By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that Iowa’s head football coach, Kirk Ferentz, and offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz will not have to spend the team’s bye week answering questions from lawyers for Black former players who say they suffered discrimination. U.S. Magistrate Judge Helen Adams
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By Aaron Cooper, CNN William Shatner spoke to a crowd at New York Comic Con on Thursday evening, just days before he will blast into space on a sub-orbital flight. Much of his 45-minute speech included talk of the 90-year old actor’s other projects, including his album, but near the end he explained how he
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By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy says a submarine that collided with an unknown underwater object in the South China Sea and was damaged has arrived in port at Guam. The Navy says the USS Connecticut was conducting routine operations when it struck the object on Oct. 2.
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By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Supreme Court justices are talking to each other again. For the first time since March 2020, they held oral arguments in person this week. As the justices sat elbow-to-elbow on the elevated bench, shed of the telephonic constraints, their interactions were more pointed, their hypothetical
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister has expressed support for the army troops and border guards protecting the frontier with Belarus from migration pressure after reports of shots fired at Polish troops by Belarusian forces. Mateusz Morawiecki tweeted Friday that all state powers were with the border guards and the military protecting the border.
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By Kathryn Vasel, CNN Business Major life events — like a global pandemic — often lead people to take stock of their lives. And many workers are now taking a closer look at their jobs and realizing it’s not what they want to be doing anymore. In July, four million people quit their jobs, according
Continue ReadingBy Kathryn Vasel, CNN Business Major life events — like a global pandemic — often lead people to take stock of their lives. And many workers are now taking a closer look at their jobs and realizing it’s not what they want to be doing anymore. In July, four million people quit their jobs, according
Continue Reading By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters and numerous studies credit forest thinning projects with helping to save communities like those near Lake Tahoe. But dissent from some environmental advocacy groups is roiling the scientific community. States in the U.S. West and the federal government each year thin thousands of acres of
Continue Reading By KATHY GANNON Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United States and Pakistan have held difficult talks over the path forward in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan at a time when relations between the two countries are shaky. The meeting on Friday between Washington’s deputy secretary of state and Pakistani leaders came amid an array of unsettled issues.
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — High-level delegations from Mexico and the United States are building a new security framework for the bilateral relationship that they hope will govern how the two countries cooperate on a broad range of issues. The so-called U.S.-Mexico Bicentennial Framework for Security, Public Health and Safe Communities
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By Ehsan Popalzai and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN A suicide blast ripped through a Shia mosque in northern Afghanistan Friday, killing 46 people and injuring 143 others, provincial spokesman Matiullah Rohani told CNN. The attack occurred during Friday prayers at the Sayed Abad mosque in Kunduz, Rohani said. A Taliban spokesman said security forces were on
Continue Reading By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Newly released documents from the investigation of a woman accused of conspiring to kill her children and husband reveal sordid details of a cult-like belief system of “zombies” and “vibrations.” Documents from the Chandler Police Department in Arizona examine the lives of Lori and Chad Daybell
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Se espera que la lluvia de meteoros de las Dracónidas alcance su punto álgido este viernes 8 de octubre y dure hasta el próximo domingo 10 de octubre, trayendo consigo una llovizna de meteoros para los observadores de las estrellas. Las Dracónidas son lluvias notoriamente “somnolientas”, que solo producen cinco
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — El Premio Nobel de la Paz 2021 fue otorgado a dos periodistas por sus esfuerzos para salvaguardar la libertad de expresión. Se trata de Maria Ressa y Dmitry Muratov. Te contamos aquí sus historias. Maria Ressa, Premio Nobel de la Paz 2021 Maria Ressa es nativa de Filipinas. Periodista y
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — Fueron sufragistas, líderes, artistas y astronautas que transformaron Estados Unidos, incluso si no las conoces por su nombre. Ahora, serán inmortalizadas en las monedas de 25 centavos estadounidenses. La Casa de la Moneda de EE.UU. ha anunciado la lista completa de cinco mujeres pioneras que aparecerán en la primera parte del “Programa
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By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s company lost more than $70 million operating his Washington D.C. hotel while in office. That is according to documents released Friday by a House committee investigating his business. The company had to inject millions into the hotel and get Deutsche Bank to
Continue Reading By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s company lost more than $70 million operating his Washington D.C. hotel while in office. That is according to documents released Friday by a House committee investigating his business. The company had to inject millions into the hotel and get Deutsche Bank to
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has issued the first-ever presidential proclamation of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. That lends the most significant boost yet to efforts to refocus the federal holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus toward an appreciation of Native peoples. Biden also issued a proclamation for Columbus Day
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By Kristina Sgueglia, CNN New York City will phase out its controversial gifted and talented student program after years of debate that the exclusive classes further segregated students. City officials say the new policy will allow all rising kindergarteners to have access to accelerated learning, in what the Mayor says will provide an equitable model
Continue Reading By RAGAN CLARK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After reevaluating friendships and emotions during the pandemic, James Blake channeled his reflections into a 12-track LP, his fifth studio album. “Friends That Break Your Heart” strays from traditional love songs, focusing instead on friendship heartbreak, complacency, comparison and hope. The pandemic not only changed the
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