Analysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — Rupert Murdoch’s reign over the insidious right-wing media kingdom he forged into existence over a decades-long career is coming to a close. The 92-year-old right-wing media mogul, who announced Thursday that he will step down as chairman of Fox Corporation and News Corporation, will leave behind a stain
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CNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — An asteroid sample is expected to land in the Utah desert on Sunday, NASA said, where recovery teams have been training for months for its arrival. If all goes according to plan, a capsule will return the largest sample collected since Apollo astronauts brought back lunar rocks decades
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — An asteroid sample is expected to land in the Utah desert on Sunday, NASA said, where recovery teams have been training for months for its arrival. If all goes according to plan, a capsule will return the largest sample collected since Apollo astronauts brought back lunar rocks decades
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — An asteroid sample is expected to land in the Utah desert on Sunday, NASA said, where recovery teams have been training for months for its arrival. If all goes according to plan, a capsule will return the largest sample collected since Apollo astronauts brought back lunar rocks decades ago.
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN (CNN) — An asteroid sample is expected to land in the Utah desert on Sunday, NASA said, where recovery teams have been training for months for its arrival. If all goes according to plan, a capsule will return the largest sample collected since Apollo astronauts brought back lunar rocks decades
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe and Eric Zerkel, CNN (CNN) — Tropical Storm Ophelia has strengthened off the East Coast, Hurricane Hunter data shows, as North Carolina and parts of the mid-Atlantic prepare for a soggy and windy weekend ahead of the storm’s anticipated landfall. The storm, packing maximum sustained winds of 70 mph with higher gusts,
Continue ReadingBy DAVID RISING Associated Press HANGZHOU, China (AP) — A long-standing border dispute between India and China has left three Indian martial arts competitors stranded at home and unable to make it to the Asian Games in Hangzhou while sparking a diplomatic row Friday between the two countries. The three women wushu athletes are from
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Another member of K-pop supergroup BTS has begun his mandatory military service in South Korea. Suga started serving on Friday as a social service agent, an alternative form of military service in the country. The 30-year-old is the group’s third member to start carrying out
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By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Second-year quarterback Brock Purdy continues to defy his draft position as he helped lead the San Francisco 49ers to its 13th NFL regular season win in a row with victory against the New York Giants on Thursday. Purdy, who was drafted with the final pick of the 2022 draft,
Continue ReadingBy TODD WALLACK AND CHRISTINE WILLMSEN, WBUR Deb Libby is running out of time to find a place to live. Libby, 56, moved to Worcester, Massachusetts, four years ago, in part to be closer to the doctors treating her for pancreatic cancer. But the landlord wants her out by the end of the month and
Continue ReadingBy Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — There have been at least 71 school shootings in the United States so far this year, as of November 9. Twenty-four of those were on college campuses and the remaining 47 were on K-12 school grounds. The incidents have left at least 33 people dead and more than
Continue Reading By Matt Foster, CNN (CNN) — Maddy Cusack, a midfielder in English soccer’s second division, died on Wednesday, according to her team Sheffield United. She was 27. The club said in a press release it was “devastated to report the sad news” of Cusack’s passing. A tribute was held for her before Sheffield United men’s Premier League
Continue ReadingBy AARON MORRISON AP Race and Ethnicity News Editor U.S. breaking pros who hope to compete in the Paris Olympics next year have a challenge. As ambassadors to the country where the hip-hop dance form originated, they want to preserve breaking’s focus on originality and its ties to Black and Latino culture. But as Olympians,
Continue ReadingBy MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Many baseball fans, especially older ones, originally fell in love with America’s pastime by listening to ballgames on AM radio. In fact, next month will mark the 100th anniversary of the first World Series broadcast to a national radio audience. But a century later, some
Continue ReadingBy BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Schools for millions of students in Nepal are closed as tens of thousands of teachers protest in the capital against an education reform bill in parliament. Teachers have been demonstrating in Kathmandu since Wednesday against the School Education Bill while teachers’ groups negotiate with government leaders
Continue ReadingBy DAVID RISING Associated Press HANGZHOU, China (AP) — In the first Asian Games since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, two teams of athletes are arriving in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, looking very different. One, sent from Afghanistan where women are now banned by the Taliban from participating in sports, consists of about
Continue Reading By Jack Hillcox, CNN (CNN) — “We always had it in our history, in our DNA, to fight,” Levan Maisashvili, head coach of Georgia’s rugby union team, says as he reflects on the proud, defiant nature of his small country. Maisashvili knows all about battling against the odds. In 2021, he was given a 1%
Continue ReadingBy KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China and Syria have announced the formation of a strategic partnership as Chinese leader Xi Jinping kicked off a series of diplomatic meetings ahead of the upcoming Asian Games. Xi met Syrian President Bashar Assad on Friday in the southern Chinese city of Hangzhou, which is hosting
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TODAY: Mostly cloudy and seasonal in the upper 70s. Isolated to scattered storms are possible through the day with chances tapering off into the evening. TOMORROW: The weekend starts off dry, giving temperatures a chance to reach 80 in the afternoon. A robust round of storms is likely late Saturday near sundown, with rain filling
Continue ReadingBy AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Russia’s Defense Ministry says that ethnic Armenian separatists in Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh are surrendering their arms to Russian peacekeepers. The moves come after Azerbaijan reclaimed control over the region that has for decades been at the center of a conflict with neighboring Armenia. The
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