play host to nearly two dozen leaders from Latin America, hoping to use new economic and migration announcements to demonstrate cohesion in a region of fractured politics and, at times, entrenched skepticism of the United States. His mission has been made more difficult
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN Business Americans are continuing to lean on credit cards and loans, as consumer credit surged by $38 billion in April amid the highest inflation in 40 years. The latest Federal Reserve data on outstanding consumer credit, released Tuesday afternoon, comes after March’s record increase of $52.4 billion. That figure has since
Continue ReadingBy Matt McFarland, CNN Business Uber and Alphabet’s Waymo, which were once embroiled in a lawsuit over self-driving technology, are now working together on fully autonomous trucks. The companies announced Tuesday a “long-term strategic partnership” to deploy Waymo’s self-driving trucks on Uber Freight, a logistics platform that matches trucks with businesses shipping goods. Carriers purchasing
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE and STAN CHOE AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rallied Tuesday as Treasury yields eased, but Wall Street remains wobbly as investors wait for more clarity on where interest rates, inflation and the economy are heading. The S&P 500 climbed 39.25 points, or 1%, to 4,160.68 after reversing
Continue Reading By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer All-Pro receiver Deebo Samuel ended his offseason holdout by reporting for the first day of mandatory minicamp for the San Francisco 49ers. Samuel had skipped the voluntary portion of the offseason after telling ESPN in April that he wanted to be traded but showed up Tuesday for the
Continue Reading By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Although Aaron Donald smiles and deflects the question when asked how seriously he considered retirement before the monster renegotiation of his contract, the Los Angeles Rams’ perennial All-Pro defensive tackle says he never stopped working out. “I’m always going to keep myself in shape,
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By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. solar manufacturers say they are considering legal challenges after President Joe Biden declared a two-year pause for tariffs on solar imports from Southeast Asia. Biden also invoked the Defense Production Act on Monday as the White House moved to jumpstart solar installations that have been slowed
Continue Reading By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Seals, who teamed with fellow musician “Dash” Crofts on such 1970s soft-rock hits as “Summer Breeze,” “Diamond Girl” and “We May Never Pass This Way Again,” has died at age 80. His death was announced Tuesday by several people including John Ford Coley, who had formed
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: Kohl’s, JM Smucker rise; Target, Encompass fall.
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By Jennifer Henderson, CNN George Gilbert, a sailor killed in the Pearl Harbor attack who remained unidentified for decades, was laid to rest Monday — more than 80 years after his death, officials said. He was 20 years old when he died. A Fire Controlman 2nd class, Gilbert was stationed on the USS Oklahoma after
Continue Reading By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Academy Award–winning actor Matthew McConaughey has offered an emotional call on Congress to “reach a higher ground” and pass gun control legislation. In a roughly 22-minute speech at the White House on Tuesday, McConaughey, a Uvalde, Texas, native, exhorted a gridlocked Congress to pass gun reforms that
Continue Reading By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA. Nigeria (AP) — Thirty-eight persons have been confirmed dead after the attack on a church in southwestern Nigeria, according to the Catholic church in Ondo state where the incident happened. The church said the figure excluded the dead bodies taken to private hospitals. Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Services earlier
Continue Reading By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN For Shavonda Sisson, the idea of police officers patrolling the halls of her son’s school is terrifying. “I do everything I can to avoid police contact for myself and for my children,” said Sisson, whose son is a rising senior at Rufus King High School in Milwaukee. “I do not
Continue Reading ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels have fired manager Joe Maddon with the team mired in a 12-game losing streak.
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