By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has begun scattering millions of packets of oral rabies vaccine from helicopters and planes over 13 states from Maine to Alabama. The major aim is to keep raccoons from spreading their strain of the deadly virus to states where it hasn’t
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By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — The first soccer team from Kosovo to qualify for the group stage of a European competition found out its opponents on Friday. It first had to be diverted away from the only Serbian team in the draw. Kosovo’s champion Ballkani was among the last teams picked
Continue Reading By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Brad Keselowski likes his chances at Daytona International Speedway. It seems somewhat strange considering his recent results at the famed track. Keselowski has crashed eight times in his last 11 starts at the superspeedway and finished worse than 30th six times. He’s hardly the
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a stark warning Friday about the Fed’s determination to fight inflation with more sharp interest rate hikes: It will likely cause pain for Americans in the form of a weaker economy and job losses. The message landed with
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By Martha C. White Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell warned that the central bank’s mission to tame inflation will result in “some pain” for US households. In a keynote speech at the Federal Reserve’s annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium Friday morning, Powell said that the path to reducing inflation would not be quick or easy,
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CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Martha C. White At the Federal Reserve’s annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, chairman Jerome Powell telegraphed a greater sense of urgency about taming inflation than he has in previous remarks, calling price stability “the bedrock of our economy.” In his keynote speech Friday morning, Powell said that the central bank’s “overarching focus”
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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Just like people, dogs can get dementia as they age. The spry speedster that used to zoom out the door may one day amble unsteadily to the closet to be let out. It’s an unfortunate reality many dog owners might have to face, especially if their dog’s breed lives 10 years
Continue Reading By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A small submarine has found the remains of 10 migrants who drowned when their boat sank in late April off the coast of Lebanon with about 30 people on board. The boat was carrying around 80 Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians trying to migrate by sea to Italy
Continue Reading CNNEE Nota del editor: Silvina Moschini es emprendedora especializada en la transformación digital del mundo del trabajo. Es fundadora y presidente de TransparentBusiness, una plataforma que permite gestionar equipos remotos de forma transparente. Además, es fundadora y presidenta ejecutiva de SheWorks!, una tienda virtual para contratar mujeres profesionales con modelos flexibles. Las opiniones expresadas en
Continue Reading LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A union says workers at a Chipotle store in Michigan have voted to unionize, becoming the first of the Mexican fast-food chain’s 3,000 locations to do so. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters says workers at a Chipotle store in Lansing, Michigan, “voted overwhelmingly” Thursday to form a union with the Teamsters.
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By Sophia Saifi, Akanksha Sharma and Asim Khan for CNN, and Reuters At least 33 million people have been affected by deadly flooding in Pakistan, the country’s climate change minister said on Thursday. Since mid-June, 937 people have died from severe rain and flooding across the South Asian country, according to the country’s National Disaster
Continue Reading By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — A years-long transfer dispute after the death in an airplane crash of soccer player Emiliano Sala has been decided in favor of his former club Nantes against Cardiff. The Court of Arbitration for Sport says it dismissed Cardiff’s appeal against a FIFA order to pay a
Continue Reading By AARON MORRISON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In 2016, responding to the fatal police shootings of two Black men just a day apart, Serena Williams joined a small chorus of top Black athletes in speaking out. “I won’t be silent!” she vowed. “Have we not gone through enough, opened so many doors, impacted
Continue Reading By AARON MORRISON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In 2016, responding to the fatal police shootings of two Black men just a day apart, Serena Williams joined a small chorus of top Black athletes in speaking out. “I won’t be silent!” she vowed. “Have we not gone through enough, opened so many doors, impacted
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AUSTIN, Texas — Musical renown has met literary renown as Taylor Swift is being taught to students at an academic university for the second semester in a row. As the University of Texas at Austin website displays, Professor Elizabeth Escala will be teaching a class in the Liberal Arts Honors program this Fall, titled: The
Continue Reading CNN By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business The now viral phrase “quiet quitting” is annoyingly imprecise and misleading. Some say it means doing the bare minimum at work or just not going above and beyond. Others say it’s about setting healthy boundaries or not mindlessly buying into ‘hustle culture.’ And then there are those who say
Continue Reading By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business The now viral phrase “quiet quitting” is annoyingly imprecise and misleading. Some say it means doing the bare minimum at work or just not going above and beyond. Others say it’s about setting healthy boundaries or not mindlessly buying into ‘hustle culture.’ And then there are those who say it’s
Continue Reading NEWCASTLE, England (AP) — Newcastle has made its most eye-catching move in the transfer market since coming under Saudi ownership by setting a club record to sign Sweden striker Alexander Isak from Real Sociedad for a reported 70 million euros ($70 million). It takes the spending of the richest club owners in world soccer to
Continue Reading STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn has added another point guard to its roster after losing star Paige Bueckers for the season to a knee injury earlier this month. The school says Inês Bettencourt, a 5-foot-9 guard from the Azores in Portugal, will join the team as a freshman. She will provide depth for the Huskies
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball will send players to South Korea for a postseason tour, MLB’s first trip to Korea since 1922. The games between an MLB team and players from the South Korean league will be at Busan Sajik Baseball Stadium on Nov. 11-12 and Seoul’s Gocheok Sky Dome on Nov. 14-15.
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Flooding continues to be a concern for some Gulf Coast states and we are tracking the chance of severe storms this afternoon across New England. CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam has the latest forecast.
Continue Reading By Jay Croft and Amanda Musa, CNN After record-setting rainfall this week, Jackson, Mississippi, is preparing for the Pearl River to reach 36 feet by Tuesday, leading to flooded streets. Marty Pope, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service said in a Friday news conference the Pearl River will likely reach 34-35 feet this weekend.
Continue Reading Jacqui Palumbo and Toyin Owoseje, CNN A Miss England finalist has become the first ever beauty queen to compete without wearing any makeup in the pageant’s nearly century-long history. Melisa Raouf, a 20-year-old college student from south London, moved forward at the pageant’s semifinals on Monday after opting for a barefaced look. Now, she’ll compete
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Some 150 artworks from the collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen will be auctioned at Christie’s in New York this fall and are expected to bring in more than $1 billion in total. Christie’s says the works to be auctioned span 500 years of art history from Old Masters to
Continue Reading By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It was the kind of story that media reporter Brian Stelter would normally sink his teeth into — if only it didn’t involve him. CNN said last week it was cancelling “Reliable Sources,” its 30-year-old program on the media, and letting Stelter go, part of
Continue Reading By MARIA DI MENTO of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy The health of the world’s oceans looms large in Wendy Schmidt’s thinking about the planet’s future and in her giving. Schmidt leads a collection of philanthropies through which she and her husband, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, work to help protect the planet.
Continue Reading CNN By Anna Cooban, CNN Business Russia is burning an estimated $10 million worth of natural gas a day near its border with Finland, analysts say, even as it threatens to push Europe into a winter energy crisis by restricting exports to Germany and other countries. State gas giant Gazprom is burning off, or “flaring,”
Continue Reading By Anna Cooban, CNN Business Russia is burning an estimated $10 million worth of natural gas a day near its border with Finland, analysts say, even as it threatens to push Europe into a winter energy crisis by restricting exports to Germany and other countries. State gas giant Gazprom is burning off, or “flaring,” about
Continue Reading By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer COVID-19 vaccine maker Moderna is suing its main competitors Pfizer and the German drugmaker BioNTech. It’s accusing the rivals of copying Moderna’s technology in order to make their own vaccine. Moderna said Friday that Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine Comirnaty infringes on patents Moderna filed several years ago protecting the
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin Minneapolis (CNN Business) — El indicador de inflación favorito de la Reserva Federal mostró que los aumentos se tomaron un respiro el mes pasado, ya que los precios de la energía siguieron bajando desde sus máximos históricos. Sin embargo, el titular de la FED, Jerome Powell, mencionó el “dolor” dos veces al
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