By Zoe Sottile, CNN Brooklyn, New York (CNN) — When Boubacar Lukaku is on the soccer field, it’s like nothing else matters. His concerns disappear, leaving just him and his laser focus on the ball, the net and his teammates. Lukaku has a lot to worry about. The 22-year-old asylum-seeker emigrated to the United States
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — A bus carrying a Brazilian football team flipped on a road south of Rio de Janeiro. The accident happened on Saturday, killing three people and injuring at least six. Local media reported that the three dead were players from the Curitiba Crocodiles, who play American football. The players were headed to
Continue ReadingAssociated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Next week’s high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly is bringing more than 140 world leaders to New York City, including the leaders of Israel, the Palestinians and Ukraine. Keeping them safe is the U.S. Secret Service’s next big challenge. The agency, under a cloud after a July assassination
Continue ReadingGULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to protect dolphins along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after dozens were killed or sickened in 2019 following the prolonged opening of a spillway used for flood control. U.S. District Court Judge Louis Guirola Jr. ruled Wednesday that local governments and business groups
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Forward Trinity Rodman suffered an intense back spasm that caused her to leave the field by wheelchair late in the Washington Spirit’s match against the Kansas City Current. Rodman fell to the ground in the 75th minute of Friday night’s game after contact with Kansas City’s Temwa Chawinga. She tried
Continue ReadingAP Fashion Writer MILAN (AP) — Madonna has attempted a semi-stealth entrance to the Dolce & Gabbana runway show draped in a black veil for a runway show referencing her 1990s heyday and celebrating the cone bra. Models in bleach-blonde wigs strutted in the Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana’s signature corsets and fitted jackets on
Continue ReadingAssociated Press LONDON (AP) — Four Greenpeace activists who were arrested for scaling the country estate of former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last year to protest his oil and gas drilling expansion plans have been cleared of criminal charges. A York Magistrates’ Court judge dismissed the charges Friday after finding the evidence was too
Continue ReadingPRAGUE (AP) — The main opposition party has dominated Czech regional elections and is ahead in the first round of voting for Parliament’s upper house. With almost all the votes counted, the ANO (YES) movement led by former populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis won 10 of the 13 regions contested in the election on Friday
Continue ReadingBy Mohammad Al-Sawalhi, Benjamin Brown, Eyad Kourdi and Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — At least 22 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in an Israeli strike on a school compound Saturday, Palestinian officials said, with Israel saying it targeted Hamas fighters sheltering there. A spokesman for the Gaza Civil Defense, Mahmoud Basal, said
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two people have died and two teenage girls are among three others injured following a shooting in downtown Minneapolis. Police received a call about shots being fired just before 2 a.m. Saturday. Arriving officers found five people injured, including two men ages 20 and 21, two girls ages 16 and 17 and
Continue ReadingAP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs created a hit-making empire with big name performers, earning his place as a savvy music mogul and becoming a three-time Grammy winner while securing high-profile deals across other industries. But now, Combs’ kingdom is collapsing under charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. He was arrested
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Italian news agency ANSA reports that a man suspected of the brutal killing of two women in Australia almost a half-century ago has been arrested in Rome on an international arrest warrant. The 65-year-old suspect has dual Greek and Australian citizenship. ANSA reported on Saturday that the man was detained at a
Continue ReadingBy Victoria Butenko, Maria Kostenko and Chris Liakos, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN that Ukraine’s request to use long-range missiles on targets inside Russia is part of his “victory plan,” that he is due to present to US officials next week. Zelensky has been pushing Ukraine’s allies to ease restrictions on
Continue ReadingCINCINNATI (AP) — Authorities say an Ohio student-athlete was injured in a shooting outside a stadium where a high school football game was being played. North College Hill police say the gunfire occurred at about 8:15 p.m. Friday in the parking lot of the elementary school during the game between the North College Hill and
Continue ReadingThe budget motel chain Motel 6 is being acquired by the parent company of Oyo, a hotel operator based in India. The New York-based investment firm Blackstone, which owns Motel 6’s parent company G6 Hospitality, announced Friday that the deal would be an all-cash transaction worth $525 million. The transaction will also include the sale
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — Springfield Mayor Ron Rue has spent over a week scrambling to respond to a wave of bomb threats while subtly noting how the tab to keep people safe is growing daily. “This is costing the city. We’re definitely in the hundreds of thousands of dollars in expense. We haven’t
Continue ReadingFITZGERALD, Ga. (AP) — The mother of a Georgia teenager charged with fatally shooting four people at his high school has been indicted in connection with an alleged domestic incident last year. The indictment handed down Monday charges Marcee Gray, 43, with exploiting an elderly person and other crimes in Ben Hill County, The Atlanta
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to visit the Pennsylvania ammunition factory that’s producing one of the most critically needed munitions of the war, 155 millimeter artillery shells. That word comes from two U.S. officials and a third familiar with Zelenskyy’s schedule. He’s expected to visit the Scranton Army Ammunition
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man has been charged in shootings near Minneapolis homeless encampments that killed one man and injured another. Hennepin County prosecutors say 36-year-old Anthony Jones is charged with one count of second-degree murder and one count of attempted second-degree murder. A news release from the county attorney’s office says Jones also is
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal agents on Saturday boarded a vessel managed by the same company as a cargo ship that caused the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse, the FBI confirmed. In statements, spokespeople for the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland confirmed that authorities boarded the Maersk Saltoro. The ship is managed
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