By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN British musician Damon Albarn has apologized “unreservedly and unconditionally” to American singer Taylor Swift after claiming she didn’t write her own songs. Albarn, best known as the frontman of the bands Blur and Gorillaz, made the comments in a Los Angeles Times interview with pop music critic Mikael Wood published Sunday.
Continue Reading By Natasha Bertrand The Biden administration is making contingency plans to shore up Europe’s energy supplies should a Russian invasions of Ukraine create gas shortages and roil the global economy, senior administration officials said on Tuesday. In a briefing with reporters, the officials confirmed CNN’s reporting on Sunday that US officials have been in regular
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By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business Investors better fasten their seat belts because there’s no sign of volatility letting up on Wall Street. Stocks resumed their selloff for most of day, but the Dow offered a glimmer of hope for turnaround Tuesday when it briefly turned green in the afternoon. But even though stocks ended off
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By Cheri Mossburg, CNN San Jose, California, is getting closer to adopting a first-in-the-nation law to address gun violence by requiring all gun owners to pay a fee and carry liability insurance. The Silicon Valley city’s council is due to vote Tuesday on the ordinance, whose dual-pronged approach aims to reduce the risk of gun
Continue Reading By Anna Bahney Overheated home prices continue to show signs of cooling off a bit. Home prices rose 18.8% year-over-year in November, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index. But that staggering jump was down from a 19.1% increase in October. For the past several months, prices have continued to rise
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin Nueva York (CNN Business) — Krispy Kreme está regalando donuts para ayudar a combatir la escasez de sangre en todo el país. Esta semana, la cadena regalará una docena de donuts glaseados originales a las personas que donen sangre a la Cruz Roja Americana. La promoción se produce después de que la
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, CNN The SAT taken by prospective college students across the country will go all-digital starting in 2024 and will be an hour shorter, the College Board announced in a statement Tuesday. “The digital SAT will be easier to take, easier to give, and more relevant,” said Priscilla Rodriguez, vice president of College
Continue Reading By Sean Lyngaas, CNN A “cyber incident” first detected last week has interrupted some of the Canadian foreign ministry’s “internet-based services,” the Canadian government said Monday. Canadian cybersecurity officials were working to restore those internet services as of Monday night. “Critical services for Canadians” through the foreign ministry were not affected by the incident, the
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By Tami Luhby, CNN Attention parents: Hold onto that Internal Revenue Service letter about your enhanced child tax credit payments. You’ll need it when you file your 2021 tax return. The IRS has mailed families Letter 6419, which states how much they received in monthly child tax credit payments from July through December. It also
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CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Anna Bahney Overheated home prices continue to show signs of cooling off a bit. Home prices rose 18.8% year-over-year in November, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index. But that staggering jump was down from a 19.1% increase in October. For the past several months, prices have continued
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By Steve Almasy, CNN Former Red Sox star David Ortiz, Boston’s beloved “Big Papi” and big-game clutch hitter, was elected Tuesday to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. San Francisco Giants legend Barry Bonds and former Red Sox ace Roger Clemens, two superstars dogged by rumors of using performance
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By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is downgrading its forecast for the world economy this year. It cites as the cause for the lowered growth expectation the spread of COVID-19’s omicron variant, higher energy prices, an uptick in inflation and financial strains in China. The 190-country lending agency
Continue Reading By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business Starbucks is giving customers new ways to perk up: a line of energy drinks called Starbucks Baya Energy and a bunch of fresh flavors in the grocery aisle. Baya will be available for purchase at stores and online starting this week, and will go on sale at US Starbucks stores
Continue Reading By DAVID EGGERT and TOM KRISHER Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — General Motors is making the largest investment in company history in its home state of Michigan, announcing plans to spend nearly $7 billion to convert a factory to make electric pickup trucks and to build a new battery cell plant. The moves were
Continue Reading By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The former chairman of the Israeli spyware maker NSO Group says he has left the firm. But Asher Levy says his departure was planned months ago and is not linked to the recent turmoil surrounding the company. In an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Levy
Continue Reading By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart says it has taken a stake in agriculture startup Plenty, becoming the first large U.S. retailer to significantly invest in indoor vertical farming as a way to deliver fresher produce to its stores. Vertical farmers tout their high-quality produce that brings higher yields while
Continue Reading CNN’s Clarissa Ward sits down for an exclusive interview with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba as tensions mount between Ukraine and Russia.
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SEVILLE, Spain (AP) — Anthony Martial will play for Sevilla on a loan from Manchester United until the end of the season. There was no reported transfer fee or option to buy. United manager Ralf Rangnick said last month that the 26-year-old Martial wanted to leave after tumbling down the list of forwards at the
Continue Reading CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The pandemic will continue to stoke uncertainty and inflation in its third year, undermining the global recovery from the coronavirus and pushing total economic losses toward $14 trillion. That’s according to the International Monetary Fund, which on Tuesday slashed its global growth forecast for 2022 by half a
Continue Reading By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The pandemic will continue to stoke uncertainty and inflation in its third year, undermining the global recovery from the coronavirus and pushing total economic losses toward $14 trillion. That’s according to the International Monetary Fund, which on Tuesday slashed its global growth forecast for 2022 by half a percentage point
Continue Reading CNN By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The pandemic will continue to stoke uncertainty and inflation in its third year, undermining the global recovery from the coronavirus and pushing total economic losses toward $14 trillion. That’s according to the International Monetary Fund, which on Tuesday slashed its global growth forecast for 2022 by half a percentage
Continue Reading Exclusive by Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails and Jack Guy, CNN Ukraine “will not allow anyone to impose any concessions on us” as part of efforts to de-escalate the threat of conflict with Russia, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told CNN in an exclusive interview Tuesday. Kuleba emphasized that the country would not accept any compromises
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Un juez estatal anuló este lunes el mandato de mascarilla del estado de Nueva York, dictaminando que el gobernador y el Departamento de Salud del estado no tenían autoridad para promulgar dicho mandato sin la aprobación de la legislatura. A pesar del fallo, el Departamento de Educación del estado dice
Continue Reading CNNEE (CNN Español) — La Asamblea Legislativa de Ecuador comenzará este martes el segundo debate del proyecto de ley para la interrupción del embarazo de forma voluntaria en caso de violación. El texto promueve la regulación de la práctica del aborto en caso de violación, que es legal en Ecuador desde 2021. Este proyecto fue
Continue Reading COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Players have called on the German hockey league to consider suspending its operations because of coronavirus outbreaks. The call came as Germany revealed its men’s roster for next month’s Olympics. The Ice Hockey Players’ Union says the virus is so widespread in the Bundesliga that the league should consider following the
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin Kiev, Ucrania (CNN) — Ucrania “no permitirá que nadie nos imponga ninguna concesión” como parte de los esfuerzos para desescalar la amenaza de conflicto con Rusia, dijo el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Ucrania, Dmytro Kuleba, en una entrevista exclusiva este martes. Kuleba subrayó que el país no aceptará ningún compromiso destinado
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Unilever, which makes Vaseline skin care products and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, says it’s laying off 1,500 staff as part of a company-wide restructuring. The proposed changes mean that senior management jobs will be cut by about 15% while junior management roles will be reduced by 5%. The London-based consumer goods
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Francesca Street, CNN “I’ve come to Antarctica to find a husband,” Nicole McGrath told Cole Heinz, mock serious. Heinz laughed. The two were eating lunch at McMurdo Station, a US research facility built on volcanic rock on Ross Island, surrounded by mountains, snow and ice. It was 2013. McGrath, then 25, had graduated college in
Continue Reading OSLO (AP) — Every member of Norway’s men’s Olympic cross-country skiing team is isolating ahead of the Beijing Games because a coach has contracted the coronavirus. Sprint team head coach Arild Monsen tested positive for COVID-19 after returning to Norway from the Italian Alpine resort of Seiser Alm. The Norwegian Ski Association says all eight
Continue Reading By Sonia Moghe, CNN A Manhattan restaurant is looking into its enforcement of vaccine requirements for indoor dining, after Sarah Palin allegedly dined there indoors while unvaccinated. Palin is in New York City for her defamation trial against the New York Times, which was delayed Monday morning after she tested positive for Covid-19. “She is,
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