By Issy Ronald, CNN Video by Charlie Webster, CNN Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is one of the greatest ever sprinters — accustomed to winning Olympic and world titles — so when she took part in a race at her son’s sports day, no one else really stood a chance. Fraser-Pryce can be seen sprinting off into the
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN Video by Charlie Webster, CNN Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is one of the greatest ever sprinters — accustomed to winning Olympic and world titles — so when she took part in a race at her son’s sports day, no one else really stood a chance. Fraser-Pryce can be seen sprinting off into the
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By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer NASA on Monday named the four astronauts who will fly to the moon by the end of next year, including one woman and three men. The four were introduced during a televised ceremony from Houston, home to the nation’s astronauts as well as Mission Control. “This is humanity’s crew,”
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By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronauts who will helm the first crewed moon mission in five decades were revealed on Monday, queuing up the quartet to begin training for the historic Artemis II lunar flyby that is set to take off in November 2024. The astronauts are NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Academy Award winner Leonardo DiCaprio took the stand Monday as the first blockbuster witness in the star-studded trial of former Fugees member Pras Michel. Michel is accused of participating in a global campaign-finance conspiracy funded by Jho Low, a Malaysian businessman who allegedly stole billions of dollars from a Malaysian sovereign
Continue Reading By KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian court has suspended a two-year prison sentence for Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi as he appeals his criminal conviction for mocking the prime minister’s surname which resulted in his expulsion from Parliament, dealing a huge blow to his Congress party ahead of general elections
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STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — Stuttgart has fired Bruno Labbadia as coach and appointed former Hoffenheim coach Sebastian Hoeneß in his place. Stuttgart says Hoeneß has signed a contract through June 2025. The 57-year-old Hoeneß is the club’s third coach this season. Stuttgart fired American coach Pellegrino Matarazzo in October with the club in next-to-last place
Continue Reading By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — After years of setbacks, abortion-rights supporters in Republican-leaning Kentucky thought they achieved a breakthrough in November, when voters defeated a measure aimed at denying any constitutional protections for abortion. But their hopes that the state’s sweeping abortion ban might be relaxed vanished well before the GOP-dominated
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By Clare Duffy, CNN Some VIP Twitter users woke up on Saturday expecting to have lost their coveted blue verification check marks in a previously announced purge by Elon Musk. Instead, Twitter appeared to target a single account from a major publication Musk dislikes and changed the language on its site in a way that
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN OPEC and its allies’ surprise move to slash oil production will soon be felt at US gas pumps. The group known as OPEC+ announced Sunday it would cut oil production by more than 1.6 million barrels a day starting in May, running through the end of the year. The news sent
Continue Reading ZURICH (AP) — Peru has been stripped of hosting the men’s Under-17 World Cup because FIFA says the country is not ready to stage the tournament later this year. FIFA has not named a replacement host for the 24-team tournament scheduled to be played from Nov. 10-Dec. 2. The decision comes one week after FIFA
Continue ReadingBy Cyndi Fahrlander and Angie Ricono Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — New details are being revealed about what led to a crash in Westport in December of 2021 that killed three people. KCTV5 has obtained the full 323-page investigative report and newly-released images from that night. We know
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer The NBA will have an international player as its scoring champion for the second time. Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid was born in Cameroon. He is on the cusp of becoming a back-to-back scoring champion, though he and Dallas’ Luka Doncic of Slovenia might take that race down to the wire.
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — El 60% de los estadounidenses aprueba la acusación contra el expresidente Donald Trump, según una nueva encuesta de CNN realizada por SSRS tras la noticia de que un jurado investigador de Nueva York votó a favor de acusarlo en relación con supuestos pagos de dinero por silencio realizados a la actriz de
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed, CNN Key Senate Democrats are calling for next year’s funding for the Supreme Court to be conditioned on the creation of an ethics code for the justices. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat who leads the appropriations subcommittee charged with writing the annual funding bill for the judiciary, has expressed support
Continue Reading DORTMUND, Germany (AP) — Borussia Dortmund defender Nico Schlotterbeck will be out “for the time being” with a muscle tear he picked up in the 4-2 loss to title rival Bayern Munich on Saturday. Schlotterbeck went off in the 44th minute as Dortmund was knocked off the top spot in the Bundesliga. Dortmund says he
Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer DALLAS (AP) — March Madness may have been the last time for fans to see many of the talented college women players compete. Players’ options for professional basketball careers are limited, whether in the U.S. or overseas — the jobs just aren’t there. “You can be a great college
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by Brenda Goodman, CNN Scientists in Germany say they’ve been able to make a nasal vaccine that can shut down a Covid-19 infection in the nose and throat, where the virus gets its first foothold in the body. In experiments in hamsters, two doses of the vaccine — which is made with a live but
Continue Reading By Jen Christensen, CNN A new study found a moderately higher risk of autism spectrum disorder in children born to pregnant people exposed to tap water with higher levels of lithium, but experts caution that this association does not show a direct link between the two. About 1 in 36 children in the US is
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By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Turkey’s persecuted pro-Kurdish party has emerged as a kingmaker in the country’s upcoming election, playing a decisive role that may just tip the balance enough to unseat two-decade ruler Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In a key setback to the Turkish president and leader of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), the
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