By Coy Wire and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Like many Olympians, USA track and field athlete Allyson Felix has been having an eventful journey to Tokyo 2020. With four Games under her belt — and having just qualified for her fifth Olympics at the US trials on June 20 — Felix is an Olympic veteran
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Nunca se les acabaron las cosas de las que hablar. Era obvio desde el principio. Él era un antiguo pescador de langostas de Maine, musculoso y con un barítono potente. Ella era una pelirroja con pecas de Wisconsin que trabajaba en reclutamiento para empresas. Hablaban de todo, desde películas de ciencia ficción
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By AJ Willingham, CNN The heat is finally off for the southwestern US, which will cool down this week after a wave of record-breaking temperatures. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN Maybe you need a mental escape from stress. Perhaps you need time to rejuvenate your health. You might simply want to feel more limber. The International Day of Yoga — which is on Monday, June 21 — could be the day that jump-starts a healthy new habit. The day has been
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — La bonanza de las casas baratas en Italia sigue atrayendo a cientos de compradores interesados, a pesar de la pandemia. Pero, ¿qué sucede una vez que alguien da el paso y hace una (pequeña) inversión en un rincón en ruinas de una ciudad remota? Para Roy Patrick, un británico de 67 años,
Continue ReadingBy Paul LeBlanc, CNN Lawmakers will resume a slate of tense negotiations this week over voting rights, infrastructure and police reform as President Joe Biden’s agenda enters an important week on Capitol Hill. Looming large over the deliberations is the July 4 recess in the Senate, which begins at the end of the week and
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — Claudette volvió a ganar fuerza como tormenta tropical este lunes, según la actualización del Centro Nacional de Huracanes a las 5 am ET. La tormenta tropical Claudette se encuentra a unos 105 kms al este-sureste de Raleigh, Carolina del Norte, y tiene vientos de 64 km/h con ráfagas más fuertes. Estos
Continue ReadingBy Carly Walsh, Emiko Jozuka and Ben Church, CNN Tokyo 2020 announced on Monday that it will allow spectators at the Olympics this year amid the pandemic, setting a 50% cap at venues, up to a maximum of 10,000 people. Organizers did however warn that it could restrict the number of fans in the event
Continue ReadingSilvia Marchetti, CNN Italy’s cheap homes bonanza continues to lure hundreds of interested buyers, despite the pandemic. But what happens once someone takes the plunge and invests their (small) chunk of change in a crumbling corner of a remote town? For Roy Patrick, a 67-year-old British car and motorbike fanatic who bought an old school
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN) — La levantadora de pesas de Nueva Zelandia Laurel Hubbard será la primera atleta transgénero en competir en los Juegos Olímpicos, después de ser seleccionada para el equipo nacional el lunes. Competirá en la categoría femenina de 87 kilogramos, según un comunicado emitido por el Comité Olímpico de Nueva Zelandia que también anunció
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By Laura He and Jill Disis, CNN Business Global stocks and cryptocurrencies are pulling back on Monday as investors continue to weigh signals from the Federal Reserve that it could raise interest rates sooner than expected. Markets were broadly lower, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 dropping more than 3% — easily the worst major performer —
Continue Readingherbertholguin (CNN) — Llámalo amor. Llámalo romance. Llámalo sensualidad. Anímate y llámalo lujuria pasada de moda si quieres. Llámalo como quieras, pero el solsticio de verano 2021 está llegando, y tiene una historia de alborotar corazones y libidos. El día más largo del año en el hemisferio norte suele dar inicio al verano y, con
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN As the United States continues on a path to near pre-pandemic normalcy, experts remain concerned over low vaccination rates and the spread of Covid -19 variants, which could potentially exacerbate a pandemic that has upended life for more than a year and inflicted a damaging toll on Americans and the world.
Continue Reading By Michelle Toh, CNN Business A rare case of China’s fiery national liquor has sold for more than $1 million, more than five times what experts had estimated it would fetch. Sotheby’s announced on Friday that it had sold a crate of the beloved spirit, Kweichow Moutai, for an eye-popping £1 million (almost $1.4 million)
Continue ReadingMariana Toro (CNN) — A medida que Estados Unidos continúa su camino hacia la normalidad casi prepandémica, los expertos siguen preocupados por las bajas tasas de vacunación y la propagación de las variantes de covid-19, que podrían exacerbar una pandemia que ha trastornado la vida durante más de un año e infligido dañinas secuelas en
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El expolicía de Minneapolis Derek Chauvin, quien fue declarado culpable del homicidio de George Floyd la semana pasada, será sentenciado a las 2:30 pm ET del 25 de junio, según una entrada actualizada en el expediente judicial. El tribunal había fijado previamente la audiencia de sentencia de Chauvin para el 16
Continue ReadingBefore winning the 2021 US Open, former world No. 1 golfer Jon Rahm told CNN Living Golf’s Shane O’Donoghue that he was “getting closer” and working on the “magic formula” to win a major.
Continue Reading By Hollie Silverman and Amir Vera, CNN As Americans continue to come out of coronavirus isolation and states lift restrictions on gatherings, shootings continue to plague the nation, with nine mass shootings occurring in the US since Friday night. Seven people were killed and at least 45 were injured in 10 mass shootings across nine
Continue Readingolivertapia (CNN Business) — American Airlines canceló cientos de vuelos hasta al menos mediados de julio, a medida que la compañía se esfuerza por mantener el servicio en medio de una demanda de viajes en aumento mientras la pandemia de coronavirus continúa retrocediendo en Estados Unidos, según un portavoz de la aerolínea. A pesar de
Continue Reading By Martin Savidge, Devon M. Sayers and Hollie Silverman, CNN A Tennessee father and his infant daughter were among 10 people — nine of whom were children — killed in a fiery multi-vehicle crash on an Alabama highway this weekend. Cody Fox, 29, of New Hope, Tennessee, and his nine-month-old daughter were identified in a
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