Month: November 2022
¿Qué necesita Argentina para pasar a octavos en el Mundial de Qatar 2022? ¿Qué cruces y rivales pueden tocarle?
Ángela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — Argentina logró mantener viva la ilusión en Qatar tras vencer el sábado a México por 2 a 0. Sin embargo, todavía no tiene asegurado el boleto para octavos de final. Estas son las matemáticas detrás del Grupo C del Mundial 2022. Argentina – Polonia en el Mundial de Qatar
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GOP-controlled Arizona country refuses to certify election
By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Republican officials in a rural Arizona county refused Monday to certify the 2022 election ahead of the deadline amid pressure from prominent Republicans to reject a vote count that had Democrats winning for U.S. Senate, governor and other statewide races. State election officials have vowed to
Continue ReadingCase of missing Cleveland woman found dead in Pittsburgh ruled a homicide
By ERICA MOKAY Click here for updates on this story WILKINSBURG, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — A woman reported missing out of Cleveland and found dead in the backyard of a Wilkinsburg home was shot in the head, according to an updated report released by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office Sunday. The report also listed Adrianna
Continue ReadingAt the heart of China’s protests against zero-Covid, young people cry for freedom
CNN By Nectar Gan and Selina Wang and CNN’s Beijing bureau For the first time in decades, thousands of people have defied Chinese authorities to protest at universities and on the streets of major cities, demanding to be freed not only from incessant Covid tests and lockdowns, but strict censorship and the Communist Party’s tightening
Continue Reading2 Massachusetts drivers clocked over 100 mph in New Hampshire, charged with drunk driving
By CBSBOSTON.COM STAFF Click here for updates on this story BOW, New Hampshire (WBZ) — Two Massachusetts men were arrested early Sunday morning on drunk driving charges after police say they were clocked at speeds over 100 miles per hour. New Hampshire State Police said 25-year-old Jacob Hulsoor of Dorchester was caught on radar driving
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Europe’s inflation likely hasn’t peaked, ECB’s Lagarde says
BRUSSELS (AP) — The head of the European Central Bank says she doesn’t believe inflation has peaked after reaching the highest levels on record. She also says the bank isn’t through raising interest rates to combat those price spikes. ECB President Christine Lagarde told European lawmakers Monday that there’s too much uncertainty to know whether
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Great Barrier Reef should be placed on the ‘in danger’ list, UN-backed report shows
By Rachel Ramirez and Tara Subramaniam, CNN The Great Barrier Reef should be added to the list of world heritage sites that are “in danger”, a team of scientists concluded after conducting a mission to the world’s largest coral reef system. In a new UN-backed report released on Monday, the scientists said that the reef
Continue ReadingFirst on CNN: Harris and Macron to strengthen working relationship with NASA headquarters visit
By Jeremy Diamond, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron at NASA headquarters on Wednesday as part of Macron’s state visit this week, US and French officials told CNN. The NASA visit — which will include a working meeting and a briefing by US space officials — will highlight a
Continue Reading South Carolina tops women’s AP Top 25; Stanford, UConn next
By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer South Carolina remained the unanimous No. 1 choice in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll released Monday as the Gamecocks keep close watch on the foot injury of reigning Player of the Year Aliyah Boston. The Gamecocks received all 29 first-place votes in the poll released Monday, a day
Continue Reading Business groups urge Congress to block potential rail strike
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Business groups are increasing the pressure on lawmakers to intervene and block a railroad strike before next month’s deadline in the stalled contract talks. A coalition of more than 400 business groups sent a letter to Congressional leaders Monday urging them to step in because
Continue Reading Jones, Maddux, Morris consider Bonds, Clemens for Hall
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Hall of Famers Chipper Jones, Greg Maddux, Jack Morris and Ryne Sandberg are among 16 members of the contemporary baseball era committee that will meet Sunday to consider the Cooperstown fate of an eight-man ballot that includes Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Rafael Palmeiro. Hall of Famers Lee Smith, Frank Thomas
Continue Reading BlockFi seeks protection as FTX collapse shakes crypto
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Cryptocurrency lender BlockFi is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the fallout from the collapse of FTX continues. BlockFi said Monday that it was filing for bankruptcy protection to stabilize its business and give it the chance to perform a restructuring. FTX filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this
Continue ReadingJay Leno performing at California comedy club, two weeks after burn accident
CNN, HLN, KABC By Sonya Hamasaki, CNN Jay Leno is returning to the comedy stage Sunday night, two weeks after sustaining significant burn injuries in a gasoline fire. The former “Tonight Show” host will perform in front of a sold-out crowd at the Comedy and Magic Club in Hermosa Beach, California, according to a spokesperson
Continue Reading Census Bureau chief defends new privacy tool against critics
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau’s chief is defending a new tool meant to protect the privacy of people participating in the agency’s questionnaires against calls to abandon it by prominent researchers and demographers. The researchers claim the tool jeopardizes the usability of numbers that are the foundation of the nation’s data
Continue Reading Virginia man accused of ‘catfishing’ teen before killing her family, police say
KCAL, KCBS, RIVERSIDE PD, WINEK FAMILY, GOOGLE MAPS, CNN By Amanda Watts, Tina Burnside and Zoe Sottile, CNN A former Virginia police officer, believed to have murdered a teenager’s family in Riverside, California, after “catfishing” her online, was killed in a shootout while trying to flee authorities, the city’s police department said in a news
Continue ReadingA record $100 billion was paid out in life insurance benefits last year
By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business US life insurers paid out a record $100 billion in benefits in 2021, according to new data released Monday by the American Council of Life Insurers. That’s a nearly 11% jump from 2020, which represented the largest year-over-year increase (15.4%) since the 1918 influenza pandemic. “For the second year in
Continue ReadingSomalia Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Somalia, an impoverished, war-torn eastern African country that borders the Gulf of Aden, the Indian Ocean, Ethiopia and Kenya. About Somalia (from the CIA World Fact Book)Area: 637,657 sq km (slightly smaller than Texas) Population: 12,386,248 (2022 est.) Median age: 18.5 years Capital: Mogadishu Ethnic groups: Somali 85%,
Continue ReadingEl Mundial trajo algunos cambios a Qatar. ¿Durarán?
Alexandra Ferguson Doha (CNN) — Qatar está irreconocible en comparación con el país que era hace 12 años, cuando ganó su candidatura para ser la sede del Mundial de la FIFA 2022. Se han invertido unos US$ 220.000 millones en la construcción de una ciudad completamente nueva, un sistema de metro de última generación y
Continue ReadingIrish regulator fines Meta $275 million for violations of Europe’s data privacy law
By Brian Fung, CNN Business Meta has been fined roughly $275 million by Ireland’s data privacy regulator for failing to prevent hackers from siphoning off personal information from more than 500 million Facebook users in a 2019 data leak. Monday’s announcement marked the fourth time in about a year that Facebook’s parent company has been
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