By Chloe Melas, CNN Britney Spears deleted her Instagram late Tuesday afternoon. The move comes just two days after she announced her engagement to her longtime boyfriend Sam Asghari. CNN has reached out to representatives for Spears for comment. A source close to the singer says that “it was her decision” to delete the account
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Britney Spears deleted her Instagram late Tuesday afternoon. The move comes just two days after she announced her engagement to her longtime boyfriend Sam Asghari. CNN has reached out to representatives for Spears for comment. A source close to the singer says that “it was her decision” to delete the account
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A case seen as an early test of New York’s law criminalizing police chokeholds has ended without an indictment. A Queens grand jury on Tuesday declined charges for David Afanador, a former New York City police officer who was seen on cellphone video last year
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Revivir criaturas extintas es el alma de la ciencia ficción. En su versión más tentadora, pensemos en Jurassic Park y su cuadra de dinosaurios. Sin embargo, los avances en genética están haciendo que la resurrección de animales extintos sea una posibilidad tangible. Científicos ya clonaron animales en peligro de extinción, y pueden
Continue Reading By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The foreign ministers of South Korea and China are meeting for talks expected to focus on North Korea and other regional security issues. Wednesday’s meeting in Seoul came two days after North Korea claimed to have tested a newly developed cruise missile. South Korean Foreign
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By Lauren Fox and Melanie Zanona, CNN Republicans are digging in on their promise to vote against increasing the debt ceiling, lining up in defiance even as Democrats look for ways to pick off votes by attaching the measure to a must-pass spending bill. When lawmakers return to Washington next week, they’ll be met with
Continue Reading MIAMI (AP) — Prosecutors say a former University of Miami professor, his wife and his sister are facing federal charges related to purchasing genetic sequencing equipment from U.S. manufacturers and illegally shipping it to Iran. Court records show that Mohammad Faghihi, his wife Farzeneh Modarresi and his sister Faezeh Faghihi made their initial appearances Tuesday
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Hu and Etant Dupain, CNN Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has ordered the firing of the country’s top prosecutor, who was investigating the assassination of the late President Jovenel Moise, a spokesman for the Prime Minister said Tuesday. Port-au-Prince’s chief prosecutor, Bed-Ford Claude, had been seeking charges against Henry in connection with the
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By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The daughter of the late UCLA basketball coach John Wooden has died. The university says Nan Wooden died of natural causes in Los Angeles. She was a fixture at the Bruins’ basketball games long after her father retired in 1975, when UCLA won its 10th
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the US Open Tennis Tournament. It is held annually at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, New York. It is the only Grand Slam tennis championship held in North America. August 29-September 11, 2022 – The US Open Tennis Tournament takes place. Iga Swiatek
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Chief’s Vehicle Stop Committee met Tuesday evening to break down data on traffic stops, find explanations on why racial disparities are happening, and try to work past them. According to the data from the Missouri Attorney General’s Annual report on traffic stops, Black drivers in Missouri were pulled over
Continue Reading CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at North Korea’s nuclear capabilities and the history of its weapons program. 1985 North Korea signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). 1993 The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) demands that inspectors be given access to two nuclear waste storage sites. In response, North Korea threatens to quit the
Continue Reading JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska lawmaker is apologizing after saying Nazi experimentation on prisoners “produced results.” State Rep. Sara Hannan, a Juneau Democrat, made the comment Saturday when House minority Republicans were attempting a vote on whether an ethics code devised after Nazi experimentation on people in World War II remains valid. Hannan apologized
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the Taliban, a Sunni Islamist organization operating primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Facts Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada has been the Taliban’s supreme leader since 2016. Reclusive leader Mullah Mohammed Omar led the Taliban from the mid-1990s until his death in 2013. Taliban, in Pashto, is the plural of Talib,
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By Manu Raju and Devan Cole, CNN Republican Sen. Josh Hawley said Tuesday that he will place a hold on “every single civilian nominee” for the State and Defense Departments unless Secretary Antony Blinken and Secretary Lloyd Austin resign from their posts, citing their roles in overseeing the US’ chaotic exit from Afghanistan. The Missouri
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By Artemis Moshtaghian, Madeline Holcombe and Amir Vera, CNN A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday temporarily suspending New York state from enforcing its vaccine mandate if health care workers claim a religious exemption. The order bars the New York State Department of Health from requiring employers to deny or revoke religious exemptions
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Pittsburgh Pirates players and coaches will wear No. 21 to mark Roberto Clemente Day, celebrated by Major League Baseball on the start of Hispanic Heritage Month. Players from Puerto Rico, annual Clemente Award winners and this year’s Clemente Award nominees also have the option to wear the number of the Hall
Continue Reading By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — The list of Pac-12 teams that remain undefeated has dwindled to a precious three after just two games. Boosting the profile of the conference now falls on the shoulder pads of No. 4 Oregon, No. 13 UCLA and No. 19 Arizona State. The Pac-12 currently has
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By Wayne Chang and Jill Disis, CNN Business The Chinese version of hit video game “Fortnite” is shutting down this month. The game stopped accepting registrations for new players and was no longer available for download as of Monday, according to a statement on its website. Its servers will be shut down November 15, meaning
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By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Activision Blizzard employees have filed a complaint accusing the gaming company of unfair labor practices, alleging that it unlawfully cracked down on their organizing efforts that took place in the wake of widespread harassment and discrimination allegations. The California-based gaming company “threatened employees that they cannot talk about or communicate
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