By Gabby Orr, CNN Former President Donald Trump abruptly canceled a news conference late Tuesday that he was scheduled to host at Mar-a-Lago on the anniversary of the January 6 insurrection, but which his allies had warned would cause unnecessary problems for Republicans and himself. In a statement released late Tuesday afternoon, the former President
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By Hannah Ryan, CNN When most people go looking for love, they turn to dating apps or matchmaking websites, or they ask friends to set them up — but Muhammad Malik is taking a different approach entirely. The 29-year-old bachelor from London has been using billboards in the UK city of Birmingham to advertise himself
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By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN After the longest pit stop in “Amazing Race” history, the show is back. “The Amazing Race” had completed filming three episodes of a new season when the world came to a halt over coronavirus concerns in March 2020. It took more than a year and a half for the show’s producers
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By RON TODT Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Officials say a large house fire in Philadelphia has killed 13 people, including seven children, and sent two people to hospitals. Officials said at a news conference hours after the early morning fire Wednesday that there were four smoke detectors in the building but that none were
Continue Reading By RON TODT Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Officials say a large house fire in Philadelphia has killed 13 people, including seven children, and sent two people to hospitals. Officials said at a news conference hours after the early morning fire Wednesday that there were four smoke detectors in the building but that none were
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas has suspended two fraternities for five years following an investigation that accused the clubs of fostering a culture of hazing. The Kansas City Star reports that the university on Tuesday informed Phi Gamma Delta and Phi Delta Theta in a letter that they will be removed from
Continue Reading ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The woman who accused former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of fondling her in the executive mansion said a prosecutor’s decision to drop the case shows why victims fear coming forward against powerful people. Brittany Commisso was one of Cuomo’s executive assistants before he resigned. She released a statement Tuesday, hours
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By Charles Riley, CNN Business The United States is now the world’s leading exporter of liquified natural gas as Europe’s energy crisis and shortages in China send demand for American shipments soaring. LNG exports from the United States topped 7 million tonnes (7.7 million tons) in December, according to ship-tracking data from ICIS LNG Edge,
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By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A preliminary voting report in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy indicates the group’s reorganization plan has failed to win the desired support from tens of thousands of men who say they were sexually abused as children. The report filed late Tuesday night shows 73% of
Continue Reading By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — A preliminary voting report in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy indicates the group’s reorganization plan has failed to win the desired support from tens of thousands of men who say they were sexually abused as children. The report filed late Tuesday night shows 73% of
Continue Reading By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. and the Iraqi military say Katyusha rockets have struck Iraqi military bases hosting U.S. troops at Baghdad’s international airport and in the western Anbar province. In Syria, eight rounds of indirect fire hit a base where members of the U.S.-led coalition are deployed. No damage
Continue Reading AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Hampshire College has received an anonymous $5 million gift in honor of one of its most famous alumni, award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, that will help the school continue its academic transformation. The gift announced Tuesday is the second $5 million gift the college located in Amherst has received since it
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CNNEE Nota del editor: Roberto Izurieta es director de Proyectos Latinoamericanos en la Universidad George Washington. Ha trabajado en campañas políticas en varios países de América Latina y España, y fue asesor de los presidentes Alejandro Toledo, de Perú; Vicente Fox, de México, y Álvaro Colom, de Guatemala. El autor también es colaborador de CNN
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza Hong Kong (CNN) — Darryl Chan dio positivo por covid-19 cuando aterrizó en Hong Kong el mes pasado. Más de dos semanas después, y a pesar de no mostrar ningún síntoma, permanece aislado en una cama de hospital sin señales de que le permitan irse. Video muestra a la policía en China
Continue Reading SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dozens of anti-vaccination protesters in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe attacked a hospital director and other medical staff following recent violent demonstrations against vaccines and COVID-19 restrictions. Officials said Wednesday that the attack occurred outside the University Hospital Center as police tried to escort the director and other
Continue Reading By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Taiwan says it’s creating an investment fund and planning other measures to help Lithuania as it faces major economic pressure from China for allowing the island to open a representative office in the European Union country. Taiwanese officials said Wednesday that the $200 million fund would
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN Kristen Bell is starring in a mystery spoof series that’s a take on all those woman-gone-mad-in-the-house films. “The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window,” which will air on Netflix, is a “satirical slant on the psychological thriller” and stars Bell as a woman who
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By Wayne Sterling, CNN NASCAR has rejected Xfinity Series driver Brandon Brown’s sponsorship deal with cryptocurrency meme coin LGBcoin — a reference to the controversial “Let’s Go Brandon” phrase, his team acknowledged to CNN on Wednesday. NASCAR’s refusal to allow the LGBcoin.io sponsorship to be on Brown’s number 68 car was first reported by FOX
Continue Reading By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Authorities in Portugal are wrestling with a conundrum: how to hold a general election scheduled for Jan. 30 amid a surge in COVID-19 cases that is confining hundreds of thousands of potential voters to their homes. Around 400,000 people are currently in isolation in the country
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Fans of Luke Spencer on “General Hospital” haven’t seen him in years and now they are unlikely to unless he turns up as a ghost. That’s because the soap opera killed off the iconic character this week. Played off and on over the years by Anthony Geary since the role
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