NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Houston dredging company has been ordered to pay a $1 million fine for an oil spill that occurred when a subcontractor cut through an oil pipeline during barrier island restoration work off Louisiana in 2016. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, which describes itself as the nation’s largest dredging company,
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Houston dredging company has been ordered to pay a $1 million fine for an oil spill that occurred when a subcontractor cut through an oil pipeline during barrier island restoration work off Louisiana in 2016. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, which describes itself as the nation’s largest dredging company,
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By Katie Hunt, CNN Hand axes unearthed from a riverbed in the county of Kent in southeast England have revealed one of the earliest known Stone Age communities in Northern Europe. While the stone tools were discovered in the 1920s and kept at The British Museum, a new study has dated them accurately for the
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By Alison Kosik, for CNN Business The NYC Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) has given the green light to allow landlords in New York City to hike rents on more than one million rent stabilized apartments. The RGB, which regulates rent stabilized apartments in Manhattan, voted 5 to 4 on Tuesday to approve raising rates on
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urielblanco (CNN Español) — La fiscal general del Estado de Paraguay, Sandra Quiñonez, dispuso la apertura de una investigación para indagar sobre los hechos relacionados al avión venezolano-iraní retenido en Argentina y determinar las conductas que “pudieran tener relevancia penal”. En la cuenta de Twitter del Ministerio Público paraguayo, informaron este miércoles que se tomó
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The Associated Press The NCAA has chosen the members of its new Board of Governors, including nine voting members and seven non-voting members who will assume their duties on Aug. 1. The new voting members are: Mary-Beth Cooper, president, Springfield College; Beth DeBauche, commissioner, Ohio Valley Conference; John J. DeGioia, president, Georgetown University; Grant Hill,
Continue Reading By Allison Morrow, CNN Business Editor’s Note: This story is part of CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free, here. There’s good news and bad news on the gas prices front. Good news: Some price relief could be on the way. The bad news: It’s because traders are
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By Daniella Diaz, Annie Grayer, Lauren Fox and Sarah Fortinsky, CNN President Joe Biden’s call for Congress to suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes will likely land on empty in the Senate. Even if he can get all 50 Democratic senators behind the legislation, he would still need 10 Republicans to join the cause to
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — Los macarrones con queso (Macaroni and Cheese) de Kraft cambiarán de nombre después de 85 años. El producto se llamará ahora Kraft Mac & Cheese, que “pretende reflejar la forma en que los fans hablan habitualmente de la marca”, anunció la empresa este miércoles. Los empaques con el nuevo nombre llegarán a los
Continue Reading By Steve Contorno and Evan Perez, CNN Andrew Gillum, a once-rising Democratic star who nearly won a 2018 race for Florida governor, was indicted on Wednesday along with a close political ally on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud and making false statements. According to a news release from the United States attorney for the Northern
Continue Reading By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Paul Maurice is the new coach of the Florida Panthers. He agreed on a deal Wednesday to take over the club that is coming off a season where it had the best record in the NHL and rewrote the franchise’s record book. Maurice will replace
Continue Reading generating… Michael J. Fox will be honored by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for his contributions to film and his efforts to help cure Parkinson’s disease. The actor will receive an honorary Oscar at this year’s Governors Awards, along with songwriter Diane Warren, and directors Euzhan Palcy and Peter Weir, the Academy
Continue Reading By FRANK BAJAK Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Microsoft says “strategic espionage” by state-backed Russian hackers has targeted government agencies, think tanks, businesses and aid groups in 42 countries supporting Ukraine. Microsoft says in a report that hacking has been successful 29% of the time and that data was stolen in at least one-quarter of
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — En su regreso al escenario mundial, en medio de su guerra en Ucrania, el presidente Vladimir Putin afirmó este miércoles que Rusia está reorientando su comercio hacia “socios internacionales fiables”, como los países del BRICS. “Nos estamos ocupando activamente en reorientar nuestros flujos comerciales y contactos económicos con el exterior
Continue Reading By Matt Egan for CNN Business Fed Chairman Jerome Powell conceded that the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes won’t solve two of the biggest problems facing families: high prices for gas and groceries. During a Senate Banking Committee hearing Wednesday, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren urged Powell to proceed with rate hikes cautiously and avoid
Continue Reading BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Dozens of Serbian car factory workers have blocked a key motorway in the capital Belgrade to protest layoff and relocation plans. The workers traveled from the central town of Kragujevac, where the factory is located, to Belgrade, saying they wanted to press for their demands for better severance deals for the
Continue Reading PALMA, Spain (AP) — Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas have advanced to the quarterfinals of the Mallorca Championships but Nick Kyrgios has withdrawn to avoid aggravating an injury ahead of Wimbledon. The top-ranked Medvedev overcame a slow start in a three-set win over Aslan Karatsev. The sixth-seeeded Tsitsipas triumphed in two sets against Ilya Ivashka.
Continue Reading By BEN NUCKOLS AP Sports Writer Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder conducted a “shadow investigation” that sought to discredit former employees making accusations of workplace sexual harassment, hired private investigators to intimidate witnesses, and used an overseas lawsuit as a pretext to obtain phone records and emails, according to a document released by a House
Continue Reading By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Who says pleasing fickle investors on Wall Street is hard? FedEx delivered its biggest daily stock jump since the mid-1980s last week, surging more than 14% on June 14 after doing two relatively easy things: The company increased its dividend by a whopping 53% and reached a deal
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — A medida que el país atraviesa una fase más controlada de la pandemia, el condado de Los Álamos, Nuevo México, ha sido clasificado como la comunidad más saludable de EE.UU. por tercer año consecutivo. Ubicado aproximadamente a 65 kilómetros de Santa Fe, el condado de Los Álamos alberga cañones y
Continue Reading By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart is expanding health care coverage for employees who want to enlist the services of a doula, a person trained to assist women during pregnancies, to address racial inequities in maternal care. After first offering doulas to employees in Georgia last year, the nation’s largest
Continue Reading By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s Groundhog Day at the IRS. After digging out of a daunting backlog from 2021, the agency has an even bigger backup for this tax season than it did a year ago and its pace for processing paper returns is slowing down, according to a watchdog report
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is providing logistical support to import the equivalent of about 16 million 8-ounce baby formula bottles from Mexico starting this weekend, as part of its efforts to ease nationwide supply shortages caused by the closure of the largest U.S. manufacturing
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is providing logistical support to import the equivalent of about 16 million 8-ounce baby formula bottles from Mexico starting this weekend, as part of its efforts to ease nationwide supply shortages caused by the closure of the largest U.S. manufacturing
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By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The head of the European Space Agency says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine highlights the need for the continent to become less dependent on other nations. Josef Aschbacher told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday that the collapse of a joint Mars mission with Russia was “a
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Vancouver and Berlin will be upcoming hosts for the Laver Cup men’s tennis team event. The competition is played in a Europe vs. World format and does not award ATP ranking points. It will be at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena on Sept. 22-24, 2023, and at Berlin’s Mercedes-Benz Arena on Sept. 20-22, 2024.
Continue Reading BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers are requiring deeper emission cuts from power plants, factories and planes in Europe while endorsing an unprecedented import tax to step up the fight against global warming. The European Parliament on Wednesday advanced draft climate legislation that would slash the EU’s greenhouse gases by at least 55% in 2030
Continue Reading By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer Jaylon Ferguson, who set an FBS record for career sacks while at Louisiana Tech and then played the past three seasons in the NFL with the Baltimore Ravens, has died. He was 26. Police said Wednesday the cause of death was still to be determined. “On June 21, 2022,
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Sin especificar nombres, el presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, dijo este miércoles que “ya se tiene identificado al responsable, al homicida”, de tres personas, entre ellas dos sacerdotes jesuitas, quienes perdieron la vida en un ataque armado este lunes al interior de una iglesia en la población
Continue Reading By ANNIE MA and CLIFF BRUNT Associated Press Once Tina Sloan Green took over the lacrosse program at Temple University in the years after the passage of Title IX, the landmark gender-equity law, she never stopped thinking about the girls who weren’t playing. At practices during the 1970s, Sloan Green, the first Black woman to
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