By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — American sprinters Noah Lyles, Gabby Thomas and Sha’Carri Richardson set blistering times in their respective 200-meter semifinals at the US Olympic track and field trials on Friday, further strengthening their status as the USA’s biggest medal hopes at the upcoming Paris Games. In the men’s 110m hurdles, Grant Holloway
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By Kylie Atwood, Nic Robertson, Luke McGee and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s dismal showing at the CNN presidential debate against former President Donald Trump resonated around the world, with foreign diplomats expressing shock and concern while raising questions about the implications for a consequential US election that could upend the foreign policy status-quo should Trump
Continue ReadingSHARPSBURG, Ga. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials in Georgia say a man killed three people at a home near Atlanta before fatally shooting himself. Coweta County Sheriff’s deputies found two bodies in the driveway when they arrived at the home early Saturday morning. Another body was spotted in the doorway. Officials say deputies saw a man
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Polls have closed in the presidential election in Mauritania. Incumbent Mohamed Ould Ghazouani is widely expected to win the vote after positioning Mauritania as a strategic ally of the West in a region swept by coups and violence. Ghazouni is seeking reelection on the pledge of providing security and
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nota del editor: Frida Ghitis, exproductora y corresponsal de CNN, es columnista de asuntos mundiales. Es colaboradora semanal de opinión de CNN, columnista colaboradora de The Washington Post y columnista sénior de World Politics Review. Las opiniones expresadas en este comentario le pertenecen exclusivamente a su autora. (CNN) — Al ver el debate,
Continue ReadingAssociated Press RED BANK, N.J. (AP) — President Joe Biden looked to recapture his mojo and reassured donors at a Saturday fundraiser that he is fully up to the challenge of beating Donald Trump. “I didn’t have a great night, but I’m going to be fighting harder,” Biden told attendees at the home of New
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — History is full of vanished arts and techniques that researchers are still trying to crack, such as decoding heirloom recipes lost to time. Some of those formulations belong to vivid colors that our ancestors developed millennia ago. It’s easy to think of the past as a sepia-toned expanse. Over time, paint
Continue ReadingAssociated Press A former lab manager at Northeastern University has been convicted of staging a hoax explosion at the Boston campus and then lying about what happened to a federal agent. Jason Duhaime, 46, from San Antonio, Texas, was convicted on three counts Friday by a federal jury. He faces up to five years in
Continue ReadingAn 8-year-old child in Charlotte died after police say she was left in a hot car while her mother was at work. Police say the mother found her daughter in critical condition on the backseat floor Wednesday about an hour and a half after the last text she received from her child. An arrest affidavit
Continue ReadingAP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — In the first presidential debate, Republican Donald Trump skimmed over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol, shifted blame for the violent mob siege and declined repeatedly to state unequivocally that he will accept the results of this year’s White House election. And President Joe Biden, who has
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN) — La montaña más alta de Corea del Sur enfrenta daños ambientales causados por una fuente inesperada: los fideos instantáneos. La Oficina del Parque Nacional del Monte Halla ha iniciado una campaña para alentar a los excursionistas a no arrojar caldo de ramyun en la montaña o en sus arroyos para preservar
Continue ReadingOpinion by Roy Schwartz (CNN) — From the US and Germany to Poland and Ukraine, creators have been volunteering their time and talent to support United24, Ukraine’s official fundraising platform, by recreating Ukrainian monuments as one of a kind Lego sets. These sets aren’t available for purchase; they can only be won through a raffle, by donating $24
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In an increasingly divisive political sphere, Becka Robbins focuses on what she knows best — books. Operating out of a tiny room in Fabulosa Books in San Francisco’s Castro District, one of the oldest gay neighborhoods in the United States, Robbins uses donations from customers to ship boxes of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In an increasingly divisive political sphere, Becka Robbins focuses on what she knows best — books. Operating out of a tiny room in Fabulosa Books in San Francisco’s Castro District, one of the oldest gay neighborhoods in the United States, Robbins uses donations from customers to ship boxes of
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CNN By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN (CNN) — A group of major record labels is suing two AI startups, alleging they wrongfully used popular artists’ work to train their systems to produce copyrighted music without their consent. The Recording Industry Association of America – the trade group on behalf of labels including Sony Music Entertainment,
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN (CNN) — A group of major record labels is suing two AI startups, alleging they wrongfully used popular artists’ work to train their systems to produce copyrighted music without their consent. The Recording Industry Association of America – the trade group on behalf of labels including Sony Music Entertainment, UMG
Continue ReadingAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Long Island man has been arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated after authorities say he crashed his SUV into a nail salon, killing four people and injuring nine others, police said Saturday. Suffolk County Police said Steven Schwally, of Dix Hills, had been speeding through the
Continue ReadingOpinion by Steve Vladeck, CNN (CNN) — It was no great surprise to close watchers of the Supreme Court that the justices on Friday narrowed one of the principal criminal statutes that federal authorities have used to prosecute those who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. After all, the justices largely signaled which way they
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By CNNE staff, Catherine Nicholls and Duarte Mendonca (CNN) — A Panamanian court has acquitted 28 people charged with money laundering in cases linked to the Panama Papers and Operation Car Wash scandals. Judge Baloísa Marquínez ordered the lifting all the precautionary measures made against the defendants, who have not been named. She said one
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The sound you might have heard after the presidential debate this past week was of voters falling between a rock and a hard place. Apart from the sizable and pumped-up universe of Donald Trump’s supporters, the debate suddenly crystalized the worries of many Americans, a portion of President Joe Biden’s
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