By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business French oil giant Total made waves early this year when it broke with the American Petroleum Institute, the largest and most powerful oil lobby in the United States, because of its stance on climate issues. BP’s pledge to slash oil production by 40% this decade has put it ahead of
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CNNEE (CNN) — A un año de las elecciones de mitad de período de 2022, el 58% de los estadounidenses dice que el presidente Joe Biden no ha prestado suficiente atención a los problemas más importantes de la nación, ya que la mayoría desaprueba la forma en que está manejando su trabajo como presidente, según
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By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Alec Baldwin thinks police officers could be best suited to help film and television productions monitor the safe use of weapons on sets. “Every film/TV set that uses guns, fake or otherwise, should have a police officer on set, hired by the production, to specifically monitor weapons safety,” Baldwin tweeted on
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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Another major railroad has gone to court to determine whether it has the authority to require all its employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. BNSF railroad filed a lawsuit Sunday against its major unions over its mandate. It joins Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific,
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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Another major railroad has gone to court to determine whether it has the authority to require all its employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. BNSF railroad filed a lawsuit Sunday against its major unions over its mandate. It joins Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific,
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By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Another major railroad has gone to court to determine whether it has the authority to require all its employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. BNSF railroad filed a lawsuit Sunday against its major unions over its mandate. It joins Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific,
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — The British government says it will launch an independent inquiry into how a hospital electrician was able to sexually abuse at least 100 corpses in hospital mortuaries. David Fuller, 67, admitted last week that he murdered two women in 1987. Prosecutors said he had sexually assaulted the two women after killing them.
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By ERIC TUCKER and ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A suspected Ukrainian hacker has been arrested and charged in the United States in connection with a string of costly ransomware attacks, including one that snarled businesses around the globe on the Fourth of July weekend. Yaroslav Vasinskyi was arrested last month after traveling
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MADRID (AP) — Spain coach Luis Enrique has called up Brais Méndez to replace the injured Yéremy Pino ahead of decisive World Cup qualifiers. Pino was the third player dropped from the squad because of injuries before matches at Greece and against Sweden in Group B of European qualifying. Pino injured a muscle on Sunday
Continue Reading By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief is urging Myanmar’s military leaders to provide unimpeded access to the more than 3 million people in need of “life-saving” humanitarian assistance since government forces seized power on Feb. 1. He says it’s needed “because of growing conflict and insecurity, COVID-19
Continue Reading MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Instead of a message in a bottle, it was the decals on a trash can that tell the story of a 3,500-mile voyage, from South Carolina to Ireland. Officials with Myrtle Beach say a waste barrel somehow floated away from their the coastal city and washed up in County Mayo,
Continue Reading By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The individual investor army on Reddit that helped push GameStop and AMC to unprecedented heights earlier this year has found some more companies to rally around. Several stocks that have enjoyed extraordinary pops lately, such as Avis Budget and Bed Bath & Beyond, have become so-called meme stocks
Continue Reading By Matt Egan, CNN Business Sticker shock is causing anxiety for millions of Americans right now, with prices soaring for gasoline, groceries and used cars. Unfortunately, it’s going to take longer than expected to work out the supply-demand imbalances at the heart of inflation, Goldman Sachs warned clients Sunday night. “The inflation overshoot will likely
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Randal Quarles announced Monday that he will resign from the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors at the end of the year after completing a four-year term as the central bank’s top bank regulator, opening up another vacancy on the Fed’s influential board for President Joe Biden
Continue Reading ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has reported a new record high for daily COVID-19 infections, and dozens of deaths. But health officials also say they’re seeing a sharp increase in vaccination appointments after new restrictions on unvaccinated people kicked in over the weekend. A senior health ministry official told a briefing pn Monday that over
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By Eric Levenson, CNN An armed paramedic who was shot by Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year testified Monday that he pulled out his own firearm because he believed Rittenhouse was an active shooter. Gaige Grosskreutz, 27, testified that he unholstered his handgun on August 25, 2020, as he and a crowd followed Rittenhouse,
Continue Reading Gaige Grosskreutz, the lone survivor shot by Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, testified in court. CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz reports on what Grosskreutz’s testimony means for the defense.
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Madeline Eskins says she remembers passing out as a surge of crowd members pushed toward the stage to see Travis Scott at the Astroworld Festival in Houston that resulted in multiple fatalities.
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Over the weekend eight people were killed and many more injured during rapper Travis Scott’s Houston music festival, Astroworld. Authorities are currently investigating what led to the tragedy. While there have been horrific mass casualty concert events such as the 2017 terrorist attack at the Ariana Grande performance at Britain’s
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CNN By Jim Sciutto and Natasha Bertrand, CNN CIA Director Bill Burns held a rare conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow last week, to convey “serious” US concerns about Russia’s military buildup along the Ukrainian border and to attempt to determine Russian intentions, two sources with direct knowledge told CNN. Putin’s spokesperson also
Continue Reading By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Gun maker Remington Firearms will move its headquarters from upstate New York to Georgia, with plans to open a factory and research operation there. The company announced Monday that it would invest $100 million in the operation in LaGrange, Georgia, southwest of Atlanta, hiring 856 people over
Continue Reading By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Gun maker Remington Firearms will move its headquarters from upstate New York to Georgia, with plans to open a factory and research operation there. The company announced Monday that it would invest $100 million in the operation in LaGrange, Georgia, southwest of Atlanta, hiring 856 people over
Continue Reading By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Barack Obama is expressing confidence that the Biden administration will ultimately get its $555 billion climate package through Congress and says that bill will be “historic.” At the U.N. climate talks Monday, he also faulted China and Russia for what he
Continue Reading By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota lawmaker and an organizer of rally to oppose COVID-19 vaccine mandates is infected with the coronavirus and won’t attend the event. Republican Rep. Jeff Hoverson says he is “quarantining.” He told The Associated Press Monday that he is taking the deworming drug ivermectin
Continue Reading CAIRO (AP) — Egypt and Israel say they have agreed on an increase in Egyptian border forces in a restive northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, where Egypt has battled Islamic militants for years. The Egyptian military said Monday that a joint military committee with Israel agreed to amend a security deal between the two
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN Business) — Live Nation Entertainment, la empresa promotora de conciertos que organizó el trágico festival Astroworld, ha sido citada alrededor de una docena de veces por numerosos problemas de seguridad, según muestran los registros. Los registros en el sitio web de la Administración de Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional muestran que
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — Wang Yaping has become the first Chinese woman to conduct a spacewalk as part of a six-month mission to the country’s space station. Fellow astronaut Zhai Zhigang left the station’s main module on Sunday evening and Wang followed sometime later. They installed equipment and carried out tests alongside the station’s robotic service
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By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson acknowledges criticism of his humanitarian visit to Myanmar, but he tells The Associated Press he feels his trip was constructive. Richardson is the highest-profile American to visit the Southeast Asian nation since its military seized power in February. He
Continue Reading THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The European Union’s medicines agency says it has begun reviewing data on Merck’s COVID-19 treatment pill so that it can swiftly advise national drug authorities in the 27-nation bloc that want to begin using it before it gets official approval. The European Medicines Agency said on Monday that it will
Continue Reading By Matt Egan, CNN Business Randal Quarles, previously the top Federal Reserve official overseeing Wall Street, announced plans Monday to resign in December. The news creates another vacancy at the Fed, giving President Joe Biden further room to reshape one of the most powerful institutions in the world. In a letter to Biden, Quarles cited
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