By Anna Chernova and Dakin Andone, CNN A Russian court on Monday scheduled Brittney Griner‘s trial to start Friday, according to her lawyer, and ruled the WNBA star’s detention be extended six months pending its outcome. Griner — who has been held in Russia since her arrest at a Moscow airport on allegations of attempted
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Independence Day is just one week away and lighting off fireworks is a popular way to celebrate the holiday — but it comes with safety hazards.
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By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — “Woman’s Choice,” the sign proclaims in bold pink letters. But despite promising abortion information and free pregnancy testing, the facility in Charleston, West Virginia, is designed to steer women facing an unwanted pregnancy away from choosing an abortion. That will become much easier
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TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed defenseman Timothy Liljegren to a two-year contract extension with an average annual value of $1.4 million. The 23-year-old Swede had 23 points (five goals, 18 assists) in 61 regular-season games with the Maple Leafs in 2021-22. He also appeared in two playoff games. Liljegren was selected
Continue Reading By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Tim Elko’s presence as a leader has loomed so large over the Mississippi baseball program that coach Mike Bianco has suggested, maybe only half-jokingly, that a statue should be built of him. Elko had his own idea for a statue after the Rebels swept Oklahoma
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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
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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
Continue Reading By Ariane de Vogue, Tierney Sneed and Devan Cole, CNN The Supreme Court said Monday that a Washington state school district violated the First Amendment rights of a high school football coach when he lost his job after praying at the 50-yard line after games. The opinion was 6-3 along conservative-liberal ideological lines. “The Constitution
Continue Reading By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Luke Richardson is the new coach of the Chicago Blackhawks, stepping into a tricky rebuilding process for one of the NHL’s marquee franchises. General manager Kyle Davidson announced the move. Richardson replaces Derek King, who finished the season as the interim coach after Jeremy Colliton was
Continue Reading By CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Novak Djokovic makes history just about every time he wins another match. And the top-ranked Serb did just that by winning another Wimbledon match. Djokovic beat Kwon Soon-woo 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Centre Court for his 80th victory at the grass-court major. That made
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Buscaban oro en el permafrost del Klondike canadiense. En lugar de ello, descubrieron lo que, según los expertos canadienses, es el mamut lanudo momificado más completo jamás encontrado en Norteamérica. Los mineros que trabajan en los yacimientos de oro de Klondike descubrieron el martes 21 de junio la cría de mamut
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By Ashley Strickland and Katie Hunt, CNN The moon has a new double crater after a rocket body collided with its surface on March 4. New images shared by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been circling the moon since 2009, have revealed the location of the unusual crater. The impact created two craters that
Continue Reading By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Shackled and looking wary, WNBA star Brittney Griner was ordered Monday to stand trial by a court near Moscow on cannabis possession charges, about 4 1/2 months after her arrest at an airport while returning to play for a Russian team. The Phoenix Mercury center and two-time
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN An “intense, ongoing” cyberattack has hit the websites of government agencies and private firms in Lithuania, the Baltic country’s defense ministry said Monday. A Russian-speaking hacking group, known as Killnet, claimed responsibility for at least some of the hacks, saying they were in retaliation for Lithuania blocking the shipment of some
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By Omar Jimenez and Eric Levenson, CNN The former Minneapolis Police officer who fatally shot an unarmed woman while responding to her 911 call in 2017 was released from prison Monday after serving over three years behind bars, according to online records from the Minnesota Department of Corrections. Mohamed Noor, 36, was convicted in April
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By Yong Xiong, Wayne Chang and Hannah Ritchie, CNN Chinese censors scrambled to delete what appears to be a misleading quote by a senior Communist Party official published in state media Monday, which claimed the “zero-Covid” policy would remain in place in Beijing “for the next five years,” in an effort to tame an online
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By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Oil-consuming nations wait with bated breath as the OPEC cartel meets once again this week to decide whether to pump more crude into the market to tame runaway prices. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, oil this year rose to a 14-year high. Prices have since eased slightly and Brent crude futures
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Leah Dolan, CNN Glastonbury, the world-famous art and music festival set within 900 acres of the British countryside, made a sensational return this weekend after a two-year pandemic-induced hiatus. Boasting the title of the largest green-field festival in the world, it has long been an important pillar of the UK’s art and culture scene. This
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Where in the U.S. are homeowners stretching budgets thin to afford their mortgages? Stacker analyzed U.S. Census Bureau data to find the metro areas with the most mortgage-burdened residents.
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Stacker investigated the requirements for teaching sex education in each of the 50 states and Washington D.C. using data from the Guttmacher Institute and SIECUS.
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