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CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — A giant planet as fluffy as cotton candy has been spotted about 1,200 light-years from Earth. Astronomers say it’s the second-lightest planet ever found and will be key to research investigating atypical planetary formation. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with
Continue ReadingBy Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — The Minnesota Timberwolves avoided elimination from the NBA playoffs in spectacular fashion on Thursday, blowing out defending champions the Denver Nuggets 115-70 to force a Game 7 back in Colorado. After taking a 2-0 lead in this Western Conference semifinal, Minnesota had lost three straight to Denver going into
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — Royal Mail dates back to the Tudors. It has been operating a postal service in England since the reign of Henry VIII. Now this most British of institutions is on the brink of being sold to a Czech billionaire, Daniel Křetínský, raising fears about the fate of thousands
Continue ReadingBy JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press ROUEN, France (AP) — French police shot and killed a man armed with a knife and a metal bar who is suspected of having started a fire that charred and blackened the insides of a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen early Friday, an attack the
Continue ReadingBy MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A protester shouting “liars” briefly interrupted a hearing at the United Nations’ top court on Friday as Israel was defending its military operation in Gaza. The session at the International Court of Justice was paused for less than a minute while security guards escorted a
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has radically reformed its process for evaluating alleged visions of the Virgin Mary, weeping statues and other seemingly supernatural phenomena. The Vatican’s doctrine office overhauled norms first issued in 1978, arguing that they were no longer useful or viable in the internet age. It
Continue ReadingBy DAVID J. PHILLIP, LISA BAUMANN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Power outages could last weeks in parts of Houston after thunderstorms with hurricane-force winds tore through the city and knocked out electricity to nearly 1 million homes and businesses. Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said Friday there have been casualties but
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Julia Hernández (CNN) — Tres jugadores de la principal liga de fútbol australiana han sido detenidos e imputados por una presunta estafa en apuestas, acusados de hacerse sacar deliberadamente tarjetas amarillas y regalar penaltis a instancias de un delincuente sudamericano. Según la Policía de New South Wales, el año pasado un jugador de la A-League
Continue Reading By Lauren Lee, CNN (CNN) — Despite her extraordinary success in Afrobeats music, Tiwa Savage has long harbored a secret aspiration: to pursue a career in acting. “Acting, I would say, was my first love before music,” she told CNN’s Larry Madowo during a recent interview in Lagos. At 44, the multifaceted, award-winning Nigerian artist
Continue Reading CNN By Lauren Lee, CNN (CNN) — Despite her extraordinary success in Afrobeats music, Tiwa Savage has long harbored a secret aspiration: to pursue a career in acting. “Acting, I would say, was my first love before music,” she told CNN’s Larry Madowo during a recent interview in Lagos. At 44, the multifaceted, award-winning Nigerian
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Cristiano Ronaldo may be in the twilight of his career, but the soccer star still tops Forbes’ list of the world’s highest-paid athletes thanks to his huge wages in Saudi Arabia. According to Forbes’ list, which was released on Thursday, Ronaldo earned $260 million over the last 12 months,
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — FIFA will seek independent legal advice before holding an extraordinary council meeting by July 20 to make a decision on a Palestinian proposal to suspend Israel from international soccer because of the conflict with Hamas. FIFA president Gianni Infantino has outlined the plan at the FIFA congress after representatives of the Palestinian
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La policía abatió este viernes a un hombre armado que intentaba prender fuego una sinagoga en Ruán, en el norte de Francia, según un portavoz del Ministerio del Interior. El ministro del Interior francés, Gerald Darmanin, tuiteó su apoyo a los policías que intervinieron. “Esta mañana temprano, agentes de policía
Continue ReadingBy Jacob Lev and Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — Caitlin Clark struggled to make much of an impact in her home debut on Thursday, as the Indiana Fever fell to the New York Liberty 102-66. The superstar did show flashes of her potential, though, as she continues to get used to life in the WNBA,
Continue ReadingBy MOLLY QUELL Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Israel told the United Nations’ top court on Friday that a case brought by South Africa about its military operation in Gaza “makes a mockery of the heinous charge of genocide.” The International Court of Justice is holding a third round of hearings on emergency
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — A local council in Germany has approved a plan by electric carmaker Tesla to expand the grounds of its first plant in Europe, a proposal which has drawn persistent protests this year. Councilors in the Gruenheide municipality, just outside Berlin, voted 11-6 with two abstentions on Thursday evening in favor of the
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Seventy years after the Supreme Court acknowledged that “separate but equal” had no place in the United States, one of history’s most celebrated legal opinions is being used by conservative groups to challenge race-related policies in schools across the country. In a remarkable demonstration of the Supreme Court’s power
Continue ReadingBy Kathleen Magramo, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A British multinational design and engineering company behind world-famous buildings such as the Sydney Opera House has confirmed that it was the target of a deepfake scam that led to one of its Hong Kong employees paying out $25 million to fraudsters. A spokesperson for London-based Arup
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s parliament has passed a revision to the country’s civil code that will allow divorced parents the option of joint child custody, a change that brings the nation in line with many other countries. The revision, the first to custody rights in nearly 80 years, is to
Continue ReadingANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s president has pardoned seven former top military officers who were sentenced to life terms in prison over the ouster of an Islamic-led government in 1997. The generals were pardoned on Friday due to ill-health or old age. They were sentenced in 2018 for their role in a campaign that forced
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