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By Brian Fung, CNN Washington (CNN) — Microsoft will pay $20 million to settle US government allegations that the tech giant violated children’s privacy by illegally collecting their personal information through its Xbox Live gaming service. According to the Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft broke the law by failing to tell parents about the full breadth
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By The Associated Press The former president of the latest version of the United States Football League is launching a spring football league for high school players. Brian Woods, who stepped down as the USFL’s president at the end of last year, said his Prep Super League will begin next year with a six-week season.
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The former president of the latest version of the United States Football League is launching a spring football league for high school players. Brian Woods, who stepped down as the USFL’s president at the end of last year, said his Prep Super League will begin next year with a six-week season.
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By Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — For the first time in its four-decade history, America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer civil rights organization has declared a national state of emergency for members of the LGBTQ+ community, the Human Rights Campaign said Tuesday. “LGBTQ+ Americans are living in a state of emergency. The multiplying
Continue ReadingBy Shawna Mizelle and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Washington (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, a State Department spokesperson told CNN, the latest step toward rapprochement between the US government and the de facto leader of a key US ally. The two men “affirmed
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Although it’s named the Fiscal Responsibility Act, the compromise debt ceiling package that President Joe Biden signed into law this past weekend doesn’t do much to fix the nation’s enormous financial challenges. The deal, which prevented the US from defaulting on its obligations and unleashing economic upheaval, holds non-defense
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An area of low pressure lingers to our North, keeping it breezy and cooler than normal for the rest of the week. The gusty winds of yesterday have slowed, but there are still pockets of gusty conditions that will last into this evening. A Wind Advisory was in place until 6 this morning for a
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business New York (CNN) — Downtown San Francisco has been dealt another blow after an investor in one of its largest hotels said it would stop paying its loans. Park Hotels and Resorts, the investment firm that owns Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 hotels, said Monday that is
Continue Reading By Florencia Trucco, Jimena de la Quintana and Claudia Rebaza, CNN (CNN) — The superior court in Lima, Peru, ordered Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, to be handed over to FBI agents on Thursday, according to a statement published on social media on Tuesday.
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By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Senior U.S. and Chinese diplomats have held “candid and productive” talks in Beijing and agreed to keep open lines of communication to avoid tensions from spiraling into conflict. Daniel Kritenbrink, assistant U.S. secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, is the most senior U.S.
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Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — ¿Por qué Argentina se llama Argentina? La historia es larga y, de hecho, el país sudamericano no siempre se llamó así. En la Revolución de Mayo de 1810 comienza la historia de Argentina. Esto debes saber sobre sus causas y consecuencias De acuerdo con la página oficial de Argentina, el
Continue Reading COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s royal family is taking part in ceremonies Tuesday marking 500 years since the Scandinavian country emerged as an independent nation. On Tuesday, King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia attended a church ceremony west of Stockholm. In the capital, Crown Princess Victoria and her husband, Prince Daniel, opened the gates
Continue Reading By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The wall of a major dam in southern Ukraine collapsed Tuesday, triggering floods, endangering Europe’s largest nuclear power plant and threatening drinking water supplies as both sides in the war rushed to evacuate residents and blamed each other for the destruction. Ukraine accused Russian forces of
Continue ReadingBy EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Authorities in Haiti say that three people have been killed when a 4.9 magnitude earthquake struck the south of the country. Several other people have been injured. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake struck before dawn on Tuesday near the southern coastal
Continue Reading CNN, WESH, WFTV, WKMG By Elizabeth Wolfe and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — The Florida woman charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of her neighbor, a Black mother who confronted her during a dispute over children playing outside, will have a bond hearing Friday. Susan Louise Lorincz was arrested Tuesday, four days after investigators
Continue Reading By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Within hours of a U.S. Supreme Court decision dismantling a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, Texas lawmakers announced plans to implement a strict voter ID law that had been blocked by a federal court. Lawmakers in Alabama said they would press
Continue Reading By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Within hours of a U.S. Supreme Court decision dismantling a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, Texas lawmakers announced plans to implement a strict voter ID law that had been blocked by a federal court. Lawmakers in Alabama said they would press
Continue Reading By TRÂN NGUYỄN and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Officials were investigating Tuesday whether Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis was behind a flight that picked up asylum-seekers on the Texas border and flew them — apparently without their knowledge — to California’s capital, even as faith-based groups scrambled to find housing and
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN New York (CNN) — The past few months of robust grocery store sales would suggest that shoppers aren’t stretched for cash. But that’s not the full story. Food manufacturers like Kellogg (K), PepsiCo (PEP) and Nestlé all reported sales growth in the first quarter of the year. But even though sales
Continue Reading By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Within hours of a U.S. Supreme Court decision dismantling a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, Texas lawmakers announced plans to implement a strict voter ID law that had been blocked by a federal court. Lawmakers in Alabama said they would press
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