By Morgan Rimmer and Manu Raju, CNN President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead a key agency regulating firearms appears to have enough votes to win confirmation, overcoming nearly a decade of opposition from gun-rights groups who have derailed past attempts to approve a director for the post. On Thursday, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin told
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — La comisión selecta de la Cámara de Representantes que investiga el 6 de enero utilizará su primera audiencia pública en horario de máxima audiencia este jueves para exponer el caso de que el expresidente Donald Trump estaba en el centro de una conspiración para anular las elecciones de 2020 y
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By Anna Cooban, CNN Business A fire at one of the world’s biggest suppliers of liquefied natural gas has thrown Europe’s fragile energy security into doubt and spooked global gas markets. Freeport LNG, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) producer in Texas, will shut its doors for at least three weeks, the company confirmed to CNN
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — George Thompson, who played for Marquette from 1967-69 and remains one of the program’s all-time leading scorers, has died. He was 74. Marquette announced Thompson died Wednesday at his Milwaukee home due to complications from diabetes. Thompson scored 1,773 points for Marquette and owned the school’s career scoring record for 40 years.
Continue Reading By TOM CANAVAN AP Sports Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The New York Giants canceled practice after holding a team meeting on Thursday, wrapping up a mandatory three-day minicamp. The team said it was holding an organizational function instead of a practice. That means the next time the Giants and coach Brian Daboll will
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Colorado coach Tad Boyle, Wheaton coach Mike Schauer and Benedictine coach Ryan Moody have been appointed to the National Association of Basketball Coaches’ board of directors. The terms of Northeastern coach Bill Coen, Trinity coach Pat Cunningham and Westmont coach John Moore expired. The board of directors provides strategic oversight
Continue Reading KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Colorado coach Tad Boyle, Wheaton coach Mike Schauer and Benedictine coach Ryan Moody have been appointed to the National Association of Basketball Coaches’ board of directors. The terms of Northeastern coach Bill Coen, Trinity coach Pat Cunningham and Westmont coach John Moore expired. The board of directors provides strategic oversight
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By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business The latest “crypto winter,” which sent the values of Bitcoin and other digital currencies plummeting, served as a healthy reminder that cryptocurrencies are highly risky investments. But that risk is by no means limited to price volatility. Should the company holding your crypto assets declare bankruptcy or otherwise be unable
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By Sana Noor Haq, CNN Scientists have identified several dinosaur bones belonging to one of Europe‘s biggest land-based hunters. The remains of a spinosaurid, a predatory dinosaur with two legs and a crocodile-like face, were discovered on the Isle of Wight, an island off the south coast of England. The spinosaurid, which lived about 125
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By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Rents keep climbing in Manhattan, hitting a record high in May for the fourth consecutive month. Median rent for an apartment in Manhattan climbed to $4,000 a month in May, surging 25% from a year ago, according to a monthly report from brokerage firm Douglas Elliman and Miller Samuel Real
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By AJ Willingham, CNN Ask any Christian, and they’re likely to tell you their earliest experiences of religion are ones of music. The memories of voices swelling with song or a grandmother softly humming a favorite tune can hold a sacred place in one’s heart, deeper than even speech or scripture can reach. Jeannette Lindholm
Continue Reading STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — Two-time Wimbledon champion Andy Murray has defeated seventh-seeded Alexander Bublik 6-3, 7-6 to reach the quarterfinals of the Stuttgart Open. The 35-year-old Murray dropped his intensity in the second set but saved three set points as he rallied from 5-2 down. He next faces the top-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas. Nick Kyrgios has
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By Homero De la Fuente and CNN Sports staff Following the start of the inaugural LIV Golf event near London on Thursday, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan announced that all golfers playing in the breakaway series have been notified that they are suspended and otherwise no longer eligible to participate in PGA Tour tournaments. “As
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Lianne Kolirin, CNN A Jeff Koons sculpture estimated to be worth up to £10 million ($12.5 million) will go on sale this month to raise funds for humanitarian aid for Ukraine. Billionaire businessman Victor Pinchuk, together with his wife Olena, are putting Koons‘ seminal sculpture “Balloon Monkey (Magenta)” (2006-13) up for auction at Christie’s. Proceeds
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By Kate Sullivan and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he was weighing executive actions he could take if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade’s holding of a federal constitutional right to an abortion. The President, during an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in Los Angeles, again pressed Congress to codify into law
Continue ReadingRocÃo Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — Buenos Aires es ahora mismo la ciudad más cara de Latinoamérica, según la lista anual de la compañÃa de movilidad global ECA International, con un ranking que toma en cuenta tanto el precio del alquiler como el de los alimentos básicos y el transporte para medir en qué urbes del
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN Español) –– El exgobernador de Chihuahua César Duarte enfrentará un juicio por cargos de peculado y asociación delictuosa con penalidad agravada, según decidió el juez de control del distrito de Morelos este miércoles. También determinó que Duarte continúe en prisión preventiva, informó la FiscalÃa General del estado de Chihuahua en un comunicado. EE.UU.
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By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business The Covid-19 pandemic changed the nature of work in innumerable ways, some of which may not be fully discerned for years. But one casualty is already clear: The era of the leaning-in “girl boss” is over. The girl boss movement, born shortly after Sandberg’s Lean In and coined by online
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By Anna Bahney, CNN Business After taking a breather for several weeks, mortgage rates climbed again. The 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.23% in the week ending June 9, up from 5.09% the week before, according to Freddie Mac. The rate remains well above the 2.96% average from this time last year. “After little movement the
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By Kate Sullivan and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he was weighing executive actions he could take if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade’s holding of a federal constitutional right to an abortion. The President, during an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in Los Angeles, again pressed Congress to codify into law
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