By Anneken Tappe and Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Americans keep spending even as prices are spiking. That’s good news for retailers heading into the holiday season, as well as for the economy as a whole, which runs on consumer spending. Adjusted for seasonal swings, US retail sales rose 1.7% in October compared to the previous
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Germán Padinger (CNN) — La inclinación política es ahora un mejor indicador del estado de vacunación contra el covid-19 en Estados Unidos que la edad, la raza, la educación o el estado del seguro de salud, según un análisis publicado el martes por la Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). En el nuevo análisis, los investigadores descubrieron
Continue Reading By Kathryn Vasel, CNN Business Networking. Just the thought of it may make you feel uncomfortable. Who do you reach out to? What do you say? How do you stay in contact? But even if it feels awkward, networking can play a major role in advancing your career. “People are nervous about networking,” said Marcia
Continue Reading CNN By Brian Stelter, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. While watching the news coverage of Steve Bannon’s initial appearance in federal court on Monday, I kept thinking about his 2018 confession to the acclaimed writer Michael Lewis. His
Continue Reading By Brian Stelter, CNN Business A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. While watching the news coverage of Steve Bannon’s initial appearance in federal court on Monday, I kept thinking about his 2018 confession to the acclaimed writer Michael Lewis. His quote
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prospective jurors got their first glimpse of a British socialite charged with helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls and women when a judge began questioning them individually. Wearing a black suit, Ghislaine Maxwell hugged her lawyers when she entered the courtroom Tuesday and
Continue Reading By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press NEW ALBANY, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi woman is scheduled to be a witness when her stepfather is executed this week. David Neal Cox is set to die by lethal injection Wednesday for the 2010 killing of his wife, Kim Kirk Cox. He also pleaded guilty to other crimes,
Continue Reading By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — The Estonian and Swedish accident investigation boards say a research expedition earlier this year to the wreck of a ferry that sank in the Baltic Sea 27 years ago hasn’t provided new evidence contradicting the official accident investigation report. The M/S Estonia sank in rough weather on
Continue Reading By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Longtime California Rep. Jackie Speier is the latest congressional Democrat to announce retirement from Congress ahead of the 2022 midterm election cycle. The seven-term congresswoman from the San Francisco Bay Area said in a video message Tuesday that after nearly 40 years in public office at the
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Some of Spain’s regional governments are asking courts to allow them to introduce virus passports that can help control the rising spread of COVID-19. Several regions are worried by a rise in infections, including the Basque Country, Valencia, Navarra and Catalonia. They say they are ready to be the first autonomous regions
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MADRID (AP) — Some of Spain’s regional governments are asking courts to allow them to introduce virus passports that can help control the rising spread of COVID-19. Several regions are worried by a rise in infections, including the Basque Country, Valencia, Navarra and Catalonia. They say they are ready to be the first autonomous regions
Continue Reading SAN DIEGO (AP) — A 45-year-old male river hippopotamus named Otis and nicknamed the smiling hippo has died at the San Diego Zoo. The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance announced Monday that Otis had been under care for degenerative joint and spinal disease. A decision to euthanize him was made last weekend when his condition
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — México comenzará a vacunar contra el covid-19 a todos los jóvenes de 15 a 17 años y el registro comenzará a partir de este viernes, anunció el martes el secretario de Salud, Hugo López-Gatell. Esto se produce después de que el mes pasado un juez ordenó a las autoridades de
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By Jack Guy, CNN A family of four were rescued by a helicopter Tuesday after their vehicle got stuck in the Australian outback following bad weather and flooding. The two adults and two children were traveling in a Mitsubishi Canter 4WD when they got bogged down in the Simpson Desert near Oodnadatta, central Australia, according
Continue Reading CNN By Anneken Tappe and Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Americans keep spending even as prices are spiking. That’s good news for retailers heading into the holiday season, as well as for the economy as a whole, which runs on consumer spending. Adjusted for seasonal swings, US retail sales rose 1.7% in October compared to the
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By Marianne Garvey The “Ghostbusters” were back. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson appeared together on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” where they discussed the upcoming sequel to the classic, “Ghostbusters: Afterlife.” “Jason Reitman wrote a great script, so full of heart, going right back to the first two movies and its DNA…
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By Gregory Krieg, CNN New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams announced on Tuesday he is running for governor, joining a Democratic primary that already includes Gov. Kathy Hochul, who replaced Andrew Cuomo following his resignation this summer, and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Williams, who was re-elected to his current post two weeks
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The NBA is bringing two preseason games to Abu Dhabi next season, marking the first time the league will play in the Arabian Gulf. The games will be in October 2022. The exact dates and the teams involved have not been announced. No preseason games have been played
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has proposed a ban on lawmakers acting as “paid consultants” and promised to tighten ethics rules in response to scandals over lobbying and outside jobs. Johnson said lawmakers should be banned from acting as “paid political consultants or lobbyists.” He promised on
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrat Michelle Beckley says she’s running for Texas lieutenant governor. Her announcement Tuesday comes after Beto O’Rourke jumped into the governor’s race to give Texas Democrats a national figure atop their ticket in 2022. Beckley is a state representative in suburban Dallas and one of the more liberal members of the
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — Autoridades federales en México aprehendieron a Rosalinda González Valencia, esposa del líder del Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho”. La Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional informó en un comunicado este martes que el operativo se desarrolló el día anterior en el municipio de Zapopan,
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN George Clooney has shared his thoughts on the tragic shooting on the set of the film “Rust.” In an episode of the podcast “WTF With Marc Maron,” which released on Monday, the Academy Award winner talked about the incident in which the film’s star and executive producer Alec Baldwin accidentally
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Adele is happy and in love and it shows. The British singer opened up about her relationship with Klutch Sports Group founder Rich Paul during her interview with Oprah Winfrey in her “Adele One Night Only” special and here’s some of what we learned about Paul: He’s a smooth operator
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Morgan Wallen is heading on an eight-month tour. The country singer will start his “Dangerous” tour in Evansville, Indiana, in March and end in at the Staples Center in Los Angeles in September. The concers will makr the first major tour for Wallen since a video surfaced earlier this year
Continue Reading Opinion by Billie Jean King for CNN Business Perspectives At the age of 13, I saw Althea Gibson play at the Los Angeles Tennis Club. She showed me what being No. 1 in the world looked like, and I knew I wanted to follow in her footsteps from that day forward. She epitomized “if you
Continue Reading By Annie Grayer, CNN California Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier said Tuesday she would not seek reelection, the latest high-profile Democrat to announce plans to leave Congress as the party faces steep climb to hold onto their narrow majority in the House in next year’s midterms. Speier, who was first elected to her US House seat
Continue Reading By Allison Morrow, CNN Business Rivian, a 12-year-old startup with no revenue, is now the third most valuable carmaker in the world. The electric vehicle maker has been public for all of one week, but its share price has more than doubled in that time, valuing Rivian at more than $140 billion — just ahead
Continue Reading By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Papa Johns is the latest restaurant brand to give itself a makeover. The pizza chain on Tuesday unveiled a number of changes, including a new logo, new advertising and new restaurant designs. The updated logo ditches the word “pizza” and removes the green border around “Papa John’s.” Instead, it just
Continue Reading By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Prosecutors have rested their case in the trial of three white men charged with chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery as the Black man ran in their neighborhood. Prosecutor Linda Dunikoski made the announcement Tuesday afternoon after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s lead investigator and medical examiner
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — Un jurado con 12 miembros comenzó a deliberar este martes por la mañana sobre los cinco cargos a los que se enfrenta Kyle Rittenhouse en su juicio por homicidio en relación con los tiroteos del año pasado en Kenosha, Wisconsin. La duración del debate depende casi exclusivamente de los
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