By Wayne Sterling, CNN (CNN) — ESPN’s lead tennis analyst John McEnroe said he tested positive for the virus that causes Covid-19 and will miss some time covering the US Open tennis championships. “Unfortunately, after feeling a bit under the weather, I tested positive for Covid,” McEnroe said in a statement Tuesday. “I’m watching the
Continue ReadingBy JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A lifetime in baseball brings many family sacrifices, and for longtime Giants coach Ron Wotus that meant never seeing his mother on her birthday. Until Tuesday, when he coordinated his scouting trip to see San Francisco’s Double-A affiliate — the Richmond Flying Squirrels — around
Continue ReadingBy KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press CULVER CITY, Calif. (AP) — The cast of “Breaking Bad” has reunited to call upon Hollywood studios to resume negotiations with striking screen actors. “We want you to come back to the table with us,” Bryan Cranston said in a plea to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers
Continue ReadingBy KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press CULVER CITY, Calif. (AP) — The cast of “Breaking Bad” has reunited to call upon Hollywood studios to resume negotiations with striking screen actors. “We want you to come back to the table with us,” Bryan Cranston said in a plea to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers
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By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Crews in Hawaii have all but finished searching for victims of the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, authorities said Tuesday, and it is unclear how many people perished. Three weeks after the fire devastated Maui’s historic seaside community of Lahaina, the count of the
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed colorful new portraits of the iconic Ring Nebula. The new images capture the complex details of the planetary nebula, an enormous cloud of cosmic gas and dust that’s home to the remnants of a dying star. The two images were taken in
Continue ReadingBy Lauren A. Siegel Travel is back in full swing this summer, and so is bad behaviour by tourists. Popular destinations have seen an uptick in incidents involving tourists in recent years. Reports of a man defacing the Colosseum in Rome shows that behavior has deteriorated even in places that rarely had problems in the past. What’s behind
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You’ve probably seen some lingering dust and dirt in the air, after Tropical Storm Hilary brought rain and piles of mud. With it heating up into the triple digits, that mud has dried up and is now being picked up into the air we breathe. “So all the rain that we had out in the
Continue ReadingBy TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A plane carrying Israelis home from the Indian Ocean island nation of Seychelles has made an emergency stop in Saudi Arabia before flying back to Tel Aviv. The incident was praised by Israel as a sign of goodwill as Washington works to establish formal relations
Continue ReadingKAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities have charged a man with aggravated homosexuality, which carries a possible death sentence. He is the first suspect to face the charge since the enactment in May of an anti-gay law condemned by critics as draconian. The suspect is a 20-year-old man who was charged on Aug. 18. The
Continue Reading By Alex Stambaugh, Jennifer Hansler, Louise McLoughlin and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Rare new video has emerged showing detained American Paul Whelan, who has been held in Russia for more than four years, inside his prison camp. The video, released by Russian state-controlled news agency Russia Today (RT), shows Whelan wearing a Russian prison
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL KOZIN Associated Press CEDAR KEY, Fla. (AP) — Florida residents living in vulnerable coastal areas were ordered to pack up and leave Tuesday as Hurricane Idalia gained steam in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and threatened to unleash life-threatening storm surges and rainfall. Idalia also pummeled Cuba with heavy rains
Continue ReadingBy Steve Almasy and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Almost half of all deaths from tropical cyclones come from storm surge. While many people focus on the storms’ wind speed, the bigger danger often comes from water flowing in from the ocean. “A storm surge is a rise in water level caused by a strong
Continue ReadingCNN, WFOR, WAPT, WDSU, WGNO, KTVK, WKRG, WBMA, WWL, NOAA, KHOU, KTRK, WESH, DOD, VIEWER VIDEO, WAPT/WDSU By Steve Almasy and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Almost half of all deaths from tropical cyclones come from storm surge. While many people focus on the storms’ wind speed, the bigger danger often comes from water flowing
Continue Reading By Melissa Alonso and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — The death of Tennessee Titans cornerback Caleb Farley’s father resulted from a natural gas explosion that shook a North Carolina home, authorities said Tuesday. Investigators were unable to determine its source. The August 22 explosion and collapse of the home in Mooresville, some 30 miles north
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Sofía Benavides (CNN) — El sospechoso del tiroteo que tuvo lugar este lunes en la Universidad de Carolina del Norte en Chapel Hill es un estudiante de posgrado, dijo la policía este martes en un comunicado de prensa. Los disparos se cobraron la vida de un profesor de la institución. Tailei Qi, estudiante de posgrado,
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL KOZIN Associated Press CEDAR KEY, Fla. (AP) — Florida residents living in vulnerable coastal areas were ordered to pack up and leave Tuesday as Hurricane Idalia gained steam in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and threatened to unleash life-threatening storm surges and rainfall. Idalia also pummeled Cuba with heavy rains
Continue ReadingTAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Prosecutors in southern Mexico say at least six men have been killed in an ambush in a township near Guatemala border that is known as a migrant smuggling route. Prosecutors in the southern state of Chiapas said the killings occurred Tuesday along a rural road in the township of Siltepec, about
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