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Year: 2022

Spotify launches audiobook store with some 300,000 titles

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The expanding audio books market has a major new retailer: Spotify. On Tuesday, the music streaming service announced its long-rumored audiobook initiative, launching a store that includes more than 300,000 titles, including such popular works as Delia Owens’ “Where the Crawdads Sing,” Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” and Colleen

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Opinion: The world is moving backward in the combat against poverty and disease. Here’s what we need to do

Opinion by Mark Suzman for CNN Business Perspectives The first two decades of the 21st century provided more progress for more people than perhaps any other period in human history. Deaths from malaria, HIV and tuberculosis were cut in half. Child deaths fell dramatically. Polio was nearly eradicated. And the global poverty rate fell by

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NTSB releases information on lower valley train derailment that killed El Paso Union Pacific employee

EL PASO, Texas — The National Transportation Safety Board released their findings from an investigation on a train derailment that killed an El Paso man working for Union Pacific. Back in late August, El Paso Police confirmed 49-year-old Mario Aurelio Navarro, who was the train conductor, was killed in the derailment in at Union Pacific’s

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Drug overdose death rates highest among American Indian people and middle-age Black men, study shows

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Drug overdose deaths in the United States increased sharply throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, reaching record levels in 2021. But the burden on different racial and ethnic groups has changed, according to a study by federal researchers published Tuesday in JAMA Network Open. For people ages 15 to 34, White people had

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