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Results 1 to 30The Netherlands’ Abdi Nageeye wins thrilling men’s race at New York City Marathon
2024-11-03, 17:36The Netherlands’ Abdi Nageeye won a thrilling men’s race at the New York City marathon on Sunday, while Kenya’s Sheila Chepkirui marked her debut with a victory in the women’s race. Nageeye produced a powerful sprint finish to edge ahead of 2022 winner Evans Chebet in the race’s closing stages and...
Queen Conker: How a 34-year-old from Indianapolis became the first American world champion of a ...
2024-11-03, 16:05There aren’t many world champions who didn’t know their sport existed a year before winning the title. But then, conkers isn’t like many other sports. A traditional children’s game in Great Britain and Ireland, conkers players each hold a horse chestnut threaded onto a piece of string, taking turns...
Iranian woman detained after taking clothes off at university in Tehran
2024-11-03, 15:29A female student stripped to her underwear outside her university in Iran in what some student and rights groups say was a protest against the country’s strict Islamic dress code. A video circulating on social media and shared by rights group Amnesty International shows the woman sat outside the...
A pregnant teenager died after trying to get care in three visits to Texas emergency rooms
2024-11-03, 15:11Editor’s note: This story was originally published by ProPublica. Candace Fails screamed for someone in the Texas hospital to help her pregnant daughter. “Do something,” she pleaded, on the morning of Oct. 29, 2023. Nevaeh Crain was crying in pain, too weak to walk, blood staining her thighs....
No. 1 Oregon continue unbeaten start to season with win over Michigan
2024-11-03, 15:11No. 1 Oregon secured a dominant 38-17 win over the defending national champion Michigan in Ann Arbor on Saturday, behind an impressive performance from quarterback Dillon Gabriel who threw a touchdown pass and ran for a score. The win ensured that the Ducks improve to 9-0 on the season – only the...
2024 NFL Week 9: The best of Sunday’s games and the standout storylines
2024-11-03, 14:53Week 9 can be seen as a ‘fork in the road’ week for many teams. Win and they still have something to play for. But lose and they might have to start looking towards 2025 with big changes likely on the horizon. Week 9 began with the New York Jets’ surprise 21-13 victory over the Houston Texans on...
What Americans heard about Trump heading into the campaign’s final week: fascism and french fries
2024-11-03, 14:17In the closing weeks of the 2024 campaign, much of the most discussed news around former President Donald Trump revolved around fascism and french fries, according to The Breakthrough, a CNN polling project that tracks what average Americans are actually hearing, reading and seeing about the...
Angry crowds boo and throw eggs at Spanish king as he visits flood-hit Valencia
2024-11-03, 14:17Angry residents booed and threw eggs at Spain’s King Felipe as he visited the Valencia region, where more than 200 people have died in devastating floods. Some in the crowd shouted “murderers” when Felipe visited Paiporta, just...
‘Circle of greed’: How a $1 million teacher scheme left hundreds of uncertified teachers in ...
2024-11-03, 14:17Robert “Boo Lee” Williams was still seething days after a popular basketball coach and two assistant principals at Houston’s first two historically Black high schools were arrested in an alleged teacher certification scheme. “It almost got me in tears, man,” said Williams, a 1967 graduate of Jack...
These 8 states have ballot measures targeting noncitizen voting – already illegal in federal elections
2024-11-03, 13:41Voters in eight states, most of them heavily Republican, are deciding on ballot measures this year that aim to require US citizenship to vote – even though it is already illegal for noncitizens to cast ballots in federal elections. The ballot measures in Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, North...
RFK Jr. says Trump will recommend removing fluoride from public water if he wins reelection
2024-11-03, 13:41Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Saturday that Donald Trump’s administration will order fluoride to be removed from water supplies if the former president wins Tuesday’s presidential election. Kennedy, who Trump has suggested would oversee a health portfolio in a potential future administration, wrote in...
The world is about to get some much-needed clarity on the US economy’s future
2024-11-03, 12:47A dense fog clouding the US economy could soon clear. For months, US consumers and businesses have felt some degree of paralysis from the upcoming presidential election, putting off purchases and investments until the world knows who will move into the White House, according to surveys and comments...
Ukraine facing ‘one of the most powerful’ Russian offenses of the war, commander warns, as ...
2024-11-03, 12:29Ukraine’s army chief has warned that his forces are facing “one of the most powerful Russian offensives” since the start of the war as Russia claimed it captured more settlements on the eastern frontline. Russia has steadily been making gains in the eastern Donbas region, which Russia’s President...
Lightning strike kills 14 at prayer service in Uganda refugee camp, police say
2024-11-03, 11:55A lightning strike killed 14 people during a prayer service in a refugee camp in Uganda on Saturday, authorities in the east African country said. The strike,...
CNN Exclusive: Bill Clinton has hopes and fears on what comes after 2024 – for ...
2024-11-03, 11:55Rumbling down the road between small towns in western Michigan, Bill Clinton was considering mortality – potentially American democracy’s or the Democratic Party’s, but also his own. The nation’s 42nd president believes Kamala Harris will win and that the economy will “explode” over the next few...
How news outlets are bracing for an election night cliffhanger
2024-11-03, 11:37By all accounts, it is unlikely Americans will go to bed on Election Day knowing who their next president will be. As polls show a dead heat between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in the final days of the race, news outlets are preparing an anxious nation for the...
After their son came out, this conservative Christian couple went into a closet of their own
2024-11-03, 11:37As soon as Greg McDonald Jr. saw his parents, he knew he was in trouble. His father stood waiting for him with his arms folded and his brow furrowed. Beside him was Greg’s mother, her eyes red and puffy. “Quick, pretend you’re interested in me,” Greg Jr. told his friend Betsy as he steered the...
How Donald Trump is laying the groundwork to dispute the election results – again
2024-11-03, 10:27Donald Trump is re-using his 2020 playbook to baselessly claim the 2024 election is being stolen from him and is being joined by allies with big megaphones amplifying his falsehoods ahead of Election Day. Trump has made repeated false claims that Democrats are cheating in the election, and he’s...
The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2024
2024-11-03, 09:52Senate control is for grabs Tuesday. And although Republicans are well positioned to win the majority, Democrats cannot be counted out entirely. That’s because their well-funded candidates have consistently overperformed the top of the ticket in polling of many of the most important races. And even...
10 House races to watch on election night (and beyond)
2024-11-03, 09:52Entering Election Day on Tuesday, the battle for control of the US House of Representatives rests on a knife’s edge, with a historically small universe of competitive races poised to determine the chamber’s majority in the next Congress – an outcome that could have far-reaching consequences for the...
NBA investigating reports that Philadelphia 76ers’ Joel Embiid shoved columnist
2024-11-03, 09:34The National Basketball Association is investigating reports that Philadelphia 76ers star center Joel Embiid “shoved” a columnist following the team’s loss to the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday night. A visibly angry Embiid confronted Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Marcus Hayes as reporters entered...
IKEA will pay 6 million euros to East German prisoners forced to build their furniture ...
2024-11-03, 08:07Furniture giant IKEA has agreed to pay 6 million euros ($6.5 million) towards a government fund compensating victims of forced labor under Germany’s communist dictatorship, in a move campaigners hope will pressure other companies to follow. Political as well as criminal prisoners in Germany during...
Israel wanted to dismantle the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency for years. The consequences could be ...
2024-11-03, 07:12Benjamin Netanyahu sat down for his regular cabinet meeting and had some words for a new ally – and an old enemy. “Last week I met with US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley,” the Israeli prime minister told his colleagues. “I thanked her, on your behalf as well, for her decisive words in...
Palestinians were living under occupation for decades before the war. A Palestinian and an Israeli ...
2024-11-03, 07:12Midway through the documentary “No Other Land,” journalist and activist Basel Adra recounts a 2009 visit to his village by former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. In a navy suit and crisp tie, surrounded by security detail and photographers, Blair walked through the village for seven minutes, Adra says...
Putin unlikely to come to the negotiation table, regardless of who wins US election
2024-11-03, 06:18Russia is watching US policy like a hawk. That was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s message to reporters last week in Kyiv as he answered a question about Moscow’s willingness to negotiate. “It depends on the elections in the United States,” he said. If elected, Kamala Harris is expected to...
Harris makes surprise appearance on SNL and gives advice to fictional self played by Maya Rudolph
2024-11-03, 04:48Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on “Saturday Night Live,” making a surprise stop during the show’s last episode before Election Day to give her fictional self some advice ahead of the presidential election. “You got this,” Harris told her “SNL” alter ego, Maya Rudolph. The cold open started...
Trump no longer leads in a state he carried twice, according to new Iowa Poll
2024-11-02, 23:59Vice President Kamala Harris holds 47% to former President Donald Trump’s 44% among likely voters in the final Iowa Poll before Election Day from the Des Moines Register and Mediacom. That margin falls within the poll’s 3.4 point margin of sampling error and suggests...
Election stressing you out? Here’s what to watch to unplug
2024-11-02, 22:29As the nation and the world waits and watches for the results of the US presidential election this week, it’s safe to say that tensions may be running high. As polls close and results begin trickling in, one great way to disengage while staying somewhat in the realm of politics is by revisiting this...
Biden returns to his hometown after a limited campaign role
2024-11-02, 20:31In front of a few dozen union carpenters here this weekend, President Joe Biden was getting worked up. “Now, I know some of you guys are tempted to think it’s macho guys,” Biden said, alluding to his onetime rival, former President Donald Trump, who is courting male voters in a razor-thin election...
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