CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Charles Riley, CNN Business China is facing an economic crisis after a real estate boom ended with a bang last year, according to investor George Soros. The billionaire said in a speech at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution Monday that President Xi Jinping may not be able to restore confidence in the
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN The Biden administration is taking steps to cut emissions of methane, a potent, planet-warming gas. Addressing methane emissions — which can come from old, leaking oil and gas wells and poorly maintained natural gas pipes — has been a priority for President Joe Biden, who last year pledged to slash fossil
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By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Avenatti has wavered on whether he plans to take the witness stand in his own defense at a fraud trial in which he is accused of stealing $300,000 in book proceeds from porn actor Stormy Daniels. Avenatti is acting as his own attorney. He first
Continue Reading By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Novavax announced Monday that it has formally submitted a request for the US Food and Drug Administration to authorize its coronavirus vaccine for emergency use in the United States. The request is based on data that includes the results of two large clinical trials that demonstrated an overall efficacy of approximately
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UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer pushes back against Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s apology following the release of Sue Gray’s “Partygate” report.
Continue Reading By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Housing and Urban Development has laid out new guidelines for the disbursal of $2 billion in disaster-relief bloc grants, with an emphasis on climate-change mitigation and equity for underserved communities. The new guidelines spell out priorities for the use of the funds by state
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EL PASO, Texas — A large number of El Paso county vote-by-mail voters are seeing their application returned to them with a rejection notice as the March primary election gets ever closer. “It’s definitely too high of a rejection rate when normally we wouldn’t have that,” Lisa Wise, the county’s elections administrator, explained. Wise looked
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BIELEFELD, Germany (AP) — United States defender George Bello has joined German first division team Arminia Bielefeld from Atlanta United on the last day of the winter transfer period. The German club says 20-year-old Bello signed a deal through June 2026. Bielefeld was promoted as second division champion in 2020, but in the Bundesliga it’s
Continue Reading By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Warriors guard Gary Payton II faced daunting challenges reading as a boy because of dyslexia that was diagnosed in second grade. He’s now an NBA star with Golden State and he’s finding ways to support Bay Area youth with similar learning disabilities to give them
Continue Reading By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Security forces in Myanmar have arrested dozens of people to preemptively suppress plans for a nationwide strike on Tuesday, which is the one-year anniversary of the army’s seizure of power. Military rule opponents have planned the strike to empty the streets of Myanmar’s cities and towns by
Continue Reading CNN By Nikki Carvajal, CNN A bipartisan group of governors told President Joe Biden that the country needs to “move away from the pandemic,” Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said at the White House Monday. “There’s a number of areas that we have full agreement on, and that is one: We need to move away from
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By Nikki Carvajal, CNN A bipartisan group of governors told President Joe Biden that the country needs to “move away from the pandemic,” Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said at the White House Monday. “There’s a number of areas that we have full agreement on, and that is one: We need to move away from the
Continue Reading By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Tyrann Mathieu walked off the field in stunned disappointment, his hopes of playing in a third straight Super Bowl dashed by Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals, and spent a moment dressing in a somber Kansas City Chiefs locker room. The time spent composing
Continue Reading By Patrick Oppmann, CNN Days before protests swept across Cuba last July, Marbelis Vázquez Hernández felt that the island was at a breaking point. Like so many other businesses, the small cafeteria she and her husband ran was shuttered because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Worsening food and medicine shortages had left many store shelves in
Continue Reading Hundreds of Cuban protesters are being arrested and prosecuted for denouncing chronic shortages and lack of basic freedoms. CNN’s Patrick Oppmann reports.
Continue Reading By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business The world’s first all-electric passenger aircraft is preparing to take flight. The Alice, a plane developed by Israeli company Eviation, went through engine testing last week at Arlington Municipal Airport north of Seattle. According to Eviation CEO Omer Bar-Yohay, the Alice is just weeks away from its first flight. With
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — Bradley Beal is expected to miss the next two games for the Washington Wizards after spraining his left wrist. Beal was injured in the third quarter at Memphis on Saturday. Washington plays at Milwaukee on Tuesday and at Philadelphia on Wednesday. The team says Beal’s status beyond those two games will be
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By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press / Report for American SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Legislature is once again considering a suite of bills that would increase funding for Native American tribal education departments and tribal libraries. The measures are backed by tribal leaders frustrated with slow progress by the state. The school,
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — La Policía Nacional de Ucrania arrestó a un grupo de personas por planear una protesta violenta en Kyiv, cerca de la oficina del presidente, anunció el ministro del Interior, Denis Monastyrskyi. Las detenciones ocurrieron este domingo. Pero, la protesta estaba prevista para este lunes. Por qué Rusia culpa a la OTAN por
Continue Reading By Paula Newton and Holly Yan, CNN What started as a convoy of truckers protesting Covid-19 mandates has snowballed into a blockade in the Canadian capital and the obstruction of a US-Canadian border crossing. Some protesters pressured staff at a homeless shelter to give them food, the facility said. And criminal investigations are underway after
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN Español) — Camioneros bloquearon este lunes las principales vías de acceso a la ciudad de Iquique, Chile. Gremios y ciudadanos se manifiestan durante la jornada en contra de la inseguridad y exigen soluciones a la crisis migratoria que se vive en la zona. En declaraciones a CNN Chile, el alcalde Mauricio Soria detalló
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After a powerful nor’easter brought heavy snowfall and high winds to the East Coast, another big storm could impact the Central and Eastern US. CNN meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has the forecast.
Continue Reading By Jennifer Gray, CNN meteorologist ‘Tis the season for winter storms to line up like parade floats at Mardi Gras. Last week’s storm would have won the prize for a winter wonderland float and this week’s storm would be topped with icicles. The historic blizzard which slammed the Northeast and New England last weekend dumped
Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer The Michigan women’s basketball team is now ranked sixth in The Associated Press Top 25. That is its highest ranking ever. It’s a big week for the Wolverines with games against fifth-ranked Indiana and No. 21 Iowa over the next seven days. South Carolina remained the No. 1 team
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A Michigan university sent email notifications to thousands of students notifying them about a scholarship award valued at $48,000, but the email was sent in error. It is the second Michigan university to make a mistake like this in the month of January. On January 4, Oakland University in Rochester Hills,
Continue Reading By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s external auditor says the amount that energy sources are taxed doesn’t mirror their greenhouse gas emissions. The European Court of Auditors said Monday that more polluting sources of energy may get a tax advantage compared with others with a better carbon efficiency. Coal, for
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EL PASO, Texas – According to city health data, the number of El Paso deaths due to Covid-19 was up from the previous week. There were 34 deaths recorded as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Week 4 data. Nine of the deaths were from December, 25 deaths were from January. The
Continue Reading By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A group of about 130 former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency employees and others who have worked directly with Andrew Wheeler wrote to the Virginia Senate over the weekend to urge lawmakers to approve the former EPA administrator’s nomination to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s Cabinet. The letter marks
Continue Reading By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer When Bridgid Coulter Cheadle started her search for a new Los Angeles office space for her interior design business, she never dreamed she would also end up finding a whole new philanthropic pursuit. But Blackbird House, a woman-owned co-working space, has become that and much more. “I had this
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — El expresidente Donald Trump aseguró el domingo en un comunicado que quería que el entonces vicepresidente Mike Pence anulara las elecciones presidenciales de 2020, repitiendo la falsa afirmación de que Pence tenía el poder de hacerlo. Trump, además, arremetió contra los recientes esfuerzos bipartidistas para reformar la Ley de Conteo Electoral (ECA
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