TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tampa Bay’s Chris Godwin will be one of the NFL’s highest-paid wide receivers after the Buccaneers placed the franchise tag on him for the second straight year. The team announced the move after failing to reach a long-term agreement with the 26-year-old. Godwin led the Bucs with a career-best 98 receptions
Continue Reading INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Novak Djokovic has been placed in the men’s draw for the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells, California. But it remains to be seen whether the second-ranked player will be allowed to enter the United States. Djokovic isn’t vaccinated against COVID-19. The U.S. requires visitors to be vaccinated to enter
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Against the snow-frosted backdrop of Alaska’s Chugach Mountains, serving a city of just 300,000 people, sits what might just be the best-located airport in the world today. While a look at a standard 2-D map of Earth might tell you Alaska is a far-flung outpost, spin the globe in your head
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s soccer federation will ban clubs of rowdy fans known as “barras” from attending away matches after a mass weekend brawl among soccer fans that left over two dozen people injured, three of them critically. The federation and top-division league owners announced that the Queretaro team that hosted Saturday’s match will
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By Joylyn Bukovac Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A 28-year-old woman was arrested early Saturday morning after police said she left the 3000 Bar, shot a pistol into the air, hurting a 48-year-old woman who was asleep in an apartment across the street. Surveillance video showed Jonerica Johnson committing
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By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN In the last year and a half, Donnell Hunter has missed his daughter’s first day of kindergarten, his son’s standout season of youth football, the birth of his grandson and countless other memories, all because of his long battle against Covid-19. The 43-year-old spent 549 days in hospitals and long-term acute
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El 13 de marzo inicia un año electoral en Colombia con las elecciones legislativas y una serie de consultas internas que elegirán a los candidatos de cara a las elecciones presidenciales de este año. El domingo 13 de marzo casi 39 millones de electores en todo el país están
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — PJ Hall had 18 points and 10 rebounds, Nick Honor scored 11 of his 13 points in the second half and No. 10 seed Clemson beat 15th-seeded North Carolina State 70-64 in the opening round of the ACC tournament. Clemson (17-15) has won five straight games, and will play No. 7
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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — National Park Service Director Chuck Sams says he and other federal officials are committed to boosting the role Native American tribes can play in managing public lands. He said Tuesday during a congressional hearing that part of the effort includes integrating Indigenous knowledge into management
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By Clare Foran and Manu Raju, CNN GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, one of a handful of Republican votes in play as Democrats fight to confirm President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, praised Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson after meeting with her Tuesday on Capitol Hill, saying it’s “clear that her credentials and the breadth
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By Jeremy Herb, Kylie Atwood, Jennifer Hansler and Oren Liebermann, CNN The Pentagon on Tuesday evening dismissed Poland’s proposal floated hours earlier to transfer its MiG-29 fighter jets to the United States for delivery to Ukraine. Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said in a statement that the Pentagon did not believe Poland’s proposal was “tenable,”
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Washington (CNN) — Los legisladores estatales de Florida dieron la aprobación final este martes a un proyecto de ley que prohibiría enseñar sobre orientación sexual e identidad de género en las aulas, enviando el polémico proyecto de ley al escritorio del gobernador republicano Ron DeSantis, quien ha señalado su apoyo a la medida.
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes (CNN) — McDonald’s y Starbucks decidieron cerrar sus restaurantes y cafeterías en Rusia, y Coca-Cola afirmó que suspenderá sus operaciones allí en respuesta a la invasión rusa de Ucrania. PepsiCo también retirará algunos productos del país. “McDonald’s ha decidido cerrar temporalmente todos nuestros restaurantes en Rusia y suspender todas las operaciones en el
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — El feminicidio, también conocido como femicidio, es la forma más extrema de violencia de género y se define como el “asesinato intencional de mujeres por ser mujeres”. El término femicidio, acuñado en los años setenta por Diana Russell, surgió con el fin político de “reconocer y visibilizar la discriminación, opresión, la
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By Kelly Mena, CNN The elections administrator in Harris County, Texas, announced Tuesday that she had submitted her resignation, amid a mail-in ballot counting discrepancy in election night results. Isabel Longoria, who since 2020 has overseen elections in Harris County, which includes Houston, said her resignation would be effective July 1. Longoria’s resignation comes amid
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS (AP) — Melody Kempton scored 15 points and Gonzaga defeated No. 15 BYU 71-59 in the championship game of the West Coast Conference tournament to earn its 13th NCAA Tournament berth. It was a big turnaround for second-seeded Gonzaga, which dropped two games to the top-seeded Cougars in the regular season, getting outscored
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By Ali Zaslav and Paul LeBlanc, CNN The Senate on Tuesday passed sweeping bipartisan legislation to overhaul the US Postal Service’s finances and allow the agency to modernize its operations. The final vote was overwhelmingly bipartisan 79-19. The bill now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature. The Postal Service Reform Act —
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By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has passed legislation that would shore up the U.S. Postal Service. The bill approved by the Senate on Tuesday would also require six-day-a-week mail delivery. It now goes to President Joe Biden, who is expected to sign it into law. The long-fought postal overhaul has
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Crowds gathered Tuesday morning in the Missouri State Capitol to share their opinion on the decriminalization of marijuana with lawmakers.
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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Oregon will be without senior guard Will Richardson for the upcoming Pac-12 tournament because of an illness. Richardson is averaging 14.1 points, 3.7 rebounds and 3.6 assists a game. He will not travel with the team to Las Vegas for the tournament. Richardson did not play in the team’s regular-season finale
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