By Parija Kavilanz, CNN Business Beyond Meat Chief Operating Officer Doug Ramsey is leaving the company after his recent arrest for assault. Ramsey was arrested last month on on charges of “terroristic threatening” and third-degree battery after he allegedly bit a man’s nose following a Arkansas football game. Ramsey was released on an $11,000 bond
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Julia Buckley, CNN For over 500 years, Michelangelo’s sculpture of David in Florence has stood unchanged, the marble icon of masculinity, and one of the world’s most famous works of art. But as Italy emerges from the pandemic, the David has got a whole new look. A new lighting system has revolutionized how the famous
Continue Reading By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Markets plunged on Thursday morning after red-hot inflation data raised fears on Wall Street that the Federal Reserve would continue hiking interest rates aggressively. Then, something strange happened. Stocks staged a massive comeback. The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 1,500 points from peak to trough and the S&P 500 posted
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MADRID (AP) — European Union police agency Europol says Spanish police have dismantled an organized crime group believed to have been running Europe’s biggest “narco-bank,” used to launder the proceeds from drug trafficking. Europol says the group, composed mainly of Syrians, operated out of a Spanish town and provided financial services to gangs linked to
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By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer McLaren Racing will run IndyCar stars Alex Palou and Pato O’Ward in a pair of upcoming Formula One practice sessions. McLaren will run Palou in next Friday’s first practice session at Circuit of the Americas in Texas. The Spaniard will drive Daniel Ricciardo’s car for the 60-minute session.
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CNN — Ladies you’ll want to check your sports bras. New testing done on some popular brands show that there are high levels of BPA found in many sports bras. BPA can be dangerous to your health and lead to things like asthma, heart disease, and even obesity. Here are the brands you’re going to
Continue Reading By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The pace of sales at U.S. retailers was unchanged in September from August as rising prices for rent and food chipped away at money available for other things. Retail sales were flat last month, down from a revised. 0.4% growth in August. The Commerce Department
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By Kevin Liptak, CNN Western sanctions have sharply curtailed Russia’s ability to replenish the munitions it is using in Ukraine, according to a new analysis from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, forcing Moscow to task its intelligence services with finding ways to evade restrictions and procure the critical technology and parts to
Continue Reading Lisa Morrow, CNN A rich palette of shimmering caramel swirls, ochers, creams and pinks unfolds across the landscape like an enormous handwoven carpet. Stands of poplars line paths carved by ancient lava flows from three now extinct volcanoes, crisscrossing valleys studded with conical peribacı. This is Cappadocia, central Turkey, famous for its whimsical “fairy chimneys,”
Continue Reading The otherworldly, magical landscape of Cappadocia, Turkey, is home to ancient secrets and enchanting stories.
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By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business In the past two months, Apple, Google and Samsung have all unveiled their newest smartphones and other devices with the goal of getting consumers to upgrade ahead of the holidays. But in the process, these and other companies may also be adding to a growing problem: electronic waste. The limited
Continue Reading CNN By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business In the past two months, Apple, Google and Samsung have all unveiled their newest smartphones and other devices with the goal of getting consumers to upgrade ahead of the holidays. But in the process, these and other companies may also be adding to a growing problem: electronic waste. The
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EDGARTOWN, Massachusetts — Bexar County sheriff Javier Salazar has confirmed that the migrants sent to Martha’s Vineyard are crime victims. This move by the county sheriff paves the way for those migrants to get special visas to be able to stay in the U.S. That visa is called a U-visa and it is reserved for
Continue Reading Julia Buckley, CNN For over 500 years, Michelangelo’s sculpture of David in Florence has stood unchanged, the marble icon of masculinity, and one of the world’s most famous works of art. But as Italy emerges from the pandemic, the David has got a whole new look. A new lighting system has revolutionized how the famous
Continue Reading Christian Edwards and Duarte Mendonca, CNN Two anti-fossil fuel protesters who were filmed throwing tomato soup on Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in a London gallery Friday have been charged with criminal damage offenses. The two young women from the campaign group Just Stop Oil threw the contents of two tins of Heinz tomato soup over the
Continue Reading By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dolly Parton laughs at the idea that she is some sort of secret philanthropist. Sure, social media sleuths did piece together this week that the country superstar had been quietly paying for the band uniforms of many Tennessee high schools for years. And yes, it
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN Four astronauts boarded a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and returned home from the International Space Station on Friday, bringing an end to their nearly six-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory. The astronauts — NASA’s Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins as well as Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti with the European Space Agency or ESA
Continue Reading CNN, NASA By Jackie Wattles, CNN Four astronauts boarded a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and returned home from the International Space Station on Friday, bringing an end to their nearly six-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory. The astronauts — NASA’s Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins as well as Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti with the European Space Agency
Continue Reading By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dolly Parton proudly accepted the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy at Gotham Hall Thursday night, saying she was “proud and honored to be a part of anything that is going to make the world a better place.” The country superstar was celebrated along with Dallas entrepreneur
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN In the last six months, Virginia Evans said sometimes her toilets wouldn’t flush or the water coming out the faucets at her Jackson, Mississippi home, was brown and had low pressure. The water crisis, Evans said, has been so troubling that she remains afraid to drink or cook with it
Continue Reading By Katie Hunt, CNN The skin of a 67-million-year-old dinosaur has revealed bites and gashes from an ancient crocodile, and how its flesh was ripped apart may explain why it became mummified. Skin decays much more easily than bone so it’s extremely rare to find fossilized dinosaur skin. New research on a 7-meter (23-foot) long
Continue Reading By Nathaniel Meyersohn and Jordan Valinsky, CNN Kroger announced Friday that it plans to buy Albertsons in a nearly $25 billion deal that could change the US retail industry and impact how millions of customers buy their groceries. The deal, which is expected to close in 2024, would combine two of the largest supermarket chains
Continue Reading By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s third quarter profits fell by 17% from a year earlier, as the bank set aside roughly a billion dollars to cover potential losses in what CEO Jamie Dimon has said a could be a recession in six to nine months. While
Continue Reading By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wells Fargo easily beat Wall Street’s third-quarter revenue forecasts as higher interest rates helped offset a steep decline in home lending. The nation’s biggest mortgage lender brought in $19.5 billion in revenue for the period, thanks to $12.1 billion in net interest income, a 36% increase
Continue Reading By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Two of the nation’s largest grocers have agreed to merge in a deal that would help them better compete with Walmart, Amazon and other major companies that have stepped into the grocery business. Kroger on Friday bid $20 billion for Albertsons. Kroger will also assume $4.7 billion of Albertsons’
Continue Reading ZURICH (AP) — Portugal will have to beat Thailand or Cameroon to advance to its first Women’s World Cup tournament next year. Three World Cup places are up for grabs to 10 teams in the intercontinental playoffs. The matches will be played in New Zealand from Feb. 18-23. Haiti was drawn to face Senegal with
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Ringo Starr canceló el resto de su gira por América del Norte después de dar positivo por covid-19 nuevamente. El exbaterista de los Beatles tuiteó este jueves que estaba “sorprendido” por el resultado positivo de su prueba. El 3 de octubre, el músico pospuso varias fechas de su gira por
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer The Beyond Meat executive charged with biting a man’s nose during a fight last month has left the plant-based meat company. The El Segundo, California, company said in a regulatory filing that its Chief Operating Officer Doug Ramsey left Beyond Meat on Friday. Beyond Meat had suspended Ramsey last
Continue Reading BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona’s players will have the owl-shaped logo of Canadian rapper Drake on their jerseys at Real Madrid on Sunday in the first “clásico” of the season in the Spanish league. Barcelona said Friday that it will swap the logo of new sponsor Spotify for the Grammy-winning artist’s logo in the form
Continue Reading By ALEXANDER TURNBULL Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Continuing strikes at TotalEnergies group refineries in France are seriously disrupting fuel supplies as the left-wing CGT union has rejected a deal over a pay increase. Two other unions, the CFDT and CFE-CGC which represent a majority of the group’s French workers, agreed overnight with TotalEnergies on
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