By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Supreme Court justices on Monday readily put themselves in the shoes of a football coach who wanted to pray at midfield after a game, over those of students who might feel pressure to join him, in an expansive decision focused on the “suppression” of religious
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By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Mariners have placed catcher Luis Torrens on the injured list with a left shoulder injury suffered in their brawl against the Los Angeles Angels. Manager Scott Servais didn’t have specifics on how Torrens was hurt but said he was getting additional imaging done to
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By Katelyn Polantz and Evan Perez, CNN FBI seized the phone of former President Donald Trump’s election attorney John Eastman last week, according to a new court filing from the conservative lawyer. Eastman disclosed the search and seizure in federal court in a lawsuit that he filed in New Mexico on Monday, calling it improper.
Continue Reading By BRIAN MAHONEY and TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Kyrie Irving has decided to exercise his $36.9 million option for the coming season and will remain under contract with the Brooklyn Nets. That’s according to two people with knowledge of his decision. They spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes (CNN Español) — El proyecto de reforma tributaria del gobierno que encabezará Gustavo Petro toma forma y es posible que se presente al Congreso el mismo día en que el presidente asuma sus funciones. El líder del Pacto Histórico ha insistido en que se necesita un sistema “más progresivo y justo”. ¿En qué
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By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press MENDON, Mo. (AP) — An Amtrak passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a dump truck Monday in a remote area of Missouri, killing three people and injuring dozens more as rail cars tumbled off the tracks and landed on their sides, officials said. Two of those killed
Continue Reading By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press MENDON, Mo. (AP) — An Amtrak passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a dump truck Monday in a remote area of Missouri, killing three people and injuring dozens more as rail cars tumbled off the tracks and landed on their sides, officials said. Two of those killed
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business) — “Top Gun: Maverick” alcanzó nuevas alturas. La secuela del éxito de taquilla de 1986, en la que Tom Cruise repite el famoso papel de Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, superó la marca de los US$ 1.000 millones en la taquilla mundial, según Paramount. “Maverick” es la primera película en los
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Washington (CNN) — En su primera entrevista desde la derogación de Roe vs. Wade el viernes, la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris dijo a Dana Bash de CNN que nunca creyó que los elegidos por el expresidente Donald Trump para la Corte Suprema, por quienes votó en contra en el Senado, preservarían la histórica ley
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By Barbara Starr and Oren Liebermann, CNN The US carried out a strike in Syria on Monday targeting a senior leader of Hurras al-Din, an al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist organization, according to a statement from US Central Command. The US is “highly confident” that the strike, carried out from a drone, killed Abu Hamzah al Yemeni,
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By Jassar Al Tahat, Hadeel Ghaboun, Celine Alkhaldi, Caroline Faraj and Mostafa Salem, CNN A toxic gas that leaked out of a container in Jordan’s port of Aqaba, killing at least 12 people and injuring 260 others, was chlorine, Jordan’s emergency relief coordinating agency said late Monday. A video from a nearby CCTV camera released
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Kansas City Royals traded first baseman Carlos Santana to the Seattle Mariners in exchange for two right handed pitchers on Monday. Santana has played in 52 games for the Royals through the first part of the season. The 36-year-old batted .357 with two home runs and 11 RBI in the
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By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Instagram is testing new ways to verify its youngest users’ ages, including by using artificial intelligence that analyzes a photo and estimates how old the user is. Meta-owned Instagram said in a blog post on Thursday that AI is one of three new methods it’s testing to verify users’ ages
Continue Reading By Maegan Vazquez, Jasmine Wright and Devan Cole, CNN In her first interview since Roe v. Wade was overturned on Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN’s Dana Bash that she never believed former President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court picks, whom she voted against in the Senate, would preserve the landmark abortion law. “I never
Continue Reading By Maegan Vazquez, Jasmine Wright and Devan Cole, CNN In her first interview since Roe v. Wade was overturned on Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN’s Dana Bash that she never believed former President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court picks, whom she voted against in the Senate, would preserve the landmark abortion law. “I never
Continue Reading By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press MENDON, Mo. (AP) — A passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a dump truck and derailed Monday in a remote, rural area of Missouri, killing three people and injuring dozens more, officials said. Two of the people who died were on the Amtrak train and one was
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By Forrest Brown and Marnie Hunter, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has added two destinations to its “high” category for Covid-19 risk — including a Caribbean nation popular for its beaches. The Dominican Republic and Kuwait, a Middle Eastern country known for its cultural offerings, are both now listed as “Level
Continue Reading By Forrest Brown and Marnie Hunter, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has added two destinations to its “high” category for Covid-19 risk — including a Caribbean nation popular for its beaches. The Dominican Republic and Kuwait, a Middle Eastern country known for its cultural offerings, are both now listed as “Level
Continue Reading By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN President Joe Biden’s pick to helm US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Ed Gonzalez, is withdrawing from consideration, Gonzalez announced in a tweet on Monday, leaving the agency without permanent leadership as the administration tries to usher forward its immigration agenda. Biden tapped Gonzalez to serve as ICE director last year. But
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By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN President Joe Biden’s pick to helm US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Ed Gonzalez, is withdrawing from consideration, Gonzalez announced in a tweet on Monday, leaving the agency without permanent leadership as the administration tries to usher forward its immigration agenda. Biden tapped Gonzalez to serve as ICE director last year. But
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