CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Czech skier Ester Ledecka has won the first women’s World Cup downhill after the Olympics as all three medalists from Beijing finished well behind. Ledecka hat an attacking run down the Mont Lachaux course in perfect sunny conditions to beat Ragnhild Mowinckel by 0.21 seconds. Cornelia Hütter of Austria came 0.42
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By Christina Maxouris, Alta Spells and Maximillian Boudreaux, CNN Wanda Cooper-Jones said she wanted guilty verdicts in the federal trial for her son’s killers by the time she marked two years since Ahmaud Arbery was gunned down during a jog. They came a day earlier. Jurors found Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and their neighbor William
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Continue Reading CNN By Ivana Kottasová, Simone McCarthy, Tara John and Tim Lister, CNN Two large explosions lit up the night sky south of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv early Sunday morning. The explosions appear to have been around Vasylkiv, which has a large military airfield and multiple fuel tanks and is about about 30 kilometers south
Continue ReadingBy Chloe Melas, CNN Kicking, hitting and screaming. It’s what happens at my house from the moment my kids wake up to the moment they go to sleep. My sons, ages 2 and 4, fight with each other over everything. Whether it’s sharing toys, the color of their dinner plates or even who has the
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By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business The grocery run, the fuel-up and the utility bill are all costing more these days — not to mention the surging home prices and rising rents. But a trip to the neighborhood dispensary might not elicit similar feelings of sticker shock. While Americans have seen prices climb across most of
Continue Reading GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) — Henrik Kristoffersen has won his first men’s World Cup slalom in more than a year. The Norwegian skier benefited from a mistake by first-run leader Tanguy Nef. The unheralded Swiss skier led a World Cup race for the first time. Nef had been 0.07 faster than Kristoffersen in the first leg
Continue Reading GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) — Henrik Kristoffersen has won his first men’s World Cup slalom in more than a year. The Norwegian skier benefited from a mistake by first-run leader Tanguy Nef. The unheralded Swiss skier led a World Cup race for the first time. Nef had been 0.07 faster than Kristoffersen in the first leg
Continue Reading GENEVA (AP) — The Olympic bronze medal in women’s skicross has been changed on appeal nine days after the race at the Beijing Winter Games. Fanny Smith of Switzerland will now get bronze after she was wrongly demoted to fourth in China. The International Ski Federation announced the verdict Saturday after an appeal brought by
Continue Reading GENEVA (AP) — The Olympic bronze medal in women’s skicross has been changed on appeal nine days after the race at the Beijing Winter Games. Fanny Smith of Switzerland will now get bronze after she was wrongly demoted to fourth in China. The International Ski Federation announced the verdict Saturday after an appeal brought by
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s refusal to play its World Cup qualifier against Russia next month in response to that nation’s invasion of Ukraine gained wider support when Sweden followed with its own plans to protest to FIFA. Polish soccer federation president Cezary Kulesza announced Poland’s decision and said it was talking with other federations
Continue ReadingJohn Walton, CNN Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and aviation bans are creating huge no-go areas in the sky, with major implications for long-haul carriers that normally criss-cross the skies of Eastern Europe en route to Asia. All this could have significant consequences for passengers, airlines and the cost of flying if Europe and Russia revive
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s refusal to play its World Cup qualifier against Russia next month in response to that nation’s invasion of Ukraine gained wider support when Sweden followed with its own plans to protest to FIFA. Polish soccer federation president Cezary Kulesza announced Poland’s decision and said it was talking with other federations
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN Carnival celebrations are taking place around the world ahead of Mardi Gras, and the world’s largest cruise ship is poised to set sail. But travel is also being impacted by Covid restrictions and the Ukraine invasion. Here are the biggest stories from CNN Travel this week. The world’s largest, highest and
Continue Reading Maya Brown, CNN As a third-generation Japanese American, Kathy Nishimoto Masaoka remembers the fight for reparations during the Japanese redress movement in the 1970’s. Black leaders in the civil rights movement were among the effort’s biggest supporters, she says. Masaoka said winning reparations gave the Japanese American community strength, a chance to stand up and
Continue Reading CNN By Tamara Qiblawi, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Sofiya Harbuziuk, CNN Photos by Mark Philips At the railway station in Lviv, in Ukraine’s westernmost corner, near the Polish border, hundreds of people are pouring off of trains, disembarking as sirens blare. The terminal, one of the most historic Art Nouveau structures in Europe, is now a
Continue ReadingBy Tara Subramaniam, CNN The way the conflict in Ukraine has unfolded across social media has made it hard for many people to figure out what’s real and what’s not. Cell phone videos from locals have circulated on Twitter, Facebook and TikTok, but some of the videos alleging to depict the situation on the ground
Continue ReadingCNN By Tara Subramaniam, CNN The way the conflict in Ukraine has unfolded across social media has made it hard for many people to figure out what’s real and what’s not. Cell phone videos from locals have circulated on Twitter, Facebook and TikTok, but some of the videos alleging to depict the situation on the
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Imperial girls basketball suffers a tough loss in the CIF-SD Division 2 Championship Game.
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