By Matias Grez, CNN Russian-born tennis player Natela Dzalamidze has changed her nationality to Georgian to avoid the ban Wimbledon imposed on all Russian players following the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The doubles specialist, ranked No. 43 in the world, is now officially listed as having Georgian nationality on the WTA website and is eligible
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Dos voluntarios estadounidenses que luchan por Ucrania fueron detenidos por los separatistas respaldados por Rusia en Donetsk tras ser capturados la semana pasada, según los medios estatales rusos. Los ciudadanos estadounidenses Alexander John-Robert Drueke, de 39 años y originario de Tuscaloosa (Alabama), y Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, de 27 años
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By Swati Gupta and Esha Mitra, CNN At least 84 people have died in landslides, lightning strikes and flash floods across India and Bangladesh in the past week, according to officials in both countries. In the state of Assam, at least 41 people have died and seven people were missing as of Tuesday, according to
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Opinion by Joe O’Connor and Juliet Schor for CNN Business Perspectives It’s now well recognized how difficult the pandemic has been for workers. A Conference Board survey of workers from September 2021 found that more than three-quarters of US respondents reported stress and burnout as big challenges to being at work, versus 55% six months
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, CNN British Prime Minister Boris Johnson underwent a “routine” operation in a London hospital on Monday, leaving his deputy temporarily in charge of “significant decisions,” PA Media reported. The “minor” operation on Johnson’s sinuses took place early on Monday and Johnson is back at Downing Street recovering, his spokesperson said. Johnson was
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say two people have died and a third has been injured in a house fire in suburban Kansas City, Kansas. The Overland Park Fire Department says in a news release that fire crews from Overland Park and Lenexa were called to the home around 1:30 a.m. Monday and found
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By Camila Moreno Lizarazo, CNN This year marks the second year Juneteenth will be observed as a federal holiday. June 19 commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas were told by Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger that they had been liberated. Granger’s announcement came almost three years after the Emancipation Proclamation. President
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin Nueva York (CNN Business) — La misión de la Reserva Federal es fomentar la estabilidad de los sistemas monetarios estadounidenses. Es la razón por la que el banco central se creó en 1913, y es la razón por la que sigue existiendo hoy en día. Por eso, cuando la inflación amenaza con
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MORGAN COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri State Highway Patrol has identified a Warrensburg man hurt Sunday afternoon in a Morgan County crash. Troopers said the motorcycle crash happened around 1 p.m. on Route W near Marvin Cutoff. Sagan P. Guillory, 25, drove a motorcycle off the road while going around a curve, according to the
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Artemis I mega moon rocket has been fully fueled for the first time. The fourth attempt of a final prelaunch test started on Saturday and the rocket tanks were filled on Monday. The crucial test, known as the wet dress rehearsal, simulates every stage of launch without the rocket leaving
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COLE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Kentucky man was flown to a hospital Sunday night after a crash on Highway 54 in Cole County. The crash happened in the westbound lanes near Old Bass Road around 6:20 p.m., according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Troopers said Raymond L. Thomas, 49, of Wingo, Kentucky was thrown
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN Business More tieups at West Coast ports are just about the last thing the US economy needs right now. Delays caused by a flood of cargo last year continue to create widespread shortages of goods throughout the economy and added to inflationary pressures. But a current round of labor talks between
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN Business More tieups at West Coast ports are just about the last thing the US economy needs right now. Delays caused by a flood of cargo last year continue to create widespread shortages of goods throughout the economy and added to inflationary pressures. But a current round of labor talks between
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Si los estadounidenses están “muy, muy deprimidos”, como sugiere el presidente Joe Biden, no es de extrañar. Muchos aspectos clave de la vida económica, social y nacional de Estados Unidos, que antes se consideraban certezas que funcionaban sin problemas, están fuera de lugar. La pandemia de covid-19, aunque ha disminuido
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Because of a blockbuster docket, an unprecedented leak, a fraught political atmosphere and Covid, everything has changed at the Supreme Court. Under normal circumstances on decision days at the end of June, the Supreme Court emerges from behind crimson curtains to finally issue the most controversial cases
Continue Reading By Homero De la Fuente, CNN The International Swimming Federation (FINA) has voted to approve a new policy that will restrict most transgender athletes from competing in elite women’s aquatics competitions. Swimming’s world governing body approved the new “gender inclusion” policy on Sunday, after 71.5% of FINA’s member federations voted in support at the FINA
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Artemis I mega moon rocket has been fully fueled for the first time. The fourth attempt of a final prelaunch test started on Saturday and the rocket tanks were filled on Monday. The crucial test, known as the wet dress rehearsal, simulates every stage of launch without the rocket leaving
Continue Reading By Ben Church and Don Riddell, CNN English golfer Matt Fitzpatrick had always imagined what winning his first major would feel like, but the reality exceeded all expectations on Sunday as he clinched the 122nd US Open. The 27-year-old edged past American duo Scottie Scheffler and Will Zalatoris by a single shot to secure victory
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The Central Missouri Honor Flight took off en route to the nation’s capitol Monday with 91 veterans, to see memorials dedicated to their military service.
Continue Reading Story by Reuters and Jessie Yeung, CNN Macao, the world’s biggest gambling hub, began its second day of mass Covid-19 testing on Monday after dozens of locally transmitted cases were discovered over the weekend. But while most businesses have shut, casinos remain open. The testing of Macao’s roughly 600,000 residents is expected to end on
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