Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Business) — Los directores ejecutivos de 10 aerolíneas y empresas de transporte de carga enviaron una carta al presidente Joe Biden en la que piden poner fin al mandato de mascarillas y los requisitos de prueba para detectar covid-19 para los viajeros internacionales. En una nueva carta, el grupo de la
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By Matt Egan, CNN Business The US oil industry doesn’t appear to be in any rush to come to the rescue of Americans struggling with high gas prices. Oil company CEOs say Wall Street is to blame. Fifty-nine percent of oil executives said investor pressure to maintain capital discipline is the primary reason publicly traded
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CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Matt Egan, CNN Business The US oil industry doesn’t appear to be in any rush to come to the rescue of Americans struggling with high gas prices. Oil company CEOs say Wall Street is to blame. Fifty-nine percent of oil executives said investor pressure to maintain capital discipline is the primary reason
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PARIS (AP) — Criticism from French national team players about a basketball venue planned for the 2024 Paris Olympics has led to a search for a replacement. NBA players Evan Fournier and Rudy Gobert helped France win a silver medal at last year’s Tokyo Olympics. They have been unhappy about the choice of Hall 6
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Struggling Spanish club Mallorca has hired veteran Mexican coach Javier Aguirre. Aguirre arrives with the goal of saving Mallorca from relegation with nine rounds to go in the Spanish league. The club owned by American businessman Robert Sarver sits in 18th place with 26 points. Aguirre coached México’s national team during two
Continue Reading By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier became the first American pairs team to win the figure skating world championship in more than 40 years. They performed a clean program minutes after watching teammate Ashley Cain-Gribble taken off the ice on a stretcher in Montpellier, France. Cain-Gribble fell during a triple
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BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon is keeping the brother of the country’s embattled central bank governor in custody, days after he was arrested. The brothers — Governor Riad Salameh and Raja Salameh — have been charged with illegal enrichment and money laundering over the past few years, during Lebanon’s economic meltdown. A second judge reviewed the
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — Dozens of nations, including the United States and much of Europe, say they’re united in seeking to “radically” reduce imports of Russian oil and gas after its invasion of Ukraine. But they also want to ensure those efforts don’t fuel climate change. At a two-day meeting of the International Energy Agency that
Continue Reading By CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed NATO leaders virtually Thursday as they gathered for an emergency summit on Russia’s war in Ukraine. Zelensky stopped short of issuing his usual request for a no-fly zone, but he asked NATO to supply his country with military equipment. Below is a transcript of the English translation of
Continue Reading By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After millions of dollars in spending and hundreds of new hires, CNN is ready to launch its CNN+ streaming service on Tuesday. A news countdown show hosted by Kate Bolduan, modeled after a network podcast and newsletter, will be first to appear at 7 a.m.
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Britney Spears does not know who Pete Davidson or Scott Disick are, but she finds them funny. In a since deleted Instagram post that has been shared on social media, Spears reposted Disick’s Instagram Story that included footage of Davidson and some friends nodding off while watching a movie. Disick
Continue Reading By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s mayor has exempted athletes and performers from the city’s vaccine mandate. But the decision announced by Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday does not include countless government and private workers, some of whom have lost their jobs for refusing to get vaccinated. Police
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court has ruled against an elected public college official in Texas who complained his colleagues’ censure of his actions violated his free speech rights. The justices had stepped into a long-running dispute between the Houston Community College board of trustees and member Dave Wilson. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has contradicted the governing body of swimming by asserting that it has not withdrawn from all events on this year’s calendar in response to being banned from the world championships because of the war in Ukraine. Russian and Belarusian swimmers were banned Wednesday from competing at the world championships in Hungary.
Continue Reading By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s mayor has exempted athletes and performers from the city’s vaccine mandate. But the decision announced by Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday does not include countless government and private workers, some of whom have lost their jobs for refusing to get vaccinated. Police
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN James Van Der Beek sobbing. The guy who blinks in disbelief. That disturbing dancing baby. For these and millions more GIFs, we have Stephen Wilhite to thank. GIFs, those looping animated images, are a universal language — when words fail, a clip of a cool cat spinning beats on a turntable
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Germán Padinger (CNN Español) — De tanques a misiles hipersónicos, de drones a ojivas termobáricas y lanzamisiles portátiles, la invasión de Rusia a Ucrania ha mostrado una enorme cantidad de armas empeñadas en el conflicto más grande que ha visto Europa desde principios de siglo XX. Entre los arsenales destacan, también, los sistemas de armas
Continue Reading CHICAGO (AP) — The chance to get free gasoline is fueling a rush to get in line at some four dozen Chicago-area gas stations. The tab for Thursday’s gas giveaway is being picked up by businessman and onetime Chicago mayoral candidate Willie Wilson. He has contributed $1 million to pay for as much as $50
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By Dianne Gallagher and Wesley Bruer, CNN Debra Meadows, the wife of former congressman and Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, signed voter forms attesting she resided at a Macon County, North Carolina, mobile home that reports indicate the couple never lived in. On registration forms, both Debra and Mark Meadows indicated their residency at
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By Anastasia Graham-Yooll, Richard Allen Greene, Michael Callahan and Tara John, CNN Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu held a meeting on Saturday, state media reported, amid speculation over his whereabouts and health during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. State news agency Tass reported Shoigu met with the country’s Ministry of Finance to discuss maintaining the
Continue Reading By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Infowars host Alex Jones has defied a Connecticut judge’s order to show up for a deposition in a lawsuit by relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, over Jones calling the massacre a hoax. Thursday was the second straight day that Jones did not appear for the
Continue Reading By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer Stephen Wilhite, the inventor of the internet-popular short-video format, the GIF, has died. He was 74. His wife, Kathaleen, said Thursday in a phone interview that he died of COVID on March 14. Wilhite, who lived in Milford, Ohio, won a Webby lifetime achievement award in 2013 for inventing
Continue Reading By Jeremy Herb and Barbara Starr, CNN Senior Russian military leaders have declined calls from their US counterparts since before the invasion of Ukraine began, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday. The last known time that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with Russian Minister of Defense Sergey Shoygu was on February 18, and Joint Chiefs Chairman
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer Companies in the S&P 500 bought a record amount of their own stock last year and don’t show any signs of slowing down. Flush with cash from solid earnings, major corporations repurchased $882 billion of stock in 2021. Goldman Sachs is forecasting stock buybacks to reach $1 trillion
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN After Lebohang Kganye’s mother died at age 49, the South African artist began going through the things she’d left behind as a means to deal with the grief. In her mother’s wardrobe, Kganye recognized clothes and jewelry that she’d only seen her wear in old photographs, many of them taken before she
Continue Reading DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Pablo Larrazábal shot an 8-under 64 to take a two-stroke lead after the first round of the Qatar Masters. The Spaniard birdied his first three holes and had nine total. The 122nd-ranked player dropped only one shot. That was on the par-4 fifth hole as the temperature rose at Doha Golf
Continue Reading By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says states must accommodate the wishes of death row inmates who want to have their pastors pray aloud and even touch them during their executions. The court ruled Thursday in the case of a Texas inmate, John Henry Ramirez, who challenged state rules that
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN) — Una periodista rusa que trabajaba para el sitio de noticias independiente The Insider murió en un bombardeo en Kyiv, informó este miércoles ese medio en un comunicado. Oksana Baulina estaba filmando la destrucción de los bombardeos de las tropas rusas en el distrito de Podilskyi de la capital, cuando quedó bajo el
Continue Reading Opinion by Nikos Tsafos for CNN Business Perspectives In a matter of weeks, the war in Ukraine has upended an energy relationship between Europe and Russia that goes back decades. Europe understands that it cannot sever ties with Russia overnight, as it still needs Russian energy. But Russia’s role in the European and global energy
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Uber, hit by driver shortages and a surge in food delivery requests during the pandemic, will begin including New York City taxi cabs on its app. That’s a partnership that until recently would have been unthinkable with both camps fighting ferociously for the same customers. But the wait for
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