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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Cricket, breakdancing and flag football are still waiting to find out if they will be added to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The process to add sports that organizers in Los Angeles want at the 2028 Games was unexpectedly delayed Wednesday by the International Olympic Committee. The IOC cited “ongoing discussions”
Continue ReadingBy JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer YouTube TV’s first season as the carrier of “NFL Sunday Ticket” begins this weekend. YouTube agreed to a seven-year contract with the league in December worth more than $2 billion per season to carry the NFL’s out-of-market Sunday afternoon games package on CBS and Fox. YouTube has had an
Continue ReadingBy WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Meta lost a legal battle Wednesday to halt a Norwegian ban on its advertising practices that came with hefty daily fines, in a blow to the U.S. social media giant’s business model. Norwegian regulator Datatilsynet in July announced a “temporary ban” on Facebook and Instagram’s
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Four months after a jury found that Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that still more of the ex-president’s comments about her were libelous. The decision means that an upcoming second civil trial will concern only
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WFTS, RODDA FAMILY, CNN By Dre Bradley , Anthony Hill Click here for updates on this story LAKE WALES, Florida (WFTS) — An investigation is underway in Polk County after authorities said a man killed his 16-year-old son Monday morning in Lake Wales. According to the sheriff’s office, Stephen Lee Rodda was murdered by his
Continue ReadingBy JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities say a Palestinian youth has stabbed two people, moderately wounding one of them, in an attack outside a main entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem. Israeli police say the 17-year-old suspect was caught after a short chase. Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital says it is treating
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s central bank has lowered its interest rates by 75 basis points despite the country’s double-digit inflation rate. The move prompted concerns by economists that the central bank was providing an economic stimulus to help the governing party ahead of parliamentary elections next month. The National
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — The European Union is targeting six Big Tech companies including Amazon, Apple and Microsoft under new digital rules aimed at reining in the market power of online companies. Google parent Alphabet, Facebook owner Meta and TikTok parent ByteDance also were classified as online “gatekeepers” subject to
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The fossil of a tiny bird-like dinosaur with surprisingly long lower legs has been discovered in China. The creature would have lived during the Late Jurassic Period 148 million to 150 million years ago in what’s now Fujian province in southeast China. Named Fuijianvenator prodigiosus, which means “bizarre hunter
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, Pau Mosquera and Claudia Rebaza, CNN (CNN) — Spanish star player Jennifer Hermoso has filed an official complaint with prosecutors against the president of the country’s soccer federation, Luis Rubiales, over an unwanted kiss after the Women’s World Cup final. The complaint was filed on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Spanish prosecutor’s
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian missile struck an outdoor market in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people and wounding dozens, officials said. The deadly attack came as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv and was expected to announce more than $1 billion in
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Being stoned behind the wheel can be more dangerous than driving drunk in Canada, where recreational cannabis was legalized in 2018, according to a new study. Documented marijuana-related traffic accidents that required treatment in an emergency room rose 475% between 2010 and 2021, the study found. Car crashes due
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — You might think that being the star quarterback of a football team and helping lead your school to a famous upset victory would help a request in asking for a homework deadline extension. Well, for Duke quarterback Riley Leonard, he found out that is not the case. On Monday
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — La futbolista española Jennifer Hermoso presentó oficialmente una denuncia contra el presidente de la Federación Española de Fútbol (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, informó a CNN un portavoz de la Fiscalía. “Ayer, la señora Jennifer Hermoso presentó una denuncia por los hechos que todos ustedes conocen. La Fiscalía de la Audiencia Nacional
Continue ReadingBy HALLE PARKER, WWNO, New Orleans Public Radio NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Environmental advocates and residents of the Louisiana chemical corridor known as Cancer Alley have spent decades calling for change in the way industrial activity is regulated there. They were heartened last year by the early findings of an Environmental Protection Agency investigation into
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Music fans, it is time to bid adieu to the sunny, slow summer months. Let’s welcome autumn, one of the busiest times in the calendar year for new albums, EPs, and mixtapes. In the Associated Press’ 2023 Fall music preview, trends have begun to reveal
Continue ReadingSAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — Authorities said Wednesday that they are searching for a male suspected of shooting at and setting fire to four unoccupied Michigan State Police cruisers at one of the agency’s posts in the Upper Peninsula. The suspect, a white male who was wearing camouflage in footage of the early Wednesday
Continue ReadingBy SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian missile struck an outdoor market in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people and wounding dozens, officials said. The deadly attack came as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv and was expected to announce more than $1 billion in
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants have been accused of breaking a variety of criminal laws in the Georgia 2020 election subversion case, but one crime ties all their alleged misconduct together: the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The state law – which is commonly
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Donald’s Trump’s Truth Social got a lifeline this week after a blank-check company that could infuse the social media platform with cash agreed to extend a critical deadline for a year. Digital World Acquisition Corp., a special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, had a Friday deadline to complete its acquisition
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