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By Shawna Mizelle Washington (CNN) — Actor Hill Harper announced on Monday his plans to run for US Senate in Michigan to fill retiring Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s seat. “We can all feel it: D.C just isn’t getting things done for people. We need representatives who’ll take on special interests, get money out of politics,
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Travis Scott is heading to Egypt and you can join him. The rapper tweeted about an upcoming livestream from the Egyptian pyramids to unveil his “Utopia” album. “UTOPIA LIVE AT THE PYRAMIDS CANT WAITTTT TO SEE YA,” the tweet read along with a link to his site where
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — Teenage tennis sensation Mirra Andreeva’s dream Wimbledon run ended in controversial fashion on Monday after the Russian was docked a point for throwing her racket. Serving at 2-5 down in the third and deciding set, Andreeva slipped as she attempted to retrieve a shot from opponent Madison Keys. The
Continue ReadingBy Chloe Melas, CNN (CNN) — Madonna is rescheduling the North American leg of her world tour following her recent hospitalization. The Grammy winner announced the news in an Instagram post on Monday. “Thank you for your positive energy, prayers and words of healing and encouragement. I have felt your love,” she wrote, ‘I’m on
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By KARL RITTER and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday introduced a new condition for approving Sweden’s membership in NATO, calling on European countries to “open the way” for Turkey to join the European Union. The surprise announcement by Erdogan before departing for a NATO summit
Continue Reading By ELDAR EMRIC Associated Press SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Jews and Muslims have come together in Bosnia on the eve of the 28th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust. On Monday, they discussed ways of using their shared pain to help rid the world of hate and bigotry. Menachem
Continue Reading By SEUNG MIN KIM, JILL LAWLESS and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WINDSOR, England (AP) — President Joe Biden and King Charles III, two leaders who waited decades to reach the pinnacle of their careers, used their first meeting in those roles Monday to zero in on the generational challenge of climate change, prodding private companies
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN New York (CNN) — One of Elon Musk’s least-favorite Twitter users is moving to Meta’s competing platform Threads. Jack Sweeney — the 20-year-old Florida college student who started the ElonJet Twitter account that used a bot to track the location of Musk’s private jet using publicly available data — started an
Continue ReadingBy Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — The New York Times will shut down its sports desk and shift its daily coverage of athletes and teams to The Athletic, the newspaper announced Monday. The decision to dismantle The Times’ long-standing Sports desk comes as the paper aims to provide a “greater abundance of sports coverage than
Continue Reading WARREN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities searching for an inmate described by police as “very dangerous” who used bed sheets to escape from a northwestern Pennsylvania jail say they believe he is still in the area. Thirty-four-year-old Michael Burham fled the Warren jail late Thursday by climbing on exercise equipment and using bed sheets to escape
Continue ReadingBy Celine Alkhaldi, Jomana Karadsheh and Adam Pourahmadi, CNN (CNN) — Dissident Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, arrested last October for supporting the protest movement in Iran last year, has been sentenced to six years and three months in prison, his official Twitter page said Monday. “Toomaj Salehi was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months
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By Celine Alkhaldi, Jomana Karadsheh and Adam Pourahmadi, CNN (CNN) — Dissident Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, arrested last October for supporting the protest movement in Iran last year, has been sentenced to six years and three months in prison, his official Twitter page said Monday. “Toomaj Salehi was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer The New York Times is disbanding its sports department and will rely on coverage from The Athletic, a website it acquired last year for $550 million. The decision impacts more than 35 people in the sports department, according to The New York Times. Journalists on the sports desk will
Continue Reading By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union has signed off on a new agreement over the privacy of people’s personal information that gets pinged across the Atlantic, aiming to ease concerns about electronic spying by American intelligence agencies. The EU’s executive commission on Monday deemed the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Modelo Especial, de fabricación mexicana, es la cerveza más vendida en Estados Unidos por segundo mes consecutivo, arrebatando una vez más la corona a Bud Light. En las cuatro semanas que finalizaron el 1 de julio, Modelo Especial acaparó el 8,7% de las ventas totales de cerveza, frente al 7%
Continue Reading By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president has vowed to continue campaigning against the opposition front-runner for the 2024 presidential elections, breaking a longstanding tradition of presidents staying out of the race to succeed them. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s target is Xóchitl Gálvez. The plain-spoken Gálvez hasn’t been nominated yet
Continue ReadingCNN By Brian Fung, CNN Washington (CNN) — Twitter has weathered months, if not years, of mismanagement as well as mass layoffs, frequent service disruptions and an exodus of top advertisers, but the launch of a rival app from Meta could prove to be the final straw. Threads surpassed 100 million users this weekend, less
Continue ReadingCNN By Brian Fung, CNN Washington (CNN) — Twitter has weathered months, if not years, of mismanagement as well as mass layoffs, frequent service disruptions and an exodus of top advertisers, but the launch of a rival app from Meta could prove to be the final straw. Threads surpassed 100 million users this weekend, less
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Washington (CNN) — Twitter has weathered months, if not years, of mismanagement as well as mass layoffs, frequent service disruptions and an exodus of top advertisers, but the launch of a rival app from Meta could prove to be the final straw. Threads surpassed 100 million users this weekend, less than
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Washington (CNN) — Twitter has weathered months, if not years, of mismanagement as well as mass layoffs, frequent service disruptions and an exodus of top advertisers, but the launch of a rival app from Meta could prove to be the final straw. Threads surpassed 100 million users this weekend, less than
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