Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Who’s a good movie? Not “DC League of Super-Pets,” a big colorful idea that proves promising in theory — tailor-made for a two-minute trailer — but a rather tedious slog as a full-length animated film. Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart’s “Jumanji” reunion as the central voices and an intriguing start
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Deacon Phillippe is following in the professional footsteps of his parents. The 18-year-old son on Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe will make his full acting debut in Season 3 of the Netflix comedy series, “Never Have I Ever.” The teen portrays Parker, “Devi’s debate team rival from a well-funded private
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LONDON (AP) — England against Germany at Wembley Stadium. A final that underlines the growing stature of women’s soccer in Europe and echoes decades of history. When host nation England takes on Germany in the European Championship final Sunday, it will have a tournament-record crowd of nearly 90,000. Euro 2022 as a whole will be
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Are recession fears and inflation slowing down the travel boom around the world? Several factors point to the travel industry thriving despite a potential economic downturn.
Continue Reading Julia Buckley, CNN Its insistence on not charging for baggage has long made it a passenger favorite, but Southwest Airlines have now worked out how to keep passengers loyal — by announcing that credits with the airline will no longer have an expiration date. As part of what Southwest calls a $2 billion attempt to
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By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for jobless benefits last week, but the previous week’s number was revised upward significantly, with claims breaching the 250,000 level in back-to-back weeks for the first time in more than eight months. Applications for jobless aid for the week ending July 23 declined
Continue Reading By Daniella Diaz, CNN House Democratic leadership will announce legislation next month that would ban lawmakers, their spouses and senior staff from trading stocks, a source familiar with the plan tells CNN. The proposal would force lawmakers to choose between putting their stocks in a qualified blind trust or completely divesting their investment portfolios. The
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN With two first-time Emmy nominations for her roles in “Euphoria” and “The White Lotus,” Sydney Sweeney is riding pretty high in Hollywood. But that doesn’t mean she’s set for life. “If I wanted to take a six-month break, I don’t have income to cover that,” she told The Hollywood Reporter.
Continue Reading By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The foreign minister of Cyprus says his government and Greece will consult with other European Union members on how to respond if Turkey tries again to drill for oil and gas in waters to which Cyprus claims exclusive rights. Turkey’s energy minister said earlier this week
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN) –– La economía de Estados Unidos se contrajo nuevamente en el segundo trimestre, informó este jueves la Oficina de Análisis Económico. El producto interno bruto (PIB), un indicador de gran alcance sobre la actividad económica, cayó un 0,9% sobre una base anualizada de abril a junio. Esa reducción marca un umbral clave para
Continue Reading By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Facebook is letting violent hate speech slip through its controls in Kenya, according to a new report from the nonprofit groups Global Witness and Foxglove. This is the third such test that Facebook has failed. Each time, Global Witness submitted ads with blatant, violent hate speech to see if
Continue Reading By MARK PRATT Associated Press Employees at a Trader Joe’s supermarket in Massachusetts on Thursday became the latest workers at a major company to approve a labor union. The store in Hadley, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) west of Boston, is the first Trader Joe’s with an employees union, although workers at two other company
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CNN — The James Webb telescope is on its ten year journey in space. Now, it will journey around the U.S. as a stamp. The U.S. Postal Service’s latest Forever stamp honors the modern marvel. You can see an artist’s depiction of the telescope with its gold coated mirror segments that make up the 21
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By Kristin Wilson, Clare Foran and Melanie Zanona, CNN The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a long-awaited bill aimed at boosting US semiconductor production in a bid to increase American competitiveness, a bipartisan achievement that will send tens of billions of dollars into American manufacturing and scientific research. The bill passed the Senate on
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s annual inflation rate has declined slightly for the second consecutive month, but July’s pace of 7.5% is still within sight of the nearly half-century high it reached in May. Inflation in Europe’s biggest economy rose 7.9% in May from a year earlier, the highest level since the early 1970s, before slipping
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Good morning! Moisture will bring increased rain showers and thunderstorms across the Borderland. The best chance for storms will be near the Arizona and New Mexico border plus the Gila Region/Black Range and the Sacramento Mountains. Temperatures remain in the mid-90s through the weekend.
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ATLANTA, Georgia — For decades, Sprite has been recognized by its green bottles and cans. Wednesday, Coca-Cola announced that it will be retiring Sprite’s green plastic bottles for more environmentally friendly ones. The current bottles contain a green chemical additive that cannot be recycled. Clear bottles, however, can be recycled into new ones. Other Coke
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CNN By Martha White and Alicia Wallace, CNN Business The US economy shrank again in the second quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Thursday. Gross domestic product, a wide-ranging measure of economic activity, fell by 0.9% on an annualized basis from April through June. That decline marks a key symbolic threshold for the most
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By Martha White and Alicia Wallace, CNN Business The US economy shrank again in the second quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Thursday. Gross domestic product, a wide-ranging measure of economic activity, fell by 0.9% on an annualized basis from April through June. That decline marks a key symbolic threshold for the most commonly
Continue Reading By Chandelis Duster, Darya Tarasova, Kylie Atwood and Kaitlan Collins, CNN Biden administration officials are frustrated that Moscow has yet to respond in a meaningful way to their proposal to release convicted Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout and secure the release of US citizens Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan. The Kremlin said Thursday that “so
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Atlético Madrid says it has secured the transfer of Argentina defender Nahuel Molina from Udinese for an undisclosed free. The right back will help fill a void left by the departure of England’s Kieran Trippier midway through last season. Atlético says the 24-year-old Molina has agreed to sign a five-year contract. Molina
Continue Reading Kristen Rogers and Yenny Sanchez, CNN The ancient skeleton of a Gorgosaurus went up for auction for the first time today and sold for just over $6 million. Whoever bought it — which is currently unknown — now also has the unusual opportunity to name it. About 77 million years old, the Gorgosaurus is a
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Socialist-led coalition government wants large energy companies and banks to pay a windfall tax, which officials hope will yield around 7 billion euros (dollars) over two years. The government delivered its proposal to parliament Thursday, with a debate and vote scheduled for after the summer recess. Officials say the tax would
Continue Reading By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Before the Federal Reserve announced another supersized interest rate hike on Wednesday, investors told Before the Bell they had no problem with the central bank’s messaging that it would continue to aggressively fight decades-high inflation. In fact, they relished it, viewing it as a sign the Fed was taking its
Continue Reading By CHRIS MEGERIAN, ZEKE MILLER and ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping are exploring meeting in person, a senior administration official said after the leaders spent more than two hours Thursday talking through the future of their complicated relationship, with tension over Taiwan once again emerging as
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By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tyler Perry will receive an honorary AARP award for uplifting communities and helping people “overcome various obstacles” through his foundation. The organization announced Thursday that Perry will receive the honorary AARP Purpose Prize award during a live ceremony on Oct. 25. The famed filmmaker-actor-
Continue Reading VEVEY, Switzerland (AP) — Global food giant Nestle has reported higher sales in the first half of the year, even as it increased prices by 6.5% as inflation soared around the world. The Swiss company that makes Purina pet food, KitKat candy bars and Gerber baby food said Thursday that total reported sales grew by
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Testing for monkeypox, a crucial part of containing the growing outbreak, has gotten off to a sluggish start at the five commercial laboratories that are doing nearly all of the nation’s testing, CNN has learned. Mayo Clinic Laboratories, for example, has the capacity to process 1,000 monkeypox samples
Continue Reading By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The number of homes on the market has been rising, albeit from very low levels. Home listings rose on an annual basis in May and June, snapping a streak of annual declines going back three years. But many would-be buyers looking for a more modestly
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By Issy Ronald, CNN Mike Trout has been diagnosed with a rare back condition — a costovertebral dysfunction at T5 — that is likely to affect him for the rest of his playing career. “The doctor (Robert Watkins III), who is one of the most well-known spine surgeons in the country — if not the
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