CNN By Simone McCarthy, CNN As a US Air Force jet carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi approached Taiwan on Tuesday night, expectations ran high in China over how Beijing would respond. Since reports emerged that the key US lawmaker would visit Taiwan during an Asia tour, conversation in China had churned with nationalist furor and
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MONTREAL (AP) — Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the upcoming hard-court tournament in Montreal because of the abdominal injury that caused him to pull out of Wimbledon ahead of the semifinals. The Spaniard had been 19-0 in Grand Slam matches this year when he decided the injury was too much at Wimbledon. Nadal is a
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By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Trevor Reed, a US citizen freed earlier this year after being detained in Russia for nearly three years, said Friday that Brittney Griner’s sentence by a Russian court is “clearly political.” Griner, a WNBA star who was arrested in Russia in February, was convicted Thursday of deliberately smuggling drugs into Russia
Continue Reading CNN By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Trevor Reed, a US citizen freed earlier this year after being detained in Russia for nearly three years, said Friday that Brittney Griner’s sentence by a Russian court is “clearly political.” Griner, a WNBA star who was arrested in Russia in February, was convicted Thursday of deliberately smuggling drugs into
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macamilarincon (CNN Business) –– La economía de Estados Unidos acaba de recuperar todos los empleos que se perdieron durante la pandemia, luego de sumar 528.000 puestos de trabajos en julio, de acuerdo al informe que publicó este viernes la Oficina de Estadísticas Laborales (BLS, por sus siglas en inglés). No es solo el precio de los
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By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The head of Greece’s intelligence service and the general secretary of the prime minister’s office have resigned amid a scandal involving the targeting of the head of an opposition party and a journalist with spyware. National Intelligence Service director Panagiotis Kontoleon and Grigoris Dimitriadis, general secretary
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By Jennifer Korn Amazon has agreed to buy iRobot, the maker of the popular Roomba vacuum, in an all-cash deal valued at about $1.7 billion, including debt, the two companies announced Friday. The deal, which is pending approval from shareholders and regulators, has the potential to expand Amazon’s robotics lineup and deepen its presence in
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Megan C. Hills From sparkling jumpsuits to diamond-studded rings, Elvis Presley loved all things glittery — as do collectors of his memorabilia. But much of the jewelry famously gifted by the singer to his manager Colonel Tom Parker was long considered lost. Now, decades after the items were last seen, a California auction house has
Continue Reading By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon on Friday announced it has agreed to acquire the vacuum cleaner maker iRobot for approximately $1.7 billion, scooping up another company to add to its collection of smart home appliances amid broader concerns from anti-monopoly and privacy advocates about Amazon’s market power and ability
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has visited Russia for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. They discussed a grain deal brokered by Turkey and the U.N., prospects for talks on ending hostilities in Ukraine, the situation in Syria and growing economic ties between Moscow
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macamilarincon (CNN) — La Casa Blanca convocó este jueves al embajador de China en Estados Unidos, Qin Gang, para condenar las actividades militares “irresponsables” de Beijing cerca de Taiwán, dijo a CNN John Kirby, coordinador de comunicaciones estratégicas del Consejo de Seguridad Nacional. China envía buques de guerra y aviones cerca de Taiwán a medida
Continue Reading By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Lucy Yu found refuge in books growing up. An only child raised by a Chinese immigrant mother in west Los Angeles, she spent a lot of time in bookstores. But it seemed that the stories she connected to most — those written by immigrants and people of color — were often
Continue Reading By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Over the past few years, a number of cities and some states enacted rules banning or restricting local police use of facial-recognition software. Now, in a handful of locations around the country, the controversial technology is making a comeback. The city of New Orleans, which in 2020 passed an ordinance
Continue Reading By Natasha Bertrand and Kate Sullivan, CNN The White House summoned China’s ambassador on Thursday to condemn China’s “irresponsible” military activities near Taiwan as tensions continue to escalate in the region following US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island this week. “After China’s actions overnight, we summoned PRC Ambassador Qin Gang to the
Continue Reading By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Former “Love Island” UK champion Kem Cetinay has been involved in a traffic accident that left one person dead. The 26-year-old British TV personality was driving near his home in London on Thursday morning when his vehicle collided with a motorcycle, a representative for the star confirmed in a statement to
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — “Última hora: Leo Messi no seguirá ligado al FC Barcelona”. El título, frío, seco, que apareció en las redes sociales del club catalán hace exactamente un año impactaba al mundo entero. El ídolo máximo de la institución, el hombre que había pulverizado todos los récords con la camiseta blaugrana
Continue Reading By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin said Friday that it’s open to talking about a possible prisoner exchange involving American basketball star Brittney Griner but strongly warned Washington against publicizing the issue. Griner, a two-time U.S. Olympic champion and an eight-time all-star with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, has been detained in
Continue Reading By Tara John and Angela Dewan, CNN As the Razoni left the Ukrainian port of Odesa on Monday with the first shipment of grain since the early days of Russia’s war in Ukraine, there were sighs of relief from Somalia to Turkey, Indonesia and China, given how reliant these countries have been on Ukrainian grain
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By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business For the past year, America has had a glut of open jobs. Restaurants, airlines and retail stores have raced to recruit enough people to meet a surge in demand, dangling sign-on bonuses and more attractive wages. Time after time, they’ve come up short. But as the US economy slows down,
Continue Reading By Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent A US Air Force technical sergeant has been charged in connection with an attack in April at a US military base in northern Syria that injured four US service members, according to an Air Force statement. Sgt. David D. Dezwaan Jr., an explosive ordnance disposal expert assigned to the
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby, CNN At first glance, it looks like many Americans got big pay raises since the Covid-19 pandemic started. But in reality, only workers in two industries — leisure and hospitality and retail trade — are actually coming out ahead, once inflation is taken into account. Overall, wages and salaries for private industry
Continue Reading Jacopo Prisco, CNN Cocktail lounges, five course meals, caviar served from ice sculptures and an endless flow of champagne: life on board airplanes was quite different during the “golden age of travel,” the period from the 1950s to the 1970s that is fondly remembered for its glamor and luxury. It coincided with the dawn of
Continue Reading By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and AYA BATRAWY Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Three more ships carrying thousands of tons of corn have left Ukrainian ports. The movement Friday is the latest sign that a negotiated deal to export grain trapped since Russia invaded Ukraine nearly six months ago is slowly moving forward. But major hurdles lie
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Good morning all! It was another noisy night with storms that marched across our area after midnight. It’s likely you got rain at your apartment while you were sleeping! Can we see the same conditions for today? The short answer is yes, we can potentially see multiple storms this afternoon. The long answer is, a
Continue Reading By Jen Christensen, CNN There’s no test for long Covid. There’s no specific drug to take or exercises to do to ease its symptoms. There isn’t a consensus on what long Covid symptoms are, and some doctors even doubt that it’s real. Yet with vast numbers of people having had Covid-19, and estimates ranging from
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By Jen Christensen, CNN There’s no test for long Covid. There’s no specific drug to take or exercises to do to ease its symptoms. There isn’t a consensus on what long Covid symptoms are, and some doctors even doubt that it’s real. Yet with vast numbers of people having had Covid-19, and estimates ranging from
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN The monito del monte, an endearing mouselike creature that lives in the forests of Patagonia, races vertically up trees, covering a meter of bark per second, to feast on insects and summer fruits ripening high in the canopy. But it’s the monito’s ability to slow down its bodily functions to survive
Continue Reading When a Monitos del monte goes into hibernation its heart rate drops to a couple of beats per minute and breathes once every three minutes. “Patagonia: Life on the Edge of the World” airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona and Natasha Bertrand, CNN When a bipartisan group of lawmakers visited the Ukraine border in March, an unexpected guest showed up on the trip: GOP Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana. Spartz, the first Ukrainian-born member of the US Congress and an outspoken advocate for her home country, had expressed interest in joining
Continue Reading Associated Press Elon Musk accused Twitter of fraud in a countersuit over his aborted $44 billion deal for the social media company, which he claimed held back necessary information and misled his team about the true size of its user base. The countersuit by the billionaire and Tesla CEO alleges that Twitter committed fraud, breach
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