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By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rob Gronkowski might be retired from the NFL, but the former all-pro football player is still in the game during the league’s championship week. The four-time Super Bowl winner — who calls himself the “MVP of Fun” — will host a music festival called
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By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A jury has sat solemnly in a gilded hall in central London, presided over by a bewigged representative of the crown in flowing black robes, but there were no criminals in the dock. Britain’s coinage was on trial. In a ceremony that dates back to the 12th
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez and Matt Stiles, CNN Labor Secretary Marty Walsh is the “designated survivor” during President Joe Biden’s second State of the Union address on Tuesday night. The selection comes the same day CNN reported that Walsh is expected to depart the Biden administration soon — marking the first Cabinet secretary departure of Biden’s
Continue Reading Associated Press MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Extremist rebels in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province have killed a worker for the international charity Doctors Without Borders, shortly after a former vice president of the organization was asked to produce a report into the humanitarian situation in the conflict-hit region. Mozambique’s Islamic extremist insurgency, which started in
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter and Mia Alberti, CNN The devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria on Monday have damaged important historic sites, including the ancient city of Aleppo in northwest Syria which was already “in danger” from civil war. The city, which was added to the the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN Chris Harrison and Kaitlyn Bristowe are taking “Bachelor” fans through their own friendship drama. The Season 11 “Bachelorette” turned co-host had appeared on the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast to speak about the two falling out following Bristowe’s hosting gig. Bristowe got the job after Harrison was let go for
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The Associated Press Rock star Bono, the 26-year-old who disarmed a gunman in last month’s Monterey Park, California, shooting, and the family of Tyre Nichols will be among the featured guests sitting alongside first lady Jill Biden at Tuesday’s State of the Union address. The guests were invited “because they personify issues or themes” Biden
Continue Reading By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Brock Purdy’s bid to join the select group of quarterbacks to go from a backup for most of the season to a Super Bowl starter got derailed when he suffered his own injury in the NFC championship game. Purdy’s elbow injury helped contribute to San Francisco’s 31-7 loss
Continue Reading By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Brock Purdy’s bid to join the select group of quarterbacks to go from a backup for most of the season to a Super Bowl starter got derailed when he suffered his own injury in the NFC championship game. Purdy’s elbow injury helped contribute to San Francisco’s 31-7 loss
Continue Reading STOCKHOLM (AP) — Tickets for the first concert of Beyoncé’s upcoming “Renaissance” world tour sold out Tuesday, and concert management group Live Nation said a second concert in Stockholm was added because of the high demand. The tour starts in Sweden in May and is scheduled to include stops in London, Paris, Barcelona, Toronto and
Continue Reading STOCKHOLM (AP) — Tickets for the first concert of Beyoncé’s upcoming “Renaissance” world tour sold out Tuesday, and concert management group Live Nation said a second concert in Stockholm was added because of the high demand. The tour starts in Sweden in May and is scheduled to include stops in London, Paris, Barcelona, Toronto and
Continue Reading By NOEL SICHALWE Associated Press LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Zambian authorities confirm that officials have rearrested eight Croatians, preventing them from leaving the southern African country after a court dropped child trafficking charges against them a day earlier. Immigration spokesman Namati Nshinka told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the eight have been rearrested on
Continue Reading By JOSH FUNK and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The man who entered an Omaha Target with an AR-15-style rifle and began firing before he was killed by police had been repeatedly sent to psychiatric hospitals because of his schizophrenia. And Joseph Jones’ family had tried to take guns away from him
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has shaken up his government in a bid to assert control amid ethics scandals and sniping from Conservative Party colleagues. Sunak appointed lawmaker Greg Hands to chair the governing party Tuesday. He replaces Nadhim Zahawi, who was fired last month after failing
Continue Reading By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s highest court has upheld an election in which residents of a coastal community voted to block their county government from building a launchpad for blasting commercial rockets into space. The Georgia Supreme Court’s ruling Tuesday unanimously rejected arguments by Camden County commissioners that the referendum
Continue Reading LA VERGNE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee police chief has been fired following an investigation into a sex scandal that also led to five officers being terminated. News outlets cite a statement from the city of La Vergne in reporting that Chief Burrel “Chip” Davis was fired Monday. The statement says an investigation concluded that
Continue Reading By GHAITH ALSAYED and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press JINDERIS, Syria (AP) — Residents in a northwest Syrian town discovered a crying infant whose mother gave birth to her while buried underneath the rubble of a five-story apartment building levelled by this week’s devastating earthquake, relatives and a doctor say. The newborn girl was found in
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are drifting on Wall Street. The S&P 500 was 0.1% higher in quiet Tuesday trading. The Dow was also down, while the Nasdaq was slightly higher. Stocks have pulled back recently, shaving off some of their strong start to the year. The market had
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are drifting on Wall Street. The S&P 500 was 0.1% higher in quiet Tuesday trading. The Dow was also down, while the Nasdaq was slightly higher. Stocks have pulled back recently, shaving off some of their strong start to the year. The market had
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, understands that consumers are still struggling to deal with high prices. And he has the frozen lasagna to prove it. Kashkari told CNN’s Poppy Harlow Tuesday that he knows first hand how expensive many consumer goods and services are.
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