By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN South American countries are bracing for an autumn of discontent, as spiking global fuel prices threaten to provoke more protests in the upcoming months. Rising fuel prices have already brought about protests in Argentina, Ecuador and Panama. Their neighbors could be particularly susceptible to rising prices at the pump, because the
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CNN By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN South American countries are bracing for an autumn of discontent, as spiking global fuel prices threaten to provoke more protests in the upcoming months. Rising fuel prices have already brought about protests in Argentina, Ecuador and Panama. Their neighbors could be particularly susceptible to rising prices at the pump, because
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By HALELUYA HADERO and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The top policy and communications executive at Amazon and a one-time White House spokesman has been named the head of policy at Airbnb. It is just the latest high-profile departure for Amazon. It comes as the e-commerce giant is facing a shifting
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EL PASO, Texas – At this point, we are sounding like broken records, but it sure is hot out there! Not very many people like triple-digit heat, and that’s what we’ve been dealing with for the past several days. ABC-7 Meteorologists often recommend wearing light-colored clothing on sunny and hot weather days to keep your
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By PETER SMITH Associated Press MASKWACIS, Alberta (AP) — To this day, Flo Buffalo doesn’t drink milk — not since two nuns force-fed her the sour milk she had refused at the Catholic-run Ermineskin Indian Residential School for Indigenous children that she attended in the 1960s. Holding out her right hand, she showed how she
Continue Reading By Kathryn Vasel, CNN Business In 2020, Joe DiPastena felt confident enough to retire earlier than planned. But by 2022, he was having second thoughts. “When the economy started to tank and my investments started to dwindle…I started to get pretty nervous,” said DiPastena, who lives in Phoenix. “I didn’t want to deplete my savings.”
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres discusses with CNN’s Becky Anderson the new export deal for grains that Russia and Ukraine just signed. Hear more on Connect the World.
Continue Reading By Rachel Metz and Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business This week, two of the most passionate communities online — gamers and cat lovers — collided with the release of a new video game that lets you play as an adorable orange tabby cat. “Stray“, created by indie French game company BlueTwelve Studio and published by Annapurna
Continue Reading CNN By Rachel Metz and Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business This week, two of the most passionate communities online — gamers and cat lovers — collided with the release of a new video game that lets you play as an adorable orange tabby cat. “Stray“, created by indie French game company BlueTwelve Studio and published by
Continue Reading VIENNA (AP) — Herbert Diess, the Volkswagen CEO whose image had been tarnished in the fallout from the German automaker’s emissions-cheating scandal, is stepping down. In a surprise announcement Friday, the company said Diess will depart Sept. 1 “by mutual consent” with the board. No reason was given. Porsche CEO Oliver Blume will succeed Diess.
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Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Han pasado casi 20 años desde la última vez que el Concorde surcó los cielos. Si bien varias empresas han comenzado a retomar los planes de viajes supersónicos desde entonces, todavía no se vuelven realidad. Sin embargo, la empresa de Colorado, Boom Supersonic, está dando grandes pasos hacia su meta de
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By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Auto Racing Writer PARIS (AP) — Red Bull team principal Christian Horner thinks fans should be free to express themselves at Formula One races because heated rivalries are common in sport. But he says there should be “zero tolerance” for the abuse and bullying witnessed at the Austrian Grand Prix. Fans
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess and Tina Burnside, CNN Former sports star Bo Jackson covered all funeral expenses for the families of the victims of the Uvalde school massacre “so they would have one less thing to worry about as they grieved,” according to a statement from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin told CNN
Continue Reading COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — World pairs champions Alex Knierim and Brandon Frazier will begin their figure skating season at Skate America in late October, where 15-year-old world junior champ Isabeau Levito also will be making her highly anticipated Grand Prix debut. U.S. Figure Skating announced the majority of its Grand Prix assignments Friday. Levito
Continue Reading By Leah Asmelash, CNN One year ago, Simone Biles suddenly withdrew from the Tokyo Olympics after struggling with the “twisties” — leaving the other members of Team USA to compete without her. Biles’ move rippled across Tokyo and the world. In an emotional interview after her withdrawal, Biles said she needed to protect “her body
Continue Reading W. Kamau Bell examines the mental health issues affecting the sport world. Tune in Sundays at 10 p.m. ET to watch “United Shades of America.”
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — Hace tres años entro en vigor el T-MEC, un nuevo acuerdo comercial entre México, Estados Unidos y Canadá que hoy está en el centro de una disputa después de que Washington y Ottawa iniciaron un proceso de consultas para resolver los desacuerdos que existen sobre las políticas energéticas del Gobierno
Continue Reading By Chandelis Duster and Jim Sciutto, CNN The head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service said Thursday he doesn’t believe Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wants to reach a nuclear deal as hope fades that an agreement can be reached. “I don’t think the Supreme Leader of Iran wants to cut a deal,” Richard Moore,
Continue Reading Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — Meses después del inicio de la invasión rusa de Ucrania, y mientras continúan los combates en la región ucraniana oriental del Donbás, delegados de Moscú y Kyiv firmaron un acuerdo que permitirá la reanudación de parte de las exportaciones de cereales desde la región, según confirmó el secretario general de
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN) –– Ryan Reynolds cree que Disney debería reconsiderar las clasificaciones de algunas de sus películas clásicas por “trauma irreversible”. Disney+ anunció este jueves que las películas de Marvel Deadpool, Deadpool 2 y Logan pronto estarían disponibles en el servicio con clasificación para adultos, o clasificación R en el sistema de Estados Unidos. Y Reynolds,
Continue Reading By SARA RATHNER NerdWallet You may have learned that all debt is bad, but sometimes debt can make the things you need or want possible. A loan can help you spread the cost of a large purchase out over a longer period of time, so you’re not left with so little in your checking account
Continue Reading By KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer Leeds manager Jesse Marsch acknowledges last season’s relegation battle was “intensely stressful.” A preseason trip Down Under for the American and his squad has been more laid-back. Leeds now features two American players in midfielders Brenden Aaronson and Tyler Adams. But expectations are ramping up on all three Americans.
Continue Reading MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State women’s basketball coach Jeff Mittie agreed to a two-year extension Friday that will pay him $2,745,000 in base salary over the next four years and includes several potentially lucrative bonus provisions. Mittie will be entering his ninth season with the Wildcats. He is coming off his fourth NCAA Tournament
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Colombian cyclist Miguel Ángel López has been suspended by his Astana team for his reported connection to a drug trafficking investigation in Spain. The Kazakhstani cycling team says it has “decided to suspend Miguel Angel Lopez from any activity within the team until all the circumstances of the case are clarified.” Spanish
Continue Reading By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business Jordan Peele is hoping to go three-for-three at the box office. The director’s third movie, “Nope,” opens this weekend, and despite a plot shrouded in mystery it’s one of the most anticipated films of the year. The Universal Pictures film, which stars Daniel Kaluuya as a Hollywood horse wrangler dealing
Continue Reading By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Clogged oil ports, electrical shorts and leaks of brake fluid are only some of the safety problems that have caused multiple fires and forced Hyundai and Kia to recall millions of vehicles in the past seven years. Now, Hyundai, the larger of the two affiliated Korean
Continue Reading By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, whom Donald Trump wanted to install as attorney general so he could use the department to help him overturn the 2020 election, violated his professional code of conduct, the disciplinary office governing lawyers in Washington, DC, said. The DC disciplinary counsel,
Continue Reading By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic representatives are widening their scrutiny into the role of tech companies in collecting the personal data of people who may be seeking an abortion, as lawmakers, regulators and the Biden administration grapple with the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling last month ending the constitutional
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By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic representatives are widening their scrutiny into the role of tech companies in collecting the personal data of people who may be seeking an abortion, as lawmakers, regulators and the Biden administration grapple with the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling last month ending the constitutional
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By Melissa Holzberg DePalo, Eric Bradner and Rachel Janfaza, CNN Wes Moore, the former Robin Hood Foundation CEO, will win Maryland’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, CNN projected Friday. He will defeat Maryland comptroller Peter Franchot, former Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez, former Education Secretary John King and former Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler. Moore, a
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