Skip to Content
By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Brock Purdy has passed every test he’s faced so far in his remarkable rookie season. Coming off the bench with no reps after Jimmy Garoppolo got hurt. Matching up against an all-time great like Tom Brady. His first road start in an intimidating stadium in Seattle. Coming from
Continue Reading
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two New York City hospitals have reached a tentative contract agreement with thousands of striking nurses that ends this week’s walkout that disrupted patient care, officials announced Thursday. The nurses, represented by the New York State Nurses Association, walked out early Monday after negotiations with management
Continue Reading
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis will deliver a final send-off for Cardinal George Pell during a funeral Mass on Saturday, the Vatican said, as revelations emerge of the Australian prelate’s growing concern about what he considered the “disaster” and “catastrophe” of the papacy under Francis. The Vatican on Thursday
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN The Boston Celtics became the first team in the NBA this season to reach 30 wins after beating the New Orleans Pelicans 125-114 at TD Garden in Boston on Wednesday night, largely behind a combined 72 points from the team’s stars, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. Brown scored season-high 41 points
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN A nurses strike at two private New York City hospital systems has come to an end after 7,000 nurses spent three days on the picket line. The New York State Nurses Association union reached tentative deals with Mount Sinai Health System and Montefiore Health System, which operates three
Continue Reading By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As alarms began to go off globally about a novel coronavirus spreading in China, officials in Washington turned to the intelligence agencies for insights about the threat the virus posed to America. But the most useful early warnings came not from spies or intercepts, according to a
Continue Reading By BABA AHMED Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The Malian army says 14 soldiers have been killed and nearly a dozen wounded in coordinated attacks by Islamic extremists. The director of public relations for the army in a statement Wednesday that multiple improvised explosive devices detonated between Dia and Diafarabe villages as well as
Continue Reading MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia has pulled out of an upcoming men’s one-day international cricket series against Afghanistan. Cricket Australia cites more restrictions on women’s rights imposed by the Taliban government. Australia was set to meet Afghanistan in the United Arab Emirates for three matches in March. But following consultation with the Australian government and
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN The preliminary stage of the trial of five Proud Boys charged with seditious conspiracy related to the 2021 US Capitol attack has been a chaotic wind-up that included contentious fights during jury selection, debates over evidence and defense lawyers threatening to withdraw from the case. But while opening
Continue Reading TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the biggest contract manufacturer of processor chips for smartphones and other products, says its quarterly profit rose 78% over a year earlier but forecast weak demand this year. Revenue for the three months ending in December rose 43% to 625.5 billion New Taiwan dollars ($20.6 billion). Profit
Continue Reading TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the biggest contract manufacturer of processor chips for smartphones and other products, says its quarterly profit rose 78% over a year earlier but forecast weak demand this year. Revenue for the three months ending in December rose 43% to 625.5 billion New Taiwan dollars ($20.6 billion). Profit
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Qiblawi, CNN In the village of Tegh, Armenia, stationary vehicles clog the mountainous route to a border crossing where a mysterious diplomatic logjam has brought traffic to a halt. This is the entrance to the only road that links the Armenian-majority breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in Azerbaijan, to the outside world via Armenia.
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN A new Covid-19 variant, XBB.1.5, is spreading rapidly throughout the United States. In December 2022, the proportion of new Covid-19 infections due to this Omicron offshoot have increased from 4% to 18%, according to a January 6 release from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and is projected to
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN Three years after fleeing Iran, chess referee Shohreh Bayat fears being further ostracized after challenging the game’s governing body and its president, Russia’s former deputy prime minister, over her choice of clothing at a tournament in October. Back in 2020, Bayat was criticized in Iran for not wearing the appropriate headscarf
Continue Reading
olivertapia (CNN) — Tatjana Patitz, quien saltó a la fama en la moda en los años 90 como una supermodelo amante de los animales con una mirada penetrante, murió, confirmó su agente a CNN. Tenía 56 años. Patitz murió este miércoles de cáncer de mama, le dijo a CNN su agente, Corinne Nicolas. Le sobrevive
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Global shares were mostly higher Thursday ahead of a closely watched report on U.S. inflation that is viewed as a good indicator of whether Wall Street’s recent rising optimism is warranted or overdone. European benchmarks were headed upward in early trading. In Asia, shares started out
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN Lionel Messi celebrated his return to Paris Saint-Germain with a goal in his first game back since lifting the World Cup. The 35-year-old only returned to training in the new year after taking some time off to celebrate and recuperate after Qatar 2022, where he finally won the trophy that had
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates has named a veteran technocrat who both leads Abu Dhabi’s state-run oil company and oversees its renewable energy efforts to be the president of the upcoming United Nations climate negotiations in Dubai. The announcement Thursday naming Sultan al-Jaber highlights the
Continue ReadingCNN By Laura He, CNN China’s economy expanded by just 3% in 2022, far below the government’s own target, marking one of the worst performances in nearly half a century. Growth was impacted heavily by months of widespread Covid lockdowns and a historic downturn in the property market. Still, the number came in slightly better
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, Sandi Sidhu and Marc Stewart, CNN Kiki Yang brought an empty green suitcase from Shenzhen to Hong Kong this week to load up on new purchases for her family and friends. “I did a lot of shopping these days,” she told CNN on Tuesday, gesturing to her luggage, which she described as
Continue Reading