By Marianne Garvey Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are currently spending their days in a Fairfax, Virginia courthouse. Depp, who concluded his testimony this week, is suing his ex-wife for $50 million over a 2018 Washington Post op-ed she wrote. How they landed there –13 years after first meeting — is a story of an
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, considered the trailblazers of modern ice dance, will be honored May 9 by Ice Theater of New York. The 1984 Olympic champions whose free dance to Ravel’s “Bolero” stretched far beyond the rigid parameters of their sport — and altered it forever — will be recognized
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is investigating the death of a dolphin that was impaled while alive in Florida. The bottlenose dolphin was found dead on Fort Myers Beach, Florida. NOAA first learned about the animal on March 24, and staff from the the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
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By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and YESICA FISCH Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces fought Saturday to hold off a Russian advance aimed at capturing an eastern industrial region along with Ukraine’s last holdout in the southern city of Mairupol, where fighters and civilians hiding under a heavily damaged steel mill endure harrowing conditions. The
Continue ReadingBy Solarina Ho, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Canada (CTV Network) — Increased depression, anxiety and stress during pregnancy can alter the fetal brain, negatively impacting a child’s early cognitive development, a new study suggests, drawing attention to the importance of mental health support for those who are pregnant. Previous
Continue ReadingBy Tom Yun, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story Toronto, Canada (CTV Network) — Researchers at the University of California San Diego say they’ve developed a smartphone app that could screen users for neurological conditions by scanning their eye. The researchers outlined their findings in a paper published on Friday that will
Continue ReadingBy Emmy Abbassi, CNN A group of Georgia Tech students has created what may be the world’s longest hopscotch. The course, which runs through the university’s Atlanta campus and spans 4.2 miles, was drawn up by members of a first-year leadership organization called See(k) (D)iscomfort, or SEED. The group helps members develop their leadership skills
Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Hall of Fame coach C. Vivian Stringer announced her retirement after 50 years in college basketball on Saturday. She had 1,055 wins — fourth all-time among Division I women’s basketball coach. Stringer also had four Final Four appearances and reached the NCAA Tournament 28 times while leading Cheney State,
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By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Hall of Fame coach C. Vivian Stringer announced her retirement after 50 years in college basketball on Saturday. She had 1,055 wins — fourth all-time among Division I women’s basketball coach. Stringer also had four Final Four appearances and reached the NCAA Tournament 28 times while leading Cheney State,
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By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Connecticut lawmakers on Friday passed a bill designed to protect people who provide an abortion or receive support to obtain the procedure in Connecticut and are then sued in another state. House Bill 5414, sponsored by state Democratic lawmakers, would enable a person or corporation who “has had a judgment entered”
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By Sana Noor Haq, CNN The US military delivered a new birthday cake to an Italian woman, exactly 77 years after American soldiers fighting in her local village ate the original gateau that was made for her 13th birthday. Sgt. Peter Wallis and Col. Matthew Gomlak presented Meri Mion with an icing-covered cake topped with
Continue Reading By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett gave Berkshire Hathaway investors a few details Saturday about how he spent more than $50 billion earlier this year and again reassured them that the company he built will endure long after the 91-year-old billionaire is gone. Tens of thousands of investors packed
Continue ReadingVerónica Ojeda (CNN) — Las autoridades del condado de Lauderdale, Alabama, están buscando a una empleada de la oficina del sheriff y a un recluso que desaparecieron cuando se dirigían al juzgado alrededor de las 9:30 este viernes por la mañana. La subdirectora de correccionales desaparecida, Vicki White, rompió el protocolo cuando escoltó al recluso
Continue Reading By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is turning to a Cold War-era law to boost production of lithium and other minerals used to power electric vehicles, but experts say the move by itself is unlikely to ensure the robust domestic mining Biden seeks as he promotes cleaner energy sources. Biden’s
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business The way we buy cars in America is just weird. Just think about it for a moment. When you want to buy a refrigerator, you don’t go to a Whirlpool store, then a Maytag store and a Bosch store. You go to an appliance store. And even if there is
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By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Restaurants of all sizes have had a difficult few years — but chains are coming out on top. Several new challenges have made running restaurants and (working in them) even harder than usual, including pandemic restrictions, staffing challenges, supply chain disruptions and increasing costs. About 90,000 US restaurants have temporarily
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — La guerra de Rusia en Ucrania no da tregua. El Ministerio de Defensa de Rusia finalmente confirmó que utiliza submarinos en el mar Negro para llevar a cabo ataques con misiles de crucero contra objetivos ucranianos. Mientras tanto, Ucrania dice que sus tropas siguen resistiendo los ataques rusos en varios
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN Customs officers intercepted four separate shipments of cocaine with a total street value of $70,000 hidden inside insulated thermal cups, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a statement. The shipments from Jamaica were discovered at processing centers in Cincinnati, New York and Philadelphia, the CBP said. Each shipment contained
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nota del editor: James Nixey es el director del Programa Rusia-Eurasia de Chatham House, especializado en las relaciones entre Rusia y los demás Estados postsoviéticos. Anteriormente trabajó como reportero de investigación en el Moscow Tribune. (CNN) — El 9 de mayo, conocido como el Día de la Victoria en Rusia, el presidente Vladimir
Continue Reading By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press QAnon loyalists, COVID deniers, neo-Nazis and a former American president: The list of people banned from Twitter is long, but their exile could soon come to an end if Elon Musk’s $44 billion offer for the platform is approved. Musk, the world’s richest man and the owner of SpaceX and
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