CNN By Jasmine Wright Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the US will keep seeing supply chain issues as the holiday season approaches, adding that it takes more than just federal efforts to tackle shortages and bottleneck issues. “We are going to continue to see challenges. The steps that we’re taking are making a difference but
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Whenever traffic slowed, which happens a lot when you’re heading out of New York City on a Friday afternoon, people wanted to look at the bright blue pickup I was driving. Some wanted to ask questions. Fortunately, an engineer who helped design the truck was riding with me, and rolled
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By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — One of the two candidates In Boston’s historic mayor’s race has found herself questioned about her decision to identify as a person of color. Annissa Essaibi George describes herself as Polish-Arab American. But she acknowledges she hasn’t always identified herself as a person of color. That’s in
Continue Reading By Nathaniel Meyersohn and Anneken Tappe, CNN Business You’ve probably noticed that prices have gone up on groceries, essentials, home appliances, fast food and all sorts of consumer goods. Inflation is at more than a decade-long high. That means 2021 will be among the most expensive holiday shopping seasons ever. But shoppers aren’t holding back
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Police in Albuquerque say four people were shot and wounded at a large house party on the city’s west side, but nobody was seriously injured. They say officers responded to the scene shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday after they received a 911 call. Police say four people who were at the
Continue Reading By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil has a long history of police violence and now authorities are looking at body cameras as a way to avoid deadly incidents involving officers. The biggest program of that kind started in June in Sao Paulo state, involving 3,000 police officers. There
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By Chandelis Duster and Daniella Diaz, CNN All 50 Democrats in the Senate need to agree upon the framework on the massive economic bill before the House votes on the bill this week, Senate Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders said Sunday. “I think there has got to be a framework agreed upon in the Senate that
Continue Reading CNN By Chandelis Duster and Daniella Diaz, CNN All 50 Democrats in the Senate need to agree upon the framework on the massive economic bill before the House votes on the bill this week, Senate Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders said Sunday. “I think there has got to be a framework agreed upon in the Senate
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UPDATE: Investigators on Sunday afternoon blamed speeding as the cause of a single-car crash earlier in the day that claimed the life of an El Paso man and left a Socorro woman hospitalized in serious condition. After initially saying the Sunday morning crash occurred on Gateway Boulevard West, police later said it was actually the
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El Paso, Texas– With the holiday’s quickly approaching, Vicencio’s Ice Distributors is bringing back a tradition they put on hold for the past 15 years. Snow parties! “I mean this is like a real life fantasy really this is like a daydream or maybe even a dream itself,” said 10-year-old Alessandra Vicencio who enjoyed the
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation on Sunday reported 67 more COVID-19 cases and two additional deaths. The latest numbers pushed the tribe’s totals to 36,817 confirmed COVID-19 cases from the virus since the pandemic began more than a year ago. The known death toll now is at 1,487. TThe Navajo Department of
Continue Reading By Angela Dewan, CNN The Group of 20’s final communiqué is expected to put an end date of 2021 on the financing of coal and include language committing to keep a limit of 1.5-degrees Celsius of global warming within reach, Tom Burke, co-founder of the E3G climate think tank, told CNN. Burke, who has been
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By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Barcelona’s problems continue to compound ahead of its Champions League match at Dynamo Kiev on Tuesday. Gerard Piqué and Sergio Aguero are not likely to make the trip to Ukraine because of health issues. The club says veteran defender Piqué has “a right calf strain” that
Continue Reading By ZARAR KHAN and BABAR DOGAR Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s government and an outlawed radical Islamist party have reached an agreement to end a 10-day long — at times deadly violent — rally calling for the closure of France’s embassy and the release of the party’s leader. Neither Pakistan’s foreign minister nor a
Continue Reading CNN By Devan Cole, CNN Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that “about 340” Americans have been evacuated from Afghanistan since the US formally exited from the country in late August. “Since August 31, as of today, we’ve gotten out — of the Americans left who said that they wanted to leave — about
Continue Reading By Devan Cole, CNN Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that “about 340” Americans have been evacuated from Afghanistan since the US formally exited from the country in late August. “Since August 31, as of today, we’ve gotten out — of the Americans left who said that they wanted to leave — about 340,”
Continue Reading By EMILIO MORENATTI and ARITZ PARRA Associated Press LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE, Canary Islands (AP) — A volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma that has been erupting for six weeks has spewed more ash from its main mouth a day after producing its strongest earthquake to date. The Spanish Geographic Institute said the
Continue Reading By MOHAMED IBRAHIM and AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A proposal to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a new public safety unit goes to the city’s voters this week. The idea on Tuesday’s ballot has its roots in the abolish-the-police movement that erupted after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police
Continue Reading By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON The Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is hoping to easily secure a second term Tuesday. His reelection campaign has offered an opportunity to show he can raise millions as he seeks to elevate his profile at a national level. Suarez has gained name recognition for launching an
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By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON The Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is hoping to easily secure a second term Tuesday. His reelection campaign has offered an opportunity to show he can raise millions as he seeks to elevate his profile at a national level. Suarez has gained name recognition for launching an
Continue Reading By AARON MORRISON Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — It once would have been unthinkable for a city to erect a monument to Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party co-founder who was feared and hated by many Americans. Members of the party were dismissed as racist, gun-toting militants. But the unthinkable has happened in
Continue Reading By AARON MORRISON Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — It once would have been unthinkable for a city to erect a monument to Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party co-founder who was feared and hated by many Americans. Members of the party were dismissed as racist, gun-toting militants. But the unthinkable has happened in
Continue Reading By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press A statistical method used by the U.S. Census Bureau for the first time in 2020 to protect confidentiality has made people and occupied homes vanish, at least on paper, when they actually exist in the real world. The technique is called differential privacy. It involves the intentional addition of errors
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — Some 3,600 amateur runners faced off against Kenyan marathon legend Eliud Kipchoge in a special race in the heart of Paris, as the city prepares to host the 2024 Olympics. The runners raced along the historic, cobblestoned Champs-Elysees, with Kipchoge starting off last. All those he failed to catch over the 5-kilometer
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — Some 3,600 amateur runners faced off against Kenyan marathon legend Eliud Kipchoge in a special race in the heart of Paris, as the city prepares to host the 2024 Olympics. The runners raced along the historic, cobblestoned Champs-Elysees, with Kipchoge starting off last. All those he failed to catch over the 5-kilometer
Continue Reading By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The University of Hartford men’s basketball team is hoping to make a run at a second straight NCAA Tournament, even as the school moves forward with plans to downgrade the program to Division III. Coach John Gallagher says he told all of his returning
Continue Reading By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Sunday touted a new agreement reached with the European Union to ease Trump-era tariffs on aluminum and steel as a “major breakthrough” that would serve to both strengthen the US steel industry and combat the global climate crisis. “The United States and the European Union have reached a
Continue Reading By DANIELLA MATAR and ANDREW DAMPF Associated Press writers ROME (AP) — Turning 40 hasn’t stopped Zlatan Ibrahimović from being Zlatan Ibrahimović. The ageless Sweden great scored one goal and also drew a penalty that led to AC Milan’s second goal in a 2-1 win at José Mourinho’s Roma. The victory extended Milan’s superb start
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By Gregory Lemos, CNN A shooting at a Halloween party in Texarkana, Texas, left one person dead and nine others injured, the Texarkana Police Department said Sunday. Officers responded to reports of a shooting at Octavia’s Activity Center in the 2300 block of Texas Boulevard shortly before midnight and “encountered a large number of people
Continue Reading By Laura Studley, CNN Nine firefighters and two civilians were injured after a two-alarm fire broke out Saturday at a six-story building in the Bronx, according to the New York City Fire Department. The FDNY said it received a call about the fire at the multiple unit, residential building shortly before 3 p.m. Twenty-five units
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