By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer The Rugby World Cup will take place against the backdrop of a concussion lawsuit that has similarities to one settled by the NFL in 2013 at a likely cost of more than $1 billion. A growing number of rugby players in their 30s and 40s contend the sport’s governing
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By Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows rolled the dice on Monday with his opening move in the sprawling Fulton County election subversion trial: he took the stand himself. For roughly three-and-a-half hours Monday, Meadows testified about his job at the White House and
Continue ReadingBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Stargazers are in for a double treat this week: a rare blue supermoon with Saturn peeking from behind. The cosmic curtain rises Wednesday night with the second full moon of the month, the reason it’s considered blue. It’s dubbed a supermoon because it’s closer
Continue ReadingBy JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — The top Chinese official in charge of economic relations with Washington has told Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo he’s ready to “make new positive efforts” to improve cooperation following an agreement to reduce trade tension. The agreement on Monday is the most substantial result to date out
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Today: Afternoon highs warm into the mid-80s as winds remain out of the northeast at 5-10 mph. Skies remain partly cloudy. Tonight: Overnight lows cool to the lower 60s with mostly clear sky conditions. Winds remain out of the northwest at 5-10 mph. Extended: The rest of the week sees mostly sunny sky conditions and
Continue ReadingBy MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani appeals court has suspended the corruption conviction and three-year prison term of Imran Khan in a legal victory for the hugely popular but embattled former prime minister. That’s according to lawyers and court officials. Hours after the announcement, the Islamabad High Court in a written
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Exclusive by Tamara Qiblawi, Allegra Goodwin, Nima Elbagir and Celine Alkhaldi, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of families gathered in the West Darfur capital of El Geneina on June 15, plotting their escape from what had become a hellscape of blown-out buildings scrawled with racist graffiti and streets strewn with corpses. The state governor had just
Continue ReadingBy SIMINA MISTREANU and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Britain’s top diplomat James Cleverly is set to visit China on Wednesday in the first trip by a U.K. foreign secretary to the country in more than five years. Both governments confirmed the long-awaited trip on Tuesday. Cleverly’s visit is an attempt to
Continue ReadingBy KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police have detained two men on suspicion of violating the city’s national security law through links with a now-defunct fund that aimed to help people arrested in the pro-democracy protests in 2019. Police say the two men are suspected of conspiring to collude with
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Novak Djokovic, el tenista No. 2 del mundo, se estrenó en el Abierto de Estados Unidos en Flushing Meadows, Nueva York, este lunes por la noche con una victoria contundente sobre el francés Alexandre Muller por 6-0, 6-2 y 6-3, en su intento por conquistar su 24º título de Grand
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN Español) — Un movimiento telúrico sorprendió a Panamá durante la medianoche de este martes con una magnitud de 5,4 y una profundidad de 10 kilómetros. Su epicentro fue localizado a 61 kilómetros de El Porvenir, cabecera de la comarca Guna Yala, según el Instituto Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS, por sus siglas
Continue Reading By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — When a 64-year-old Australian woman was sent to hospital for brain surgery, neurosurgeon Dr. Hari Priya Bandi was not expecting to pull out a live 8-centimeter (3-inch) long parasitic roundworm that wriggled between her forceps. “I’ve only come across worms using my not-so-good gardening skills … I find them
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Authorities say a technical failure that saw hundreds of flights delayed and canceled across the U.K. was caused by problems in some flight data received by Britain’s national air traffic controllers and was not a cyberattack. The breakdown hit on a late-summer holiday Monday that’s one of
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The unofficial end of summer is almost here.
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London’s traffic cameras are under attack. Police say hundreds of license plate-reading cameras have been damaged, disconnected or stolen by opponents of an anti-pollution charge on older vehicles that came into force across the metropolis on Tuesday. The vandalism by vigilantes calling themselves the Blade Runners shows
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s top military officer has made a one-day visit to Egypt on his first trip abroad since his country plunged into large-scale conflict this year. The Egyptian presidency says President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi held talks Tuesday with Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, the chairman of Sudan’s ruling Sovereign Council.
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By Michelle Toh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Hundreds of workers are slated to strike at two major liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities in Australia belonging to Chevron starting next week, after unions voted for work stoppages in an ongoing labor dispute. Offshore Alliance, which represents the Australian Workers’ Union and the Maritime Union of
Continue Reading By Alex Stambaugh, Jennifer Hansler, Louise McLoughlin and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Rare new video has emerged showing detained American Paul Whelan, who has been held in Russia for more than four years, inside his prison camp. The video, released by Russian state-controlled news agency Russia Today (RT), shows Whelan wearing a Russian prison
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Toyota dijo que suspenderá las operaciones en todas sus plantas en Japón a partir de este martes porque no puede procesar pedidos de repuestos debido a una falla en su sistema de producción. “Actualmente estamos investigando la causa del problema, y en este momento no creemos que el fallo del sistema
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient’s brain. Surgeon Hari Priya Bandi was performing a biopsy through a hole in the 64-year-old patient’s skull at Canberra Hospital last year when she used forceps
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