By Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — Golfer Adam Hadwin had built a superb reputation for staying dry at The Players Championship. On Thursday, the water took its long-awaited revenge by claiming two of his balls – and even a club. Across more than four decades, hundreds of the PGA Tour’s finest players have watched in
Continue ReadingBy JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A cable car recently dedicated to the late Tony Bennett rolls past the landmark Fairmont hotel where the singer in 1961 first performed the song that would forever tie him to San Francisco. San Francisco officials on Valentine’s Day dedicated one of the city’s iconic cable
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El gobernador de Texas, Greg Abbott, se jactó poco después de comenzar a solicitar donaciones privadas para su controvertido programa de transporte de migrantes en autobús de que probablemente “no habría ningún costo para el Estado”, dada la avalancha de apoyo de ciudadanos preocupados en todo el país. Pero después de
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Nicole Eggert is sharing an update on her health after her recent breast cancer diagnosis. The “Baywatch” star took to Instagram to post a video of herself shaving her head. Eggert’s daughter Keegan, 12, appeared to help her mom with the back. She set the video to the Beastie
Continue ReadingCNN Opinion by Garry Pierre-Pierre (CNN) — The last few weeks have brought unthinkable upheaval in Haiti, a country that is no stranger to tragedy and suffering. The images have been graphic and disturbing: people forced from their homes by roving bands of gunmen, clutching their meager belongings and dodging bullets in the streets in a desperate
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include Shakira’s first album in seven years, Jake Gyllenhaal starring in an update of the pulpy cult classic “Road House” and “Law & Order” creator Dick Wolf dips into the true crime world with a new docuseries on Netflix. In a new special, James Beard-winning
Continue ReadingBy WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Eclipse-themed beer. Jewelry and ornaments. And doughnuts that capture the sun’s disappearing act with the help of buttercream frosting. With April 8’s total solar eclipse right around the corner, businesses are ready for the celestial event that will dim skies along a generous path across
Continue ReadingOpinion by Arick Wierson (CNN) — First, let’s get one thing out of the way: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is almost certainly going to lose in his bid to be elected president of the United States this November. This week’s revelation that the former Democrat-turned-independent is considering drafting New York Jets’ quarterback and fellow conspiracy-peddler Aaron Rodgers as his running mate
Continue ReadingASHLAND, Ky. (AP) — Seven inmates at an eastern Kentucky prison have filed a federal lawsuit saying officers at the facility forced them to either drink their own urine or be tased after failing a drug test. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in Ashland says four officers at Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex told the inmates who
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By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — When Vanessa Hall-Harper, a city councilor in Tulsa, Oklahoma, learned this week that Family Dollar was closing nearly 1,000 stores, she had a surprising reaction. “For communities that have been negatively impacted by the proliferation of dollar stores, it’s a great thing,” she told CNN. “I’ve been
Continue Reading By Krystal Hur, CNN New York (CNN) — Stocks started the week on a high note but ended with a whimper. The S&P 500 index on Tuesday reached a record high close for the 17th time this year, as investors shrugged off a higher-than-expected 3.2% annual rise in consumer prices and cheered a cooldown in
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By Christian Edwards, Katharina Krebs, Anna Chernova and Darya Tarasova, CNN (CNN) — Russia has filed at least 15 criminal cases after people poured dye in ballot boxes, started fires or lobbed Molotov cocktails as small acts of civil disobedience marred the presidential vote. Dissent has effectively been outlawed in Russia since it launched its
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — More than a dozen current and former collegiate female athletes filed a lawsuit with a US District Court in Georgia on Thursday, alleging that the NCAA “serially violated Title IX in 2022 by purposefully adopting and amending policies” to allow transgender swimmer Lia Thomas to compete with the UPenn
Continue ReadingBy ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer A powerful real estate trade group has agreed to do away with policies that for decades helped set agent commissions, moving to resolve lawsuits that claim the rules have forced people to pay artificially inflated costs to sell their homes. Under the terms of the agreement announced Friday, the
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — There’s no place like home for legendary musician Lionel Richie. For Richie, that is the historic town of Tuskegee, Alabama, where he’s bringing his fellow “American Idol” judges Katy Perry and Luke Bryan to show them his roots on a new episode of the singing competition series. “I was
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Soaring winter temperatures. Unusually warm oceans. Heavy rainfall drenching and displacing communities. Low snow cover in North America and record low levels of Antarctic sea ice. If last month being the planet’s hottest February — the ninth month in a row that a monthly record tumbled — failed to resonate, a new
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expressing support for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer after the senator called for new elections in Israel. It’s the latest sign that the U.S. relationship with its closest Middle East ally is careening toward fracture over the war in Gaza. Schumer said earlier
Continue ReadingBy Noor Shami Click here for updates on this story SKAMANIA COUNTY, Washington (KPTV) — The Vancouver Fire Department said one person was hurt while rock climbing at Beacon Rock State Park Thursday. Two rock climbers were using ropes to ascend a defined climbing path on Beacon Rock when a man fell approximately 25 feet
Continue ReadingBy MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. marriages have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels with nearly 2.1 million in 2022. That’s a 4% increase from the year before. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released new data. The COVID-19 pandemic threw many people’s wedding plans into disarray. In 2020, there
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — La advertencia del líder de la mayoría del Senado, Chuck Schumer, de que Israel corre el riesgo de convertirse en un “paria” y su petición de nuevas elecciones marcaron un momento trascendental en las relaciones modernas entre Estados Unidos e Israel. La reprimenda de Schumer al primer ministro Benjamin Netanyahu este
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