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By Ben Church, CNN British radio presenter Adele Roberts became the fastest woman to complete the London Marathon with an ileostomy, running the distance in just over three and a half hours on Sunday. The Guinness World Records awarded Roberts with a framed certificate at the finish line, writing on Twitter: “Adele Roberts completed the
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By PETER SMITH and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Most prospective jurors said Monday that if they were to convict a man of killing 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, they would be capable of sentencing him to die. The first day of Jury selection
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By JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand has given a craft beer enthusiast a $4,360 fine for violating a law on advertising alcoholic beverages by posting a photo of a beer with his evaluation of it on Facebook. Artid Sivahansaphan says he plans to appeal his conviction in the hope
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Ray Romano regrets not taking his doctor’s advice years ago. The “Everybody Loves Raymond” star said he recently has a heart stent installed after doctors found a 90 percent blockage in a major artery. “I had high cholesterol 20 years ago and my guy always told me, ‘Why don’t we
Continue Reading By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó says he has crossed the border into Colombia on foot to seek a meeting with international delegations gathering there for a conference focused on his country’s political crisis. Guaidó is one of the most recognizable figures of Venezuela’s opposition and
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed The Supreme Court said Monday that it will consider whether the First Amendment protects social media users from being blocked from commenting on the personal pages that government officials use to communicate actions related to their duties. The justices said they were taking up two cases concerning the question: one lawsuit brought
Continue Reading By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A country renowned for its cuisine is turning to pots and pans to express its discontent with French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms. Demonstrations against raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 have morphed from lobbing paving stones, dodging tear gas and brandishing banners to something
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Major U.S. stock indexes are drifting in early trading as Wall Street remains hesitant to make big moves amid questions about where the economy, interest rates and corporate profits are heading. The S&P 500 wavered between small gains and losses in the early going Monday after barely budging last week. The
Continue Reading By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The Serbian president has sharply criticized Western officials mediating talks on normalizing ties with Kosovo, calling them liars and fraudsters, and says the Serb minority in the former Serbian province won’t tolerate foreign “occupation.” Aleksandar Vucic spoke on Monday, a day after local elections in the
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Eric Braeden, one of the most famous actors in daytime television, is sharing about his cancer diagnosis. The 82-year-old actor, who for decades has portrayed mogul Victor Newman on “The Young and the Restless,” recently opened up about his health in a video on social media. According to Braeden, he
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El escritor y poeta venezolano Rafael Cadenas recibió este lunes el Premio Cervantes de Literatura en 2022, en un acto encabezado por los reyes de España. El jurado, que anunció la decisión en noviembre de 2022, destacó su “vasta y dilatada” obra literaria. Es el primer venezolano en ganar
Continue ReadingBy Donald Judd, CNN White House Domestic Policy Adviser Susan Rice will leave her administration post next month, an official tells CNN, marking one of the Biden administration’s highest-profile departures as the president’s domestic agenda stalls in a divided Congress. Rice’s final day will be May 26, the official said. NBC News first reported her
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler and Donald Judd, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday announced that the warring factions in Sudan agreed to a a ceasefire, “starting at midnight on April 24, to last for 72 hours.” The agreement between the Sudanese Armed Forces, or SAF, and the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, came
Continue Reading By ANDREW DALTON and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jury selection and opening statements are set to begin Monday in a trial that mashes up Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” with Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.” The heirs of Ed Townsend, Gaye’s co-writer of the 1973 soul classic, sued Sheeran, alleging
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — Jennifer Grey reveló que su “mala ansiedad” le impidió volver a interpretar su papel en “Friends”. Aunque al principio estaba entusiasmada, como “fan de la serie”, Grey declaró al sitio web MediaVillage que, cuando llegó el momento de grabar sus escenas, “tenía mucha ansiedad porque no paraban de cambiar el guión”. Grey
Continue Reading NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Hundreds of foreign nationals have been safely evacuated from Sudan where continued fighting threatens to plunge the African country deeper into chaos. Foreign governments deployed their military assets to fly people out safely – among them France, which is using its airbase in neighboring Djibouti for the airlift. Britain deployed hundreds
Continue ReadingBy Phyllis L. Fagell, CNN The eighth grade girl told psychologist Ryan DeLapp that a friend only interacted with her when she wanted help with an assignment. “This person would sit next to her in class but wouldn’t sit with her at lunch,” said DeLapp, director of the REACH program at the Ross Center in
Continue ReadingCNN By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Former “Dancing With the Stars” judge Len Goodman has died at age 78. The English dance expert, who featured in the ballroom competition from 2005 until last year, died on Saturday in a hospice in Kent, southern England, following a battle with bone cancer, his manager confirmed. “He was surrounded
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN Running is a simple sport, the art of putting one foot in front of the other faster than your other competitors. That’s precisely what Sifan Hassan did in the London Marathon on Sunday, though her stunning, chaotic victory in the women’s race was anything but straightforward. “There were so many dramas,”
Continue ReadingBy Toyin Owoseje, CNN Lizzo made her stance on Tennessee’s anti-drag-show legislation clear by inviting drag queens onstage at her Knoxville concert. Last month, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed legislation banning “adult cabaret” artists from performing in public and/or in the presence of children. The controversial bill listed “male or female impersonators,” which is widely
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