Mullah’s rise charts Taliban’s long road back to power
By KATHY GANNON Associated Press The Taliban’s top political leader has made a triumphal return to Afghanistan. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar battled…
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Housing construction slumps 7% in July to 1.53 million units
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Home construction fell a sharp 7% in July as homebuilders struggled to cope with a…
Continue Reading Housing construction slumps 7% in July to 1.53 million units
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Home construction fell a sharp 7% in July as homebuilders struggled to cope with a…
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Britney Spears explains topless posting spree
By Lisa Respers France, CNN Britney Spears went from declaring she would be posting less on social media to baring some skin. The singer has posted a…
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The housing boom could be losing steam
By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The economic recovery from the pandemic has produced a red-hot global housing market, sending prices soaring and…
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Travel to the North Pole on board a luxury airship
By Miquel Ros, CNN It’s May 11, 1926, and a giant airship, the Norge (meaning Norway), has just been unhooked from its mast at one of the…
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‘Frozen in time’: Lobbyists, lawmakers and mayors plead with the White House to ease Covid travel restrictions
By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Lobbyists, lawmakers and border mayors are imploring the Biden administration to ease restrictions on nonessential travel…
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The Delta variant is putting a damper on what looked like a comeback for air…
Continue Reading Maltese businessman indicted for journalist’s 2017 murder
By KEVIN SCHEMBRI ORLAND Associated Press VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Malta’s attorney general has indicted a leading Maltese businessman in…
Continue Reading Edmunds: How to calculate an electric vehicle’s charge costs
By JONATHAN ELFALAN Edmunds One of the challenges people have with electric vehicles is figuring out how much they cost to operate. The price of…
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T-Mobile says data breach affects more than 40 million people
By Brian Fung, CNN Business Tens of millions of current, former or prospective T-Mobile customers’ personal information has been leaked to…
Continue Reading Tropical Depression Fred threatens mudslides in New York
By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Tropical Depression Fred has blown into the northeastern U.S. as a post-tropical cyclone,…
Continue ReadingChina’s Delta outbreak shows signs of slowing, as variant rages across the world
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Jessie Yeung, CNN On July 20, Chinese authorities detected a cluster of Covid-19 cases in the eastern city of Nanjing. The virus…
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NMSU welcomes students back with vaccine, mask rules
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — New Mexico State University kicked off its fall semester Wednesday welcoming back more than 14,000 students. “We’re so…
Continue Reading Tencent profits jump nearly 30% as China continues historic tech crackdown
By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business Tencent reported a 29% rise in second-quarter profit, even as Beijing expands its scrutiny of the private sector. The…
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Nando’s closes 45 restaurants after running short of chicken
By Charles Riley, CNN Business Nando’s has been forced to close dozens of restaurants in the United Kingdom due to shortages of the…
Continue Reading US, Germany hold memorial for soldiers killed in 1971 crash
BERLIN (AP) — American and German officials held a ceremony to commemorate a U.S. Army helicopter crash that killed 37 soldiers in Bavaria 50 years…
Continue Reading EU condemns Belarus for ‘direct attack’ using migrants
By LORNE COOK and LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is condemning Belarus for what it says is an attempt to…
Continue Reading Biden administration faces daunting odds of pulling off massive Afghanistan evacuation in 2 weeks
By Jeremy Herb, Natasha Bertrand, Kylie Atwood, Jennifer Hansler and Evan Perez, CNN The Biden administration is still struggling to answer basic…
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CNN’s Clarissa Ward speaks to Afghan women about what the Taliban’s return to power means for them and their…
Continue Reading Ex-defense secretary: Trump’s push to get US troops out of Afghanistan possibly ‘undermined’ deal with Taliban
Robert Crews, a historian at Stanford University specializing in Afghanistan and central Asia, tells CNN’s John Vause he believes the Trump…
Continue Reading 5 ways to prepare and pack for COVID-era travel
By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet Preparing and packing for a trip is a different ballgame with all the changes in the travel world since the…
Continue Reading 5 ways to prepare and pack for COVID-era travel
By SALLY FRENCH of NerdWallet Preparing and packing for a trip is a different ballgame with all the changes in the travel world since the…
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Are you Teflon or Velcro around stress? It matters
By Matt Villano, CNN As we struggle through month after month of the pandemic, it can be difficult to keep a positive attitude about the present and…
Continue Reading Fearing Afghan refugee influx, Turkey reinforces border
By MEHMET GUZEL TATVAN, Turkey (AP) — Fearing a new refugee crisis, Turkey is reinforcing its border with Iran to stop a potential influx of…
Continue Reading ANÁLISIS | Mientras el gobierno habla de vacunas de refuerzo, es hora de abordar la realidad endémica del covid-19
Mariana Toro (CNN Business) — Mientras los funcionarios del gobierno de EE.UU. se preparan para informar a la gente sobre las vacunas de…
Continue Reading Un sismo de magnitud 6,8 en Vanuatu, en el Pacífico Sur, provoca alerta de tsunami
olivertapia (Reuters) — Un sismo de magnitud 6,8 se produjo cerca de la costa de Port-Olry, Vanuatu, lo que provocó una alerta de tsunami para…
Continue Reading The Taliban are sitting on $1 trillion worth of minerals the world desperately needs
By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business The swift fall of Afghanistan to Taliban fighters has triggered a humanitarian crisis, with thousands trying to flee…
Continue Reading These Afghan girls only receive religious education
CNN’s Clarissa Ward visited a religious class at a local mosque complex in Afghanistan, where girls are studying …
Continue ReadingTaliban keep low key presence on streets of Kabul
CNN By Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails and Ivana Kottasová, CNN Little by little, life appears to be creeping back to normal in Kabul, even though no…
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