By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s central bank is raising its target interest rate by a full percentage point in an effort to fight inflation. And it warns more rate hikes are likely to follow. The Bank of Canada on Wednesday raised the overnight rate to 2.5% in the biggest increase since
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EL PASO, Texas — ABC-7 recognizes community champions across the Borderland. This week’s Community Champion is Jessie Arellano. Her research thesis that was recently selected as an outstanding thesis from the College of Liberal Arts, by UTEP’s graduate program. Arellano’s master thesis is titled ‘Who is Willing to Speak Up and Why?’ Her thesis examines individual and
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid is driving away from a partnership of nearly two decades with Audi and switching to BMW as one of its main sponsors. The new deal means all Madrid soccer and basketball players will get BMW vehicles beginning this season. BMW Spain says it will provide fully electric cars to the
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MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid is driving away from a partnership of nearly two decades with Audi and switching to BMW as one of its main sponsors. The new deal means all Madrid soccer and basketball players will get BMW vehicles beginning this season. BMW Spain says it will provide fully electric cars to the
Continue Reading By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — R&A chief Martin Slumbers is blasting the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series as being driven by money. Slumber says the circuit run by two-time British Open champion Greg Norman isn’t in the best interest of golf. Slumbers says the British Open has a right to
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Placing Daisy Edgar-Jones under the spotlight, “Where the Crawdads Sing” serves up a virtual symphony of chords — adapting a bestselling book that’s part wild-child tale, part romance, part mystery and part courtroom drama. The result effectively overcomes its Lifetime-movie vibe, without feeling like something anyone needs to rush to
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Peloton, the company known for its workout bikes, is hoping a new plan to save cash works out as it struggles to stay afloat. The company will stop making its own equipment to cut costs. Peloton factories will shut down which means about 600 people will lose their jobs, according to Bloomberg News. A company
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El presidente del Gobierno español, Pedro Sánchez, anunció la gratuidad de los billetes multiviaje de los trenes de Renfe desde el 1 de septiembre hasta el 31 de diciembre. La medida solo se aplica a los billetes multiviaje de los servicios públicos de Renfe Cercanías, Rodalies y Media Distancia (equivalentes
Continue Reading BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona has reached a deal to sign Leeds playmaker Raphinha and will also keep France forward Ousmane Dembélé at the club. The agreement to sign Brazil international Raphinha was pending the 25-year-old winger passing a medical. Leeds also confirmed it had reached an agreement in principle. Barcelona president Joan Laporta also
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EL PASO, Texas — Former U.S. Marshal Robert Almonte joined ABC-7 at 10 to give his reaction to the Uvalde shooting video.
Continue Reading By RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive has decried the rule of law situation in Poland and Hungary and centered on perceived breaches in their judiciary and media in its annual report. The European Commission said that it was all the more important for the 27 nations to be a
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A new study shows that a popular weed-killing chemical is in more than 80% of the nation’s urine samples. Glyphosate, a controversial herbicide, has been linked to cancer. The chemical is the active ingredient used in the popular Roundup brand. The company is currently in the middle of thousands of lawsuits claiming the product causes
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July’s full moon, the buck moon, may illuminate the sky tonight in a particularly big way. NASA says you can still catch a glimpse of the buck moon every morning this week until early Friday. It will reach its peak today at noon but will not be fully visible in North America until the moon rise. For those
Continue Reading By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer French senators say the chaos outside the national stadium that marred the Champions League soccer final was due to a series of mistakes by police and officials and not because of the actions of previously blamed Liverpool fans. The senators made a series of recommendations to fix problems ahead
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By Heather Chen, CNN Angry protesters who stormed the official residences of Sri Lanka‘s President have forced him to flee the country, but his sudden departure has plunged the South Asian state deeper into crisis. Demonstrators furious about economic mismanagement and a spiraling financial crisis have demanded that both President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El cuidado del medio ambiente es una preocupación constante para el papa Francisco, tanto que en varias oportunidades ha hecho un llamado al “cuidado de la casa común” y valorar el lugar donde vivimos. Ahora, el papa hizo un llamado inusual a los jóvenes para que a disminuyan el
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Opinion by Suzanne DiBianca for CNN Business Perspectives The US Supreme Court’s ruling limiting the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions is a wake-up call for Congress to pass urgent and meaningful legislation on climate and clean energy. The ruling not only impedes the federal government’s ability to slow climate change — it also
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — La inflación se disparó en junio, con un aumento de los precios al consumidor en Estados Unidos del 9,1% interanual, según los nuevos datos publicados este miércoles por la Oficina de Estadísticas Laborales. Esta cifra es superior a la anterior, cuando los precios subieron un 8,6% en el año terminado
Continue Reading ROME (AP) — Hundreds of taxi drivers in Italy are protesting for a second day against the government’s plans to allow more competition. Since Tuesday, a handful of drivers have been chained together in protest in the square outside Premier Mario Draghi’s office in Rome. Nearby in the main street, hundreds of drivers from Rome
Continue Reading By HELENA ALVES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A spate of wildfires is scorching parts of Europe, with firefighters battling blazes in Portugal, Spain, Croatia and southern France on Wednesday amid an unusual heat wave that authorities are linking to climate change. In Portugal, Civil Protection commander André Fernandes said multiple
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By Lucy Bayly and Alicia Wallace, CNN Business Inflation surged to a new pandemic-era peak in June, with US consumer prices jumping by 9.1% year-over-year, according to fresh data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s the highest level in more than 40 years and higher than the previous reading, when prices rose
Continue Reading CNNEE Nota del editor: Rodrigo Jordan es licenciado en Comunicación Social desde 2003 y tiene una maestría en Proyectos de Comunicación por la Universidad de Navarra en España. Es consultor en Difusión Estratégica y en Manejo de Crisis y CEO de Rojo.Com e Hypermedia, agencias de asesoría comunicacional con operaciones en América Latina. Las opiniones
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — The German government has unveiled a new package of climate measures to close the emissions gap in the transport and housing sectors as part of the country’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045. The transport minister said his department would boost the installation of electric vehicle charging stations, expand public transport
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EL PASO, Texas — With Covid-19 infections on the rise, many people will be using at-home rapid tests. Local experts, however, are recommending you double check the back of the box for an expiration date. Dr. Armando Meza, chief of infectious diseases at Texas Tech University Health Science Center of El Paso, told ABC-7 at-home
Continue Reading MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Chelsea completed the signing of Raheem Sterling from Manchester City on Wednesday, with the winger signing a five-year deal. Sterling earlier bid farewell to City after seven seasons in Manchester that included four Premier League titles. His transfer to Chelsea was reportedly worth 47.5 million pounds ($56.5 million) and boosts the
Continue Reading CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business When the latest data on consumer prices in the United States landed Wednesday, the headline number was ugly. Inflation surged to 9.1% in June, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That was higher than economists polled by Refinitiv were forecasting. It was also much higher
Continue Reading By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business When the latest data on consumer prices in the United States landed Wednesday, the headline number was ugly. Inflation surged to 9.1% in June, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That was higher than economists polled by Refinitiv were forecasting. It was also much higher than the
Continue Reading By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Social media platforms including Facebook and TikTok are failing to stop hate and threats against LGBTQ users, a report issued Wednesday from advocacy group GLAAD found. Those are some of the internet’s most vulnerable users, with a majority of LGBTQ people saying they’ve faced menacing posts or
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Days ahead of a shareholder vote at Spirit Airlines over a proposed buyout by rival budget carrier Frontier, the vote was postponed for a fourth time in a signal that the deal still lacks support from investors. Spirit said Wednesday that the vote on the Frontier Airlines offer would
Continue Reading By Marnie Hunter, CNN After two pandemic years of high satisfaction with hotels — thanks to good value, positive staff experiences, confidence in cleanliness and proactive communication — things have taken a turn for the worse for hotel guests. Cost and fees are the biggest issue, according to J.D. Power’s 2022 North America Hotel Guest
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