By WILSON RING and LISA RATHKE Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont says he will not seek reelection to the seat he has held for eight terms. The 81-year-old Leahy said Monday that he and his wife have determined that “it is time to pass the torch to the
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By Matt Egan, CNN Business Ahead of President Joe Biden’s virtual meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, two dozen business groups are calling on the Biden administration to work toward removing tariffs on China to help ease historic inflation. In a letter to Biden officials sent on Friday, the business groups warned tariffs on China
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Steve Bannon, exasesor del entonces presidente Trump, llegó este lunes a la oficina de campo del FBI en Washington para entregarse tras ser acusado de desacato penal el viernes. Bannon se mostró desafiante al dirigirse a las cámaras de televisión y dijo: “Vamos a acabar con el régimen de Biden”.
Continue Reading By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is urging Russia to be more transparent about its military activities near Ukraine. But he stopped short of suggesting that Moscow might be preparing to invade its former Soviet neighbor. Ukraine claims that Russia kept tens of thousands of troops and equipment near
Continue ReadingBy NATHAN VICKERS Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV, KSMO) — Families had a smashing good time disposing of leftover Halloween pumpkins at a local farm farm Sunday morning. Urbavore Urban Farm invited visitors to bring their old jack-o-lanterns to annihilate with baseball bats and hammers, crushing them into bits
Continue Reading By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government has increased the terror level to severe, meaning an attack is highly likely. The decision follows an taxi explosion in Liverpool on Sunday that killed a man. Home Secretary Priti Patel said the terror threat level had been raised because there had been two
Continue Reading By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon has surrendered to federal authorities to face contempt charges after defying a subpoena from a House committee investigating January’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Bannon was taken into custody Monday morning. He’s expected to appear in court later
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By Pauline Lockwood, Bex Wright and Cape Diamond, CNN American journalist Danny Fenster has been freed from prison in Myanmar, according to a Myanmar military official and former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, who had been on a private humanitarian visit to the country. Fenster’s release comes just days after the former managing editor of
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Casper Sleep, the trendy mattress-in-a-box company, is being taken private barely two years after its splashy public debut. The company announced Monday that private equity firm Durational Capital Management is buying Casper at $6.90 per share — a 94% premium on Friday’s closing price of $3.55 per share. The stock
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By Zachary Cohen, Hannah Rabinowitz and Chandelis Duster, CNN Steve Bannon won’t be detained before trial on charges of contempt of Congress after he failed to comply with subpoenas from the House committee investigating January 6. Bannon, a former adviser to former President Donald Trump, appeared in federal court for the first time Monday. He
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The Associated Press Stocks are climbing modestly higher on Wall Street early Monday, getting the week off to an encouraging start following its first weekly loss in six weeks. The S&P 500 was up 0.2% in the early going, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq were each up 0.3%. Crude oil prices
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN Español) — Históricamente, en el fútbol hay jugadores que por una doble nacionalidad han tenido la opción de escoger qué país representar, y un selecto grupo ha podido jugar con más de una selección absoluta. Podemos recordar los precedentes de los jugadores de la antigua Unión Soviética, donde hubo futbolistas que
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN As far as the Swifties are concerned, their long held theory has been confirmed. It has long been believed that Taylor Swift’s song “All Too Well” is about her long ago relationship with actor Jake Gyllenhaal. Swift released a short film version tied to the song on Friday off her
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El pronóstico para este invierno en EE.UU. no parece esperanzador: es probable que el covid-19 no se vaya para las festividades de fin de año. En el mejor de los escenarios, los casos se estabilizan para Estados Unidos en su conjunto y aumentan en aproximadamente la mitad de los estados.
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By Lisa Morrow, CNN Nihat Aram stands at the door of Turan Erkek Kuaförü, where he’s worked for 20 years, waiting for his next customer. In the barbershop behind him, down a few stairs, square black chairs are positioned in front of an immaculately clean white counter, inset with individual washbasins for each customer. The
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By Kay Jones and Amanda Jackson, CNN A Southwest Airlines employee was taken to a Dallas hospital Saturday after being assaulted by a passenger at Love Field Airport, according to the airline and the Dallas Police Department. The female passenger “verbally and physically” assaulted the female operations agent shortly after being asked to get off
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN “Sesame Street” is getting a new best friend. Ji-Young, a 7-year-old Korean American character, will be a part of “See Us Coming Together: A Sesame Street Special.” The show, set to air on Thanksgiving, celebrates “the rich diversity of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) communities as part of the organization’s
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By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Qualifying for the World Cup hasn’t been as easy as usual for Spain. “La Roja” will be playing at the tournament for the 12th straight time but the team needed to overcome some bumps in the road to get to Qatar. Spain’s qualification for the 2022
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — The e-commerce mattress maker Casper is being acquired and taken private for about $308 million. Shares of Casper Sleep Inc. spiked 88.5% to close Monday at $6.69. Durational Capital Management will pay $6.90 per share for Casper’s stock. The New York City company went public in February 2020 and it’s had a
Continue Reading By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — With nearly 76% of the ballots counted, a new centrist party appears to be the winner of Bulgaria’s parliamentary election. The country’s central electoral commission said Monday that results showed the anti-corruption We Continue the Change party, founded few weeks ago by two Harvard graduates, captured
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