KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Offshore powerboat racers Lorne Leibel and John Tomlinson piloted Canada Homes to a Super Cat class world championship Sunday, the third and final racing day of the Race World Offshore Key West Championships in the Florida Keys. Driver Leibel of Toronto and throttleman Tomlinson of Miami pulled ahead of M-Con,
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By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has chosen a former New Orleans mayor, Mitch Landrieu, to supervise his $1 trillion infrastructure plan. The White House says Landrieu will be tasked with coordinating across federal agencies to work on roads, ports, bridges and airports. Landrieu is a longtime public servant who
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By Kaitlan Collins, John Harwood and Paul LeBlanc, CNN President Joe Biden has selected former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu to oversee the implementation of the roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, the White House announced Sunday evening. Landrieu’s role underscores the substantial effort that officials say it will take to enact the massive piece
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By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has chosen a former New Orleans mayor, Mitch Landrieu, to supervise his $1 trillion infrastructure plan. The White House says Landrieu will be tasked with coordinating across federal agencies to work on roads, ports, bridges and airports. Landrieu is a longtime public servant who
Continue Reading By JOHN BOHNENKAMP Associated Press CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — Caitlin Clark had 25 points and 11 rebounds and Monika Czinano added 16 points, leading No. 9 Iowa over Northern Iowa 82-61. Clark, a preseason Associated Press All-American, shot 9 of 22 from the field, including 4 of 13 on 3-pointers. She is averaging 23.3
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — The books editor for National Public Radio has died at 46. Colleagues remember Petra Mayer for her reporting at Comic-Con and helping put together a thorough annual guide that filters books for readers based on specific interests. Mayer was an occasional guest on “Pop Culture Happy Hour” podcast episodes. Her colleagues said
Continue Reading By JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The 2021 MTV European Music Awards show has been held in Hungary’s capital of Budapest where some performers expressed their support and solidarity to the country’s embattled LGBTQ community. The show Sunday featured performances by Ed Sheeran, Kim Petras, Maneskin and girl in red, among others.
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By Alaa Elassar, CNN The publisher of the video game Call of Duty: Vanguard has issued an apology after receiving criticism from Muslim players who noticed pages of the Quran lying on the floor during a gameplay scene. The pages from Islam’s holy book were seen scattered on the floor. In Islam, the Quran is
Continue Reading MONTROSE, Iowa (AP) — A train struck a barge in southeast Iowa late Saturday night, knocking several cars off the tracks and spilling coal into the Mississippi River. BNSF railroad officials told the Burlington Hawk Eye that two coal cars landed in the river and three others were partially in the water after the collision
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in north-central Mexico say gunmen assaulted a house and killed five family members, including a 14-year-old boy, and wounded an 8-month-old baby. Prosecutors in the state of Guanajuato said Sunday that the killings occurred Saturday in the town of Apaseo El Grande, where drug gangs have been fighting turf battles.
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Police shot and killed one man as they responded to a shootout in downtown Columbia that left five people injured early Sunday morning. Columbia Police Chief Geoff Jones said two people were exchanging gunfire outside the Vibez Lounge around 3 a.m. Sunday. One of the suspects fired into a crowd of
Continue Reading Marysabel E. Huston-Crespo (CNN Español) – Pedro Capó presentó este viernes “Gracias”, el primer sencillo de su sexta producción discográfica. El tema, escrito por Capó y en el que cuenta con la colaboración de Ale Zabala y Diego Contento, tiene a la gratitud –lo indica su nombre– como tema central. ¿Por qué está agradecido Pedro Capó?
Continue Reading By Eliza Anyangwe, Editor of As Equals In 2020, the global skin whitening market was reportedly valued at $8.6bn. It is projected to grow to $13.7bn by 2025. If we live in a culture where market size is synonymous with societal importance, then why aren’t we talking about skin whitening? In the aftermath of the
Continue Reading By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A newly founded anti-corruption party holds a narrow lead in the preliminary vote count from Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections. A parallel count conducted by Gallup International on Sunday gave the centrist We Continue the Change party 26.3% of the vote. That was a lead of a little
Continue Reading THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greece’s premier film festival took an unexpected turn when anti-vaxxers showed up outside the theater in Thessaloniki where the awards ceremony was about to begin and shouted obscenities at arriving moviegoers and festival personnel. Police intervened Sunday night to keep back the 400 or so protesters who had been marching through
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — British police have arrested three men under terrorism laws after a car exploded outside a hospital in Liverpool, killing one man and injuring another. Counter-terrorism police say the three men detained Sunday range in age from 21 to 29. Police also cordoned off a residential street in the city in northwest England,
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By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business California gas prices hit $4.682 per gallon on Monday, setting a new record for the state for a second day in a row, according to the American Automobile Association. Monday’s price for regular unleaded was six-tenths of a cent higher than the Sunday average reported by AAA, which broke the
Continue Reading THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — The French movie “Petite Nature” (Softie) has won the top Golden Alexander prize at the 62nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival. The film honored Sunday tells the story of a sensitive, gifted 10-year-old boy growing up in a rough neighborhood and taken under the wing of a new teacher. It was written
Continue Reading By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — While world leaders hail the Glasgow climate pact as a good compromise that keeps a key temperature limit alive, scientists are much more skeptical. Leaders say Saturday’s deal keeps the possibility of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times. Scientists say if that
Continue Reading By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — While world leaders hail the Glasgow climate pact as a good compromise that keeps a key temperature limit alive, scientists are much more skeptical. Leaders say Saturday’s deal keeps the possibility of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times. Scientists say if that
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