By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia teacher who was shot and seriously wounded by her 6-year-old student filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $40 million in damages from school officials, accusing them of gross negligence and of ignoring multiple warnings the day of the shooting that the boy was
Continue Reading By CHRISTINA MALKIA and JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press GOMA, Congo (AP) — A spokesman for the East African regional force says that Ugandan troops took control of Bunagana, a strategic town in eastern Congo that had been in the hands of M23 rebels for more than nine months. Ugandan forces officially deployed to Bunagana and
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By Brian Todd and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN The first-grade teacher shot by a 6-year-old student in her Newport News, Virginia, classroom earlier this year filed a lawsuit against school administrators and the school board Monday alleging they were aware of the student’s “history of random violence” and did not act proactively amid concerns over a
Continue Reading By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Teachers in England have rejected the government’s latest pay offer, raising the specter of more strikes and further disruptions for parents and children as double-digit inflation sparks labor unrest across the country. News that teachers had voted to reject the offer came as U.K. passport workers kicked
Continue Reading By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown will receive the Ms. Foundation’s Women of Vision Award in May, the nation’s oldest women’s foundation announced Monday. The awards will be handed out at the Ms. Foundation’s annual gala on May 16
Continue Reading By JON MARCUS, The Hechinger Report When Santos Enrique Camara arrived at Shoreline Community College in Washington state to study audio engineering, he quickly felt lost. “It’s like a weird maze,” remembered Camara, who was 19 at the time and had finished high school with a 4.0 grade-point average. “You need help with your classes
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By Hadas Gold, CNN In a sea of Israeli flags, Yiftach Golov holds one that looks a little different. Among the hundreds of thousands of protesters who took to the streets for the 13th week in a row on Saturday, Golov hoists a brown flag that represents a group called “Brother and Sisters in Arms.”
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By Jennifer Korn On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper stood on a sidewalk on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan with a device the size of a brick and made the first public call from a cell phone to one of the men he’d been competing with to develop the device. “I’m calling you on a cell
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By JAMES ELLINGWORTH AP Sports Writer DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Julian Nagelsmann is widely considered a candidate for two of the top jobs in English soccer less than two weeks after being fired by Bayern Munich. The 35-year-old German has been linked with the vacancies at Chelsea and Tottenham. Nagelsmann set a series of records
Continue Reading LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Premier League managers are losing their jobs at a quicker rate than ever. Sunday marked the departures of Brendan Rodgers from Leicester and Graham Potter from Chelsea. It means there have been 13 managerial exits this season and that’s a record for the Premier League. Twelve of the 13 have been
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer WWE and the company that runs Ultimate Fighting Championship will combine to create a $21.4 billion sports entertainment company. A new publicly traded company will house the UFC and World Wrestling Entertainment brands, with Endeavor Group Holdings Inc. taking a 51% controlling interest in the new company. Existing WWE
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By Laura He, CNN China Renaissance, a top dealmaker in the country’s tech industry, said it would suspend trading of its shares and delay the release of its annual results because it still can’t get in touch with its founder. Bao Fan, 52, started the boutique investment bank in 2005 and has been unreachable since
Continue Reading By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Russian athletes are set to compete again in taekwondo at next month’s world championships. The decision by World Taekwondo’s ruling council could see Ukraine fulfil a threat by its government to boycott sporting events where athletes from Russia or Belarus are involved. Russia is strong in
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Lopez-Martinez, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — Cases of homicide among women and girls, known as femicides, are rapidly increasing across Canada as one report details more than 800 women and girls have been killed since 2018. The Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability (CFOJA)
Continue ReadingBy Michael Lee, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — A ring-shaped border on certain distant planets known as the “terminator zone” that separates permanent daytime and nighttime could offer conditions suitable to support life, a recent study has found. Researchers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) published
Continue Reading FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The German soccer federation has given a contract extension to national women’s team coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg before this summer’s World Cup. The federation says Voss-Tecklenburg and her assistant signed new deals on Monday keeping them in charge until after the 2025 European Championship. Voss-Tecklenburg made 125 appearances as a player for
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By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Americans have grown used to corporate executives treading the well-worn paths of the Northeast corridor to convene alongside elected officials in Washington, DC, and discuss geopolitics, policy and all that’s in-between. In 2017, major CEOs from across the country came together to oppose North Carolina’s transgender bathroom law. In 2019, they
Continue Reading By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Americans have grown used to corporate executives treading the well-worn paths of the Northeast corridor to convene alongside elected officials in Washington, DC, and discuss geopolitics, policy and all that’s in-between. In 2017, major CEOs from across the country came together to oppose North Carolina’s transgender bathroom law. In 2019, they
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By Jack Forrest, CNN Donald Trump, the first former president in history to face criminal charges, arrived in New York Monday for an expected arraignment on Tuesday after being indicted last week by a Manhattan grand jury. The expected voluntary surrender of a former president and 2024 White House candidate will be a unique affair
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN World Wrestling Entertainment is merging with Endeavor Group, the parent company of competitor UFC, to form a new publicly traded company. The deal values the newly combined company at over $21 billion: UFC is worth $12.1 billion and WWE is valued at $9.3 billion. Endeavor shareholders will own 51% of the
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