By DÉBORA ÁLVARES and MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has asked the Senate to impeach a Supreme Court justice — a largely symbolic move that shows he has little desire to ease tensions between his administration and the judiciary. Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco will have to
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is temporarily halting a judge’s order that would have forced the government to reinstate a Trump administration policy forcing thousands to wait in Mexico while seeking asylum in the U.S. Justice Samuel Alito issued the temporary stay late Friday night. It will remain in effect until Tuesday night so
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By Matt Egan, CNN Business Soaring food prices. Limited cash. And a surge of refugees. The economic future of Afghanistan under Taliban rule looks bleak, according to the country’s former central banker. “Afghanistan unfortunately was already facing multiple crises,” Ajmal Ahmady, who led the Afghan central bank before escaping Kabul on Sunday, told CNN, pointing
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By Matt Egan, CNN Business Ajmal Ahmady is still disoriented by how rapidly Afghanistan’s US-backed government collapsed to the Taliban. “The situation fell apart very rapidly,” Ahmady, the Harvard-trained economist who led Afghanistan’s central bank, told CNN. “Even on Sunday morning, I was still at my desk working.” But as reports came in that Taliban
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By Lauren Dezenski, CNN This week, President Joe Biden defended his handling of the situation in Afghanistan as conditions deteriorated rapidly amid Taliban control. On Thursday, a bomb threat at the US Capitol reinforced fears of terrorism within America’s own borders. Monday US resumes operations at Kabul airport after US forces kill two armed men
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By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — The Giants planned to hit some golf balls as a team bonding exercise. They didn’t invite the Browns. Tempers flared during the second joint practice between the teams, with Browns cornerback Troy Hill and Giants wide receiver Sterling Shepard squaring off and throwing punches at each
Continue Reading BRAINERD, Minn. (AP) — Bob Tasca III topped Funny Car qualifying Friday in the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway. Tasca had a 3.941-second run at 326.63 mph in a Ford Mustang. Mike Salinas was the fastest in Top Fuel, running a 3.752 at 326.08.
Continue Reading By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The legal battle over whether Texas communities can require students and others to wear masks in response to the current surge in COVID-19 cases remains entangled in a series of lawsuits, orders and appeals. Ten counties and cities and 52 school districts or systems around the
Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been an incredible month for Breanna Stewart. She helped the U.S. win a seventh consecutive gold medal in the Olympics and the Seattle Storm take the inaugural WNBA Commissioner’s Cup championship. As great as those two accomplishments are, they both pale in comparison to
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Major League Baseball returns to the Field of Dreams site next season. The Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs will play a regular-season game in Dyersville, Iowa, on Aug. 11, 2022, at a temporary venue built next to the site where the iconic 1989 movie was filmed. That follows the inaugural game at the site last
Continue Reading Major League Baseball returns to the Field of Dreams site next season. The Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs will play a regular-season game in Dyersville, Iowa, on Aug. 11, 2022, at a temporary venue built next to the site where the iconic 1989 movie was filmed. That follows the inaugural game at the site last
Continue Reading SEVILLE, Spain (AP) — Álvaro Negredo’s retaken penalty and Jeremías Ledesma’s key save saw Cádiz secure a 1-1 draw at Real Betis in the Spanish league. The match was the first with fans at Seville’s Benito Villamarín Stadium since the start of pandemic restrictions in March 2020. Some 23,000 spectators were allowed to attend the
Continue Reading COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Chargers put safety Nasir Adderly and cornerback Ryan Smith on the COVID-19 list Friday. Adderly missed the first of two joint practices with the San Francisco 49ers on Thursday, which first-year coach Brandon Staley attributed to migraines. A second-round draft pick in 2019 from Delaware, Adderly started
Continue Reading HONOLULU (AP) — A surge in COVID-19 cases means sports teams at the University of Hawaii will open the fall season with no fans in the stands at home games. University officials said in a Friday statement that Honolulu officials notified them that no fans will be allowed at season-opening events due to the state’s
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business General Motors is recalling another 73,000 Bolt EV and EUV electric vehicles in the United States and Canada for a problem that could cause the vehicles to catch fire. GM had earlier announced that the recall would cost $800 million, but that was before the recall was expanded to cover
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By Jeff Zeleny, Kaitlan Collins and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday announced his intention to nominate Rahm Emanuel as ambassador to Japan and Nicholas Burns as ambassador to China. The two top diplomatic positions have been in the works for months but made official only in a late-afternoon announcement by the White
Continue Reading By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The abrupt end of Texas Democrats’ 38-day walkout has put Republicans on a fast track to pass an election overhaul. It is also causing rifts among some Democrats who said Friday they felt “betrayed” by colleagues who returned to the state Capitol. Texas is the
Continue Reading By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press The host of a program for the right-wing website Infowars, Owen Shroyer, has been charged in connection to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Shroyer, who hosts “The War Room With Owen Shroyer” for the website operated by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, faces misdemeanor charges such as
Continue Reading FORT MILL, S.C. (AP) — Anne Springs Close who used her family’s textile fortune to give back to the community through education and land preservation has died. She was 95. Close’s family says she died Friday from injuries suffered when a tree branch fell on her at her property in Fort Mill, South Carolina, a
Continue Reading By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and ANDY TSUBASA FIELD Associated Press OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly is calling for school districts to require masks as hospitals buckle under the strain of increasingly young COVID-19 patients. Kelly on Friday called the situation an “emergency” and urged people to get vaccinated. She said that more
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