By Ashley Strickland, CNN Near the summit of Costa Rica’s Poás volcano is one of Earth’s most acidic lakes, bright blue and full of toxic metals. The harsh conditions of Laguna Caliente, where temperatures can fluctuate between 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) and 194 degrees Fahrenheit (90 degrees Celsius), are where a few lucky
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By LORNE COOK and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is concerned about Russia’s continued military buildup around Ukraine. He says that Moscow has now deployed more troops and military equipment to neighboring Belarus that at any time in the last 30 years. Russia now has more than 100,000 troops
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By STEPHEN WHYNO and JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writers BEIJING (AP) — Denmark qualified for the Olympics in men’s and women’s hockey for the first time in the nation’s history. Winger Emma Wilson says it has been a marathon for the program to get to this point. Longtime NHL center Frans Nielsen figures it’s the
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Nintendo has reported its profit for the nine months through December slipped 2.5% as shortages of computer chips hurt production. The Japanese video game maker behind the Super Mario and Pokemon franchises said its sales also fell, by 6%. Game makers have reaped windfall profits from
Continue Reading By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer BEIJING (AP) — It’s time to raise the curtain on the Beijing Winter Olympics. Opening ceremony for the 2022 Games is Friday night at the iconic Bird’s Nest stadium. Due to COVID restrictions, these will be some of the hardest-to-navigate Games in history. They are being held in a
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By Simone McCarthy, CNN When China’s leader Xi Jinping opens the Beijing Olympics on Friday he will be flanked by leaders who are unlikely to quell the chorus of concerns these Games are bolstering an authoritarian regime. Of the just over 20 presidents, prime ministers, heads of state and royalty set to attend the Opening
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Are dates, details and daily tasks feeling a bit fuzzy these past couple of years? It’s not just you, experts say. It’s not laziness or losing your sharpness — being in a global pandemic for the last two years is actually making it harder for our brains to make and recall
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN A massive storm pummeling a large swath of the US has already dumped heavy snow and continues to threaten parts of the Midwest and South on Thursday with a triple whammy of snow, ice and sleet that could make travel miserable and leave many in the dark. The system’s reach is
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By Steve Almasy, Aya Elamroussi and Holly Yan, CNN A deadly storm system plowed across the United States on Thursday bringing tornado threats and dumping wintry precipitation and rain on Americans from the Gulf to Canada. More than 91 million people were under a winter weather warning or advisory as ice, snow and sleet were
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By Jessica Flynn and Topher Gauk-Roger, CNN A suspect has been apprehended after a shooting aboard a Greyhound bus in Northern California on Wednesday night left one person dead and several others wounded, authorities said. Five people were shot aboard the bus, including the person who died, Oroville mayor Chuck Reynolds told CNN. The Oroville
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer BEIJING (AP) — The Russian women’s hockey team held its first pre-Olympic practice after three days in isolation because of positive coronavirus tests and appears on track to play its tournament opener. The Russians practiced without five members of their 25-player roster. That left them with 18 skaters and
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By Faith Karimi, CNN On February 4, 2019, the Miami Dolphins introduced Brian Flores as the team’s 13th head coach at a press conference full of smiles and heady talk about the team’s future. It was the day after Flores had won his third Super Bowl as a longtime assistant coach with the New England
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By Ehsan Popalzai and Hande Atay Alam, CNN Afghanistan’s public universities opened on Wednesday with female students allowed back on campus for the first time since the Taliban took over the country last year. The Taliban administration has not officially announced its plan for female university students, but education officials said women were permitted to
Continue Reading By Ehsan Popalzai and Hande Atay Alam, CNN Afghanistan’s public universities opened on Wednesday with female students allowed back on campus for the first time since the Taliban took over the country last year. The Taliban administration has not officially announced its plan for female university students, but education officials said women were permitted to
Continue Readingolivertapia Washington (CNN) — Las Fuerzas Especiales de EE.UU. llevaron a cabo una misión antiterrorista “exitosa” en el noroeste de Siria el miércoles por la noche, dijo el Pentágono, pero ofreció pocos detalles. Fuentes en el terreno informaron múltiples muertes. Al menos 13 personas murieron en los enfrentamientos que tuvieron lugar durante y después de
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — World champion women’s bobsledder Kaillie Humphries has overcome a long list of challenges this season. She was ineligible for the Beijing Olympics because she didn’t have a U.S. passport. She tested positive for COVID-19 a few weeks ago. And she was dealing with a relatively serious
Continue Reading By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer Athletes can spend decades trying to become the best in the world, and another year or two to qualify for what could be their only trip to the Olympics. And this year, they realize, it can start to fall apart with a single sneeze. With Beijing Olympic organizers adopting
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy, CNN When China’s leader Xi Jinping opens the Beijing Olympics on Friday he will be flanked by leaders who are unlikely to quell the chorus of concerns these Games are bolstering an authoritarian regime. Of the just over 20 presidents, prime ministers, heads of state and royalty set to attend the Opening
Continue Reading By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean McVay, Andrew Whitworth, Robert Woods and Cooper Kupp all joined the Rams in a four-month span of early 2017. They’ve teamed up with Aaron Donald to form the core of this franchise’s incredibly successful half-decade. The Rams are best known around the league for
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Una erupción con “características moderadas a fuertes” se registró la noche del miércoles en el Volcán de Fuego en el suroeste de Guatemala, según el Instituto Nacional de Sismología del país centroamericano. La erupción ocurrió a las 10:57:15 pm hora local (9:57:15 pm ET) “con penacho de ceniza a 4.500 metros sobre
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