LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the United Kingdom has risen at the fastest rate in almost 30 years as increased costs for energy, housing and transportation squeezed household budgets. The Office for National Statistics said Wednesday that the consumer price index ticked up to 5.5% in the 12 months through January, from 5.4% the previous
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By Gregory Krieg, CNN Three San Francisco School Board members were removed from their positions by voters on Tuesday, CNN projects, following a tough recall campaign that pitted Democrats against Democrats as interlocking controversies over school closings and renamings fueled a well-funded backlash. More than 70% of voters supported the recall of School Board President
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By Hannah Ryan, CNN A swimmer has died after being bitten by a shark at a beach in Sydney, Australia, authorities have said. New South Wales (NSW) Police said in a statement Wednesday that emergency services were called to Buchan Point, Malabar — where the Little Bay Beach is located — at around 4:35 p.m.
Continue Reading The same storm system that produced thunder snow, hail, strong winds and dust storms across the Southwest is moving into the Plains. Areas from Texas to the Great Lakes are now at risk, including severe storms. CNN Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has the details.
Continue Reading Two parents who lost their son in the Sandy Hook mass shooting share their mixed feelings on winning a $73 million settlement from gun manufacturer Remington. CNN’s Erica Hill reports.
Continue Reading President Joe Biden made an appeal for diplomacy to continue as the world watches to see if Russian President Vladimir Putin orders an invasion of neighboring Ukraine, and emphasized to Russian citizens that the US is not its enemy.
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN You’ve probably heard all the hype about the metaverse, but is it really the next big thing? Developers think so — and they’re working to make the virtual realm even more realistic so you can feel fully immersed in their VR offerings. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up
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olivertapia (CNN) — La familia del actor y comediante Bob Saget presentó el martes una demanda para bloquear la publicación de ciertos registros relacionados con la investigación de su muerte, citando preocupaciones de privacidad. Bob Saget, de 65 años, fue encontrado muerto en su habitación de hotel en Orlando, Florida, el mes pasado. La Oficina
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By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Innovative American freestyle skiers Alex Hall and Nick Goepper landed jaw-dropping tricks on the Secret Garden slopestyle course and won the gold and silver medals in slopestyle at the Beijing Olympics. Hall clinched the gold on the first of three runs when he defied gravity with
Continue Reading By Mick Krever, CNN Photographs by Timothy Fadek/Redux for CNN Sisters Fazila and Shagufa Haidary once travelled the world as flight attendants, rubbing shoulders with politicians and pop stars. Now they sit together in a small apartment on the outskirts of Kyiv, scrolling through TikTok to keep themselves occupied. Having fled the Taliban and decades
Continue Reading By Amy Simonson, CNN A convicted murderer who escaped from a Mississippi prison was captured Tuesday after he ran out of gas, according to prison officials. Michael Wilson was captured by the Harrison County Sheriff’s Department after escaping Saturday from the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Rankin County, Burl Cain, commissioner of the Mississippi Department
Continue Reading By MICHAEL CANTU Edmunds The small luxury SUV market is seemingly packed with as many automotive all-stars as there are athletes in the Winter Olympics. Yet among the field there’s been one model that’s consistently won more Edmunds gold than any other: the Mercedes-Benz GLC. Since the current-generation GLC debuted for the 2016 model year,
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Red Bull’s Formula One team has signed what it described as the most lucrative annual cryptocurrency sponsorship in sports. The deal with Bybit is worth more than $100 million across three years for the team that is home to reigning world champion Max Verstappen. Red Bull says Bybit will work with the
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Red Bull’s Formula One team has signed what it described as the most lucrative annual cryptocurrency sponsorship in sports. The deal with Bybit is worth more than $100 million across three years for the team that is home to reigning world champion Max Verstappen. Red Bull says Bybit will work with the
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Two-time Olympic equestrian champion Mark Todd has temporarily lost his license as a racehorse trainer pending an investigation into a video showing him striking a horse with a branch. The British Horseracing Authority has imposed the interim suspension on the 65-year-old New Zealander preventing him from racing horses in Britain or internationally.
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv Capturan al expresidente de Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández. ¿Extraviaste tu tarjeta de vacunación? No pierdas la calma y sigue estos pasos. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad. 1 Biden, dispuesto a apoyar la vía diplomática en crisis de Ucrania El presidente Joe Biden hizo un llamamiento
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — Muchos estadounidenses están desconcertados al verse arrastrados a un duelo de la Guerra Fría al estilo de la década de 1970 con Rusia. El martes, el presidente Joe Biden trató de explicar por qué es importante la crisis. Después de construir una fuerte coalición occidental para tratar de disuadir la posible invasión
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Sana Noor Haq, CNN One of the most valuable blue diamonds to ever feature at an auction could sell for more than $48 million, according to Sotheby’s. Named “The De Beers Cullinan Blue,” it is the biggest vivid blue diamond to be put up for auction, according to a press release from Sotheby’s Wednesday. The
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette, CNN Two Harris County, Texas, deputies are recovering after being shot while exchanging gunfire with a suspect at a Houston-area home, officials said. The suspect was killed, said Edison Toquica, chief deputy for the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, at a news conference Tuesday night. Both deputies were shot in a leg and
Continue Reading By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German vaccine maker BioNTech unveiled plans Wednesday to establish manufacturing facilities in Africa that would boost the availability of much-needed medicines on the continent. BioNTech developed the first widely approved shot against COVID-19 together with Pfizer. The modular design of the facility consists of shipping containers fitted
Continue Reading By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Gus Kenworthy certainly wishes his final Olympic trip down the mountain didn’t have to be in China. Yet skipping the trip didn’t seem like the right thing, either. The freestyle skier whose kiss with his boyfriend at the bottom of the hill stole the show
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By Selina Wang, Simone McCarthy and Hannah Ritchie, CNN Kamila Valieva — the teenage Russian figure skater at the center of a doping controversy roiling the Beijing Olympics — had three substances that can be used to aid the heart in her testing sample, according to a report in the New York Times, which cited
Continue Reading Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, who is at the center of an ongoing Olympic doping case, had three substances that can be used to treat heart conditions found in her testing sample, according to the New York Times, which cited an exhibit filed Sunday in a hearing by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). CNN’s Steven Jiang reports.
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has accused China of failing to meet its commitments to the World Trade Organization. It says will explore new ways to combat aggressive Chinese trade practices. In its annual report on Chinese compliance with WTO rules Wednesday, the Office of the U.S. Trade
Continue Reading By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo completed a second straight cross-country sprint double by teaming with Erik Valnes to give Norway the Olympic gold medal at the Beijing Games. Klaebo also won the individual sprint and is the first man to win both at two straight Olympics. Klaebo and
Continue Reading By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Curling ice has come a long way in the 600 years since the Scottish began sliding stones across frozen lochs. A modern curling sheet like one at the Ice Cube venue in Beijing is made with ultra-purified water and maintained at a precise range of temperature
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — Apunten sus cámaras hacia el cielo mientras la luna llena de febrero, conocida como la luna de nieve, hará su aparición desde la medianoche del martes hasta la medianoche del jueves, según la NASA. La luna de nieve estará en su punto más brillante el 16 de febrero a las 11:57 am
Continue Reading By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — American figure skater Vincent Zhou is out of quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 at the Beijing Games. He plans to perform in the exhibition gala that traditionally closes the Olympic program. Zhou had just helped the U.S. win team silver on Feb. 7 when he
Continue Reading By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Elvira Oeberg anchored the Swedish team to Olympic gold in the four-woman biathlon relay and won her third medal of the Beijing Games. Oeberg put the Swedes across the line 1 hour, 11 minutes, 3.9 seconds. She also won silver in the sprint and pursuit races
Continue Reading By Jacque Smith, CNN I deleted Instagram and TikTok. I logged out of Facebook and Twitter. I vaguely remembered I still had a Snapchat account and removed it from my app library before I put my phone down. Then I took a deep breath. It was January 1, 2022, and my New Year’s “micro-resolution” was
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