LONDON (AP) — Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne is in contention to win English football’s Player of the Year award for the third straight season. De Bruyne is on a six-man shortlist for the award alongside Liverpool trio Sadio Mane, Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah, Tottenham striker Harry Kane and Manchester United striker
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By Betsy Klein, CNN United Airlines is becoming the first major airline carrier to donate flights to ship baby formula from abroad to the United States as the federal government works to address the ongoing shortage, the White House announced Wednesday. The flights will come as part of the White House’s “Operation Fly Formula” efforts.
Continue Reading By Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday commemorated the “historic first” time that a woman will lead a branch of the armed forces, as Adm. Linda Fagan became the first female commandant of the US Coast Guard. Fagan became the 27th commandant of the Coast Guard. Adm. Karl Schultz, the 26th commandant, is
Continue Reading TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Veteran defensive tackle Akiem Hicks has signed a one-year contract with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The 32-year-old Hicks is likely to become a replacement for Ndamukong Suh, who is a free agent after spending the past three seasons on one-year deals with Tampa Bay. Hicks was a third-round draft pick of
Continue ReadingBy Leah Asmelash, CNN The stereotype that Black people don’t swim is one oft repeated, but for Nathan Fluellen, it wasn’t one that was true. Fluellen grew up in a Black middle class neighborhood in Chicago, where everyone knew how to swim, he told CNN. What he never saw, though, was Black people surfing. “I
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson New York (CNN Business) — Elon Musk exigirá a los trabajadores de Tesla que regresen a trabajar presencialmente a las oficinas o renuncien a la compañÃa. La polÃtica, revelada en correos electrónicos filtrados que Musk envió al personal ejecutivo de Tesla este martes, la reportó inicialmente el sitio de noticias de vehÃculos eléctricos
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A Sedalia woman crashed early Wednesday when her SUV encountered flooding and went off the road, the Missouri State Highway Patrol reported.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Presumed Republican nominee Derek Schmidt has chosen a staffer for one of Kansas’ two U.S. senators as his running mate in the governor’s race. Schmidt filed the necessary paperwork Wednesday to get him and Katie Sawyer on the ballot in the Aug. 2 primary. He faces no GOP opposition to his
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed In most other pockets of the federal government, a public employee’s decision to lawyer up in the face of an internal investigation would be a no-brainer. But for Supreme Court clerks now being asked to cooperate with new steps in the court’s leak probe, such a move could upend the trajectories of
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Just in time for Dinosaur Day June 1, Stacker looks at the states with the most dinosaur fossils with help from the Paleobiology Database. Seven states have no fossils to be found, while only two have more than 1,000.
Continue Reading OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A Missouri man has been convicted of killing a woman he was accused of stalking and faces life in prison when he’s sentenced in October. The Kansas City Star reports that a Johnson County jury found 44-year-old Clyde James Barnes Jr., of Kansas City, guilty Tuesday of first-degree murder and other
Continue Reading OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A Missouri man has been convicted of killing a woman he was accused of stalking and faces life in prison when he’s sentenced in October. The Kansas City Star reports that a Johnson County jury found 44-year-old Clyde James Barnes Jr., of Kansas City, guilty Tuesday of first-degree murder and other
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By Stephanie Busari, CNN Kunle Adeyanju is a self-confessed daredevil who has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro twice and cycled from Lagos to Accra over three days. But it is his latest adventure that is creating a buzz after he successfully completed a motorcycle ride from London to Lagos. The journey took 41 days as he traveled
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By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Elon Musk is demanding that Tesla office workers return to in-person work or leave the company. The policy, disclosed in leaked emails Musk sent to Tesla’s executive staff Tuesday, was first reported by electric vehicle news site Electrek. “Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office
Continue ReadingBy Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business The last surviving Howard Johnson’s restaurant has closed. Open for most of the past 70 years, the restaurant was located in Lake George, New York, a popular summer vacation spot near the Adirondack Mountains. The restaurant closed its doors in recent weeks and the property is up for lease, according
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar and Melissa Alonso, CNN The families of two Utah teenagers have filed a lawsuit challenging a state law that bans transgender women and girls from participating in school sports. The suit asks the court to declare the ban unconstitutional and block its enforcement. It was filed Tuesday in the Third Judicial District
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Sam Ashgari is opening up about how he and Britney Spears are dealing with their pregnancy loss. “We’re positive about it,” Ashgari told GQ. “It’s something that happens to a lot of people. And one beautiful thing that I heard was when the baby’s ready, it’ll come,” he said. “So
Continue Readingurielblanco Nota del editor: Philip Alpers es profesor adjunto y director fundador de GunPolicy.org, un proyecto global de la Escuela de Salud Pública de la Universidad de Sydney que compara la violencia armada, la legislación sobre armas de fuego y la prevención de lesiones en 250 jurisdicciones de todo el mundo. Las opiniones expresadas en
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey JoJo Siwa is responding to a critic who doesn’t want her judging “So You Think You Can Dance.” A viewer took to Twitter to write that they were disappointed Matthew Morrison was leaving the show as a judge instead of Siwa, citing Morrison’s Broadway experience. Siwa saw the message, retweeted it, and
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN Business The number of workers being fired or laid off has hit the lowest point on record, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey showed only 1.25 million people lost their job in April, breaking the previous record low of 1.26 million recorded in December. With
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