By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Tuesday’s midterm elections come at a time of economic vulnerability for the United States. Recession predictions have largely turned to “when” not “if” and inflation remains stubbornly elevated. Americans are feeling the pain of rising interest rates and are facing a winter filled with geopolitical tension. The results of Tuesday’s
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By SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — EU lawmakers investigating the use of surveillance spyware by the bloc’s governments have accused the EU’s executive arm and member countries of neglecting the surveillance scandal that targeted opposition politicians and journalists. The committee investigating Pegasus said Tuesday that national governments “are practicing omertà” — or a
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By Dennis Lapin, CNN Kyiv residents have been getting used to 12 hours a day without electricity, but the situation has gone from bad to worse recently as the Russian missile campaign puts the Ukrainian grid under further pressure, causing even more outages. On Monday evening, in a normally busy neighborhood on the east bank
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — German officials and media say police raided two branches of Swiss bank UBS in Germany in connection with alleged money laundering by a Russian businessman. A prosecutor in Frankfurt didn’t name the suspect but said Tuesday that the raids were connected to an investigation in which officials raided a luxury yacht and
Continue Reading By THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A vote to decide whether Colorado will become the second state, after Oregon, to create a legalized system for the use of psychedelic mushrooms was too early to call Tuesday. The ballot initiative would decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms for those 21 and older and create state-regulated “healing centers”
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By FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Buu Nygren has ousted Jonathan Nez as president of the Navajo Nation, a position that wields influence nationally because of the size of the tribe’s reservation in the U.S. Southwest and its huge population. Nygren defeated Nez in the nonpartisan race with a message of delivering
Continue Reading By DALIA RAMIREZ of NerdWallet The concept of “going home for the holidays” changes throughout your life, and many millennials are currently going through that transition. Even people the same age can be at very different life stages, with a wide range of financial situations, relationships and expectations from family about holiday visits. Setting financial
Continue Reading By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business The latest Powerball lottery jackpot topped $2 billion, making it the largest lotto prize ever. But in 1987 when Lotto America, the precursor to Powerball, was introduced, organizers prohibited jackpots of more than $80 million. “There were concerns about what you could do with that money — like buy a
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Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Two veterinarians driving around the world in an ambulance with their dog in tow might sound like the premise of a movie. But it’s very much the reality for UK couple Lawrence Dodi and Rachel Nixon, who are currently about a year into a global trip across more than 50 countries in
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By Diksha Madhok, Irene Nasser, Arnaud Siad and CNN’s Beijing Bureau One of Apple’s largest suppliers is trying to strike a delicate balance in China. Foxconn has to comply with some of the harshest Covid rules in the world while ensuring that Apple’s shipments are not severely disrupted just before the key holiday season begins.
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By Alasdair Howorth, CNN Steph Curry put on a performance for the ages against the Sacramento Kings to give the Golden State Warriors a much needed 116-113 win to end a five-game losing streak. Curry was playing like a man with the weight of the world on his shoulders, ending with a season high 47
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By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Border Democrats in Texas held the line in two key House races on Tuesday night, but Republicans didn’t come away empty handed, gaining one seat after an aggressive play to remake the U.S.-Mexico border into a midterm battleground. The lone GOP victory
Continue Reading By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is urging the country’s most climate-damaging industries to double their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within the next decade. Macron convened a meeting in Paris with the heads of 50 industrial sites in France accounting for about 10% of France’s total greenhouse
Continue Reading By STEFANIE DAZIO and SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Someone who bought a Powerball ticket in Southern California has won a record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot after more than three months without anyone hitting the top prize. The winning numbers were selected Tuesday morning, nearly 10 hours after the scheduled Monday night
Continue Reading By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won reelection Tuesday, adding to Republicans’ decades of dominance in the state’s top offices despite a slew of legal problems and dysfunction in his agency. Paxton secured a third term as Texas’ top lawyer, setting up America’s biggest red state to continue
Continue Reading By George Ramsay, CNN Caroline Garcia capped off a remarkable six-month period in her tennis career as she won the WTA Finals with a 7-6 6-4 victory against Aryna Sabalenka in Fort Worth, Texas. Garcia was outside the top 70 in the world rankings as recently as June, but since then has enjoyed a superb
Continue Reading By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham won reelection Tuesday to a second term by defeating Republican Mark Ronchetti on pledges to safeguard access to abortion and sustain public spending on social safety-net programs. Lujan Grisham hitched her campaign to support for abortion access as a cornerstone
Continue Reading By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business “Top Gun: Maverick” was never going to be an easy sell. Sure, the film starred Tom Cruise — arguably one of Hollywood’s most iconic movie stars — and it would be the sequel to “Top Gun,” one of the biggest blockbusters of all time. But the original “Top Gun” was
Continue Reading CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business “Top Gun: Maverick” was never going to be an easy sell. Sure, the film starred Tom Cruise — arguably one of Hollywood’s most iconic movie stars — and it would be the sequel to “Top Gun,” one of the biggest blockbusters of all time. But the original
Continue Reading CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business “Top Gun: Maverick” was never going to be an easy sell. Sure, the film starred Tom Cruise — arguably one of Hollywood’s most iconic movie stars — and it would be the sequel to “Top Gun,” one of the biggest blockbusters of all time. But the original
Continue Reading By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott decisively won a third term Tuesday night, defeating Democrat Beto O’Rourke in a midterm race that tested the direction of America’s supersized red state following the Uvalde school massacre and a strict new abortion ban. The victory underlined Abbott’s durability.
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By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter says picking Qatar to host the World Cup was a mistake 12 years ago. Blatter led FIFA at the time of the vote and says soccer and the World Cup are too big for a country as small as Qatar. He
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EL PASO, Texas – After months of polls, debates, rallies, and tv ads, Election Day is finally here! Today from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. voters can go to any vote center to cast their ballot. Voters no longer have to vote at a specific location within their precinct. Before you head out the door
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — The German government may decide this week to block the sale of a chip factory to a Swedish subsidiary of a Chinese company. It comes after a recent compromise over a Chinese shipping firm’s investment in a German container terminal. Germany company Elmos said late Monday that it had been informed by
Continue Reading By Claudia Otto, Inke Kappeler and Radina Gigova, CNN Qatar FIFA World Cup ambassador and former footballer Khalid Salman has said homosexuality is “damage in the mind,” in an interview with German broadcaster ZDF on Monday. The interview, filmed in Doha less than two weeks before the start of the tournament, was immediately stopped by
Continue Reading By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Tom Izzo is proud of the fact that Michigan State has played anyone, anytime, anywhere with consistently tough nonconference schedules throughout his career. Playing challenging competition before the Big Ten season begins has prepared the Spartans for conference play and set them up in
Continue Reading By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Tom Izzo is proud of the fact that Michigan State has played anyone, anytime, anywhere with consistently tough nonconference schedules throughout his career. Playing challenging competition before the Big Ten season begins has prepared the Spartans for conference play and set them up in
Continue Reading By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Two Democratic congresswomen won reelection to seats in New Mexico on Tuesday while it was too early to call the winner in the state’s only other district, defended by incumbent Republican Rep. Yvette Herrell. Herrell was vying for a second term in the 2nd Congressional
Continue Reading By Kevin Liptak, MJ Lee and Phil Mattingly, CNN As if Democrats needed any more convincing Tuesday’s midterm elections carry enormous stakes, President Joe Biden offered a bluntly dire assessment during a fundraiser last Friday in Chicago. “If we lose the House and Senate, it’s going to be a horrible two years,” Biden told the
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