By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) — The PGA Tour begins the new year in the idyllic setting of Kapalua that makes it feel like a working vacation. That probably isn’t the case for Patrick Cantlay and Jon Rahm. They’ve been on vacation for the last few months. Rahm was so burned
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By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A preliminary voting report in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy indicates the group’s reorganization plan has failed to win the desired support from tens of thousands of men who say they were sexually abused as children. The report filed late Tuesday night shows 73% of
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By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A preliminary voting report in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy indicates the group’s reorganization plan has failed to win the desired support from tens of thousands of men who say they were sexually abused as children. The report filed late Tuesday night shows 73% of
Continue Reading ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Bad weather has forced the rescheduling of the first men’s World Cup race of the calendar year. The event will now be held on Thursday. Rain and fog as well as strong winds on the Crveni Spust course prevented organizers from starting the night slalom at its scheduled time. The International
Continue Reading By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. and the Iraqi military say Katyusha rockets have struck Iraqi military bases hosting U.S. troops at Baghdad’s international airport and in the western Anbar province. In Syria, eight rounds of indirect fire hit a base where members of the U.S.-led coalition are deployed. No damage
Continue Reading AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Hampshire College has received an anonymous $5 million gift in honor of one of its most famous alumni, award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, that will help the school continue its academic transformation. The gift announced Tuesday is the second $5 million gift the college located in Amherst has received since it
Continue ReadingCNNEE Nota del editor: Roberto Izurieta es director de Proyectos Latinoamericanos en la Universidad George Washington. Ha trabajado en campañas políticas en varios países de América Latina y España, y fue asesor de los presidentes Alejandro Toledo, de Perú; Vicente Fox, de México, y Álvaro Colom, de Guatemala. El autor también es colaborador de CNN
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By Phyllis L. Fagell, CNN While a seventh grade boy taught an eighth grade boy how to start a knitting row, a seventh grade girl put the finishing touches on her knit bunny and a diverse group of middle schoolers streamed into a classroom in Washington, DC, for knitting club. As the pandemic drags on,
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza Hong Kong (CNN) — Darryl Chan dio positivo por covid-19 cuando aterrizó en Hong Kong el mes pasado. Más de dos semanas después, y a pesar de no mostrar ningún síntoma, permanece aislado en una cama de hospital sin señales de que le permitan irse. Video muestra a la policía en China
Continue Reading SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dozens of anti-vaccination protesters in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe attacked a hospital director and other medical staff following recent violent demonstrations against vaccines and COVID-19 restrictions. Officials said Wednesday that the attack occurred outside the University Hospital Center as police tried to escort the director and other
Continue Reading By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Taiwan says it’s creating an investment fund and planning other measures to help Lithuania as it faces major economic pressure from China for allowing the island to open a representative office in the European Union country. Taiwanese officials said Wednesday that the $200 million fund would
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN Kristen Bell is starring in a mystery spoof series that’s a take on all those woman-gone-mad-in-the-house films. “The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window,” which will air on Netflix, is a “satirical slant on the psychological thriller” and stars Bell as a woman who
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By Wayne Sterling, CNN NASCAR has rejected Xfinity Series driver Brandon Brown’s sponsorship deal with cryptocurrency meme coin LGBcoin — a reference to the controversial “Let’s Go Brandon” phrase, his team acknowledged to CNN on Wednesday. NASCAR’s refusal to allow the LGBcoin.io sponsorship to be on Brown’s number 68 car was first reported by FOX
Continue Reading By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Authorities in Portugal are wrestling with a conundrum: how to hold a general election scheduled for Jan. 30 amid a surge in COVID-19 cases that is confining hundreds of thousands of potential voters to their homes. Around 400,000 people are currently in isolation in the country
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Fans of Luke Spencer on “General Hospital” haven’t seen him in years and now they are unlikely to unless he turns up as a ghost. That’s because the soap opera killed off the iconic character this week. Played off and on over the years by Anthony Geary since the role
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin Filadelfia (CNN) — Trece personas murieron en Filadelfia este miércoles por la mañana, entre ellos 7 niños, en un incendio que se produjo en una casa de tres pisos convertida en apartamentos, según un funcionario de las fuerzas del orden. Los investigadores aún no han entrado en la vivienda, aunque el incendio
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Waterloo Democratic Rep. Ras Smith announced he will suspend his campaign for Iowa governor. Smith, who in June 2021 became the first person to announce his run for governor, on Wednesday cited a “drastic disconnect between the current political system and the people” in explaining his decision to drop his
Continue ReadingGermán Padinger (CNN) — Bien, Sean Hannity, ¿qué vas a hacer ahora que se desvelaron tus mensajes de texto sobre el asalto al Capitolio y la conducta de Trump? Hannity comenzó su programa del martes por la noche en Fox News con un mensaje a las “cobardes criaturas del pantano (político)” en Washington y a
Continue Reading By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has announced sanctions against Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, accusing him of “corrupt activities” that threaten to destabilize the region and undermine peace accords. The Treasury Department alleged Wednesday that Dodik has used his leadership position to accumulate wealth through graft and bribery. The
Continue Reading CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court has sentenced a man to death for beheading another man in a gruesome street murder that shocked the country two months ago. The man was also convicted of attempted killing of two other men and illegal possession of a knife he used in the crime on a busy street
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