By Amarachi Orie, CNN Actor and filmmaker Jonah Hill is stepping back from promoting his films, including his debut documentary, due to anxiety attacks. Known for starring in films such as “21 Jump Street” and “The Wolf of Wall Street,” the 38-year-old will explore mental health and the impact his job has had on his
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By Betsy Klein, CNN The Democratic National Committee is launching a new seven-figure TV and other media ad buy aimed at touting Democratic efforts to lower costs amid high inflation, highlighting recent victories including the signing of the climate, health care and tax bill earlier this week. The campaign, a DNC official told CNN exclusively,
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — Apareció un nuevo video en línea que muestra vehículos militares rusos dentro de una sala de turbinas conectada a un reactor nuclear en la planta de energía nuclear de Zaporiyia en Ucrania, donde la intensificación de los bombardeos ha alimentado los temores de un desastre nuclear. CNN geolocalizó y confirmó la autenticidad
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Don’t expect Columbia police to rush to schools to direct bustling traffic on the first day of school Tuesday, the Columbia Police Department’s assistant chief says.
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By PAUL BYRNE Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region says a fire at a munitions depot near the Russian village of Timonovo has led to the evacuation of two villages in Russia’s Belgorod region on Ukraine’s northeastern border. The governor said Friday there were no casualties in the late
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By Issy Ronald, CNN British sprinter Dina Asher-Smith called for more funding to research the impact of periods on athletic performance after she pulled up with cramps, caused by her period, during her 100 meter title defense at the European Championship. “People don’t always talk about it either because you see girls that have been
Continue Reading The Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Authorities say a large wildfire burning out of control in the eastern Valencia area has become one of the biggest of the year in Spain, having already scorched 19,000 hectares (47,000 acres) along a 120 kilometer (75 mile) perimeter. As the blaze raged for a fifth day Friday, 35
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By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Frenzied talk of billionaires looking to buy beleaguered English soccer giant Manchester United has topped the sports agenda in Britain this week. That’s for the future though because staring United immediately in the face is the visit of Liverpool on Monday. Liverpool is looking to hand its fierce rival
Continue Reading By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, who was once banned from the Philippines by former President Rodrigo Duterte, has met a long-detained Filipino opposition leader, whom he says was wrongfully imprisoned under Duterte and should be freed. Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and a group of U.S. legislators
Continue Reading By FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — After working as an overnight security guard at a church in Harare’s impoverished Mabvuku township, Jeffrey Carlos rushes home to help his wife fetch water to sell. Prolonged water shortages mean most residents of the capital city of more than 2.4 million must source their own
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden will host a White House summit next month aimed at combatting a spate of hate-fueled violence in the U.S. The Democrat is working to deliver on his campaign pledge to “heal the soul of the nation.” The White House announced Friday that Biden
Continue Reading By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — A court says Chinese-born Canadian tycoon who disappeared from Hong Kong in 2017 has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for a multibillion-dollar string of financial offenses and his company was fined $8.1 billion. The court in Shanghai says Xiao Jianhua was convicted of misusing
Continue Reading GENEVA (AP) — Olympic silver medalist cyclist Mathias Flückiger has been provisionally suspended in a doping case. The suspension was announced on the eve of his scheduled competition in a mountain bike race at the European Championships. Swiss Cycling says Flückiger tested positive for the anabolic agent zeranol at the national championships in June. Flückiger
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed, Hannah Rabinowitz, Katelyn Polantz and Denise Royal, CNN A US magistrate judge started the process of potentially releasing some information from the affidavit that the Justice Department used to obtain a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence. Judge Bruce Reinhart said during a hearing at the West Palm Beach
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Germany warned of heavy rainfall in the south Friday and put air rescue services on high alert, after severe storms killed at least 13 people elsewhere in Europe a day earlier. Two girls, ages 4 and 8, were killed when sudden strong winds toppled trees late Thursday at a lake
Continue Reading Sophia Kishkovsky London’s Saatchi Gallery has canceled an exhibition of Ukrainian contemporary art after a social media outcry over it being organized by the Russian banker and art collector Igor Tsukanov, with cultural impresario and fellow Russian Marat Guelman as a consultant. “The Ukrainian Way” had been scheduled to show 100 Ukrainian artists at the
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By Nectar Gan, CNN Chinese-Canadian tycoon Xiao Jianhua was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison, more than five years after the billionaire was abducted from a hotel room in Hong Kong and taken to mainland China. Xiao and his company Tomorrow Holdings were convicted of crimes involving tens of billions of dollars, including illegally
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TODAY: Friday starts quiet, with partly cloudy skies. Some cloud cover from showers and storms to our northwest will be present this morning, but most should still get a sunrise. Some showers may try to work into mid-MO from the northwest, but an overall dry start to the day is forecast. A cold front that
Continue Reading By MARK SCHIEFELBEIN Associated Press CHONGQING, China (AP) — Ships are creeping down the middle of the Yangtze after China’s driest summer in six decades left one of the mightiest rivers barely half its normal width. The drought has set off a scramble to contain damage to a weak economy in a politically sensitive year.
Continue Reading By Ben Church and Ben Morse, CNN Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles says he’s not concerned by Tom Brady‘s absence from the team but admits he cannot yet put a date on his star’s return. Last week, it was announced that the 45-year-old quarterback would take some time away to “deal with personal things”
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