By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Is America’s economy already in a recession? That’s a debate among central bankers, investors and economists, not to mention politicians. But one thing is clear: Some consumers, especially less affluent ones, are starting to have trouble paying their bills on time. Results from credit card companies and wireless
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LONDON (AP) — The ATP is partnering with a group that works to increase LGBTQ inclusion in sports after 75% of players who participated in a survey by the men’s tennis tour said they had heard other players use homophobic slurs. The tour says it is launching a multiyear education partnership with You Can Play.
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Estados Unidos sancionó al expresidente de Paraguay Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara “por su participación en una corrupción significativa”, dijo este viernes el secretario de Estado Antony Blinken en un comunicado. El expresidente de Paraguay fue designado en virtud de la sección 7031(c) de la Ley de Asignaciones del Departamento de
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister has sought to reassure the public that the country will have sufficient winter supplies of natural gas and coal. At a time of rising discontent with high inflation and shortages of coal for heating, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki attributed the problems to Russia’s nearly five-month war in Ukraine.
Continue Reading CAHORS, France (AP) — Frenchman Christophe Laporte has won the 19th stage of the Tour de France after surging ahead of the peloton in the finale in the southwestern city of Cahors. It was his first stage win at cycling’s biggest race. With just two stages left before the Tour ends in Paris, Jonas Vingegaard
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian central bank diverged from its Western counterparts by slashing its key interest rate just a month after dropping it to where it was before the country sent troops into Ukraine. The bank on Friday lowered its key rate by 1.5 percentage points, to 8%, saying consumer prices are still easing
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By Sean Lyngaas, Pete Muntean and Greg Wallace, CNN The Biden administration on Thursday issued updated cybersecurity requirements for big US pipeline operators that give them more flexibility over what cyber defensive measures they can take following a major ransomware attack last year. The Transportation Security Administration directive — a revision to requirements enacted in
Continue Reading Opinion by Jung Hyun Choi and Daniel Pang for CNN Business Perspectives Over the past year, both rents and home prices have risen faster than inflation, and the surge in housing prices has outpaced wage growth. But renters — who were already more financially vulnerable than homeowners before the pandemic — are bearing the brunt
Continue Reading By Gloria Borger, CNN Chief Political Analyst It’s hard, of course, to choose among the striking revelations in the last episode of season one of the January 6 hearings, but how about this: Top staffers knew exactly who Donald Trump was, and decided to remain anyway. It’s an argument we heard over and over again
Continue Reading Associated Press Lululemon workers in Washington, D.C. are filing to hold a union election, joining workers at other major companies aiming to organize amid a wave of labor wins over the past year. The petition was filed this week by the Association of Concerted Educators. The company refers to its sales staff as educators. The
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By Liam Reilly and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN Two Rochester, New York, police officers were shot in a “cowardly ambush” late Thursday, a 29-year veteran fatally, the chief said. Both were in plainclothes, according to the Democrat & Chronicle, when at least one male approached and opened fire, CNN affiliate WHAM said. Officer Tony Mazurkiewicz was
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Nuevas imágenes satelitales publicadas por la NASA revelan la drástica pérdida de agua en el lago Mead debido a la megasequía en curso. “El embalse más grande de Estados Unidos suministra agua a millones de personas en siete estados, tierras tribales y el norte de México”, escribió la NASA sobre
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN Español) — La ceremonia de inducción al Salón de la Fama del béisbol estadounidense se llevará a cabo el 24 de julio y algunos peloteros latinoamericanos forman parte de la Clase 2022 que entrará al selecto grupo. ¿Dónde conviene invertir en este mercado bajista? Intenta con el vino, el arte y las tarjetas
Continue Reading HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — American Bernarda Pera will play top-seeded Anett Kontaveit in the women’s final of the Hamburg European Open after they won their semifinals in straight sets. Pera secured her first WTA title in Budapest last week. She advanced over seventh-seeded Maryna Zanevska 6-2, 6-4. Kontaveit beat Russian-born Anastasia Potapova 6-3, 7-5 to
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Ucrania y Rusia firmaron este viernes en la ciudad turca de Estambul un acuerdo que permite la exportación de grano ucraniano a través del Mar Negro, después de meses de negociaciones con la mediación de Turquía y las Naciones Unidas.. La información la confirmó el secretario general de la ONU,
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Toyin Owoseje, CNN Former supermodel Linda Evangelista says she has settled a lawsuit over cosmetic procedures which she claimed ruined her career. The 57-year-old Canadian fashion model sued cosmetic company Zeltiq Aesthetics, a unit of Allergan Aesthetics, for $50 million last year, alleging she became a recluse after a CoolSculpting treatment to reduce fat left
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Good Friday morning! It will be another hot day with triple-digit temperatures once again. Thunderstorms will begin in the mountains and spread to the lowlands this afternoon. Temperatures will run a few degrees cooler this weekend and next week.
Continue Reading By Rob Picheta, Jomana Karadsheh, Radina Gigova and Tim Lister, CNN Ukraine and Russia have agreed a deal that would allow the resumption of vital grain exports from Ukrainian Black Sea ports, a major diplomatic breakthrough aimed at easing a global food crisis sparked by the war. Ministers from both countries signed an agreement brokered
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — The Big Four are forming quite a squad at the Laver Cup. That’s because Novak Djokovic is joining Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray on Team Europe in September. Event organizers announced Friday that Djokovic will participate. He won Wimbledon this month for his 21st Grand Slam title. That puts him
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Paying for some Bruce Springsteen tickets these days may be “Tougher Than The Rest.” That’s because Ticketmaster’s “dynamic pricing” has some seats reaching $4000 to $5000 a seat. The high prices are not going over well. “I’m sure you won’t see this @springsteen but you or your management need to
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Kourtney Kardashian is clearing up claims about her son on social media. Kardashian, who shares Mason, 12, with her ex, Scott Disick, says their son has nothing to do with accounts claiming to belong to the preteen. “Hello everyone, hope it is a beautiful Thursday,” Kardashian tweeted. “After months and months of
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New claims for jobless benefits are at their highest weekly level since late last year. Applications for jobless aid for the week ending July 16 rose by 7,000 to 251,000, up from the previous week’s 244,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s the most since mid-November last year. The total number of Americans collecting jobless
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By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California punched back Friday against two recent landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions as Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a controversial, first-in-the-nation gun control law patterned after a Texas anti-abortion law and urged other states to follow suit. He acted one month after conservative justices overturned the constitutional
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Pat Benatar won’t perform her 1980 classic “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” anymore. Amid ongoing gun violence in America, the singer says she’s come to view the song differently. “I’m not going to sing it,” Benatar told USA Today. While the song’s meaning is about strength and resiliency, Benatar said “you
Continue Reading By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Decades after the release of Michael Mann’s “Heat,” the classic crime thriller has endured in the minds of fans, critics, peers and the director himself. He had so much left to say. “There’s always the sense of being shortchanged,” Mann said during a Zoom interview
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Serena Williams y Novak Djokovic están incluidos en la lista de inscritos para el Abierto de Estados Unidos de este año, aunque, por diferentes motivos, no significa definitivamente que ninguno de los dos vaya a jugar. Williams regresó a la acción de los Grand Slams este mes en Wimbledon después
Continue Reading Martha C. White The recovery wasn’t supposed to go like this. Wall Street and Main Street alike are suffering from whiplash when it comes to the current state of the US economy. In their roles as consumers, investors and members of the workforce, ordinary Americans have the sense that the country is at an economic
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Truck drivers and Britons heading off on holiday by ferry faced hours-long waits at the port of Dover on Friday, with authorities blaming French officials for the chaos — a claim France denied. Dover authorities said a lack of French border officials was leading to waits of
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Marking Billy Porter’s film directing debut, “Anything’s Possible” is a sensitive high-school love story that’s so light on conflict as to risk blowing away. Placing a trans teen at its center adds some heft to material that would in an earlier era would have been presented as an after-school special,
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Do not try and label Jordan Peele as the “best horror director of all time.” The “Nope” director gently shut down a Twitter user who asked whether Peele could rightly claim that title after favorable reviews for his newest film, as well as Peele’s previous hits, 2019’s “Us” and 2017’s
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