CNN By Daniel Renjifo, CNN (CNN) — Jean Jacques “JJ” Wallis spends a lot of his time searching for his next extreme adventure in his home country of South Africa. But as a professional skydiver, BASE jumper, and wing flyer, adventure usually finds him first. Wallis founded BASE Jump Africa in 2017, an online community
Continue Reading By Daniel Renjifo, CNN (CNN) — Jean Jacques “JJ” Wallis spends a lot of his time searching for his next extreme adventure in his home country of South Africa. But as a professional skydiver, BASE jumper, and wing flyer, adventure usually finds him first. Wallis founded BASE Jump Africa in 2017, an online community where
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Archaeologists have unearthed more ancient ruins of what they believe was once a bustling port city near the capital of modern-day Morocco, digging out thermal baths and working class neighborhoods that the country hopes will lure tourists and scholars in the years ahead. On Friday, researchers
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The judge in Donald Trump’s civil business fraud trial barred attorneys in the case Friday from commenting on “confidential communications” between him and his staff, after the former president’s attorneys renewed claims that a clerk is poisoning the proceedings. Threatening “serious sanctions” for any violations, Judge
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — Boca y Fluminense buscan alzar la Copa Libertadores en el legendario estadio Maracaná. Son dos gigantes en sus respectivos países. Uno, Boca, de Argentina, con historia de la grande en el certamen más prestigioso de la Conmebol. El otro, Fluminense, de Brasil, que busca su primera conquista en el torneo,
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — Once finales de Copa Libertadores, seis ganadas, cinco perdidas. ¿Será la final número 12 la vencida para llegar a la tan ansiada séptima Libertadores? Si bien es el segundo equipo con más Copas Libertadores (lleva seis ganadas, mientras que Independiente ya conquistó siete), Boca Juniors es el club con más
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — State prosecutors have added hate-crime allegations to charges of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon against a New Mexico man accused in the shooting of a Native American activist amid confrontations about aborted plans to reinstall a statue of a Spanish conquistador in public. At court proceedings Thursday
Continue ReadingBANGKOK (AP) — The leader of Myanmar’s army-installed government has declared its military will carry out counterattacks against a powerful alliance of ethnic armed groups. The groups have seized towns near the Chinese border in the country’s northeastern and northern regions. The Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper on Friday quoted Senior Gen. Min Aung
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Flight attendant Ilona Zahn was less than impressed when she first met pilot Ian Duncan. It was 1970. Ilona was working the first class cabin on the Pan American World Airways flight from Rome to Tehran, traveling via Beirut and Damascus. Ilona first caught sight of Ian a couple
Continue ReadingBy ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah says his powerful militia is engaged in unprecedented cross-border fighting with Israel along the Lebanon-Israel border and is threatening a further escalation as the four-week-long Israel-Hamas war rages on. Nasrallah spoke in televised remarks on Friday, his first since the beginning of the
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — A teaser trailer for “Kingdom of the Planets of the Apes” is here. The film, set for theatrical release in spring 2024, is a follow up to 2017’s “War for the Planets of the Apes” film and picks up after after Caesar’s death in the last film. The latest
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20TH CENTURY STUDIOS By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — A teaser trailer for “Kingdom of the Planets of the Apes” is here. The film, set for theatrical release in spring 2024, is a follow up to 2017’s “War for the Planets of the Apes” film and picks up after after Caesar’s death in the last
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Outrage over the price of basic housing is spurring calls for a tax on mansions in a Southwestern city cherished by tourists and second-home owners for its adobe architecture and Rocky Mountain vistas. A Nov. 7 ballot initiative would place a 3% tax on home
Continue ReadingCNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — It was a rough day in court for the Trump boys. But even before Donald Jr. and Eric had wrapped up an unconvincing day of testimony in a New York civil fraud trial, their father erupted. “So sad to see my sons being PERSECUTED in a political
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Colorado voters will decide two statewide ballot measures Tuesday that would affect their pocketbooks as well as state coffers. Proposition HH would reduce property tax rates for 10 years in exchange for allowing the state to keep and spend some amount of tax revenue that would otherwise
Continue ReadingSENECA, S.C. (AP) — A driver tried to crash through the exit gates of a South Carolina nuclear plant Thursday night about an hour after security asked the same car to leave when it tried to enter, authorities said. A pop-up security barrier stopped the car with an Arkansas license plate at the Oconee Nuclear
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Control of Virginia’s legislature is up for grabs in Tuesday’s off-year general election. Republicans hold a slim majority in the House of Delegates, while Democrats hold an equally narrow majority in the state Senate. All 40 state Senate seats and 100 state House seats will be on
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN Español) — Los relojes se atrasarán una hora en Estados Unidos este domingo 5 de noviembre, fecha que marca el inicio del horario de invierno 2023. A las 02:00 a.m. del domingo 5, el primer domingo del mes de noviembre, el horario de verano que comenzó en marzo —conocido en inglés
Continue ReadingBy ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New York voters will decide of a variety of races and ballot questions in Tuesday’s general election. At stake are seats for the New York City Council and state Supreme Court as well as races for county executive posts across the state. Voters will also decide two
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — Jeff Bezos is leaving the city where it all began for him. The Amazon founder announced on Instagram that he’s relocating from Seattle, where he has lived since 1994, to Miami. He explained that his parents recently moved back to Florida, where he and his family lived
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