Jacopo Prisco, CNN Somewhere beneath the pitch of England’s national stadium in Wembley, London, lie the foundations of what could have been the city’s tallest building. Inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Great Tower of London was poised to surpass it in height and reach almost 1,200 feet. Instead, it never went past
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TUESDAY We’re off to a mild start this morning and look to be able to do something with it this afternoon. A breeze out of the southwest will pick up a bit more. That breeze, along with morning sunshine will get temperatures into the middle 50’s this afternoon. A few clouds will move in this
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By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press ZHANGJAIKOU, China (AP) — Quentin Fillon Maillet of France won decisively in the 20-kilometer individual biathlon, adding a gold medal to the silver he won in the mixed relay over the weekend. Fillon Maillet has dominated the biathlon world lately. He’s had 10 World Cup podium finishes this season. Half
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MADRID (AP) — A Spanish retiree campaigning to keep in-person customer services at bank branches is handing government officials a petition with more than 610,000 signatures. The 78-year-old Carlos San Juan from Valencia in southeast Spain says he felt “left out” by the shift to online banking. His petition on change.org struck a chord with
Continue Reading By JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A French journalist says his exclusive interview with Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai this week did not prove that she is OK. Marc Ventouillac, one of two journalists who spoke to her in a restrictive interview arranged by Chinese Olympic officials for the French sports daily L’Equipe,
Continue Reading By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The gambling industry’s national trade group estimates a record 31.5 million Americans plan to bet on this year’s Super Bowl. The American Gaming Association has released its annual predictions for wagering on pro football’s championship game, forecasting that over $7.6 billion will be bet. Bettors
Continue Reading By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Two American-born athletes competing for China. Two radically different reactions from Chinese social media to their performances at the Winter Olympics. As freestyle skier Eileen Gu won her gold medal in the big air competition, the Chinese internet was quite literally overwhelmed. Sina Weibo, the massive
Continue Reading By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Two American-born athletes competing for China. Two radically different reactions from Chinese social media to their performances at the Winter Olympics. As freestyle skier Eileen Gu won her gold medal in the big air competition, the Chinese internet was quite literally overwhelmed. Sina Weibo, the massive
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By Amanda Jackson and Tina Burnside, CNN Authorities in West Palm Beach, Florida, are investigating the death of a bicyclist who fell to her death from a drawbridge as it opened. The victim was seen walking her bicycle on the sidewalk portion of the Royal Park Bridge, which connects West Palm Beach to Palm Beach,
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer BEIJING (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin is hoping to put her poor start to the Beijing Olympics behind her as she prepares for her second race. Shiffrin’s next chance to compete for what would be an American-record third Alpine gold medal is Wednesday in the slalom. She won that event
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By Clare Foran, CNN The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to pass a short-term government funding bill to avert a shutdown at the end of next week. Funding is currently set to expire on February 18, but the measure the House approved would extend funding through March 11. The tally was 272-162 and the legislation
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By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN On a summer night in Honduras in 2014, Maribel made a choice: She had to leave her home, with her four young children in tow, or risk being killed. With an eye toward the United States, she began the dangerous journey north and arrived at the US-Mexico border where she claimed
Continue Reading By SALLY HO Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Mexican figure skater Donovan Carrillo advanced to the free skate portion of the figure skating competition at the Beijing Games, a first for the country. Mexico hadn’t even had an Olympic skater in three decades. Carrillo said he was so excited when he landed his first jump
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LONDON (AP) — BP PLC has reported its biggest full-year profit for eight years. Its coffers have been boosted by soaring oil and gas prices that have hiked domestic fuel bills for millions of people. The British energy giant said its underlying replacement cost profit was $12.8 billion for 2021, compared with losses of $5.7
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Oscar Holland, CNN A sprawling $600-million movie studio led by Hollywood star Robert De Niro has been given the go-ahead by New York planning authorities, according to the architects behind the complex. More than two years since plans were first unveiled, construction work on the 775,000-square-foot Wildflower Studios can now begin after the project won
Continue Readingolivertapia Mariupol, Ucrania (CNN) — Incluso en el siglo XXI, la guerra se ve afectada por el clima, y eso puede convertirse en un factor en cualquier ofensiva rusa en Ucrania. La pregunta en boca de los ucranianos, y tal vez de los generales rusos: “¿Ha llegado temprano Rasputitsa?”. Últimas noticias de la crisis en
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By Simone McCarthy and Hannah Ritchie, CNN Weeks-long isolation, repeat stints in quarantine and sub-par meals — these are conditions that some Olympic athletes snared in Beijing’s stringent system for controlling Covid-19 say they are contending with, and some are pushing back. Finnish ice hockey head coach Jukka Jalonen on Sunday accused China of “not
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By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer BEIJING (AP) — Ryan Cochran-Siegle’s silver in the super-G at the Beijing Games has given the United States its first men’s Alpine skiing Olympic medal since 2014. Cochran-Siegel’s second-place finish behind Austrian skier Matthias Mayer comes nearly 50 years to the day after his mother won a slalom gold
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Global stock markets are mostly higher as investors watch for signs of whether central banks will try to cool inflation by speeding up the withdrawal of economic stimulus that is boosting share prices. London and Frankfurt opened higher. Shanghai and Tokyo advanced. Hong Kong declined. Wall
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By Michelle Toh, CNN Business SoftBank’s record-breaking sale of a prized chip designer to Nvidia has officially been called off. At an initial value of $40 billion, the US chipmaker’s acquisition of British design firm ARM would have been the largest semiconductor deal on record. But regulators around the world have long raised concerns about
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