By Lilit Marcus, CNN The phrase “queen of the skies” has just taken on another meaning. While the now-discontinued Boeing 747 bore the moniker in the past, Virgin Atlantic is repurposing the phrase as it names a plane after the late Queen Elizabeth II. The airline has occasionally named its planes after notable women in
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No more nuggets? School lunch goes farm-to-table — for some
By JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press CONCORD, Calif. (AP) — As the fine-dining chef at a suburban high school gave samples of his newest recipes, junior Anahi Nava Flores critiqued a baguette sandwich with Toscano salami, organic Monterey Jack, arugula and a scratch-made basil spread: “This pesto aioli is good!” Classmate Kentaro Turner devoured a deli-style
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No more nuggets? School lunch goes farm-to-table — for some
By JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press CONCORD, Calif. (AP) — As the fine-dining chef at a suburban high school gave samples of his newest recipes, junior Anahi Nava Flores critiqued a baguette sandwich with Toscano salami, organic Monterey Jack, arugula and a scratch-made basil spread: “This pesto aioli is good!” Classmate Kentaro Turner devoured a deli-style
Continue ReadingMortal y desechable: un informe de inteligencia revela las brutales tácticas de Wagner en Ucrania
Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Los combatientes del Grupo Wagner se han convertido en la infantería desechable de la ofensiva rusa en el este de Ucrania, pero un documento de la inteligencia militar ucraniana obtenido por CNN expone lo eficaces que han sido en torno a la ciudad de Bajmut, y lo difícil que es
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5 things to know for Jan. 24: Mass shootings, Covid, Oath Keepers, Ukraine, Twitter
By Alexandra Meeks, CNN We’re already more than halfway through winter — which runs from December through February — and understandably, people in the western US are ready for it to end after being inundated with rain and chilly weather for weeks. Meanwhile, some people on the other side of the country feel like the
Continue Reading5 things to know for Jan. 24: Mass shootings, Covid, Oath Keepers, Ukraine, Twitter
CNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN We’re already more than halfway through winter — which runs from December through February — and understandably, people in the western US are ready for it to end after being inundated with rain and chilly weather for weeks. Meanwhile, some people on the other side of the country feel like
Continue Reading 5 things to know for Jan. 24: Mass shootings, Covid, Oath Keepers, Ukraine, Twitter
CNN By Alexandra Meeks, CNN We’re already more than halfway through winter — which runs from December through February — and understandably, people in the western US are ready for it to end after being inundated with rain and chilly weather for weeks. Meanwhile, some people on the other side of the country feel like
Continue ReadingAs war continues in Ukraine, Shakhtar Donetsk wants to send message of hope with ‘miracle’ season
By Don Riddell and George Ramsay, CNN Uprooted from its home in Ukraine’s Donbas region in 2014, soccer club Shakhtar Donetsk is accustomed to the change and upheaval brought about by war having played at stadiums around the country for close to a decade. But even by Shakhtar’s standards, the events that have unfolded since
Continue ReadingBill Gates backs start-up tackling cow burps and farts
By Laura Paddison, CNN It turns out burps can be big business. Billionaire Bill Gates has announced an investment in Australian start-up Rumin8, which is developing a seaweed-based feed to reduce the methane emissions cows produce through their burps and, to a lesser extent, farts. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. While it is shorter-lived
Continue ReadingAgentes de inteligencia rusos habrían ordenado a supremacistas blancos enviar cartas bomba en España, dicen funcionarios de EE.UU.
olivertapia (CNN) — Funcionarios estadounidenses creen que agentes de inteligencia rusos ordenaron a un grupo de supremacistas blancos rusos llevar a cabo una campaña de cartas bomba que sacudió Madrid a finales del año pasado, contra el presidente del Gobierno español, las embajadas de EE.UU. y Ucrania, así como el Ministerio de Defensa español, según
Continue ReadingRecently retired Gareth Bale set to compete at PGA Tour’s Pebble Beach Pro-Am
By Jack Bantock, CNN Just two weeks after retiring from football, Gareth Bale has confirmed he will be back competing with a ball at his feet next month — albeit a much smaller one. A well-known golf enthusiast, the Welsh icon is set to tee off at the PGA Tour’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in
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Live Nation exec faces lawmakers about Taylor Swift concert tickets fiasco
By Parija Kavilanz and Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Lawmakers grilled a top executive from Ticketmaster’s parent company after the service’s inability to process orders for Taylor Swift’s upcoming tour left millions of fans unable to buy tickets or without their ticket even after purchase. Joe Berchtold, the president and CFO of Ticketmaster parent company Live
Continue Reading Searchers find 2nd hiker in area where Julian Sands missing
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Rescue personnel in California have found a 75-year-old hiker who was lost on the same snow-covered mountain where actor Julian Sands is missing. NBC LA captured images of Jin Chung, of North Hollywood, being loaded into an ambulance Tuesday afternoon. He had a leg injury and some weather-related injuries but
Continue ReadingTens of thousands without power in Northeast as another storm threatens the US from New Mexico to Maine
By Artemis Moshtaghian, Isa Kaufman-Geballe and Robert Shackelford, CNN Tens of thousands of homes and businesses across multiple states in the Northeast were without power early Tuesday after a winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow across areas from central New York to the Maine-Canada border. And while the region is expected to
Continue ReadingResumen de noticias de la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania del martes 24 de enero
Juan Pablo Elverdin Este seguimiento terminó. Puedes ver las últimas noticias de la guerra aquí. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
Continue ReadingGhislaine Maxwell claims in jailhouse interview that Prince Andrew photo with Virginia Giuffre is ‘fake’
By Amy Cassidy and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has said a decades-old photograph of Prince Andrew with his sexual abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre is “fake,” in a series of interviews from prison. The disgraced British socialite is currently serving a 20-year sentence in US federal prison for carrying out a
Continue ReadingANÁLISIS | América Latina fue “la región más mortífera para la prensa” en 2022, según un nuevo informe alarmante
olivertapia (CNN) — Es una época cada vez más peligrosa para ser periodista. En su informe anual que se publicará la mañana de este martes, el Comité para la Protección de Periodistas (CPJ, por sus siglas en inglés) encontró que la cantidad de periodistas asesinados “aumentó considerablemente” en 2022, según una copia anticipada del informe
Continue ReadingJessica Pegula crashes out of Australian Open as Victoria Azarenka cruises into semis
By Matias Grez, CNN Victoria Azarenka produced a brilliant display of tennis to dispatch world No. 3 Jessica Pegula and reach the Australian Open semifinals. The two-time Australian Open champion, now ranked 24th in the world, rolled back the years to beat Pegula, one of the most consistent players on the women’s tour over the
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN Late last August, a solar-powered drone called Zephyr almost beat one of aviation’s most enduring records. The unmanned aircraft, operated by the US Army and produced by Airbus, flew for 64 days, 18 hours and 26 minutes before unexpectedly crashing down in Arizona — just four hours shy of breaking the
Continue Reading The Half Moon Bay massacre was an apparent workplace violence case. The suspect had been accused of violence against a coworker in 2013, court records show
By Holly Yan, Stella Chan, Christina Maxouris, Casey Tolan and Curt Devine, CNN The 66-year-old man suspected of killing four people at a California mushroom farm he worked at and three others at another nearby site Monday had been accused of trying to suffocate and threatening to kill a former coworker at another job nearly
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