By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — US consumers, strained by years of higher prices and elevated interest rates, are changing their shopping patterns. Americans are buying more at discount chains like Target and Walmart while dialing back spending at Macy’s and Lowe’s. Target’s sales at stores open at least one year increased 2%
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By Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — Gabby Williams has re-signed with the WNBA’s Seattle Storm for the remainder of the 2024 season, after helping to lead France to a silver medal this Olympics, the team said in a statement Tuesday. This is Williams’ third season with the Storm, who first acquired her ahead of the
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Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Brown bear hunting in Sweden has started with 486 licenses to kill them, but conservationists warned that the move would result in a 20% drop in the country’s predator population. Magnus Orrebrant of the Swedish Carnivore Association — a non-profit and independent advocacy group — told The Associated Press
Continue Reading Associated Press A year ago this week, President Vladmir Putin strode onto a stage in the Kursk region to commemorate the 80th anniversary of one of the Soviet army’s proudest moments in World War II. Addressing a rapt audience that included soldiers fresh from fighting in Ukraine, Putin called the decisive victory in the Battle
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By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — The launch of Boeing’s long-delayed 777X aircraft has encountered another problem, forcing the company to pause testing. It’s another setback for the airplane maker, which is already embroiled in a safety crisis after a door plug blew off a 737 Max flight earlier this year. Here’s what else you
Continue Reading By Hanna Ziady and Hassan Tayier, CNN London/Hong Kong (CNN) — Beijing is investigating whether dairy producers in the European Union receive unfair government subsidies, marking the latest salvo in an escalating trade dispute. China’s Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday that local dairy producers had requested the probe, citing 20 different subsidy programs that may
Continue Reading AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Grocery aisle deals for cash-strapped customers and an emphasis on affordable but stylish clothes has helped Target reverse a year-long sales slump. But department store chain Macy’s reported another quarterly sales decline on Wednesday and said sales for the fiscal year will be weaker than expected. The difference
Continue Reading By Amanda Musa and Melissa Alonso, CNN (CNN) — Authorities have captured Joshua Zimmerman, a Mississippi inmate who escaped two months ago and barricaded himself in a Chicago restaurant where he had apparently found a job, the US Marshals Service said Wednesday. No other details were immediately released about Zimmerman’s capture, whether he was armed or
Continue Reading By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — No. 1 seed Danielle Collins suffered a shock defeat to youngster Erika Andreeva in her opening match of the Monterrey Open, where she also hit out at members of the crowd. Andreeva, the older sister of prodigious 17-year-old talent Mirra Andreeva, earned an impressive 1-6 6-3 6-3 win in
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Julia Hernández (CNN) — Un soldado ruso deserta a Ucrania, según la Legión Libertad para Rusia, el “Proyecto Quiero Vivir” y la Inteligencia de Defensa de Ucrania. El soldado desertor -con el indicativo de llamada “Silver”- era militar en activo de la unidad “Tormenta” antes de ofrecerse voluntario para la Legión Libertad para Rusia durante
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau, Christian Edwards and Niamh Kennedy, CNN Porticello, Italy (CNN) — Italian authorities say a fifth body has been found in the search for those missing from the “Bayesian” superyacht, which sank off the coast of Sicily earlier in the week. The head of Sicily’s civil protection agency Salvatore Cocina told CNN
Continue Reading Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has accepted his party’s nomination for vice president. He used his Democratic National Convention address to thank the packed arena for “bringing the joy” to an election transformed by the elevation of his running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris. Democrats gathered at Chicago’s United Center are
Continue Reading By Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams is expected to be resentenced to life without parole under a consent judgment reached Wednesday, the St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney’s Office announced, just over a month before he was scheduled to be put to death for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, a killing he
Continue Reading SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian police say a school employee has shot and killed three people in a town in northwestern Bosnia. Police said the shooting happened around 10a.m. local time Wednesday in a secondary school building in Sanski Most, northwest of Bosnia’s capital, Sarajevo. A spokesman told the Associated Press that the man used
Continue Reading Sofía Barruti (CNN) — Millones de fans, un artista que rompe récords, casi 150 shows con entradas agotadas y un vestuario rotativo de 11 diseñadores: estos han sido los ingredientes ganadores de la famosa gira mundial de Taylor Swift. Más de la mitad de su recorrido, el Eras Tour es ahora oficialmente la serie de
Continue Reading By Olga Voitovych, Edward Szekeres and Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Russian authorities have urged people in the border regions to stop using dating apps and limit their use of social media to prevent Ukrainian forces from gathering intelligence as it presses on with its incursion into the Kursk region. Russia’s interior ministry issued the
Continue Reading By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN New York (CNN) — A recent analysis by Morningstar’s Center for Retirement and Policy Studies projects that 45% of US households run the risk of falling short financially if they retire at 65 — or 54%, if they retire at 62. So many workers today have largely been on their own
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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — The supermarket baby food aisle in the United States is packed with non-nutritious foods containing far too much sugar and salt and misleading marketing claims, a new study found. Sixty percent of 651 foods that are marketed for children ages 6 months to 36 months on 10 supermarkets’ shelves
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — European milk and cheese producers have become the latest target in a simmering trade war with China. The Chinese Commerce Ministry said Wednesday that it would launch an investigation into subsidies given by the European Union and EU member countries for dairy products that could lead to tariffs on their export to
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Gilma is the second hurricane of this year’s eastern Pacific Ocean season and was forecast to strengthen into a major hurricane by the end of the week as it remains away from land. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Wednesday that the Category 1 storm was located about 965 miles
Continue Reading Sofía Barruti (CNN) — Las naciones africanas podrían empezar a vacunarse contra la viruela del mono (mpox) en cuestión de días, según la principal agencia de salud pública del continente, mientras un funcionario de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) afirmó que la propagación de una cepa más mortal del virus podía controlarse y
Continue Reading By Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — The Dallas Cowboys’ 2024 offseason has been dominated by talk around a contract extension for the team’s star wide receiver CeeDee Lamb – though an end to the saga appears to be in sight. Lamb, who is one at the best at his position in the NFL, has been
Continue Reading By Ben Church and Ben Morse, CNN (CNN) — Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores has said he wants to “grow” after he was labeled a “terrible person” by his former player Tua Tagovailoa. The Miami Dolphins quarterback made the comments during an interview that aired on Monday as he outlined the difference between Flores’
Continue Reading Julia Hernández (CNN) — El expresidente de EE. UU., Barack Obama, habló en el escenario durante el segundo día de la Convención Nacional Demócrata en el United Center el 20 de agosto de 2024 en Chicago, Illinois. Delegados, políticos y simpatizantes del Partido Demócrata se están reuniendo en Chicago, mientras la actual vicepresidenta Kamala Harris
Continue Reading By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Fishermen and scientists were alarmed when billions of crabs vanished from the Bering Sea near Alaska in 2022. It wasn’t overfishing, scientists explained — it was likely the shockingly warm water that sent the crabs’ metabolism into overdrive and starved them to death. But their horrific demise appears to
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Despite its shiny red exoskeleton and reputation as a bug of the sea, the lobster — though far from the world’s strangest delicacy — has long reigned as an unlikely luxury staple. As well as a high-ticket menu item, the crustacean is also a longstanding symbol of opulence in
Continue Reading By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Millions of fans, one recording-breaking artist, almost 150 sold-out shows and a rotating wardrobe of 11 designers: These have been the winning ingredients of Taylor Swift’s renowned world tour. More than halfway through its run, the Eras Tour is now officially the highest-grossing string of concerts of all time,
Continue Reading Julia Hernández (CNN) — El audaz avance transfronterizo de Ucrania en Rusia hizo que las tropas sigan derribando puentes clave en la parte occidental del país, mientras que el alcalde de Moscú acusó este miércoles a Kyiv de intentar lanzar “uno de los mayores ataques de la historia” con drones contra la capital. Desde que
Continue Reading By Hazel Pfeifer, CNN Tashkent, Uzbekistan (CNN) — A landlocked country in the heart of Central Asia, Uzbekistan has long been fueled by agriculture and manufacturing. But a growing economy and younger population are leading to an expansion of the country’s creative industries. The government has been investing heavily in a series of ambitious arts
Continue Reading Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Greek-flagged oil tanker traveling through the Red Sea has come under repeated attack, leaving the vessel “not under command” and drifting ablaze in an assault suspected to have been carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The Houthis for months have targeted ships to force an end
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