By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” is one of the first songs I learned to play on the violin. I’ll never forget the elation I felt playing the iconic fourth movement of his Ninth Symphony alongside my fellow orchestra members, each note joining in a celebration of togetherness. But
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By Eva Rothenberg, CNN New York (CNN) — A federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, on Friday blocked a new Biden administration rule that would prohibit credit card companies from charging customers late fees higher than $8. US District Judge Mark T. Pittman, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, granted a preliminary injunction to
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s military and allied armed groups have staved off an attack by a paramilitary group and Arab militias on a major city in the western region of Darfur. The attack on Friday was the latest by the Arab-dominated Rapid Support Forces against el-Fasher, the provincial capital of
Continue ReadingBy Kaila Nichols and Brammhi Balarajan, CNN (CNN) — Sub-zero temperatures. Frigid winds. Snow falling across a “tundra-like” plain. These were the conditions soldiers faced in the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir. For some 17 days in late 1950, they fought through blistering cold in the North Korean mountains. With limited logistics and no hope
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — Mucha gente ama sus alimentos ultraprocesados. Los refrescos, las patatas fritas, los helados, los embutidos y otros alimentos preparados son elementos básicos de la dieta estadounidense. También son difíciles de evitar. Más del 70% del suministro de alimentos de Estados Unidos se compone de alimentos ultraprocesados. Pero una dieta rica en
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — Más de una década después de que los espectadores se despidieran de la querida serie de NBC “The Office”, una nueva comedia ambientada en el mismo universo que la compañía papelera favorita de todos, Dunder Mifflin, llega a Peacock. La estrella de “Ex Machina” Domhnall Gleeson y Sabrina Impacciatore de la
Continue ReadingDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s hard-liners have won most of the remaining seats in an election run-off to give them full control over the country’s parliament, authorities say. They did not give details of the turnout. The result, and that of the previous vote in March, gives hard-liners 233 of the 290 seats
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By Simone Pathe, CNN Silver Spring, Maryland (CNN) — The farmers market in this suburb of Washington, DC, was a ripe crowd for Angela Alsobrooks, who’s locked in an increasingly contentious Senate Democratic primary on Tuesday. “I would really like to see a Black woman in the Senate. It’s about time,” 68-year-old Kathy Pruitt of
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — The trooper who arrested the head of Philadelphia’s LGBT affairs and her husband, an incident captured in a video circulated on social media, “is no longer employed” by Pennsylvania State Police, the agency says. It was unclear whether the trooper, whose name has not been released,
Continue ReadingBy Kaila Nichols, CNN (CNN) — In late March, Tamiah Brevard-Rodriguez had a plan leading up to her April 24 due date. Coined “Operation Dissertation Before Baby,” the plan included Brevard-Rodriguez completing her dissertation and having her baby in time to celebrate graduation and the summer with family. In that order. Brevard-Rodriguez’s dissertation presentation –
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump is known for leveling constant and often personal attacks on top rivals such as Joe Biden. Lately, he’s increasingly taking that same approach against independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Among the recent jabs, Trump this past week posted a roughly four-minute video
Continue ReadingBy Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — More than two decades after authorities discovered a University of Georgia law student’s body at her apartment, where they say a fire was set intentionally, a man has been arrested and charged in connection with the cold case. Tara Louise Baker was found dead in her Athens, Georgia,
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By Aimee Lewis, CNN (CNN) — History can weigh heavy on some. Attempting to forge a path never trodden, trying to be the first can become too burdensome a task for even the greats. The expectation, the pressure increasing with each step made towards that never-before-achieved feat. Yet two rounds, or 36 holes, away from
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press FORT LIBERTY, N.C. (AP) — U.S. special operations commanders are having to do more with less and they’re learning from the war in Ukraine, That means juggling how to add more high-tech experts to their teams while still cutting their overall forces by about 5,000 troops over the next
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — El Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión se vio sumido en una nueva controversia este sábado, cuando los organizadores descalificaron al participante de Países Bajos horas antes de la gran final por un incidente detrás del escenario que involucró a una integrante del equipo. La Unión Europea de Radiodifusión (UER) que
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — During their year of service, pageant queens are highly visible, making appearances at major events, advocating for important causes and speaking at public engagements, all in an official capacity. But following the shocking double resignation of Miss USA 2023 Noelia Voigt and Miss Teen USA 2023 UmaSofia Srivastava this
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press MALMO, Sweden (AP) — A Dutch public broadcaster has reacted angrily after the Netherlands’ contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest was dramatically expelled from the competition hours before Saturday’s final. Organizers say Swedish police are investigating a complaint made by a female member of the production crew about Joost Klein. They said
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has visited the country’s border with Belarus and stressed that Poland will do more to strengthen security along its entire eastern frontier. It is also the European Union’s external border with the autocratic state, and Tusk said he believed the bloc
Continue ReadingBy Scott Glover, Audrey Ash and Bob Ortega, CNN (CNN) — As police cracked down on anti-war protests on college campuses across the US in recent weeks, among those arrested were a pair of silver-haired 65-year-old professors armed only with their cell phones. Annelise Orleck was knocked to the ground and restrained with plastic handcuffs
Continue ReadingBy GRAHAM LEE BREWER Associated Press Historically, when students at American universities and colleges protest — from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter — there’s a common refrain that “outside agitators” are to blame. College administrators and elected officials have often pointed to community members joining protests to dismiss the demands of student
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