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By The Associated Press Ohio’s top gambling regulator has barred licensed sportsbooks in the state from accepting bets on Alabama baseball games after a report that warned of suspicious gambling activity. Matthew Schuler, executive director of the Ohio Casino Control Commission, issued the emergency order on Monday “prohibiting the acceptance of any wagers on University
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer, CNN House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has announced that House Democrats have taken a key procedural step that could be used to bypass House Republican leadership and enable Democrats to attempt to force a vote to raise the debt ceiling, according to a new letter obtained by CNN. The move is the
Continue ReadingBy Tracy Sears Click here for updates on this story RICHMOND, Virginia (WTVR) — Visibly shaken Richmond School Superintendent Jason Kamras addressed last Thursday’s shooting outside of George Wythe High School at a community peace vigil Monday afternoon. The shooting left two students injured, one critically. 18-year-old David Gutierrez — also a student — was
Continue ReadingBy Cameron Thompson Click here for updates on this story CAROLINE COUNTY, Virginia (WTVR) — One manned a gun he was not trained on during the Pearl Harbor attacks; another pulled a raft of injured sailors through shark-infested waters. Neither Black sailor has received the Medal of Honor, our nation’s highest military award, and a
Continue Reading By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Late-night TV shows including “The Tonight Show” and “The Daily Show” will begin airing reruns Tuesday as unionized screenwriters soured by diminished pay in the streaming era went on strike for the first time in 15 years. Some 11,500 film and television writers represented by
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Sparks are parting ways with team president Vanessa Shay after nearly a year on the job. Shay, who was in charge of business operations, was hired last May. Her departure was “mutually agreed” upon, the team said Tuesday. Shay previously was chief revenue officer for the NWSL’s San
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN The Met Gala figures prominently in the past love story of Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson, so it felt right that they would meet up again at the annual event. The pair, who split in August 2022 after less than a year of dating, were photographed Monday during the festivities
Continue Reading SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple and Google are teaming up to thwart unwanted tracking through Bluetooth devices that were created to help people find lost keys, keep tabs on luggage or to locate other things that have a tendency to be misplaced or lost. The two companies behind the iPhone and the software that powers
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Alexandra Ferguson Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — El gobierno de Australia prohibirá los cigarrillos electrónicos mediante un estricto control de las importaciones y los envases para desincentivar el vapeo, especialmente entre los adolescentes, en el marco de su mayor reforma del tabaquismo en más de una década. El ministro de Sanidad de Australia, Mark Butler, declaró
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business A decade ago, the Tesla Model S was MotorTrend’s Car of the Year and Consumer Reports hailed it as the best car it had ever tested. It was so good, Consumer Reports had to rethink its own rating scale because the Model S was literally off the charts. The Model
Continue Reading By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer The Kentucky Derby is a tradition that’s never been canceled. Postponed once by World War II and again by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, America’s greatest race has rolled on since 1875. At Churchill Downs on Saturday, 20 horses will compete to wear the garland of red roses in
Continue Reading By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer The Kentucky Derby is a tradition that’s never been canceled. Postponed once by World War II and again by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, America’s greatest race has rolled on since 1875. At Churchill Downs on Saturday, 20 horses will compete to wear the garland of red roses in
Continue Reading Germán Padinger Nota del editor: Jorge G. Castañeda es colaborador de CNN. Fue secretario de Relaciones Exteriores de México de 2000 a 2003. Actualmente es profesor de la Universidad de Nueva York y su libro más reciente, “America Through Foreign Eyes”, fue publicado por Oxford University Press en 2020. Las opiniones expresadas en este comentario
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Nicholls and Nimi Princewill, CNN Uganda’s parliament has passed an amended version of the controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023 on Tuesday. Under the new proposed bill, homosexual conduct will still be illegal, but identifying as homosexual without conducting in homosexual acts will not be outlawed. The bill, however, retains its more extreme elements, including the death penalty for
Continue Reading By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A review of a Montana nuclear missile base where an unusual number of troops have been diagnosed with blood cancer has found no current risk factors that could explain it, the Air Force says. The service has been investigating the issue since reports surfaced in January of
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor around a rocky exoplanet that orbits a star located 26 light-years away from Earth. Now, astronomers are trying to determine whether that water vapor is an indicator of what would be the first-known presence of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet. Small,
Continue Reading By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Regulators have barely written the epitaph for First Repbulic Bank, but investors on Wall Street have already moved onto speculating which bank might be the next to fail. Bank stocks fell sharply Tuesday, led downward by smaller banks with heavy exposure to uninsured deposits and
Continue Reading By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The union representing 11,500 writers of film, television and other entertainment forms are now on strike. It’s the first writers’ strike — and the first Hollywood strike of any kind — in 15 years. Here’s a look at the storylines the fight has spawned. WHY
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN It’s been four months since Allison Holker lost her husband Stephen “tWitch” Boss to suicide, and she still doesn’t have many answers. In her first interview since Boss died at the age of 40, days after their ninth wedding anniversary, Holker told People magazine, “It’s been really hard because I
Continue ReadingCNN By Donald Judd, CNN The Muslim mayor who was turned away from an Eid reception at the White House on Monday said he believes it was due to racial profiling. When asked by CNN whether racial profiling was a factor, Mohamed Khairullah, the mayor from Prospect Park, New Jersey, said “there’s no doubt in
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