By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer NBA champions Patrick McCaw, Norris Cole and Jodie Meeks are among the 15 players who have been invited by USA Basketball to training camp for the FIBA AmeriCup tournament. The camp starts Tuesday in Las Vegas. The AmeriCup is the FIBA Americas region championship tournament. It was last held
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The saga of struggling retailer Bed Bath & Beyond keeps getting curiouser and curiouser. Shares of the company have surged more than 60% in the past week and soared nearly 250% in the past month thanks to meme investors on Reddit. Those self proclaimed “apes” have been touting
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By Marianne Garvey Patrick Swayze would have turned 70 on Thursday if it were not for the pancreatic cancer he died from in 2009. The “Dirty Dancing” star was one of the first public figures to reveal he had the disease, the same one that Alex Trebek and Steve Jobs died from. Swayze was diagnosed
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey “The Wonder Years” actress Danica McKellar left acting to pursue a mathematics career and now she’s explaining why. McKellar’s young son Draco recently interviewed his mom for ET, asking her, “You were about my age when you acted in ‘The Wonder Years.’ What do you remember most about those years?” McKellar said
Continue Reading MONACO (AP) — A Russian shot putter who reached the 2012 Olympic final has been banned based on 10-year-old evidence. The Athletics Integrity Unit said Irina Tarasova was banned for two years and disqualified from all her shot put results between July 2012 and July 2016. She placed ninth in the 2012 Olympic final. The
Continue ReadingBy Brandon Miller, Judson Jones and Rachel Ramirez, CNN The flash drought conditions expanded and intensified in New England over the past week, according to the latest report from the US Drought Monitor. Extreme drought — level 3 out of 4 — now covers parts of eastern Massachusetts, Connecticut and the entire state of Rhode
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) — Allen Weisselberg, exdirector financiero de la Organización Trump, se declaró culpable este jueves de su participación en un plan de fraude fiscal que se extendió por 15 años. Y, como parte del acuerdo, accedió a testificar en juicio contra la compañía de bienes raíces del expresidente Donald Trump. Ante la corte, Weisselberg
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza Chautauqua, Nueva York (CNN) — El sospechoso acusado de apuñalar a Salman Rushdie fue puesto en prisión preventiva sin fianza, y se dictaron órdenes temporales de protección para los oradores que supuestamente atacó en la institución de Chautauqua. Además, se declaró inocente. Las órdenes temporales de protección dictadas para Rushdie y Ralph
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By Kara Scannell, CNN Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty Thursday to his role in a 15-year-long tax fraud scheme, and as part of the deal he has agreed to testify against former President Donald Trump’s real estate company at trial. In court Thursday, Weisselberg said, “Yes, your
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess and Holly Yan, CNN A brain-eating amoeba typically found in freshwater lakes and rivers may have killed a child in what would be Nebraska’s first known death from the parasite, health officials said. The child, whose age was not disclosed, died this week in Douglas County, its health department said. The child
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By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed for the sixth consecutive month in July, deepening the housing market’s slowdown from a high-flying pace at the start of this year. The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that existing home sales fell 5.9% last month from
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — New coronavirus cases reported globally in the last week dropped by nearly a quarter while deaths fell by 6%. That’s according to the latest report on the pandemic released Thursday by the World Health Organization. The U.N. health agency reported 5.4 million new COVID-19 cases last week, a decline of 24% from
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Pensándolo bien, quizá sea mejor no pasar la sal. Agregar sal a tu comida en la mesa se asocia con una menor esperanza de vida y un mayor riesgo de muerte prematura, según un nuevo estudio. El estudio analizó a más de 500.000 personas en el Biobanco del Reino Unido
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By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A top executive at former President Donald Trump’s family business pleaded guilty Thursday to evading taxes in a deal with prosecutors that could make him a star witness against the company at a trial this fall. Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty to all
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Amber Escudero-Kontostathis is the only survivor of a deadly lightning strike outside the White House earlier this month, and despite going through something so life-changing and suffering nerve damage, she said she’s recovering quickly. Escudero-Kontostathis, 28, and three other victims were riding out a thunderstorm underneath a tree in Lafayette Park
Continue Reading NAPLES, Italy (AP) — Napoli has signed Argentina forward Giovanni Simeone on loan from Hellas Verona. Napoli has the option to sign Simeone on a permanent basis at the end of the season. The 27-year-old Simeone has already taken part in his first training session with his new teammates. He is the son of Atlético
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks edged lower in morning trading on Wall Street Thursday and held most major indexes in the red for the week. The S&P 500 fell 0.1% as of 10:25 a.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 79 points, or 0.2%, to 33,904 and
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer MIAMI (AP) — FIU football player Luke Knox, who appeared in 23 games at Mississippi before joining the Panthers and was the brother of Buffalo Bills tight end Dawson Knox, has died, the university said Thursday. Luke Knox died Wednesday evening, school officials said. The cause was not revealed,
Continue Reading By HARRIET MORRIS Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Estonia’s foreign minister has defended his country’s decision to bar Russian tourists, saying they are shirking their “moral responsibility” to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime and its “genocidal war” in Ukraine. The small Baltic country, which shares a 300-kilometer (190-mile) border with Russia,
Continue Reading By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Mortgage rates ticked lower last week, falling back toward the 5% mark following economic reports that indicated inflation might have finally peaked. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.13% in the week ending August 18, down from 5.22% the week before, according to Freddie Mac. Despite the latest drop, rates are
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