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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The polarizing moniker is still applied to the Dallas Cowboys these days, regardless of whether it rings as true as it did during their 1990s heyday, when Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin and Emmitt Smith led them to three Super Bowl titles in a four-year
Continue ReadingBy BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Debt-stricken Sri Lanka has signed a trade pact with Thailand in a bid to boost trade and investment as the Indian ocean island nation is struggling to recover from its worst economic crisis that hit two year ago. The Sri Lanka Thailand Free Trade Agreement
Continue ReadingBy GRAHAM LEE BREWER Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — For decades, the University of Pennsylvania has held hundreds of skulls that once were used to promote white supremacy through racist scientific research. As part of a growing effort among museums to reevaluate the curation of human remains, the Ivy League school laid some of the
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Britain’s Tyson Fury has postponed his undisputed heavyweight title fight against Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk after sustaining “a freak cut” above his eye during a sparring session, the fight promoters said in a statement. Since the cut “required urgent medical attention and significant stitching,” the 35-year-old will be unable to
Continue ReadingBy Patrick Sung, CNN (CNN) — Seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton said that he’s fulfilling a “childhood dream” by joining Ferrari in 2025 in his first social media post since his sensational move away from Mercedes was announced on Thursday. “It’s been a crazy few days which have been filled with a whole
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Saturday will serve as a break from this week’s unsettled weather pattern. Breezy winds will remain but mild conditions are expected for this weekend overall. An incoming low-pressure system will push more moisture into SoCal on Sunday. Light rain could fall as early as Sunday morning but the best chance for widespread, moderate to heavy
Continue ReadingBY BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese President Macky Sall has postponed Feb. 25 presidential elections in a decree announced on Saturday, citing controversies over the disqualification of some candidates and allegations of corruption in election-related cases. Sall said he signed a decree repealing the law that convened the electoral body just
Continue ReadingBy EMILY SCHULTHEIS and PIETRO DE CRISTOFARO Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — At least 150,000 people gathered in front of the German national parliament in Berlin Saturday afternoon to protest against the far right, the latest in a string of large weekend demonstrations across Germany. The pro-democracy demonstrations started three weeks ago after the investigative
Continue ReadingBy CARLOS MUREITHI Associated Press ABERDARE RANGE, Kenya (AP) — In a dense layer of green thousands of feet above sea level, cedar, podo and hegeina trees pattern the landscape, thick moss hanging from their branches and feathery lichen attached to their barks. Numerous streams and rivers flow between them, plunging over steep waterfalls. Buffaloes,
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN (CNN) — In the spring of 2015, homemaking expert Martha Stewart was giving Justin Bieber some dating advice. While participating in a “roast” of the millennial popstar for a Comedy Central special, Stewart recommended that he find a partner who is “a player in the boardroom and a freak in the
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — To his supporters, Alejandro Mayorkas is a thoughtful, driven secretary — a “Boy Scout” — who brings a prosecutor’s tenacity and his personal understanding of the immigrant experience in America to running his sprawling agency. To his detractors, he personifies everything that has gone wrong at the
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — To his supporters, Alejandro Mayorkas is a thoughtful, driven secretary — a “Boy Scout” — who brings a prosecutor’s tenacity and his personal understanding of the immigrant experience in America to running his sprawling agency. To his detractors, he personifies everything that has gone wrong at the
Continue ReadingBy GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, son of Italy’s last king, Umberto II, has died. He was 86. The Savoy Royal House said in a statement that he died on Saturday in Geneva. Vittorio Emanuele was obliged to leave Italy for exile when he was only 9, after
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By Denise Royal, Carlos Suarez and Ray Sanchez, CNN Viera, Florida (CNN) — In Florida, where the right-wing Moms for Liberty group was born in response to Covid-19 school closures and mask mandates, the first Brevard County School Board meeting of the new year considered whether two bestselling novels – “The Kite Runner” and “Slaughterhouse-Five”
Continue Reading CNN By Denise Royal, Carlos Suarez and Ray Sanchez, CNN Viera, Florida (CNN) — In Florida, where the right-wing Moms for Liberty group was born in response to Covid-19 school closures and mask mandates, the first Brevard County School Board meeting of the new year considered whether two bestselling novels – “The Kite Runner” and
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An Irish nationalist made history Saturday by becoming Northern Ireland’s first minister as the government returned to work after a two-year boycott by unionists. Sinn Fein Vice President Michelle O’Neill was named first minister in the government that under the terms of the 1998 Good Friday peace
Continue ReadingBy Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Basketball legend Michael Jordan won six NBA championships during his prolific sporting career – and a set of the six sneakers he wore when clinching those titles has sold for a record-breaking $8 million at auction. Friday’s winning bid for “The Dynasty Collection” reached $8,032,800, setting a new global
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press EU leaders on Thursday sealed a deal to provide Ukraine with 50 billion euros ($54 million) to shore up its economy ravaged by a nearly two-year-old war with Russia, The aid package, which was approved after Hungary dropped weeks of threats to veto it is not intended to fund arms and
Continue ReadingBy TOM ODULA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president says corruption and officials’ incompetence allowed a liquid petroleum plant to operate in one of Nairobi’s most crowded residential neighborhoods, where its explosion and fire killed three people and injured more than 280 others. President William Ruto says the officials who gave licenses to
Continue Reading By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN (CNN) — When Jocelyn Zelaya was caught in a hail of gunfire on the streets of San Salvador in 2017, the young mother was simply “in the wrong place, at the wrong time,” says her aunt Jackelyne. A group of gunmen armed with automatic weapons had opened fire to assassinate a member
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