EL PASO, Texas – Little Flower Catholic Church is putting on its yearly Bazaar- a market with vendors, entertainment, and more. Things will be a little bit different this year as it will be a three-day event- Friday through Sunday- and will even include a rodeo on Friday. Admission is free for the weekend but
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By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — You’ll no longer be able to store your precious coins, jewelry and paperwork at JPMorgan Chase & Co., as the bank has stopped opening new safety deposit boxes for customers. A spokesman for the bank said Chase decided late last year to stop offering new
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By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Tesla will hold its second annual AI Day in Palo Alto, California, Friday evening. The six-hour event will include updates on Tesla’s work in artificial intelligence, “Full Self-Driving,” its supercomputer “Dojo” and maybe a humanoid robot, according to invitations posted online by Tesla supporters. The event is expected to be
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EL PASO, Texas — Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) and his Democratic opponent Beto O’Rourke will face off in a televised debate Friday at 6 p.m. Mountain Standard Time. The two candidates are set to take the stage at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg. Abbott is clearly favored to win, leading
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By Geneva Sands, CNN Drones have been spotted flying over Louisiana chemical facilities and a pipeline over the past year and a half, prompting an FBI warning on Thursday about the potential for espionage and terrorism at critical infrastructure facilities, according to a report obtained by CNN. “[O]verflights can be an effective means of surveilling
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CNN’s chief climate correspondent Bill Weir rides with civilian volunteers known as the “Cajun Navy” and “Project Dynamo” in efforts to save stranded civilians from the devastation left by Hurricane Ian on Sanibel Island.
Continue Reading By Bill Weir, Paul P. Murphy and Ray Sanchez, CNN An older couple who rode out Hurricane Ian in their home on Sanibel Island in Florida could not agree on evacuating after parts of the causeway to the mainland were destroyed. “We’re going. We’re going,” the unidentified man told his partner as she looked down
Continue Reading Alexandra Ferguson Londres (CNN Business) — El retrato del rey Carlos III que figurará en las monedas británicas fue revelado por la Real Casa de la Moneda, fabricante oficial de las piezas de dinero del Reino Unido. La imagen, que aparecerá por primera vez en las monedas conmemorativas de 5 y 50 peniques en honor
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By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed into law Friday a bill that finances the federal government through mid-December and provides another infusion of military and economic aid to Ukraine after lawmakers acted to avert a partial government shutdown set to begin after midnight. The bill passed the House by
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By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — A person familiar with the deal tells The Associated Press that veteran big man Blake Griffin has agreed to a contract with the Boston Celtics. The person confirmed the move on the condition of anonymity because the deal hasn’t been announced. The 33-year-old Griffin should help
Continue Reading TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Lightning and team owner Jeff Vinik are donating $2 million toward Hurricane Ian relief efforts. The NHL team announced Friday that $1 million each will be donated by the Tampa Bay Lightning Foundation and the Vinik Family Foundation. Ian made landfall this week on Florida’s Gulf Coast, south
Continue Reading PARMA, Italy (AP) — The semifinals of the Parma Ladies Open have been postponed by a day and will be played shortly before Saturday’s final. The decision was made because of persistent rain at the clay-court tournament on Friday. Top-seeded Maria Sakkari faces Danka Kovinic and sixth-seeded Ana Bogdan meets Mayar Sherif.
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By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business Daniel Glaun woke up on Thursday morning not knowing whether or not his home had fallen victim to Hurricane Ian. Glaun, a reporter at the News-Press, the broadsheet that services Fort Myers, Florida, had slept on a mattress cover inside NPR affiliate WGCU’s building, which has become a refuge for
Continue Reading RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The Moroccan government has asked sports apparel company Adidas to pull its new jersey collection for Algeria’s national soccer team off the market. Morocco’s Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication said in a statement that the design on the jerseys amounted to “cultural appropriation” of Moroccan heritage. The pattern depicts a
Continue Reading RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The Moroccan government has asked sports apparel company Adidas to pull its new jersey collection for Algeria’s national soccer team off the market. Morocco’s Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication said in a statement that the design on the jerseys amounted to “cultural appropriation” of Moroccan heritage. The pattern depicts a
Continue Reading By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Myles Garrett knows he’s lucky. His life could be very different or even over. Speaking for the first time since losing control and flipping his Porsche, the Cleveland Browns’ star defensive end expressed relief that he survived the crash he caused by driving too fast.
Continue Reading By BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press Many people whose loved ones stayed behind in the pathway of Hurricane Ian are crowdsourcing rescue efforts as they grapple with the helplessness of waiting and not knowing. In TikTok videos and Facebook posts, families are sharing their desperate pleas and strangers are answering their calls, even as local officials
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Lately, the female singing trio Brownstone has been all about the “re.” “We’re reinventing, we’re refreshed, we’re renewed, we’re revamped,” member Teisha Brown told CNN in a recent interview. “Now don’t get it twisted: you still are getting Brownstone, but we are giving you a little bit of a new
Continue Reading By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — James Harden is ready for his first full season with the Philadelphia 76ers. He played 21 games for the Sixers after being acquired from Brooklyn at the trade deadline. Harden is a three-time NBA scoring champion and 2018 league MVP. He knows the Sixers belong
Continue Reading By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business September was a horrible month for stocks. The Dow fell nearly 9%, its worst monthly drop since March 2020, when pandemic lockdowns started in the United States. The index ended Friday deeply in the red, too. The Dow, a widely watched barometer of America’s stock market that includes
Continue Reading By JIM VERTUNO and PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press The new world of college athletes getting paid for endorsements has created a rapidly expanding pop-up industry: Brand new nonprofit “collectives” that pay athletes to promote charities. The collectives are pitched as feel-good partnerships, but they also raise questions. Is their mission to support charities and their
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By JIM VERTUNO and PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press The new world of college athletes getting paid for endorsements has created a rapidly expanding pop-up industry: Brand new nonprofit “collectives” that pay athletes to promote charities. The collectives are pitched as feel-good partnerships, but they also raise questions. Is their mission to support charities and their
Continue Reading By JIM VERTUNO and PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press The new world of college athletes getting paid for endorsements has created a rapidly expanding pop-up industry: Brand new nonprofit “collectives” that pay athletes to promote charities. The collectives are pitched as feel-good partnerships, but they also raise questions. Is their mission to support charities and their
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN Class is back in session once again. “Community,” the six-season hit NBC comedy series about a group of students at a community college, will return with a long-awaited movie, NBC’s streaming service Peacock announced Friday — fulfilling the show’s own “six seasons and a movie” prophecy. “‘Six seasons and a movie’
Continue Reading BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — France midfielder Boubacar Kamara has been ruled out of the World Cup after sustaining knee ligament damage. Kamara was injured while playing for Aston Villa in a 1-0 win against Southampton this month. The 22-year-old Kamara was picked in France’s Nations League games this month but had to withdraw. Villa manager
Continue Reading By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Vermont dispensaries are set to begin selling marijuana for recreational use, though only three will be ready to do so on opening weekend. FLORA Cannabis in Middlebury, Mountain Girl Cannabis in Rutland and CeresMED in Burlington will all open on Saturday. A fourth business has been licensed to sell recreational
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby and Alicia Wallace, CNN Americans are feeling more positive about the economy and believe inflation will settle down — but plenty of uncertainty is still swirling. The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index for September settled in at 58.6, down slightly from preliminary readings of 59.5, according to findings from the school’s
Continue Reading By COLLEEN BARRY AP Business Writer MILAN (AP) — Italian right-wing leader Matteo Salvini has criticized the European Union for not working together on a common response to the energy crisis but instead “protecting their own interests.” Speaking at a Milan demonstration by farmers protesting the impact of high energy prices, Salvini said the EU
Continue Reading ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — English golfer Richard Mansell has stood up to bad weather to shoot a stunning 4-under 68 on the Old Course and open a two-shot lead halfway through the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland. Mansell carded five birdies and a single bogey to post the lowest round of the day.
Continue Reading By Matt Egan The apparent sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines running from Russia underscore Europe’s massive energy vulnerabilities, former US energy regulator Neil Chatterjee told CNN. “It’s a scary situation. They are basically hoping and praying for a mild winter,” Chatterjee, a former commissioner and chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said in
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