By SEAN MURPHY The Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The first Republican candidate to challenge Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt says he’s leaving the party and will run as an independent. Former state Sen. Ervin Yen, an Oklahoma City physician, is the second GOP elected official to leave the party, in part over Stitt’s response
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By Steve Almasy, CNN Famed basketball announcer Dick Vitale has lymphoma and will undergo six months of chemotherapy, he announced on ESPN.com on Monday. Vitale, 82, tweeted Tuesday that he was at a hospital for surgical procedures to determine what type of chemotherapy he will get. With the start of college basketball season a few
Continue Reading By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents have been carrying out “law enforcement activity” at a Washington mansion and New York City townhouse tied to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Officials wouldn’t provide any additional information about the circumstances surrounding their presence or
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El uso de cigarrillos electrónicos y otros productos de tabaco para no recaer en el hábito de fumar cigarrillos no parece ser eficaz, según un nuevo estudio longitudinal de casi 13.000 fumadores en Estados Unidos. “Este es el primer estudio que informa sobre si los fumadores de cigarrillos pueden cambiar a
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Boeing’s long-awaited spacecraft, called Starliner, is still facing a long road ahead before it’ll be ready to fly astronauts, the company said on Tuesday. It is still working to address an issue with the vehicle’s propulsion system that was discovered just hours before it was slated to launch a crucial
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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Canadian National’s CEO is retiring instead of staying to fight against an investor who has been pushing for his ouster. The Montreal-based railroad on Tuesday announced JJ Ruest’s decision to retire at the end of January. It did not mention the pressure Canadian National is
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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Canadian National’s CEO is retiring instead of staying to fight against an investor who has been pushing for his ouster. The Montreal-based railroad on Tuesday announced JJ Ruest’s decision to retire at the end of January. It did not mention the pressure Canadian National is
Continue Reading BROOKSHIRE, Texas (AP) — Authorities say no one was seriously hurt when an airplane taking passengers to the AL Championship Series game in Boston ran off a runway and burned near Houston. The Federal Aviation Administration says the McDonnell Douglas MD-87 was carrying 21 people when it rolled through a fence and caught fire while
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — Un avión con destino a Boston que transportaba a más de 20 personas chocó contra una cerca y estalló en llamas mientras despegaba en el Aeropuerto Ejecutivo de Houston este martes por la mañana. No se reportaron heridos de gravedad, dijeron las autoridades. Todos los pasajeros y la tripulación lograron abandonar
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By Kristin Fisher and Jackie Wattles, CNN Mark “Forger” Stucky, who for six years headed the test pilot program at space company Virgin Galactic before he says he was fired earlier this year, is taking a job with the company’s chief competitor, Blue Origin. Stucky said he will join Blue Origin’s “Advanced Development Programs” team,
Continue Reading By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press Retired U.S. Rep. Bill Zeliff has died at age 85 after a career in which he helped lead the investigation of the disastrous siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Texas in 1993. A funeral home and Zeliff’s wife say the Republican died Monday in Florida after declining health. Zeliff
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By Jeff Zeleny and Dan Merica, CNN For nearly half a million voters in Virginia, Election Day is already over. So, in the final two weeks of the closely watched governor’s race, with more people voting every day, the pressure is intensifying on Democrat Terry McAuliffe to address frustration over inaction in Washington and Republican
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN) — Cada año, los compradores esperan encontrar un montón de ofertas jugosas cuando empiezan a comprar los regalos de fin de año. Este año, esos grandes descuentos podrían ser más difíciles de conseguir y la culpa la tiene el estancamiento de la cadena de suministro mundial. Los minoristas de todo
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The Missouri Department of Transportation announced the closure a little after noon in a tweet. The closure was needed to reduce traffic heading west toward the area of Sorrels Overpass, the agency said. The overpass was damaged when a tractor-trailer hit it Monday and MoDOT plans to have it demolished.
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By Sherry Liang, CNN October’s full moon, the hunter’s moon, and the Orionid meteor shower are on this week’s celestial forecast, but you might only be able to catch one of them. The hunter’s moon will be fullest at 10:58 a.m. ET on October 20, and 99% full during the evenings of October 19 and
Continue Reading BASTROP, Texas (AP) — An attorney for a Texas death row inmate has told a judge that new evidence suggests the 19-year-old woman his client was convicted of killing may instead have been strangled by her jealous boyfriend. Rodney Reed was convicted in the 1996 rape and murder of Stacy Stites in Bastrop, 30 miles
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda Nueva York (CNN Business) — Años antes de que la junta de Microsoft investigara una relación romántica que el fundador Bill Gates tenía con una empleada, sus colegas ejecutivos le dijeron a Gates que dejara de enviarse correos electrónicos inapropiados con una empleada, confirmó Microsoft este lunes. En 2008, cuando Gates todavía
Continue ReadingBy Chloe Melas, CNN Nicole Kidman has made some dramatic character transformations as an actor and it appears she’s pulled it off again. “I get paid a fortune to do exactly what I love doing,” Kidman says as Lucille Ball the first trailer for Amazon Prime’s “Being the Ricardos.” The film was written and directed
Continue Reading By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — CBS won its first week of the still-new television season, this time by dominating non-sports programming. Nielsen company figures show CBS had 14 of the 20 most-watched non-sports shows on network television last week, while NBC had the other five and Fox had one. NBC
Continue Reading By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — CBS won its first week of the still-new television season, this time by dominating non-sports programming. Nielsen company figures show CBS had 14 of the 20 most-watched non-sports shows on network television last week, while NBC had the other five and Fox had one. NBC
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