By Kate Bennett, CNN Singer Elton John will perform at the White House Friday night, according to a release from the White House. There is a large tent being erected on the South Lawn for the event, the construction of which began Monday, a White House official told CNN. Approximately 2,000 guests have been invited
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MONACO (AP) — Nigerian runner Tobi Amusan’s stunning world record of 12.12 seconds in the women’s 100 meter hurdles at the 2022 world championships in Eugene, Oregon has been officially ratified. Two other records from the same July championships that World Athletics have ratified belong to Sydney McLaughlin and Armand Duplantis. McLaughlin lowered her own
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By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Gabe Klein, who has led transportation departments in Washington, DC and Chicago, will head the Biden administration’s $7.5 billion program to build out the country’s electric vehicle charging network. Klein will serve as executive director of the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, which was established by the bipartisan infrastructure
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MADRID (AP) — Spain will temporarily slash sales tax on natural gas from 21% to 5% to help consumers face rising energy costs this winter as Russia has cut back gas exports to Europe amid the war in Ukraine. Spain’s minister charged with energy policy said Tuesday that the measure also will apply to the
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ARLINGTON, Texas — Bad Bunny did what he could to help Uvalde school shooting survivor, Mayah Zamora. The musician invited the 10-year-old, who was critically injured during the shooting in Uvalde, Texas to his recent concert in Arlington. Bad Bunny enjoyed some time with Zamora and her family. In photos from the event, shared on Instagram
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Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN Business The still-clogged global supply chain continues to wreak havoc on the auto industry. Ford said late Monday it will end September with between 40,000 and 45,000 large pickups and SUVs that it can’t finish because it doesn’t have all the parts. Negotiations on various supplies, which Ford did not identify,
Continue Reading BERLIN (AP) — The European Union’s top court has ruled that a German requirement for companies to retain the location and connection data of all people who use their services is illegal. The European Court of Justice said in a ruling published Tuesday that exceptions can be made in cases where national security is threatened.
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By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Regulators have spent years trying to make big tech companies pay for the ways they harvest and, at times, abuse users’ data. One state, meanwhile, is literally making them pay up — and pay out directly to consumers. Illinois is one of just a few states in the United States
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Good Morning! A slight chance of rain remains in the forecast through tonight. Afternoon high temperatures will also be warm just like yesterday, with lowland lows in the upper 60s.
Continue Reading TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Police in the country of Georgia said Tuesday that 12 people who were held hostage for hours in a bank by a gunman have been freed and hostage-taker has been arrested. Georgian media reported that the gunman at the bank in the city of Kutaisi had demanded $2 million, a helicopter
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Bexar County, Texas Sheriff Javier Salazar says his agency will investigate the transportation of 48 Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard. Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis chartered two private flights to transport migrants to the Massachusetts island community last week. The decision comes on the heels of immigration rights groups and Democrats accusing Republicans of
Continue Reading By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business For years, the climate for hedge funds was tough. Volatility was low. The price of everything was going up. It wasn’t that hard to make money. In that type of environment, why think outside the box? But as central banks continue with their aggressive campaign of interest rate hikes aimed
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By CNN’s Camilo Rocha, Marcia Reverdosa and Rodrigo Pedroso Illegal activity in the Amazon is gaining momentum as the last months of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration wind down, experts tell CNN. According to specialists and people on the ground, loggers, ranchers, miners and others seeking profit are tearing apart the protected region faster than
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El gobierno de China publicó este lunes 19 de septiembre un proyecto de reglamento que pretende reforzar el turismo a lo largo de su frontera y facilitar la entrada de algunos extranjeros. De acuerdo con un proyecto de documento de política publicado por el Ministerio de Cultura y Turismo chino,
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CNN By Zachary Cohen and Jason Morris, CNN A Republican county official in Georgia and operatives working with an attorney for former President Donald Trump spent hours inside a restricted area of the local elections office on the day voting systems there were breached, newly obtained surveillance video shows. The video reveals for the first
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EL PASO, Texas — Starting Tuesday, El Pasoans will be able to receive the newly approved Bivalent Covid-19 booster shots at any of the city’s Covid-19 clinics. The new booster shot is meant to target the omicron subvariant BA.5 as well as the original strain of Covid-19 is still around. The Center for Disease Control
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN The meta aspects of a Hulu comedy about the making of a Hulu comedy quickly pile up in “Reboot,” a fictional show about reviving a series from the early 2000s, reuniting the cast and crew with all their insecurities and old grudges. Created by “Modern Family’s” Steve Levitan, it’s a
Continue Reading By DANIELLA MATAR AP Sports Writer MILAN (AP) — United States defender Sergiño Dest joined Italian champion AC Milan with the hope of getting more playing time ahead of the World Cup. He’s gotten off to a tough start. Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport described Dest’s Serie A debut as an “American Horror Story.” Dest
Continue Reading By Irene Nasser, Ramin Mostaghim, Celine Alkhaldi, Mostafa Salem and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Five people have been killed by Iranian security forces during protests that were sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, who was being held in police custody, according to a human rights monitor. Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, a Norwegian-registered organization monitoring
Continue Reading By MALAK HARB Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An insurance company that was ordered to pay more than a billion Dirhams in damages for a 2015 New Year’s Eve fire in Dubai has lost a civil lawsuit that it filed to try and recover the money. Two years after the massive fire
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Si México y Puerto Rico fueran personas probablemente se abrazarían para reconfortarse en medio del susto de la tragedia, pues ambas comunidades sufrieron esta semana un recordatorio de la amenaza de la naturaleza, en un escenario vivido hace cinco años también por estas fechas. El primero, México, fue sacudido
Continue Reading By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian-controlled regions of eastern and southern Ukraine announced plans Tuesday to start voting this week to become integral parts of Russia. The Kremlin-backed efforts to swallow up four regions could set the stage for Moscow to escalate the war following Ukrainian successes on the battlefield. The
Continue Reading DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai-based shipping giant DP World says it has won another ruling in a longstanding legal battle over the operation of a strategic port in the African nation of Djibouti. DP World said an appeals court in Hong Kong agreed with its request to keep its suit against China Merchants
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore and Matt McFarland, CNN Business The fact that there is not a freight railroad strike happening this week is a huge win for the US economy and its still struggling supply chain. But that doesn’t mean that the freight railroads are providing good service to their customers. Many of the problems tangling
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By Ben Morse, CNN The Buffalo Bills continued their electric start to the new season on Monday night — beating the Tennessee Titans 41-7 — but the evening was marred by a scary-looking injury to one of their defenders. Bills cornerback Dane Jackson was taken to the hospital in an ambulance after suffering a neck
Continue Reading By Maeve Reston, CNN An Arizona Superior Court judge could rule as early as Tuesday on whether a 1901 ban on nearly all abortions in that state can be enforced, a court case that has created confusion about the current law in Arizona and could energize female voters to turn out in greater numbers in
Continue Reading By DALIA RAMIREZ of NerdWallet If you’re settling into a new home, you might be looking to fill it with furniture. But after your rent or mortgage, security deposit and moving expenses, there might not be much left over for your dream couch or dining room set. Here are some ways to find high-quality furniture
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El huracán Fiona sigue este martes su ruinosa trayectoria tras devastar Puerto Rico con lluvias torrenciales y luego arrasar la República Dominicana, donde más de un millón de personas se quedaron sin agua corriente y decenas de casas quedaron destruidas. Casi 800 personas fueron puestas a salvo por los trabajadores
Continue Reading By Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNN A businessman turned state representative from rural Oil City, Louisiana, and a Baptist pastor banded together earlier this year on a radical mission. They were adamant that a woman who receives an abortion should receive the same criminal consequences as one who drowns her baby. Under a bill
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