By GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — World Cup host Qatar has been eliminated after just six days and two matches into the tournament. Qatar can’t finish in the top two of its group after losing to Ecuador in the opener and to Senegal on Friday. It was the earliest exit by
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he will host meetings with U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Mexico City early next year. López Obrador said Friday that the Jan. 9-10 North American summit would also include bilateral meetings with both countries. The Mexican president said
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Stocks are closing mixed on Wall Street Friday, but major indexes all notched weekly gains. The S&P 500 edged lower Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose and the Nasdaq fell. Technology stocks were the biggest drags on the broader market. Markets were closed on Thursday for the
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Las festividades y el estrés parecen ir de la mano. Para hacerle frente, muchas personas suelen quedarse despiertas hasta tarde para poder cocinar, hacer compras, envolver regalos, hacer fiestas y pasar tiempo con la familia. “Incluso una o dos noches de sueño escaso pueden tener efectos a corto plazo en la
Continue ReadingBy KATI WEIS Click here for updates on this story DENVER (KCNC) — Since October 1, more than 1,100 adults and children in the Denver metro area have been hospitalized with Respiratory Syncytial Virus, or RSV, according to the state health department. The Maples family, of Longmont, spent the last 24 days at a Denver
Continue ReadingBy SAKURA GRAY Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN (KOVR) — Wild Heart Ranch is giving folks in Lincoln a taste of the wild, wild west. With a whinny and a “giddy-up”, Wild Heart Ranch is gearing up for their holiday spectacular, dubbed “A Drafty Christmas.” Acrobats will be doing flips and tricks
Continue ReadingBy JONAH KAPLAN Click here for updates on this story LE SUEUR, Minnesota (WCCO) — There was a double blessing this Thanksgiving in Le Sueur: a family get-together and 106th birthday party for Grandma. Betty Majusiak spent her birthday enjoying some cake and company with children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. It’s true that age is just
Continue Reading By BEN FINLEY and MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — The Walmart supervisor who fatally shot six co-workers at a store in Virginia bought the gun just hours before the killings and left a note on his phone accusing colleagues of mocking him, authorities said Friday. “Sorry everyone but I did not plan
Continue Reading By BEN FINLEY, JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — Authorities have announced that 16-year-old Fernando Chavez-Barron was among the six killed at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, when a manager opened fire in the store with a handgun. Among the other victims is a 43-year-old custodian and father of
Continue Reading By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Natalia Kristenko’s dead body lay covered in a blanket in the doorway of her apartment building for hours overnight. City workers were at first too overwhelmed to retrieve her as they responded to a deadly barrage of attacks that shook Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson. The
Continue Reading By CARLA BRIDI Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Authorities say a person fatally shot two teachers and a student, and wounded 11 in two separate schools in southeastern Brazil. Espirito Santo public safety secretariat Márcio Celante said the shootings took place Friday at a public school with elementary and middle school students, and at
Continue ReadingCNN, WTKR By Aya Elamroussi and Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN The gunman in this week’s deadly Walmart shooting in Chesapeake, Virginia, purchased the handgun he used the morning of the attack and left a “death note,” outlining grievances against people in his life, city officials said Friday. The note — found on his phone —
Continue Reading By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, HALELUYA HADERO and ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Retail Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Cautious shoppers hunted for the best deals at stores and online as retailers offered new Black Friday discounts to entice consumers eager to start buying holiday gifts but weighed down by inflation. Due to elevated prices for food, rent, gasoline
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Watts, CNN A Canadian airport “will be closed to commercial traffic the rest of today” after a Flair Airlines plane “exited the runway” Friday morning during its landing, the airport and the airline said in statements. Flair Airlines flight F8 501 from Vancouver to Kitchener-Waterloo, had 134 passengers onboard, plus crew, when it
Continue ReadingBy Mia Alberti and Sophie Tanno, CNN More than 100 women have been murdered in Italy so far this year, with almost half of them killed by their intimate partner or ex-partner, the Italian police said. Released on Friday to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the report lists the
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Este viernes se cumplieron cinco días del paro de camioneros en Chile, una movilización que agrupa a distintas organizaciones de transportistas y que ha afectado parcialmente el tránsito en algunas rutas de distintos puntos del país austral. Durante su visita oficial a México, el presidente Gabriel Boric advirtió este jueves que “vamos
Continue ReadingCNN, WSOC, WBTV By Ray Sanchez, CNN Shanquella Robinson arrived in the picturesque Mexican town of San José del Cabo on October 28 with six of her friends. One day later, the 25-year-old student at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina died while staying in a luxury rental property in Baja California Sur. Now, nearly
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) — As dawn broke Friday in Qatar, the laborers who built this energy-rich country’s World Cup soccer stadiums, roads and subway filled empty stretches of asphalt and sandlots to play the sport closest to their hearts — cricket. The sport that spread across the reaches of the
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — En un mensaje a la Nación, el presidente de Perú, Pedro Castillo, aceptó este jueves la renuncia del presidente del Consejo de Ministros, Aníbal Torres. El funcionario había presentado su dimisión por la tarde, luego de que la mesa directiva del Congreso acordara por mayoría “rechazar de plano” la cuestión
Continue ReadingMarysabel E. Huston-Crespo (CNN Español) – Los seguidores de Jennifer Lopez ya intuían lo que podría estar por venir. Horas antes del aniversario número 20 de “This is Me… Then”, la cantante borró todo el contenido de su cuenta de Instagram. Una señal de que realizaría un anuncio importante y con altas probabilidades de que
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