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By Jacob Lev, CNN (CNN) — A plane carrying the Auburn men’s basketball team had to be diverted following an altercation on the flight, according to CNN affiliate WBRC. The Tigers were heading to Texas where the No. 11 ranked program is scheduled to face No. 4 Houston on Saturday at the Toyota Center. According
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree arrived in New York City on Saturday, signaling the start of the holiday season in the Big Apple. The 74-foot Norway spruce was driven into Manhattan’s Center Plaza, where it was hoisted in place by a crane. It will take 5 miles (about 8 kilometers) of
Continue ReadingAP Health Writer The majority of strokes could be prevented, according to new guidelines aimed at helping people and their doctors do just that. Stroke was the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and more than half a million Americans have a
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BERLIN (AP) — Tens of thousands have celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago in Germany’s capital. There were open-air concerts, art installations and official events on Saturday commemorating one of the country’s most historic days on Nov. 9, 1989. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that it was “a lucky
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Tourists in Rome won’t be allowed to toss coins over their shoulders into the Trevi Fountain, following tradition, though an elevated walkway now gives limited access to the monument during maintenance work. Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri inaugurated the steel walkway on Saturday, saying it will provide tourists with a close-up view of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Stefanos Kasselakis, a businessman who burst into Greek politics over a year ago, says he’s leaving left-wing Syriza, the country’s main opposition party he had led, and forming his own. Kasselakis announced he was leaving Syriza Friday after a two-day party congress refused to consider his leadership candidacy in
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By Victoria Butenko and Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine launched a drone attack on a Russian chemical plant in the western city of Tula overnight on Friday into Saturday, according to the country’s security service. Russian authorities have not acknowledged the attack. According to the SBU, Aleksinsky chemical plant was hit by at least
Continue Reading By Ashley R. Williams, Jack Forrest, Jillian Sykes and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Authorities across the United States are investigating after racist text messages – some with references to “slave catchers” and “picking cotton” reminiscent of the country’s painful and bigoted past – have been received by children, college students and working professionals from
Continue Reading By Graham Hurley, CNN (CNN) — A day before Morgan Perigo’s 83rd birthday last month, an unexpected package showed up on his doorstep. In it was the 1965 McMaster University graduation ring he lost in 1977. The package was from Alex Davis, a professional free diver and spear fisherman who runs a tourism business in
Continue ReadingBy Jessica DuLong, CNN (CNN) — Cynicism is on the rise. Should that come as any surprise given today’s divisive global conflicts and our fraught political landscape? Even the weather seems like it’s out to get us. Americans are experiencing a “trust recession,” social scientist Jamil Zaki said in his new book, “Hope for Cynics:
Continue ReadingAssociated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof has canceled his planned trip to United Nations climate talks in Azerbaijan so he can stay in the Netherlands to deal with the fallout from assaults on fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team in Amsterdam that authorities condemned as antisemitic. Schoof said
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — Queen Camilla will miss Britain’s annual remembrance weekend events to honor fallen service personnel while she recovers from a chest infection, Buckingham Palace said Saturday. The wife of King Charles III, was due to join the royal family at a “Festival of Remembrance” at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Saturday night. The
Continue ReadingAssociated Press MIAMI (AP) — From Pennsylvania to Florida to Texas, areas with high numbers of Hispanics often had little in common on Election Day other than backing Republican Donald Trump over Democrat Kamala Harris for president. Trump, the president-elect, made inroads in heavily Puerto Rican areas of eastern Pennsylvania where the vice president spent
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Democratic governors and attorneys general are beginning to build a Resistance 2.0, talking tough and promising new laws and legal battles as they seek to insulate their states from the conservative policies they expect President-elect Donald Trump to implement. And already, Trump is firing back — an early preview
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Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Los rumores sobre la continuidad del piloto argentino Franco Colapinto en la Fórmula 1 en 2025 sonaron más fuerte que nunca el fin de semana pasado, durante el Gran Premio de Sao Paulo, en Brasil. La visita de Christian Horner, jefe de equipo de la escudería Red Bull, al llamado
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — While inflation and immigration emerged as the dominant themes in this year’s presidential race, another issue was prominent in the minds of voters for both major candidates: the stakes for democracy. Half of voters identified democracy as the single most important motivating factor for their vote. That was higher than
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ROME (AP) — One of the eight migrants brought for processing in an Albanian center after being intercepted in international waters has returned to Italy after being deemed “vulnerable.” That’s according to delegation of Italian activists and lawmakers visiting the center Saturday. An acrtivist said that the Egyptian man was diagnosed with “psychic
Continue Reading By Sophia Saifi and Asim Khan, CNN (CNN) — A suicide bombing at a train station in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday killed at least 25 people, as a separatist militant group in the region said it carried out the attack. Another 53 people were injured in the attack in the city of Quetta, Commissioner Hamza
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — With virtually no food allowed into the northernmost part of Gaza for the past month, tens of thousands of Palestinians under Israeli siege are rationing their last lentils and flour to survive. As bombardment pounds around them, some say they risk their lives by venturing out in search of cans
Continue ReadingAssociated Press AGUA CLARA, Brazil (AP) — Two years of record-breaking drought have dealt a heavy blow to what is arguably the Amazon’s most successful sustainable economy: the managed fishery for the giant pirarucu, also known as arapaima. In Brazil´s Amazonas state, almost 6,000 riverine dwellers who are authorized to fish have reported a sharp
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