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By Jack Bantock, CNN Every golfer playing at the Open Championship this week will be thrilled to see an eagle. Yet so too will thousands of fans. Situated on the east coast of Scotland, St Andrews may be affectionately known as the ‘home of golf,’ but it’s a residence shared by some highly disruptive roommates:
Continue ReadingBy Matt McFarland, CNN Business Andrej Karpathy, Tesla’s director of artificial intelligence, announced Wednesday he’s leaving the company only months before its anticipated release of its long-delayed “full self-driving” software to 1 million people. Tesla’s driver-assist features made significant advances in his tenure, but also have drawn increased scrutiny from regulators over their safety record.
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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — California State University trustees voted to remove the name of a former librarian from the Fresno State library after revelations in his personal documents that he held antisemitic views and was a Nazi sympathizer. The board vote Wednesday stripped the name of Henry Madden, who was the university librarian from 1949
Continue ReadingBy Brian Rokus and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN A group of conservatives, including prominent lawyers and retired federal judges, issued a 72-page report on Thursday categorically rebutting each of the claims made in court by former President Donald Trump and his supporters over the 2020 election results. The report, “LOST, NOT STOLEN: The Conservative Case that
Continue Reading By MICHAEL PHILLIS and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press Preston Brown knows the risk of wildfire that comes with living in the rural, chaparral-lined hills of San Diego County. He’s lived there for 21 years and evacuated twice. That’s why he fiercely opposed a plan to build more than 1,100 homes in a fire-prone area he
Continue Reading By MICHAEL PHILLIS and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press Preston Brown knows the risk of wildfire that comes with living in the rural, chaparral-lined hills of San Diego County. He’s lived there for 21 years and evacuated twice. That’s why he fiercely opposed a plan to build more than 1,100 homes in a fire-prone area he
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GRUNDY, Va. (AP) — Authorities in a remote corner of southwest Virginia have located all but three of the 44 people who were reported unaccounted for after devastating flooding washed out roadways and damaged more than 100 homes. Buchanan County Sheriff John McClanahan said Thursday that crews from state and local agencies worked throughout the
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Business Mortgage rates are on the rise again after a dramatic drop last week. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.51% in the week ending July 14, up from 5.3% the week before, according to Freddie Mac. That is significantly higher than this time last year when it was 2.88%. Rates rose
Continue Reading By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — FX has announced a renewal for its new series “The Bear,” streaming only on Hulu, after it launched late last month to immediate success. With a mostly little-known cast, the half-hour, eight-episode series stars Jeremy Allen White as a fine dining chef who returns home to
Continue Reading By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was defiant and cited free speech rights during a deposition in April, as part of a lawsuit by relatives of some of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims who are suing Jones for calling the massacre a hoax, according to court
Continue Reading By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has been charged with murder in connection with the mysterious 2021 deaths of his wife and son. The charges were announced Thursday. Murdaugh’s 52-year-old wife Maggie and 22-year-old son Paul were shot to death outside their home on June 7,
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El líder del Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) de México, “Alito” Moreno, como se le conoce a Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, aseguró que permanecerá al frente de ese partido hasta 2024 cuando se defina la carrera presidencial, según un audio difundido este martes por la gobernadora del estado de Campeche, Layda
Continue Reading By DIANE JEANTET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Millions of Brazilians will get a hefty boost from a measure approved by Brazil’s Congress that sharply raises subsidies for the poor. It’s also likely to bolster incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro’s reelection campaign because it comes less than three months before voting. Lawmakers voted Wednesday
Continue Reading By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is giving its ultimate final salute Thursday to Hershel W. “Woody” Williams, a hero of the battle for Iwo Jima who was the last remaining Medal of Honor recipient from World War II. Williams, who died last month at age 98, is lying in honor in
Continue Reading By ANITA SNOW and EUGENE GARCIA Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Long lines are back at food banks around the U.S. as working Americans overwhelmed by inflation turn to handouts to help feed their families. With gas prices soaring along with grocery costs, many people are seeking charitable food for the first time, and more
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN Disney’s newest cruise ship is setting sail on its maiden voyage Thursday from Port Canaveral, Florida, to the Bahamas. Disney Wish is the fifth ship in the cruise line’s fleet and the first new Disney ship in a decade. The mammoth vessel, weighing in at about 144,000 gross tons, carries a
Continue ReadingCNN By Ryan Nobles, Dana Bash, Annie Grayer and Zachary Cohen, CNN Former President Donald Trump tried to call a member of the White House support staff who was talking to the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. The support staffer was not someone who routinely
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By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese minister is warning that the ruins of the Beirut Port silos, destroyed in a massive explosion two years ago, may collapse because of a recently ignited fire that is still smoldering. Hundreds of tons of highly explosive material that had been improperly stored in the
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Las condiciones climáticas cálidas y secas complican el esfuerzo de los bomberos por combatir un incendio forestal en el Parque Nacional Yosemite, en California, que amenaza una arboleda de secuoyas gigantes, la mayoría de las cuales tienen más de 2.000 años. El incendio Washburn se ha extendido por lo menos
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, dijo este jueves que el gobierno de Estados Unidos aceptó “aumentar considerablemente el número de visas de trabajo” temporal. El anuncio lo hizo en una conferencia de prensa, la primera tras reunión con el presidente Joe Biden esta semana en Washington.
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