By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Clippy hasn’t had an easy life. Microsoft’s iconic but polarizing virtual assistant first appeared in Windows 97 as a small paper clip to help Microsoft Office users. It was given the boot by Office 2007. Earlier this year, it resurfaced for one day as an animated sticker in Microsoft
Continue Reading By Charles Riley, CNN Business There’s a new super-unicorn in the United Kingdom. Revolut has been valued at $33 billion in a new fundraising round led by SoftBank and Tiger Global Management, the London-based digital banking startup said in a statement on Thursday. The company said it would use the $800 million raised to develop
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN Don Cheadle and his longtime love Bridgid Coulter decided to get married in 2020, 28 years after they first started dating. Why after all these years? “Our accountant proposed to both of us and he showed us the numbers, and we said, ‘Yeah, we should probably do it,’” Cheadle joked to
Continue Reading By Chloe Melas and Faith Karimi, CNN Britney Spears publicly lashed out at her father for the second time in less than a month, saying in a court hearing Wednesday that she wants him out as the co-conservator of her estate and charged with abuse. “I want to press charges against my father today,” Spears
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By Jay Croft, CNN Northern California’s Butte County, the site of the state’s deadliest and most destructive inferno ever in 2018, is now battling another blaze. The Dixie Fire has led county officials to issue evacuation warnings for residents. It started Tuesday and has grown to about 2,200 acres with no containment, Cal Fire says.
Continue Reading By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist Over 15 million people are under a heat advisory across portions of New York and New Jersey on Thursday and Friday, when temperatures are expected reach several degrees above normal. “Heat index values up to 99 today and heat index values up to 103 expected Friday,” the National Weather Service
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By Nicole Sanders Click here for updates on this story FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Illinois (KMOV) — The body of an elderly woman was found inside her home during a welfare check Monday morning in St. Clair County. At 9:30 a.m., officers responded to a home in the 200 block of Oxford Avenue in Fairview Heights to
Continue Reading By Rob McLean, CNN Business Johnson & Johnson is issuing a voluntary recall for five Neutrogena and Aveeno sunscreen lines in the United States after it said it discovered low levels of benzene in the products. The company is warning customers against using aerosol sprays Neutrogena Beach Defense, Neutrogena Cool Dry Sport, Neutrogena Invisible Daily,
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Johnson & Johnson is issuing a voluntary recall for five Neutrogena and Aveeno sunscreen lines in the United States after it said it discovered low levels of benzene in the products.
Continue Reading By Emily Rittman Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — For more than 150 days, a Missouri mom has fought to overcome COVID-19 and the toll it took on her body. Gwen Starkey’s daughter says her mom has been on a ventilator for at least 130 of those days. Because
Continue Reading By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business Nearly 20 years ago, a batch of hand-canned beers started a seismic shift in the craft beer industry. Now the man behind that endeavor is turning his attention to hand-cultivated cannabis. Dale Katechis, whose eponymous and popular Dale’s Pale Ale revolutionized canned beers, has invested in and taken an active
Continue Reading By Alex Heider Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Police in Nashville are trying to find an 11-year-old girl they believe went to Florida with her boyfriend. Youth Services detectives say that Neylin Sanchez Macario may be with her 17-year-old boyfriend and possibly traveled to Jacksonville, Florida. Her family last
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A former Oklahoma City Thunder employee turned in by her former coworkers pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge for her part in the US Capitol insurrection. Danielle Doyle, 37, pleaded guilty to illegally demonstrating inside the US Capitol on January 6 and agreed to pay $500 in restitution for
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN “The Talk” made history with their announcement Wednesday of Sharon Osbourne’s replacement. Actor Jerry O’Connell, who has been guest hosting for the past few months, has been brought on the CBS daytime talk show and is the first male co-host. O’Connell said during the episode that aired Wednesday, “It’s real
Continue Reading By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Latinos in the US were hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic on a number of fronts. They experienced higher rates of virus deaths and hospitalizations. They had more trouble making ends meet than other demographic groups due to pay cuts and job losses. They faced barriers to vaccine access. Still, Latino
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Chrissy Teigen is feeling “lost” these days. The lifestyle entrepreneur and TV personality posted on her verified Instagram account Wednesday that it “just feels so weird to pretend nothing happened in this online world” while feeling bad in the real world. “Going outside sucks and doesn’t feel right, being at
Continue Reading Fmr. Mexico FM Jorge Castañeda and Correspondent Patrick Oppmann join Bianna Golodryga to discuss what’s driving the biggest protests in Cuba since the 1959 revolution.
Continue Reading By Patrick Oppmann and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN Cuba announced on Wednesday it was temporarily lifting restrictions on travelers bringing food, medicines and hygiene products into the country in an apparent acknowledgment of demands from anti-government demonstrators. Thousands took to the streets across the island nation last weekend to protest chronic shortages of basic goods, curbs
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Germán Padinger (CNN) — El Comité Olímpico Internacional (COI) anunció este jueves una serie de cambios en la ceremonia de entrega de medallas de los Juegos Olímpicos Tokio 2020 que incluyen la obligatoriedad de usar mascarillas para todos los participantes, un podio modificado y garantías de que los presentadores serán vacunados, además de que el
Continue Reading Ransomware attacks are on the rise with an estimated $350 million paid out in ransom in 2020. Here’s everything you need to know and how to prepare yourself if you’re targeted next.
Continue Reading By Veronica Stracqualursi and Jamie Crawford, CNN The US government is offering up to $10 million for information that can identify or locate malicious cyber actors working on behalf of a foreign government to target critical US infrastructure, the US State Department announced Thursday. It is part of an effort across the US government to
Continue Reading Mariana Toro (CNN) — Royal Caribbean Cruises no es responsable de la muerte de una niña de 18 meses que cayó de los brazos de su abuelo a través de una ventana en un crucero, dictaminó un juez el martes. Cuando Chloe Wiegand se cayó del piso 11 del barco atracado en Puerto Rico en
Continue Reading By Moira Ritter, CNN Business The difference between CEO and median employee pay grew in 2020 despite the Covid pandemic and ongoing relief efforts. The average S&P 500 company CEO made 299 times the average worker’s salary last year, according to AFL-CIO’s annual Executive Paywatch report. Executives received $15.5 million in total compensation on average,
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Monsoon moisture returns to the borderland Thursday. Storms will develop around lunchtime around the Gila region and the area mountains. It will be a hot and humid afternoon with a 20 percent chance for scattered storms. Showers will stick around through the weekend.
Continue Reading Dr. Michelle Fiscus, who served as Tennessee’s top vaccine official before she was fired, describes receiving a disturbing package shortly before her termination.
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Tennessee’s former vaccine manager said she received a dog muzzle in the mail before she was fired. Dr. Michelle Fiscus, a pediatrician who served as Tennessee’s medical director of vaccine-preventable diseases and immunization, was fired Monday. In the week prior to her termination, she received a package containing a dog muzzle,
Continue Reading By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Shared rides were a key part of how the founders of Uber and Lyft envisioned disrupting transportation. Back in 2014, the companies raced each other to be first to announce their carpooling options, with the promise of creating a more efficient service that’s also more affordable for riders. Then
Continue Reading China’s economy is still growing but the pace of its recovery slowed in the second quarter of 2021 as the country dealt with surging commodity prices and supply chain disruptions. CNN’s Kristie Lu Stout reports.
Continue Reading By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business It’s difficult for American companies to operate in China. But the latest data on the country’s economy underscores why, for many firms, it’s still worth it. What’s happening: China’s economic output grew 7.9% in the April-to-June quarter versus the same period a year ago, China’s National Bureau of Statistics said
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN Cocaine disguised as charcoal with a potential street value of up to 35 million euros ($41.4 million) has been seized in a joint operation between Irish and Dutch authorities. The drugs were found inside two shipping containers from South America that arrived at the port of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, as
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