HFX Wanderers FC boasts the biggest name in the Canadian Premier League even if the fame has to be shared. Midfielder Elton John is used to the attention his name brings. “I get that a lot,” he said. “I got Read more …
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Indonesia plans to relocate its capital from Jakarta
https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190429205429-jakarta-super-tease.jpg Indonesia’s Minister of National Development and Planning Board Chief, Bambang Brodjonegoro, said President Joko Widodo favored a plan to relocate the capital from Jakarta to outside of Java Island, according to CNN Indonesia, but that the government has not Read more …
Trump goes after Biden — and against advisers’ advice
https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/181014095636-trump-biden-split-super-tease.jpg That’s exactly the behavior several of the President’s political advisers have been warning him against, wary that Trump will elevate a potentially formidable rival, two sources familiar with the discussions told CNN. “Sleepy Joe Biden is having his first Read more …
Woodstock 50 investor withdraws leaving festival in shambles
Woodstock 50 is proving to be as chaotic as the original festival held in 1969. A financial investor in the festival announced Monday it was pulling its funding from the anniversary event, set to take place Aug. 16-18 in Watkins Read more …
Czech soccer player Josef Sural killed in auto crash in Turkey
Czech Republic international Josef Sural was killed and six other Alanyaspor players were injured on Monday when their van crashed on the way home from a Turkish league soccer match. The 28-year-old Sural died in the hospital during emergency surgery, Read more …
Halima Aden becomes first model to wear hijab and burkini in Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue
http://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190429152149-sportsillustrated-halima-aden-01-super-tease.jpg Written by Emily Dixon, CNN Boundary-breaking Muslim supermodel Halima Aden has made history once again by becoming the first model to wear a hijab and burkini in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. In 2016, Aden became the first contestant Read more …
FBI got tip minutes before California synagogue attack
The FBI said Monday that it received tips on a threatening social media post about five minutes before a gunman burst into a Southern California synagogue and opened fire with an assault-style rifle, killing a woman and wounding a rabbi Read more …
Boyz N the Hood director John Singleton to be taken off life support, family says
The family of John Singleton has announced he will be taken off life support Monday, nearly two weeks after the Oscar-nominated director suffered a stroke. “This was an agonizing decision, one that our family made, over a number of days, with the Read more …
Leafs’ Tavares headlines Canada’s world hockey championship roster
Toronto Maple Leafs centre John Tavares, Ottawa Senators defenceman Thomas Chabot and Vegas Golden Knights winger Mark Stone highlight Canada’s roster for the 2019 world hockey championship. Hockey Canada released the 22-player roster Monday. Tavares set a career high with Read more …
Suspected UAE spy commits suicide in Turkish prison, state media says
https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190429121956-instanbul-silivri-prison-super-tease.jpg But the man’s brother claims that he was killed, and says that his image is being “defamed.” Turkey’s chief prosecutor identified the dead man as Zaki Hassan, who had been detained on charges of “obtaining confidential state information for Read more …