Couch potato? Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway buys stake in Restoration Hardware
Warren Buffett must really like comfy sofas and beds. The Oracle of Omaha’s Berkshire Hathaway bought more than 1.2 million shares of high-end…
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South Carolina school shooter sentenced to life in prison
The teenager who murdered his father and then opened fire on a South Carolina school playground, killing a 6-year-old boy, was sentenced to life in…
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Nine-year-old child genius to graduate university
A child prodigy from Belgium is on course to gain a bachelor’s degree at the tender age of 9. Laurent Simons is studying electrical engineering…
Continue Reading Wait. Is that … hope for JCPenney?
JCPenney has a long way to go before it’s a turnaround story. But the company had some rare good news Friday: It was able to trim its losses in…
Continue Reading Nike released a shoe for ‘everyday heroes’ like doctors, nurses and home health aides
Nike’s new shoe was not created for athletes such as basketball players or tennis players, but for a different crowd — medical workers.…
Continue Reading The story behind the first batch of cookies in space and the first zero-gravity oven
It’s science rule #1: Don’t eat your experiments. Typically, this is good advice, but for the astronauts aboard the International Space…
Continue Reading Amazon will protest Pentagon’s decision to award $10 billion cloud contract to Microsoft
The Department of Defense’s decision last month to award a massive cloud computing contract to Microsoft was a huge loss for rival Amazon.…
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El Buen Fin: 5 consejos para comprar en línea de forma segura
(CNN Español) — Durante cuatro días, del 15 al 18 de noviembre, México celebrará el ya tradicional El Buen Fin, un fin de semana de descuentos…
Continue Reading Starbucks opens its biggest store ever
Chicago just got a major caffeine jolt from Starbucks. The coffee chain opened its world’s largest Roastery location on Friday. The five-story…
Continue Reading US consumers are gearing up for their next challenge: holiday shopping
Happy Friday. A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here.…
Continue Reading Alibaba’s homecoming is about pleasing China and buying trade war insurance
Alibaba’s plan to raise billions of dollars by selling shares on the Hong Kong stock market will be one of the largest public offerings in the…
Continue Reading 5 cosas que debes saber este 15 de noviembre: los ganadores del Latin Grammy y el presidente más joven de Latinoamérica
¿Volvió la Biblia a la política de Bolivia? Algunos presidentes de Latinoamérica son menores de 40 años. Cuestionan políticas contra migrantes…
Continue Reading Hong Kong expects first annual recession since 2009 as protests rage
The Hong Kong government is warning that six months of increasingly violent mass protests will cause the economy in the Asian financial hub to shrink…
Continue Reading After Parkland, Saugus High students walked out to protest school shootings. Thursday, their school was the target
A gunman opened fire at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita on Thursday morning. It’s a reality many students there had been fighting to end.…
Continue Reading Meet the Facebook executive who wants you to trust him with your money
The night of June 18, David Marcus and his team at Facebook pulled an all-nighter as they prepared for a big company announcement the next day.…
Continue Reading What we know about the suspect in the California school shooting
After sheriff’s deputies responded to a shooting at Saugus High School in Southern California on Thursday, six students were rushed to local…
Continue Reading 5 things to know for November 15: School shooting, impeachment, Gaza, Chile, plague
Those deadly bushfires are still raging in Australia, and now the country’s biggest city, Sydney, may be facing a water shortage. Here’s…
Continue Reading US Park Police involved in fatal shooting of Bijan Ghaisar won’t face federal criminal civil rights charges
No federal criminal civil rights charges will be brought against the United States Park Police officers involved in the fatal shooting of unarmed…
Continue Reading Hong Kong’s government is being willfully blind to the chaos it’s creating
In almost six months of protests, you might be forgiven for thinking Hong Kong had seen it all. And yet, this week brought a new sight: men in suits…
Continue Reading A doorbell camera captured a woman screaming for help from a passing car. Police want to find her
A Los Angeles doorbell camera captured the gut-wrenching screams of a woman police say they believe may have been kidnapped, but it did not capture…
Continue Reading Her daughter was shot dead in a movie theater. Now she travels to mass shooting sites to help others
Seven years after her daughter was killed in the Aurora movie theater shooting, Sandy Phillips says she can barely keep up with the nation’s…
Continue Reading China’s President calls for end to violence in Hong Kong as elderly man dies
China’s President Xi Jinping has called for an end to violence in Hong Kong, in strongly worded comments that coincide with the second protest…
Continue Reading Este niño genio está por graduarse de la universidad… y tiene solo nueve años
(CNN) – Un niño prodigio de Bélgica está en camino de tener un título profesional a la tierna edad de nueve años. Laurent Simons está…
Continue Reading Llegan a acuerdo en Chile para redactar una nueva constitución
(CNN Español) — El Congreso de Chile logró esta madrugada un acuerdo para redactar una nueva Constitución y alcanzar la paz en el país. Según…
Continue Reading Italian council is flooded immediately after rejecting measures on climate change
Veneto regional council, which is located on Venice’s Grand Canal, was flooded for the first time in its history on Tuesday night — just…
Continue Reading Alibaba says the ‘future of Hong Kong remains bright’ as it kicks off share sale
Hong Kong’s financial markets are getting a boost of confidence from Alibaba’s multibillion-dollar public offering. The Chinese…
Continue Reading Security is the key issue as terror-hit Sri Lanka votes for a new President
Sri Lankans head to the polls Saturday to elect a new President months after deadly terrorist attacks shook confidence in the government and security…
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Now a GOP congressman is asking Texas’ governor to stop the execution of Rodney Reed
In Republican-led Texas, the state that executes the most death row inmates, a GOP lawmaker is urging the governor to delay the execution of Rodney…
Continue Reading ¿Quién está a cargo de la seguridad de Evo Morales en México?
(CNN Español) — Desde su llegada a México como asilado político este martes, el expresidente de Bolivia Evo Morales ha estado acompañado de…
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El Paso schools prepare against mass violence while managing fear of school community
EL PASO, Texas — Schools across the country are grappling with how to prepare students for an emergency in an era of mass shootings. The Pew…
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