Nearly 50,000 General Motors employees are in the process of voting on a tentative labor deal that could end their five-week strike. The early results are mixed. The Warren Technical center, in Warren, Michigan, which is made up mostly of engineers, voted 85% in favor of the deal. It also passed easily at a metal
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The top US diplomat in Ukraine, Bill Taylor, testified Tuesday that he had been told President Donald Trump would withhold military aid to the country until it publicly declared investigations would be launched that could help his reelection chances — including into former Vice President Joe Biden, according to a copy of Taylor’s opening statement
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Candice Pedersen remembers hearing about her great-grandmother’s tattoos and wanting the same traditional markings on her skin. “She had them on her forehead, her cheeks and her chin, on her wrists and all the way up her arm. When my mom was a little girl, she would trace each of the lines with her finger
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A Los Angeles County resident visited Disneyland last week while infectious with measles, health officials said late Tuesday, potentially exposing hundreds of other people to the highly contagious disease. The individual went to Starbucks at 3006 S. Spulveda Boulevard in West Los Angeles early on the morning on October 16 before going to Disneyland from
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Former Vice President Joe Biden’s lead in the race for the Democratic nomination for president has rebounded, and now stands at its widest margin since April, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. Biden has the support of 34% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning registered voters, his best showing in CNN polling since just
Continue Reading Happy Wednesday. A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. The crisis around Boeing, once a blue-chip stock, is getting worse. Investors are about to find out exactly how much damage has been done. Boeing, which reports third quarter earnings
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EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso Police Department squad car crashed late Tuesday afternoon into a central city church. The police squad car ran into the La Paz Faith church in central El Paso. Authorities said there were no injures and closed off the 1200 block of N. Piedras Street to traffic as they investigated. Police officials
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A Chinese cafe is under fire for painting dogs as pandas to stand out in the competitive pet cafe market. The cafe — in the southwestern city of Chengdu, close to the native home of the giant panda — also offers a dyeing service for people who want to transform their own pets into pandas.
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Phoebe Ouma spends a lot of her time with a pencil between her fingers, sketching women and clothing she finds interesting. Born in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital city, she says she has always been artistic. “I have always been drawing,” she told CNN. “It is a thing I have been good at.” Ouma, 23, is fascinated
Continue Reading Always sanitary products will remove the Venus symbol, historically used to represent the female sex, from its products to be inclusive of transgender and nonbinary customers. Transgender activists and allies had publicly urged Procter & Gamble to redesign its pad wrapper without the gender symbol, a circle atop a cross. Among their arguments were that
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As the eyes of the rugby world focus on Japan for the final stages of the Rugby World Cup, back in the UK, six teams will go head-to-head in what’s being billed as rugby’s answer to big-hitting, short-form cricket. Across the globe, different sports are addressing the decreasing attention spans of fans by introducing condensed
Continue Reading Joanna Schroeder is a mother of three in Los Angeles who has made it something of a mission to warn parents of the racism running throughout social media and the way white supremacists are using the medium to “recruit” young boys. To some, her perspective may seem alarmist—she points to the word “triggered” as one
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police released the latest numbers of traffic deaths for 2019, and so far nearly half of them as cases of pedestrians being struck. As of this week, there have been 55 deaths on the roads, with 25 of them involving pedestrians. Police said that out of all the incidents of
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The New Mexico Department of Transportation will begin construction on one of the busiest interchanges in town on Thursday. “I think it might slow down I-25 for a little bit,” said Kaimyn Toledo, who relies on the intersection. The state will build two massive roundabouts that will replace the entrance and
Continue Reading Police have been looking for 5-year-old Naveah Lashay Adams since August, and they say they have found her body in a South Carolina landfill. Nevaeh was reported missing after a family member discovered her mother Sharee Bradley, 29, dead in her apartment. Daunte Maurice Johnson was taken into custody after witnesses said they saw him
Continue Reading Top Congressional Republicans broke with President Donald Trump on Tuesday over the President’s comparison of the impeachment inquiry to a “lynching.” House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday did not endorse the President’s choice of words, saying, “That’s not the language I would use” and “I don’t agree with that language, it’s pretty simple.” Senate
Continue Reading China has surpassed the United States to become the world’s biggest hub for unicorns, according to a new report from a Shanghai-based research institute. Wealth research firm Hurun says China is home to 206 unicorns, or privately owned companies worth at least $1 billion. Hurun’s tally puts China slightly ahead of the United States, which
Continue Reading You may want to take your blood pressure medicine at bedtime rather than when you get up in the morning, according to a study published Tuesday in the European Heart Journal. The research found that people who take their anti-hypertensive medicine before bed had better-controlled blood pressure and consequently had a much lower risk of
Continue Reading Kylian Mbappe became the youngest player to score 15 Champions League goals after netting a second-half hat-trick in PSG’s 5-0 rout of Club Brugge on Tuesday. At 20 years and 306 days old, Mbappe is almost a year younger than Lionel Messi when the Barcelona forward took the record from Raul. The Frenchman was brought
Continue Reading Democrats may have just unearthed their smoking gun and the quid pro quo in one fell swoop after the most consequential and dramatic turn yet in their impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump. On yet another mind-bending day in a presidency that is carving one of the most turbulent passages in US political history, Trump’s
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AUSTIN, Texas — First-term Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen announced Tuesday he will not seek reelection to the lower chamber in 2020 — completing a stunning fall for the Angleton Republican who enjoyed near unanimous support in the House just months earlier. After much prayer, consultation, and thoughtful consideration with my family, it is clear
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EL PASO, Texas — The blue bucket trend started after a post on Facebook went viral. It was posted by a mother whose son has autism, encouraging parents to use a blue Halloween bucket to help children who have a difficult time communicating. The switch from a traditional orange bucket to a blue bucket, would
Continue Reading Will 2020 see the return of the brokered national political convention — that is, a convention where delegates are unable to agree on a nominee during the first round of voting, making it necessary to “broker” delegates between candidates in subsequent rounds to arrive at a nominee? It’s hard to ignore the potential for a
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Continue Reading While the NBA has been trying to manage its relationship with China over the past few weeks, fans back home have served notice they’re not to be ignored politically either. Going by the alias Sun, a Chinese-American NBA fan raised $43,000 in just over two days on GoFundMe to distribute 13,000 pro-Hong Kong T-shirts outside
Continue Reading A Phoenix officer will be fired for pulling a gun on the parents of a 4-year-old girl who allegedly stole a doll from a Family Dollar store, the police chief says. Officer Christopher Meyer will be terminated following an internal investigation into his use of force in the May incident caught on video, Phoenix Police
Continue Reading The Russian Navy has discovered five new islands in the Arctic after they were revealed by melting glaciers. The Navy first spotted the islands in 2016 using satellite imagery, but only confirmed and mapped them in August and September during an expedition to the site, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. The new islands
Continue Reading Basketball icon Shaquille O’Neal has weighed in on the spat between the NBA and China, siding with Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey and his right to support pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. O’Neal, who played for multiple NBA teams before retiring in 2011, spoke on television network TNT Tuesday night as the NBA kicked
Continue Reading Shares in SoftBank fell 2.5% on Wednesday after the Japanese conglomerate confirmed a massive deal to bail out WeWork, the embattled office space startup. The deal will give SoftBank up to 80% ownership of the beleagured startup. The Japanese company is pumping $5 billion into The We Company and accelerating a $1.5 billion equity investment
Continue Reading After all the off-court drama in the NBA recently, the start of the regular season could not have arrived soon enough. Since June, the league has been in the limelight for a flurry of high-profile star-swapping — some of it criticized for penalizing small market teams — then withstood intense scrutiny for a Chinese dilemma
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