By LIZ WESTON of NerdWallet Benefits make up more than 30% of the typical compensation package, but companies aren’t always clear about how much value they add for employees. Knowing what benefits are worth can help you evaluate job offers or better negotiate your next raise. When reviewing your employer’s current offerings, start by checking
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Boris Bondarev, who worked as a Russian official advancing Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy goals for years before resigning over the war in Ukraine, discusses Putin’s objectives and if he will use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine.
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Adidas is the latest brand to cut ties with Kanye West, also known as Ye, after receiving pressure from the public over a series of antisemitic comments he made. CNN’s Christine Romans and Oliver Darcy report.
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By Brenda Goodman, CNN It’s shaping up to be a severe season for respiratory syncytial virus infections — one of the worst some doctors say they can remember. But even as babies struggling to breathe fill hospital beds across the United States, there may be a light ahead: After decades of disappointment, four new RSV
Continue Reading CNN By Jeff Zeleny, Chief National Affairs Correspondent Republicans are riding a wave of optimism into the closing week of the fall campaign, eyeing seats far deeper into Democratic terrain than party leaders imagined only weeks ago, with rising GOP confidence of winning a strong House majority amid signs that critical Senate seats are also
Continue Reading CNN’s Will Ripley reports from an alley next to the spot where a deadly Halloween crowd surge killed more than 150 people in Seoul, South Korea.
Continue Reading Parts of the east and much of the Pacific Northwest will see rain for their Halloween. CNN meteorologist Pedram Javaheri breaks down the Trick-or-Treat forecast.
Continue Reading By Alexandra Meeks, CNN As trick-or-treaters gear up for their candy-collecting adventures tonight, safety is a top priority for parents and authorities alike. A number of states are imposing extra measures to protect young ones from harm this Halloween — including having law enforcement conduct home checks on offenders who are banned from having contact
Continue Reading Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams sparred over health care, crime and punishment and voting rights in a debate as they made their final appeal to voters in a reprise of their fiercely contested 2018 race for the same job. CNN national politics reporter Eva McKend has more.
Continue Reading NEW DELHI (AP) — The 143-year-old cable suspension bridge that collapsed Sunday in the western Indian state of Gujarat in one of the country’s worst disasters in years was built using the latest technology available in Europe at the time. It has been a major local tourist attraction ever since. At 4 feet wide and
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By Hanna Ziady, CNN Business Prices of wheat and corn on global commodities markets rose on Monday after Russia pulled out of a deal that had allowed some vital grain exports from Ukraine to pass through the Black Sea despite the war. Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade jumped 5.5% on Monday to
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe, CNN After nearly three years of the pandemic, national test scores for students aren’t where educators hoped they would be — does that mean it’s time to break out the math and vocabulary drills? Maybe not, experts say. The National Center for Education Statistics, a branch of the US Department of Education,
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN After nearly three years of the pandemic, national test scores for students aren’t where educators hoped they would be — does that mean it’s time to break out the math and vocabulary drills? Maybe not, experts say. The National Center for Education Statistics, a branch of the US Department of Education,
Continue Reading By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation just keeps punishing the European economy. Annual price increases hit another record in October at 10.7%. That’s the highest since statistics started in 1997. The big reason: higher prices for natural gas, oil and electricity. And that has been fueled above all by cutbacks
Continue Reading olivertapia (CNN) — Después de una semana de consecuencias financieras luego de hacer comentarios antisemitas en las redes sociales y en entrevistas, Kanye West rompió el silencio sobre sus palabras, así como lo que dijo sobre George Floyd y Black Lives Matter. En un desordenado video de 16 minutos compartido por WmgLab Records en YouTube
Continue Reading By Kostan Nechyporenko, Olga Voitovych, Victoria Butenko and Lianne Kolirin, CNN Russia launched a barrage of missile strikes at Ukrainian cities on Monday as it ramped up its attacks on infrastructure facilities across the country. Explosions and air raid sirens were heard in Kyiv early on Monday and 80% of residents were left without water
Continue Reading By Laura Ly, Kristina Sgueglia and Eric Levenson, CNN The White former police officer who fatally shot Patrick Lyoya, a Black man, this year in Michigan will stand trial for the killing, according to a judge’s memo posted online and announced in court Monday. Former Grand Rapids Police officer Christopher Schurr faces a single charge
Continue Reading By AJIT SOLANKI, AIJAZ HUSSAIN, KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ Associated Press MORBI, India (AP) — Police in western India have arrested nine people as they investigate the collapse of a newly repaired 143-year-old suspension bridge. The collapse Sunday evening in Gujarat state plunged hundreds of people into a river, killing at least 134. As
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By Issy Ronald, CNN Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving said that he is “not going to stand down on anything I believe in” after he was condemned by the owner of his NBA team for tweeting a link to a documentary deemed to be antisemitic. The star guard tweeted a link Thursday to the 2018
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is bringing together three dozen nations, the European Union and a slew of private-sector companies for a two-day summit that looks at how best to combat ransomware attacks. The second International Counter Ransomware Summit begins Monday and will focus on priorities such as ensuring systems are more resilient to
Continue Reading By Jeff Zeleny, Chief National Affairs Correspondent Republicans are riding a wave of optimism into the closing week of the fall campaign, eyeing seats far deeper into Democratic terrain than party leaders imagined only weeks ago, with rising GOP confidence of winning a strong House majority amid signs that critical Senate seats are also increasingly
Continue Reading By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The Biden administration will convene three-dozen allied governments on Monday and Tuesday for a fresh round of talks on how to stem the tide of ransomware attacks that have disrupted critical infrastructure firms around the world and cost businesses many millions of dollars. The second annual “summit” to counter ransomware will
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, Sophie Jeong, Gawon Bae, Jake Kwon and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN South Korean authorities said Monday they had no guidelines to handle the huge crowds that gathered for Halloween festivities in Seoul, as families in the country and around the world mourn the 156 victims of Saturday night’s crowd crush. The crush took
Continue Reading CNN By Jake Kwon, Sophie Jeong, In Jeong and Heather Chen, CNN ln a cavernous Seoul gymnasium Tuesday, grieving families inspected neat rows of belongings left behind at the scene of the deadly street crush in Itaewon. Shoes, bags, glasses, notebooks, wallets, cardholders and colorful hats were laid out on makeshift tables and exercise mats
Continue Reading By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s general election this week could change the political landscape with new parties hoping to enter parliament and others either losing influence or leaving the assembly altogether. A former prime minister who left his party to create a new one could end up as kingmaker.
Continue Reading CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s state news agency says an oil refinery in the capital of Khartoum has resumed operations following a brief halt due to an act of “sabotage.” The report on Monday on SUNA says one of the refinery’s pipelines was “forced to stop for a limited period due to sabotage of the crude
Continue Reading By ANDREW MELDRUM, SAM MEDNICK and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A massive barrage of Russian strikes has hit critical infrastructure in Kyiv, Kharkiv and other cities in Ukraine. Monday’s knocked out water and power supplies in retaliation for what Moscow alleged was a Ukrainian attack on its Black Sea Fleet over
Continue Reading By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Lowy Institute reports Beijing is targeting its Pacific aid to new diplomatic allies Solomon Islands and Kiribati while Chinese financial support across the region continues to decline. China’s aid to the Pacific has fallen from a peak of $287 million in 2016 to $187 million
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SYDNEY (AP) — India cricket star Virat Kohli says he is paranoid over his privacy after an “appalling” incident in which intruders allegedly filmed inside his hotel room. Kohli took to social media to denounce the video, in which a stranger walks through the room filming every step of the way. A second person was
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are defending a decision by OPEC and its allies to cut oil production. The development came on Monday at a conference in the United Arab Emirates — even as an American envoy warned of “economic uncertainty”
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