By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A small submarine has found the remains of 10 migrants who drowned when their boat sank in late April off the coast of Lebanon with about 30 people on board. The boat was carrying around 80 Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians trying to migrate by sea to Italy
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CNNEE Nota del editor: Silvina Moschini es emprendedora especializada en la transformación digital del mundo del trabajo. Es fundadora y presidente de TransparentBusiness, una plataforma que permite gestionar equipos remotos de forma transparente. Además, es fundadora y presidenta ejecutiva de SheWorks!, una tienda virtual para contratar mujeres profesionales con modelos flexibles. Las opiniones expresadas en
Continue Reading LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A union says workers at a Chipotle store in Michigan have voted to unionize, becoming the first of the Mexican fast-food chain’s 3,000 locations to do so. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters says workers at a Chipotle store in Lansing, Michigan, “voted overwhelmingly” Thursday to form a union with the Teamsters.
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By Sophia Saifi, Akanksha Sharma and Asim Khan for CNN, and Reuters At least 33 million people have been affected by deadly flooding in Pakistan, the country’s climate change minister said on Thursday. Since mid-June, 937 people have died from severe rain and flooding across the South Asian country, according to the country’s National Disaster
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By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — A years-long transfer dispute after the death in an airplane crash of soccer player Emiliano Sala has been decided in favor of his former club Nantes against Cardiff. The Court of Arbitration for Sport says it dismissed Cardiff’s appeal against a FIFA order to pay a
Continue Reading By AARON MORRISON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In 2016, responding to the fatal police shootings of two Black men just a day apart, Serena Williams joined a small chorus of top Black athletes in speaking out. “I won’t be silent!” she vowed. “Have we not gone through enough, opened so many doors, impacted
Continue Reading By AARON MORRISON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In 2016, responding to the fatal police shootings of two Black men just a day apart, Serena Williams joined a small chorus of top Black athletes in speaking out. “I won’t be silent!” she vowed. “Have we not gone through enough, opened so many doors, impacted
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AUSTIN, Texas — Musical renown has met literary renown as Taylor Swift is being taught to students at an academic university for the second semester in a row. As the University of Texas at Austin website displays, Professor Elizabeth Escala will be teaching a class in the Liberal Arts Honors program this Fall, titled: The
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CNN By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business The now viral phrase “quiet quitting” is annoyingly imprecise and misleading. Some say it means doing the bare minimum at work or just not going above and beyond. Others say it’s about setting healthy boundaries or not mindlessly buying into ‘hustle culture.’ And then there are those who say
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By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business The now viral phrase “quiet quitting” is annoyingly imprecise and misleading. Some say it means doing the bare minimum at work or just not going above and beyond. Others say it’s about setting healthy boundaries or not mindlessly buying into ‘hustle culture.’ And then there are those who say it’s
Continue Reading NEWCASTLE, England (AP) — Newcastle has made its most eye-catching move in the transfer market since coming under Saudi ownership by setting a club record to sign Sweden striker Alexander Isak from Real Sociedad for a reported 70 million euros ($70 million). It takes the spending of the richest club owners in world soccer to
Continue Reading STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn has added another point guard to its roster after losing star Paige Bueckers for the season to a knee injury earlier this month. The school says Inês Bettencourt, a 5-foot-9 guard from the Azores in Portugal, will join the team as a freshman. She will provide depth for the Huskies
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball will send players to South Korea for a postseason tour, MLB’s first trip to Korea since 1922. The games between an MLB team and players from the South Korean league will be at Busan Sajik Baseball Stadium on Nov. 11-12 and Seoul’s Gocheok Sky Dome on Nov. 14-15.
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By Jay Croft and Amanda Musa, CNN After record-setting rainfall this week, Jackson, Mississippi, is preparing for the Pearl River to reach 36 feet by Tuesday, leading to flooded streets. Marty Pope, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service said in a Friday news conference the Pearl River will likely reach 34-35 feet this weekend.
Continue Reading Flooding continues to be a concern for some Gulf Coast states and we are tracking the chance of severe storms this afternoon across New England. CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam has the latest forecast.
Continue Reading Jacqui Palumbo and Toyin Owoseje, CNN A Miss England finalist has become the first ever beauty queen to compete without wearing any makeup in the pageant’s nearly century-long history. Melisa Raouf, a 20-year-old college student from south London, moved forward at the pageant’s semifinals on Monday after opting for a barefaced look. Now, she’ll compete
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Some 150 artworks from the collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen will be auctioned at Christie’s in New York this fall and are expected to bring in more than $1 billion in total. Christie’s says the works to be auctioned span 500 years of art history from Old Masters to
Continue Reading By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It was the kind of story that media reporter Brian Stelter would normally sink his teeth into — if only it didn’t involve him. CNN said last week it was cancelling “Reliable Sources,” its 30-year-old program on the media, and letting Stelter go, part of
Continue Reading By MARIA DI MENTO of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy The health of the world’s oceans looms large in Wendy Schmidt’s thinking about the planet’s future and in her giving. Schmidt leads a collection of philanthropies through which she and her husband, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, work to help protect the planet.
Continue Reading CNN By Anna Cooban, CNN Business Russia is burning an estimated $10 million worth of natural gas a day near its border with Finland, analysts say, even as it threatens to push Europe into a winter energy crisis by restricting exports to Germany and other countries. State gas giant Gazprom is burning off, or “flaring,”
Continue Reading By Anna Cooban, CNN Business Russia is burning an estimated $10 million worth of natural gas a day near its border with Finland, analysts say, even as it threatens to push Europe into a winter energy crisis by restricting exports to Germany and other countries. State gas giant Gazprom is burning off, or “flaring,” about
Continue Reading By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer COVID-19 vaccine maker Moderna is suing its main competitors Pfizer and the German drugmaker BioNTech. It’s accusing the rivals of copying Moderna’s technology in order to make their own vaccine. Moderna said Friday that Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine Comirnaty infringes on patents Moderna filed several years ago protecting the
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin Minneapolis (CNN Business) — El indicador de inflación favorito de la Reserva Federal mostró que los aumentos se tomaron un respiro el mes pasado, ya que los precios de la energía siguieron bajando desde sus máximos históricos. Sin embargo, el titular de la FED, Jerome Powell, mencionó el “dolor” dos veces al
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NEW YORK, New York — National Dog Day is today and the time to celebrate your canine friend has arrived. National Dog Day was founded by Colleen Paige in 2004, and since 2013, the holiday has has been officially recognized and viewable on the New York State Senate’s website. Dogs aren’t just lovable and loyal,
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN An animated, comic-book-inspired opening turns out to be the best part of “Samaritan,” a very by-the-numbers superhero tale that casts Sylvester Stallone as the long-retired title character, and otherwise feels like and exhibits the production values of a 1990s TV pilot. While tolerable on its own terms, the charitable thing
Continue Reading MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says Bernardo Silva will be staying at Manchester City. It seemingly brings to an end a summer of uncertainty over the Portugal midfielder’s future. Silva has been heavily linked with a move to Barcelona and was reportedly the subject of a bid from Paris Saint-Germain this
Continue Reading By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Elon Musk’s SpaceX and T-Mobile are teaming up to help provide voice and data services anywhere by having satellites connect with cellphones using T-Mobile’s wireless spectrum. The plan, called Coverage Above and Beyond, looks to use SpaceX’s Starlink satellites that are in low Earth orbit and T-Mobile’s wireless network
Continue Reading By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says it’s designating two “forever chemicals” used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances. That clears the way for quicker cleanup of the groups of toxic compounds known as PFAS. Designation as a hazardous substance under the Superfund law means releases
Continue Reading By Jen Christensen, CNN The US Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that it proposes to label certain “forever chemicals” that are found in hundreds of household items and pollute drinking water systems across the country as hazardous substances. There are thousands of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) chemicals. Since the 1940s, manufacturers have used the chemicals
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Google will start to label places that offer abortion services. The company says it will be prominently displayed in its search and map products to help women looking to get the medical procedure. Facilities will be labeled as “provide abortions” and “might not provide abortions.” Many places that call themselves crisis pregnancy centers only counsel
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