By Amir Vera, CNN College football fans and HBCU alumni are still coming to terms with Deion Sanders announcing his departure from Jackson State University for his new head coaching gig at the University of Colorado. The move struck a chord, especially among alumni of the Mississippi college, with some calling Sanders a “sell out”
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By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo was dropped from Portugal’s starting lineup for the second straight match at the World Cup, coming on as a substitute early in the second half with his team losing 1-0 to Morocco in the quarterfinals on Saturday. The 37-year-old Ronaldo replaced midfielder Rúben
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By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo was dropped from Portugal’s starting lineup for the second straight match at the World Cup, coming on as a substitute early in the second half with his team losing 1-0 to Morocco in the quarterfinals on Saturday. The 37-year-old Ronaldo replaced midfielder Rúben
Continue ReadingBy Travis Caldwell, Tina Burnside, Rosalina Nieves and Rosa Flores, CNN For the first time in almost 300 days, Brittney Griner, the American basketball star detained by Russian authorities in February, will spend the night in a bed in her home country. Griner, 32, returned to the United States early Friday after being released from
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — German police said Saturday that a man suspected of killing his mother and later taking two people hostage in the eastern city of Dresden has died. Authorities had urged people to avoid an area in the city center and ordered Dresden’s Christmas market to remain closed while the police operation to free
Continue ReadingSofÃa Benavides (CNN) — El premio Nobel de la Paz ruso, Yan Rachinsky, criticó la guerra “insensata y criminal” del presidente Vladimir Putin contra Ucrania en su discurso de aceptación del galardón en la capital noruega, Oslo, este sábado. Rachinsky, de la organización de derechos humanos de Rusia ‘Memorial’, afirmó que la resistencia en Rusia
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN Ninety-five residents of Tampa, Kansas, had the opportunity to experience life in the other Tampa. The residents constitute almost all of the population of Tampa, Kansas, according to a news release from the Tampa International Airport. The trip was a collaboration between Visit Tampa Bay, the Florida city’s tourism marketing agency,
Continue Reading By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Lambert Boissiere III faces a runoff Saturday in his reelection bid for Louisiana’s Public Service Commission. Boissiere’s challenger is Davante Lewis, a 30-year-old progressive policy advocate. Both candidates are Democrats with similar views and priorities, including expanding Louisiana’s renewable energy. The winner will serve a
Continue ReadingBy Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist An atmospheric river event, bringing ample amounts of moisture to the West this weekend, will gradually move across the country and bring hazardous weather to millions. The blockbuster storm will begin in the West with heavy snow, gusty winds, and coastal flooding, then move eastward, threatening potential blizzard conditions in
Continue Reading COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A woman who was imprisoned without parole for killing her newborn daughter by throwing the infant in the trash after giving birth at her college sorority house should be resentenced. That’s the ruling issued this week by a divided Ohio Supreme Court. The justices also ordered that a different judge should
Continue Reading TRENTON. N.J. (AP) — Gas prices have again dropped sharply in New Jersey and around the country as demand remains slow and supplies continue to increase. AAA Mid-Atlantic says the average price of a gallon of regular gas in New Jersey on Friday was $3.49, down 14 cents from last week. Drivers were paying $3.42
Continue Reading MILWAUKEE (AP) — Police in Wisconsin are searching for the shooter who killed a U.S. Postal Service employee as he was delivering mail. The shooting happened in Milwaukee just before 6 p.m. Friday on the city’s north side. The Milwaukee Police Department said the 44-year-old mail carrier was pronounced dead at the scene. He had
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GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a Kansas man in the 1980 shooting death of a 23-year-old neighbor after investigators who reexamined her death turned up new evidence. Barton County Sheriff Brian Bellendir said at a news conference Friday that officers arrested 68-year-old Steven Hanks, of Burden, on Thursday on a charge of
Continue Reading GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a Kansas man in the 1980 shooting death of a 23-year-old neighbor after investigators who reexamined her death turned up new evidence. Barton County Sheriff Brian Bellendir said at a news conference Friday that officers arrested 68-year-old Steven Hanks, of Burden, on Thursday on a charge of
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By Dan Heching, CNN Acclaimed series “The White Lotus” — which explores the lives of affluent guests in the playground of a sumptuous resort and the problems they run into while interacting with the locals and each other — was created by Mike White, who can be considered a maestro of cringe. If there’s any
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Un producto para la menstruación que sea ecológico, elegante y fácil de usar puede parecer imposible. Pero la ropa interior para el perÃodo podrÃa serlo. “La ropa interior para la menstruación es un producto de higiene menstrual relativamente nuevo que sirve de alternativa a los productos más tradicionales que la gente
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By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Years of progressing ties between oil-wealthy Saudi Arabia and China, an economic giant in the east, this week culminated in a multiple-day state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Riyadh, where a number of agreements and summits heralded a “new era” of Chinese-Arab partnership. Xi, who landed on Wednesday and
Continue Reading By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Lambert Boissiere III faces a runoff Saturday in his reelection bid for Louisiana’s Public Service Commission. Boissiere’s challenger is Davante Lewis, a 30-year-old progressive policy advocate. Both candidates are Democrats with similar views and priorities, including expanding Louisiana’s renewable energy. The winner will serve a
Continue Reading By SAM MEDNICK Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — German aid organization Help says Jorg Lange, a German national who headed its Niger operations, has been freed more than four and a half years after Islamic extremists kidnapped him in the West African country. The group’s statement Saturday did not provide details of how or
Continue Reading By Allegra Goodwin, CNN Russian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Yan Rachinsky blasted President Vladimir Putin’s “insane and criminal” war on Ukraine in his acceptance speech in the Norwegian capital Oslo on Saturday. Rachinsky, from Russia’s human rights organization Memorial, claimed resistance to Russia is known as “fascism” under Putin, adding this has become “the ideological
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