By Aya Elamroussi and Amanda Jackson, CNN Amid record-breaking rainfall, St. Louis resident Margaret Shellert is facing the full brunt of devastating back-to-back flooding events this week. After the region was hit with torrential rains Monday and Tuesday, a second round of storms Thursday exacerbated conditions even further for her and many in the city.
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By Laura He, CNN Business China’s top leadership has gone quiet on the growth targets it had set for the year, as the world’s second-largest economy continues to battle a largely self-inflicted economic slowdown. In early March, China’s government had said that the country would target gross domestic product growth of about 5.5% this year.
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe and Theresa Waldrop, CNN At least 16 people are dead, including children, and the toll is “going to get a lot higher” following catastrophic flooding in Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear said Friday. An unknown number of people were missing, Beshear said at a news conference Friday morning, as rescuers scrambled to reach
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By Tara Subramaniam, Kathleen Magramo and Lauren Lau, CNN A back-up dancer for the Cantopop boy band Mirror is in intensive care after being hit by a giant video panel that fell from the ceiling during a concert in Hong Kong. Five people were injured when the panel — measuring about four square meters —
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Reports say federal investigators are looking into the actions of former President Donald Trump and those around him and their effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Continue Reading By Tara Subramaniam, CNN In the first case of its kind, a Chinese court has ruled against an unmarried woman who sued a hospital that refused to freeze her eggs — sparking a debate over gender equality in the country. Xu Zaozao was age 30 and unmarried in 2018 when a doctor at the Beijing
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By Tara John and Angela Dewan, CNN As the Razoni left the Ukrainian port of Odesa on Monday with the first shipment of grain since the early days of Russia’s war in Ukraine, there were sighs of relief from Somalia to Turkey, Indonesia and China, given how reliant these countries have been on Ukrainian grain
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Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — El premio mayor de Mega Millions para el viernes aumentó a US$ 1.100 millones de dólares, el segundo más grande en los 20 años de historia del juego, según un comunicado de prensa. 21 formas de vivir de lujo si ganas el premio de US$ 1.020 millones de Mega Millions Estas son
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By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Izzy Short, 13, struggles to pick her favorite England player as she anticipates the team’s appearance in Sunday’s final of the European soccer championships. There’s forward Ellen White. Defender Lucy Bronze. Midfielder Georgia Stanway. Captain Leah Williamson. The whole team basically. “I just look up to them
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe and Theresa Waldrop, CNN At least 16 people are dead, including children, and the toll is “going to get a lot higher” following catastrophic flooding in Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear said Friday. An unknown number of people were missing, Beshear said at a news conference Friday morning, as rescuers scrambled to reach
Continue Reading SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Alex Wood took a no-hitter into the seventh inning and the San Francisco Giants beat the Chicago Cubs 4-2 to stop a seven-game slide. Yermín Mercedes hit an early two-run single, and four Giants pitchers combined on a three-hitter to snap Chicago’s six-game winning streak. An umpire’s ruling that appeared to
Continue Reading By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Nathaniel Lowe homered and tripled, and Corey Seager had an RBI double among his three hits off Shohei Ohtani in the Texas Rangers’ 2-0 victory over the Los Angeles Angels. Ohtani racked up 11 strikeouts in his sixth consecutive start with double-digit whiffs, but the
Continue Reading CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Wimbledon tennis finalist Nick Kyrgios’ court date to face a common assault charge has been postponed by three weeks. The charge relates to an incident in January 2021 that was reported to Australian Capital Territory police in December. Kyrgios was initially expected to face ACT Magistrates Court on Aug. 2 —
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan, Selina Wang, Eric Cheung and Simone McCarthy, CNN US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan Tuesday evening, marking a significant show of support for Taiwan despite China’s threats of retaliation over the visit. Pelosi’s stop in Taipei is the first time that a US House speaker has visited Taiwan in 25
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — Diana Taurasi scored 30 points, Skylar Diggins-Smith added 27 and the Phoenix Mercury rolled to a 90-80 victory over the Los Angeles Sparks. Taurasi added six rebounds, while Diggins-Smith grabbed five with six assists for Phoenix (13-16). Shey Peddy scored 12 as the Mercury won their second straight and moved into third
Continue Reading By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The first-place New York Mets have acquired outfielder Tyler Naquin and left-handed reliever Phillip Diehl from the Cincinnati Reds in a trade for two teenage minor leaguers. Cincinnati receives 18-year-old outfielder Hector Rodríguez and right-hander Jose Acuña. Naquin, a first-round draft pick 10 years ago,
Continue Reading By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Alex Bregman hit a two-run homer early, and his tiebreaking RBI double in the eighth inning led the Houston Astros to a 4-2 win over the Seattle Mariners. Bregman was shaken up in a collision while scoring the Astros’ final run in the eighth, but he
Continue Reading By MIKE CRANSTON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Tyler Anderson and two relievers — including infielder Hanser Alberto — combined on a seven-hitter, and the Los Angeles Dodgers used another quick start to rout the sloppy Colorado Rockies 13-0. Trea Turner had three hits for Los Angeles, including a three-run double. Gavin Lux also had
Continue ReadingBy Paul P. Murphy and Steve Almasy, CNN The winning numbers for Friday’s Mega Millions drawing for an estimated $1.28 billion were 13-36-45-57-67 with a Mega Ball of 14. Friday’s jackpot was the lottery’s second-largest prize in its 20-year history, and it came with a cash value option of $742.2 million. The next drawing is
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