By Sara Murray, Zachary Cohen and Kara Scannell, CNN Trump ally Doug Mastriano’s virtual appearance Tuesday before the House January 6 committee only lasted about 15 minutes and “he didn’t answer a single question,” according to a source familiar with the matter. Mastriano’s attorney cut off the virtual appearance soon after it began, the source
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By GENE CHAMBERLAIN Associated Press Chicago Bears star linebacker Roquan Smith is requesting a trade, saying the team hasn’t negotiated in good faith for a contract extension. Smith doesn’t have an agent. He wrote Tuesday in a statement that he has “officially” asked to be dealt and that it was “deeply painful.” He said he
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A series of large explosions went off in the area of a Russian military airbase in the annexed Ukrainian territory of Crimea, with footage from the scene near Novofedorivka showing large plumes of smoke billowing into the air. CNN’s David McKenzie has more.
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By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A suburban Dallas man who evaded arrest for more than 12 years after the fatal shootings of his two teenage daughters in 2008 was convicted Tuesday in the killings that prosecutors said were driven by his obsessive desire for control. Yaser Said, 65, was found guilty of
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By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Snapchat on Tuesday introduced its first parental control center, nearly 10 months after an executive from the company told Congress it was developing tools aimed at helping parents keep their teens safe. The new tool, called Family Center, promises to give parents more insight into who their teenagers are
Continue Reading By JOE REEDY and RALPH D. RUSSO AP Sports Writers The Big Ten’s next television contracts will not include a deal with ESPN. Two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press that the Big Ten was looking for a seven-year deal worth $380 million per year from ESPN, and the network declined. The
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN A federal appeals court on Tuesday signed off on a House Ways and Means Committee request to obtain former President Donald Trump’s tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service. The 3-0 ruling from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals is a blow to Trump, who has argued for
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By Rachel Janfaza, Melissa Holzberg DePalo, Ethan Cohen, Clara Grudberg and Nicholas Anastacio, CNN It’s primary election day in Vermont, Connecticut, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Vermont is on the edge of history as the state prepares to send a woman to Congress for the first time, there’s a competitive Republican gubernatorial race in Wisconsin and a
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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Crypto brokerage Coinbase has been hit hard by the meltdown in bitcoin prices this year. The stock has plunged 65% so far in 2022. And the company’s latest earnings, due out after the closing bell Tuesday, are likely to be miserable. Wall Street is forecasting a more than
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macamilarincon (CNN Business) –– Los consumidores en Estados Unidos, presionados por una fuerte inflación, han dejado de adquirir cortes caros de carne de res y los cambian por el pollo más barato en los supermercados. No es solo el precio de los alimentos y el combustible. La inflación está afectando a casi todo Tyson, el
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Several countries in Europe dependent on Russian energy are suffering another blow with confirmation that oil shipments have stopped through a critical pipeline. Russia’s state pipeline operator, Transneft, said it had stopped shipments through the southern branch of the Druzhba oil pipeline, which flows through Ukraine to the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. Transneft cited
Continue Reading By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett’s company has bought up more than $11 billion worth of Occidental Petroleum stock this year, giving Berkshire Hathaway control of more than 20% of the oil producer. Occidental’s stock rose more than 3.5% on Tuesday to $62.18 after Buffett revealed his latest purchases
Continue Reading By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Warren Buffett’s company has bought up more than $11 billion worth of Occidental Petroleum stock this year, giving Berkshire Hathaway control of more than 20% of the oil producer. Occidental’s stock rose more than 3.5% on Tuesday to $62.18 after Buffett revealed his latest purchases
Continue Reading CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN The Democrats’ budget reconciliation package, which contains several landmark climate and health care provisions, was signed into law by President Joe Biden Tuesday. The House passed the legislation, titled the Inflation Reduction Act, Friday after being approved by the Senate on August 7 on a
Continue Reading By Tami Luhby, CNN When Senate Democrats crafted their legislation to lower drug prices, they wanted two main measures to encompass both the private insurance and Medicare markets. However, in the end, they were forced to limit the provisions — restricting the growth of drug prices to inflation and placing a $35 cap on insulin
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — The top South Korean and Chinese diplomats have pledged to develop closer relations and maintain stable industrial supply chains at a time of deepening rivalry between Beijing and Washington. South Korea is struggling to strike a balance between Washington and the increasingly assertive foreign policy of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s government. Foreign
Continue Reading Opinion by Sarah Anderson and Rebekah Entralgo for CNN Business Perspectives Imagine if America’s ultra-wealthy invested the financial gains they made during the pandemic in affordable housing, child care centers or any of our country’s other urgent human needs. As of May, US billionaires had seen their wealth rise by more than $1.7 trillion —
Continue Reading By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Boston Red Sox left-hander Chris Sale broke his right wrist in a bike accident over the weekend and will miss the rest of the season. The Red Sox say Sale had surgery Monday and is expected to be ready for the start of spring training next
Continue Reading By Rachel Janfaza and Andrew Menezes, CNN Midterm primary season continues Tuesday with elections in four states: Wisconsin, Minnesota, Connecticut and Vermont. In addition to a high-profile US Senate race in Wisconsin and gubernatorial contests in all four states, there are a number of US House primaries to watch as Democrats fight to defend their
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN Español) –– El incendio de gran magnitud que se desató en la zona del Mercado 4 de Asunción, Paraguay, logró controlarse tras varias horas de trabajo durante la noche de este lunes y la madrugada del martes, informó el capitán del Cuerpo de Bomberos Voluntarios, Eduardo Méndez. Y resaltó que no hubo víctimas. “Tuvimos 38
Continue Reading By Tim Lister, Anna Chernova, Olga Voitovich, Yulia Kesaieva and Ivana Kottasová, CNN One person has died and multiple others were injured in a series of large explosions that rocked the area of a Russian military airbase in the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea on Tuesday, local authorities have said. Footage from the scene showed
Continue Reading New research indicates that state laws that are broadly worded to prohibit drivers from holding a cell phone under any circumstance appear to be effective in reducing rear-end crashes. The research paper, published by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety on Tuesday, looked at data from Oregon, Washington and California and compared it to Colorado
Continue Reading CNN By Alex Rogers and Melanie Zanona, CNN Top congressional Republicans are rushing to former President Donald Trump’s defense after the FBI executed a search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida as part of an investigation into the handling of potentially classified material. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Attorney General Merrick Garland to
Continue Reading By Alex Rogers and Melanie Zanona, CNN Top congressional Republicans are rushing to former President Donald Trump’s defense after the FBI executed a search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida as part of an investigation into the handling of potentially classified material. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Attorney General Merrick Garland to “preserve
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — La tenista estadounidense Serena Williams anunció que su retiro está cerca una publicación de Instagram, en la que, entre otras cosas, dijo: “Llega un momento en la vida en el que tenemos que decidir tomar una dirección diferente”. Williams ya es leyenda del tenis gracias a sus 23 títulos de Grand Slam,
Continue Reading By MITCH STACY AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI (AP) — The home of the Cincinnati Bengals will no longer carry the name of team founder and NFL pioneer Paul Brown. It will now be known as Paycor Stadium. Paycor is a Cincinnati-based maker of human resources software. The company has bought the naming rights to the
Continue Reading macamilarincon (CNN Español) –– El presidente de Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, informó este lunes que el juez Banny Molina, de la ciudad costeña de Portoviejo, hizo extensivo un recurso de habeas corpus a favor de Jorge Glas, exvicepresidente del país. Glas cumple dos sentencias por corrupción de seis y ocho años de prisión por los delitos
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You can be the lucky owner of a heated letter John Lennon wrote to Paul McCartney, but it will cost you. The highest bid right now is $33,000 and the auction house says it’s expected to go for up to $40,000. The letter is a so-called scathing reply to Paul McCartney’s published interview in the
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN Bob Odenkirk has said he would have been “dead in a few minutes” if he had not received CPR after suffering a heart attack on the set of “Better Call Saul” last year. In July 2021, Odenkirk collapsed on the Albuquerque, New Mexico, set while filming the sixth and final season
Continue Reading By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — A tax credit of up to $7,500 could be used to defray the cost of an electric vehicle under the Inflation Reduction Act now moving toward final approval in Congress. But the auto industry is warning that the vast majority of EV purchases won’t qualify for
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