HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Officials in a West Virginia county plan to appeal a federal judge’s ruling in favor of three major U.S. drug distributors in a landmark lawsuit that accused them of causing a health crisis by distributing 81 million pills over eight years. The Herald-Dispatch reports the Cabell County Commission voted unanimously Thursday
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BERLIN (AP) — Dock workers at Germany’s North Sea ports are on strike in the latest of several walkouts that have added to pressures on shipping as their union demands a hefty pay rise to counter high inflation. The 48-hour strike, ends on Saturday morning, has largely paralyzed cargo handling at major German ports including
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By Matias Grez and Jill Martin, CNN Nearly 100 visa issues for athletes and officials scheduled to be participating in the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, US, remain unresolved, a World Athletics spokesperson told CNN Thursday. In total, 374 visa cases have been escalated to a joint group comprising of the United States Olympic and
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By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When Becky Hammon knew it was time to leave the NBA last winter after being an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs for eight seasons, she was faced with a tough choice. She had to choose between the two WNBA franchises she once played
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By Katie Hunt, CNN The blue whale’s giant corpse was lying washed up on a rocky beach on the Pacific coast of Patagonia, at the southern tip of South America. The huge mammal was 46 feet (14 meters) long, and its deflated body yielded no visible clue as to how it had died. It took
Continue Reading Beneath the skin, they find evidence of internal bleeding and a bruise at the base of the blue whale’s heart. Its death was likely a result of blunt force trauma to the chest. The new Original Series “Patagonia: Life on the Edge of the World” airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.
Continue Reading By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Consumers picked up their spending from May to June, underscoring their resilience despite painfully higher prices at the gas pump and in grocery aisles and allaying fears that the economy might be on the verge of a recession. U.S. retail sales rose
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Manchester United overcame an early deficit to beat the A-League’s Melbourne Victory 4-1 as new manager Erik ten Hag’s winning start to the preseason continued before a crowd of 74,157 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Three days after United beat Liverpool 4-0 to open its overseas tour in Bangkok, the Victory
Continue Reading CNN’s Scott McLean reports from Vinnytsia, Ukraine, where civilians are caught in the middle of Russian missile attacks, wounding many severely and killing others.
Continue Reading By Nadine Schmidt, CNN One of postwar Germany’s most publicized terrorism trials concluded Friday as a former German soldier was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for plotting a far-right attack on senior politicians while posing as a Syrian refugee. The 33-year-old former army officer — identified as Franco A. in accordance with German privacy
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CNN By Ella Nilsen and Manu Raju, CNN Sen. Joe Manchin on Thursday dealt a devastating blow to Democrats’ hopes for sweeping legislative action this year, telling Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and his staff “unequivocally” that he won’t support the climate or tax provisions of a Democratic economic package, two sources familiar with the
Continue Reading By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer UnitedHealth Group hiked its 2022 forecast Friday after riding both growing health insurance enrollment and its newer care-providing businesses to a better-than-expected second quarter. The health care giant said a nearly 9% surge in Medicare Advantage customers pushed its total enrollment past 51 million people. UnitedHealth Group runs UnitedHealthcare,
Continue Reading By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s president has launched talks with all political parties represented in parliament to see if there’s still a chance to form a government and avoid another early election. President Rumen Radev is trying to prevent Bulgaria from sliding into new political turmoil after the two main
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Temperatures in the UK are expected to soar to all-time highs early next week, prompting the British government to issue a “red” heat warning for the first time and note the dangerous health impacts the weather could have. Air conditioning, while more common in hotter parts of the world, is exceedingly
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Good morning all. We finally made it to Friday…yayyyy! Forecast models show much drier conditions than before, so expect a dry weekend. By dry, I mean rain-wise…we will keep dewpoints in the muggy range, so you will feel some moisture out there. Our high temperatures will be in the upper 90s and low 100s through
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wolfe and Anna Chernova, CNN Lawyers for WNBA star Brittney Griner told Russian judges Friday that she was prescribed medical cannabis for “severe chronic pain.” Griner’s defense team submitted to the Russian court a letter from a US medical center issuing a permit in Arizona in 2020 for the use of medical cannabis
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By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business US markets took a beating on Thursday as big bank earnings delivered disappointing results. Markets and the economy have endured three turbulent months. The Federal Reserve’s rate rise regime and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have slammed investor and borrower sentiment. The financial sector is hurting, too. Analysts expect earnings to
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EL PASO, Texas — Mental health resources have always been a phone call away, but now it will get even easier to speak with a mental health professional. 988 will become the new number to dial nationwide to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline starting Saturday. The goal is to have an easier number that
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Los primeros años de la década de 2010 fueron una época de éxitos instantáneos. Desde el “Harlem Shake” hasta el “Party Rock Anthem”, las plataformas digitales inauguraron una nueva era de publicidad… y viralidad. El 15 de julio de 2012, el cantante y rapero surcoreano Psy irrumpió en la escena
Continue Reading By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN The House of Jonas has another addition. “Game of Thrones” actress Sophie Turner and husband Joe Jonas, of the Jonas Brothers, have welcomed a second child, their representative confirmed to CNN. The pair are already parents to one daughter, Willa, who was born in July 2020. The couple have been married
Continue Reading By RAF CASERT and JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive has intensified its legal standoff with Hungary by taking Budapest to the EU’s highest court over a restrictive law on LGBT issues and media freedom. The EU had already tried for a year to make Hungary change a law that
Continue Reading By MATT OTT AP Business Writer Wells Fargo, the nation’s largest mortgage lender, saw its second-quarter revenue and profit decline as rising interest rates pushed people out of the housing market. The San Francisco bank earned $3.1 billion in the period, or 74 cents per share, coming up short of the 80 cents per share
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italy is entering five days of political and financial uncertainty after the 5-Star Movement sparked a government crisis by withholding support on a government-sponsored bill. On the immediate horizon are behind-the-scenes consultations to see if Italian Premier Mario Draghi could be persuaded to try to find a
Continue Reading By Kyle Blaine and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN Saudi Arabia on Friday opened its airspace to all civilian carriers, including all flights to and from Israel, in a step toward normalizing relations between the two nations as US President Joe Biden tours the Middle East. In a statement shared hours before he was due to fly
Continue Reading LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals for violations of strict amateurism rules of the time. The International Olympic Committee announced the change Friday on the 110th anniversary of
Continue Reading By Jamiel Lynch and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A Georgia school district approved a policy Thursday that allows some employees to carry weapons in schools, excluding teachers and staff who supervise classrooms. The Cobb County Board of Education voted 4-2 to pass the measure intended to improve security in Georgia’s second-largest school district. “This policy gives
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Continue Reading LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Russia remains barred from international soccer competitions including the Champions League after the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected appeals by the national soccer federation and four clubs. CAS upheld decisions by UEFA and FIFA which excluded Russian national teams and clubs following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia was already excluded
Continue Reading By JIM HEINTZ Associated Press KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — A lawyer for WNBA star Brittney Griner at her drug possession trial in Russia on Friday gave the court a U.S. doctor’s letter recommending she use medical cannabis to treat pain. Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and standout for the Phoenix Mercury, was arrested at
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Francesca Street, CNN Home entertainment today is defined by sleek, high definition flat screen televisions, voice controlled speakers, and cell phones that know us better than we know ourselves. So when we board an airplane, decade-old, bulky inflight entertainment screens can feel like a hangover from another era. Recent inflight entertainment concepts aim to revolutionize
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