CNN By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The West Virginia House on Wednesday passed a bill that would ban abortions with some exceptions, significantly curtailing access to the procedure in a state where it is currently legal up to 20 weeks post-fertilization. The bill passed the state House in a 69-23 vote and now moves to the
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By Natasha Chen For 17 years, Ana Duran worked full time as a travel counselor. Late last year she lost that job, shortly before seeing the price of eggs rise to $7.99 a dozen and the price of a single avocado rise to $2.99 at her local store. In June, it cost her $94 to
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Francesca Street, CNN When Carrie visited the Grand Canyon in the summer of 2001, she fell in love — twice. First, she was instantly enamored with the vast vistas of copper-colored rocks and wide open blue skies that later bled into a burned orange sunset. “I loved how hot it was. I loved just the
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By George Ramsay, CNN Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel has announced he will retire from Formula One at the end of the current season. Vettel, who won all of his championship titles with Red Bull between 2010 and 2013, is among the sport’s most successful drivers having recorded 53 race wins and 122 podiums over
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By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Altria reports its nearly $13 billion investment in troubled vaping company Juul is worth 95% less than it originally paid. The tobacco giant on Thursday took a $1.2 billion financial hit on its investment in the e-cigarette maker, writing down its value to less than $500
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By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder testified for more than 10 hours Thursday before a congressional committee investigating the NFL team’s history of workplace misconduct. Snyder gave a deposition to the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform conducted virtually and in private. Snyder is in Israel and agreed to
Continue Reading By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The head of the nation’s financial watchdog is having second thoughts about using fines to deter illegal behavior in the financial industry, saying some companies have gotten so big that the money makes little difference. In an interview with The Associated Press, Rohit Chopra signaled
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Shell posted record profits Thursday for a second straight quarter as the energy giant benefited from soaring prices of oil and natural gas fueled by Russia’s war in Ukraine. London-based Shell said it’s second-quarter adjusted earnings rose to $11.5 billion from $5.5 billion in the same three-month period last year. The latest
Continue Reading By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer The Olympic soccer competition at the 2024 Paris Games will conclude with the women’s final for the first time. The men’s final usually concludes play. FIFA has announced the Olympic soccer competition schedule. The governing body also says there will be no double-headers in France so each match
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By Katie Hunt, CNN Several reports of shark bite injuries and a spate of sightings of the marine predators off the Northeast coast of the United States have rattled summer beachgoers. But are New York’s Long Island and Cape Cod, the peninsula of Massachusetts, where many of the recent suspected shark encounters have taken place,
Continue Reading Encounters with sharks have made headlines this summer. Could there be a link between rising temperatures and shark attacks? Dr. Chris Lowe of Cal State Long Beach’s Shark Lab offers advice on how to avoid shark attacks and what to do if you’re confronted by one.
Continue Reading CNN By Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN The Democrats’ budget reconciliation package has gained more heft after West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin agreed to add back several climate and tax provisions. Still, the effort remains a mere shadow of the sweeping $3.5 trillion reconciliation package that the majority party initially floated last year. After
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Juan Pablo Elverdin Puerto de Taipei, Taiwán (CNN) — En escenas simuladas, un enemigo hostil intenta hacerse con el control de una vía fluvial clave cercana a la capital de Taiwán. Atacando desde el mar y el aire, las fuerzas invasoras tienen como objetivo la desembocadura del río Tamsui, en la costa norte de la
Continue Reading By The Associated Press Merck is posting second-quarter sales that easily topped Wall Street expectations, boosted by sales growth of some of its key drugs. Profit was $3.94 billion in the period, or $1.87 per adjusted share, easily beating the $1.70 that analysts surveyed by data firm FactSet expected. Sales of $14.6 billion, 28% higher
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN Business JetBlue Airways on Thursday announced it would purchase Spirit Airlines, a combination that would create America’s fifth-largest airline. The announcement comes a day after Spirit pulled the plug on a deal to merge with Frontier. JetBlue had been pursuing a hostile bid for Spirit even while Spirit sought shareholder approval
Continue Reading CNN By Brad Lendon, Yoonjung Seo and Joseph Ataman CNN Poland is buying almost 1,000 tanks, more than 600 pieces of artillery and dozens of fighter jets from South Korea, in part to replace equipment donated to Ukraine to help Kyiv fight the Russian invasion, the Polish Ministry of Defense told CNN on Tuesday. The
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin has warned that a possible prisoner swap with the United States involving American basketball star Brittney Griner needs to be negotiated quietly without fanfare. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that Washington had offered Russia a deal that would bring home Griner and
Continue Reading By Michael Warren, CNN The top controversies upending both the sporting world and international relations are coming together this week at Donald Trump’s New Jersey golf club, with the former President stepping right in the middle of the drama. Starting Friday, Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster will host the third event for LIV Golf,
Continue Reading By DAVID KOENIG and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers JetBlue Airways is buying Spirit Airlines for $3.8 billion in a deal that could increase competition at the top end of the U.S. airline industry while eliminating the largest discount airline for travelers on a tight budget. The agreement announced Thursday capped bidding war that began
Continue Reading By Ben Church, CNN It was less than a year ago that Cristiano Ronaldo made his sensational return to Manchester United, but the superstar is once again involved in another transfer saga. Not happy with his current club’s position, it appears the 37-year-old is on the hunt for a new adventure that can satisfy his
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN There was a time not long ago when no one paid the full sticker price when buying a new car, but with vehicle inventories limited due to supply chain problems, retail car prices are through the roof. And while that’s bad news for buyers, some automakers have seen their earnings and
Continue Reading CNN’s Matt Egan breaks down Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s comments after the Federal Reserve again approved a super-sized interest rate hike of three-quarters of a percentage point.
Continue Reading Record hot temperatures continue for the Pacific Northwest as a flood threat remains for the central US. CNN meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has the forecast.
Continue Reading By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Auto Racing Writer BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Sebastian Vettel considered retiring from Formula One for quite some time before finally announcing Thursday this season will be his last. The German, who joined Instagram on Wednesday, used the platform one day later to announce he plans to spend more time with his
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — La cantante colombiana Shakira enfrentará un juicio en España por presunta evasión fiscal en un caso que data de 2018. Un juez dice que la artista ha defraudado al fisco español pero la cantante niega estas acusaciones. El caso data de 2018 cuando la Fiscalía de Barcelona presentó una
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — Rusia logró en las últimas horas un “éxito parcial” en su intento por controlar la región de Donetsk, en el este de Ucrania, donde mantiene los bombardeos desde hace semanas. Además, funcionarios de la administración de Joe Biden aseguraron que más de 75.000 soldados rusos murieron o resultaron heridos
Continue Reading By Anna Cooban, CNN Business Nestlé hiked its prices by 6.5% in the first half of 2022 as it grapples with an “unprecedented” rise in costs. The world’s largest food company raised its prices the most in North America — a 9.8% increase — followed by Latin America at 9.4%, Nestlé said in a statement
Continue Reading By Alex Stambaugh, CNN James Lovelock, the British environmental scientist and creator of the Gaia theory, which hypothesizes Earth acts as a single living organism, has died at the age of 103. Lovelock died on Tuesday “surrounded by his family on his 103rd birthday,” a statement from his family released to the Guardian and shared
Continue Reading By Issy Ronald, CNN It seems somewhat of an understatement to call the Tour de France a bike race. It transcends cycling, shutting down every mountain pass, village, town and city it passes through, drawing huge crowds along the roadside like some kaleidoscopic carnival. But — except for a brief period between 1984 and 1989
Continue Reading By Laura He, CNN Business Yang Huiyan, Asia’s wealthiest woman, has seen her wealth fall to $11 billion from nearly $24 billion this year as China’s property crisis escalates, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The 41-year-old controls Country Garden Holdings, China’s largest real estate developer by sales. Her stake was largely transferred from her
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